April 14, 2025

Israeli strike on Gaza hospital ‘ugliest form of genocide’: Palestine Palestine has denounced an Israeli air strike on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City as “one of the ugliest forms of genocide”. An Israeli warplane fired two missiles into the al-Ahli Arab Hospital, causing damage to the facility, which serves over a million Palestinians in northern Gaza. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said this was a clear contempt for international law and accused Israel of “deliberately destroying 34 hospitals in Gaza since the war began and imposing starvation, thirst, and a blockade on vital medical supplies" Israel threatens to further shrink, isolate Gaza Meanwhile, the Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has threatened to further shrink and isolate Gaza as carnage continues in the blockaded enclave. Katz said that Gaza will become smaller and more isolated, and more and more of its residents will be forced to evacuate from the fighting zones. US finds no link between Rumeysa Ozturk and antisemitism, terrorism The US State Department has found no evidence that Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, engaged in anti-Semitic activity or supported a terrorist organisation. A March memo from within the State Department concluded there were no grounds to revoke Ozturk's visa based on the Trump administration's claim that she supported the Palestinian resistance group Hamas or engaged in anti-Semitism or violence as alleged by the Department of Homeland Security. Russian strike kills over 30 people in Sumy: Ukraine A Russian missile strike on Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy killed at least 32 people, including two children, and wounded dozens, Kiev said, in the deadliest attack in months. The local emergency service said on social media that the latest toll was that 32 people died, including two children"" and that 84 people were injured, including 10 children. Türkiye eyes Erdogan, Trump meet as Antalya Diplomacy Forum concludes Türkiye’s foreign minister has said that work is underway for a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump. Hakan Fidan told reporters at the conclusion of Antalya Diplomacy Forum 2025 that work is ongoing on whether the meeting will take place in the US or Türkiye, Fidan also said Erdogan intends to visit Syria.