Author: Steven Sahiounie

Hamas’s political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh has issued a statement decrying the latest Israeli attacks on ambulances and medical facilities in the Gaza Strip. “These massacres are a reflection of the predicament the occupation and its ground forces find themselves in as they are combated by our resistance fighters, who are defending our land and avenging thousands of martyrs,” Haniyeh said. He said the “resistance will continue to defend our people with all its might”. Haniyeh also called on neighbouring Egypt to fully open the Rafah border crossing and called on people in the region and the world to “continue…

“It’s vitally important how Israel does this (conducts the war), including with the highest regard for the protection of civilians, and that of course includes journalists,” Blinken told journalists. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday journalists in Gaza must be protected as they report on the war between Israel and Hamas militants. Source: Zawya

Hassan Khalaf, director of al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera shortly after separate attacks targeted the vicinity of several other medical facilities in the enclave. He said there had also been “many bombardments” around his hospital but no damage so far. Still, he warned that the severe shortage of fuel was a major problem affecting both the running of the hospital and the transportation of patients and staff. “It is impossible to evacuate the hospital; there are no places to go anyway, no safe place in Gaza. They are bombarding many hospitals, they are bombarding ambulances, they…

“We’re continuing with all our force and Israel is refusing a temporary truce that doesn’t include the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday Israel would not agree to a “temporary truce” in its war on Hamas militants without the release of hostages taken from Israel to Gaza. “We’re continuing with all our force and Israel is refusing a temporary truce that doesn’t include the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu said following a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv. Source: Zawya

The Israeli military has confirmed its “aircraft struck an ambulance” in Gaza. The army claims it was being used by Hamas fighters. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said a convoy of ambulances was transporting injured patients to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. A ministry spokesman also said earlier that the Red Cross had been informed the medical convoy was leaving al-Shifa Hospital before it was attacked. Source: AlJazeera

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Malki briefed today his Japanese counterpart Yoko Kamikawa on the latest developments of the all-out Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. During a meeting in Ramallah, Malki gave the Japanese foreign minister an update about the Israeli massacres committed against the Gaza Strip, which leave thousands of people killed and injured every day, in addition to the destruction of civilians’ homes. Malki also reviewed the occupation’s bombing of residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, the crisis of hospitals running out of fuel needed to operate and the complete power cutoff, in addition to the…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has called for an immediate halt to Israel’s “crimes against humanity” in the Gaza Strip where Israeli raids in the past four weeks have killed more than 9,200 Palestinians. Speaking at a summit in the Kazakh capital Astana on Friday, Erdogan said the occupying regime of Israel has been committing “crimes against humanity” for 28 days in the besieged Palestinian territory. “There is no concept that could explain or excuse the brutality that we have witnessed since October 7,” he said referring to the day Israel launched its relentless air attacks on the Gaza…

Since October 7, when Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip began, calls for the boycott of the regime as well as the companies, products, and brands that have directly or indirectly aided the regime have grown louder worldwide. Source: Press TV

Since October 7, thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, often described as the world’s largest open-air prison. But the plight of Palestinians did not start four weeks ago. It’s rooted in history – in the usurpation of their land, destruction of their homes, denial of their rights, and ethnic cleansing. Source: Press TV

Iran has said the US aid to Israel and providing political cover for the regime’s war on Gaza show America is actively contributing to the genocide of the Palestinian nations at the hands of the regime. “America has proven that it is still a determining part of the continuation of the all-out conflict, war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian nation and not part of the solution to the crisis,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani wrote in a post on the X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday. He referred to the US House of Representatives ratifying a $14.3 billion aid…