Author: Steven Sahiounie

Residents picking through the remains of a destroyed bakery in the Moghrabi refugee camp in Deir el-Balah were hit by another deadly blast. Men ran through rubble-strewn streets carrying wounded people with at least one person killed, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene. The initial Israeli air raid on the bakery and neighbouring houses killed at least 10 people, Gaza’s media office said. It was the only bakery in the area and just received flour from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Resident Asad al-Bairoti described the attack on the bakery by Israeli warplanes when he looked…

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is pressing the international community to take steps to avoid an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza. At a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, el-Sisi said the pair discussed the “many, many civilian casualties” that could result from a ground assault. El-Sisi highlighted the 6,600 civilian fatalities already reported by Gaza authorities as a result of two weeks of Israeli attacks, “half of whom are children”. Source: AlJazeera

A large explosion has occurred in the besieged coastal enclave, near al-Wafa Hospital. The hospital is located in the Shajaiya area in eastern Gaza City. We’ll have more details on this as soon as we get them. Source: AlJazeera

The Israeli occupation targeted on Wednesday Aleppo International Airport, making it out of service. “Nearly at 1:25 p.m.  on Wednesday, the Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the Mediterranean Sea, west of Lattakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport, causing material damage to the airport’s runway and it’s now out of service.” A military source stated in a statement to SANA. Source: SANA

ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged an immediate cease-fire between Israeli and Palestinian forces and said Muslim countries must act together for lasting peace, calling on world powers to pressure Israel to halt attacks. In a speech to his party’s lawmakers in parliament, Erdogan said the Rafah border gate must be kept open for humanitarian aid and that prisoner exchanges should be concluded urgently. He said he was canceling plans to visit Israel because of its “inhumane” war against Hamas militants in Gaza. “We had a project to go to Israel, but it was canceled, we will not…

AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah told French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday that ending Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza is an urgent necessity and warned there could otherwise be an “explosion” in the wider Middle East. In a royal court statement, the monarch told Macron Israel should be pressured by global powers to stop its unrelenting bombing campaign in the Hamas-ruled Gaza and end its siege of the densely populated enclave of 2.3 million Palestinians. Gaza’s health ministry said on Wednesday at least 6,546 Palestinians, including 2,704 children, have been killed by Israeli air strikes since a cross-border Hamas rampage into Israel…

GENEVA: The United Nations Palestinian refugee agency on Tuesday called for an unimpeded flow of humanitarian assistance to Gaza, trapped in a humanitarian crisis after two weeks of intense Israeli attacks. “We call for an unimpeded and continuous flow of humanitarian assistance and medical assistance to continue coming into Gaza,” said Tamara Alrifai, spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). “The trucks that have come in so far are just a trickle in the face of the immense needs of people on the street.” The UN General Assembly will meet…

A new campaign to shut down weapons companies in the US and UK over providing arms to the Israeli regime has gained further momentum, expanding across northern America, Europe and Australia. The campaign, titled Palestine Action, was launched days after Israel waged a large-scale war on Gaza on October 7, which has claimed the lives of thousands of innocent Palestinians, including women and children. On October 12, the organizers of Palestine Action US took direct action against Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems at its so-called “Innovation Center” in the US city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Activists blockaded Elbit’s main entrance and…

The harsh treatment of Palestinian civilians in Gaza could “backfire,” the former US president said Former US President Barack Obama has warned Israel that a response strategy to the attacks by Hamas that “ignores the human cost” would be counterproductive. Couched in an endorsement of the Jewish state’s right to defend itself against “wanton violence” by the Palestinian militant group, Obama’s warning comes amid mass civilian deaths, reported atrocities and widespread crippling of infrastructure by the Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) in Gaza. In an essay released on Medium on Monday, Obama backed President Joe Biden’s call for the US to “support our long-time ally in going after Hamas,…

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has discussed with Syrian Ambassador to Russia, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, developments of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the situation in Syria. “During the discussion between Bogdanov and al-Jaafari, views were exchanged on developments in the Middle East, with a focus on the situation in and around Syria, especially in light of the continued escalation of confrontations in the Gaza Strip.” Novosti news agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying in a statement on Wednesday. The statement added that the two sides also discussed issues of common concern to Russian-Syrian relations,…