Author: Steven Sahiounie

Yemen’s Armed Forces have announced shooting down of an advanced American drone as the aircraft was performing an operation in support of the Israeli regime. The MQ-9 Reaper drone was brought down using a surface-to-air missile as the aircraft was flying in the airspace over Yemen’s territorial waters, the Armed Forces said in a statement on Wednesday, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported. The aircraft was struck while carrying out an “hostile espionage” operation within the framework of the United States’ military support for the Israeli regime, the statement added. “Yemen’s Armed Forces lay emphasis on their legitimate right to defend…

Officials in the Gaza Strip, which has come under a hugely deadly and devastating Israeli war, have reportedly said that the occupying regime’s aggression has so far destroyed 70 percent of the coastal sliver’s electricity grid. The Palestinian Information Center news agency carried the report on Wednesday, citing a statement by the head of the Palestinian Energy Authority, Jalal Ismail. Ismail said the damage afflicted to the territory’s electricity transmission and distribution network had so far amounted to over $80 million. “Ismail highlighted in previous remarks published in the wake of the aggression that the Israeli goal is cutting off…

It was proposed by 10 non-permanent members of the world organization’s Security Council So far, the UN Security Council has failed to achieve any progress on a Middle East-themed resolution authored by ten non-permanent members of the council, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky told reporters on Wednesday. “As far as I know, there is none,” he said, when asked by a reporter about whether any progress has been made on the issue. source: TASS

‘We remind EU that policies based on universal values should be applicable not only to Ukraine but to entire world, including Middle East,’ says Turkish Foreign Ministry Türkiye entirely rejects “unfounded” allegations and “unfair” criticisms in the latest EU report on the candidate country, especially in the sections on political criteria and the judiciary and fundamental rights, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. “Although the 2023 Türkiye Report is the 25th report prepared by the Commission for our country, the fact that the EU maintains its unfair and biased approach towards our country is a cause for concern for…

The US top diplomat spoke with Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi today, according to the State Department. Blinken “affirmed the urgency of addressing humanitarian needs in Gaza, preventing further spread of the conflict, and reinforcing regional stability and security”, the statement said. A regular broker in the region, Oman has recently led calls for the International Criminal Court to investigate possible Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Source: AlJazeera

State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel did not provide additional details on the exact cause of the closure of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Patel said the US’s “expectation is that once that [security] circumstance is resolved, the crossing will be opened at the regular intervals that it’s been opened” to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and allow foreign nationals and others to leave. Source: alJazeera

President Mahmoud Abbas received tonight a telephone call from Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Norman, during which President Abbas affirmed that what is occurring in Gaza is a genocide that be stopped immediately. The president stressed, during the phone call, that the killings and the destruction of hospitals and shelter centers, as well as the starving of the civilian population, are all a result of the siege imposed by the Israeli occupation against the Strip, which he maintained is also the reason behind being incapable of bringing in medical supplies and food or provide it with water, fuel, and electricity. President Abbas…

At meeting in Turkish capital, joint efforts to stop Israel’s attacks targeting civilians in Gaza to be discussed The speaker of Türkiye’s parliament will receive the head of the Palestinian National Council on Thursday. According to information from his office, Numan Kurtulmus will meet with Rouhi Fettouh, who heads the highest decision-making body of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), for talks on joint efforts to stop Israel’s attacks targeting civilians in Gaza. The meeting comes as Kurtulmus continues to pursue diplomatic channels to halt Israeli attacks on civilians in the besieged Palestinian enclave. The two top officials will also…

Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, arrived in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh to take part in the Arab League Council’s Ministerial preparatory meeting. Upon his arrival at International Airport of King Khaled, Mikdad was received by Minister-commissioned Fawaz al-Otaibi and Syrian embassy corps. Source: SANA

Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN has called on the international community to push Israel to fully cooperate with the UN nuclear agency and dismantle its nuclear weapons program, after an Israeli minister said dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was on the table. Amir Saeed Iravani, in a letter to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, described as a “matter of utmost concern” the Israeli threat of using nuclear weapons against the vulnerable and innocent civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. It came after Israel’s so-called heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu said using an atomic bomb against Palestinians in Gaza…