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Experts have expressed doubt after Israel released a recording allegedly featuring two Hamas operatives discussing Palestinian Islamic Jihad's potential responsibility for the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital massacre.

Palestinians in Gaza have been told to head south of Wadi Gaza, a valley that cuts across the strip, and there are fears that Israel is trying to ethnically cleanse them.

Two medics were killed after health ministry ambulances were hit by an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza on Saturday, Palestine Red Crescent Society spokesperson Nebal Farsakh said.

Moustafa Mohammad Sharaf, 37, was among scores of Syrian and Lebanese migrants abducted by a Libyan militia en route to Italy. His brother said last week that he was being tortured and beaten.

Moustafa Mohammad Sharaf, 37, was among some 110 Syrian and Lebanese migrants who left northern Lebanon by boat on 10 August. They were abducted en route by the Tariq Ben Zeyad Brigade, according to a human rights group.

A UN report on Saturday gave a death toll of 11,300 for catastrophic flooding in the Libyan city of Derna, but a spokesperson later told The New Arab that including this figure was an 'unfortunate mistake'.

A cataclysmic deluge hit Derna, the place most heavily impacted by the flooding in northeast Libya, but other areas affected include the cities of Al-Bayda, Al-Marj, and Soussa, and the town of Shahhat.

The pro-Palestine 'Lynx Lair' group said it had covered a car allegedly belonging to a senior employee of Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems with paint and paint stripper.

A committee of British MPs heard oral evidence on a controversial bill targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel this week, but The New Arab could not identify any Palestinians among the witnesses.

BDS movement co-founder Omar Barghouti has slammed the UK government's anti-boycott bill, calling it 'extremely repressive', 'anti-democratic' and 'McCarthyite' in an exclusive interview with The New Arab.