Author: Steven Sahiounie

More than 100,000 residents of the Gaza Strip have left southwards over the last two days as Israeli forces operate “deep in Gaza City,” chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said. Palestinians fleeing south have come under Israeli attack several times, the latest an attack against civilians using Salah al-Din Street earlier today, which Israel promised would be a safe route. Survivors say many people have been injured and killed, and that no ambulances have been able to reach Salah al-Din road. While many Palestinians families have chosen to make their way south, others remain trapped and unable to…

The Israeli occupation forces renewed tonight their attacks against the Al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army fired artillery shells toward the vicinity of al-Shifa hospital and also dropped the internationally banned white phosphorus bombs on nearby neighborhoods and the al-Shati (Beach) refugee camp. Tens of thousands of displaced people have sought shelter in the hospital, in addition to the sick, hundreds of injured, medical staff, and journalists. The hospital’s administration warned of a power outage in the hospital in the next few hours, after running out of all fuel reserves as a result of Israel’s total blockade on the…

President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, today to participate in the Arab and Islamic Summits on Saturday to discuss the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. President Abbas is scheduled to address the emergency summits of Arab and Islamic nations to discuss the cessation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank and the unprecedented humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza as a result of the ongoing aggression. The president will also address the Extraordinary Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convened at the invitation of Saudi Arabia…

A diplomatic cable obtained by CNN has revealed that the continued support the United States gives Israel amid its genocide of defenseless Palestinians in Gaza is enraging the Arabs. CNN reported on Friday that an American diplomat stationed in Oman has warned the administration of President Joe Biden that Washington’s all-out support for the crimes of Israel is provoking fury in the Arab world. According to the CNN report, the US State Department official based in the embassy in Oman reported to Washington on November 8 that the cable had been prepared after gathering information from “a wide range of…

A senior Hamas official has called on Arab and Muslim governments to take decisive action against Israel as the regime continues to kill Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Osama Hamdan, a senior representative of Hamas in Lebanon a member of the group’s politburo, told a press conference in Beirut on Friday that Arab and Muslim countries have the capacity to put pressure on Washington to stop the aggression and open the Gaza crossings. Referring to an extraordinary session of the Arab League on the Gaza war set to be held on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, Hamdan said participants must…

A senior Iranian commander says the Israeli regime will “definitely collapse” and the United States cannot save it by giving it artificial respiration. Speaking at a ceremony in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Friday, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) extolled the surprise attack by Palestinian resistance groups against Israeli forces in the occupied territories on October 7. Major General Hossein Salami said the Israeli regime’s “deterrence capacity” is exhausted. Salami was speaking on the 35th day of Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the largest military operation by the Gaza Strip-based resistance groups against the occupying regime in decades.…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi will travel to Saudi Arabia to take part in an extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) focusing on ways to stop Israel’s savage war machine against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Raeisi is set to leave Tehran for Riyadh on Saturday. Participants at the OIC summit will also discuss ways to dispatch humanitarian aid to the oppressed people of Gaza. Since the beginning of the regime’s bombardment of the defenseless people of Gaza on October 7, President Raeisi has held phone talks and meetings with heads of Muslim countries, calling for an…

Pro-Palestinian protesters have staged a demonstration outside the US Department of State headquarters in Washington, DC, condemning the American support for the Israeli regime and its genocidal war machine which has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza since early October. Demonstrators on Friday censured the US foreign policy toward Palestine, calling for the resignation of State Department officials and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. They said the State Department was complicit in Israel’s massacre of Palestinians. Similar demonstrations have been held in the States over the past days and weeks in a public display of anger with US President Joe…

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has described the Gaza Strip as an “integral” part of Palestine and expressed the PA’s readiness to assume control of the blockaded area after the end of the ongoing Israeli genocide in the coastal silver. Abbas made the remarks in a speech on Friday marking the 19th anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who chaired the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) until 2004, amid Israel’s brutal onslaught on Gaza that has since October 7 claimed more than 11,000 innocent lives. Abbas was cited by Palestine’s official Wafa news agency as saying that he had no…

West Jerusalem has claimed credit for foiling a terrorist attack and linked the case to its Gaza operation Brazilian authorities have warned against jumping to conclusions after Israel claimed to have foiled a terrorist attack by an Iran-funded Hezbollah cell in the South American country. The case is ongoing and must not be used by outside governments to promote their own interests, Brazilian Justice Minister Flavio Dino said. In a social media post on Thursday, Dino called the claim that a cell linked to Lebanon-based Hezbollah had plotted to kill Jews in Brazil a “hypothesis,” stressing that no foreign agency could presume…