UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Gaza

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to discuss the recent escalating tensions between the Israeli-occupying regime and Palestinian resistance forces in the Gaza Strip.

The UNSC announced in a press release that it will gather at 03:00 p.m. local time (19:00 GMT) to deliberate on “the situation in West Asia, including the Palestinian question.”

The closed-door talks come as there have been heavy exchanges of fire, including rocket barrages and retaliatory attacks, by Palestinian resistance fighters against Israeli occupation forces and settlers in the Occupied Territories since Saturday.

More than 300 Israelis have died as a result of the large-scale operation — code-named Al-Aqsa Storm — and thousands of others have sustained injuries, hundreds of them in critical condition.

Leaders of the resistance front have praised the operation as a decisive answer to the Israeli regime’s unabated campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Palestinians.

Netanyahu declares ‘state of war’

Amid growing tensions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a “state of war” in a post on his X account early on Sunday and warned of a response to the Palestinian reprisal attacks.

Netanyahu ordered a significant mobilization of the occupation’s reserve troops and initiated ground offensives against Palestinian forces near the besieged Gaza Strip.

Claiming that the regime’s forces had destroyed “most” of the Palestinian targets, Netanyahu said the offensive into Gaza would continue “without hesitation and without respite until the goals are achieved.”

Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the regime would stop supplying electricity, fuel, and goods to the besieged Gaza Strip, much of which is already thrown into darkness by nightfall after electrical supplies were cut off by Tel Aviv.

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