"A short while ago, the targeting of Khadija school, which had a field medical unit inside it, in Deir el-Balah area, resulted in more than 30 martyrs -- including several children and women -- and dozens of others wounded," the health ministry in Gaza said in a statement. The Gazan civil defence agency said that the school was housing about 4,000 displaced people who had taken refuge there. | At least 15 children and eight women were among the 31 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Khadija School in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza Strip, the government media office said on Saturday. ● Earlier, the Gaza government media office said that 31 Palestinians, including children, were killed and 100 others injured when Israeli warplanes struck the school, which also served as a field hospital. In a statement, the media office stated that three missiles hit a facility sheltering thousands of displaced people. ● The Israeli military admitted earlier Saturday to targeting the school, claiming it housed a Hamas command center, according to a statement from army spokesperson Avichay Adraee. Hamas condemned the strike, asserting that the school housed "displaced innocent civilians, mostly women and children."

Berlin has denied any knowledge of the types of weapons America transports through the country | Germany is storing US cluster munitions on its territory and shipping them on to Ukraine, public broadcaster NDR reported on Thursday. Under the alleged arrangement, Berlin could be in violation of a UN convention banning the weapons, though it has denied any knowledge of the situation, the outlet said. ● Cluster munitions are banned by more than 110 nations under the 2008 UN Convention on Cluster Munitions due to the extreme danger they pose to civilians. They scatter small bomblets that can remain unexploded after the initial blast and effectively become mines. ● A spokesman for the US Army Europe and Africa Command told the broadcaster that the controversial ammunition is stored at a US-owned depot in the town of Miesau in western Germany, before being sent on to Ukraine as part of Washington’s military aid. He added that M864 and M483A1 cluster 155mm artillery shells are among the ammunition stored at the Miesau base.

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A solution must be found by September, or else Hungary will begin to experience oil shortage, says senior official | Hungary on Friday accused Ukraine of blackmailing it by preventing Russian oil from transiting through its territory. In a press conference in Budapest, Gergely Gulyas, head of the Office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said Ukraine is blackmailing Hungary and Slovakia that "advocate peace and a cease-fire." ● Earlier on Monday, Hungary and Slovakia jointly initiated a European Union consultation procedure against Ukraine in response to Kyiv's decision to halt Russian oil company Lukoil’s crude oil transits. Gulyas said this posed a serious danger to the energy security of Hungary and Slovakia.

Palestinian Foreign Ministry says decision by British government 'realization of justice' | The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Friday welcomed the decision by the British government to withdraw its objection to the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In a statement cited by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, the ministry described the British government decision as a "realization of justice." ● It also hailed the UK decision to uphold human rights and international law and a human rights-first foreign policy, affirming that such position will enhance cooperation between Palestine and the UK in the coming days.

Russian air space was violated today by a United States P-8 aircraft, which breached the border of Kaliningrad - twice - gathering serious intelligence information as it flew almost all the way across the Russian enclave. [map] The second violation of territorial air space was significantly deeper than the first. Clearly, the US / NATO are desperate to determine Russian Force levels in Kaliningrad.