Author: Steven Sahiounie

Chris Gunness, the former spokesman for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, told Al Jazeera that “Gaza is staring into an abyss” as aid deliveries remain woefully inadequate and fuel is still blocked from entering the enclave. “Gaza is being transformed as we speak from what a former British Prime Minister once called the world’s largest open-air prison into the world’s largest open-air death camp,” he told Al Jazeera. “Fuel, which is what will keep the water plant pumping station open, has run out. So water, the basic element for life is really not available to 2.2 million people,” Gunness…

Israel has cut Gaza’s telecommunication and internet services for a second time despite warnings that communications blackouts exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian enclave. The Palestinian telecommunications agency said Internet and phone networks were down across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. “To our good people in the beloved country, we are sorry to announce that communications and Internet services have been completely cut off in Gaza,” the Palestine Telecommunications Company (Paltel) said on X. Global network monitor Netblocks confirmed that Gaza “is in the midst of a new Internet blackout with high impact to the last remaining major…

Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesman, said Blinken will discuss “the importance of protecting civilian lives” during his meetings in Jordan. As we reported yesterday, the US secretary of state will also be in Israel on Friday to meet with Premier Netanyahu and other Israeli government leaders. “[Blinken] will reiterate us support for Israel’s right to defend itself in accordance with international humanitarian law and discussed the need to take all precautions to minimise civilian casualties, as well as our work to deliver humanitarian assistance,” Miller told reporters this afternoon. Blinken’s trip to the region comes as Jordan withdrew its…

Jordan has recalled its envoy from the Israeli-occupied territories in protest at the Israeli regime’s relentless attacks on the Gaza Strip. Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Wednesday that relations between the Arab country and the Israeli regime would only return to normal once Israel stops killing civilians in Gaza and lifts a crippling siege that has deprived people of the territory of food, water and medicine. Safadi said in a statement carried by state media that the Israeli regime’s ambassador to Jordan, who left the Arab country two weeks ago amid widespread anti-Israeli protests, would only be allowed…

Senior Iranian and Russian diplomats have expressed serious concern over the brutal Israeli onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the horrendous crimes being perpetrated by the Tel Aviv regime in the besieged coastal territory. Ali Asghar Khaji, a senior aide on political affairs to Iran’s foreign minister and the visiting Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev exchanged viewpoints about unfolding developments in the West Asia region during a meeting in the Iranian capital city of Tehran on Wednesday. The two sides discussed Israeli crimes against the oppressed people of Gaza, and voiced their deep concern…

China says it has been “deeply shocked” by a barrage of Israel’s airstrikes on a refugee camp in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire before the regime’s war machine claims more lives in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Dozens of Palestinians have reportedly been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday, the second attack on the camp in less than 24 hours, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. The report said airstrikes hit the residential area of Faluja in the camp, adding that several US-made bombs were used on the district, less than 24 hours after the first…

Health officials say the only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel amid the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the besieged enclave. Subhi Skaik, the director of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital said during a press briefing on Wednesday that the hospital, which mainly treats cancer patients, had used up its fuel and was now out of service. “We tell the world don’t leave cancer patients to a certain death due to the hospital being out of service,” the director, Subhi Skaik, was quoted as saying Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila…

Israel collapsed after the Palestinian resistance launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories on October 7 and will in no way survive its own quagmire in the Gaza Strip, says a high-ranking official with the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of the Executive Council of Hezbollah, made the remarks in an interview with a media delegation from Iran and a group of Iranian journalists in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday, the 25th day of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm by the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance groups. Safieddine pointed to reports and accurate field information gained by Hezbollah since…

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani says Israel is evincing classic signs of collapse as it was caught off guard by the Palestinian resistance. Ashtiani told reporters on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that the huge defeat inflicted on the Israeli regime earlier this month by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas exposed the regime’s weaknesses in terms of military strength which belied its claims about being in possession of advanced military and intelligence systems. “The Zionist regime was caught off guard … strategically, operationally and tactically. It can be said that this regime with such level…

The move was reportedly in retaliation for the fast-food restaurant issuing free meals to Israeli troops A pro-Palestine activist filmed himself releasing dozens of mice spray-painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag into a McDonald’s restaurant in the UK on Monday, several reports have indicated. The brief video – which is captioned ‘Enjoy your rat burgers’ – has been viewed online at least 1.6 million times in the past 24 hours, and shows a man wearing a Palestinian flag on his head releasing the rodents into the fast-food eatery, prompting several shocked customers to scream and scurry away. “Free…