Author: Steven Sahiounie

Many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Netanyahu’s administration – not just for failing to prevent the Hamas attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward. “It has to be clear. The government is completely incompetent,” said Ruvi Dar, a psychologist and Tel Aviv University professor who has been counseling survivors evacuated from their homes. “Any support the refugees are getting right now is completely grassroots. Absolutely nothing by the state.” Critics have accused Netanyahu of recklessly ignoring a raft of issues. The police force is understaffed, and the military was caught off guard on Israel’s southern flank…

The UN General Assembly convened an emergency special session today at its headquarters in New York to address the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza, which has so far claimed nearly 7,000 civilian lives, the majority of them civilians. UNGA President calls for immediate, urgent ceasefire in Gaza The President of the UN General Assembly, Dennis Francis, emphasized the critical need for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza, as well as the establishment of safe passages to facilitate the swift delivery of humanitarian aid. Francis stated, “We gather amidst the gravest escalation of violence and hostility in the Middle East…

Pyongyang says Israel committing criminal act under ‘undisguised patronage of US’ North Korea accused Israel on Thursday of bombing a hospital in the Gaza Strip and called it a “great tragedy,” according to its Foreign Ministry. It said bombing a hospital is an “unimaginable hideous war crime and unethical crime.” “Israel bombed a public health establishment which is to be protected on a top priority in peacetime or wartime under international law,” it said in a statement published by state-run Korean Central News Agency. Pyongyang accused the US and said Israel of committing criminal acts under the “undisguised patronage of…

The Brazilian President stresses the genocide taking place in Gaza and speaks to the emir of Qatar to secure the release of 30 Brazilian nationals. On Wednesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared that genocide was taking place in Gaza. “It’s not a war, it’s a genocide that has killed nearly 2 thousand children who have nothing to do with this war, they are victims of this war. And frankly, I don’t know how a human being is capable of war knowing that the result of that war is the death of innocent children,” the Brazilian President declared.…

Salami persists in advising the United States to force the Israeli entity to end its aggression before it is too late. The Israeli military was forewarned by Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), that a ground attack in Gaza would destroy its infantry. “There is no way for the enemies to win in Palestine and they can do nothing else but aerial bombing. If they do anything on the ground, the Gaza dragon will eat them alive,” the IRGC Commander said on Thursday, during a ceremony in Mashhad, stressing that Gaza will be “Israel’s…

The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, is addressing an emergency UN General Assembly session, and here is what he has said so far in his emotional speech: “For millions of Palestinians, there is no home to go back to. For thousands, there is no family left to embrace, not by an act of God, but the act of a government represented here in this chamber. “[Israel] believes if you say Hamas enough times, the world will not be able to object to wiping [entire families] from the face of the Earth. “Why do some feel so much…

All states should raise their voices against humanitarian tragedy in Gaza, Erdogan tells pontiff in phone conversation Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pope Francis on Thursday spoke over the phone on the conflict between Israel and Palestine and escalating human rights violations. Erdogan, according to Türkiye’s Communications Directorate, said Israel’s attacks on Gaza, which have no justification in any sacred text, have reached the level of a massacre, and that it is shameful for the international community to turn a blind eye to them. He stressed that all states should raise their voices against this humanitarian tragedy. In the…

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in his turn, surmised that the two leaders would primarily discuss the situation in the Middle East Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will soon visit Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a senior Russian diplomat announced. “I can say that he [Abbas] will soon arrive on an official visit in Moscow; talks with Vladimir [Putin] will be held here,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who is also Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to say exactly when Abbas would arrive. “We will announce the date…

In the wake of the devastating Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, the death toll has surged to at least 6,955, with over 19,000 individuals injured, the Ministry of Health said in an update this evening. The Ministry said in a statement that the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip has reached 6,850, while the death toll in the West Bank also surged to 105. In addition, the ministry said, 17,000 Palestinians have been injured in Gaza, and 1,900 others in the West Bank. According to the statement, a staggering 70% of the…

The UK-based rights group has issued a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire to halt the mounting death toll and ensure crucial aid reaches Gaza amid an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”. “Serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes, by all parties to the conflict continue unabated. In the face of such unprecedented devastation and suffering, humanity must prevail,” said Amnesty’s Secretary-General Agnes Callamard. Warning that an Israeli ground offensive could have “cataclysmic consequences for Gaza’s civilians”, Amnesty urged the international community to call for an immediate ceasefire. It also reiterated its call to end the 16-year blockade on Gaza,…