Category: International

PESHAWAR: Officers of the district administration and revenue department have been directed across the province to collect data of properties owned by the undocumented foreigners as government said over 60,000 have returned to thier homes via Torkham in the last few weeks. It has been learnt that all the deputy and assistant commissioners, tehsildars and patwaris have been issued orders to collect the details of properties and businesses owned by the undocumented foreigners or the people uknown. The mechanism is yet to be decided as to how these properties will…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced a “clear violation” of international humanitarian law by Israeli forces in Gaza as Palestinians in the besieged territory are suffering from “never-before-seen” wounds from relentless airstrikes. More than 5,700 Palestinians, also mostly civilians, have been martyred across the Gaza Strip in Israeli strikes, according to Gaza health officials. The Israeli military has bombed entire neighbourhoods in the blockaded territory in response to unprecedented Hamas attacks inside Israel on October 7 that killed at least 1,400 people. Opening an important UNSC session, Guterres said there…

Hamas on Monday night released two elderly hostages who were airlifted to an Israeli hospital to be reunited with family during the early hours of Tuesday, as the US demanded the release of 200 other captives before Gaza ceasefire talks are considered, AFP reported. Early on Tuesday, a military helicopter brought freed hostages Nurit Cooper, aged 79, and Yocheved Lifshitz, aged 85, to a medical centre in Tel Aviv. Their release comes days after two other women — American citizens — were freed. The office of Israel’s prime minister said Cooper and…

Israeli warplanes have bombed areas near three hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Al-Shifa and Al-Quds Hospitals in Gaza City and the Indonesian Hospital in the north, though the extent of the damage is yet to be determined. According to the director of the Indonesian Hospital, the Israeli bombardment caused “serious damage and injuries,” but he did not provide further details. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated on October 14 that Israel had ordered them to evacuate Al-Quds Hospital, but the group said it was not possible to move the…

Hamas has released two American hostages in Gaza, offering hope to desperate families, as Israel pounded blockaded Gaza after the group took over 200 people hostage and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians when it stormed into Israeli towns on October 7. However, despite the release of hostages from Gaza, Israel has continued to pound the territory where millions waited for the promised aid deliveries on Saturday, which have been stuck for days at Egypt’s Rafah border. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross president, Mirjana Spoljaric,…

Israel would permit aid to enter Gaza via Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday, only “food, water, and medicine” will be permitted into the blockaded Palestinian enclave. “In light of [US] President [Joe] Biden´s demand, Israel would not foil the supply of humanitarian aid via Egypt,” the prime minister’s office said, announcing a cabinet decision. The statement noted that aid to civilians in the southern Gaza Strip would be allowed “so long as these supplies do not reach Hamas”, which rules Gaza. While Israel said it would…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday stated that US President Joe Biden will visit Tel Aviv on Wednesday to show solidarity with the people of Israel amid efforts to ease a spiralling humanitarian disaster in Gaza intensify. Blinken also highlighted the progress made in convincing the US ally to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza Strip. The top US diplomat met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has pledged to destroy Hamas, for over nine hours at the defence ministry. The conflict intruded firsthand on the talks as air sirens…

A Palestinian-American boy was killed while his mother was left severely injured after a stabbing attack from their landlord on Saturday morning in Plainfield, Illinois as a result of hate crimes against Muslims in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war. The landlord, 71-year-old Joseph Czuba, has been charged with murder and hate crimes after allegedly stabbing a six-year-old boy, and his 32-year-old mother, because they were Muslims. According to the Will County Sheriff’s Office, the mother and her son were targeted because of the current conflict between Hamas and Israel.…

The United States has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean in a robust display of support for Israel’s security in the midst of the ongoing conflict in Gaza.   The move comes as President Joe Biden underscores the necessity of protecting civilian lives during the hostilities between Israel and Hamas. The USS Eisenhower, along with its affiliated warships, has joined the USS Ford carrier strike group, which arrived earlier this week. The deployment serves to demonstrate the unwavering commitment of the United States to Israel’s security, with the…