Author: Steven Sahiounie

An Israeli military spokesperson has told Al Jazeera that “humanitarian efforts” in southern Gaza would expand on Sunday but shared no details. Since the start of the war on October 7, 87 trucks have been allowed into the besieged enclave through the Egypt-controlled Rafah border crossing. They carried water, food and medicine, with UN agencies warning that it was a fraction of what was needed. No agreement has been reached yet on letting fuel into Gaza, causing great difficulties for life-saving humanitarian operations there. On Saturday, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said “Israeli obstacles” were impeding the prompt delivery of aid through…

On Saturday, more than 100,000 people gathered in Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, in the southern Indian state of Kerala in support of Palestinians. The organisers, from the Kerala committee of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), said the rally was organised with one clear message: “Save Palestine, save humanity; end Israel’s attack on Gaza; free Palestine.” The IUML said the rally “aimed to draw international attention to the ongoing crisis in the region” and the “need for international intervention and dialogue to achieve absolute peace”. Source: AlJazeera

The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Israeli military is incapable of fighting against fighters from the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, warning that the Gaza Strip will turn it into a graveyard the regime’s forces in a ground invasion. “The Israelis have been defeated in all ground offensives so far. They do not possess the capability to fight against Hamas. Ground [battle] is the métier of Hamas. If they (Israeli troops) choose a battle on the ground, they will be swallowed up and Gaza will turn into their burial ground,” Major General Hossein Salami said…

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has slammed Israel’s ongoing deadly bombardment of the Gaza Strip, saying the occupying regime would not dare commit so many crimes and genocide against Palestinians if it weren’t for the United States’ support. Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday, as the US continues to support Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza as a means of “self-defense.” Kan’ani went on to say that the Israeli regime has stepped up its strikes in Gaza and it is brutally killing innocent civilians despite widespread protests across the world and…

Iran’s president says Israel’s defeat in its ground invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip was the second victory for the Palestinian resistance groups that launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm against the regime. Ebrahim Raeisi was speaking in an interview with Aljazeera TV on Saturday. Israeli forces, backed by warplanes, staged a brief ground raid into central Gaza on Friday, after frequent threats by the regime about launching a full ground invasion as part of a fierce aggression on the besieged Palestinian territory. The regime’s army said its ground forces, accompanied by fighter jets and UAVs, “conducted an additional targeted raid in the central…

Turkish President lambasted Israel as an invader and a group, pointing out that the Palestinian movement Hamas is not a terrorist organization ISTANBUL, October 28. /TASS/. Turkey will declare Israel a war criminal and will do it before the entire international community, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said at a mass rally in support of Palestine held at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport. “We are going to declare Israel a war criminal. We will inform the international community, as we have already been working on it,” he said. Erdogan lambasted Israel as an invader and a group, pointing out that the Palestinian movement…

Alexander Ben Zvi noted that it has not been a large-scale offensive yet MOSCOW, October 28. /TASS/. While Israel is indeed hitting the Gaza Strip “from the air, sea and ground,” that has not been a large-scale offensive yet, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi told TASS. “Our military calls it a narrow-scale military operation. So, I will repeat their words. A military operation from the air, sea and ground is being conducted indeed, but then again, as our military says, that hasn’t been a large-scale offensive yet,” the Israeli diplomat said. The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) entered northern…

Tensions flared up in the Middle East after Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip attacked Israeli territory on October 7, when many Israelis living in the settlements near the border were killed and more than 200 people, including children, women and the elderly, were taken hostage TEL AVIV, October 29. /TASS/. Israeli troops have crossed into the Gaza Strip to eliminate the radical Palestinian organization Hamas and to release the hostages captured during Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 and held in the enclave since then, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “Citizens of Israel, last night our ground…

RAMALLAH, Saturday, October 28, 2023 (WAFA) — President Mahmoud Abbas chaired this evening a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. The meeting reviewed the extensive regional and international efforts to stop the Israeli aggression and war crimes against the Palestinian people. The PLO Executive Committee expressed its appreciation for the unified stance of the Palestinian people in the face of aggression, as well as the Arab and international solidarity campaigns with the Palestinian people, calling for an expansion of these efforts and the preservation of national unity. The Committee…

LONDON: Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, whose family is trapped in Gaza, has lost contact with his parents-in-law following Israel’s overnight expansion of military operations in the enclave, Sky News reported. He said on X: “Gaza is under intense bombing. Telecommunications have been cut. We can’t get through to our family who have been trapped in this war zone for almost three weeks.” It follows the Israel Defense Forces’ massive overnight bombardment and military operation in Gaza, which also involved sabotaging internet and telephone communications, and moving tanks and personnel deeper into the territory. Yousaf added: “We can only pray…