Alperen Aktas
14 July 2024•Update: 14 July 2024
ISTANBUL
Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Sunday, including 15 Palestinians killed in a mosque in central Gaza, another 90 killed in an Israeli attack targeting displaced persons' camps in the southern Gaza Strip, and Egypt rejecting the use of the Rafah border crossing to tighten the blockade on the besieged Gaza Strip.
TOP STORIES
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and 20 more injured in an Israeli attack on a mosque in the central Gaza Strip.
“The Israeli army targeted a mosque in the Shati Camp, west of Gaza City, in central Gaza Strip,” spokesman for the Civil Defense Agency Mahmoud Basal told Anadolu.
The attack killed 10 Palestinians and injured 20 more, he added.
Egypt's president warned against using Gaza’s southern Rafah border crossing to tighten the blockade on the besieged Gaza Strip.
“Egypt also rejects using the Rafah crossing as a tool to tighten the siege on the Palestinian people in Gaza,” Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told a Cairo press conference alongside his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic.
He added that he confirms “Egypt’s position based on the inevitability of achieving an immediate and comprehensive cease-fire at the soonest time and Egypt’s categorical rejection of any form of displacement as well as any attempt to liquidate the Palestinian cause,” said the Egyptian presidency.
At least 90 Palestinians were killed and 300 others injured in an Israeli attack targeting displaced persons' camps in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the enclave's Health Ministry.
In a statement, the ministry said “The death toll of the occupation’s horrific massacre of citizens and displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis reached 90 martyrs and 300 injuries, including serious cases that medical teams are still dealing with even now.”
Earlier, it said the bodies of the attack’s victims and those injured arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis after Israeli forces bombed the Al-Mawasi area.
NEWS IN BRIEF
- Israel’s deadly attack on displaced Palestinians’ tents in Khan Younis constitutes a “continuation of its genocidal offensive” on the Palestinians in the embattled Gaza Strip, said the Palestinian presidency.
- Rockets fired from southern Lebanon towards the settlement of Kiryat Shmona and several surrounding areas injured four Israelis.
- Western powers’ unconditional support for Israel’s deadly offensive on Gaza will continue at the expense of violating their own principles, “influenced in part by the shame” of the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews, Turkish President Erdogan said.
- A ship carrying over 2,400 tons of humanitarian aid left the Turkish port of Mersin on Saturday, bound for the war-torn African nation of Sudan.
- The death toll from the collapse of a Nigerian school building in the north-central Plateau State has risen to 22, an official and hospital rescue workers said.
- The Palestinian resistance group Hamas rejected Israeli media claims that the Al-Qassam Brigade commander was the target of an Israeli airstrike on displaced Palestinians' tents in the southern Gaza Strip.
- Hamas's military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said on Saturday that its fighters destroyed several Israeli military vehicles in the southern Gaza Strip.
- Turkish security forces have neutralized at least 11 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said.
- Japan and Germany have agreed to enhance their security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
SPORTS
Iranian forward Mehdi Taremi joined Inter Milan, the Italian football powerhouse confirmed.
In a statement, Inter said that Taremi, 31, signed a contract with the Nerazzurri until 2027.
"Hi Inter fans! I am Mehdi Taremi. I am looking forward to see you in San Siro (Inter's home stadium). Together we will achieve great things!" Taremi, the first Iranian player in Inter's history, said in a video on X after joining the Milan club.
