Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi discussed bilateral issues in a telephone call.
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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the number of displaced Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip has risen to 1.8 million people or about 80 percent of the enclave’s population.
Gaza has been ravaged by more than one month of non-stop Israeli bombardment that has levelled entire neighbourhoods and delivered death and destruction to the enclave’s 2.3 million residents.
Over the course of its aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip, the Israeli regime dropped nearly 8,000 bombs on the Gazans. Humanitarian aid, however, came belatedly and much less than needed.
Iran’s foreign minister has likened the current situation in West Asia to a “powder keg” ready to explode, expressing hope for an end to Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians in the fully besieged Gaza Strip.
A young Palestinian girl was shot and killed by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces on Tuesday during protests in the northern West Bank city of Jenin in response to the deadly explosion at a hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip.