Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement says Israel’s recent attempt to invade the besieged Gaza Strip was futile and failed to achieve any of the occupying regime’s goals. The Gaza-based resistance movement said in a statement on Monday that the Israeli regime’s attempted ground offensive against the coastal sliver had failed to yield any results and the occupation troops had only targeted “open areas” in the besieged strip. “The Zionist invasion of Gaza began a few days ago, and the enemy was not able to achieve anything other than targeting open areas,” the statement said, adding, “The enemy infiltrated into…

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israeli tanks that advanced near the besieged Gaza Strip were forced to retreat after heavy clashes. “There’s absolutely no ground advance inside the residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. What happened on Salah al-Din Street was the incursion of a few occupation army tanks and a bulldozer,” said Salama Maarouf, the head of the Hamas office in Gaza, in a statement on Monday. Salah al-Din Street is located about 3 kilometers from the Gaza fence. Heavy clashes were reported in the area. “These vehicles targeted two civilian cars on Salah al-Din Street and bulldozed…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says holding a referendum in Palestine can serve as the “fundamental and political” solution to the Palestinian issue. In a phone conversation on Monday, Amir-Abdollahian and Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States Paul Archbishop Richard Gallagher discussed Israel’s relentless attacks against the defenseless Palestinian people, which have been going on over the past 24 days, as well as ways to find a political solution to the critical situation. “We believe that the Palestinian crisis should be resolved basically and a political solution to it is to hold a referendum with [the participation of] all the original…

Israel’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip – facing an alarmingly dire humanitarian situation – constitutes war crimes and a flagrant violation of international law, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) says, describing the regime’s conduct as “butchering” thousands of people. Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha said in a statement on Monday the Israeli airstrikes have also resulted in “wounding innocent civilians, including women, children, medical personnel and journalists.” Israeli forces have “deliberately carried out attacks on hospitals, schools, places of worship, and United Nations facilities,” he said. The OIC chief said the Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza and the total…

A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Israel’s genocide in Gaza will not last even a single day without support of the United States and European countries. Ali Akbar Velayati, who is also the secretary general of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening, made the remarks in an address to a conference — dubbed Gaza, the symbol of resistance and awakening — in Tehran on Monday. He described the United States as the “main accomplice” to the crimes committed by the Zionists in Gaza and said Washington offers considerable encouragement to the Israeli…

Hamas has released a video of three captured Israeli women in the besieged Gaza Strip voicing outrage at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for declining to agree to a swap deal and a ceasefire in the wake of the October 7 Operation al-Aqsa Storm, the largest military campaign in decades by the Gaza-based resistance groups against the occupiers. In the video published on Monday, the three captives, who are among the more than 200 Israelis held in Gaza since October 7, angrily appeal to Netanyahu to release them “right now.” One of the women, who spoke in Hebrew, said the Israeli…

A leaked document shows the Israeli regime plans to transfer citizens of Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai region. The Israeli regime has plans to force Palestinians living in the small besieged territory of the Gaza Strip to relocate to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, according to a document leaked from the regime’s intelligence ministry. The document published on Monday by WikiLeaks on its official page on the social media X showed that the Israeli officials were in favor of forced displacement of civilians from Gaza to North Sinai because of the “positive and long term strategic results” the strategy could entail.…

This edition of Gaza Under Attack will examine the agenda of the countries blocking a ceasefire resolution. With the machinations of London, Washington and Tel Aviv coming under public scrutiny, it’s the turn of the international community to stand up for Palestine. Thus far, they have failed to do this in embarrassing technicolor Why do the Zionists hold such sway? Is there a wider context to this and what of the view from further afield? Source: Press TV

According to Najib Mikati, Lebanon is “in the middle of a storm” caused by the conflict Prime Minister of Lebanon Najib Mikati intends to prevent his country from being pulled into the Middle East conflict, but does not rule out a further escalation. “I perform my duties by preventing Lebanon from being pulled into the war,” he said in an interview for AFP, adding that he “does not rule out” a further escalation of the conflict. According to the Prime Minister, Lebanon is “in the middle of a storm” caused by the conflict. “I do not rule out an escalation,…

Syria on Monday called on UN Security Council to condemn the Israeli recurrent attacks on Damascus and Aleppo airports. “The Israeli occupation seeks to ignite the region as it launched 4 attacks on Damascus and Aleppo Airporta during the last days, synchronizing with its brutal aggression on Gaza Strip that left behind hundreds of massacres against innocent civilians,” Acting Charge de’ Affairs of Syria’s delegation to the UN, Al Hakam Dandi said at UN Security Council session. Dandi added that Syria calls on UNSC to put an end to those attacks and bring the perpetrators to justice, considering that protection…