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Greece to urge EU to offer medical aid to injured Lebanese, minister says

Greece to urge EU to offer medical aid to injured Lebanese, minister says
Paramedics arrive at the site of an Israeli strike on the Mount Lebanon village of Maaysra, east of the Christian coastal town of Byblos, on Sept. 25, 2024. (AFP)
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Greece to urge EU to offer medical aid to injured Lebanese, minister says

Greece to urge EU to offer medical aid to injured Lebanese, minister says
  • Greece will try to mobilize Europe to provide “centrally and at a European level medical aid to Lebanese citizens who have been injured and are in need of treatment“
  • Greece urged its citizens on Tuesday to evacuate Lebanon
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ATHENS: Greece will urge the EU to provide medical treatment to injured Lebanese citizens, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis told his Lebanese counterpart at a meeting in New York, according to the Greek foreign ministry.
Gerapetritis told Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib that Greece was concerned about the Middle East crisis and the risk of its further expansion, the Greek ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
“It is absolutely necessary to stop the vicious cycle of violence and confrontation,” it said.
Greece will try to mobilize Europe to provide “centrally and at a European level medical aid to Lebanese citizens who have been injured and are in need of treatment.”
Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon targeting its Hezbollah movement have sharply intensified since Monday, when more than 550 people were killed in the deadliest day in Lebanon since the end of its 1975-1990 civil war. Around half a million Lebanese have fled their homes, and hospitals have been overwhelmed with the wounded.
Greece urged its citizens on Tuesday to evacuate Lebanon and avoid any travel to the country.

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Israel sends scores of bodies to Gaza; Palestinians demand details before burying them

Israel sends scores of bodies to Gaza; Palestinians demand details before burying them
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Israel sends scores of bodies to Gaza; Palestinians demand details before burying them

Israel sends scores of bodies to Gaza; Palestinians demand details before burying them
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The bodies were brought into Gaza in a container loaded on a truck through an Israeli-controlled crossing
Health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis refused to receive them and bury them, urging the ICRC to seek details from Israel

CAIRO: Israel returned the bodies on Wednesday of 88 Palestinians killed in its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, which the territory’s health ministry refused to bury before Israel discloses details about who they are and where it killed them.
The bodies were brought into Gaza in a container loaded on a truck through an Israeli-controlled crossing, but, according to Palestinian officials, there was no information provided about the names or ages of the victims or locations where they died.
Health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis refused to receive them and bury them, urging the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC to seek details from Israel.
“The health ministry halted the procedures to receive the container (carrying the bodies) until the completion of the full data and information about those bodies so their relatives can identify them,” the ministry said in a statement.
The head of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said health ministry officials told the driver of the truck to bring the bodies of dead Palestinians back to the Israeli crossing from which he had arrived. The truck then left the hospital.
“They must act according to the international humanitarian law and in a way that preserves the dignity of the martyrs and their families,” Ismail Al-Thawabta told Reuters.
The Red Cross said it wasn’t involved in the transfer process.
“We reiterate that all families have the right to receive news about their loved ones and bury them respectfully and in line with their traditions,” said a statement issued by the ICRC.
Under International Humanitarian Law, those who have died during an armed conflict must be handled with dignity and be properly managed. The law requires that they be searched for, collected and evacuated, which helps ensure that people do not go missing, the ICRC statement added.
The Civil Emergency Service tasked with finding people missing under rubble, on roads and in ruined buildings in Gaza says it has been notified of around 10,000 people missing during the near year-long Israeli assault on Gaza.
Gaza health authorities list more than 41,000 Palestinians confirmed killed in the assault, which Israel launched after Hamas fighters attacked Israeli towns on Oct. 7 last year, killing 1,200 people and capturing around 250 hostages.
In recent days the conflict has spread to another major theater, with Israel launching the biggest airstrikes on Lebanon in nearly two decades, targeting the Hezbollah movement, which has been rocketing Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.

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War in Gaza has not let up, even as the conflict in Lebanon has escalated. Many months of diplomatic efforts to reach a Gaza ceasefire have yielded little progress, with Israel refusing any deal to halt the fighting without the total defeat of Hamas.
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians on Wednesday, medics said.
In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, Israeli forces continued their operations in different areas of the city, amid clashes with Hamas-led fighters, according to residents and statements posted by militants.
Medics said at least eight Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli strikes on two houses in Rafah. One of those strikes killed a woman and her children, they added.
In another attack in Bureij, one of the Gaza Strip’s eight historic refugee camps, five Palestinians were killed in a house hit by an Israeli missile, medics said.
Israel has also sent tanks into the eastern area of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, and medics said a woman was killed in an air strike on a house in the town earlier on Tuesday.

13 migrants found dead off Tunisia: official

13 migrants found dead off Tunisia: official
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13 migrants found dead off Tunisia: official

13 migrants found dead off Tunisia: official
  • The bodies were found Tuesday and Wednesday off the coastal towns of Salakta and Chebba
  • Since January 1, at least 103 makeshift boats have capsized, and 341 bodies have been recovered off Tunisia’s coast
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TUNIS: Thirteen bodies believed to be of sub-Saharan African migrants have been found dead off Tunisia’s eastern coast, a judicial official told AFP on Wednesday.
The bodies were found Tuesday and Wednesday off the coastal towns of Salakta and Chebba, said Farid Ben Jha, the spokesman for the public prosecution in the Monastir and Mahdia governorates.
He added that an investigation has been opened but provided no further details.
Tunisia and neighboring Libya have become key departure points for migrants, often from other countries, who risk perilous Mediterranean Sea journeys in the hopes of reaching better lives in Europe.
Each year, tens of thousands of people attempt to make the crossing, with Italy — whose Lampedusa island is only 150 kilometers (90 miles) from Tunisia — often their first port of call.
Since January 1, at least 103 makeshift boats have capsized, and 341 bodies have been recovered off Tunisia’s coast, according to the interior ministry.
More than 1,300 people died or disappeared last year in shipwrecks off the North African country, according to the Tunisian FTDES rights group.
The International Organization for Migration has said that more than 30,309 migrants have died in the Mediterranean in the past decade, including more than 3,000 last year.

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Israeli must be prepared for ‘manoeuvring and action’ against Hezbollah, general says

Israeli must be prepared for ‘manoeuvring and action’ against Hezbollah, general says
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Israeli must be prepared for ‘manoeuvring and action’ against Hezbollah, general says

Israeli must be prepared for ‘manoeuvring and action’ against Hezbollah, general says
  • It did not specify whether the remarks were a reference to a possible ground incursion into southern Lebanon
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JERUSALEM: The Israeli military’s head of the northern command said Israel had entered a new phase of its campaign and must be prepared for “manoeuvring and action,” the military said in a statement on Wednesday.
It did not specify whether the remarks were a reference to a possible ground incursion into southern Lebanon.
“We have entered a new phase of the campaign,” said Major General Ori Gordin during a visit on Tuesday to a brigade exercise on Israel’s northern border, according to the military statement.
“The operation began with a significant blow to Hezbollah’s capabilities, focusing on their firepower capabilities, and a very significant hit on the organization’s commanders and operatives. Facing this, we need to change the security situation, and we must be fully prepared for maneuvers and action,” Gordin said.

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Iran parliament blocks appointment of Sunni to VP post

Iran parliament blocks appointment of Sunni to VP post
Updated 25 September 2024
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Iran parliament blocks appointment of Sunni to VP post

Iran parliament blocks appointment of Sunni to VP post
Updated 25 September 2024
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TEHRAN: The Iranian parliament on Wednesday blocked the appointment of a politician from the Sunni minority as vice president, state media reported.
In August, President Masoud Pezeshkian had announced the appointment of Abdolkarim Hosseinzadeh as his vice president for rural development and disadvantaged areas, citing his “valuable experience.”
But on Wednesday lawmakers voted against his resignation from parliament to take up the vice president post, the official IRNA news agency said.
“Parliament members voted 107 in favor, 129 against, and five abstentions out of the 247 representatives present,” it added.
Sunni Muslims account for around 10 percent of Iran’s population, where the vast majority are Shiites and that branch of Islam is the official state religion.
They have very rarely held key positions of power since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Iran has numerous vice presidents, who are tasked with leading organizations related to presidential affairs in the country.
A 44-year-old reformist, Hosseinzadeh has since 2012 represented the northwestern cities of Naghadeh and Oshnavieh in the Iranian parliament.
He has spoken out publicly on several occasions in defense of the rights of Iran’s Sunnis.
During his election campaign Pezeshkian, himself a reformist, criticized the lack of representation for ethnic and religious minorities, in particular Sunni Kurds, in important positions.

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Bahrain supports UN reform that ‘reflects current geopolitical realities’: Crown prince

Bahrain supports UN reform that ‘reflects current geopolitical realities’: Crown prince
Updated 25 September 2024
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Bahrain supports UN reform that ‘reflects current geopolitical realities’: Crown prince

Bahrain supports UN reform that ‘reflects current geopolitical realities’: Crown prince
  • ‘The very systems designed to uphold the international order are under strain,’ he tells General Assembly
  • ‘Today’s world is, in many ways, more fragile than the one that had emerged from World War II’
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NEW YORK CITY: Bahrain supports calls for UN reform to “ensure that it reflects current geopolitical realities,” Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa said on Tuesday.

Addressing the UN General Assembly, he said reform should be “holistic” and “consensus-driven,” and encompass all bodies including the Security Council.

“The very systems designed to uphold the international order are under strain,” he added. “As the threats and challenges we collectively face evolve, this important institution, which our global community relies on to safeguard the international rules-based order, must evolve as well.”

The crown prince called for the UNGA to “recommit to peace” at a time when governments are pursuing policies “exclusively rooted in self-interest” and using “questionably legal force to resolve disputes” amid a rise in “radicalism, extremism, and rogue non-state actors sowing chaos and discord.”

Palestinians in Gaza are “living through an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, with over 40,000 killed, many of them women and children,” he said.

“It’s clear that what’s required is the implementation of an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages, and the adoption of an irrevocable path to the creation of a viable, independent Palestinian state.”

The Gaza and Ukraine conflicts, as well as rising tensions in the South China Sea, “undermine growth, stifle opportunity, and endanger the hopes we hold for our children,” he added. “Today’s world is, in many ways, more fragile than the one that had emerged from World War II.”

Current global challenges go beyond geopolitical ones, including the impact of unsustainable development on the environment and the effects of diseases such as COVID-19 in disrupting the global order, he said.

The crown prince advised against treating these crises individually, as they are “interconnected” and “represent a systemic threat to humanity.”

He suggested that in order to overcome these challenges, “like-minded countries come together,” which can only be achieved through system-wide reform that includes multilateral organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Health Organization.

He stressed Bahrain’s commitment to pluralism and multilateralism, pointing to the country’s 2023 Comprehensive Security Integration and Prosperity Agreement with the US, which promotes cooperation in various areas such as science, technology, defense and security.

The crown prince said the agreement is not designed as a bilateral one but as “the beginning of a multilateral framework that aims to bring together countries with an equal interest in delivering stability and prosperity.”

He concluded: “The international rules-based order isn’t sustained by hopes or dreams — it’s the product of robust international institutions and security constructs that are fit for purpose.”

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