Author: Steven Sahiounie

Palestine and Russia today called for an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said he talked on the phone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during which they discuss “the major developments taking place in the region as a result of the devastating war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.” Al-Sheikh said in a tweet, “We affirmed our common position of rejecting harm to civilians from all sides, an immediate ceasefire, opening safe corridors, and not displacing the Palestinian people from…

Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, says it is “ready to release” 12 captives taken into Gaza but “the situation on the ground” – Israeli air and land attacks – “is what hinders this from being completed”. Israel said 241 people were taken captive by Hamas when it launched its attack on October 7. Four have been released so far – two Israelis and two Americans. A post on Qassam Brigades’ Telegram channel said it is ready to release “12 detainees in Gaza who hold foreign nationalities, but the occupation obstructed that”. Source: AlJazeera

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has held talks with CIA Director William Burns in Cairo. During the meeting, discussions focused on international and regional issues, especially the Israeli military escalation in the Gaza Strip, a presidential spokesman has said. El-Sisi stressed the necessity of an immediate ceasefire to protect civilians and facilitate the access of humanitarian aid and prevent, the spokesman added. Burns is on a Middle East tour meeting intelligence partners and leaders of several countries on matters including ones related to the war, according to a US official quoted by news agencies. On Monday, the CIA head was…

Over the past month, there have been enormous pro-Palestinian protests in London with tens of thousands of people rallying to express their solidarity with the people of Gaza. On Monday, the Metropolitan Police asked organisers to consider postponing any demonstrations in the UK over the weekend, which coincides with the anniversary of the end of World War I. Now, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the government will hold an emergency meeting to coordinate the “response to the situation in Israel and Gaza”. “It will look at a wide range of areas, but it’s obviously particularly focused on…

Director of Political Department of Syrian Arab Army, Major General Hassan Suleiman said that Syrian Arab Army, in coordination with friendly Russian forces operating in Syria, launched a series of specific operations and concentrated strikes targeting the criminal terrorist organizations that committed the terrorist attack on the Military Academy in Homs on the 5th of last month. That came during a joint Syrian-Russian press conference to shed light on the terrorist attack thst targeted the Military College. Sulaiman said the Syrai-Russian joint operations led to the destruction of all targeted sites and headquarters, including ammunition and equipment depots, in addition…

The head of the Gaza government media office announces the tally of the Israeli aggression on Gaza after entering its second month. The head of the Gaza government media office, Salama Marouf, said on Monday that “the continuation of Zionist-Nazi crimes against our people in Gaza, with 13,000 martyrs and missing persons in 31 days, represents a death certificate for the so-called international legitimacy, which remains silent in the face of the occupation’s aggression and is unable to stop it, even for a single day.” Marouf held the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the World Health Organization responsible for…

Dozens of Israeli settlers Tuesday morning stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, under protection from Israeli occupation police, according to local sources. Witnesses said scores of settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in separate groups, where they conducted provocative tours through the courtyards of the mosque, received explanations about the alleged “Jewish Temple,” and performed Talmudic rituals near the Dome of the Rock. source: WAFA

Mohammad Abu Hasira, a news correspondent for the Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA), was killed, while another correspondent Mohammad Hamouda, was injured, as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted their homes in Gaza City. Abu Hasira was killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted his house located near the fishermen’s port west of Gaza City, which killed him and 42 members of his family, including his sons and brothers. A few days ago, Mohammad Hamouda was injured in an Israeli bombing of his house, while a number of his family members were injured, including his wife, who lost her left eye, and…

The Israeli Prime Minister is so focused on spilling blood that he is even turning down calls for support by his main supporters. Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Monday that “Israel” intends to assume “overall security” of Gaza after the aggression. Ignoring appeals for a ceasefire, Netanyahu affirmed that the aggression on Gaza would continue without pause, aiming “to eliminate the threat posed by Hamas.” One month into the aggression, the number of Palestinians martyred in Gaza has exceeded 10,000, with over 4,000 of them being children. As criticism of “Israel’s” actions in the war escalates on the international…

By Hani Mahmoud in Khan Younis, southern Gaza The bombing has continued over Gaza City. Israel has been using all kinds of unconventional weapons and bombs, shaking the very foundations of almost every single residential building in the city. They say the purpose of these attacks is to destroy bunkers and tunnels used by Hamas but as we can see, more and more residential buildings are destroyed, leaving no place for those in Gaza City to sit in or take shelter. The situation at the hospitals remains very dire, very complicated. They have shortage of fuel, equipment, supplies and are…