Author: Steven Sahiounie

Scott Ritter grills Biden’s foreign policy in the Middle East and hails Hezbollah’s strategy in the region amid “Israel’s” aggression on the Gaza Strip. Benjamin Netanyahu desperately seeks to get the United States involved in a multi-front war, Scott Ritter, a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, told Al Mayadeen. During a panel discussion, Ritter explained that Netanyahu is the only person who wants the Northern Front to open with Lebanon, in order to draw the US into the war his government is leading on Gaza because he realizes that his forces are “not up to the task; they can’t…

President Mahmoud Abbas this evening received a phone call from the chancellor of Austria, Karl Nehammer, during which the president underlined the need to immediately put an end to the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, and rush to the aid of the Strip and provide it with humanitarian assistance, including medical and relief supplies, food, water, and fuel. The president maintained that displacing the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, including Jerusalem, is totally rejected and will not be accepted. He warned against the dangerous repercussions of the ongoing attacks committed by the Israeli forces…

South Africa said it will recall all its diplomats in Israel for consultation. Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, a minister in the president’s office, told a press briefing that all diplomatic staff in Tel Aviv would be asked back to Pretoria for consultations. “We are… extremely concerned at the continued killing of children and innocent civilians in the Palestinian territories and we believe the nature of response by Israel has become one of collective punishment,” Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told a press conference. “We felt it important that we do signal the concern of South Africa while continuing to call for a comprehensive…

The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry lashed out at a Zionist minister for his comments on the possibility of dropping an atomic bomb on Gaza, saying such a threat weakens the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Nasser Kanaani denounced the comments by far-right Israeli minister Amichai Eliyahu who has suggested that dropping an atomic bomb on Gaza was a possible option against Hamas. Such comments must be taken into serious consideration given the ferocious conduct of the Zionist regime, which is in possession of atomic bombs, he added. Kanaani…

“Today marks a shocking milestone in Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza as we learn that 10,000 Palestinians have now been killed,” the UK-based organisation Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has said in a statement. The grim toll was a result of Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of civilian homes, hospitals, refugee camps, and schools, it added. “Most of the dead are women and children. Israel’s bombardment of civilian areas in Gaza demands an immediate response from the international community, who must uphold international law. The cost of inaction is measured in lives, and we cannot allow this carnage to continue,” said Melanie…

The foreign minister of Iran called on the BRICS member states to join hands and intervene constructively to stop the Israeli regime’s brutal attacks on Gaza. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Sunday sent separate letters to the foreign ministers of the BRICS countries, expressing deep concern over the atrocities committed by the Zionist regime in Palestine. He called for proactive and constructive intervention by the BRICS member countries to halt the attacks on the Gaza Strip, prevent crimes against humanity, and hold the aggressors accountable. Amirabdollahian also highlighted the illegal usurpation of Palestinian lands, mass killings, destruction of homes…

In a statement posted on Telegram, the Qassam Brigades-Lebanon said it shelled Nahariyya and southern Haifa. The firings came in response to Israel’s “massacres and its aggression against our people in Gaza”, the group said. Source: AlJazeera

The Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers talked about collective efforts to end the Israeli war on Gaza, including an upcoming extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the crisis. In a telephone conversation on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud discussed the latest developments surrounding Palestine. The two senior diplomats talked about the OIC’s upcoming extraordinary summit about Gaza and also weighed plans to force the Israeli regime to stop the war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and ensure the constant delivery of humanitarian aids…

Gaza’s border authority has just announced that the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened. Foreigners and dual-nationals on the Egyptian-Israeli exit list will be allowed to leave Gaza through the crossing. Source: AlJazeera

In meeting with US counterpart Antony Blinken, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says bombing of civilian targets, infrastructure unacceptable Türkiye and the US on Monday agreed on ensuring uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to conflict-torn Gaza, where Israel has continued attacks from multiple fronts since the Oct. 7 offensive by Palestinian group Hamas, Turkish diplomatic sources said. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Ankara to discuss the ongoing developments in the besieged enclave, as well as bilateral relations. There was no official statement after the meeting, but, according to the sources, Fidan…