Alperen Aktas
28 October 2024•Update: 28 October 2024
ISTANBUL
Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Monday with, including Israel killing more than 1,000 Palestinians during its three-week-long military offensives in northern Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school in Gaza City killing at least five people, and Republican nominee and former US President Donald Trump claiming that the "incompetence" of his rival, Democratic candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris, will "get us into World War 3.”
TOP STORIES
The Israeli army has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza, forced half of the population to flee from bombardments, and left the other half trapped without water or food for nearly three weeks, the Palestinian Civil Defense announced.
Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense, said in a video shared on social media that the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 Palestinians during its three-week-long military offensives in northern Gaza, which are still ongoing.
“More than 100,000 Palestinians in the areas of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia are suffering from an Israeli siege and bombardment, while the other half of the population, which numbered around 200,000, has been forcibly displaced towards Gaza City, the closest governorate to the north,” Bassal told Anadolu.
The death toll from the Israeli airstrike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced civilians west of Gaza City on Sunday has reached 11, a medical source said.
Twenty other people were injured in the attack that targeted Asma School, run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Shati refugee camp, the source added.
The attack was the second to have targeted the same school within days.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump warned that his Democratic rival and Vice President Kamala Harris could get the US into a hot war if she wins the Nov. 5 election, saying: “She would get us into a World War 3 guaranteed because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.”
Speaking at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania, Trump argued that Harris would be incapable of “dealing with” leaders such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to US media reports.
Noting that the world has “never been so close” to a global war, Trump promised to avoid such a war if he becomes president.
NEWS IN BRIEF
- Five more Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 182, the government media office said.
- Seven major countries, including the UK and France, issued a warning to Israel about proposed legislation that would effectively ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from operating, citing potential "devastating consequences" for humanitarian aid in Gaza.
- Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Tenerife and Las Palmas in Spain's Canary Islands calling for an end to irregular migration to the country, which has seen over 31,000 arrivals this year alone.
- Egypt has proposed a Gaza cease-fire to facilitate a potential exchange of hostages and prisoners, aiming to build towards a longer-term truce, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced.
- Eight people were killed and 25 others injured in a new Israeli airstrike in Sidon in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry said.
- Japan's ruling coalition suffered an historic setback, losing its parliamentary majority for the first time since 2009.
- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed shock at the horrific levels of death, injury and destruction in northern Gaza, criticizing Israeli authorities for continuing to deny humanitarian aid deliveries with few exceptions.
- South Africa is set to submit a detailed memorial against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday, aiming to substantiate its case that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine.
- A drone fired from Lebanon struck an Israeli aircraft component factory near Acre in the Western Galilee, injuring two people.
- A Palestinian was shot dead in an alleged car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank, the army said.
- Russia said its forces took over another settlement in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
- At least 36 Palestinians were killed and several injured while others remain missing following Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
- South Korea expressed "deep concern" over a recent Israeli attack on Iran and called for a diplomatic solution to end the conflict in the Middle East, local media said.
- At least 35 people were injured when a truck rammed into a bus station in central Israel.
- Voters in Uzbekistan began casting their ballots to elect the country's 150-member lower house of the Oliy Majlis, or parliament.
- Turkish security forces “neutralized” 15 PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Syria near the Turkish border, the country’s National Defense Ministry said.
- Moscow and Kyiv exchanged accusations of overnight drone attacks against each other
- The US positioned a fleet of fighter jets on standby to rescue Israeli pilots if Tel Aviv's Saturday attack on Iran had gone badly, Israeli media reported.
- Australia’s ruling Labor Party lost an election in Queensland, ending its nearly decade of rule in the state, local media said.
- Typhoon Trami, locally known as Tropical Storm Kristine, has displaced and affected over 5.7 million people in the Philippines as the death toll rose to 85, local media said.
SPORTS
Arsenal and Liverpool played to a 2-2 draw in a thrilling Premier League matchup, with late drama keeping Liverpool in second place.
Arsenal broke the deadlock with a close-range finish from Bukayo Saka in the ninth minute, but Liverpool leveled the game with a header from Virgil van Dijk in the 18th minute at Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners took the lead again when Mikel Merino scored a header in the penalty box in the 43rd minute.
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
The SAHA Expo, one of Türkiye's top defense events, saw the signing of dozens of agreements between foreign and domestic companies and institutions in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul.
Among the deals were export cooperation agreements and memorandums of understanding.
More than 130 agreements were signed worth $6.19 billion, with $4.33 billion of that amount going to export deals, said the event organizer – SAHA Istanbul Defense and Aerospace Cluster.
