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NEW YORK CITY: Independent UN experts on Tuesday warned that Gazans now account for 80 per cent of all people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide. It came as they highlighted the unprecedented humanitarian emergency in the Gaza Strip in the face of the ongoing Israeli assault on the besieged enclave. “Currently, every single person in Gaza is hungry, a quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water, and famine is imminent,” said the group of human rights experts.

Dahdouh was injured in an Israeli attack in December that killed Al Jazeera cameraperson Samer Abudaqa.

Rescuers search rubble after two S-300 missiles hit centre of Ukraine's second-biggest city.

GEZIRA, Sudan: Sudan’s devastating nine-month war between two rival generals is spreading to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an NGO reported late Tuesday, sounding the alarm for the remains of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. The Regional Network for Cultural Rights said it “strongly condemns the incursion by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF),” the paramilitary forces of general Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, “on the sites of Naqa and Musawwarat es-Sufra.” RSF forces have been fighting against troops loyal to Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan since April last year.

Islamabad accuses Iran of violating its airspace in attack targeting armed group Jaish al-Adl and summons ambassador.

These are the main developments as the war enters if 693rd day.

DAVOS: The World Economic Forum in Davos is an example of how the international system has failed the Palestinian people, a senior Palestinian official told Arab News on Tuesday. Dr. Mohammed Mustafa, chairperson of the Palestinian Investment Fund and a former deputy prime minister, was speaking as Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Davos to take part in a “special conversation” with the forum’s founder, Klaus Schwab, and its president, Borge Brende.