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snapped food, water and power supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip since October 8, to retaliate against the raids carried out by Hamas fighters in southern Israel on October 7. The aid trucks “do not have enough supplies" for even one school in Gaza, a Palestinian spokesperson for the Rafah border crossing said, as per a CNN report. The news channel, however, noted that it could not verify the claim.

West Bank home of a senior Hamas leader and detained members of his family, witnesses said. Saleh al-Aruri is the deputy to Hamas' overall leader Ismail Haniyeh and one of the founders of the Islamist group's military wing. Based in Lebanon, he is a key target for Israel following the October 7 attacks when Hamas militants from Gaza stormed into southern Israel and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and seized more than 200 hostages, according to Israeli officials. Since then, more than 4,300 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardments, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry. Troops entered Aruri's home in Arura village, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Ramallah, at dawn on Saturday, arresting more than 20 people, including one of his brothers and nine of his nephews, mayor Ali al-Khasib and witnesses told AFP. Dozens more were pulled in for questioning. Outside the house, troops put up a banner of the Hamas deputy against the background of an Israeli flag that read: «This was the house of Saleh Aruri and has become the headquarters of Abu al-Nimer — Israeli intelligence», witnesses said, with images of it widely shared online. Village residents said Abu al-Nimer was an alias for the Israeli intelligence officer responsible for the area. In a statement, the army said the raid was jointly staged with the Shin Beth internal security service and resulted in the arrests of «dozens of Hamas members» among them relatives of Aruri.

Gaza's children are showing ever more signs of trauma two weeks into Israel's intense bombardment, parents and psychiatrists in the tiny, crowded enclave say, with no safe place to hide from the falling bombs and little prospect of respite. Children make up about half of Gaza's 2.3 million population, living under near constant bombardment with many packed into temporary shelters in U.N.-run schools after fleeing their homes with little food or clean water. Israel is expected to launch a ground attack on Gaza shortly in response to a cross-border assault by Hamas fighters on southern Israel on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 people, with a further 210 taken hostage. «Children… have started to develop serious trauma symptoms such as convulsions, bed-wetting, fear, aggressive behaviour, nervousness, and not leaving their parents' sides,» said Gaza psychiatrist Fadel Abu Heen. More than 4,100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza so far, including more than 1,500 children, while 13,000 people have been injured according to the Palestinian health ministry. Conditions in makeshift shelters in United Nations schools, where more than 380,000 people are camped out in hope of escaping the bombardment, only compound the problem. There are sometimes 100 people sleeping in each classroom, which all require continuous cleaning.

LAS VEGAS — The Southern California street gang leader charged in the fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur in 1996 in Las Vegas will make a court appearance Thursday with a lawyer from one of the city's best-known political families, one that has represented mobsters, athletes and other famous clients. Attorney Ross Goodman told The Associated Press Wednesday he'll appear in Duane «Keffe D» Davis' defence against accusations that Davis orchestrated the drive-by killing of the rap music icon. Davis won't immediately enter a plea, Goodman said, he'll seek another two weeks to confirm that he'll be hired for Davis' case. Davis, 60, originally from Compton, California, was arrested Sept.

climate «loss and damages» ahead of COP28 ended in failure Saturday, with countries from the global north and south unable to reach an agreement, according to sources involved in the talks. The agreement to set up a dedicated fund to help vulnerable countries cope with climate «loss and damage» was a flagship achievement of last year's COP27 talks in Egypt. But countries left the details to be worked out later.

Egypt and Gaza opened on Saturday to let desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians running short of food, medicine and water in the territory that is under an Israeli siege. More than 200 trucks carrying roughly 3,000 tonnes of aid had been positioned near the crossing for days before heading into Gaza. An Associated Press reporter saw the trucks entering.

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PTI, the IMD had previously reported that a low-pressure area in the southeast and southwest Arabian Sea has progressed into a depression and is projected to strengthen into a cyclonic storm by the morning of October 21. Following the naming conventions for cyclones in the Indian Ocean Region, this specific storm is set to be designated as 'Tej.' According to the IMD, the forecast suggests that this storm is expected to strengthen into a severe cyclonic storm by Sunday and progress in the direction of the southern coastlines of Oman and the nearby regions of Yemen. Nevertheless, it's important to note that cyclones can occasionally alter their trajectory.

Gaza Strip since Israel began bombarding the Palestinian enclave, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said Friday. The ministry said another 13,162 people have been wounded in the Israeli strikes, which have been ongoing since October 7. Among those killed were 16 people who died at the compound of Greek Orthodox church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City late on Thursday, the ministry said. Around 500 people had taken refuge at the church, including five members of Caritas staff, along with their families, NGO Cartias Internationalis said in a statement. «We were devastated to learn of the death of our colleague Viola, 26-year-old, who was killed alongside her husband and their infant daughter» in the strike, the NGO said in a statement. It said at least 17 people were killed and others are still under the rubble. Witnesses told AFP the strike appeared to have been aimed at a target close to the place of worship where many Gaza residents had taken refuge as the war raged in the Palestinian enclave. The army said its fighter jets had struck a «command and control centre» belonging to Hamas that was involved in firing rockets towards Israel. «As a result of the strike a wall of a church in the area was damaged. The Hamas health ministry also said that since the conflict erupted, 46 medical personnel had been killed and another 85 wounded in the enclave. Twenty-one health facilities were out of service due to lack of fuel, it added. Palestinians in Gaza are still waiting for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing. The war in Gaza began after Hamas carried out a deadly raid on southern Israel on October 7 that left more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, killed on Israeli soil.

₹148.5 crore on its opening day (Thursday), out of which it earned approximately ₹64.80 crore in India only. Despite the aura of Thalapathy Vijay, the film reportedly witnessed a significant fall in its collection and collected ₹36 crore in India on Friday, as per industry tracker Sacnilk. However, the Tamil occupancy of the film is at 66.85 percent.

Gale-force winds and floods have struck several countries in Northern Europe as the region braces for more heavy rain

The photo posted by the White House on its official Instagram account had President Biden with a member of the Army's elite counter-terrorism unit. However, in the same photo, the faces of three other Delta Force fighters were also visible in the image.

U.S. President Joe Biden made the case directly to the American people Thursday that the country has a “vital” national security obligation to help Israel and Ukraine, which will require billions of dollars of military aid.

Hamas organisation have behaved like 'animals' and emphasised that his country will target Hamas like 'human animals' during and after the war. «You don't need justification to fight against an organization like Hamas that have behaved like animals hunting other animals. It's not going to be to be stopped and we are not going to take it as something that was done, and that's it.

Israeli police, telling AFP on Friday that it had made a «moral decision» in light of the war in Gaza. Maryan Apparel in the southern state of Kerala said it had supplied around 100,000 uniforms to Israel's police force for every year since 2015. «It is a moral decision,» the company's managing director Thomas Olickal told AFP. Olickal said in a Wednesday statement that a strike on a hospital and the «loss of thousands of innocent lives» in the conflict had prompted the decision. Israelis and Palestinians have traded blame for Tuesday's deadly strike on the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City. Global leaders have condemned the strike and protests have erupted across the Muslim world with stark disagreement over the toll and who is responsible. Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas accused Israel of hitting the hospital during its massive bombing campaign, and the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has put the death toll at 471, though that number is contested. Israel's military has blamed a misfired rocket on another group, Islamic Jihad — a version of events backed by the United States, whose intelligence community has estimated between 100 and 300 people were killed. Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot, mutilated or burnt to death on the first day of the raid, according to Israeli officials.

Israel Thursday and American bases in Iraq and Syria were repeatedly targeted by drone attacks.The USS Carney, a Navy destroyer in the northern Red Sea, intercepted three land attack cruise missiles and several drones that were launched by Houthi forces in Yemen. The action by the Carney potentially represented the first shots by the U.S. military in the defense of Israel in this conflict.Brig.

Biden on Thursday asked Americans to spend billions more dollars to help Israel fight Hamas while Israel's defence chief told his troops to be ready to go into the Gaza Strip to destroy the Palestinian militant group. In a televised White House speech late on Thursday that also addressed Ukraine's effort to repel Russia's invasion, Biden said Hamas sought to «annihilate» Israel's democracy. The president, who made an eight-hour visit to Israel on Wednesday, also stressed the urgency of getting relief to Palestinian civilians in Gaza who lack food, water and medicine. «We can't ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace and have opportunity,» he said. Biden said he would ask Congress on Friday to approve extra funding for Israel.

Biden on Thursday said Hamas and Russia are both out to «annihilate» democracies in an impassioned speech to the nation from the Oval Office, where he made the case for US assistance to Ukraine and Israel. Hamas and Russian President Vladimir Putin «represent different threats but they share this in common: they both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy,» Biden said in the prime-time speech. Fresh from a whirlwind trip to Israel, the 80-year-old Democrat delivered just the second speech of his presidency from behind the historic Resolute Desk in a bid to win over war-weary voters and hardline Republicans. Biden, seeking reelection in 2024, is preparing to push Congress for a massive, $100 billion package that includes funding for Israel in its war with Hamas and for Ukraine's battle against Russia's invasion. Tying together two conflicts an ocean away from the United States is a bid by Biden to frame them as part of a bigger struggle to shape the world order and protect Americans at home. Biden had earlier said on X, formerly Twitter that «we are at a global inflection point that is bigger than party or politics.» Presidents traditionally reserve speeches from the solemn setting of the Oval Office for moments of key national significance. Biden's only previous address from there was in June when he hailed a deal with Congress to avert what would have been a catastrophic US debt default. But Congress has now been paralyzed for more than two weeks as divided Republicans, who control the majority in the House, fail repeatedly to agree on electing a House speaker. Hard-right Republicans, and a growing number of voters, are also strongly opposed to adding to the $43.9 billion in security assistance

themessenger.com. According to the report, Hurricane Norma has rapidly strengthened into a major hurricane and is barreling toward the west coast of Mexico. This has prompted a Hurricane Watch for southern Baja California from Todos Santos to Los Barriles. The report added that Norma is moving north at around seven miles per hour with maximum sustained winds near 130 mph.

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