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Macron: Israel's plan for Gaza is a disaster waiting to happen
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday slammed Israel's plans to step up its military operation in Gaza as a disaster waiting to happen and proposed an international coalition under a United Nations mandate to stabilize Gaza. Last week, Israel's security cabinet approved a plan to take control of Gaza City, in a move that expanded its military operations in the shattered Palestinian territory and drew strong criticism at home and abroad. 'The Israeli cabinet's announcement of an expansion of its operations in Gaza City and the Mawasi camps and for a re-occupation heralds a disaster of unprecedented gravity waiting to happen and of a move toward a never-ending war,' said Macron, in remarks sent by his office to reporters. 'The Israeli hostages and the people of Gaza will continue to be the primary victims of this strategy,' added Macron.

Al Arabiya
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- Al Arabiya
UK's Starmer ‘gravely concerned' about targeting of journalists in Gaza
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is 'gravely concerned' about the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza, his spokesperson said on Monday, after seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a a tent full of journalists in front of Al-Shifa Hospital west of Gaza City. Israel's military said it targeted and killed prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, alleging he had headed a Hamas militant cell and was involved in rocket attacks on Israel. Palestinian media confirmed the bombing of the press tent and the death toll. The government media office in Gaza said that the incident brings the total number of journalists killed due to Israeli bombing since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip to 237. According to Reporters Without Borders, nearly 200 journalists have been killed during the 20-month war, at least 45 of them while carrying out their duties. The organization accuses Israel of imposing a 'media blockade' on Gaza by preventing foreign journalists from entering and imposing strict censorship on information. Since the October 7, 2023 attack, Israel has not allowed any media crews to enter the Gaza Strip. It has allowed a limited number of media outlets, whose correspondents were carefully selected, to enter the Strip on tours supervised by the Israeli military, with coverage subject to strict military censorship. International media outlets rely on local journalists from Gaza to cover Israel's 22-month-old war. Since the start of the war in Gaza, Israeli attacks and military operations have killed at least 61,430 people, the majority of them civilians, according to the health ministry in the Strip. The United Nations considers these figures reliable. The war in the Gaza Strip erupted following an unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people in Israel, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official data.


Al Arabiya
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- Al Arabiya
US congressman discusses with Syrian president return of Kayla Mueller's body if found
US Congressman Abraham Hamadeh made a brief visit to Syria where he discussed with the country's president the return of the body of an American aid worker who was taken hostage and later confirmed dead in the war-torn country, his office said Monday. Hamadeh's visit to Syria comes as a search has been underway in remote parts of the country for the remains of people who were killed by ISIS that once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq before its territorial defeat six years ago. Kayla Mueller, 26, was captured in northern Syria in August 2013 and her family and US officials confirmed her death more than a year later. Hamadeh, an Arizona Republican, has vowed to return Mueller's body — which has not yet been found — to her family. Hamadeh's office said he was in Syria for six hours to meet President Ahmed al-Sharaa to discuss the return of Mueller's body to her family in Arizona. The statement added that Hamadeh also discussed the need to establish a secure humanitarian corridor for the safe delivery of medical and humanitarian aid to the southern province of Sweida that recently witnessed deadly clashes between pro-government fighters and gunmen from the country's Druze minority. A Syrian government official did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Hamadeh's statement. Dozens of foreigners, including aid workers and journalists, were killed by ISIS militants who declared a so-called caliphate in 2014. The militant group lost most of its territory in Iraq in late 2017 and was declared defeated in 2019 when it lost the last sliver of land it controlled in east Syria. Since then, dozens of gravesites and mass graves have been discovered in northern Syria containing remains and bodies of people ISIS had abducted over the years. American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, as well as humanitarian workers Mueller and Peter Kassig are among those killed by ISIS. None of the remains is believed to have been found. Mueller, from Prescott, Arizona, was taken hostage with her boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria, where he had been hired to fix the internet service for the hospital. Mueller had begged him to let her tag along because she wanted to do relief work in the war-ravaged country. Alkhani was released after two months, having been beaten. In 2015, the Pentagon said Mueller died at the hands of ISIS and not in a Jordanian airstrike targeting the militant group as the extremists claimed earlier.