Author: Steven Sahiounie

Spokesman for the Israel Occupation Forces Daniel Hagari said earlier that he had verified data about 229 people abducted and kept by radicals in the Gaza Strip TASS. October 29. /TASS/. Russia is sparing no effort for the release of hostage kept by Hamas, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday. “We are doing our best on all the tracks. First, this is political work in international formats, in the United Nations, to lobby the most important thing – namely, to cease fire, stop violence, to achieve what is generally called de-escalation,” she said in an interview with…

It is also reported that IOF troops identified armed terrorists and an anti-tank missile launching post in the area of the Al-Azhar University, and guided a fighter jet to strike the targets TEL AVIV, October 30. /TASS/. The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) continues to expand its ground operations in the Gaza Strip, hitting more than 600 military targets of the radical Hamas movement in the enclave in recent days, the army press service said. “Overnight, the IOF continued ground operations in the Gaza Strip. In addition, over the last few days, the IOF struck over 600 targets, including weapons depots,…

The ministry has not specified if there are any casualties CAIRO, October 30. /TASS/. A Turkish hospital located south of the city of Gaza came under an Israeli airstrike, the Palestinian health ministry said on Monday. “The Palestinian-Turkish friendship hospital in Gaza came under Israeli bombardment,” it said on its Facebook account (Facebook is banned in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist). It did not say however if there are any casualties. Tensions flared up in the Middle East after Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip attacked Israeli territory. Hamas views its attack…

Yoav Gallant said that he had “no evidence Iran coordinated the October 7 attack on Israel” TEL AVIV, October 30. /TASS/. Israel is not looking for big wars but is preparing for potential threats from Iran, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told reporters. “We are not looking for big wars, but we are preparing ourselves [against any threat, whether it is] versus Iran and especially versus Hezbollah,” Gallant said, as cited by the Times of Israel. The Israeli defense chief said that he had “no evidence [Iran] coordinated the exact day,” that is, the October 7 attack on Israel. “But…

Alexander Ben Zvi emphasized that all hostages had to be released without conditions MOSCOW, October 30. /TASS/. Direct talks between Israel and Hamas are impossible, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi told the Rossiya-24 TV channel. “There are not and cannot be any direct talks between Israel and Hamas because our position is very simple: All hostages must be released without conditions. They are civilians. <…> Unfortunately, we don’t have any information on what is happening to them,” he said. Tensions in the Middle East flared up again on October 7 after militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas…

The officials themselves also misjudged the threat from Hamas, focusing instead on Iran and Hezbollah, the outlet has reported Israeli security services warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for months that his domestic policies were fueling dangerous political turmoil, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The officials reportedly stressed that internal discord was weakening the country’s security and strengthening Israel’s enemies. The report was part of an examination of what led up to the latest hostilities between Israel and Gaza. At one point in July, the prime minister even allegedly refused to meet with a senior general that was trying…

Thousands of people have broken into distribution centers as humanitarian aid falls short of the needs created by war with Israel The UN’s Palestinian refugee agency has reported mass looting of aid warehouses in Gaza, saying thousands of people have broken into distribution centers to take flour and other “basic survival items” as the ongoing Israel-Hamas war makes their situation increasingly desperate. “This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza,” UNRWA Affairs director Thomas White said on Sunday in a statement. “People are scared, frustrated and desperate.” He added…

Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip reports that the Israeli occupation intensified its raids over several areas of the Strip, and renewed its threat to bomb a number of hospitals. Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip reported, on Monday, that the number of martyrs and missing persons, combined, had risen to about 10,000 individuals as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocide on the Strip, which has entered the 24th day. Our correspondent said that the total number of Palestinian martyrs killed by Israeli fire in the Strip has exceeded 8,100 people and the number of Palestinians missing…

UPDATE: The director of Jenin Governmental Hospital reports the martyrdom of two Palestinians and two wounded during the IOF’s storming of Jenin and the Al-Quds Brigades – Jenin Brigade announces that several occupation vehicles were targeted. On Monday at dawn, Palestinian Amir Abdullah Sharbaji was martyred and two others were injured during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces in the Jenin camp, the second largest camp in the West Bank. During a press statement, the director of Jenin Governmental Hospital announced that the young man succumbed to his wounds. Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a house at the entrance to the…

The Palestinian Red Crescent released a video showing intense Israeli air raids in Gaza’s Tal al-Hawa area, where the al-Quds Hospital is located. Patients, displaced people and health workers are worried of a possible air strike on the hospital after Israel ordered its “immediate” evacuation of it on Sunday. Source: AlJAzeera