Libyan PM: Israeli strikes against Gaza ‘ugliest form of terrorism’
Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip are ‘the ugliest form of terrorism’, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh said on Saturday.
Dbeibeh said the attacks will have serious consequences for global stability when he addressed the 42-member meeting of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.
He demanded an immediate halt to the attacks in Gaza and crimes against the Palestinian people.
After the meeting, Dbeibeh met Saudi Arabian Defence Minister Khalid bin Salman Al Saud and discussed military cooperation between the two countries and the fight against terrorism.
Saudi Arabia announced at the end of 2015 that the IMCTC was established with the participation of 34 countries with its headquarters in Riyadh.
With the increase in new participation in the coalition, the number of members reached 42.
At least 127 Palestinians were killed and 178 others were injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continues its onslaught on besieged Gaza Strip, Health Ministry said on Sunday
Death toll in Gaza reaches 27,365
At least 127 Palestinians were killed and 178 others were injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continues its onslaught on the besieged Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said on Sunday.
“The Israeli occupation committed 14 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, leaving 127 martyrs and 178 injured during the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement.
Despite the International Court of Justice’s provisional ruling, Israel continues its onslaught on the Gaza Strip where at least 27,365 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and 66,630 injured since October 7, according to Palestinian health authorities.
Israel has pounded the Gaza
Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas, which Tel Aviv says killed nearly 1,200 people.
The Israeli offensive has left 85 per cent of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60 per cent of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
Demolitions in West Bank
The Israeli army demolished 58
Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank in January, according to a local organisation on Sunday.
“The demolished structures included 22 inhabited houses and 16 agricultural facilities,” the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said in a statement.
It said most of the demolitions occurred in the cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, East Jerusalem and Qalqilya.
The commission also reported 1,593 attacks against Palestinians in January, of which 1,407 were carried out by army forces and 186 by settlers.
Tensions have been running high across the West Bank amid an Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip following a crossborder attack by Hamas on October 7. The Israeli army has since killed 381 Palestinians in West Bank, injured 4,400 others and detained 6,512 people, according to Palestinian figures.