(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT - The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed Portugal's decision to start procedures to officially recognize the State of Palestine.
KUWAIT - Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Yahya said the memory of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990, would continue to be "a historical juncture" materializing the unity and steadfastness of the Kuwaiti people.
GAZA - Up to 83 Palestinians were martyred over the past 24 hours due to the Israeli occupation onslaught on Gaza Strip, the local authorities reported.
BEIRUT - Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health announced that four people were killed in a series of airstrikes carried out by Israeli occupation forces on various areas across the country.
MADRID - Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares declared his country airdropped 12 tons of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip, terming starvation as "shame" on humanity.
NEW YORK - UN children's agency UNICEF announced that starving and killing of children in Gaza while in line to get food are inhumane, calling for unrestricted follow of life-sustaining aid to the Strip which faces famine.
BEIJING - China expressed "shock" and "disappointment" over the US move to sanction Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officials.
CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi re-affirmed Cairo's firm opposition to schemes to drive the Palestinian people out of their territories.
WASHINGTON, - A number of the US Democratic lawmakers appealed to President Donald Trump to press for a permanent ceasefire and end to the conflict in Gaza Strip.
WASHINGTON - US President ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines to appropriate sites after what he described as a provocative Russian statement. (end) ibi

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