AMMAN: The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday evacuated staff from the country’s embassy in Cairo amid mass demonstrations in the city against the Israeli bombardment and siege of Gaza, the Petra News Agency reported.

Citing reports in Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the agency said the operation took place after Israeli authorities declared a state of maximum alert in all of the nation’s embassies. The evacuation in Cairo followed reports that embassy staff were evacuated from Amman, Jordan, on Oct 8.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Wednesday that two of its members were killed in southern Lebanon while “they were engaging in fighting,” the group’s Telegram channel said.

RIYADH: Israel and Hamas are worthy of condemnation because of their acts against civilians, Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief said, but maintained that the Palestinians had a right to resist Israel’s military occupation.
Prince Turki Al-Faisal said he categorically condemned “Hamas’ targeting of civilian targets of any age or gender, as it is accused of,” and said the acts go against Islamic injunctions against harming civilians and desecrating places of worship.

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement Tuesday called for a “day of rage” to condemn a strike on a Gaza Strip hospital as hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the French and US embassies in protest.
Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, blamed the hospital attack on Israel, calling it a “massacre” and a “brutal crime,” while Israel’s army blamed a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad, another Gaza-based militant group.

Jordan on Tuesday announced the cancelation of a summit involving US President Joe Biden that it was hoped would breathe new life into the Middle East peace process following major fighting between Israel and Hamas.

The summit will be held “when the decision to stop the war and put an end to these massacres has been taken,” said Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi.

Biden said Tuesday he was “outraged” by a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital and had told security advisers to gather more details.