US resident in Pakistan donates $30M to earthquake victims in Turkey.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif tweeted on Saturday that he was “deeply moved by the example” of an anonymous compatriot who visited the Turkish embassy in the US capital Washington DC and donated millions of dollars for the benefit of the Earthquake victims.

Sharif’s tweet added: “It is such wonderful acts of philanthropy that enable humanity to triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds.”

Mustafa Taneri, editor-in-chief of the political news outlet Election Post, tweeted that Turkey’s ambassador to Washington DC, Murat Merkan, has confirmed support for the earthquake relief campaign launched in the US.

The donation comes as the UN’s World Food Program appealed for $77 million to provide rations to at least 590,000 displaced people in Turkey and 284,000 in Syria. According to the program, about 45,000 of these people were refugees, and another 545,000 were internally displaced.

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As of Sunday morning, more than 33,000 people had died in the US after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck parts of Turkey and Syria six days earlier. The number is sure to rise as rescue crews’ hopes of finding survivors fade with each passing day.

Thirty Thousand Deaths

As of Sunday, about 30,000 of the dead were in Turkey. Meanwhile, the region of Syria most affected by the earthquake is the northwest, where many people have already been repeatedly displaced by the decade-old civil war.

This particular area is held by rebels rather than the government, so it has received much less aid than other affected areas, even as the US. temporarily eased its sanctions on Syria to speed up the delivery of aid.

“We have so far failed the people in northwest Syria,” UN aid chief Martin Griffiths tweeted on Saturday from the country’s border with Turkey.

Further complicating the relief effort is that only one crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border is open to UN aid.

In addition to a US based Pakistani businessman donating $30 million to earthquake victims, developments in Turkey and Syria have turned to stories of survival from the ever-increasing death toll. are getting

One of the stories centers on Malik Malindi, 54, of Syria, who survived 156 hours in the rubble after the earthquake before a team of Chinese rescuers and Turkish firefighters.

Meanwhile, another small child, a father with his five-year-old daughter, and a 10-year-old girl were included who were rescued from collapsed buildings in southern Turkey about a week after the earthquake.

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Israel fire airstrikes on Gaza on Monday in reprisal for a missile fire from the Palestinian territory over the weekend.

The northern West Bank city of Nablus has been the scene of nearly nonstop violence for the past year, as per the Palestinian Red Crescent, and one person was murdered in an Israel army operation there before daybreak.

The army held off on making a statement after the raid on Nablus.

Nevertheless, it claimed to have hit “an underground complex containing raw materials used to manufacture rockets” in Gaza.

The army stated in a statement that the attacks were “in retaliation to the rocket launch from Gaza into Israel on Saturday.”

The military reported that following the Israeli airstrikes, air raid sirens were heard in several villages along the Gaza border.

Following the most recent round of missile fire, no deaths were reportedly record in Israel or Gaza.

However, the bloodshed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has dramatically increased.

Alongside the most recent killing in Nablus, the violence has claimed the lives of 47 Palestinian adults and children since the beginning of the year, including terrorists and civilians.

In accordance with an AFP count base on official sources from both sides, nine Israeli civilians, including three children, and one Ukrainian civilian has kill during the same time frame.

In reaction to tragic Palestinian attacks in annexation-affected east Jerusalem.

Israel’s security cabinet late Saturday declared that it will legalize nine Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Many of the newly authorised communities, some of which had been around for decades.

As per to a security cabinet statement, had previously gone unrecognized by the Israeli government despite their existence.

Since the 1967 Six Day War, Israel has held the West Bank under occupation.

Approximately 475,000 Jewish settlers now reside in Palestinian territory, in settlements that are prohibit by international law.

Most of that population lives in settlements that Israel has unilaterally approve, although some also reside in places where the government has not given its approval.

A fresh round of settler housing construction in the West Bank is also plan to be announce.

According to the security cabinet, a move that expect to face strong international criticism.

During a visit to the area last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a warning against settlement growth.

The conservative administration of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also declared an increased security presence in east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed and where two recent deadly attacks against civilians took place.

Pakistan, US to commence defense talks Washington, bilateral military.

The four-day Pakistan-US mid-level defence conversation will continue in Washington, DC, till February 16, marking another step towards reestablishing their bilateral cooperation following a protracted period of chilly relations.

A senior delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Joint Staff Headquarters, and three Services Headquarters will be led by the Chief of General Staff of Pakistan.

The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense will speak for the opposing side.

During the four-day defence dialogue, which will go until February 16, both parties will discuss topics of bilateral defence and security cooperation.

The first session of the Dialogue between Pakistan and the US was held in a South Asian country earlier in 2021.

The defence discussion reaffirms US connections with the South Asian country and will assist Islamabad in maintaining its counterterrorism capabilities.

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