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LONDON: Medecins Sans Frontieres has suspended performing trauma and caesarian surgeries at Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum over a lack of supplies. The medical charity said it had not been given permission to move supplies by the Sudanese Armed Forces from warehouses in Al-Jazirah state since Sept. 8, and it was withdrawing its surgical team. It comes as Sudanese officials warn that they are having to “plan for the apocalypse” amid collapsing supply lines and vast numbers of displaced people across the country.

Jonila Castro and Jhed Tamano say they were taken from the street by the military and endured abusive interrogations.

LONDON: Ireland’s president has slammed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen for comments on the Gaza conflict, calling for “better performance” from EU leadership. Speaking at the World Food Forum in Rome, Michael Higgins joined a mounting chorus of criticism against von der Leyen’s failure to demand that Israel ensure it complies with international humanitarian law in its response to the Hamas attack of Oct. 7.

The head of the UN health agency says five trucks of medical supplies are ready at the Rafah crossing in Egypt.

The Palestinian health ministry reports that five people were killed by Israeli forces in the Nur Al Shams refugee camp.

The Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody became a symbol for the women’s rights movement in Iran.

GAZA: A doctor at the Al-Shafaa Hospital in Gaza has implored the international community to stop the killing of innocent civilians in the enclave after a hospital was targeted on Tuesday evening.  “This is really a genocide, according to international humanitarian law … The hospital is supposed to be a safe place. It’s supposed to be a shelter for displaced people,” Dr. Mohammed Ghoneim told Arab News as he was surrounded by dead bodies wrapped in white blankets and piled together.