Rafah invasion ‘must not be allowed’: Jordan FM
Ayman Safadi has said that several UN agencies – including UNICEF, WHO, OCHA, UNRWA and WFP – have “spoken of the horror Israel brought on Gaza”.
“It’s time their call for ending this brutality was heeded. UNICEF is now focusing on the fear for the lives of 600,000 boys and girls in Rafah if an invasion is allowed. It must not be allowed,” Safadi said.
His statement on X came in response to UNICEF spokesman James Elder saying that hundreds of thousands of children are trapped in Rafah “with nowhere safe to go.
“Children need a humanitarian ceasefire. Now”.
- A senior Hamas source has told Al Jazeera the group is sending a delegation to Cairo on Sunday for ceasefire talks.
- Hamas says its demands include a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza and the return of the displaced people to their homes, among others.
- The Israeli army says it has recovered the body of captive Elad Katzir from the Gaza Strip.
- At least 33,137 Palestinians have been killed and 75,815 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive.
More than 4,000 people evacuated in Russia after dam bursts
Water levels continue to rise after dam burst near Kazakhstan border following torrential rain
Thousands of people have been evacuated from the Orenburg region, in the southern Urals near Kazakhstan, due to flooding after a dam burst.
Emergency services had been working through the night after the dam burst in the city of Orsk on Friday after torrential rain.
The press service of the Orenburg governor said “4,208 people, including 1,019 children” had been evacuated and more than 2,500 homes were affected.
More than 600 people still stranded after Taiwan earthquake
Helicopters in Taiwan are being used to rescue stranded people as rescue work continues following a powerful earthquake.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Taiwan has risen to 13 after another body was found in the hard-hit Taroko National Park.
Meanwhile, over 600 people — including nearly 450 at a hotel in the national park — remained stranded three days after the island's strongest earthquake in 25 years.
The disaster caused at least 1,145 injuries.
Mexico breaks diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police storm embassy in Quito
The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador made the announcement Friday evening after Ecuadorian police forced their way into the embassy in the capital, Quito, to arrest Jorge Glas who has been residing there since December. Glas, arguably the most wanted man in Ecuador, has been convicted on bribery and corruption charges and Ecuadorian authorities are still investigating more allegations against him.
Police broke through the external doors of the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in the Ecuadorian capital and entered the main patio to get Glas.
“This is not possible. It cannot be. This is crazy,” Roberto Canseco, head of the Mexican consular section in Quito, told local press while standing outside the embassy. “I am very worried because they could kill him. There is no basis to do this. This is totally outside the norm.”
Law that limits asylum claims to two set to take effect June 10
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
April 6, 2024 at 17:02 JST
Japan on June 10 will enforce stricter refugee screening rules that will see those making claims for asylum more than twice subject to deportation.
The government decided on the date at a Cabinet meeting held April 5.
The revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law passed the Diet last year despite a fierce outcry from opposition parties, which said Japan would risk deporting people who might face death on arrival in their native land.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the Diet building during deliberations on the legislation.
The new world disorder: how the Gaza war disrupted international relations
While the US flounders in a conflict it did not foresee, emerging powers see a chance for new voices to join the top table
Not long ago a picture circulated from inside Gaza showing smoke billowing from the explosion of a US-supplied bomb, and discernible in the background was the outline of eight black parachutes dropping US aid in precisely the same neighbourhood. It was suggested that the picture would make an ideal cover for any book about the confused world disorder that the six-month war in Gaza have spawned – a disorder that as yet has no dominant player, value system or functioning institutions.
The great powers compete, coexist or confront one another across the region but none, least of all at the UN, is able to impose its version of order any longer. “Forget talk of unipolarity or multipolarity,” the journalist Gregg Carlstrom recently wrote in Foreign Affairs. “The Middle East is nonpolar. No one is in charge.”
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