Day: 5 October 2024

Gaza- Ma’an- Acting Director of Al-Awda Hospital, Mohammad Salha, said that Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza and all hospitals operating in northern Gaza will go out of service if the fuel needed to operate the generators is not brought in.

He confirmed in a statement that reached Ma’an that the hospitals’ fuel supply has reached zero and that the quantities of fuel allowed by the occupation forces to enter the north are very limited and are not enough to operate the hospitals at full capacity, despite the hospitals’ plan to rationalize fuel consumption.

He explained that the hospitals have reached zero fuel supply.

He called on the World Health Organization and all partners to pressure the Israeli occupation forces to allow the entry of the fuel needed to operate Al-Awda Hospital and the hospitals operating in northern Gaza.

Source: Maan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – A number of citizens were killed and others were injured on Saturday evening in Israeli shelling in the northern Gaza Strip.

A local source said that paramedics transferred 10 martyrs and a number of injuries to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia camp, after an Israeli warplane targeted the Shaaban family’s house in Jabalia al-Balad.

He added that two citizens were martyred and others were injured when the occupation aircraft bombed a residential apartment in the Khadura building near the agency’s clinic in Jabalia camp. They were transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital.

He added that Red Crescent paramedics transferred the bodies of three martyrs and a number of wounded to Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia camp, after the occupation aircraft bombed the home of the Al-Arabid family in Bir Al-Naja, west of the camp.

He also reported that a number of citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation bombed a water distribution truck near the Jabalia Services Club.

He pointed out that a num
ber of families were forced to flee from the areas of East Jabalia, Al-Karamah, northwest of Gaza, and Al-Sultan and Al-Atatra, west of Beit Lahia.

In the same context, a young man was injured when the occupation bombed a house west of Abu Sarar roundabout in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, while the occupation artillery continued to bomb different areas of Gaza City, in conjunction with gunfire from Apache helicopters.

The occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of 41,825 citizens and the injury of 96,910 others, most of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.

Source: Maan News Agency

Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli aircraft and artillery launched an unprecedented, large-scale attack on the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, targeting Jabalia camp, Tel al-Zaatar and Beit Lahia.

Eyewitnesses said that “Israeli aircraft are carrying out unprecedented and massive fire belts, and artillery shells are falling randomly on all areas of the northern Gaza Strip.”

Ma’an’s correspondent reported that a number of people were killed and injured when the Shaaban family home was targeted in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.

Witnesses confirmed that ambulances and Palestinian civil defense vehicles rushed to several targeted areas, and that the bombing was increasing in a crazy manner and almost never stopped.

The occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the martyrdom of 41,825 citizens and the injury of 96,910 others, most of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still m
issing under the rubble.

Source: Maan News Agency

The Iraqi Turkmen Front announced that the target of the explosion of the exchange office in Kirkuk is Saygin Hajer Oglu, the official of the Turkmen Cultural House, the social formation affiliated with the Front, and he was injured and transferred to the hospital.

An explosive device targeted an exchange office north of Kirkuk this morning.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Media outlets announced the occurrence of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling on the towns of Kfar Kila and the outskirts of Kfar Shouba, Yaroun and Maroun al-Ras, and the Tyre area in southern Lebanon.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Egypt has urgently dispatched food and medical supplies to Lebanon via Beirut airport to help the nation cope with repercussioos of the Israeli aggression.

Ambassador Tamim Khalaf, spokesperson of the foreign ministry, said in a statement on Saturday that the relief for Lebanon was in line with instructions by President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi to offer all possible assistance to Lebanon and its people to grapple with the ramifications of the Israeli aggression.

Accordingly, an air relief bridge, first set up in 2021, has been re-established in solidarity with the Lebanese Government and people in the face of the crises.

He added that the Egyptian embassy in Beirut organized repatriation of 286 Egyptians aboard a sepcial flight by Egyptair.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

At least six soldiers of Pakistan army and eight militants were killed during clashes in PakistanÂ’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province bordering Afghanistan, said the military on Saturday.

According to a press release by Pakistan militaryÂ’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), six personnel of Pakistan Army including a senior officer “embraced martyrdom” during the intense exchange of fire in North Waziristan tribal district of KPK.

The security forces killed six militants in Spinwam area of North Waziristan.

The military officer, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Ali Shoukat, who was leading his troops from the front, “fought gallantly and embraced martyrdom along with his five men,” the military said.

Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies conducted a joint intelligence-based operation in Charbagh area of Swat district in KPK killing two militants.

The killed militants were involved in numerous terrorist activities. They had set off explosives targeting police offciers escorting the conv
oy of foreign dignitaries in Swat last month.

“A sanitization operation” is being conducted to eliminate any other militant in the area, said ISPR.

President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari has appreciated security forces’ successful operation against terrorists in North Waziristan.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

Oil price has continued its increase due to the ongoing military escalation in the Middle East region and concerns over the Israeli occupation’s possible attacks on Iran’s oil facilities.

Crude price rose by five percent on Thursday on one day, while Brent oil price was about USD 78 per barrel.

Earlier the OPEC+ alliance affirmed keenness on ensuring market’s stability and ways to prevent potential supply shortages.

West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil price approaches USD 74 per barrel, and the crude oil rose by eight percent this week, the largest rise since early 2023.

Global oil markets are keeping eyes on Israel’s predictable retaliation for Iran’s intensive shelling of Israeli occupation military facilities and bases.

According to several observers, any step seeks to target oil industry in Iran, an OPEC member, will lead to the reduction of at least 1.5 million barrels of Iran’s daily output.

However, the price of OPEC oil basket increased slightly from USD 74.62 per barrel to 74.90, according to OPE
C Secretariat calculations on Thursday.

Meanwhile, observers said that U.S President Joe Biden’s statement in which he opposed openly shelling Iran’s oil facilities, and also the opposition of the G-7 to the same step, contributed to relatively calming down the situation.

In a statement last Wednesday following its ministerial committee tasked with overseeing output, the OPEC+ alliance declared that it is studying oil markets’ situation to meet full compliance with production quotas.

The alliance added that it would continue to observe additional voluntary output updates declared by some OPEC+ members, in accordance with the deal agreed upon during the 52nd ministerial meeting held on February 1, 2024.

Source: Kuwait News Agency