Middle East & North Africa

BEIRUT, August 7. /TASS/: A ceasefire in the zone of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will come into force at 23:30 local time, which will be announced by a Egyptian mediator, Muhammad al-Hindi, a senior member of the Gaza-based terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, told Al Jazeera TV on Sunday.

"It will happen closer to the midnight, at 23:30. By this time, all details will be agreed and the ceasefire will take effect," he said.

It was expected earlier that the ceasefire will come into force at 20:00 local time.

TEHRAN, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Iran's negotiating team is discussing the safeguards issues in the Vienna talks, according to the official news agency IRNA.

Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, made the remarks on the sidelines of a meeting between the Iranian negotiating team and the European Union deputy foreign policy chief Enrique Mora.

With regard to the progress of the new round of the Vienna talks on the revival of a 2015 agreement, Kamalvandi said "not bad."

TEHRAN, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- While the ongoing negotiations in Vienna are aimed at the removal of anti-Iran sanctions, the United States keeps sanctioning as leverage to pressure the Islamic republic, an Iranian spokesperson told official IRNA news agency on Sunday.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Sunday it killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in a crowded Gaza refugee camp, the second such targeted attack since launching its high-stakes military offensive against the militant group just before the weekend.

The Iran-backed militant group has fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in response, raising the risk of the cross-border fighting turning into a full-fledged war.

06 August 2022; MEMO: At least ten people, including four children aged between 9 and 11 have been killed in Israeli air strikes in northern and southern Gaza.

Since the start of the Israeli strikes on Friday afternoon, there were the most violent Israeli attacks as they also left about 40 others wounded.

Four children were among the eight people killed in a strike in Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip.

06 August 2022; MEMO: Saudi Arabia late Saturday condemned the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which left at least 29 Palestinians dead and dozens injured.

A statement by the Saudi Foreign Ministry said the kingdom stands by the Palestinian people, calling on the international community to "shoulder its responsibility to end the escalation, provide the necessary protection to civilians and exert all efforts to end this conflict."

06 August 2022; MEMO: The Administrative Court in Tunisia announced the issuance of two first instance judgements about the appeals against the results of the 25 July referendum. The judgements ruled on rejecting the appeal submitted by the I Watch organisation and accepting the appeal submitted by the Echaâb Yourid party in form and rejecting it in merit.

This came in a statement on Fridayby the court published on its Facebook page.

06 August 2022; MEMO: Turkiye and Pakistan have strongly condemned Israel's airstrikes on the Gaza Strip yesterday which killed over a dozen Palestinians.

Israel yesterday launched a series of airstrikes against the Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad and one of its key commanders Taysir al-Jabari, causing the group and its allies in the Gaza Strip to retaliate by firing rockets into Israel against the occupation forces.

06 August 2022; MEMO: The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has said that the death toll from Israeli bombing of Gaza, which has continued for the second day, rose to 15 in addition to 125 wounded, a statement said.

Among the 15 dead, the statement said, a 5-year-old girl.

The ministry stated that there is a 40 per cent shortage of equipment and basic medicines, and a 60 per cent shortage of laboratory equipment due to the Israeli closure of the Gaza crossing, which started four days ago.

CAIRO, Aug 6 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt is mediating between Israel and the Palestinian factions, in an effort to end the ongoing tensions in the Gaza Strip, and preserve the 2021 cease-fire, official Ahram online news website reported yesterday.

“Egypt is conducting intensive communications with the Palestinian and the Israeli sides, to end the ongoing escalation in Gaza,” an Egyptian official told a local TV channel, according to Ahram.

“Our goal is the continuation of the cease-fire, the stability of the region, and the safeguarding of the peace,” he said.