Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Astana, Kazakhstan on Thursday morning local time.
From July 2 to 6, Xi is scheduled to attend the SCO meeting and pay state visits to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan at the invitation of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
Xi to attend 24th Meeting of Council of Heads of State of SCO in Astana
Xi to attend 24th Meeting of Council of Heads of State of SCO Member States in Astana
The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip from the ongoing Israeli attacks has risen to 38,098, health authorities in the Palestinian enclave said on Saturday.
Additionally, a total of 87,705 people had been wounded in the besieged strip since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out last October, the health authorities said.
According to Palestinian media, the Israeli army raided Gaza City in the north and the southern city of Rafah on Saturday, killing at least eight people.
Of the eight fatalities, six were killed when Israeli warplanes attacked a car in the northwest of Rafah while the other two were killed when the Israeli forces assaulted a neighborhood in Gaza City.
The Israeli army also reportedly bombed a school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Near East (UNRWA) in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.
The attack killed at least 16 people and injured over 50 others in the school which houses displaced persons, according to the health authorities.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 38,098: health authorities
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 38,098: health authorities
