Author: Steven Sahiounie

Abu Dhabi-headquartered Burjeel Holdings and Response Plus Holding (RPM) are collaborating to offer emergency and complex medical support UAE-based healthcare entities have joined forces with Egypt’s top hospital group to offer multi-disciplinary medical assistance to save crucial lives of those, including children, from Gaza. Abu Dhabi-headquartered Burjeel Holdings and Response Plus Holding (RPM), with support from Cairo’s Cleopatra Hospitals Group, are collaborating to offer emergency and complex medical support to severely injured children transferred from Gaza. UAE-based entities are in talks with relevant authorities and the operations will commence upon obtaining approvals. Earlier this week, UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed…

“The victims belong to the family of Abu Hasira when the Israeli shelling targeted their house, full of women and children,” the ministry said in a post on its Facebook page CAIRO – Twenty-one Palestinians from one family were killed in Israeli strikes targeting Gaza overnight, the Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said on Sunday. “The victims belong to the family of Abu Hasira when the Israeli shelling targeted their house, full of women and children,” the ministry said in a post on its Facebook page. Reuters could not independently verify the account. Source: Zawya

Neither Eliyahu or his party leader are in the streamlined ministerial forum running the Gaza war JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disciplined on Sunday a junior member of his cabinet who appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear strike on Gaza, where the war with Hamas militants is inflicting a spiralling Palestinian civilian toll. Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the minister concerned – Heritage Minister Amihay Eliyahu from a far-right party in the coalition government – had been suspended from cabinet meetings “until further notice”. Asked in a radio interview about…

Al-Thani said during a news conference in Doha with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna that there were complexities in the field due to “Israeli military practices” in Gaza DOHA – Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Sunday that there had been “false” reports on negotiations to release Israeli hostages held in Gaza, without elaborating. Al-Thani said during a news conference in Doha with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna that there were complexities in the field due to “Israeli military practices” in Gaza. Source: Zawya

The media affairs office in Gaza says the number of martyrs is on the rise as the Israeli occupation commits 10 massacres in just the past few hours. Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have murdered with cold blood 9,500 people in the Gaza Strip throughout the 30 days of aggression on the blockaded strip, the Government Media Office in Gaza reported on Saturday. Salama Marouf, the director of the office, said Saturday evening that the total number of martyrs from the aggression has risen to 9,500, including 3,900 children and 2,509 women. Marouf also announced that Israeli airstrikes have destroyed 55 mosques,…

The bloodier, and likely more protracted stage of the war, will likely include Israeli forays into Hamas tunnels. By Zoran Kusovac Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza started last week as a slow, rolling, gradual advance of land forces along three main axes: from the north, armoured and mechanised units moved at Gaza City in two columns across the 6km (3.7-mile) front. The strongest force drove straight towards the central sections of the urban agglomeration and reached it without significant obstruction or losses. The second column moved along the Mediterranean beaches. Although it seems to have advanced further south than the units…

‘How can US secretary of state come to Ramallah while US is the one leading the battle against Gaza?’ says head of Melkite Greek Catholic Monastery in Ramallah Dozens of Palestinians organized a protest on Sunday in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah to protest US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the city and demand the Palestinian Authority cut talks with him. A group of protesters gathered in Al-Manara Square in central Ramallah and raised banners and chanted slogans condemning the American role in the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, and accused the Biden…

According to Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca, two Turkish ships are about to leave for Egypt to offer treatment to those wounded in Gaza Turkey can receive some 1,000 patients from the Gaza Strip who need emergency treatment, first of all cancer patients, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Sunday. “We are making effort to evacuate to Egypt via the Rafah border crossing around 1,000 patients and wounded people who need emergency treatment, especially cancer patients of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza, which had to stop its operation. After that, it is planned to take the cancer patients…

In Hebron’s H2, 700 Israeli settlers get military protection while 35,000 Palestinians can be shot if they step outside. By Al Jazeera Staff Hebron, occupied West Bank – Across the neighbourhoods of the H2 area of Hebron – the 20 percent of the Palestinian city where some 700 Israelis live in illegal settlements and the Israeli military has full control – the streets are mostly empty of H2’s approximately 35,000 Palestinian residents. Patrolling the streets and manning the rooftops, instead, are Israeli soldiers and armed settlers in military uniform on the lookout for any movement from Palestinian homes. Besieged, Palestinian families describe…

Heavy air strikes by Israel have intensified in the past hour. We can hear loud explosions from the southwest of Gaza City to the central area. Severe clashes are now taking place. The Palestinian fighting groups have been preparing themselves for the Israeli invasion from the beginning. That’s why they have dug a network of tunnels underground. From videos released by the armed groups, they are coming up from secret tunnels and attacking Israeli forces. That’s why they’ve been re-stationing in different places. When the Israelis try to push further into Gaza, they’re confronted and exchanges of fire occur. That’s…