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Singapore is sending off a nine-person team to Egypt to treat Palestinians from Gaza on Wednesday, said the Ministry of Defence, Anadolu Agency reports.

The armed forces and Health Ministry “will deploy a contingent to provide medical care to Palestinians and other civilians from Gaza who are being treated in Egypt,” the Ministry said in an Instagram post.

Eight army personnel and one from the Health Ministry will work with Egyptian authorities to “pave the…

BEIRUT — Disney’s new live-action adaptation of “Snow White” will not be showing in Lebanese movie theaters after the country’s authorities officially banned screenings this week over the role of Israeli actress Gal Gadot.

What happened: The Lebanese Ministry of Interior announced in a statement on Monday that Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar signed a countrywide ban on the movie on April 11, after the General Security’s media censorship committee urged him to do so over the inclusion…

As Israeli forces resume and expand their assault on Gaza by land, air and sea, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), on Wednesday, denounced the mounting toll on Palestinian civilians and aid workers, saying the enclave has become a “mass grave” of Palestinians, Anadolu Agency reports.

“Palestinian lives are once again being systematically destroyed,” the MSF said in a statement, adding that a series of deadly attacks over the past three weeks by Israeli forces…

Fourteen Gaza medics killed last month by Israeli occupation forces were wearing identifiable emergency service uniforms and appear to have been deliberately targeted, according to autopsy findings obtained by the New York Times.

The examinations, conducted by Dr Ahmad Dhair of the Gaza Health Ministry and reviewed by Norwegian forensic pathologist Dr Torleiv Stray-Pedersen, revealed that 11 of the medics had suffered gunshot wounds, most of them shot multiple…

Iran’s right to enrich uranium is not negotiable, Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, said on Wednesday, ahead of a second round of talks in Oman this weekend with the United States about Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme, Reuters reports.

Araqchi was responding to a comment made on Tuesday by the US top negotiator, Steve Witkoff, who said Tehran must “stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment” to reach a deal with Washington.

“We have heard…