China is strengthening ties with the Taliban, Xi Jinping received credentials from the Taliban-appointed ambassador, Bilal Karimi, on January 30. Before that, China was the first country to officially appoint a new ambassador to Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power.
On Friday morning, an Israeli airstrike south of Damascus killed three people, including Iranian Revolutionary Guard adviser Saeed Alidadi.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said more than 100,000 Gazans were either dead, wounded or missing and presumed dead. He noted that there is a high risk of famine in the exclave and this risk is increasing day by day.
The Chicago City Council passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, making Chicago the largest US city to call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The meeting was tense, some shouted, some were taken out of the hall by force.
The Human Rights Council under the President of Russia is considering the issue of closing and banning prayer rooms in commercial and residential buildings. The reason for this is that these places of prayer cause inconvenience to the population.
It has been 119 days since Israel started the massacre in the Gaza Strip. A digest of the main events of the previous day.
Since the beginning of ground operations in occupied Gaza on October 27, 2023, the Israeli military has withdrawn from several areas in the north of the sector, as well as from the northwest of Gaza City (the administrative center of the exclave).
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order imposing sanctions against extremist Jewish settlers who have committed violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. This is mentioned in the written statement of the White House.
The European Union agreed on an additional aid package for Ukraine in the amount of 50 billion euros from its budget. This aid package will be provided to Ukraine in 2024-2027.
The US has imposed sanctions on 3 companies and 1 individual in Turkey and Lebanon for providing financial support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah. They were accused of buying, transporting and selling Iranian raw materials on the world market.