Author: Steven Sahiounie

Tens of thousands of Cubans have staged a demonstration in front of the US embassy in Havana condemning Israel for committing “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza. The protest march on Thursday was led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel, and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero. The march moved along Havana’s seaside drive, the Malecon where the US diplomatic headquarters is located, Reuters reported. This was the first protest march of its kind in more than a decade. Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro used to stage such demonstrations to protest American sanctions and meddling in Cuban affairs. The protesters, sporting Palestinian flags and banners, chanted “free, free…

The Gaza Strip-based Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas has said that it has frustrated the Israeli enemy’s plan for achieving a “swift victory” in its ongoing war against the Palestinian territory. Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, made the remarks on Thursday. “We destroyed 335 military vehicles belonging to the Zionist regime [of Israel] ever since the Zionists invasion of Gaza,” he said. The regime launched the war on October 7 following an operation, dubbed al-Aqsa Storm, by the territory’s resistance groups, which killed some 1,200 Israeli settlers and military forces and led to the captivity…

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has held talks with Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Doha where he has traveled as part of a regional tour for consultations amid the Israeli invasion of Gaza. The meeting on Thursday night came as a breakthrough four-day truce in the war will start on Friday morning and an exchange of captives and prisoners will follow hours later. Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari said Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails will be released on Friday, adding a list of names has been approved, without saying how many. Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman…

Another 100 were wounded BEIRUT, November 23. /TASS/. Israel delivered a deadly missile strike on a school of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the city of Jabalia in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Al Mayadeen television reported. According to the report, the school was used as a shelter for thousands of internally displaced persons. “The air strike killed 30 people, who were inside the building. Another 100 were wounded,” a Palestinian Red Crescent staffer told the television. Source: Tass

According to IOF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari, Israeli forces will move along the boundaries that were defined and agreed on in the deal TEL AVIV, November 23. /TASS/. Israeli forces will remain in the Gaza Strip during a planned ceasefire, Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said. “After the truce begins, our forces will be stationed on the ceasefire line inside the Gaza Strip. I would like to point out that it’s inside Gaza. They will move along the boundaries that were defined and agreed on in the deal,” he told a briefing. Source: Tass

Every Palestinian killed by the IOF will be used by Hamas as a martyr to rile up the Arab world Amarjit Singh Dulat is a former head of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), India’s external intelligence agency. After retirement, he was appointed adviser on Kashmir in the Prime Minister’s Office and served there from January 2001 to May 2004. He authored several books, including “Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years”, published in 2015. Not since the founding of Israel in 1948 had Tel Aviv suffered as audacious an assault on its soil as the one carried out by the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas…

The four-day break in hostilities has also been confirmed by the Palestinian militant group on social media Israel and Hamas have agreed to a temporary ceasefire which will begin at 7am local time on Friday, the Qatari Foreign Ministry has announced. A spokesperson for the ministry also said Hamas will release a first group of 13 hostages at 4pm on the same day. As reported by the New York Times, the military wing of Hamas has also confirmed the four-day truce in a statement on Telegram. Israel, meanwhile, has suggested that the ceasefire could last even longer, on condition that…

“The humanitarian truce is an important step towards easing the sufferings of the Palestinian people,” member of the leadership of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas Basem Naim stressed Egypt, Qatar and the United States are guarantors of humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip, which will come into force on November 24, Basem Naim, a member of the leadership of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas has said. “Qatar, Egypt and the US are acting as guarantors of humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip,” the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera quotes him as saying. “The humanitarian truce is an important step towards easing the…

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Wednesday received a phone call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry said.The two discussed ways to stop the military escalation in Gaza and surrounding areas, and to adhere to any humanitarian truce and ceasefire agreement.They also discussed efforts to bring in humanitarian, relief and medical aid.Prince Faisal “stressed the Kingdom’s categorical rejection of the forced displacement of the population of Gaza, and the importance of the international community moving seriously and effectively to confront all the ongoing violations of the Israeli occupation forces, and their repeated…

The Secretary General of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Anthony Bellanger, said today that the IFJ’s Executive Committee will hold a meeting next Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss submitting a complaint related to the Israeli occupation crimes against Palestinian journalists to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Bellanger explained during a press conference held at the headquarters of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) in Al-Bireh that the number of journalists who have been killed since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 is very large. The Israeli forces have killed more journalists in the past six…