The death toll from Israeli air strikes on a number of sites in Syria’s central province of Hama has soared to 14, raising an earlier toll of five dead and 19 wounded.

A Palestinian official says Israeli prison authorities have threatened to deny Palestinian prisoners of medical treatment if they don’t stop their open-ended hunger strike.

The US sanctions against Iran, established for political purposes, are jeopardizing the health of Iranian children with special medical conditions such as autism, thalassemia and cancer due to the prohibitive cost of treatment.

The Palestinian commission for prisoners says five Palestinian prisoners languishing in the Israeli Naqab prison are in need of urgent medical treatment.

The leader of the Western Saharan independence movement has landed in the Algerian capital, Algiers, amid a diplomatic row between Morocco and Spain over his reception for medical treatment by the latter.

US sanctions imposed on Iran by the Trump administration have led to children with cancer needlessly dying in Iran from lack of medicine; thousands of adults are also dying each month from COVID-19.

Kuwait's crown prince has stepped in as partial ruler after the hospitalization of the 91-year-old emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.