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Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 2:00 GMT on July 31,2024.

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US-Israeli genocide in Gaza

The Israeli military keeps pounding the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and artillery fire, killing more civilians, most of them women and children in the besieged Palestinian territory. At least 21 civilians were killed in Israeli shelling and airstrikes in al-Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza. Rescue teams also managed to retrieve the bodies of at least 300 people in Khan Yunis, after the Israeli forces withdrew from this southern city. The sanitation crisis is also deteriorating. UNRWA says 40,000 cases of hepatitis have been recorded there since last October. The Palestinian health ministry has also declared the outbreak of a polio epidemic, slamming Israel for the regime's destruction of health facilities. At least 39,400 Palestinians have been killed in the US- Israeli genocide in Gaza since last October.

Condemning Israel's Lebanon attack

Condemnations are pouring in following an Israeli attack on a residential building in a suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, killing and injuring scores of people. Syria, Iraq and Russia have condemned Israel’s strike on Beirut as a gross violation of international law. The Lebanese Prime minister, Najib Mikati, called on the international community to bring Israel to justice and force the regime to end its series of aggressive actions. The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas strongly condemned it as a dangerous escalation. The movement stated the regime’s arrogant actions and crimes across the region is an attempt to restore its lost image and deterrence. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement also slammed the attack as a treacherous Israeli aggression against Lebanon’s territory. The group said the strike is part of Israel’s attempts to draw the whole region into war. The Political bureau of Yemen’s Ansarallah movement also condemned the attack in the strongest terms, calling it a terrorist attack and a flagrant breach of international norms.

Israel Beirut strike

Iran’s permanent envoy to the United Nations has condemned the Israeli attack in a Beirut suburb which killed several people and injured scores more. Amir Saeed Iravani, in a letter addressed to the United Nations Security Council, called on the international body to immediately denounce the Israeli strike and take preventive measures against further similar atrocities. The Iranian official deplored the Israeli regime as a major source of regional insecurity and a threat to global peace. Iravani emphasized that the only way to restore peace in the region is to end Israeli occupation in the occupied territories. Earlier on Tuesday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry also strongly condemned the attack as a blatant violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and international law.