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Here is a brief look at Press TV newsroom's headlines from 1800 GMT, October 21, 2018 to 0800 GMT, October 22, 2018.

Gaza under siege

The humanitarian crisis in the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip is deepening. The Palestinian Health Ministry has just announced that the lives of at least 400 chronically-ill patients are at serious risk due to lack of medicines. According to the ministry, kidney failure patients are suffering because of the lack of special chemicals needed for dialysis machines. The ministry said a hormone that stimulates production of red blood cells cannot be found in any of the Gaza hospitals. Tel Aviv has also prevented most of the patients from seeking treatment abroad. The enclave has been under Israeli land, air and sea blockade since 2007. The siege has shattered daily lives and caused unprecedented poverty and unemployment.

US plan for American migrants

The US president says full efforts are underway to stop the progress of Central American migrants heading for the United States. In a tweet, Donald Trump described the immigrants as illegal aliens, and insisted that they needed to apply for asylum in Mexico first. Trump criticized the caravans as a disgrace to the Democratic Party and called for an immediate change in the country’s immigration laws. Thousands of US-bound migrants were blocked by Mexican security forces along the border with Guatemala. Defiant migrants, however, resumed their march across a river that separates Guatemala from Mexico. Trump has threatened to use force against the migrants to block them from entering the US.

Khashoggi murder fallout

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Berlin would not export arms to Saudi Arabia in the wake of the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Australia apology 

Australia’s prime minister has issued a national apology to thousands of Australian children who suffered sexual abuse in the country’s institutions. Scott Morrison’s apology comes after a five-year inquiry into more than 15,000 survivors' child sex abuse claims involving thousands of institutions. A series of institutions, including Australian Catholic Church, have already apologized for decades of child abuse and cover-ups. According to the report, seven percent of Catholic priests in Australia were accused of abuse between 1950 and 2010. But the allegations were never probed while children were ignored and even punished.

US senators’ stance on Khashoggi

A group of top US lawmakers say Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The American senators argue that in Saudi Arabia, things of high magnitude cannot be done without clearance from the top. They say Saudi Arabia has lost all credibility, with some of them calling for a stop to US arms sales to the Kingdom. There have also been calls for sanctions against Riyadh. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, believes that sanctions are good, but not great. He says there should be a collective response from US allies. Saudi Arabia has drawn international criticism for shifting stories on how Khashoggi was killed at its Istanbul consulate earlier this month. The Kingdom denies that the crown prince was involved.

Israel drops controversial bill

Israeli Knesset has dropped the discussion of draft bill that would allow the Tel Aviv regime to expropriate lands that belong to any of the churches in Jerusalem al-Quds and impose taxes on them in retrospect. The decision came after strong protests by church leaders. More details in the following report with our correspondent Fatima AbdulKarim.

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