Author: Steven Sahiounie

The ship, which docked earlier today, is carrying the equipment necessary to set up field hospitals on the Egyptian side of the border with Gaza. Some 500 tonnes of aid equipment has been shipped, according to Anadolu Agency, including medicine, medical devices, and 20 ambulances. “The main issue here is going to be how do you get Palestinians [in] Gaza, not just from the north to the south, but how do you get them to cross through the Rafah crossing to these field hospitals,” said Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from occupied East Jerusalem. “Turkey has said that it is…

Thirty-one bodies have been pulled out of the rubble in the northern Gaza refugee camp, according to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa. Twelve homes were hit in the Israeli attack in the Nadi Khadamat area of Jabalia, which has already been devastated by Israeli strikes during the current conflict. Source: AlJazeera

Israeli authorities have reportedly called upon Egyptian officials to turn away the 60 tons of humanitarian aid that Iran had sent to the Northeast African country to be transferred to the besieged Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing. Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network, citing political sources speaking on condition of anonymity, reported that Egyptian officials have extended apologies to Iranians that they cannot receive any Iranian aid destined for the strip due to the Israeli regime’s refusal to allow it to pass through the crossing. The aid consignment included food, medical supplies and medicines, according to a report…

By David Miller Evidence is emerging that establishes the fact that Zionist forces killed their own people on October 7. Zionist propaganda (also known as Hasbara) has suggested that Palestinian resistance forces were responsible for their deaths, but the narrative doesn’t add up. Since the launch of the Al-Aqsa Storm (Al-Aqsa Flood) operation five weeks ago, the Zionist entity and its global agents, assets and supporters have maintained that the Palestinian resistance factions – which they condense inaccurately into the name ‘Hamas’ – have engaged in direct targeting of civilians, including children and babies. Very early on, there was a widely reported…

Reports by Israeli TV channels indicate that the effectiveness of the regime’s air force operations against Hezbollah has decreased in recent days as the Lebanese resistance movement has figured out how to neutralize such operations. Israel’s Channel 13 said in a report on Monday that Israeli air force was no longer capable of carrying out ground operations past the Lebanese borders because Hezbollah had adapted its tactics to outmaneuver those of the regime’s air force. It said the regime was receiving “hits and injuries” from Hezbollah as it referred to successful operations launched by the group from southern Lebanon on Sunday…

China urges an immediate ceasefire in Gaza amid the continuation of Israel’s brutal attacks on the besieged Strip, expressing its readiness to work with relevant parties to help de-escalate the “extremely dire” situation in the blockaded area. “China calls for an immediate ceasefire between parties to the conflict, all efforts possible to protect civilians and scaled-up humanitarian aid effort to ease the humanitarian crisis,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular press conference on Monday. She added that in more than one month since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the current humanitarian situation has become “extremely dire.” She…

Israel’s military has deleted a social media post that suggested Palestinian ambulances and hospitals are “terrorist infrastructure” and “legitimate military targets.” The post on X had claimed ambulances and hospitals were used by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas for its fighters and operations. “This is against international law and turns them into legitimate military targets,” the post read. Diana Buttu, lawyer and former legal adviser for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said Israel has in the past made similar allegations but never proved them. “But even if it tries to do that, we have to bear in mind what Israel…

Russian intelligence authorities say the United States is pressing the Israeli regime behind closed doors to “speed up the operations” in Gaza in order to avoid the impacts of a prolongation of the conflict on President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election bid. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said in a Monday statement that US government officials have been encouraging the Israeli regime to speed up its military operation in Gaza as they fear a delay may negatively affect Biden’s position in the run-up to the US presidential election in November next year. The SVR statement, carried by state-run Sputnik news agency, said that…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned an unbearable human tragedy is unfolding across Gaza. In a statement released on Monday, the ICRC said Israeli strikes targeting heavily populated urban areas including around hospitals endanger the lives of the most vulnerable people. The ICRC is gravely concerned by the precarious and unsafe conditions under which civilians are evacuating as a result of the Israeli bombardment, the statement said. “Men, women, and children, waving white flags, walk for dozens of kilometers past dead bodies lying on the streets and without necessities like food and water. At the same…

Unfortunately, there are a good number of veto-carrying members of the United Nations Security Council blocking any action on the part of the UN, both to take up the necessary resolutions and to carry them through in Gaza. The position, notably of the United States and the United Kingdom, has not been productive for the work of the UN. I’m not just talking generally, in terms of Israel and what it does and does not do, but just in terms of the continuing war crimes in the Gaza Strip because a lot of those UN staff were also killed in…