DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Tehran was not involved in the militant Hamas group's weekend attack on Israel, Iran's top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday, but hailed what he called Israel's "irreparable" military and intelligence defeat.
"We kiss the hands of those who planned the attack on the Zionist regime," said Khamenei, who was wearing a Palestinian scarf, in his first televised speech since the attack.
GAZA/JERUSALEM/TEHRAN/UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
The death toll and injuries from Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have risen to 687 and 3,726, respectively, according to the latest update by the Palestinian Health Ministry on Monday.
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Saturday launched a surprise attack on Israeli towns adjacent to the Gaza Strip, prompting Israel to launch retaliatory strikes on Gaza.
Marrakesh, Morocco (AP) — The world economy has lost momentum from the impact of higher interest rates, the invasion of Ukraine and widening geopolitical rifts, and it now faces new uncertainty from the war between Israel and Hamas militants, International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday.
The IMF said it expects global economic growth to slow to 2.9% in 2024 from an expected 3% this year. The forecast for next year is down a notch from the 3% it predicted back in July.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory as Israel vowed a retaliation for Hamas’ surprise weekend attack that would “reverberate ... for generations.”
CAIRO, October 9. /TASS/: The Palestinian radical movement Hamas, which administers the Gaza Strip, has warned that it will kill the Israelis taken hostage during a raid into Israel near Gaza, as follows from the movement’s statement quoted by Al-Hadath TV channel.
"The execution of Israeli hostages will be the response to [the Israeli forces'] attacks on residential buildings and civilian facilities," Hamas said in the statement.
RABAT, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who chairs the current session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the ministerial level, has called for an emergency meeting to deliberate on ongoing Gaza Strip attacks by the Israeli military as a retaliation for the Hamas invasion.
MARRAKESH (Morocco), Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The IMF and World Bank gather in Morocco Monday for their first annual meetings on African soil in 50 years, under pressure to reform to better aid poor nations blighted by debt and climate change.
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank traditionally hold their annual gathering of finance ministers and central bank governors outside their Washington headquarters every three years.
The southern Moroccan city of Marrakesh was supposed to host it in 2021, but the gathering was postponed twice because of the Covid pandemic.
JERUSALEM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Israel's response to the unprecedented multi-pronged attack by Palestinian gunmen from the Gaza Strip will "change the Middle East," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.
He was speaking to mayors of southern border towns hit by the surprise assault that began on Saturday, a statement from his office said. It did not elaborate on his prediction.
GAZA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on Monday that four Israeli captives in Gaza have been killed in Israeli air raids.
Abu Obida, the spokesperson of the armed group, said in a brief statement that the bombardment of Israeli aircraft overnight and during the day in the Gaza Strip led to the killing of four enemy captives and their captors from the armed wing.
NICOSIA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) said on Monday that an understanding had been reached on the construction of a road that prompted a confrontation between Turkish military personnel and UN peacekeepers in August.
The incident took place inside the buffer zone near Pyla (Pile in Turkish), a village near the southeastern coast of Cyprus inhabited by both Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
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