Author: Steven Sahiounie

KHAN YUNIS, Palestinian Territories: When Israel warned civilians to leave northern Gaza, Rahma Saqallah and her family fled south. But after Israeli bombs killed her huband and three of her children, she is heading back home. “Wherever we go, we will die,” Saqallah said, as she prepared to leave the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the territory to return to Gaza City with her surviving child.She is among roughly 600,000 Palestinians UN officials have said fled south in response to Israel’s warning to evacuate “for your own safety.” Israel’s relentless bombardment was launched on October 7 in retaliation for the Hamas attack which Israeli officials say killed…

LONDON: Unending waves of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza over the past fortnight have aggravated an already perilous situation for the enclave’s children, who have suffered for more than a decade with no end to the conflict in sight. Health officials in the Gaza Strip say that more than 2,300 children have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas that erupted following the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel by the Palestinian militant group. Some 40 percent of the embattled territory’s inhabitants are aged under 18, with UNICEF reporting that an average of 400 children have been killed or…

GENEVA: The United Nations warned Friday that “many more will die” as a result of Israel’s ongoing siege of Gaza, which has also caused sewage to flow into the Palestinian territory’s streets. Israel laid a total siege on Gaza following the October 7 attacks by Hamas, cutting off food, fuel, water and power supplies to the enclave. “People in Gaza are dying; they are not only dying from bombs and strikes: soon many more will die from the consequences of (the) siege imposed on the Gaza Strip,” said Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).…

JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces stopped young Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, requiring them to say prayers outside Jerusalem’s Old City, before letting several thousand elder worshippers enter under continued tight curbs. The authority in charge, the Jerusalem Islamic Endowments Department, said 5,000 worshippers performed Friday prayers at the holy site. That compares to about 50,000 on average prior to the conflict. Large numbers of Israeli police kept guard around Al-Aqsa on a hill known to Muslims as Al-Haram Al-Sharif or The Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Har ha-Bayit or Temple Mount.Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in the streets…

The General Assembly has overwhelmingly adopted the non-binding resolution, 120 votes for, 14 against, and 45 amendments, as Israel expands ground operations and cuts off communications in Gaza. Source: AlJazeera

The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns that the humanitarian situation is “more than catastrophic” in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s relentless bombing and severe fuel shortages are turning the hospitals into “graves” across the besieged territory. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza is more than catastrophic in the light of 12 hospitals and 32 healthcare centers becoming out of service due to lack of fuel or being bombed,” Mey Sayegh, head of IFRC communications, said on Friday. The lack of fuel in Gaza would affect the security of water for people, lead to diseases and epidemics, and affect the humanitarian operations across Gaza, Sayegh…

The amendment – which included a reference to Hamas – failed to obtain a two-thirds majority, and will not be adopted. A vote on the original Jordanian-authored resolution will come shortly. Source: AlJazeera

Resistance forces in Gaza have renewed retaliatory attacks into the Israeli-occupied territories on the 21th day of their Al-Aqsa Storm operation, as the regime steps up its bombardment across the coastal strip. The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, repeatedly fired missiles towards Tel Aviv in response to Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza. Israeli media reported several injuries in Tel Aviv. Israeli Channel 12 reported that two rockets landed in an area east of Rishon Lezion, near Tel Aviv, causing casualties. Media reports said that sirens sounded in central occupied territories, in the greater Tel Aviv area, and in…

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned of a new Israeli massacre of civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip as the regime threatens to bomb the largest medical complex housing tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians. Hamas raised the alarm on Friday evening while dismissing as “criminal and dangerous” groundless accusations by the Israeli military about the movement’s use of Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza for military purposes. The medical complex contains thousands of patients and wounded, and houses more than 40,000 thousand displaced people. “There is no basis for the claims made by the [the Israeli military] over the…

President Mahmoud Abbas the Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen discussed today the recent developments in the Palestinian territories. During a phone conversation, President Abbas stressed the need to immediately stop the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and to spare civilians the scourge of war, in light of the barbaric bombing of defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip. President Abbas stressed the necessity of opening permanent humanitarian corridors to bring in medical and food relief aid and to provide water and electricity as quickly as possible. He said that targeting civilians in hospitals and demolishing…