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ISTANBUL (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu's English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

Israel’s expanding blockade, ground offensive in northern Gaza Strip

Israel's more than month-long siege, ground invasion, and bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip continue amid food, water, fuel, and medicine shortages.

The humanitarian situation in northern Gaza is becoming worse day after day amid ongoing Israeli attacks and evacuation orders and no safe area to seek refuge in.

Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, said the number of Palestinians dying is rising due to a shortage of medical supplies and specialized doctors.

“The blockade on northern Gaza is lethal, blocking water, food, medicine, and medical aid,” Hossam Abu Safiya, said in a video released by Gaza’s Health Ministry on Friday.

Israel’s genocidal assault on embattled Gaza

Non-stop Israeli bombardment which continues to claim more Palestinian lives amid deteriorating living conditions.

Until Friday afternoon, 16 Palestinians, including children, were reported killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.

The UN Human Rights Office on Friday said nearly 70% of those killed in the ongoing Gaza conflict are women and children, calling it "a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law."

Israeli aggression in Lebanon

Israel's continued attacks on Lebanon and the Hezbollah group's targeting of Israel with rockets and drones.

On Friday, the Lebanese state news agency reported that two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that completely destroyed a building in the town of Kfar Tebnit, Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon.

The Israeli forces also destroyed a newly built health care center along a road connecting Ras al-Ain and Naqoura in southern Lebanon in an airstrike, killing one local paramedic.

Meanwhile, the Israel army reported the launch of at least 10 rockets from Lebanon, aimed at the northern regions of Western Galilee and Upper Galilee.

Israel’s violations against UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon

Israel’s repeated violations against the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which provoke widespread condemnation from the international community.

On Friday, UNIFIL said that on Thursday two Israeli army's excavators and one bulldozer destroyed part of a fence and a concrete structure at a UNIFIL post in Ras Naqoura.

Clashes, violence in Amsterdam after Israeli hooligans target Palestinian symbols

Reactions and developments in Friday's clashes and violence in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, as an Israeli football team fans attacked Palestinian symbols in the city.

On Thursday night, tensions escalated in Amsterdam after fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team reportedly shouted racist and offensive slurs against Arabs, tore down Palestinian flags, and caused disturbances following their game against Ajax Amsterdam.

Netanyahu demanded swift action from the Dutch government, urging authorities to "take vigorous and swift action against the rioters" and protect Israeli citizens.

Hamas, along with other Palestinian groups, condemned the Israeli rioters in Amsterdam, considering it an extension of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

West Bank raids

Israel’s daily military raids on Palestinian cities and towns in occupied West Bank, and illegal settlers' violence against Palestinians and their properties.

On Friday, settlers destroyed olive trees and attacked Palestinian residents' properties in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, according to a local activist.

Israel has killed nearly 780 people since October last year, including 160 children, and injured nearly 6,300 others, with over 11,600 taken into custody.

Red Sea tensions

Red Sea tensions and the possible exchange of attacks between Israel and the US-UK coalition from one side and the Yemen’s Houthi group from the other side.

The Houthi group said it downed a US MQ-9 drone over northern Yemen.

In the same statement, the group also announced firing a ballistic missile towards the Israeli army's Nevatim base in southern Israel.

The Israeli army claimed to have intercepted a Yemeni missile.

Developments in Sudan

Deteriorating humanitarian and security situation in Sudan amid clashes between army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

On Friday, a Sudanese medical group said that the death toll in the Al-Hilaliya city in Al Jazirah State, central Sudan, has exceeded 200 as a result of the siege and attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group that have been taking place since Oct. 25.

Sochi will host 1st Ministerial Conference of Russia-Africa Partnership

The first Ministerial Conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership will be held at the Sirius University in the resort city of Sochi.

The foreign ministers of the Russian Federation and African states, as well as the leadership of the African Union Commission and major continental integration associations, will take part in the event.

The business program on the sidelines of the conference will feature roundtable discussions and panel sessions on key items on the Russian-African agenda, including security, trade and investment, industrialization, technology transfers, agriculture, the development of the mining sector, education, health care and epidemiological safety.

Fighting between Russian, Ukrainian troops continues in Kursk, Donetsk

Russia and Ukraine continue fighting in Russia’s border region of Kursk, where Kyiv began an incursion in August, and in eastern Ukraine, where Moscow continues to claim advances on multiple fronts. Developments to be followed on Russian President Vladimir Putin's claims that about 2,000 Ukrainian troops are encircled in Kursk.

26 killed as explosion rocks railway station in southwestern Pakistan

Developments in bomb explosion at Quetta city railway station in southwestern Pakistan that claimed the lives of at least 26 people early Saturday, police said. Officials fear death toll might rise.

Search continues for missing people after boat sinks in South Korea

Search operation continues to locate 12 missing people after a boat sank off South Korea which led to death of two people. The incident happened in waters, some 24 km (14.9 miles) off the shores of South Korea’s southern island of Jeju.

China’s President Xi to host Indonesian counterpart Prabowo

China’s President Xi Jinping to host Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto in Beijing. Prabowo is on 3-day state visit to China and the two sides are expected to hold wide ranging deliberations. It is first meeting since Prabowo was inaugurated last month.

Opposition holds rally in Pakistan

Main opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan to hold public rally in Swabi of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Rally is being held to press for release of Khan who is in jail for more than a year, facing multiple cases ranging from corruption to terrorism, charges he denies.

Pakistan marks 148th birth anniversary of national poet Iqbal

Pakistan marks 148th birth anniversary of the national poet Allama Mohammad Iqbal. Born on this day in 1877 in the northeastern Sialkot city, located some 139 kilometers (89 miles) from Lahore, the capital of northeastern Punjab province, Iqbal is called "Mufakkir-e-Pakistan" -- or the inceptor of Pakistan -- as he conceived the concept of a separate homeland for the Muslims of then British-ruled Indian sub-continent.

South African activists, trade unions to protest against Israel

Pro-Palestine activists, civil society groups and trade unions in South Africa will hold a protest rally outside the Israeli Embassy in Johannesburg to condemn Israeli attacks on Lebanon and continued bombings in Gaza.

SPORTS

English Premier League matchday 11

Liverpool vs. Aston Villa

Brighton vs. Manchester City

Spanish La Liga matchday 13

Real Madrid vs. Osasuna

Italian Serie A matchday 12

Juventus vs. Torino

German Bundesliga matchday 10

St. Pauli vs. Bayern Munich