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The Health Ministry in Gaza has reported, Wednesday, the death of Dr Ziad Mohammed Al-Dalo in Israeli prisons.
He was detained while performing humanitarian duties at Al-Shifa Medical Complex on March 18, 2024.
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Israel’s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, attacks War Minister Gallant: “For months, I’ve urged the Prime Minister to dismiss him. The decision must be made in the North, and Gallant is not the right person to lead.”
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Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI) Dr. Mustafa Barghouti said the criminal Israeli attack on Lebanon, which resulted in the martyrdom of about 10 citizens and the injury of thousands of others, is a terrorist act and an attack on innocent civilians before fighters.
He said it represents the implementation of the conspiracy of the Prime Minister of the Zionist occupation Benjamin Netanyahu and his fascist government. He added it aims to ignite a comprehensive war on Lebanon and drag the region into a regional war and prevent reaching an agreement to stop the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip.
Barghouti added to Jordan24 Netanyahu would not have dared to commit all these crimes without the absolute American support and Western silence on the war crimes he is committing.
The head of the PNI added Netanyahu will fail in the face of the steadfastness and resistance of the peoples of the region, especially the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples, and his plans will be shattered and destroyed as the conspiracies of the aggressors who preceded him were shattered.
Barghouti criticized the shameful Arab and international silence on the crimes committed by the occupation in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, which will lead to the outbreak of a regional war and ignite the entire region if it continues.
Barghouti called on free countries to pressure the International Criminal Court to investigate the crimes committed by the occupation, the latest of which was yesterday, especially since it affected thousands of Lebanese citizens and is considered a blatant attack on the sovereignty of the Lebanese state.
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Lebanese Ambassador Hadi Hachem sharply criticized Israel, Tuesday, for its ongoing military actions against his country in the wake of multiple explosions of pager devices that killed at least nine people and wounded many others, accusing it of violating international law and escalating regional tensions.
Speaking at an emergency session of the UN General Assembly on the legal consequences of Israel’s activities in occupied Palestinian territories, Hachem stressed that Lebanon’s sovereignty has been under attack since Oct. 8, 2023.
“The attacks against southern Lebanon have continued by Israel defying international law and resolutions, including international humanitarian law and the most fundamental humanitarian laws. This Israeli escalation on our territory is being accompanied by a hardening of rhetoric,” he said.
Citing the explosions of wireless communication devices across Lebanon on Tuesday, Hachem described it as an “aggression which rises to a war crime” and warned that it would exacerbate the conflict.
Earlier, at least nine people, including a child, were killed in a mass explosion of the pager devices in areas across Lebanon, according to Lebanese Health Minister Firas Al-Abiad.
He added that around 2,750 other people were also injured, including 200 in critical condition.
Pagers, often used by civilians and health care workers for communication, are small, battery-powered wireless devices that receive text messages, audio and visual signals.
Hachem warned that “with ongoing threats against Lebanon and its people” the Middle East “will become the eye of the cyclone.”
Iran condemns attack on Lebanon
Iran’s permanent representative to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani, said at the UN General Assembly session that Israel’s “aggression and act of terrorism” targeting civilians in Lebanon has resulted in thousands of injuries, including to Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon.
“We extend our sincere condolences to the families of the victims and the government of Lebanon and strongly condemn this act of sabotage and terrorism by the rogue regime of Israel,” Iravani said.
“The Israeli regime must be held accountable for such aggression and heinous crime,” he added.
Iran’s Permanent Mission to the UN issued a statement to Anadolu regarding the injury of Iran’s Ambassador Lebanon, Mojtaba Emani, following the explosion of communication devices in Lebanon according to Anadolu, the Turkish news agency
The statement said Emani is receiving treatment and is in stable condition.
The mass explosion of pagers came amid an exchange of cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and Israel against the backdrop of a brutal Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip which has killed more than 41,200 people, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year.
