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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has exchanged views with his Qatari counterpart about ways to end the genocidal Israeli war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Amir-Abdollahian met with Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha on Tuesday. During the meeting, the two sides discussed some important bilateral issues, developments in Palestine and initiatives aimed at ending Israeli war crimes against the oppressed people of the besieged Gaza. Earlier in the day, the Iranian foreign minister met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. During the meeting, Amir-Abdollahian highlighted the might…

Ali Bagheri-Kani made the remark in a televised interview on Monday, commenting on the war that the Israeli regime has been waging against the blockaded coastal territory since October 7. The regime launched the war after Gaza’s resistance groups conducted Operation al-Aqsa Storm, their biggest operation against the occupying entity in years, killing at least 1,500 Israeli forces and settlers, and taking hundreds of others captive. Israel’s aggression against Gaza has so far killed more than 8,300 civilians, most of them women and children. Bagheri-Kani described the Palestinian resistance’s operation against Israel as “an irreparable earthquake in the Zionist regime’s military…

Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia has blamed the United States for the ongoing atrocities committed by Israel against Palestinians, as Washington has opposed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an urgent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. “This ugly situation was brought about by the fact that, because of the United States position, the Security Council has been virtually paralyzed and has not yet been able to adopt a resolution demanding an urgent ceasefire,” Nebenzia said in a statement at UNSC briefing on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue, on Monday. He noted that the blocking…

The Israeli military says it attacked about 300 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, as the regime’s brutal aggression against the besieged enclave rages on. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Israeli army claimed that the targets included anti-tank guided missile and rocket launch positions, as well as tunnel entrances and military compounds belonging to the Palestinian Hams resistance movement. It said that the occupation troops clashed with the Palestinian fighter cells that fired missiles and heavy machine gun fire at them. The Israeli soldiers, it added, killed members of the fighter cells and directed…

Japan has imposed sanctions against nine people and a company over their alleged links to the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, amid Israel’s devastating war waged on the blockaded Gaza Strip. Japan’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday the measures would freeze assets belonging to individuals and a company that were “involved in fundraising for Hamas.” The nine individuals have been identified as nationals of Palestine, Sudan, Egypt, and Jordan, as reported by Tokyo-based Kyodo News. Tokyo’s imposition of sanctions comes in response to the United States, Israel’s main ally, announcement of similar measures last month. Israel launched the war on Gaza…

A document leaked to the Sicha Mekomit news site calls on the government to relocate the entire population of Gaza to the Sinai A leaked policy document compiled by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence calls for the depopulation of Gaza and the forced displacement of its residents to Egyptian territory, according to a copy published by the Sicha Mekomit news site on Saturday. The ten-page document, dated October 13, recommends that Israel establish tent cities in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula to accommodate the Gazan population. These tent cities should then be developed into permanent settlements, with a “sterile zone of several kilometers” separating them from…

The organization warned millions could go hungry if hostilities between Israel and Hamas continue to intensify Continued escalation of Israel’s war with Hamas could push oil prices into “uncharted waters,” the World Bank warned in its Commodity Markets Outlook on Monday. The World Bank cautioned that while the war’s effect on oil prices had been limited thus far, the future “would darken quickly if the conflict were to escalate.” The organization’s report outlined three potential futures based on the level of disruption escalating hostilities might cause in global oil supply. A “small disruption,” removing 500,000 to 2 million barrels of…

The criminal recklessness of Netanyahu and his regime will rebound with a vengeance, Written by: Finian Cunningham Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war Cabinet are pushing ahead with a limited ground invasion of Gaza – even though that will mean disaster for thousands of more innocent lives, including over 200 Israeli hostages. The Biden administration has reportedly been trying to delay the drastic manoeuvre to give more chance for negotiations to secure the release of hostages. But Netanyahu and his cabinet are driven by their ideological fanaticism and need to save face. Since the attacks on Israel by…

The UNICEF says at least 940 children has been reported missing in Gaza, adding infant dehydration is a growing threat with only five percent of normal water output. “Gaza has become a graveyard of children,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a UN press briefing in Geneva. Elder reiterated the UN children agency’s call for an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access to supplies for the enclave. Children in Gaza are dying not only from Israeli air strikes, but also because of a lack of medical care. Source: AlJazeera

Venezuela’s President hails protesters all over the world who demonstrated in rejection of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza. “Israel’s” bombing of mosques, hospitals, churches, and inhabited residential buildings compare to the practices of the Nazi fascist Adolf Hitler, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro stated. “The world stood up for Palestine,” Maduro emphasized, in reference to popular demonstrations in support of Gaza and the Palestinian cause all over the world. The Venezuelan President pointed to massive crowds that took to the streets in New York, Paris, Madrid, Jakarta, Istanbul, and Venezuela’s Caracas. Maduro said that free people all across the globe united their…