RIYADH: Prime Minister Shehbaz on Sunday secured assurances on investment from Saudi Arabia and won plaudits from his hosts,
GAZA: The healthcare system in Gaza is collapsing, with it becoming another casualty of Israel’s war in the Palestinian territory, Al Jazeera reports.
“Every time I went to the hospitals, I saw evidence, again and again, of the simultaneous humanitarian catastrophe that’s unfolding,” said Sean Casey of the World Health Organization, according to Al Jazeera.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has rebuffed Washington’s initial ideas for cooling tit-for-tat fighting with neighbouring Israel, such as pulling its fighters further from the border, but remains open to US diplomacy to avoid a ruinous conflict, Lebanese officials said.
According US envoy Amos Hochstein has been leading a diplomatic outreach to restore security at the Israel-Lebanon frontier as the wider region teeters dangerously towards a major escalation of the conflict ignited by the Gaza conflict.
“Hezbollah is ready to listen,” a senior Lebanese official familiar with the group’s thinking said, while emphasising that the group saw the ideas presented by veteran negotiator Hochstein on a visit to Beirut last week as unrealistic.
Hezbollah’s position is that it will fire rockets at Israel until there is a full ceasefire in Gaza. Hezbollah’s rejection of the proposals presented by Hochstein has not been previously reported.
One of the Lebanese officials and a security source said, even after an Israeli strike reached Beirut on Jan 2, killing a Hamas leader.
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