Author: Steven Sahiounie

Norway’s parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the government to be ready to recognize an “independent” Palestinian state. The proposal was made on Thursday by the ruling coalition to counter a resolution by smaller parties calling for an immediate recognition of a Palestinian state. The motion passed with an overwhelming majority in parliament. The document said the assembly “asks the government to be ready to recognize Palestine as an independent state when recognition could have a positive impact on the peace process, without making a final peace accord a condition.” Iceland, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania are…

Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has announced the destruction of another Israeli tank in an operation carried out in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who have come under an unrelenting Israeli war. The movement reported the development on Thursday, identifying the destroyed target as an Israeli Merkava tank, and saying it had neutralized the target by firing a surgical strike missile against the Israeli regime’s Branit garrison, Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network reported. Hezbollah also said it had struck the occupying entity’s Hermon military outpost and an Israeli infantry force gathering on Karantina Hill near the Hadab Yaron site. “The…

The head of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has assured the military wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip of the solidarity of the “Axis of Resistance” with Palestinian fighters. “Your brothers in the axis of al-Quds and the resistance are united with you, and they will not allow the enemy to reach its dirty goals in Gaza and Palestine,” Brig. Gen. Ismail Qaani said in a message Thursday. The Axis of Resistance refers to an alliance among Iran, Syria and anti-Israeli groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere which have hit Israeli and US…

The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas has disproven the Israeli regime’s allegation about the resistance movement’s running a “command center” underneath the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, which the regime has been using to assault the facility. Osama Hamdan, the movement’s senior representative in Lebanon, debunked the regime’s allegation by presenting damning footage during a presentation in Beirut on Thursday. The footage showed that the regime had been funneling weapons that it had seized during its ongoing war against Gaza across various places into the al-Shifa Hospital, before claiming that it had found them inside the facility. Playing the footage, Hamdan…

Syrian air defense units have managed to intercept and bring down most of the missiles launched by Israeli military aircraft at targets in the vicinity of the Arab country’s capital city of Damascus. Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing a military source, reported that Israeli warplanes fired several missiles from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights at some targets near Damascus at around 2:25 a.m. local time on Friday (2325 GMT Thursday), but Syrian air defenses could bring down most of the projectiles. مصدر عسكري: حوالي الساعة 25: 2 من فجر اليوم نفذ العدو الإسرائيلي عدواناً جوياً من اتجاه الجولان…

Chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami says Palestinian youths are adapting to new reality in Gaza, where Israel and the US are facing a “quagmire”. “Palestinian youth are adapting to the new conditions and have just learned the rules of the war. They have created a quagmire for America and Israel not only on the battlefield but also in politics, intelligence and security,” he said in the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Thursday. “Gaza will become a burial ground for the Zionists. They used to fight inside fortifications and behind walls and thought…

Complete silence of Western countries, which have influence on Israel, over brutality in Gaza is alarming, says Hakan Fidan The silence of the West on Israel’s Gaza attacks implies the approval of lawlessness around the world, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday. “Being silent on Israel’s lawlessness in Gaza is tantamount to giving the green light to other lawlessness around the world,” Fidan said in a joint news conference with his Bosnian counterpart Elmedin Konakovic in Ankara. The inhumane attacks still go on in Gaza, which is indeed a “source of shame,” he said. “In order to break…

Saudi Arabia today condemned Israel’s storming of Al Shifa Hospital and the bombing of the Jordanian Field Hospital in the Gaza Strip. “The Foreign Ministry expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s strong condemnation and rejection of the Israeli occupation forces storming Al-Shifa Medical Hospital and bombing the vicinity of the Jordanian Field Hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, which is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, all international norms and conventions, and explicit targeting of civilians and medical personnel,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “The Kingdom stresses the necessity of activating international accountability mechanisms regarding these…

At least 50 people have been killed and dozens of others injured as the Israeli regime’s warplanes targeted a mosque in Sabra neighbourhood in the center of the Gaza Strip amid the regime’s genocidal war. The attack was carried out during prayers, when the mosque was full of worshipers, reports said on Wednesday evening. Another Israeli strike on telecommunications towers in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least one child. Israel has encouraged Palestinians to move from northern Gaza to the south for their safety, but Palestinians say Israel bombs everywhere and nowhere is safe now. So far, at least…

Qatar has vehemently denounced the Israeli military for storming the al-Shifa hospital in the blockaded Gaza Strip, calling for an international probe into the incursion. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Qatari Foreign Ministry condemned the raid as “a war crime and a blatant violation of international laws,” saying the attack caused the tragic death of several patients, including innocent children. It also said that independent UN investigators should be dispatched to Gaza to carry out “an immediate and comprehensive” investigation into the occupying regime’s deliberate targeting of hospitals. Earlier in the day, the Israeli military deployed soldiers, tanks and bulldozers…