Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli tanks and troops have met fierce resistance from Hamas fighters using mortars and hit-and-run attacks from tunnels to fight off Tel Aviv’s ground invasion of Gaza City after nearly four weeks of bombardments. Fighters of Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad were emerging from tunnels to fire at tanks, then disappearing back into the network, residents said and videos from both groups showed Thursday, in guerrilla-style operations against Israeli troops. “They never stopped bombing Gaza City all night, the house never stopped shaking,” Reuters quoted an unnamed man living there. “But in the morning we discover the Israeli forces are still outside the city, in the outskirts and that means…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia is between a rock and a hard place. The Kingdom remains dependent on the US for security, while the US is supporting and supplying the weapons for Israel’s slaughtering of Palestinian civilians. Added to the dilemma, is that MBS was very close to signing the accord with Israel, which is now on hold.On October 7, just hours after the Hamas attack on Israel, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a call for an “immediate halt to the escalation between the two sides.”Saudi officials had…

Indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes this evening murdered at least 15 Palestinians, including children, and left several others wounded, as the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip continues unabated, according to medical sources. In one of the two strikes, nine Palestinians were tragically killed when Israeli warplanes targeted a residential building in the Shujaeya neighborhood of Gaza City. In the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, an additional six civilians were murdered, including three children, as a result of an airstrike on a house belonging to the Al-Ghoul family. The injured victims were rushed to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City for urgent medical care. WAFA…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, said on Thursday that in contrary to the western collective stance that falsely claim the Zionist entity’s right to self- defense, the International Court of Justice has stressed, in a former verdict, that Israel has no right to do so because it is an occupying state. “Masks of Western countries, and those who support them, have fallen, to justify their acts under Article No. 51 of the UN charter, and it has become crystal clear that self-defense logic in the case of genocide and war crimes perpetrated by the Israeli fascism, is nothing but…

Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and army bullets in the West Bank killed 9159 Palestinians and wounded more than 24,000 others, today said the Palestinian Ministry of Health. It said 9025 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, more than 73 percent of them were children, women, and the elderly, since the Israeli aggression started on October 7 and more than 22,000 were injured, while 134 people were killed and 2100 injured in the West Bank. It said that 280 people were killed in the past two days. source: WAFA

President Mahmoud Abbas and Pope Francis discussed this evening the latest developments in Palestine, including Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. During the conversation, President Abbas expressed his appreciation for the role and efforts of Pope Francis in supporting peace-building endeavors in the region and around the world. President Abbas emphasized the vital importance of the Vatican continuing its efforts to secure an immediate ceasefire of the Israeli aggression on Gaza. He stressed the need to spare civilians the horrors of war, especially given the savage Israeli attacks on innocent civilians in Gaza. The President also stressed the urgency of…

Israeli bombing has killed at least 29 people and injured dozens others in the third attack on Jabalia refugee camp in as many days. A correspondent from the Palestinian WAFA news agency said Israeli forces fired missiles at a school in the camp, killing 27 people and injuring many others. He said two other people were killed in an Israeli attack on a car in the camp. This is the second Israeli attack on a school today. Earlier, Israeli forces bombed a school run by UNRWA in al-Shati refugee camp, in western Gaza City, where thousands of displaced people had…

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and UN chief Antonio Guterres, meeting on the sidelines of an AI safety summit in Milton Keynes in the UK, have agreed on “urgently” increasing humanitarian aid to Gaza. Sunak and Guterres also “agreed on the need to reinvigorate international efforts to reach a lasting resolution to the conflict and progress work towards a two-state solution” in the Palestine-Israel conflict, according to a United Kingdom government statement. Source: AlJazeera

The Israeli prime minister, speaking to soldiers, again called on Palestinian civilians to leave the north of Gaza – an appeal humanitarian groups have repeatedly said is not realistic. “Nothing will stop us,” Netanyahu said. “I call to the uninvolved: Get out. Get out, move south,” he said. “Because we will not stop in our activity to eliminate the Hamas terrorists. “We will move forward. We will advance and win, and we will do it with God’s help and with the help of our heroic warriors.” Source: AlJazeera

The UN child rights committee has strongly condemned the Israeli killing of children in the Gaza Strip, saying there were “no winners in a war where thousands of children are killed.” The committee censured the escalation of attacks by Israel against civilian targets in the Gaza Strip, which has claimed the lives of more than 3,600 Palestinian children since October the 7th. “Grave human rights violations against children are mounting by the minute in the Gaza Strip, and there are no winners in a war where thousands of children are killed,” the committee, which monitors countries’ adherence to the international…