Author: Steven Sahiounie

Erdogan to meet German counterpart Steinmeier, Chancellor Scholz; discuss Middle East turmoil, other international issues Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday departed for Germany’s capital Berlin on a day-long visit. Erdogan will have one-on-one and inter-delegation meetings with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He will also meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss turmoil in Middle East and other international issues Source: Anadolu Agency

President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed today the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, where they discussed the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories. During the meeting, President Abbas urged the European Union to exert pressure on the Israeli occupation authorities to stop their continuous aggression against the Palestinian people. Additionally, he urged the acceleration of humanitarian aid delivery into Gaza and demanded an end to the assaults by Israeli occupation forces and settler terrorists against Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem. President Abbas reiterated his…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentatorIsrael has insisted that the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza is sitting on top of a network of tunnels which are the Hamas headquarters in Gaza. The Israeli government have offered no credible proof, and only cite secret intelligence as their source.Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, Israeli army spokesperson, told CNN the hospital and compound were for Hamas “a central hub of their operations, perhaps even the beating heart and maybe even a centre of gravity”. US President Joe Biden was not falling for their claims, and on Tuesday insisted that hospitals must be protected.Israeli Prime…

No international organization, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has been granted access to the hospital DUBAI, November 17. /TASS/. Israeli troops have destroyed at least three buildings in the Al-Shifa medical center in the north of the Gaza Strip, the Al Hadath TV channel reported. According to the media outlet, Israeli forces won’t allow anyone to leave the medical facility even though they are well aware that there are no militants among those trapped in the hospital, only patients, wounded people and displaced persons. Israeli troops are detaining everyone trying to leave the premises; they are also conducting…

It is also pointed out that due to the constant Israeli shelling, rescue workers and paramedics working with the Red Crescent Society in Gaza are facing extremely difficult conditions and are not protected from attacks DUBAI, November 17. /TASS/. Emergency medical brigades of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) remain blocked in the Al-Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip and cannot treat the wounded as a result of Israeli airstrikes. “PRCS emergency medical services teams are still trapped in the Al-Ahli Hospital in Al-Ma’madani in Gaza hearing explosions in the area, along with intense gunfire. There are several casualties in…

Yilmaz Tunc pointed to the inability of international organizations to solve crises such as the conflict between Israel and Palestine ISTANBUL, November 17. /TASS/. Israel will be tried in The Hague sooner or later for committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip, Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said. Commenting on the initiative of a group of local citizens to file a lawsuit against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the International Criminal Court (ICC), he said: “Israel will face justice sooner or later for killing children in front of the world.” “It will definitely be called to account for everything…

“Russia insists on an immediate end to the bloodshed and an immediate solution to the humanitarian problems that are literally screaming in the Gaza Strip and now also in the West Bank,” the Russian foreign minister stressed MOSCOW, November 16. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has chided the UN Security Council for requesting only one humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip hostilities at its recent meeting. “If we talk about the position of the international community, of course, the fact that the Security Council yesterday modestly asked for only one humanitarian pause and failed to support the wording of…

It is reported that in total, the Israeli military has detained 1,750 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, including 1,050 Hamas supporters TEL AVIV, November 16. /TASS/. Israeli forces during overnight raids in the West Bank detained 33 Palestinians wanted on suspicion of involvement in militant activities, with 20 of them being supporters of the ruling Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) press service reported. “Last night, 33 wanted persons were detained in Judea and Samaria (the Israeli name for the West Bank – TASS), of which 20 are supporters of the organization…

According to the statement, 88 trucks delivered food to the Palestinian enclave, 21 – medicines, 18 – water, seven – essentials for temporary accommodation centers and the other ten carried miscellaneous humanitarian consignments TEL AVIV, November 17. /TASS/. At least 144 trucks carrying international humanitarian cargo entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said on X (formerly Twitter). According to the statement, 88 trucks delivered food to the Palestinian enclave, 21 – medicines, 18 – water, seven – essentials for temporary accommodation centers and the other ten carried miscellaneous humanitarian…

During the flight they were accompanied by doctors and counselors of the Russian emergencies ministry MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Il-76 plane brought to Moscow another group of Russian citizens evacuated from the Gaza Strip, the ministry’s spokesman Roman Okhotenko told journalists on Friday. “The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s Il-76 plane has just landed at the Domodedovo Airport bringing 120 Russian citizens evacuated from the Gaza Strip,” he said. “During the flight they were accompanied by doctors and counselors of the Russian Emergencies Ministry.” Okhotenko said there were no wounded people registered among the evacuated Russian nationals. “There…