BEIRUT -- One person was killed and several others were injured on Friday following a series of intense Israeli airstrikes that targeted wide areas in southern Lebanon, according to official and security sources.
A statement from Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operations Center confirmed that an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the southern city of Nabatieh killed a woman and injured 11 others. (Lebanon-Israel-Airstrike)
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KHARTOUM -- Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has agreed to a one-week humanitarian truce in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan, the council announced on Friday.
Al-Burhan, also the head of Sudanese Armed Forces, agreed to a request for a ceasefire from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a phone call earlier on Friday, the Sovereignty Council said in a statement. (Sudan-UN-Ceasefire)
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GAZA -- At least 40 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and shelling across the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian sources said.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli forces opened fire on thousands of civilians waiting for food near a U.S.-backed aid distribution center, north of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Gaza-Israel-Killings)
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TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Friday the insistence of the United Nations nuclear watchdog's chief on visiting Iran's bombed nuclear sites is "meaningless."
He made the remarks in a post on social media platform X while accusing Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi of facilitating the adoption of a resolution by the agency's Board of Governors against Tehran and the bombings of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States and Israel.
"Grossi's insistence on visiting the bombed sites under the pretext of safeguards is meaningless and possibly even malign in intent. Iran reserves the right to take any steps in defense of its interests, its people, and its sovereignty," he said. (Iran-IAEA-Nuclear) ■
