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1st Ukraine Grain Shipment that Was Expected in Lebanon Heads to Mersin

he ship, which left on Aug. 1, was due to dock in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Sunday. DPA
he ship, which left on Aug. 1, was due to dock in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Sunday. DPA
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1st Ukraine Grain Shipment that Was Expected in Lebanon Heads to Mersin

he ship, which left on Aug. 1, was due to dock in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Sunday. DPA
he ship, which left on Aug. 1, was due to dock in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Sunday. DPA

The Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, the first ship to leave Ukraine, has docked in Turkey rather than Lebanon, informed sources told Asharq Al-Awsat.

The ship, which left on Aug. 1, was due to dock in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli on Sunday. But it headed to Turkey’s Mersin after the cargo's owner managed to sell it elsewhere, said the sources.

“It is now unloading its cargo in Mersin,” they added.

The vessel was carrying 26,000 tons of corn.

A total of 12 ships have now been authorized to sail under the grain deal between Ukraine and Russia, which was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations — ten outbound and two headed for Ukraine.

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Gaza Hospital Director’s Family Pleads for His Release

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan Hospital to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)
Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan Hospital to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)
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Gaza Hospital Director’s Family Pleads for His Release

Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan Hospital to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)
Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from the Kamal Adwan Hospital to the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Hamas group. (AFP)

The family of a hospital director in northern Gaza is pleading with the international community and the Israeli military for his release, after soldiers detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya over the weekend.

Abu Safiya's family says he's being denied medical care and kept in the freezing cold in Sde Teiman, an Israeli detention center that been sharply criticized for its inhuman conditions.

Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said Abu Safiya “is currently being questioned regarding his potential involvement in terrorist activity.”

Over the weekend, Israeli soldiers expelled staff and patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital, where it detained 240 people who it said were militants and took them for interrogation in Israel. The military said some fighters attempted to pose as patients and hid in ambulances, without providing evidence.

Israel alleged that Hamas had been using the facility, which hospital officials have denied.

Israel’s latest military offensive in northern Gaza has largely isolated the area, with little medical or other aid allowed to reach hospitals there.

On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Israeli operations have “obliterated the health care system in northern Gaza,” noting that Kamal Adwan and Indonesian hospitals are now “completely inoperable.”