Usaid Siddiqui

First of sev­en phas­es of the mam­moth gen­er­al elec­tion for 543 seats of In­dia’s low­er house of par­lia­ment kicks off.

Ve­hi­cles de­liv­er­ing aid again tar­get­ed in Is­raeli at­tacks as ‘famine sets in’ in the bat­tered Gaza Strip.

In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice or­ders ‘un­hin­dered’ aid ‘at scale’ for Gaza, again or­ders Is­rael to pre­vent geno­cide.

Is­rael ig­nores UN res­o­lu­tion de­mand­ing an im­me­di­ate truce with dozens of Pales­tini­ans killed in on­go­ing bom­bard­ment.

An­nounce­ment that Hamas num­ber three Mar­wan Issa was killed March 10 comes just a day af­ter UN’s Gaza cease­fire call.

UN Pales­tine rap­por­teur Al­banese says thresh­old met for sev­er­al geno­ci­dal acts by Is­rael in its war on Gaza.

US res­o­lu­tion ‘an ef­fec­tive green light for Is­rael to mount a mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion in Rafah’, says Russ­ian en­voy.

UNICEF says ‘chil­dren need a cease­fire now’ as Is­rael threat­ens to at­tack south­ern city with 1.5 mil­lion peo­ple.

Ne­go­ti­a­tion could lead to a ‘dead end’ says Hamas of­fi­cial Ham­dan as US’s Blinken ar­rives in Sau­di to push deal.