PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: A first aid ship plying a new maritime corridor from Cyprus began unloading its cargo of desperately needed food in Gaza today as Hamas proposed a new six-week truce in the war.

PETALING JAYA: South Africa regards Malaysia as a key ally in advocating Palestinian rights and self-determination, according to South Africa’s high commissioner to Malaysia David E Malcomson.

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia welcomes the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case brought by South Africa against Israel concerning the application of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the foreign affairs ministry said.

WASHINGTON: US president Joe Biden said on Friday that it was still possible Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could agree to some form of Palestinian state after the two leaders spoke for the first time in nearly a month amid tensions over the Gaza war.

TEL AVIV: Fighting “human animals.” Making Gaza a “slaughterhouse.” “Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia has sent a special postcard to the United Nations (UN) demanding the violence and cruelty by the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people be stopped immediately.

DOHA: A deal to allow the delivery of medicines to hostages in Gaza and aid into the territory has been agreed following mediation by Doha and Paris, Qatar and Israel announced yesterday.

GAZA CITY: Israel yesterday said the “intensive” phase of its war on Hamas in devastated southern Gaza would end “soon” as the UN chief pleaded for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”.

Kota Kinabalu: Former Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman has asked Asean not to remain oblivious to breaches of UN protocols especially on human rights to life, freedom and security amid global events such as the US-China conundrum, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and atrocities in Gaza.

JERUSALEM: Israel’s army claimed on Wednesday that two Al Jazeera journalists it killed in an air strike in Gaza were “terror operatives”.