RIYADH: Jordan air-dropped medical supplies urgently required by the kingdom’s field hospital in besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday midnight, according to the Jordanian king and state media.

“Our fearless air force personnel air-dropped at midnight urgent medical aid to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza. This is our duty to aid our brothers and sisters injured in the war on Gaza. We will always be there for our Palestinian brethren,” King Abdullah II said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to backtarck on a comment he was reported to have made earlier about the need to check if a pre-war protest among army reservists pushed Hamas to carry out its attack last month.

ABU DHABI: The diplomatic adviser to the president of the UAE on Saturday said the US needs to push for a quick end to the Israel-Hamas war and that a new process must be found for the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian issue or the US would be seen as ineffective.
Anwar Gargash also said that Israel’s policy of containment, which has been the “hallmark” of the Palestinian issue for the past two decades, had failed and called for a new approach that addresses refugees, borders, and East Jerusalem.

CAIRO: The armed wing of Palestinian militant faction Hamas said on Saturday that more than 60 hostages were missing because of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.
Late last month, Hamas said an estimated 50 captives held by the group were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza.
Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for the Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades, said on Hamas’ telegram account that 23 bodies of the 60 missing Israel hostages were trapped under the rubble.

JERUSALEM: Police held back protesters outside the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, amid widespread anger at the failures that led to last month’s deadly attack by Hamas gunmen on communities around the Gaza Strip.