Author: Steven Sahiounie

“It’s very scary and dangerous out there. We saw a bomb flying and hitting a house as we sat [at the border crossing]. Ordinary people, just like you and me, are getting killed – families, children, grandparents,” she said MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. Yana Abukhadzharas, who was evacuated from the Gaza Strip to Moscow, told TASS about bombings near the Rafah checkpoint where evacuees have been crossing into of late. “It’s very scary and dangerous out there. We saw a bomb flying and hitting a house as we sat [at the border crossing]. Ordinary people, just like you and me,…

“We have not reached a deal yet, but we continue to work hard to get to a deal,” US National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson said WASHINGTON, November 19. /TASS/. The United States, Israel and the Palestinian radical movement Hamas have not yet reached a deal for a five-day pause in return for the freeing of hostages, US National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson wrote on X (former Twitter). “We have not reached a deal yet, but we continue to work hard to get to a deal,” she said, commenting on a report in The Washington Post which said earlier that Israel…

Iran has offered its condolences on the death in an Israeli airstrike of prominent Palestinian politician and acting parliament speaker Ahmad Bahar, saying the assassination further exposed the criminal nature of a regime which has killed thousands of people in Palestine over the past few weeks. In a Saturday statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani condoled the martyrdom of Bahar to the leadership of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, his family and the Palestinian nation. “The apartheid Zionist regime has laid bare its dirty, criminal and anti-human nature by killing the acting speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and thousands…

A senior Hamas official says the Israeli regime is waging a war of starvation on the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stressing that closure of crossings to the besieged territory has worsened the food crisis and the few aid convoys that enter the enclave cannot meet the public demands. “The Zionist enemy has adopted the policy of starvation against children and ordinary people in Gaza. The food convoys that have entered Gaza meet only 10% of the public demands,” Osama Hamdan, a member of the Palestinian resistance movement’s politburo, said at a press briefing in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut on Saturday evening.…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again criticized Israel for its ongoing atrocities in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing the need to hold the occupying regime accountable at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Erdogan made the remarks on Saturday as he returned from a day-long visit to Germany, saying there is sufficient evidence to hold Israel accountable at ICC, while vowing to use all available means to ensure that impartial punishment is delivered for the regime’s crimes. “There is ample evidence” for Israel to be tried at the ICC, he said, stressing that “We will do everything in our power to ensure that these crimes…

People across the United Kingdom and France have held fresh rallies in support of the Palestinians suffering from a relentless war of aggression by the Israeli regime in the Gaza Strip and in the occupied West Bank. Protests continued in the British capital London on Saturday as people marched toward the offices of the opposition Labour Party to demand party leaders press for a ceasefire in Gaza. Protesters waved Palestinian flags and held placards reading “Starmer — blood on your hands” in reference to Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and his refusal to call for a complete stop to the Israeli…

Two more journalists have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in the besieged Gaza Strip as the regime pushes ahead with its genocidal war against the territory. According to Palestinian media outlets, Sari Mansour was killed, along with his colleague Hassouna Salim, in a late Saturday Israeli airstrike on the camp. The two journalists lost their lives after Sari Mansour’s home came under an Israeli bombardment in Bureij camp, which is located in the central Gaza Strip. The new fatalities bring to more than 50 the number of journalists killed in Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip.…

 About 2,500 pro-Palestinian protesters marched in Berlin on Saturday in solidarity with the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip as German police accompanied the demonstration with several hundred officers. The protesters demanded a free Palestine in chants as they walked through the streets, calling for Israel to “stop the war on Gaza.” They also accused the German government of taking a biased approach to the Gaza war by siding with Israel. A group of doctors joined the protest, holding banners accusing Israel of committing war crimes by evacuating and bombing hospitals in Gaza. “…we want to demonstrate against war and for peace, against…

The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Israeli regime is moving towards its “inevitable collapse” in a “war of attrition” with Palestinians resistance movements. Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks while addressing a rally in the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday. The nationwide protest was held to show solidarity with Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip who have been under relentless Israeli attacks since October 7. “Palestine stands on the path of a war of attrition…Israel will face a definitive defeat,” he declared. “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm showed that the US help cannot save Israel from the…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its new assessment of the situation in the Gaza Strip’s al-Shifa Hospital, describing it as a “death zone” and the situation as “desperate.” The United Nations health organization released its report early Sunday, just a day after a short and “very high-risk” mission into the hospital on Saturday. The regime has turned Gaza’s hospitals into a specific target of its ongoing war of genocide against the coastal sliver, alleging that those facilities house Palestinian resistance fighters and their equipment. On Saturday, Mai Alkaila, the Palestinian health minister in the occupied West Bank, strongly condemned…