Author: Steven Sahiounie

The leaders of 18 United Nations agencies and non-profit organizations (NGO) have expressed their “shock and horror” at the soaring civilian deaths caused by the Israeli aggression on Gaza, calling for an “immediate ceasefire.” In a rare joint statement, the UN and NGO heads said “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. It’s been 30 days. Enough is enough.” “This must stop now,” they stressed. The UN and NGO chiefs, including the leaders of UNICEF, UN Women, the World Food Program, the World Health Organization and Save the Children, said Israel’s “horrific” killings of civilians and the cutting off Gazans from…

By Syed Zafar Mehdi There is “an announced and official war” on the besieged Gaza Strip and “an unannounced and unofficial war” on the occupied West Bank, says a Palestinian human rights activist. Issa Amro, a prominent human rights activist based in the occupied West Bank, in an interview with the Press TV website on Monday, said the Israeli military has laid crippling siege around the territory. He said all checkpoints have been closed in the occupied West Bank, most of the roads have also been shut, and the majority of communities are not allowed to leave their respective areas. The Israeli regime launched…

By Ivan Kesic On the evening of October 28, three weeks into the genocidal campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli regime premier Benjamin Netanyahu brazenly justified the horror by calling the Palestinian resistance movement an iteration of the Amalek rhetoric. He described the Hamas resistance group as an enemy of incomparable cruelty, quoting Deuteronomy 25:17: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you” and adding “We do remember.” Out of the 23,145 verses of the Old Testament, Netanyahu chose the ones that are among the most violent and have a long history of being used by Zionists to…

Top diplomats from the two West Asia heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia have discussed the latest developments in the Gaza Strip. In a phone conversation on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan exchanged views about holding an emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) focusing on the Palestinian issue. They stressed the importance of putting an end to Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and delivering constant humanitarian aid to the war-hit people. The OIC said in a statement on Monday that an extraordinary summit will be…

By Harun Elbinawi I was utterly surprised to see a statement recently from the former Nigerian Minister of Aviation Femi Fani Kayode in which he called on the racist apartheid Israeli regime to stop the mass killings in Gaza. We have known Kayode as a strong supporter of the child-murdering Zionist regime in Nigeria as the overwhelming majority of Christians in the African country have been brainwashed since childhood with the fraudulent historical fraud that Jews are “the chosen people of God”. This fraudulent narrative is taught in all the Churches of Nigeria. I have clashed several times with this…

The Palestinian Health Ministry has called on the world nations to help bring medicine and fuel to the besieged Gaza Strip. Health Minister Mai al-Kaila said on Monday the international community needed to take action for the entry of the necessities for hospitals in Gaza. “The international community and humanitarian organizations must intervene immediately to open the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and allow the entry of medicine and fuel for Gaza hospitals,” the minister was quoted by Palestinian news agency WAFA. Kaila said Israeli authorities claim the hospitals are used by the Palestinian fighters but, he explained, it merely…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Tehran has received a new message from Washington claiming that the US seeks a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but they continue to support Israel’s genocide in the Palestinian territory in practice. The minister, who was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Monday meeting between Iranian and Iraqi heads of governments in Tehran, said, however, that the message did not correspond to what the US has done in practice in Gaza where it has supported the Israeli crimes against the civilians. “The Americans … delivered a message to us in the…

Amichai Eliyahu’s statement shows the “extremism and brutality” of West Jerusalem, the Saudi Foreign Ministry has said Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and other Arab states have all denounced Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu for suggesting that his country drop a nuclear bomb on Gaza. Eliyahu was suspended, but not fired, for his remarks. Speaking to Radio Kol Berama on Sunday, Eliyahu said that using nuclear weapons against the Palestinian enclave “is one of the possibilities,” after his interviewer said that this would “flatten” the area and “eliminate everybody there.” Eliyahu, a member of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, was indefinitely suspended by Prime Minister Benjamin…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly told the Palestinian Authority it could run Gaza after the war US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed for Israel to reduce civilian casualties by using “smaller bombs” during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the New York Times reported on Saturday. During meetings with Arab leaders and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at the weekend, Blinken boasted that he had outlined “concrete steps” to Netanyahu that would reduce civilian casualties in Gaza. However, he stopped short of publicly revealing the nature of those steps. Unnamed US officials told the Times that…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation said it will hold an exceptional summit on the situation in Palestinian territories in the Saudi capital Riyadh next Sunday, Al Arabiya TV reported. The meeting will be held at the invitation of Saudi Arabia, the channel said.  Source: Arab News