According to the nation’s volcanology service, Indonesia’s Ibu volcano erupted on Monday morning, sending thick columns of grey ash several kilometres into the sky.

At 9.12 a.m. (0012 GMT), the volcano on the isolated island of Halmahera erupted for almost five minutes, spewing ash up to a height of 5 kilometres (3.1 miles), according to authorities.

On Friday, there was also a minor eruption noted.

According to a statement from Hendra Gunawan, the director of Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation Centre, the volcano’s alert status is still at the second-highest level.

He further stated that all activity were forbidden within a five-kilometer radius of the volcano.

“If it starts to rain ash, we recommend people who are near the volcano to wear a mask and glasses,” Hendra stated.

Grey ash clouds could be seen rising from the crater in footage of the eruption that the centre uploaded. There was also a loud noise, according to the official.

There have been no reports of resident evacuations thus far.

According to the department for volcanology, Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes and is located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.

The Ruang volcano in North Sulawesi has erupted in recent weeks, releasing luminous lava and sparking lightning from its crater. Authorities had to evacuate around 12,000 residents on a nearby island due to the eruption.

One of Sumatra’s most active volcanoes, Marapi, erupted in December and sent up to three km of grey ash clouds, killing over 20 people.

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In order to retake a region where they had claimed to have destroyed Hamas months before, Israeli soldiers advanced further into the ruins of Gaza’s northern frontier on Monday. Meanwhile, at the other end of the territory, tanks and infantry advanced over a highway into Rafah.

Thousands of Palestinians have fled once more as a result of the fierce fighting that has been occurring on Gaza’s northern and southern borders for several weeks. Relief organisations fear that the situation might quickly get worse.

Israel maintained that such operations had always been part of its plan and explained its most recent return to the north, where it withdrew the majority of its forces five months ago, as part of a “mop-up” stage of the battle to stop fighters from returning. Palestinians claim that Israel’s military goals are unachievable since the country must continue fighting among the remains of earlier conflicts.

Tanks drove into the centre of the neighbourhood in the vast Jabalia, the largest of Gaza’s eight camps established seventy-five years ago to accommodate Palestinian refugees from what is now Israel. The camp’s core was being hit by tank rounds, according to the residents, and some buildings had been damaged by airstrikes.

On Sunday, thick plumes of black smoke from explosions were visible rising over the northern part of Gaza from the Israeli border.

Israeli forces are attempting to destroy Hamas, which has declared its intention to destroy Israel. According to Israeli estimates, the extremist organisation invaded Israel on October 7 and killed 1,200 people while capturing over 250 captives.

Gaza health experts estimate that more than 35,000 Palestinians have died in the conflict, and they worry that many more are buried beneath the debris. The Gaza Health Ministry warned in a statement on Monday that the medical system is on the verge of collapsing owing to a scarcity of gasoline to power generators and ambulances. The conflict has destroyed the coastal enclave and created a serious humanitarian catastrophe.

Health officials in Palestine said on Monday that they had found 20 dead and several injured Palestinians from the airstrikes that occurred overnight on Jabalia.

Israel increased air and ground bombardments on the eastern parts of Rafah, Gaza, targeting the Egyptian border fence. An airstrike on a house in the Brazil neighbourhood resulted in casualties.

Hundreds of thousands of people, the majority of whom are already displaced, fled for new shelters after Israel issued an order last week for inhabitants to leave the city’s east and, in more recent days, expanded it to include central regions.

Residents reported that tanks had blocked the major Salahuddin Road, which runs north-south and separates the eastern and central parts of the city, and that Israeli air and ground shelling was getting worse.

Bassam, 57, of the Shaboura neighbourhood of Rafah stated, “The tanks cut the Saladuddin road east of the city, the forces are now in the southeast side, building up near the built-up area, the situation is dreadful and the sounds of explosions never stopped.”

“People continue to leave Rafah, even far away near the western areas as no place looks safe now and also because people do not want to escape at the last minute should tanks make sudden incursions and moving out becomes too late,” he said using a messaging app for Reuters.

Since the Israeli military issued its initial order to evacuate the southern city one week ago, UNRWA, the primary United Nations relief organisation in Gaza, estimated that over 360,000 Palestinians had left the area.

Shipment of bombs halted

For the first time since the start of the conflict, Israel’s primary ally, the United States, has severed ties with Israel because to the attack on Rafah, resulting in one of the worst rifts in centuries. Washington has stated that Israel cannot attack Rafah unless it has a strategy in place, which it has not yet seen, to safeguard residents there.

The American ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, gave a hint on Sunday that Washington still views the Rafah incursion as reasonable.

Lew told Israel’s Channel 12 TV, “The president was clear in the interview he gave the other evening that what Israel has done so far hasn’t crossed over into the area where our disagreements lie,” without going into detail about what that area includes.

“I’m hoping we don’t end up with real disagreement.”

According to the armed wing of Hamas, gunfights between Israeli soldiers and its members were taking place on a street east of Rafah and in Jabalia.

The Israeli military repeatedly activated sirens in the vicinity of Gaza to alert the public of possible cross-border rocket and/or mortar attacks by Palestinians.

In a joint statement, Hamas and the armed branch of Islamic Jihad announced that they had fired mortar bombs against Israeli soldiers assembling inside the Rafah crossing, the only port of entry between Gaza and Egypt that Israel had taken control of last week.

The Israeli military claimed late on Saturday that troops stationed in Jabalia were keeping Gaza’s ruling Hamas group from regaining its military strength there.

Saed, 45, a resident of Jabalia, told Reuters via a chat app on Sunday, “They were bombing everywhere, including near schools that are housing people who lost their houses.” “War is restarting, this is how it looks in Jabalia.”

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In a recent address, Donald Trump mistook US President Jimmy Carter with tennis great Jimmy Connors. Trump brought up the topic during his most recent rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, attacking Joe Biden. He intended to imply that, in contrast to Biden, Carter was a remarkable leader.

Although the previous president had a “bad reputation” while in office, according to Trump, he was still an improved president over Joe Biden. Jimmy Carter was called “brilliant” by Trump.

But in the process of drawing the parallel, Trump called Carter Jimmy Connors. “Jimmy Connors is content as well. Jimmy is a really content man. Because, let’s face it, they both want him out. Jimmy Connors was not well-liked. He is currently regarded as an exceptionally intelligent president in contrast to Joe Biden. In contrast, he is a very smart president right now,” he remarked.

“Those days are long gone.”

On social media, the video of Trump’s error has gone viral. X users condemned Trump in the video’s comment area, with one of them asking, “How can someone mix the two up? President Jimmy Carter is the 39th American. Tennis player Jimmy Connors is an American. “Just one word needs to be retweeted. One person commented, “PAUSE,” while another noted, “He said Jimmy Connors.” then realised his error. He made an effort to remember the last name.

Jimmy Connors, huh? One person said, “Wow!” while another said, “That mind is long gone.” His memory is that of a collander. Recollections flow directly through and out of them. “When was Jimmy Connors the brilliant tennis player president?,” one person quipped.

Trump attacked Biden at the New Jersey event, labelling him a “total moron.” In front of tens of thousands of applauding fans, he declared, “You could take the ten worst presidents in our nation’s history, and add them up, and they haven’t done the damage to our country that this total moron has done.”

“He is not a wise man; he is an idiot.” He wasn’t ever,” Trump continued.

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