Author: Steven Sahiounie

Over a dozen people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the city of Gaza. Several people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the neighborhoods of Shuja’iyya and al-Zaytoon in the city. Twelve people, including a pregnant woman, were also killed in an Israeli raid targeting the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. According to a report issued earlier today by the Ministry of Health, a total of 8071 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the start of the war…

The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia have called for collective regional and international action to immediately end Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civilians. In a phone conversation on Sunday, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan discussed the latest developments in Gaza. Israel has been pounding the besieged territory from the ground, sea and air over the past 23 days. Amir-Abdollahian and bin Farhan said Gaza was in dire need of constant humanitarian aid and that the forced displacement of Palestinians by Israel needs to be countered. Meanwhile, the Saudi Press Agency reported that…

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Bassam Sabbagh, discussed with Deputy Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Ibrahim Azizi and the accompanying delegation the means of enhancing the bilateral relations between the two countries, and the importance of exerting the diplomatic and parliamentary efforts in enhancing coordination and cooperation in various fields. Sabbagh stressed that the role of parliamentarians in Syria and Iran is important in supporting their countries’ issues on the regional and international arenas, as well as the need of mobilizing all efforts to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face…

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Karim Khan says “the suffering of children, women and men is profound and ongoing” in Gaza. “Most fundamentally, there should not be any impediment to humanitarian relief supplies going to children, to women and men, civilians. They are innocent and have rights under international humanitarian law,” he said in an address from the Rafah border crossing. “We need to make sure that the law is on the front lines, and the law is seeing to ameliorate the suffering of so many at this moment living in terror and frightened and have a right to be…

Such a move should be “feasible” from a security point of view, Basem Naim has said Hamas cannot release the hostages it is holding in Gaza until the Israeli military stops its bombing campaign against the Palestinian enclave, Basem Naim, a member of the militant group’s political bureau, told RT during his delegation’s visit to Moscow this week. Naim said Hamas could not collect necessary information on the identities of hostages held at various sites scattered around the enclave in the face of constant Israeli air raids and a blockade that has seen all communications inside Gaza cut off. “The…

It’s an uphill battle to tell the world about the events in Gaza, as one reporter found out in her run-in with Western media Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the Palestinian territories and currently works with Quds News. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’.  Since October 7, when the Hamas attack on Israeli territory and civilians triggered a destructive bombing campaign against Gaza, Palestinian civilians have been struggling to get the full extent of their plight represented in Western media. Whether it…

Adam Guillette’s Accuracy in Media sent mobile billboard ads to colleges to denounce pro-Palestinian students as antisemites Adam Guillette, whose Accuracy in Media organization deployed a “doxxing truck” to Ivy League colleges to denounce pro-Palestine students as antisemites in the aftermath of Hamas’ attack on Israel, told the New York Post that his North Florida home was raided by a SWAT team on Friday. The activist claimed the heavily armed police unit had searched his home around 1:30am in response to a call alleging he was holding his wife at gunpoint there, adding he was actually traveling at the…

Militias in Iraq and Syria have defied American warnings and vowed to keep up the strikes Iran-backed militias have attacked four US bases in Iraq and Syria in a 24-hour period, Al-Mayadeen news reported on Sunday. The attacks came after US forces launched airstrikes against Iranian targets in both countries in an unsuccessful bid to deter the militias. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced on Sunday that it had targeted the al-Shaddadi base in eastern Syria on Saturday with two drones, and launched rockets at another American base in the al-Omar oil field near Deir ez-Zor, Lebanon-based news channel Al-Mayadeen…

The prime minister described the battle with Hamas as the country’s “second war of independence” The Israeli military has launched the “second stage” of its war against Hamas militants in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address on Saturday night, warning citizens to prepare for a long struggle ahead. “In the initial weeks of the war, we launched massive airstrikes that dealt a severe blow to the enemy… We eliminated many militants,” the prime minister said in his address. In three weeks of Israeli air raids, the death toll in Gaza has exceeded 8,000 people, “half of whom are children,” the Health Ministry…

One diplomatic avenue is being maintained by Qatar, with Doha describing it as “instrumental” in mediation efforts Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas are continuing despite West Jerusalem’s decision to expand its ground operations in Gaza, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing sources. According to a person familiar with the diplomatic process, the de-escalation talks mediated by Qatar, which has close ties to Hamas and hosts its political bureau in Doha, have not broken down but are now proceeding at a “much slower pace.” Speaking to CNN on Saturday, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari confirmed backchanneling, saying that “various…