Author: Steven Sahiounie

Glovis Star and Hermes Leader, two ships identified as commercially handled by Ray Car Carriers, diverted their course away from the Red Sea on Sunday. According to shipping data and the British maritime security firm Ambrey, two commercial ships that redirected their route in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are linked to the same marine group whose vessel was captured by the Yemeni Armed Forces on Sunday. Glovis Star and Hermes Leader, two additional ships identified as commercially handled by Ray Car Carriers, changed their sailing paths on Sunday, Ambrey said on Monday. Reportedly, 52 people aboard the…

Indonesia’s foreign ministry says it has not been able to contact three Indonesian students volunteering at the Indonesian Hospital. Farid Zanzabil Al Ayubi, Reza Aldilla Kurniawan and Fikri Rofiul Haq had been helping at the hospital, which was built with donations from the Southeast Asian nation and came under Israeli attack on Monday. Nur Ikhwan Abadi, the site manager of the hospital with the Indonesian charity the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C), returned to Indonesia before the war broke out. He told Al Jazeera: “They are good boys. Farid has memorised several juz [parts] of the Quran, while Reza and…

Richard Brennan, a WHO official based in Cairo, has given an update on the condition of 28 premature babies evacuated to Egypt from Gaza. Speaking to ABC NewsRadio in Australia on Tuesday, Brennan said the babies were “not out of the woods yet” but he was “cautiously optimistic” they would make a recovery. “We’re cautiously optimistic they will do well but we have to watch them very, very closely,” he said. “They can still develop further complications and deteriorate acutely. They’re not out of the woods yet by any means, so they need that intensive care for some time to…

A report in the Israeli daily Haaretz says the US push aims to help revitalise the postwar Palestinian economy. Biden’s top energy adviser, Amos Hochstein, is in Israel to discuss the issue, the newspaper said. “We shouldn’t exaggerate its potential, but it can absolutely be a revenue stream for a Palestinian government and to ensure there is an independent energy system for Palestine,” Hochstein said, as reported by Haaretz. The Gaza marine field, nearly 32km (20 miles) off the coast of the besieged enclave, has remained undeveloped despite holding an estimated 28 billion cubic metres (1 trillion cubic ft) of…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune to co-chair meeting of Türkiye-Algeria High-Level Cooperation Council Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay an official visit to Algeria on Tuesday. Erdogan and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune will co-chair the second meeting of the Türkiye-Algeria High-Level Cooperation Council, according to Türkiye’s Communications Directorate. During talks in the capital Algiers, they will discuss relations between the two countries, and the steps to be taken to further deepen the bilateral cooperation.
 Erdogan and Tebboune will also exchange views on regional and global issues, particularly Israel’s attacks in Gaza. Türkiye and Algeria…

Earlier we reported on an Israeli army strike targeting a residential building in western Khan Younis that killed five members of the same family. We’ve learned that the family members were evacuees from northern Gaza who fled the violence and bombs there. The strike that killed them targeted a different apartment in the Hamad residential compound, but it broke through the wall and into the place they were sheltering. More air strikes are taking place as we speak in the Nuseirat refugee camp, and we will bring you more details as information comes in. Source: AlJazeera

White House spokesperson John Kirby says Washington is “hopeful” a deal can be reached but nothing is finalised. “But there’s still work to be done, and nothing is done until it’s all done, so we’re going to keep working on this,” Kirby told reporters. He added that President Joe Biden’s administration is calling for international law to be respected in Gaza and an increase of humanitarian assistance to the enclave, including through “humanitarian pauses” in the fighting. The US has not called for a ceasefire in Gaza. Source: AlJazeera

France has sent helicopter carrier Dixmude, which will arrive in Egypt in the coming days, video from the French armed forces shows. It also dispatched a military Airbus A400 with more than 10 tonnes of medical supplies and will contribute to European Union medical aid flights on November 23 and 30. A first French helicopter carrier – the Tonnerre, which has about 60 beds and two operating blocks – has already been deployed to the region. Source: AlJazeera

The foreign ministers of Iran and Qatar called for the international community’s immediate action to compel the Zionist regime to end the atrocities in Gaza that are committed in blatant contravention of the international law. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani talked about the latest developments in Palestine and the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza at a telephone conversation on Monday. The two foreign ministers said the Zionist regime is responsible for the situation on the ground in the occupied Palestinian territories, and called on the international community to take…

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…