16 October 2023; AA: The Egyptian Red Crescent said that aid trucks have started moving from Egypt’s Al Arish toward the Rafah border crossing with Gaza.
In a statement to Anadolu on Monday morning, Khaled Zaid, the director of the Egyptian Red Crescent in North Sinai, said: "Aid trucks have begun to be dispatched to the Rafah border."
The trucks contain food supplies and medical equipment, he said.
16 October 2023; AA: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that if Western countries like the US want to go to war with Russia, it would be "completely different" from the special military operation in Ukraine.
Putin made assessments about the Russia-Ukraine war and Russia-China relations in an interview with Russian state broadcaster Rossiya.
Speaking about Ukraine's counteroffensive, Putin said it has “completely failed.”
16 October 2023; AA: An Israeli army officer has been killed by anti-tank fire on Lebanon's border, the Israeli army said early Monday.
The officer was killed late Sunday near the Nurit military post, Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported, citing an army statement.
On Sunday, the Lebanese Hezbollah group said it targeted an Israeli barrack and five military sites near the border.
16 October 2023; MEMO: Israel yesterday announced that it would stop its security exports to Colombia in response to statements by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in which he likened Israel’s targeting of Gaza to the Nazi persecution of the Jews.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat said that Colombian Ambassador to Israel Margarita Manjarrez had been summoned over “hostile and anti-Semitic statements” against the state of Israel made by Petro.
14 October 2023; MEMO: Arab publishing bodies have withdrawn from a German book festival after a planned award to a Palestinian author was scrapped, the National has reported.
14 October 2023; MEMO: Turkiye’s foreign minister on Saturday met with the Arab League head in Cairo during his visit to Egypt, Anadolu reports.
“Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan met with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary General of the League of Arab States, in Cairo,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on X.
Fidan is on two-day official visit to Cairo at the invitation of his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry.
15 October 2023; MEMO: Egypt is continuing to keep its border with the Gaza Strip closed to Palestinians attempting to flee the Israeli bombardment of the territory, completing the construction of its concrete wall in the process.
Since the start of the Israeli aerial assault on Gaza which began after an offensive operation by the Palestinian resistance group last Saturday, Egypt closed its Rafah border crossing with the strip as many of its residents fled to the south of the besieged territory.
More than 200,000 marched through the streets of London on Saturday to condemn the horrifying Israeli crimes committed in Gaza.
Th protest was organised by Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB), Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Friends of Al-Aqsa (FOA), Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), and Stop the War Coalition, and Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC).
16 October 2023; MEMO: Iran sent a message to Israel via the UN yesterday, that it doesn’t want to see further escalation in the conflict with Gaza.
16 October 2023; MEMO: The Israeli Army’s Home Front Command yesterday announced that it will hand over 20,000 rifles to so-called “alert teams” – civilian militias, according to directives issued by Defence Minister Yoav Galant.
So far, 1,000 members of these militias have been armed.
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