Author: Steven Sahiounie

US President Joe Biden rejects the Pentagon’s ‘aggressive bombing options’ in fear of provoking Iran to “widen the conflict”. Late on Sunday, the United States conducted airstrikes against two facilities used by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) and its allies in eastern Syria, Pentagon officials stated after the latest target on US occupation bases in Iraq and Syria. According to the New York Times (NYT), Air Force F-15E fighter jets struck several buildings in Abu Kamal and a safe house in al-Mayadeen four days after US warplanes hit a warehouse in eastern Syria. On that note, US President Joe…

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fired Home Secretary Suella Braverman who drew anger for accusing police of being too lenient with pro-Palestinian protesters. The government says Braverman left her job as part of a cabinet shuffle. Sunak was under growing pressure to dismiss Braverman, a divisive figure popular with the authoritarian wing of the governing Conservative Party. In a highly unusual attack on the police last week, Braverman said London’s force was ignoring lawbreaking by “pro-Palestinian mobs”. She described demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as “hate marchers”. Source: AlJazeera

The Palestinian government is battling in all international circles to stop the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Palestinian people and to secure the delivery of food and medicine to all areas of the Gaza Strip, especially the north. “We are doing everything possible to save our people there,” today said Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah, rejecting the establishment of temporary camps for the displaced, as the Israeli occupation army requests from international organizations. “We want our people to return to their homes from which they were displaced,” he said.…

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Monday the death toll at Al-Shifa hospital rose to 34 since the weekend as the facility suffered fuel shortages.The latest toll included 27 adult intensive care patients and seven babies, deputy health minister in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, Youssef Abu Rish said.The hospitals in the center of the heaviest north Gaza fighting have been forced out of service amid shortages and combat, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday, adding the number of patients dying in the biggest medical center had risen.Israel argues that its Hamas enemies have built their military headquarters in tunnels…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentatorThe diplomatic community was shocked when US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, claimed alongside Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, “…I come as a Jew.” This broke diplomatic rules and norms which prohibit interjecting yourself, and your personal culture, while representing a nation and its interests.Blinken explained he was raised by a step-father who was a holocaust survivor. These childhood memories of stories related to him of suffering and genocide in Europe became part of his identity.Lt. Col. James Spencer Cleverly is a British politician and Army Reserve officer who has served as Foreign Secretary since 2022,…

By Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Khan Younis, southern Gaza Within the past 30 minutes, air strikes have renewed in the eastern part of Khan Younis. This is the third time in the past 24 hours the region has been targeted. This time a residential home belonging to a family was completely destroyed. The house is a multistorey building and the owner as well as evacuees who fled Gaza City were living in the building, according to eyewitnesses. The emergency services who brought people to the hospital said the people felt the ground shaking under their feet before a huge explosion…

“We don’t know what will happen next, but Iran is ready for any scenario,” Amir Ali Hajizadeh elaborated DUBAI, November 13. /TASS/. Tehran is ready for any developments as it does not rule out that the conflict in the Middle East may soon expand, the Tasnim news agency quoted an Iranian general as saying. “Today, we can see that the war has expanded, with Lebanon being embroiled in it. The conflict may grow in scale later. We don’t know what will happen next, but Iran is ready for any scenario,” Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary…

A column of a bus and three minibuses carrying Russian citizens approached the conference hall of one of the hotels where the headquarters was set up CAIRO, November 13. /TASS/. The first group of 70 Russians evacuated from the Gaza Strip arrived at the operational headquarters of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in Cairo, according to a TASS correspondent. A column of a bus and three minibuses carrying Russian citizens approached the conference hall of one of the hotels where the headquarters was set up. The evacuees were met by teams of medical workers and representatives of the Ministry of…

It was noted that the Israeli army also shot 53 ambulances BEIRUT, November 13. /TASS/. At least 22 hospitals have ceased operations in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli strikes, the press service of the enclave government reported. According to the statement, 22 hospitals and 49 medical centers are out of service due to “Israeli aggression”, the press services of the Gaza Strip government said on Facebook (banned in Russia; owned by the Meta corporation, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation). It was noted that the Israeli army also shot 53 ambulances. The situation in the Middle…

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin earlier confirmed that US President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on Sunday against Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria NEW YORK, November 13. /TASS/. At least six people have been killed in US airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in eastern Syria, Fox News reported citing a senior representative of the United States Department of Defense. According to the representative, at least six fighters of Iranian forces were killed as a result of US attacks on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bases in the Middle East. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin earlier confirmed that US President Joe Biden…