Author: Steven Sahiounie

At least 46 journalists have been killed and dozens injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel’s bombardment campaign against the besieged enclave last month, surpassing the number of media workers killed in any other war in the area since 1992. In a statement on Saturday, the Government Media Office in Gaza said most of the journalists were directly targeted by Israeli occupation missiles and others were killed in the bombing of their homes. The media office extended its deepest condolences to the families of the martyrs and their loved ones, and fellow journalists for the great loss…

An Israeli minister has claimed that dropping a nuclear bomb on the blockaded Gaza Strip is an option, saying that the remaining Palestinian population in the occupied lands could “go to Ireland or deserts.” The Israeli heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu made the remarks in an interview with Radio Kol Berama when asked whether an atomic bomb should be dropped on the enclave. “This is one of the possibilities,” Eliyahu, of the extremist Otzma Yehudit Party led by national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir, said. Eliyahu also insisted that allowing any humanitarian aid into Gaza was wrong, claiming “there is no…

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has highlighted the role played by Hamas in the Gaza Strip as the territory’s legitimate government, saying the war against the Palestinian resistance movement is tantamount to waging war on democracy. During a telephone conversation with Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre on Saturday night, Raeisi welcomed Oslo’s position on the need for an immediate end to Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza as well as international efforts to lift the siege on the coastal enclave and deliver aid to its residents. He also expressed Iran’s readiness to cooperate with the Norwegian Justice Ministry in an investigation…

More than 60 protesters were arrested according to police estimates. German media used police estimations to announce the arrest of over 60 demonstrators during a large-scale pro-Palestinian march on Saturday in Berlin. Based on police statistics reviewed by Bild Daily, over 8,500 protestors flocked to the German capital to voice their opposition to the escalating humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. Israeli assaults on Gaza have killed more than 3,900 children, while demonstrators held bundles of white sheets in their arms to represent those children. According to Sputnik, thousands of demonstrators flocked to the streets of Washington, D.C. to express their disapproval of…

Protests are continuing to take place around the world in support of Palestine. Abdel Hamid Siyam, a professor at Rutgers University, says governments will not be able to ignore these demonstrations as they grow in number and intensity. “The demonstration in Washington on Saturday was enormous with almost a million people marching in the streets. The leadership cannot ignore this, especially because there are a lot of young voices there saying their leadership is not representing them. I think that will put some pressure especially with elections coming up,” Siyam told Al Jazeera. “With demonstrations from South Korea to Brazil,…

The Israeli army says it hit more than 2,500 targets inside the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. In the latest update on its military operations inside the besieged enclave, the military said it continued to engage in “face-to-face” battles. The army said one of its air raids targeted one of Hamas’s military compounds overnight, which included observation posts and operational headquarters. Source: AlJazeera

Israeli occupation forces continued last night their mass detention campaign in the West Bank, detaining at least 46 Palestinians in a series of raids into Palestinian cities, towns, villages and refugee camps across the occupied territory. In Ramallah, the Israeli occupation army stormed the towns of Birzeit and Bil’in and detained a minimum of 14 Palestinians after raiding and searching their homes. In Hebron, south of the territory, at least 14 Palestinians were reportedly arrested by the forces, including 10 displaced workers from the Gaza Strip who were seeking refuge in the town of Nuba. At least nine Palestinians were…

Former US President Barack Obama warns against ignoring the complexities of the war on Gaza, noting that “nobody’s hands are clean.” During an interview on Pod Save America, Former US President Barack Obama commented on the Israeli war on Gaza saying, “Nobody’s hands are clean”. “[I]f you want to solve the problem, then, you have to take in the whole truth,” Obama said in a podcast clip posted to X on Saturday. “And you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” the former president continued. “I look at this and I…

Humanitarian pauses during hostilities can be helpful not merely for Palestinian civilians but also to Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday US President Joe Biden stated progress on the issue of providing for a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip, the White House press pool said. Biden was asked whether there is progress in supporting the humanitarian pause in the Palestine enclave. “Yes,” the US President answered with his thumb up. Humanitarian pauses during hostilities can be helpful not merely for Palestinian civilians but also to Israel, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday.…

Ministry also calls on other countries worldwide to review their diplomatic relations with Israel The Palestinian government on Saturday welcomed the decision by Türkiye to recall its ambassador from Tel Aviv. “We welcome the decision of the Turkish Republic to recall its ambassador in Israel as an expression of Türkiye’s position against the war on the Gaza Strip, its calls to stop war immediately, and its protest against the crimes committed against our people,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement received by Anadolu. The statement said this position is an extension of Türkiye’s positions that support and protect…