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in 2020, called the Israeli attack on Doha “blatant and cowardly”.
Abu Dhabi was already angry over an Israeli minister’s plan for annexation of land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, saying that was a red line that cannot be crossed.
Regional power Saudi Arabia denounced what it called a “brutal Israeli aggression” against Qatar’s sovereignty. Egypt said the attack set a dangerous precedent.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned the attack and said Qatar had been playing a very positive role in seeking a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages held by Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack was “entirely justified” and was ordered after Monday’s Jerusalem attack and the loss of four Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
The Israeli military, meanwhile, issued fresh evacuation orders for residents of Gaza City.
Residents of Gaza’s biggest urban area, home to a million Palestinians before the war, have been expecting an onslaught for weeks, since the Israeli government devised a plan to deal Hamas a fatal blow in what it says are the group’s last strongholds.
Anxiety was spreading through a tent area in Gaza City housing displaced cancer patients.
“There’s no place left, not in the south, nor the north, nothing. We’ve become completely trapped,” said Bajess al-Khaldi, a displaced cancer patient, as people looked on at the rubble of several buildings destroyed in an Israeli attack.
Meanwhile, at least 21 people have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn. Among those killed are more aid seekers. Gaza’s health ministry reported that six more Palestinians died of Israeli-induced starvation, reports Al Jazeera online.
International critics say Israel’s Gaza plan, which includes demilitarising the whole Strip as Israel takes security control, could worsen the humanitarian plight of the 2.3 million Palestinians who live there.
The Gaza City assault plan has provoked concern inside Israel, where public support for the war has wavered. Israel’s military leadership has warned Netanyahu against expanding the war, according to Israeli officials.
Israel has also launched airstrikes and other military action in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Yemen in the course of the Gaza conflict.
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Shafiqul and Abu Alam were arrested as suspects, even though their names were not included in the FIR, according to court records.
Along with Shafiqul, 18 others -- including former minister and expelled Awami League leader Abdul Latif Siddique, Dhaka University law professor Sheikh Hafizur Rahman, journalist Monjurul Alam Panna, and freedom fighter Golam Mostafa -- were arrested in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
On August 29, police filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station against Latif Siddique, Hafizur, Panna, and 13 others, accusing them of “inciting terrorism” through a speech delivered under the banner of Mancha 71.
The 16 accused were sent to jail the same day after being produced before the court.