Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Russian top diplomat pointed out that Moscow calls for intensifying efforts to create conditions to immediately resume the negotiation process between Israel and Palestine Moscow sees it as a top priority to get the parties in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone to cease fire, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “We consider it necessary to take urgent measures to reach an immediate ceasefire, open humanitarian corridors to avoid new casualties and provide necessary assistance to the affected civilians,” he said at a press conference following talks with his Kuwaiti counterpart Salem Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah. Lavrov pointed out that Russia calls…

Five civilians were killed and others injured in an Israel airstrike on a house in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis city. A child was also killed in an artillery attack against al- Bureij refugee camp in the central Strip. Israeli warplanes shelled a house belonging to the Abu Omar family in the town of Bani Suheila, which resulted in the killing of at least five people and the injury of others. A child was also killed in an artillery attack against al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Strip. In the last few hours, Israeli artillery intensified…

Speaking to Al Jazeera, director Muhammad Abu Silmeyeh said the situation in the Gaza City hospital is beyond dire. “We ran out of medical supplies, we cannot accommodate with the high number of victims and in a few hours time, the generators will come to a stop,” he said. “The morgue of the hospital is totally packed. We are keeping the dead in our freezer trucks. “We have been sending SOS messages to the whole world,” said Abu Silmeyeh, adding that the hospital has the largest newborn incubator department, the largest operation facilities, and the largest intensive care unit in…

A drone missile [hit] in front of al-Shifa Hospital. Of course, there are casualties from that strike, but we still don’t know the exact figure. Let’s note that the al-Shifa Hospital has over 5,000 patients and tens of thousands of displaced people in the front and back yards. It is the largest hospital in Gaza City and the Gaza Strip, but this is not the only attack. In a press conference at al-Shifa Hospital, they said that they demand international protection for ambulances as they have been targeted on al-Rashid Street. [In] the past few days, they were asking on…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden, when responding to a heckler at a Minnesota campaign event Wednesday night, said he thinks there should be a humanitarian “pause” in the Israeli-Hamas war to get “prisoners” out of Gaza. The 80-year-old Democrat was delivering remarks to some 200 supporters in the northern US state when a member of the audience shouted out to him.“As a rabbi, I need you to call for a cease-fire right now,” she said, referring to the deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas.The president responded: “I think we need a pause. A pause means giving time to get the prisoners…

RAFAH: Hundreds more foreigners and dual nationals fled war-torn Gaza for Egypt on Thursday as Israeli forces kept bombing the besieged Palestinian territory where thousands have died.Wael Abu Mohsen, spokesman for the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing, said about 100 foreign nationals had been able to leave. A total of 400 foreign passport holders as well as 60 severely wounded Palestinians in ambulances were due to cross by the end of the day, he said, and Egyptian officials later reported the first arrivals. A list of those approved to travel Thursday shows hundreds of US citizens and 50 Belgians…

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army on Thursday retrieved the bodies of two shepherds killed by Israeli fire. The bodies of the two shepherds, Rabih Ahmed Al-Awad, 20, and Amjad Abdallah Al-Mohammed, 22, who were from the town of Al-Wazzani, were transported by the Lebanese Red Cross and escorted by the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL. The two shepherds had been reported missing on Wednesday as they herded their flock through their hometown near the border. Caretaker Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan mourned the two shepherds on social media platform X. “Rabih Ahmed Al-Awad and Amjad Abdallah Al-Mohammed, two Lebanese farmers who care for…

GAZA: Palestinians in Gaza sheltering from an intensifying Israeli bombardment that has killed thousands of people are running out of clean water and face growing health risks with public services at a halt and hospitals closing. Israel has blocked off all power and fuel supply to Gaza and allowed in only a trickle of food and medicine as it presses its siege and invasion after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7. In Khan Younis, in the south of the tiny, crowded enclave, nine-year-old Rafif Abu Ziyada said she was drinking dirty water and getting stomach pains and headaches. “There is no…

BAGHDAD: An international summit in Baghdad on “regional stability” planned for late November has been postponed due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, an Iraqi official said. The third edition of the Baghdad conference “for economic integration and regional stability,” co-organized by France, “is postponed until further notice due to the regional events” in the Middle East, said Farhad Alaaldin, adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani. Confirming a report by French daily Le Figaro, Alaaldin said the Baghdad summit, which French President Emmanuel Macron was due to attend, had been pushed back “to focus on Iraq’s efforts to reach a…

JERUSALEM: The once bustling streets of Jerusalem’s Old City have fallen eerily quiet, with the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas keeping away tourists and their much-needed cash.In the maze-like warren of shopping streets that surrounds the city’s holy sites, most businesses remained shuttered, nearly four weeks into the war. The few remaining shopkeepers brave enough to open their stores wait day after day for tourists that have yet to return.“There is no tourism industry any more,” said Marwan Attieh, 48, a third-generation tour guide and souvenir shop owner.“We have families, we have children… (There is) no business, no income,…