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Musk activates Internet service in Gaza hospital with help of UAE, Israel

Musk activates Internet service in Gaza hospital with help of UAE, Israel
UAE field hospital in Gaza has begun fitting prosthetics for wounded and injured who lost limbs during the catastrophic events in the Gaza Strip (WAM)
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Updated 24 July 2024
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Musk activates Internet service in Gaza hospital with help of UAE, Israel

Musk activates Internet service in Gaza hospital with help of UAE, Israel
  • Announcement came more than five months after the Israeli government gave approval for Starlink’s use in the hospital in Rafah
  • The high speed Internet would enable potentially life-saving medical consultations via real-time video calling
Updated 24 July 2024
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DUBAI: SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said that his Starlink satellite Internet service has been activated in a hospital in Gaza, where many medical facilities have been destroyed by the war, with the help of the United Arab Emirates and Israel.
The Gulf Arab state’s foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, thanked the billionaire entrepreneur for supporting the UAE field hospital in Gaza, where many medical facilities have been demolished and medicines are scarce.
“Starlink is now active in a Gaza hospital with the support of @UAEmediaoffice and @Israel,” Musk posted on X.

The announcement came more than five months after the Israeli government gave approval for Starlink’s use in the hospital in Rafah, a flashpoint city in southern Gaza.
Residents said on Tuesday that Israeli forces had blown up several homes in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, where Israel said its operation aimed to dismantle the last Hamas battalions.
The high speed Internet would enable potentially life-saving medical consultations via real-time video calling, the UAE foreign ministry said in February.
Hamas started the war in Gaza on Oct. 7 when it attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking over 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel responded with an offensive that has killed more than 39,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, and turned the coastal strip into a wasteland.

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Gaza officials say 11 killed in Israeli strike on school

A civil defence worker carries a girl at a school site, which was sheltering displaced people,after it was hit by Israeli strike
A civil defence worker carries a girl at a school site, which was sheltering displaced people,after it was hit by Israeli strike
Updated 58 min 55 sec ago
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Gaza officials say 11 killed in Israeli strike on school

A civil defence worker carries a girl at a school site, which was sheltering displaced people,after it was hit by Israeli strike
  • “11 people, including a woman and girl, were killed when an Israeli air strike struck the Safad school in Gaza City sheltering displaced people”: civil defense spokesman
Updated 58 min 55 sec ago
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GAZA STRIP: Gaza health officials said an Israeli air strike targeting a group of policemen in a school sheltering displaced Palestinians killed at least 11 people on Sunday, while the military said it had struck a Hamas command center.
“Eleven people, including a woman and girl, were killed when an Israeli air strike struck the Safad school in Gaza City sheltering displaced people,” civil defense agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding several people were also wounded.
The school had a Hamas police outpost, another Gaza health official said on condition of anonymity.
The Israeli military said its air force had struck a Hamas command center in the Safad school.
“The IAF struck Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control center embedded inside the area that previously served as the Safad school in Gaza City,” the military said in a statement.
The war between Israel and Hamas erupted after Palestinian militants attacked Israel on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Since then, the Israeli military has been relentlessly bombing the Gaza Strip from the air, sea and ground, which has so far killed at least 40,738 people, according to the territory’s health ministry.
According to the UN, the majority of the dead are women and children.

Topics: War on Gaza Israeli School

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Al-Azhar condemns Israel’s terrorist aggression in the West Bank

Al-Azhar condemns Israel’s terrorist aggression in the West Bank
Updated 01 September 2024
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Al-Azhar condemns Israel’s terrorist aggression in the West Bank

Al-Azhar condemns Israel’s terrorist aggression in the West Bank
  • Al-Azhar warned the entire world of a Zionist plan being ‎implemented on the occupied Palestinian territories in the ‎West Bank
Updated 01 September 2024
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CAIRO: Egypt’s Al-Azhar Al-Sharif — Sunni Islam’s oldest and foremost seat of learning — has strongly condemned the Zionist terrorist aggression on the cities of the West Bank, the destruction of ‎many roads, facilities and homes, the killing and ‎injury of dozens, and the arrest of hundreds.‎

Al-Azhar warned the entire world of a Zionist plan being ‎implemented on the occupied Palestinian territories in the ‎West Bank to “seize its ownership, Judaize its landmarks, kill ‎its Palestinian owners and citizens, and commit a new ‎genocide. This crime is taking place in the light of the ‎brutality of this Zionist entity, unprecedented international ‎complicity and impotence, and global preoccupation with ‎the daily massacres taking place in the glorious land of Gaza. ‎There, the enemy is reassured that no one would move a ‎finger to confront what is going on there.‎”

Al-Azhar also warned of the danger of this violation of the ‎security and stability of the region, and called on the human ‎community and all active parties to assume their ‎responsibilities toward the massacres committed by ‎the “Zionist killing machine.”

“These massacres against the ‎people of the Gaza Strip are tragic and painful, not to ‎mention the crimes they are about to commit in the West ‎Bank. Al-Azhar also underscores the need to exert all ‎efforts to stop the unscrupulous Zionist plans aimed at taking ‎lives, stealing land, and falsifying history. It is as if today’s ‎world is governed by the law of the jungle.”

Al-Azhar further called on the Muslim world to “harness all ‎political, diplomatic and popular resources and reinforce the ‎boycott of Zionist products, toward protecting Palestinian ‎lives, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the noble city of ‎Jerusalem, to repel the aggression against our brethren in ‎Palestine, and let everyone know that this enemy was planted ‎in our lands not to live with us in peace — as they allege — but ‎to devour the Arab body piecemeal if possible, knowing that ‎history and reality are the best witnesses to this fact.”

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Helicopter of Iran’s late president Raisi crashed due to weather, final report says

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Updated 01 September 2024
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Helicopter of Iran’s late president Raisi crashed due to weather, final report says

Rescue team works following a crash of a helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, in Varzaqan.
  • Raisi died when his helicopter crashed in May in a mountainous region near the Azerbaijan border
  • “The main reason of the helicopter crash was complicated weather conditions in the region”: final report
Updated 01 September 2024
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DUBA: The helicopter crash in which Iran’s late President Ebrahim Raisi was killed was primarily caused by weather conditions that included thick fog, Iran’s state TV said on Sunday, citing the final investigation report on the incident.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner who was seen as a potential successor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, died when his helicopter crashed in May in a mountainous region near the Azerbaijan border.
“The main reason of the helicopter crash was complicated weather conditions in the region,” the final report concluded, according to Iran’s state TV.
A thick mass of fog caused the helicopter that was carrying Raisi and his companions to crash into the mountain, the report issued by a high committee charged by Iran’s military with investigating the incident said.
A preliminary report by Iran’s military had said in May that no evidence of foul play or an attack had been found during the investigation.

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Israel’s main labor union calls strike as pressure mounts for hostage deal

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People attend a demonstration calling for the immediate return of hostages held in Gaza.
Updated 01 September 2024
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Israel’s main labor union calls strike as pressure mounts for hostage deal

People attend a demonstration calling for the immediate return of hostages held in Gaza.
  • As part of the strike “all take-offs and landings at Ben Gurion airport will stop from 8:00 am (0500 GMT),” David said
  • “We need to reach a deal, a deal that is more important than anything else,” he added
Updated 01 September 2024
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JERUSALEM: The head of Israel’s biggest labor union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to bring back Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza, as thousands of protesters took to the streets.
Earlier, Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in southern Gaza where they were apparently killed not long before Israeli troops reached them, according to the military, prompting fury and grief among Israelis.
The call for a one-day general strike by Arnon Bar-David, whose Histadrut union represents hundreds of thousands of workers, was backed by Israel’s main manufacturers and entrepreneurs in the high-tech sector.
The alliance of some of the most powerful voices in Israel’s economy reflected the scale of public anger over the deaths of the six hostages, who were among some 250 people seized by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 last year.
“We must reach a deal (on the return of the surviving hostages). A deal is more important than anything else,” Bar-David told a press conference. “We are getting body bags instead of a deal.”
Ben Gurion Airport, Israel’s main air transport hub, will be closed from 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) on Monday, he said. Municipal services in Israel’s economic hub Tel-Aviv will also be shut for part of Monday.
Israel’s Manufacturers’ Association said it backed the strike and accused the government of failing in its “moral duty” to bring the hostages back alive.
“Without the return of the hostages we will not be able to end the war, we will not be able to rehabilitate ourselves as a society and we will not be able to begin to rehabilitate the Israeli economy,” said association head Ron Tomer.
Israeli opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid earlier threw his support behind the strike action.

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Thousands of protesters blocked roads on Sunday in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and demonstrated outside Netanyahu’s residence.
The Hostages Families Forum, which represents the families of some of those held in Gaza, said the death of the six was the direct result of Netanyahu’s failure to secure a deal to halt the fighting and bring their loved ones home.
“They were all murdered in the last few days, after surviving almost 11 months of abuse, torture and starvation in Hamas captivity,” the group said in a statement.
Some 101 hostages are still being held in Gaza, although Israel believes one-third are no longer alive. Netanyahu and many hard-liners in his government, as well their supporters, remain opposed to any hostage deal that would release militants from Israeli prisons and help to keep Hamas in power.

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Libya’s Arabian Gulf Oil Co. fields resume output at up to 120,000 bpd

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Libya’s Arabian Gulf Oil Co. fields resume output at up to 120,000 bpd

A sign that reads “Arabian Gulf Oil Company, Nafoora Oilfield” stands in Jakharrah, Libya, August 27, 2024. (Reuters)
  • The resumption, below the fields’ full capacity, is intended only to supply electricity and fuel plants for domestic needs
  • Factions in the east of Libya, where oil production is concentrated, shut output down in August
Updated 01 September 2024
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TRIPOLI: Libya’s Arabian Gulf Oil Company has resumed output at up to 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) to meet domestic needs, while exports are still halted, engineers said on Sunday, after a standoff between factions shut most of the country’s oilfields.
On Saturday, the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, the operator of Libya’s Sarir, Messla and Nafoura oilfields, issued an instruction for production to restart.
The resumption, below the fields’ full capacity, is intended only to supply electricity and fuel plants for domestic needs, the engineers told Reuters. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Factions in the east of Libya, where oil production is concentrated, shut output down in August after factions dominant in western Libya ousted veteran Central Bank of Libya governor Sadiq Al-Kabir and replaced him with a rival board.

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