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Soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron sought to help resolve the conflict diplomatically. During the war’s first summer, Macron said it was important that Moscow was not humiliated and that a European security order including Russia should be established.

Maysoon al-Nabahin squeezes out the last bit of cartoned cheese onto a freshly baked piece of bread, knowing it will be the only thing her family of eight will eat that day. Umm Muhammed, as she's known, fled from a school in Bureij where she, together with her husband and six children, were sheltering after Israeli forces destroyed their home in east Bureij in central Gaza.

Abbas Baalbaki, an environmental chemistry researcher at the American University in Beirut (AUB), has been looking at white phosphorous dropped by Israel onto Lebanese soil for nearly six months.

Protesters covered the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a large patchwork blanket displaying messages of solidarity with Palestine to draw attention to Israel's war on Gaza.

Israeli air and artillery strikes pounded targets in Gaza as UN chief Antonio Guterres called for a surge of aid into the besieged territory he said was stalked by "horror and starvation".

UN Secretary-General António Guterres told journalists at the Rafah border crossing into Gaza that it is time for a ceasefire and for an "ironclad commitment by Israel" to allow unhindered aid deliveries into the besieged enclave as he began his annual Ramadan solidarity trip on Saturday with planned visits to Egypt and Jordan. 

Israeli war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 169th day — has killed at least 32,070 people and wounded 74,298 others, as Netanyahu rejects Blinken's advice against launching invasion of Rafah.

Eleven members in the 15-member UN Security Council voted for the resolution on Friday. Three voted against it, including Russia, China and Algeria. Guyana abstained.

Lt Gen Herzi Halevi attempts to justify Israel's intense bombardment of blockaded enclave, noting in a televised statement, "This [assault] is very important to pressure Hamas, very important to pressure negotiations as well."

Israeli forces launched an operation early Monday in and around Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, with witnesses reporting air strikes and tanks near the complex crowded with patients and displaced people.