LONDON: Kuwait’s Namaa Charity and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees signed an agreement on Tuesday to provide multi-purpose cash assistance to 338 families displaced in Sudan, the Kuwait News Agency reported.

Khaled Al-Mathkoor, chairman of the Social Reform Society which oversees Namaa Charity, said that humanitarian relief and cooperation were deep values in Islamic religion and that the agreement aimed to alleviate the suffering of Sudanese civilians in the face of violence.

BEIRUT: Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati inspected the border area between Lebanon and Israel in an unannounced visit to the south on Tuesday, where he stressed “Lebanon’s respect for all international legitimacy resolutions and its commitment to implementing Resolution 1701.”

Tensions have flared between the two countries in recent weeks as a result of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip following an attack by Hamas that left over 1,400 Israelis dead on Oct. 7.

WASHINGTON: Some of Israel’s actions in its war against Hamas, like cutting off food and water for Gaza, could “harden Palestinian attitudes for generations” and weaken international support for Israel, former US President Barack Obama said on Monday.
In rare comments on an active foreign policy crisis, Obama said any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs of the war “could ultimately backfire.”

Yocheved Lifshitz, an Israeli grandmother released by Hamas militants on Monday, is a peace activist who together with her husband helped sick Palestinians in Gaza get to hospital for years, her grandson told Reuters.
The Palestinian militants said they released Lifshitz, 85, and a second woman Nurit Cooper, 79, on health grounds, after taking them and more than 200 others hostage during an Oct. 7 gun rampage in Israel in which the militants killed 1,400 people.

The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas target in a Gaza refugee camp that the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry said killed or wounded dozens of people late on Monday.

A spokesperson for the military said the strike targeted a staging ground for Hamas in Gaza’s Al-Shati camp, which abuts the Mediterranean coastline. The spokesperson did not provide further details.

In a statement on Facebook, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said casualties in the Israeli attack included children and women. He did not provide further details.