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PremiumIsrael-Gaza War LIVE: Saudi Arabia and several other Muslim nations on Saturday collectively urged for an immediate halt to military operations in Gaza.
They dismissed Israel's rationale for its actions against Palestinians, asserting that it was not justified as self-defence, Reuters reported.
The joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh urged the International Criminal Court to investigate “war crimes and crimes against humanity that Israel is committing" in the Palestinian territories, according to a final communique, according to Reuters.
Saudi Arabia has actively urged the United States and Israel to cease hostilities in Gaza, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of the kingdom, convening Arab and Muslim leaders to emphasize this plea.
Among those present were Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was reinstated into the Arab League earlier this year.
"There is no other way but to resist Israel. We kiss the hands of Hamas for its resistance against Israel," Raisi said in his address.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinians were facing a 'genocidal war' and urged the United States to end Israeli 'aggression'.
Since then, Israel has escalated its assault on Gaza, where 11,078 people had been killed as of Friday, 40% of them children, according to Palestinian officials.
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Israeli fighter jets carried out strikes against "terror infrastructure" targets inside Syria in response to cross-border fire directed at the Golan Heights, the military said on Sunday.
"A short while ago, in response to the attack toward the Golan Heights yesterday (Saturday), IDF (Israel Defense Forces) fighter jets struck terror infrastructure sites in Syria," the army said on Telegram.
On Saturday, the army said that two projectiles fired from Syria had landed in uninhabited parts of the Golan Heights and that rocket alert sirens had sounded in the region. (AFP)
On the 37th day of the Israel-Gaza conflict, the Israeli military is set to assist in the evacuation of infants stranded at Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital on Sunday. Here are the top ten developments on the Israel-Hamas war. Read here.
Thousands of displaced Palestinians looked to Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa, as a safe haven, but with Israeli strikes intensifying and the fighting reaching the gates of the compound, there seems nowhere for them to escape.
Amid the intense fight, three newborn babies died in the hospital after it went “out of service" amid intense fighting in the area, the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health stated. Read the complete story here.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin on Thursday rejected a five-day ceasefire deal with Palestinian military groups in the Gaza Strip, according to a report published by The Guardian, citing sources familiar with the negotiations. This came in exchange for releasing some hostages held early in the war.
However, other sources indicated that the negotiations started prior to the Israeli ground invasion which resumed after October 27 and Netanyahu took a tough line on proposals involving a ceasefire in return for hostages. Read the complete story here.
The fight between Hamas and Israel has continued to intensify in northern Gaza. Around 50 people were killed Friday in strikes that hit a Gaza City school, said the director of Al-Shifa Hospital where the casualties had been taken on Friday.
"About 50 martyrs were recovered from inside Al-Buraq school... in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood in Gaza after missile and artillery strikes that targeted the school this morning," hospital director Mohammad Abu Salmiya said as quoted by AFP. Read the complete story here.
39 babies are at risk of death in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital due to a lack of electricity, oxygen, and medicine, according to the Palestinian health ministry. (Reuters)
The World Health Organization said on Saturday it had lost communication with its contacts in Al Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, and expressed "grave concerns" for the safety of everyone trapped there by the fighting while calling for an immediate ceasefire.
The spokesperson for the Gaza health ministry said that operations in the Al Shifa hospital complex, the largest in the Palestinian enclave, were suspended on Saturday after it ran out of fuel. (Reuters)
WHO lost its communication with its contacts in Al-Shifa Hospital in Northern Gaza. (Reuters)
The Israeli military will help evacuate babies trapped in Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital on Sunday, Chief Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Saturday.
"The staff of the Shifa hospital has requested that tomorrow we help the babies in the pediatric department to get to a safer hospital. We will provide the assistance needed," Hagari told a news conference. (Reuters)
Three babies died in the neonatal unit of Al-Shifa Hospital located in northern Gaza after the hospital went "out of service" amid continuous Israeli fire in the vicinity, CNN reported quoting the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health on Saturday.
It reported quoting Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director-General of the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health that the doctors in the neonatal ward are now being forced to carry out artificial respiration by hand on the 36 babies that they are treating in the hospital.
Bursh also said the hospital was "surrounded from all four directions," estimating that 400 people were being treated at the hospital and around 20,000 displaced people seeking shelter in the hospital complex.
The spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra said he was trapped inside the al-Shifa complex. (ANI)
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said a lack of concrete punitive measures against Israel would render the summit toothless.
"If we do not have real tools for pressure, then any step we take or speech we give will have no meaning," said Assad, who was welcomed back into the Arab fold this year after an extended rift over his country's civil war.
He said no Middle Eastern country should engage in any "political process" with Israel, including developing economic relations, until a lasting ceasefire is reached. (AFP)
The social media is flooded with videos reportedly showing a huge crowd participating in the "National March for Palestine" in central London on Saturday. The march was organised after a two-minute silence was observed at The Cenotaph war memorial to remember Britain's war dead on Armistice Day.
According to AFP, huge crowds of protesters waved black, red, white and green Palestinian flags and held aloft placards proclaiming "Stop Bombing Gaza". As the march set off, protesters shouted "Free Palestine" and "ceasefire now".
The march on Saturday generated concern because it coincided with Armistice Day. This day commemorates the end of fighting in World War I in 1918 -- and political criticisms about the policing operation. Read the complete story here.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Islamic governments to designate Israel's military as a "terrorist organisation", news agency AFP reported. President Raisi cited Israel's current operations in the Gaza Strip to urge nations, that have ties with Israel, to sever them. He called for greater support for Palestinians, the report said.
Ebrahim Raisi was speaking at a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday. He has arrived in Saudi Arabia to participate in the OIC summit, which aimed to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, The Times of Israel reported. Read the complete story here.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the US government is the "main perpetrator" and "accomplice" of the confrontation between Israel and Hamas.
"US government is the main perpetrator and accomplice to this crime. Israel is the illegitimate child of America. It is America that has preferred support it over the sacred lives of thousands of oppressed Palestinian children. By immediately forming its security cabinet in the occupied territories, America encouraged the Zionist regime to carry out criminal operations against the helpless people of Gaza and called it legitimate defence," he said. (ANI)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinians were facing a 'genocidal war' and urged the United States to end Israeli 'aggression'. (Reuters)
