Author: Steven Sahiounie

The United States has been flying surveillance drones over Gaza in an attempt to search for captives taken by Hamas following the October 7 attack on Israel, two US officials told the Reuters news agency. One of the officials said they had been carrying out the drone flights for more than a week. US officials have said 10 Americans who remain unaccounted for may be among the more than 200 people taken as captives into Gaza, where they are believed to be held in Hamas’s extensive tunnel network. Source: AlJazeera

The overall weight of the delivery is 28 metric tons, comprising various medicines, hemostatic agents and bandaging materials The Russian emergencies ministry has sent two Il-76 planes to deliver humanitarian assistance for civilians of the Gaza Strip, the ministry’s press service told reporters on Friday. “In accordance with the Russian president’s decree, two Il-76 planes of the Russian emergencies ministry have been sent to transport humanitarian cargo to the people of the Gaza Strip,” a spokesperson said. The overall weight of the delivery is 28 metric tons. It comprises various medicines, hemostatic agents and bandaging materials. The cargo will be…

Top US diplomat Antony Blinken landed in Israel on Friday to call for localized pauses in fighting to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza as Israel said it surrounded the Palestinian enclave’s biggest city and the focus of its drive to annihilate Hamas.With the conflict nearing the end of its fourth week, US Secretary of State Blinken visit to Israel is the second in a month to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s military battled Hamas militants, who fought back with hit-and-run attacks from underground tunnels.“We’re at the height of the battle. We’ve had impressive successes and have passed the…

Witnesses quoted by Reuters said the number of Palestinian workers and labourers who were being sent back from Israel and the occupied West Bank was in the thousands. Earlier this week, we reported thousands of workers from Gaza, who were employed in Israel when the war started, had gone missing since then amid a campaign of mass arrests. Human rights groups and trade unions believe some of the workers were illegally detained in military facilities in the occupied West Bank, following the revocation of their permits to work in Israel. Source: AlJazeera

Chinese foreign minister and his Omani counterpart discuss Gaza situation Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Albusaidi on Wednesday discussed the raging Israeli-Palestinian conflict, observing that situation in Gaza is deteriorating with every passing day amid increasing civilian casualties. Expressing concern over the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the rising number of civilian casualties, Wang said that “no responsible country with a conscience can allow such a tragedy to continue,” Beijing-based Xinhua News reported. Referring to a recent emergency special session of the UN General Assembly that, with an overwhelming majority, called calling for an…

The report notes that the Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah agreed the ultimatum with Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, who arrived in Beirut on Tuesday BEIRUT, November 2. /TASS/. Leader of the Shia party Hezbollah Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has through mediators given an ultimatum to the US, demanding an end to Israel’s military operation in Gaza by November 3, Kuwait’s Al-Jarida newspaper reports, citing Iranian diplomatic sources. According to the sources, if the US fails to meet this demand, in his Friday televised address, Sheikh Nasrullah will announce “a general mobilization of Shia…

This decision “is the confirmation of the historical and firm position of Bahrain to support the Palestinian issue and lawful rights of the fraternal Palestine nation,” the legislative body noted DUBAI, November 2. /TASS/. The authorities of Bahrain have recalled the Ambassador to Israel and decided to suspend economic relations with Tel-Aviv in a show of support for the Palestinian people amid Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, the Council of Representatives [the lower house of the parliament – TASS] of the Kingdom said. “The Council of Representatives acknowledges that the Ambassador of Israel to Bahrain has left the Kingdom…

The sudden revocation of the permit for a pro-Palestine protest march gave the French police legal justification to use a tool of political repression not seen since the yellow vests, massive fines. Just 90 minutes before a highly anticipated pro-Palestine march across Paris was due to commence last weekend against Israel’s war atrocities in Gaza, local authorities suddenly revoked the permit for the protest. The sudden last minute revocation gave the French police legal justification to use a tool of political repression not seen since the yellow vests, massive fines. Of the close to 4,000 people present, 1,400 protesters were…

Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it mounted multiple strikes on Israeli army positions including its first using explosive drones. The powerful resistance movement has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the Lebanese border since Oct. 7, in the most serious escalation at the frontier since a 2006 war. Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is due on Friday to deliver his first speech since the war began. As one of the most prominent figures in the Arab world, Nasrallah is a leading voice in a regional “Axis of Resistance” established to counter the United States and Israel. Recognized even by critics as…

A group of United Nations experts have warned time is running out to “prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza, expressing their deep frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt plans to decimate the besieged Gaza Strip. “We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide,” the experts said. “The time for action is now. Israel’s allies also bear responsibility and must act now to prevent its disastrous course of action,” they said in a joint statement on Thursday. The experts expressed “deepening horror” about Israeli airstrikes against the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza since Tuesday…