GAZA/JERUSALEM -- Fire is being exchanged between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants on the Gaza Strip border as the Israel Defense Forces(IDF) announces an expanded ground assault into the enclave Friday night, Palestine's Al-Quds Newspaper reported.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said in a statement "we are confronting an Israeli ground incursion into Beit Hanoun and east of Bureij, and violent clashes are taking place on the ground." Bureij lies in the central part of the Gaza Strip, whereas Beit Hanoun is in the northwest of the Palestinian enclave. (Gaza-Conflict-Israel)

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CAIRO -- Egyptian army said its probe showed two unmanned drones were the falling objects that had injured six in South Sinai province on Friday morning.

The incident occur when the drones were heading from the south of the Red Sea to the north, and one of them was targeted outside Egyptian airspace in the Gulf of Aqaba region, the Egyptian army said in a statement. (Egypt-Sinai-Drones)

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KHARTOUM -- Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council on Friday held a meeting in Port Sudan, the capital city of the Red Sea State, the first since the war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April this year.

"The council's chairman Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan chaired the meeting in the presence of his deputy Malik Agar and the council's members General Shams-Eddin Kabashi and General Ibrahim Jabir," the council said in a statement. (Sudan-Transitional Sovereign Council-Meeting)

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GAZA -- The death toll of Palestinians from Israeli military strikes on the Gaza Strip has risen to 7,326, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said on Friday.

So far, 18,967 Palestinians have been injured since the fighting broke out, the ministry said in a statement. (Israel-Gaza-Death Toll) Enditem

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