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Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant has again issued criticism of the international criminal court (ICC) decision to seek arrest warrants for senior Israeli and Hamas figures involved in the conflict in Gaza, saying that the move was an “attempt to deny the state of Israel the right to defend itself”. Gallant said the “prosecutor’s parallel between the terrorist organization Hamas and the state of Israel is despicable and disgusting.”
Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, the denial of humanitarian relief supplies and deliberately targeting civilians. Hamas leaders and officials Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh were named by the court as being wanted for crimes of extermination, murder, hostage taking, rape, sexual assault and torture. Israel’s president Isaac Herzog described the court’s action as “one-sided” and in “bad faith”.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has said a request by ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan for arrest warrants to be issued for Israeli and Hamas leaders was “deeply unhelpful” and would make no difference to securing a “pause” in fighting or the release of hostages.
Australia’s government says it respects the international criminal court’s “important” and “independent” role in upholding the law. A foreign affairs spokesperson said it was not appropriate to comment on matters before the court but added that Israel must comply with international laws, noting “every country is bound by the same fundamental rules” while defending itself.
Individual members of Israel’s security forces are tipping off far-right activists and settlers to the location of aid trucks delivering vital supplies to Gaza, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, according to multiple sources. Settlers intercepting the vital humanitarian supplies to the strip are receiving information about the location of the aid trucks from members of the Israeli police and military, a spokesperson from the main Israeli activist group behind the blockades told the Guardian.
Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to the Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, the news agency has reported. It said authorities used the new foreign media law brought in during Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to stop it broadcasting a view of the Gaza border from Sderot. The feed was available to Al Jazeera, the news organisation that Israel banned on 5 May.
Palestinian sources have reported that seven people have been killed and nine others wounded during an Israeli raid. The dead reportedly included a teacher and a senior doctor at the local hospital. Israel’s military says it was conducting an operation against militants. Photojournalist Amr Manasra was shot during the raid.
The health ministry in Gaza, which is led by Hamas, has said that 35,647 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israel’s military action since 7 October, with 79,852 wounded. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.
1,300 faculty and administrative staff at Israeli academic institutions have signed an open letter and petition calling on Netanyahu’s government to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said on Tuesday Gaza ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas remain “close to a stalemate”.
Crowds gathered in Tabriz in Iran to pay respects to president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials killed in the helicopter crash at the weekend.
Here are some of the latest images sent to us over the news wires from Gaza, Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that Israel security forces have bulldozed a house in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
It quotes the woman whose house it was, Hani Barakat, saying it was destroyed without any prior notice, and that soldiers did not allow them to remove the contents and furniture of the house.
In a recent update on the situation in the occupied West Bank, the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) reported that:
Since 7 October, over 1,950 Palestinians have been displaced as a result of home demolitions carried out or ordered by Israeli authorities. Since the beginning of the year, about 850 Palestinians have been displaced compared to 463 displaced during the same period in 2023.
Israeli officials seize camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to Associated Press near Gaza border
Israeli officials seized a camera and broadcasting equipment belonging to the Associated Press in southern Israel on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
“The Associated Press decries in the strongest terms the actions of the Israeli government to shut down our longstanding live feed showing a view into Gaza and the seizure of AP equipment,” said Lauren Easton, vice-president of corporate communications at the news organization.
“The shutdown was not based on the content of the feed but rather an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country’s new foreign broadcaster law. We urge the Israeli authorities to return our equipment and enable us to reinstate our live feed immediately so we can continue to provide this important visual journalism to thousands of media outlets around the world.”
Officials from Israel’s communications ministry arrived at the location in the southern town of Sderot on Tuesday afternoon and seized the equipment. They handed Associated Press a piece of paper, signed by communications minister Shlomo Karhi, alleging it was violating the country’s new foreign broadcaster law. The seizure followed a verbal order Thursday to cease the live transmission – which Associated Press refused to do.
Associated Press says it complies with Israel’s military censorship rules, which prohibit broadcasts of details like troops movements that could endanger soldiers.
Al Jazeera is among thousands of clients that receive live video feeds from the Associated Press and other news organizations. Israeli officials used the new law to close down the offices of Al Jazeera on 5 May and confiscated of its equipment, banned the channel’s broadcasts, and blocked on its websites.
Reuters is still broadcasting a live video feed of a view of the Israel-Gaza border from southern Israel, which the Guardian has continued access to.
Media access to Gaza has been limited, and Al Jazeera has been one of the few broadcasters to be able to maintain a presence there. In February 2024 more than 50 foreign correspondents issued a plea for media access to Gaza through Israel and Egypt without success. The Committee to protect journalists has recorded that at least 105 journalists and media workers have been killed since 7 October.
Logical for ICC to ask for arrest warrants for Hamas leaders, says Germany
A request by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for arrest warrants for Hamas leaders is logical and no comparisons can be made with Israel’s prime minister and defence minister, for whom warrants are also being sought, a German government has spokesperson said.
“The accusations of the chief prosecutor are serious and must be substantiated,” said the spokesperson on Tuesday.
He added that Germany assumed Israel’s democratic system and rule of law with a strong, independent judiciary would be taken into account by judges deciding whether to issue the warrants.
The health ministry in Gaza, which is led by Hamas, has said that 35,647 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israel’s military action since 7 October, with 79,852 wounded. It has not been possible for journalists to independently verify the casualty figures being issued during the conflict.
The Scottish Football Association has announced that a forthcoming match between Scotland and Israel’s women teams will be played behind closed doors because of “the potential for planned disruptions to the match”.
Citing “updated intelligence” it said in a statement “The stadium operations team were alerted to the potential for planned disruptions to the match and as a consequence we have no option but to play the match without supporters in attendance. The safety of supporters, players, team staff and officials is of paramount importance.”
The Women’s Euro 2025 qualifier is scheduled for Friday 31 May. The teams meet again for the return fixture, which Israel will host in Budapest on 4 June.
AFP, citing the Wafa news agency, has named teacher Allam Jaradat as one of those killed during an Israeli raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. It reports Jaradat’s body, wrapped in the green-coloured flag of militant group Hamas, was kept at a local mosque where mourners offered prayers. Crowds of mourners including schoolchildren gathered for his funeral.
The office of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas condemned the raid in a statement on Wafa, saying Israel was “killing innocent people, doctors, and destroying the infrastructure of Palestinian hospitals, cities and villages.”
Here are some more pictures from Tabriz in Iran where crowds have gathered to say farewell to the late president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and others killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
Images have been sent over the new wires from Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Palestinian sources have reported that seven people have been killed and nine others wounded during an Israeli raid.
Israel’s army said it was an operation against militants and that a number of Palestinian gunmen were shot.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that one of those injured was photojournalist Amr Manasra. It reported “According to WAFA correspondent, the occupation snipers continued to fire bullets at journalists in the vicinity of Jenin hospital.”
Al Jazeera reports that a statement from Hamas said that Israel’s actions in Jenin will not discourage resistance. It said:
As we mourn the martyrs and extend our condolences to their families, we affirm that the occupation’s continuing crimes against our people in Gaza and the West Bank will not weaken the support of our people, nor will they stop the resistance of our people.
The West Bank is among territories Israel seized in 1967 and continues to occupy.
Hamas has, in a statement, claimed to have killed and wounded Israeli soldiers during fighting in Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza.
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Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said on Tuesday Gaza ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas remain “close to a stalemate”.
Reuters reports that asked in a press briefing about the decision of the chief prosecutor at the international criminal court (ICC) to see arrest warrants for senior leaders from Hamas and Israel, al-Ansari said it was too early for Qatar to comment, but that his nation supported the general concept of accountability, and that all states and organisations and states should be held responsible for killing civilians.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has said a request by ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan for arrest warrants to be issued for Israeli and Hamas leaders was “deeply unhelpful” and would make no difference to securing a “pause” in fighting or the release of hostages.
Lorenzo Tondo and Quique Kierszenbaum in Jerusalem report for the Guardian:
Individual members of Israel’s security forces are tipping off far-right activists and settlers to the location of aid trucks delivering vital supplies to Gaza, enabling the groups to block and vandalise the convoys, according to multiple sources.
Settlers intercepting the vital humanitarian supplies to the strip are receiving information about the location of the aid trucks from members of the Israeli police and military, a spokesperson from the main Israeli activist group behind the blockades told the Guardian.
The claim of collusion by members of the security forces is supported by messages from internal internet chat groups reviewed by the Guardian as well as accounts from a number of witnesses and human rights activists.
Those blocking the vehicles say the aid they carry is being diverted by Hamas instead of being delivered to civilians in need a claim relief agencies reject.
Videos last week showed aid convoys blocked and vandalised by Israeli settlers at the Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The incident, in which activists threw boxes of supplies to the ground, sparked outrage, with the White House condemning the attack as “completely and utterly unacceptable behaviour”.
Read more here: Israeli soldiers and police tipping off groups that attack Gaza aid trucks
Reuters reports that Israeli forces have moved deeper into the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza. Residents told the news agency that the Israeli army used bulldozers to clear shops and property near the local market in the sprawling refugee camp built for displaced civilians 75 years ago.
“Israel is destroying the camp on the heads of the people, the bombardment never stops, and the world is calling for more food to enter Gaza. We want to spare lives not extra food,” said Abu El-Nasser, a resident of Jabalia, who fled to nearby Gaza City.
In the north, an airstrike on a house in Jabalia killed at least three people overnight. In the south, airstrikes killed three children in a house in Khan Younis and at least five people including three children in a home in Rafah.
East of Khan Younis, residents said they were fleeing Khuzaa town after Israeli troops began an incursion on the eastern edge of the territory, bulldozing across the border fence.
“Bombing everywhere, people are leaving in panic. It was a surprising incursion,” one resident from Khuzaa told Reuters over the phone as he and his family were leaving.
In an operational update this morning, Israel’s military said its forces “continue operational activities in the area of Jabalia”, and that “Over the past day, the troops eliminated several terrorists. During one of the activities, a terrorist cell fired at IDF troops, who directed an IAF aircraft that struck and eliminated the cell.”
The claims have not been independently verified.
Haaretz reports that over 1,300 faculty and administrative staff at Israeli academic institutions have signed an open letter and petition calling on Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Arguing that “the horrific Hamas attack on 7 October granted Israel the right of self-defence against such acts within the limits of international law” the letter says:
We, faculty and administrative staff at academic institutions in Israel, call on the Israeli government to end the war in Gaza without delay and ensure the immediate return of the hostages. Returning the hostages and ending the war are moral imperatives and align with Israeli interests. War should never be an end goal in itself; therefore, in its management, the government should have established a realistic strategic vision for a postwar political reality.
The government has deliberately avoided setting a strategic or political vision beyond the war, instead aiming for an undefined “complete victory,” which, even according to senior military officials, is not only unachievable but likely to result in the death of the hostages. Furthermore, while the benefits of continuing the war are manifestly unclear, its grave and certain damages are.
It cites “tremendous harm to civilians in Gaza”, “Israeli casualties”, “a severe deterioration of the rule of law in Israel and the occupied territories”, “the situation in the north of the country” and “damage to Israel’s international standing” as consequences of prolonging the war.
In the UK, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has issued a statement about the international criminal court’s (ICC) decision to seek arrest warrants for senior Israeli and Hamas figures as “an entirely unacceptable attempt at moral equivalence” between the two parties in the conflict.
It said:
We believe that the ICC prosecutor’s recent application for arrest warrants with regard to the war against Hamas exhibits an entirely unacceptable attempt at moral equivalence between Hamas – responsible for the 7 October mass terror attacks and Israel, which has been attempting to uproot Hamas from Gaza.
We also note that the prosecutors application appears to absolve her mass from all responsibility for the current state of the situation in Gaza. Entirely ignoring the way the terror group uses its own population as human shields.
We agree with both the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the US state department that the ICC has no jurisdiction over this matter, and that its attempt to assert insert itself into this tragic conflict will bring us no closer to a full and lasting peace.
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant are accused of extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, the denial of humanitarian relief supplies and deliberately targeting civilians. Hamas leaders and officials Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh were named by the court as being wanted for crimes of extermination, murder, hostage taking, rape, sexual assault and torture.
Crowds have gathered in Tabriz in Iran to pay respects to those killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday, including the late president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Associated Press reports that a procession led by a vehicle carrying the caskets of the dead slowly moved through the narrow streets of the city, which is the closest major one near to the crash site. Thousands in black slowly walked beside the coffins, some throwing flowers up to them as an announcer wept through a loudspeaker for men he described as martyrs.
The bodies will travel on to the holy city of Qom before travelling to Tehran later Tuesday. On Wednesday, a funeral presided over by supreme leader Ali Khamenei will then turn into a procession as well. On Thursday, Raisi’s home town of Birjand will see a procession, followed by a funeral and burial at the Imam Reza shrine in the holy city of Mashhad.
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Sarah Basford Canales and Paul Karp report for the Guardian in Australia
Australia’s government says it respects the international criminal court’s “important” and “independent” role in upholding the law after its chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Hamas and Israeli officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
A foreign affairs spokesperson said it was not appropriate to comment on matters before the court but added that Israel must comply with international laws, noting “every country is bound by the same fundamental rules” while defending itself.
“Australia respects the ICC and the important role it has in upholding international law,” the spokesperson said. “The decision on whether to issue arrest warrants is a matter for the Court in the independent exercise of its functions.”
Read more here: Australia respects ICC’s independence following Netanyahu arrest warrant request, government says
Gallant: ICC arrest warrant decision is 'attempt to deny the state of Israel the right to defend itself'
Israel’s defence minister has again issued criticism of the international criminal court (ICC) decision to seek arrest warrants for senior Israeli and Hamas figures involved in the conflict in Gaza, saying that the move was an “attempt to deny the state of Israel the right to defend itself”.
In a lengthy post on social media, Yoav Gallant, one of those named by the IIC chief prosecutor, said
The state of Israel has been fighting since 7 October a murderous and bloodthirsty enemy, who has committed atrocities against Israeli women, children and men, and now uses its his own people as a human shield. The IDF fights in accordance with the rules of international law, taking unique humanitarian efforts the likes of which have not been taken in any armed conflict.
The [ICC] prosecutor’s parallel between the terrorist organization Hamas and the state of Israel is despicable and disgusting. The state of Israel is not a party to the court and does not recognise its authority. Prosecutor Karim Khan’s attempt to deny the state of Israel the right to defend itself and release its abductees must be rejected outright.
Benjamin Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, the denial of humanitarian relief supplies and deliberately targeting civilians. Hamas leaders and officials Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh were named by the court as being wanted for crimes of extermination, murder, hostage taking, rape, sexual assault and torture. Israel’s president Isaac Herzog yesterday described the court’s action as “one-sided” and in “bad faith”.
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In today’s First Edition newsletter, my colleague Archie Bland has spoken to Mohammad Ali Shabani, editor of Amwaj.media, a news website covering Iran, about what the future holds there after the unexpected death of president Ebrahim Raisi at the weekend:
Ebrahim Raisi was not a beloved figure in Iran – but that doesn’t mean his critics will necessarily be feeling optimistic today. “You will find as many different feelings about his death as there are Iranians,” Mohammad Ali Shabani said. “But within my own networks, there’s maybe a mix of people who don’t perceive him as having been influential, meaning that there won’t be a massive upheaval – but also an underlying nervousness about what’s next.”
“Raisi was a conservative who spent much of his career in the judiciary and oversaw mass executions,” Shabani said. “You are not talking about a liberal democrat.”
“Since 2021, every branch of the government has been in the hands of the conservatives,” he said. “That has not been good for supreme leader Ali Khamenei. In the past, when the executive branch was dominated by non-conservatives, he was able to be flexible about policy – and blame the president if something goes wrong. Now he is painted into a corner, because his own cronies are in charge everywhere – so he has much less flexibility to try different approaches.”
That is why there is now a “golden opportunity” for opening up political space – “to reverse course without losing face, and get voters to engage with the system again, because of the hand fate has dealt you”.
You can read more here: Tuesday briefing – What the death of Ebrahim Raisi means for Iran’s political future
Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting for Al Jazeera from Deir al-Balah in Gaza has written for the news network that it is another “sad morning for Palestinians across Gaza”. He reports:
Since midnight, at least eight Palestinians have been killed in Rafah after a residential building was destroyed. Three others were killed in Beit Hannon, northern Gaza. A couple of minutes ago, three injured people, including children, arrived at Al-Aqsa hospital, where we are right now. They were wounded after a group of Palestinians were targeted by Israeli fighter jets. There is a great sense and deal of sadness and frustration among Palestinian families who are being attacked without any prior warning.
Media access to Gaza during the conflict has been limited, and the Committee to protect journalists has recorded that at least 105 journalists and media workers have been killed since 7 October.
Yemen's Houthis claim to have downed a US drone
Yemen’s Houthis downed a US MQ-9 drone over al-Bayda province in southern Yemen near the Gulf of Aden, the Iran-aligned group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised statement on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
The death toll from an Israeli raid in occupied Jenin is now reported to have risen to seven Palestinians killed, and nine others wounded, Reuters reports.
More details soon …
Five Palestinians reported killed during Israeli raid on occupied Jenin
Palestinian sources are reporting that five people have been killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied-West Bank city of Jenin.
The Wafa news agency reports “among the slain civilians was the surgical specialist at Jenin hospital, Aseed Jabareen, who was targeted in the vicinity of the hospital, a teacher who was on duty in a school, and a student on his way back to his home.”
Reuters reports the Israeli army said it was operating against militants and several Palestinian gunmen were shot.
In a recent update on the situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) recorded that since 7 October, 480 Palestinians have been killed, including 116 children by either Israeli security forces or Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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Israel claims to have killed senior Hezbollah commander with airstrike near Tyre in Lebanon
Israel has claimed it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an attack near Tyre in Lebanon.
In a statement posted to the IDF’s official Telegram channel, Israel claimed Qassem Saqlawi, who it described as “the commander of the rocket and missile array in Hezbollah’s coastal sector” was the target of a an Israeli airstrike.
It said he was “responsible for planning and executing numerous rocket attacks against the Israeli home front.”
The claims have not been independently verified.
In the message, Israel’s military also reported a number of launches overnight into Israel from the direction of Lebanon, which it said “fell in open terrain”.
France backs ICC after prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders
Welcome to our latest live blog on the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. I am Martin Belam and I will be with you for the next while.
France says it supports the independence of the international criminal court (ICC), after its prosecutor requested arrest warrants for leaders from Israel, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and those from Hamas.
In a statement released late on Monday the foreign ministry said “France supports the international criminal court, its independence, and the fight against impunity in all situations,” reports Agence France-Presse.
The ministry “condemned the antisemitic massacres perpetrated by Hamas” during the group’s attack on Israel on 7 October, which was “accompanied by acts of torture and sexual violence”.
It also said it had warned Israel “of the need for strict compliance with international humanitarian law, and in particular of the unacceptable level of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip and inadequate humanitarian access”.
The international criminal court’s prosecutor Karim Khan said on Monday he had applied for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza. Khan also said leaders of Palestinian militant group Hamas, including Qatar-based Ismail Haniyeh and Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, “bear criminal responsibility” for actions committed during the 7 October attack.
More on that in a moment but first, here’s a summary of the latest developments:
Joe Biden has attacked as “outrageous” an application by the international criminal court for warrants seeking the arrest of Israeli officials. “The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous,” Biden said in the statement. “And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”
The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court said he is seeking arrest warrants for senior Hamas and Israeli officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant. Netanyahu and Gallant are accused of extermination, causing starvation as a method of war, the denial of humanitarian relief supplies and deliberately targeting civilians. Hamas leaders and officials Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Ismail Haniyeh were named as being wanted for crimes of extermination, murder, hostage taking, rape, sexual assault and torture.
Senior figures in the Israeli government have reacted angrily to the announcement which Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz said was “scandalous” and tantamount to attacking the victims of 7 October. Finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said the decision would be “the last nail in the dismantling of this political and antisemitic court,” adding that “arrest warrants [for Netanyahu and Gallant] are the arrest warrants for all of us”. President Isaac Herzog said it was “one-sided” and in “bad faith”, and that Israel “expects all leaders in the free world to condemn outright this step and firmly reject it.”
The move has also been condemned by senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhuri, who said the decision “equates the victim with the executioner” and encourages Israel to continue its “war of extermination” in Gaza. Wasel Abu Youssef of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said there was confusion over who was the victim, and that “The Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves. The ICC is required to issue arrest warrants against Israeli officials who are pursuing crimes of genocide in the Gaza Strip.”
UN officials warned Monday that food and medicine for Palestinians in Gaza are piling up in Egypt because the Rafah crossing remains closed and there has been no aid delivered to a UN warehouse from the US-built pier for two days, according to Reuters. Senior UN aid official Edem Wosornu said there were insufficient supplies and fuel to provide any meaningful level of support to the people of Gaza. “We are running out of words to describe what is happening in Gaza. We have described it as a catastrophe, a nightmare, as hell on earth. It is all of these, and worse,” she said.
An Australian doctor trapped inside one of Gaza’s few remaining functioning hospitals has urged the Australian government to do more to get him and his colleagues out and additional medical aid in. Sydney-based Dr Modher Albeiruti is among 16 international doctors and medical workers who have been stranded inside the European hospital in Khan Younis since Israel took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing this month.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has announced a five-day public mourning period after the deaths of president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other passengers in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The bodies were recovered from a mountain crash site on Monday morning.
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