At least 18 people have been killed and 42 injured in an Israeli bombing of a school housing hundreds of displaced people in the Gaza Strip. The attack on the Al Suhada school in Nuseirat, in the center of the Strip, occurred shortly after midday. Among the dead there are at least 6 minors including an 11-month-old baby, according to Palestinian media reports. In the last few hours, artillery attacks have also occurred in Bureij, a camp in the center of the Strip near Nuseirat, with one death confirmed so far; and in Khan Yunis, in the south, where another Israeli attack on a house left at least three dead. Emergency services sources have confirmed 29 deaths across the Strip due to Israeli attacks since dawn on Thursday, 23 of them in the center and south of the enclave.
Putin warns: the Middle East on the brink of all-out war
The situation in Middle East has drastically worsened and puts the region on the brink of a total war. He said this in his speech on the last day of BRICS summit to Kazan The Russian President Vladimir Putin. «Hostilities have begun Gaza a year ago, they poured in Lebanon and have affected other countries in the region, while the clash between Israel And Iran has increased dramatically. All this resembles a chain reaction and puts the whole Middle East on the verge of one total war», he stated Putin. «Correct the historical injustice against the Palestinian people can guarantee the peace in the Middle East. The vicious cycle of violence will not be broken until this problem is resolved.” (AGI) Fri (Continued)
«The people – continued the Russian president – will continue to live in an atmosphere of permanent crisis with inevitable relapses of mass violence. A fundamental requirement for the restoration of peace and stability on Palestinian lands is the dei formula two states approved by the resolutions of United Nations Security Council and of theGeneral assembly», he added.
«In fact – he admitted leader of Moscow – the Russia it has many problems, very important and acute, that we need to solve, which we are doing and will continue to do. At the same time, we have always tried to make an important contribution to stabilization in Middle East», he underlined. “There Russiatogether with other members and partners of BRICShas actively joined the resolution process from the beginning,” he said Putin. «Obviously – he concluded – the launch of a complete political process aimed at solving the problem of Middle East it is an immediate task.”