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US dispatches aid ship to Gaza after Biden vows to build pier

US dispatches aid ship to Gaza after Biden vows to build pier
Above, the logistics support vessel General Frank S. Besson departs for the eastern Mediterranean after President Joe Biden said the US would provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea. (Reuters)
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Updated 10 March 2024
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US dispatches aid ship to Gaza after Biden vows to build pier

US dispatches aid ship to Gaza after Biden vows to build pier
  • The logistics support vessel carry equipment to establish a temporary pier to deliver vital humanitarian supplies
Updated 10 March 2024
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CAIRO: The US Army has dispatched a ship to send humanitarian aid to Gaza, Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Sunday, days after President Joe Biden vowed to build a temporary pier to supply the besieged enclave.
The General Frank S. Besson left Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia “less than 36 hours after President Biden announced the US would provide humanitarian assistance to Gaza by sea,” CENTCOM said in a statement.
The logistics support vessel is “carrying the first equipment to establish a temporary pier to deliver vital humanitarian supplies,” it said.
Biden’s announcement in his State of the Union address on Thursday followed UN warnings of widespread famine among Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians five months after Israel launched its offensive in the narrow strip in response to an attack by Hamas militants.
Gaza has no port infrastructure. The US initially plans to use Cyprus, which is offering a process for screening cargoes that will include Israel officials, removing the need for security checks in Gaza.
Most of Gaza’s people are now internally displaced, with severe bottlenecks in aid deliveries at land border checkpoints.
Gaza has been under an Israeli navy blockade since 2007, when Hamas took control of the enclave. There have been few direct sea arrivals since then.

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Israeli forces kill two attackers in West Bank, military says

Israeli forces kill two attackers in West Bank, military says
Updated 31 August 2024
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Israeli forces kill two attackers in West Bank, military says

Israeli forces kill two attackers in West Bank, military says
  • Violence in the West Bank, already on the rise before the war in Gaza, has escalated recently, with stepped-up Israeli military raids and settler and Palestinian street violence
Updated 31 August 2024
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s military on Saturday said its forces killed two people in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, after one infiltrated an Israeli settlement and another shot at soldiers after his car exploded.
Israel’s ambulance service said two men were wounded by gunshots in the incidents. It did not identify them.
“Terrorists attempted to run over a security guard at the entrance to the community Karmei Tzur a short while ago and infiltrated the community,” the military said, referring to an Israeli settlement.
Soldiers who arrived at the scene killed one assailant who had opened fire at them and were searching for others, it said.
In another incident, a car caught fire and exploded in a gas station, the military said.
It said forces sent to the scene “shot and eliminated the terrorist who exited the vehicle and tried to attack them.”
The military said it was too soon to know if the incidents were related.
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas issued a statement on Saturday praising what it called a “double heroic operation” in the West Bank, saying it “is a clear message that resistance will remain striking, prolonged and sustained as long as the brutal occupation’s aggression and targeting of our people and land continue.”
The group, however, did not claim direct responsibility for the attacks.
Violence in the West Bank, already on the rise before the war in Gaza, has escalated recently, with stepped-up Israeli military raids and settler and Palestinian street violence.

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7 US troops hurt in raid with Iraqi forces targeting Daesh group militants that killed 15

7 US troops hurt in raid with Iraqi forces targeting Daesh group militants that killed 15
Updated 31 August 2024
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7 US troops hurt in raid with Iraqi forces targeting Daesh group militants that killed 15

7 US troops hurt in raid with Iraqi forces targeting Daesh group militants that killed 15
  • An Iraqi military statement said “airstrikes targeted the hideouts, followed by an airborne operation”
Updated 31 August 2024
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BAGHDAD: The US military took part in an Iraqi raid in the country’s western region that killed 15 people as forces targeted suspected militants from the Daesh group, the American military said early Saturday.
For years after dislodging the militants from their self-declared caliphate across Iraq and Syria, US forces have continued fighting the Daesh group, though the casualties from Friday’s raid were higher than others in the time since.
The US military’s Central Command alleged the militants were armed with “numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’ belts” during the attack, which Iraqi forces said happened in the country’s the Anbar Desert.
“This operation targeted Daesh leaders to disrupt and degrade Daesh’ ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians, as well as US citizens, allies, and partners throughout the region and beyond,” Central Command said, using an acronym for the militant group. “Iraqi Security Forces continue to further exploit the locations raided.”
It added: “There is no indication of civilian casualties.”
An Iraqi military statement said “airstrikes targeted the hideouts, followed by an airborne operation.”
At its peak, the Daesh group ruled an area half the size of the United Kingdom where it attempted to enforce its extreme interpretation of Islam, which included attacks on religious minority groups and harsh punishment of Muslims deemed to be apostates.
A coalition of more than 80 countries, led by the United States, was formed to fight the group, which lost its hold on the territory it controlled in Iraq and 2017 and in Syria in 2019. However, the militants have continued to operate in the Anbar Desert in Iraq and Syria, while claiming attacks carried out by others elsewhere in the world. The Daesh’s branch in Afghanistan is known to carry out intensely bloody assaults.
 

 

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Tunisian court allows prominent politician Daimi to run in presidential election

Imed Daimi. (Twitter @imaddaimi)
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Updated 31 August 2024
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Tunisian court allows prominent politician Daimi to run in presidential election

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  • Daimi became the third candidate to be restored to the race by the court
Updated 31 August 2024
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TUNIS: The Tunisian administrative court upheld on Friday an appeal by prominent politician Imed Daimi to be allowed to return to the race for the presidential election expected on Oct. 6, Daimi said.
Daimi became the third candidate to be restored to the race by the court, after Abdellatif Mekki and Mondher Znaidi, whose candidacies were previously rejected by the Election Commission due to insufficient endorsements.

 

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Sudan’s rains spread wartime suffering across the country

Sudan’s rains spread wartime suffering across the country
Updated 30 August 2024
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Sudan’s rains spread wartime suffering across the country

Sudan’s rains spread wartime suffering across the country
  • Elsewhere in the eastern Red Sea State, the Arbaat Dam collapsed on Sunday, threatening the freshwater supply for Port Sudan, the country’s de facto capital
Updated 30 August 2024
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TOKAR: Since floods swept away their home in eastern Sudan, Ahmed Hadab and his family have survived by drinking water with milk from his last surviving goat.
“We don’t have any food,” he said after days of walking, trying to find something to eat, somewhere else to stay. “The torrent took the sorghum, flour, and two of my goats and my donkey.”
Floodwaters from heavy rains that started surging in earlier this month have brought devastation across a country already shattered by 500 days of fierce fighting between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Now, the natural disaster has spread destruction further than the conflict.
Near Tokar, in the country’s eastern region, which has escaped the violence, a Reuters reporter saw people pulling each other out of the water onto the remnants of a bridge with ropes.
Elsewhere in the eastern Red Sea State, the Arbaat Dam collapsed on Sunday, threatening the freshwater supply for Port Sudan, the country’s de facto capital, up to now a relative refuge for the government and aid agencies and hundreds of thousands of displaced.
At least 64 people from the area are missing.
According to locals, others are stranded on higher ground with no food and little hope of rescue. Many hundreds of households are also displaced in Sudan’s Northern State, another region largely untouched by the fighting, according to the
United Nations.
In Darfur, where millions are threatened with extreme hunger, the rain has damaged displacement camps and delayed the arrival of crucial aid, according to the World Food Programme.
The UN estimates that the flooding impacts more than 300,000 people. It has brought cholera for the second year running, with 1,351 cases reported as of Wednesday, likely an undercount as the army-aligned Health Ministry struggles to access the large portion of the country occupied by the RSF.
Abulgasim Musa, head of Sudan’s Early Warning meteorological unit, said that the extreme rains that have unusually hit desert areas were likely caused by climate change. His unit had warned about them in May, he said.
In the land around Tokar, Mohamed Tahir joined scores of others on the roads.
An underfunded and overstretched aid effort has meant that only a few construction vehicles are dotted around the region, helping carry people across the flood water and fixing routes so they can escape.
“Homes are collapsed. Some have been taken by the water and not been found,” Tahir said.
“There are some who have died and they haven’t been buried.”

 

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EU missions gravely concerned about Libya situation

EU missions gravely concerned about Libya situation
Updated 30 August 2024
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EU missions gravely concerned about Libya situation

EU missions gravely concerned about Libya situation
Updated 30 August 2024
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DUBAI: The EU delegation and EU country missions in Libya said on Friday they were gravely concerned about the deterioration of the situation in the country.
They said the intimidation of the Tripoli-based High State Council members and central bank employees, the closure of oil fields, and disruptions in banking services were exacerbating an already fragile situation.
Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that Libya’s central bank Gov. Sadiq Al-Kabir said he and other senior bank staff had been forced to leave the country to “protect our lives” from potential attacks by armed militia,
“Militias are threatening and terrifying bank staff and are sometimes abducting their children and relatives to force them to go to work,” Kabir told the newspaper via telephone.
He also said attempts by interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah to replace him were illegal and contravened UN negotiated accords on control of the central bank.
The crisis over the control of the Central Bank of Libya creates another level of instability in the country. This major oil producer is split between eastern and western factions with backing from Turkiye and Russia.
Early this week, the UN Support Mission in Libya called for the suspension of unilateral decisions, lifting force majeure on oil fields, halting escalations and use of force, and protecting central bank employees.

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