The Israel Defense Forces evacuated Rantisi Hospital in the Gaza Strip and chose not to target Hamas terrorists leaving with civilians on foot and in cars and ambulances, military officials said on Saturday. The decision was made to avoid harming Palestinian noncombatants.
While member states blasted Israel's invasion of Gaza, an emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation was held in Riyadh on Saturday without adopting any practical measures against the Jewish state.
Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem on Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza after the war.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it is working with with Gaza's hospital staff to provide safe passage southward for Gazans from Shifa Hospital.
Saudi Arabia hosted the emergency summit in response to the exceptional circumstances taking place in the Palestinian Gaza Strip as countries feel the need to unify efforts and come out with a unified collective position
The extension is part of the UAE's continuous humanitarian efforts which aim to provide essential food, medicine, health supplies, and sanitary products for those affected in the Gaza Strip, particularly women, children, and the elderly.
President Herzog thanked President Steinmeier for his words, and noted he was a true friend of Israel. He thanked him for his ongoing support for the families of the hostages, and for his steadfast support and friendship with the Jewish community in Germany, and all over the world.
Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director-General of the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health that the doctors in the neonatal ward are now being forced to carry out artificial respiration by hand on the 36 babies that they are treating in the hospital.
While attending the Arab-Islamic Summit, which aimed to discuss the ongoing situation in Gaza, Erdogan added that the International community is silent regarding what is happening in Gaza and is not even calling for a ceasefire.
The London police said in a statement said that "officers have faced aggression from counterprotesters who are in the area in significant numbers." It added that the protesters were not one cohesive group and that they "confronted and threw missiles at officers who tried to engage with them"
Moreover, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Libya's Presidential Council, Mohamed Al-Manfi, Pakistan's caretaker prime minister, Anwarul Haq Kakar, and Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim also arrived in Riyadh for the summit.
The protesters, rallying against the existence of the Jewish state, set fire to an Israeli flag at Columbus Circle, chanted anti-Israel slogans, and splattered fake blood on the New York Times building during their march through Manhattan.