Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Local Organizing Committee of the Asian Cup – Qatar 2023 – announced the allocation of proceeds from ticket sales for the upcoming tournament to support relief efforts for the brotherly Palestinian people. As part of its belief in the ability of sport to bring about social change beyond the football pitch, the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023™️ Local Organizing Committee (LOC) has agreed to donate revenue from tournament ticket sales to support urgent relief interventions in Palestine. “We have decided to donate ticketing revenue generated from the Asian Cup in Qatar to much-needed relief efforts in Palestine,” the committee’s…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is slated to hold crucial discussions with foreign ministers representing nations from the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to address the situation in Gaza. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to engage in discussions with several foreign ministers from the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) nations regarding the situation in the Gaza Strip. The meeting is scheduled to take place in Moscow on November 21, as confirmed by Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, on Monday. “Tomorrow Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to meet…

According to the statement, the meeting will focus, in particular, on the situation in the Gaza Strip Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in an extraordinary online BRICS summit on the escalation of the situation in the Middle East, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. “On November 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in an extraordinary BRICS summit (in the videoconference format) to discuss the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” it said. According to the press service of the president of South Africa, the current BRICS’ presidency, the meeting will focus, in particular, on the situation in the Gaza…

Speaking during a visit to Berlin, Comoros President and current African Union Chair Azali Assoumani called for greater diplomatic pressure on Israel to end its ongoing operations in Gaza. “What was carried out from Gaza [on October 7] is to be condemned, but the answer was not proportionate,” Assoumani said. “We condemn all measures, all actions, everything that harms children, and that then leads to extremism when they experience something like that.” Representatives in the bloc have already decried Israel’s “collective punishment” in Gaza and have called for a ceasefire. Still, these latest comments are significant, coming during a news…

Ismail Thawabta, spokesman for the Gaza government’s media office, says more than 13,300 people have been killed in the bombarded enclave. That figure includes more than 5,600 children killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, Thawabta told reporters. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has not been able to regularly update its official death toll due to the collapse of the healthcare system, which collected the data. Source: AlJazeera

Hamas said the attack on the camp in central Gaza was a “heinous crime”. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Khan Younis, said the school – run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA – was sheltering displaced Palestinians fleeing violence in the north. “There is a UNRWA flag on the roof of the building, and the Israeli military has its GPS coordinates. Still, it was targeted by bombs,” Mahmoud said. “This is particularly concerning to residents of the central Gaza Strip, who have been told by the Israeli military that the area they are in is safe. Clearly,…

The president of Iran, in letters to 50 heads of state, called for collective economic and diplomatic pressures on the Zionist regime to force it to end the massacre of people in Gaza and lift the siege of the enclave. As the Zionist regime has been pounding Gaza relentlessly for over six weeks, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday sent separate letters to 50 heads of state, including the leaders of Russia, China, Turkey, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Kenya and Jordan, calling for concerted and coordinated pressures from the “independent and free” nations to stop the Israeli crimes against Gaza. In…

Emine Erdogan says Nov. 20 this year marks ‘darkest’ World Children’s Day, when Palestinian children are not sure if they will survive Israeli attacks to see tomorrow Turkish first lady Emine Erdogan on Monday commemorated the Gazan children killed in Israel’s ongoing attacks on the besieged enclave for more than a month, as Nov. 20 marks World Children’s Day. “0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 … These are not just numbers. They represent the ages of thousands of children in Gaza, which has been bombarded by Israel since Oct. 7, whose most fundamental right, the right to survive, has…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, have discussed the war on Gaza in a phone call and agreed “to avoid a more serious humanitarian crisis”, according to the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. “The two heads of state exchanged views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and both believe that the top priority is to avoid further deterioration of the situation between Palestine and Israel, especially to avoid a more serious humanitarian crisis,” CCTV said. Xi and Macron both agreed a “‘two-state solution’ is the fundamental way” to solve the conflict and said they would maintain communications on international…

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met with US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf on Sunday to discuss the latest developments in Gaza, Kuwait News Agency reported. Sheikh Salem said that Kuwait remained “unwavering in its support for the Palestinians and their statehood rights,” and he reiterated the need to reach a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East. The minister also urged for an immediate ceasefire and delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians. Source: Arab News