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dead and 11 missing after a landslide and flash floods hit Indonesia’s Sumatra islandKHAN YOUNIS
ISRAEL’S military on Sunday ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacu- ate, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the terri- tory where it says many Hamas leaders are hiding.
Heavy bombardments were reported overnight and into Sunday in the area of Khan Younis and the southern city of Rafah, as well as parts of the north that had been the focus of Israel’s blistering air and ground campaign.
More than 15,200 people have been killed in the besieged Pal- estinian territory, according to Hamas, in more than eight weeks of combat and heavy bombardment.
Palestinians in Gaza said they were running out of plac- es to go. Many of the territo- ry’s 2.3 million people are crammed in the south after Is- raeli forces ordered civilians to leave the north in the early days of the 2-month-old war, sparked
by an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas With the resumption of fight- ing, hopes for another tempo- rary truce receded. A weeklong cease-fire, which expired on Friday, had facilitated the re- lease of dozens of Gaza-held Israeli and foreign hostages and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel. The UN humanitari- an agency OCHA said at least 160 Palestinian deaths were re- ported in two incidents in northern Gaza on Saturday: the bombing of a six-storey build- ing in Jabalia refugee camp, and of an entire block in Gaza City neighbourhood.
In a summary of activity is- sued on Sunday, Israel’s mili- tary said a drone strike had
“eliminated” five Hamas mili- tants. In addition, fighter jets and helicopters had struck
“tunnel shafts, command cen- tres and weapons storage facili- ties” while naval forces hit Ha- mas-linked vessels, it said.
At least one rocket salvo fired from Gaza towards Israel on Sunday was intercepted by air defence systems, said reporters in southern Israeli city of Sderot, near Gaza.
On Sunday, the Israeli mili- tary widened evacuation orders in and around Khan Younis, tell- ing residents of at least five more areas and neighbourhoods to leave. Several hundred thou- sand Palestinians have received evacuation orders since fight- ing resumed, but they have few places to go. Residents said Is- raeli military dropped leaflets ordering them to move south to Rafah or to a coastal area in the southwest. “Khan Younis city is a dangerous combat zone,” the leaflets read. Agencies
Israel orders more evacuations as it shifts its target to south Gaza
Gazans say they are low on space as many are crammed in South
DUBAI
AN American warship and multiple commercial ships came under attack Sunday in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said, potentially marking a major escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to Israel-Ha- mas war.
“We’re aware of reports re- garding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial ves- sels in the Red Sea and will provide information as it be- comes available,” the Penta- gon said. The Carney is an A r l e i g h B u r k e - c l a s s destroyer.
The British military earli- er said there had been a sus- pected drone attack and ex- plosions in the Red Sea, without elaborating. The Pentagon did not identify where it believed the fire came from.
But, Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels later said they had attacked two ships off the Yemeni coast, adding the
“Israeli” vessels were target- ed over the war in Gaza.
In a statement posted on so- cial media, Huthis said they carried out an “operation against two Israeli ships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait,” a strategic waterway connect- ing the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, targeting one with a
“missile and the second ship with a drone”.
A US official said the at- tack began about 10 am in Sanaa, Yemen, and had been going on for as much as five hours. Global shipping had increasingly been targeted as the Israel-Hamas war threat- ens to become a wider region- al conflict —even as a truce has halted fighting and Ha- mas exchanges hostages for Palestinian prisoners held by
Israel. AP
US warship under attack in Red Sea, says Pentagon
A mother cries for her daughter who was killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip al in Deir al Balah on Sunday | AP
Int’l Court prosecutor to intensify Gaza probe The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court vowed to step up efforts to
investigate alleged war crimes, as he wrapped up a visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Karim Khan stressed his visit was
“not investigative in nature” but said he was able to speak to victims on both sides of conflict
MANILA
THE Philippine president blamed “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people on Sunday, wounded dozens of other Catholic wor- shippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, in- cluding in the capital, Manila, where state forces were put on alert.
The suspected bomb, which the police said was made from a mortar round, went off and hit students and teachers who at- tended a Mass in a gymnasium at Mindanao State University in southern Marawi city, Taha Mandangan, the security chief of the state-run campus, told The Associated Press by telephone.
Dozens of students and teach- ers dashed out of the gym and the wounded were taken to hos- pitals. Regional military com- mander Maj. Gen. Gabriel Vi- ray III said four people were
killed by the explosion, includ- ing three women, and 50 others were brought to two hospitals for treatment.
Six of the wounded were fighting for their lives in a hos- pital, said Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. of the Islamic prov- ince of Lanao del Sur, which has Marawi as its capital.
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the senseless and most heinous acts perpe- trated by foreign terrorists upon the Mindanao State Uni- versity,” President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said in a statement.
“Extremists who wield violence against the innocent will al- ways be regarded as enemies to our society.” Marcos did not ex- plain why he immediately blamed foreign militants for the high-profile bombing. Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. later told a news conference without elaborating there was a strong indication of a “foreign element” in the bombing. AFP Law enforcers conduct an investigation at the site of explosion in Marawi city | AP
Four killed in bomb attack on Catholic mass in Philippines
PARIS
FRENCH prosecutors have opened an investigation into a
“terrorist plot” after a man known to the authorities as a radical Islamist with mental health troubles stabbed a tour- ist to death and wounded two other people in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested.
The attack around 9:00 pm on Saturday near the Eiffel Tower came as France is at its highest alert level against the back- ground of the war between Is- rael and Hamas.
Terrorism prosecutors said on Sunday they were investi- gating the knife and hammer attacker, identified as Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab, a French national born in 1997 to Iranian parents.
Arrested at the scene, he is suspected of murder and at- tempted murder “in connection with a terrorist plot”.
A 23-year-old man, identified by a judicial source as a Ger- man-Filipino citizen, died in the attack, though a taxi driver intervened to keep the attacker away from his wife. Patrick Pel- loux, an emergency doctor on duty at the time of the attack, said the couple were both nurs- es, adding that the woman was severely shocked but unhurt.
A 66-year-old British citizen and a 60-year-old French na- tional were wounded.
Health Minister Aurelien Rousseau told broadcaster France 3 that the wounded vic- tims suffered only “superficial (physical) traumas, but of course psychological traumas that will be enormous”.
‘Terrorist plot’ probe after deadly Paris stabbing
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Indian envoy visits Sri Lanka’s north
Colombo: The Indian envoy has visited Sri Lanka’s Northern Province to emphasise New Delhi’s abiding commitment to the
development and well-being of the people of the country through enhanced development cooperation and expanded
economic partnership.