Former US President (39th) Jimmy Carter has died. A BBC report has confirmed the news of the death from a source close to the former president.

He breathed his last in Plains, Georgia on Sunday afternoon according to US time. He was 100 years old at the time of his death. Before his death, he was the longest-lived person to have held the office of US president so far. He had been under treatment for the past year due to serious illness.

He played a special role in establishing democracy and achieving human rights worldwide. In his early life, Carter was a peanut farmer. Later, he not only assumed the responsibility of the US head, but also won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was in power from 1977 to 1981. During this time, America made great progress economically and diplomatically though many people were disappointed with him when he left the White House. However, after winning the Nobel Prize, he regained the hearts of the countrymen.

He was born on October 1, 1924. President Carter reached the 100-point mark in October of this year.

A plane carrying 181 people crashed at Muan Airport in South Korea, killing 179 people. Only two survived.

The country's news agency Yonhap reported this information on Sunday (December 29).

The report said that the accident occurred on Sunday when a Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air was landing at Muan International Airport. The plane had 175 passengers and six flight attendants from Thailand.

Meanwhile, a video of the plane skidding off the runway while landing at the airport has been circulating on social media. The video shows the plane skidding off the runway and crashing into a wall during landing.

The plane caught fire immediately after the crash.

South Korean acting President Choi Sang-mok has ordered an all-out rescue effort. His chief of staff has also called an emergency meeting to discuss the incident. The crash is believed to have been caused by a landing gear malfunction caused by a bird strike.

At least 29 people have been killed after a passenger plane crashed at an airport in the city of Muan, South Korea. The plane skidded off the runway while landing at the airport, Qatar-based media Al Jazeera reported on Sunday (December 29), citing the country's Yonhap news agency and AFP.

The report said that the Jeju Air plane crashed on Sunday as it was landing at Muan International Airport. The plane had arrived from Thailand with 175 passengers and six flight attendants on board.

"So far, 29 people have died in the accident. But the number could rise," Lee Hyeon-ji, an officer with the local fire department's response team, told AFP.

A picture shared by local media showed thick black smoke billowing from the plane. Another person showed the back of the plane engulfed in flames. Firefighters were working to control the fire. Emergency vehicles were on scene to help rescue the injured.

Two people have been rescued so far, Yonhap reported. The media outlet also reported that rescue operations are ongoing.

Meanwhile, South Korean acting President Choi Sang-mok issued a statement ordering "all-out efforts for rescue operations." He called on all relevant agencies to work together to save the injured.

The crash is believed to have occurred "due to a malfunction in the landing gear" as the plane was landing at the airport, Yonhap reported.

Israeli forces have raided the last functioning Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, arresting the hospital's director and other staff and forcibly vacating it, doctors said.

The World Health Organization said Kamal Adwan Hospital is "now empty" and that some of the remaining patients - including the critically ill - have been transferred to an Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, along with caregivers and health workers. The raid also shut down the last hospital in northern Gaza.

The whereabouts of Kamal Adwan's director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, and other staff are unclear, friends and colleagues told CNN.

Rawia al-Batsh, a nurse at Kamal Adwan Hospital, told CNN that "we don't know the fate of Dr. Hussam. He was threatened by the army as soon as he arrived at the hospital."

The Israeli military admitted on Saturday that it had detained Dr Abu Safia and said he was a "suspected Hamas terrorist operative."

Eid Sabbah, head of the nursing department at Kamal Adwan Hospital, told the BBC that the army had given the administration 15 minutes to evacuate patients and staff from their hospital at around 7am on Friday.

He said Israeli soldiers later entered the hospital and evacuated the remaining patients.

The Israeli military said on Friday afternoon that it was conducting a raid on the hospital area, describing it as a "Hamas stronghold."

The BBC wrote that before the raid began, Israeli soldiers had arranged for civilians, patients and medical staff to be safely evacuated from the hospital. However, the army did not say where the patients would be taken.

Dr Sabbah said: "It is dangerous because many patients are in comas. They need ventilation machines. It is very dangerous to move dying patients.

“If the army wants to evacuate these patients, they will need specialized vehicles,” he said.

Shortly afterwards, Gaza’s deputy health minister, Yousef Abu-al-Rish, told the BBC that “patients in critical condition have been taken to a hospital in Indonesia.”

“It’s not exactly a hospital,” he said. “It’s a shelter. It’s not ready for patients.”

“According to initial investigations, several important sections of the hospital were severely burned during the operation,” Nadav Shoshani, the international spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), told X-Post on Friday evening.

“According to initial investigations, several important sections of the hospital were severely burned during the operation,” he said.

“Initial investigations have not found any connection to IDF activity,” he said, adding that the fire broke out when IDF soldiers were not inside the hospital.

Hours earlier, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital said that about 50 people, including five medical staff, had been killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting the area around the hospital.

Hussam Abu Safia's statement said that Israeli warplanes targeted a building opposite the hospital, killing a pediatrician and a lab technician and their families.

The facility has come under frequent Israeli fire in recent months, and its closure has exacerbated a dire humanitarian situation in northern Gaza.