Palestine
Number of Gazans Killed At GHF Centres Passes 700 Mark
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says the number of Palestinians Killed at aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, has surpassed the 700 Mark as of Saturday night.
It said the tally had risen to 743, since the GHF began aid distribution in the embattled enclave on May 27.
The GHF, founded by Israel and America to side step the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA,has walked into controversy following the daily violence at its food distribution centres.
It runs four centres, compared to the 400 run by the United Nations via UNRWA which had been in charge of humanitarian supplies in Gaza since the 1950s.
The release of the figures by the ministry comes days after media reports that Israeli troops had been instructed to control crowd by force and the use of live rounds.
Though the Israeli government has denied the media reports, Gazans and other credible sources said that starving aid seekers are deliberately targeted at the centres by Israeli troops who use tank fire, machine guns and drones.
The first head of the GHF ,Jake Woods, resigned ahead of its take off, in protest at the opaqueness of its mandate.
Israel
Israeli Cabinet Okays Despatch of Envoys To Talks With Hamas
After a heated debate, the Israeli Cabinet, this morning okayed the despatch of delegates to the upcoming talks between the Jewish state and Hamas.
The talks are due in Doha, Qatar, this week, and doubts had persisted whether Israel, which has impaired earlier talks between both parties, would send a delegation to the talks to find a way to end the nearly two years old military conflict between them.
But the global diplomatic community was relieved to hear this morning that Prime Minister has agreed to send negotiators to the Doha meeting.
However, it was understood that the approval to send the delegation which was given at a cantankerous meeting of the cabinet, has also come with a caveat, in the form of the rejection of part of the Hamas guidelines for the talks to be worth the while.
Hamas, after due consultations with other Palestinian interests, is reportedly insisteng on the talks featuring deals for an end to the war, the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the sack of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and its replacement with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA.
The Israeli government has said the Hamas demands are unrealistic.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is due in Washington tomorrow for a meeting with President Donald Trump on the Gaza war and the 12- day military conflict with Iran.
America
27 Persons Still Missing In Texas Flash Floods Incident
At least twenty – seven persons, mainly teenage girls, remain missing after flash floods swept through Ingram and its neighbourhoods in Texas, America on Friday night.
The floods came as hundreds of teenage Christian youths gathered for a religious programme at Camp Mystic.
The floods came after the Guadalupe River overflowed, rising 8 metres ( about 24 feet ) in just 45 minutes.
Search and rescue operations are continuing in the hope of funding survivors of the incident which has claimed more than 50 lives , according to official figures released by the Emergency Services.
Camp Mystic, which a famous Christian outreach / programme centre, is located in the so- called flash flood alley if America.
The speed and scale of the incident have raised questions about the adequacy of preventive / mitigation preparations made for the religious programme.
Syria
Britain to Reopen Embassy in Damascus
Britain is to reopen its Embassy in Syria soon.
The country’s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, made the disclosure during his first official visit to Damascus, capital of Syria, since the fall of the Assad regime.
Lammy also said during a visit to the new Syria leadership, that Britain would offer Damascus $129million in development support.
Syria,which had been under severe diplomatic and economic and political sanctions during the Assad regime, is reinventing itself in order to win back the support of the West which experts say is vital for the effective reconstruction of the country battered by decades of internal military conflicts.
Britain is the first major Western power to resestablish its Foreign mission in Damascus, which is the oldest inhabited city on Earth.
Turkiye
Wild Fires Rage In Turkiye
Wild Fires sustained their rages in the farms and neighbourhoods of Latakia, Turkiye, as soaring temperatures and unpredictable winds egged them on, Sunday morning.
The fires have displaced thousands of residents and laid waste swathes of land under cultivation .
Some 60 different teams of fire fighters are battling the blazes which have affected more than 5,000 hectares of land.
Britain
London Police Nab Scores of Pro- Palestinian Protesters
The police in London have arrested scores of protesters.
The protesters had staged at the foot of the Mahatman Gandhi Statue in Parliament Square in angst at the ban by the British Government of the human rights group, Palestine Action( PA).
The PA was classified a terrorist group after its members recently broke into a Royal Air Force Base and damaged two refuel aircraft.
Following the incident, the government had to draw on the Anti Terrorism law to descend on the PA.
The ban makes the PA, the 82nd group to be proscribed after being declared terrorist groups,by the British government
Human Rights groups say they will navigate the legal process to challenge the action of the government in cout.
Tinubu in As BRICS Summit Opens in Brazil
Nigerian leader, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is one of the early arrivals to the 17 th session of the summit of Heads of State and Government of BRICS member -states.
The BRICS is a loose bloc of mainly southern hemisphere and Non- Western alliance states.
It was originated by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to challenge the domination of the emerging unipolar world by West, led by America.
It has expanded exponentially, with several other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt and many Non- aligned countries joining.
It has established a development bank to rival the Bretton Wood Institutes of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), also called the World Bank.
The agenda is likely to include the tariff regime war imposed on the rest of the world by President Trump, Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence, AI.
But China, which is the second largest economy in the world, is not attending for still hazy reasons.
The Chinese had unsuccessfully lobbied the rest of BRICS to unite to confront the Trump tariff.
Russian leader , also a reckonable player in the bloc, is attending virtually.
The session is expected to dwell on Climate Change,healthcare and Artificial Intelligence (AI )
Palestine(West Bank)
Israel Continues Demolitions In West Bank
Israel continued its military operation in the occupied West Bank with demolitions and displacements at the weekend which ended yesterday.
The United Nations UN estimates that more than 70,000 persons had been displaced in the Israeli offensive which has been typified by the mass demolition of residential and other infrastructure.
Palestinians also say that more than 500 persons had been killed and many more wounded in violence caused Israeli troops and settlers who are egged on by the Israeli Army.
