A senior leader of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says the movement is determined to secure the freedom of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in a swap deal with the Israeli regime.

The Yemeni army says the Saudi-led coalition has carried out nearly 300 air strikes across the country over the past week.

The US Department of Defense has reportedly supplied 1 million surgical masks to the Israeli regime in order to be distributed among soldiers, despite the fact that the Pentagon has lately introduced a measure requiring personnel to make their own masks to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.

The Arab League has warned against attempts by the Israeli regime to annex more Palestinian land and expand its settlements on the occupied territories at a time when the world is engaged in a fight against the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the regime is interested in “immediate” indirect prisoner exchange negotiations with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, which runs Gaza.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington will continue with its economic sanctions against Iran as part of its attempts to bring about regime change.

The head of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah says the occupying Israeli regime is feeling an existential threat to its political survival.

Saudi activists have expressed serious concern over the spread of the novel coronavirus in some neighborhoods of the holy city of Mecca, emphasizing that the slums are hotspots for the severe outbreak as they are densely-populated and suffer from unsanitary conditions and weak health infrastructure.

As dire conditions beset the international community, Internet activists begin advertizing a hashtag promoting the religious prophecy that a savior would resurrect at some point in time and relieve the world of its suffering.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has reportedly agreed to an offer by the United Nations to implement a major prisoner swap with Saudi-sponsored Yemeni militiamen loyal to the country’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.