Author: Steven Sahiounie

Humanitarian aid started to arrive in the Gaza Strip on October 21, or two weeks after the latest conflict between Palestine and Israel broke out TEL AVIV, November 13. /TASS/. At least 143 trucks carrying humanitarian cargo entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on Sunday, or the daily maximum since the latest escalation in the Middle East, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said on X (formerly Twitter). “The highest number of aid trucks since the beginning of the war [on October 7] were inspected and sent to Gaza today,” COGAT said in a statement.…

Relentless Israeli air and ground attacks have killed dozens of Palestinian civilians over the last few hours, as the Israeli regime’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected mounting international calls for a ceasefire. Rescue and civil defense teams retrieved the bodies of four civilians from the Hamdan family home in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, which was targeted by an Israeli missile strike in the early hours of Sunday morning. Israeli warplanes also targeted a house belonging to Abdullah al-Adini, a local Palestinian resident in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the murder of…

A Palestinian official has warned that patients are out “in the streets without care” in the Gaza Strip and their lives are at risk, as Israel continues its deadly bombing campaign in the besieged enclave. Muhammad Zaqout, director-general of Gaza’s hospital’s department made the remarks on Sunday, after the “forced evacuations” of two pediatric hospitals in Gaza earlier in the day. “The forced evacuations of Al-Nasr and Rantisi pediatric hospitals have left sick people on the streets without care” in Gaza City, he said, adding that “We have completely lost contact with the caregivers” at these two hospitals. This came…

Hamas has denied having turned down a meager fuel supply allegedly offered by Israel for use at the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, which is suffering from dire fuel shortage due to the regime’s ongoing war against the besieged territory. The Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement made the remarks in a late Sunday statement concerning the supply of 300 liters of fuel allegedly offered by the occupying regime for Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital. “As part of the series of lies that the occupation spreads [on a] daily [basis], the spokesman for its Nazi army said they had offered the administration of al-Shifa Hospital to supply…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has sounded a stern alarm about the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, which has been under Israel’s genocidal war for the past 38 days, describing it as disastrous. “The situation [in Gaza] is rapidly approaching a humanitarian disaster,” the world body warned on Sunday. “An unbearable human tragedy is unfolding in front of our eyes. People call us day and night saying they are afraid to open their door for fear of getting killed and pleading to help them reach safety,” said William Schomburg, head of the ICRC’s sub-delegation in Gaza. “As a…

The chorus of apposition to the Israeli war on Gaza in gathering more voices in the United States, with protesters, including pro-Palestine activists, marching on the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting to call for an end to Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip. The protest took place in the US city of San Francisco on Sunday as the week-long global trade summit started. Waving Palestinian flags, the participants carried signs reading, “Stand with Palestine,” “Resistance to occupation is justified,” and “No Genocide APEC.” “I’m here to protest in solidarity with Palestinians who have been undergoing 75 years of…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Israel collapsed on October 7, when the Palestinian resistance launched a surprise attack against the regime on October 7, and is now alive on “US’s life support.” “The world is witnessing the full-scale American war against Gaza,” Amir-Abdollahian said in a post on his X account late on Sunday. “The Israeli regime collapsed on Oct. 7 and is now alive on American artificial respiration,” he wrote. Referring to a recent phone conversation with Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, the top Iranian diplomat added that he has told his Egyptian counterpart that “today is our test day.”…

The second-in-command of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the precision missiles of the Palestinian resistance fighters have inflicted a “strategic defeat” on the Israeli regime and its allies. Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi said on Sunday what is taking place in Gaza is a confrontation between the axis of honor and the axis of evil. He said the evil Zionists and their allies know they are not capable of direct confrontation with resistance fighters and therefore are targeting Gaza with bombs and missiles and destroying non-military buildings and hospitals. The top IRGC commander slammed the West’s support for the crimes…

The regional directors of several UN agencies have called for urgent international action to end Israel’s ongoing attacks on hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip, which the regime has brought under an unrelenting genocidal war. The regional directors of the United Nations Children’s Agency (UNICEF), UN Population Fund (UNFPA), and the World Health Organization (WHO) made the appeal in a joint statement on Sunday. They said they were appalled by the regime’s attacks targeting either the main buildings or the periphery of hospitals located in the Gaza City, including al-Rantisi Pediatric Hospital, al-Shifa and al-Quds hospitals, and other hospitals located in the north…

The World Health Organization has warned of a “dire” situation in hospitals in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s all-out invasion. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the situation at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, was “dire and perilous” amid “constant” Israeli bombings and gunfire. He noted that al-Shifa was “not functioning as a hospital anymore” with no electricity and water. The WHO chief also slammed the failure of the international community to put an end to the Palestinians’ plight, and called for an immediate ceasefire as deaths among patients are rising “tragically.” “The world cannot stand silent while…