Author: Steven Sahiounie

‘Gaza is the land of Palestinian people, US needs to accept this’, says President Erdogan Türkiye’s president on Sunday welcomed the Arab-Islamic summit resolution proposing to hold a denuclearization conference in the region due to Israel’s nuclear weapons. “For the first time, we are proposing a ‘Denuclearization Conference’ in the region due to Israel’s nuclear weapons,” Erdogan told reporters aboard the presidential plane on his way back from the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he attended the Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit on Saturday. The resolution “condemned the hateful, extremist and racist acts and statements made by ministers in the Israeli occupation government,…

The intensive care unit (ICU) in al-Shifa Hospital has been badly damaged by Israeli army bombing for a second time, the Gaza Health Ministry has said. Source: AlJazeera

Pope Francis has called for the fighting between Israel and Hamas to end. “May the weapons fall silent, they will never bring peace, and let the conflict not spread. Enough, enough brothers, enough!” he said while offering prayers at the Vatican. The Pope also said that the injured in Gaza should be helped and more humanitarian aid should be sent to the besieged enclave. “Every human being, whether Christian, Jew, Muslim, or whatever religion, every human being is sacred, is precious in the eyes of God, and has the right to live in peace,” he said. Source: AlJazeera

Palestinian Communications Minister Yitzhak Sidr says all communications and internet services will stop in the Gaza Strip by Thursday due to depleting fuel. During a press conference, the minister said that the lack of communications services will “deepen the humanitarian disaster,” according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. This will affect communications among the Civil Defense, the Red Crescent, and other humanitarian organisations, he said, noting that “this means the loss of many lives”. Calling “these actions violation of international law,” Sidr called on “all international institutions, the International Telecommunication Union in particular, UNRWA, the Arab Red Crescent, the Red Cross,…

Four Egyptian security sources told Reuters that a first group of foreigners and injured Palestinians were able to leave Gaza after the Rafah border crossing reopened. Several injured Palestinians arrived on Egyptian soil to receive medical treatment, plus 80 foreign nationals and dependents, with more undergoing border procedures, the sources said. Evacuations through the border crossing were suspended on Friday after issues transporting injured Palestinians from northern Gaza. source: AlJazeera

In an opinion piece published in South Africa’s Sunday Times, the country’s Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor says she expects the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister. “We call on the prosecutor [of the ICC] to speed up the investigation and explore breaches of three of the four crimes under ICC jurisdiction: war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide,” Pandor wrote. “We expect that warrants of arrest should be executed for those most responsible as per the ICC principles of command and superior responsibility,” she said, adding that these include Netanyahu and some…

WHO said last night it has lost communication with its contacts in Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza. As horrifying reports of the hospital facing repeated Israeli attacks continue to emerge, WHO said it assumes its contacts joined tens of thousands of displaced people who had sought shelter on the hospital grounds and are fleeing the area. There are reports that some people who fled the hospital have been shot at by Israeli occupation forces surrounding the hospital, wounded and even killed. Over the past 48 hours, Al-Shifa Hospital–which is the largest medical complex in Gaza–has been reportedly attacked by Israeli…

Addressing an extraordinary summit of the OIC in Saudi Arabia, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi drew up ten proposals for urgent action to stop the Israeli regime’s onslaught against Gaza and help the Palestinian people in the besieged enclave. The Iranian president was one of the speakers at the joint meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Arab League on the issue of Gaza, which was held in Riyadh on Saturday afternoon. In his speech, Raisi stated that Gaza is the scene of confrontation between the axis of honor and the axis of evil and everyone should determine…

Ebrahim Raisi, who traveled to Riyadh on Saturday for an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) about the Gaza tragedy, became the first Iranian president to visit Saudi Arabia in 11 years. The Iranian president and his entourage departed Tehran for Riyadh on Saturday morning. The OIC summit on Gaza is being held under the auspices of Saudi Arabia, the rotating president of the OIC. The Iranian president will join the heads of Muslim states to weigh plans to stop the Zionist regime’s crimes against Palestinians, lift the blockade of Gaza, and send humanitarian supplies to people…

It is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized the Western countries for remaining silent on the massacre in Palestine. Speaking at an emergency joint Arab-Islamic summit in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Erdogan said, “It is shame that Western countries, which always voice for human rights, and freedoms, remain silent on the massacre in Palestine.” “We are faced with unprecedented barbarism in history, where hospitals, schools, and refugee camps are bombed and civilians are massacred,” he added. He stressed that it…