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Xinhua Middle East news summary at 2200 GMT, July 27

Xinhua
| July 28, 2025
2025-07-28

GAZA -- Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid began entering the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, according to local Palestinian sources.

Eyewitnesses told Xinhua the aid convoy initially gathered at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing under the supervision of the Egyptian Red Crescent. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)

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KHARTOUM -- The Sudanese government on Sunday rejected a parallel government declared by a coalition led by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), urging other countries not to recognize it, according to a statement by the Sudanese Foreign Ministry.

"The Ministry strongly condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the step taken by the terrorist RSF militia in announcing a fake government, claiming to assign government positions to run Sudan," the statement said. (Sudan-Gov't-Call)

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SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi armed group said in a statement late Sunday night that it will begin targeting "all foreign ships linked to Israel... regardless of their destination," citing retaliation for what it called Israel's "blockade and starvation" campaign against Gaza.

"This escalation includes targeting all ships belonging to any company that deals with Israeli ports, regardless of their nationality and wherever they may be, within our forces' reach," Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in the statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV. (Yemen-Israel-Escalation)

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ISTANBUL -- One firefighter died on Sunday as a forest fire in Türkiye's northwestern Bursa province continued to spread due to extreme weather conditions, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said.

According to Uraloglu, the firefighter had a heart attack while battling the fire and then died at the hospital. (Türkiye-Fire-Death) Enditem

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