Newly released statistics from the Australian government show that thousands of Palestinians have had their visa applications rejected since the start of the Israel-Hamas war last October.
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir has reiterated his country's strong support for the aspirations of the Palestinian nation while condemning Israel for its "unabated violence and indiscriminate killing" in Gaza.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country would confront the Israeli regime's attempts "to set the region on fire," addressing Tel Aviv's ongoing incendiary acts of deadly aggression against the regional countries.
Israel has approved the construction of a new settlement on a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem as the regime's forces continue to raid areas across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Casualties have been reported among Israeli forces after Palestinian resistance fighters targeted Israeli military vehicles in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas as fierce clashes are underway between fighters and the regime forces in the area.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it "would not take part in new talks" with the Israeli regime on a ceasefire in Gaza.
Hamas has issued a statement, urging all Palestinians to back the resistance against the expansionist Zionist plans in the occupied territories.
The world should condemn the Zionist regime's use of civilians as human shields, says a member of the Hamas Political Bureau.
Hamas Political Bureau member Osama Hamdan said in an interview with the Associated Press that the United States is no longer seen as a reliable negotiator capable of bringing about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
The Zionist regime has carried out airstrikes against areas in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese Health Ministry has said that three people have been killed in separate Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it has carried out several attacks against Israeli military positions in solidarity with the people of Gaza and in support of Palestinian resistance.
The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, has fired dozens of more rockets in retaliatory attacks on the Zionist regime's positions in the occupied Palestinian territories, news sources reported.
The Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says its fighters shelled the Kiryat Shmona settlement with a barrage of Katyusha rockets in retaliation for the Israeli regime's attacks on civilians in Lebanon.
The Lebanese Health Ministry says the death toll from Israeli strikes on towns and villages in the southern part of the country following the onset of a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip now stands at nearly 550.
Chinese analysts warned that Manila is likely to be more proactive in the South China Sea to undermine the goodwill of China in calming tensions, after a senior official from the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs said a provisional arrangement on humanitarian resupply of living necessities to a Philippine warship illegally grounded at Ren'ai Reef may be subject to future review.
The Philippines is planning to send a second coast guard vessel to anchor in the lagoon in China's Xianbin Jiao (also known as Xianbin Reef) in the South China Sea in an attempt to construct a forward deployment base in the form of a semi-permanent floating platform, the Global Times learned from a source familiar with the matter on Wednesday.
The Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of its return to power in Afghanistan with a military parade on August 14 amid what international aid groups say is one of the world's largest and most complex humanitarian crises.
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