Thursday, May 30, 2024
06:30 GMT — China's Xi Jinping calls for Israel-Palestine peace summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a peace conference on Israel's war on besieged Gaza as he addressed Arab leaders and diplomats at a forum in Beijing.
China is hosting this week Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi and several other Arab leaders for a forum at which discussions on the war in Gaza are expected.
Addressing the delegations, Xi said China supported a "broad-based" peace conference to resolve the conflict. "The Middle East is a land bestowed with broad prospects for development, but the war is still raging on it," Xi said.
05:40 GMT — Egypt's Sisi calls to ensure Palestinians in Gaza not 'forcibly displaced'
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi urged the international community to ensure Palestinians in Gaza are not displaced from their war-ravaged territory.
"I... call on the international community to immediately provide for long-term humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip and to end the Israeli siege," Sisi told a forum of Arab leaders and Chinese officials in Beijing.
He also urged the international community to "stop any attempt at forcing Palestinians to forcibly flee their land"
05:00 GMT — France calls for reforms from Palestinian Authority in perspective of recognising state of Palestine
France called for reforms from the Palestinian Authority to strengthen the possibility of recognising the State of Palestine.
President Emmanuel Macron said France supports "a reformed and strengthened Palestinian Authority."
Macron made the remarks during a phone call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in which he also conveyed his condolences to the Palestinian people following the bombing of a camp for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Sunday, according to a statement from the Elysee Palace.
04:23 GMT — Palestinian health minister sees no indication that Israel will reopen Rafah crossing soon
Palestinian Health Minister Maged Abu Ramadan said there is no indication that Israel will reopen the Rafah crossing soon, urging states to increase pressure on Tel Aviv to let in aid and fuel.
"This is totally in the hands of the Israelis," Abu Ramadan said at a meeting in Geneva with the Association of the Accredited Correspondents to the United Nations (ACANU).
He said that even before the closure, which occurred in early May, Israel was preventing the crossing of many patients, as such referrals require permission from the Israeli side.
03:30 GMT — Nurse honoured for compassion is fired after referring to Gaza genocide in speech
A nurse has been fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel's war in Gaza as a genocide during a speech accepting an award.
Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honoured by NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in Gaza.
"It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza," Jabr said, according to a video of the May 7 speech that she posted on social media.
02:40 GMT — Israel kills paramedics, Palestinian civilians in Gaza strikes
Israel has killed several Palestinian civilians, including two paramedics, in air strikes on the cities of Gaza and Rafah.
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that rescue teams and local citizens retrieved several casualties from the rubble of a house belonging to the Al Hatu family near Al-Zahraa School in eastern Gaza City, which was targeted by Israeli warplanes.
"Three more individuals were killed when a house in the Tel al Sultan neighbourhood, west of Rafah, was struck by an Israeli air strike," WAFA said.
02:10 GMT — Car ramming kills two Israelis in West Bank
A car ramming attack has killed two Israelis near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army has said.
The army had earlier reported a car ramming attack near an illegal Zionist settlement outside Nablus. It then told AFP news agency that "two Israeli citizens were killed."
According to Israeli media, the army launched a manhunt for the suspected attacker, as Israeli violence in the West Bank flares during its brutal war on besieged Gaza.
02:00 GMT — 'All eyes on Rafah' image shared 45M times online
An AI-generated image bearing the words "All eyes on Rafah" has been shared by more than 45 million Instagram accounts since Monday after a deadly Israeli strike at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah burned alive and decapitated around 50 Palestinians, sparking global outcry.
The image depicts densely packed rows of tents stretching endlessly across a desert landscape overshadowed by mountains, alluding to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled there during Israel's military invasion.
Chilean-US actor Pedro Pascal, top models Bella and Gigi Hadid, who are of Palestinian descent, and French football star Ousm ane Dembele are among the celebrities to have shared it on Instagram.
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