The United Nations has projected that 19.2 million people in Afghanistan will face acute food insecurity during the winter months. Five million of these individuals are expected to encounter emergency hunger levels.
Turkey's parliament set to ratify Mecca Joint Defence Agreement The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, a defence pact between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey has been sent to the Turkish parliament to be ratified, according to parliamentary sources. Two sources told Reuters that Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus will submit the agreement to the parliament's foreign foreign affairs commission after returning to Turkey from Kyrgyzstan.
The Israeli military struck an apartment in Gaza before dawn on Tuesday, killing two people and injuring others. The two people killed were a man and his wife, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies. The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas fighter. The attack followed a series of strikes on Monday that killed at least four people. They came more than a year after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. But the death toll in Gaza continues to rise as Israel carries out near-daily strikes on what it says are members of Hamas.