Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli forces have fatally shot three more Palestinian youths during violent raids across the occupied West Bank. According to Palestinian media outlets, the new fatalities brought the total number of Palestinians killed by the regime’s forces on Sunday to eight. 20-year-old Qatada Salama Ghunaimat (shown below) was killed after Israeli forces opened heavy fire at his vehicle when he was leaving the al-Arroub refugee camp north of the city of al-Khalil, also known as Hebron, in southern part of the West Bank, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. Israeli forces then seized the victim’s body and opened fire on a Red Crescent ambulance…

Israeli warplanes have carried out new strikes against the besieged Gaza Strip, bombarding areas near three hospitals. According to Palestinian media reports, the early Monday attacks struck near Gaza City’s Shifa and al-Quds hospitals, and also near the Indonesian Hospital, in the northern part of the territory. It was not immediately clear whether the first two hospitals were damaged in the attacks. However, the director of the Indonesian Hospital was quoted by Al Jazeera news channel as saying that the Israeli strikes caused “serious damage and injuries,” without providing details. There were no reports of casualties at or near the other…

The military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance movements in Palestine have launched fresh attacks on targets in the Israeli-occupied territories in response to the regime’s continued bombardment of civilians in the Gaza Strip. The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas which is based in Gaza, said on Monday that it had used for the first time its al-Zouari drones to attack Israel’s Hatzerim and Taslim military bases in Negev desert. The resistance force also released footage showing the launch of al-Zouari drones from an unknown location in Gaza toward Israeli targets. That comes as the Israeli…

A political advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the resistance front and the freedom-seeking people of the world will fulfill their duty toward Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. In a post on his official X account on Monday, Ali Shamkhani said the US prevents other countries from assisting the defenseless people of Gaza while it is providing unprecedented arms, intelligence, financial, and media support to Israel. “Some governments may go along with this process, the result of which is the genocide of the Palestinian people, but the world’s freedom-seeking people and the resistance front will…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s support for the oppressed Palestinian people, saying Israel must immediately stop its massacre of civilians. Amir-Abdollahian made the remark in separate phone calls with Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh and Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ziad al-Nakhaleh on Monday. He noted that Israel must open the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza to let desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians running short of basic needs and also stop the forced replacement of people in the besieged Strip. ‘Enemy unable to break will of resistance’ The leaders of the Palestinian resistance movements told the…

 Families with children were seen fleeing the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City on Monday after an Israeli strike hit the area. More than a million people lived in the north of the Gaza Strip, and hundreds of thousands have gone southwards to cram into temporary refuges despite unremitting air and artillery strikes also hitting the southern areas they have fled to. Source: Press TV

Death toll from Israel’s bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip has passed the 5,000 figure, including at least 2,000 children. The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Monday 5,087 people had been killed since Israel launched its relentless bombardment on October 7. The health ministry released the updated toll after Israel’s military attacked Gaza with more than 300 new airstrikes within 24 hours. The regime said it had hit “over 320 military targets in the Gaza Strip” during the same period. According to health ministry, the overnight “massacres” killed at least 430 people, including 184 kids. It said “more than 60 were martyred in the raids” during…

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for a ramp-up in aid delivery to the people in the Gaza Strip amid a devastating Israeli military campaign against the blockaded territory. In a statement issued on Monday, Hamas urged the United Nations and Arab and Muslim countries in the region to do more to ensure that the Egypt-Gaza border crossing can operate round-the-clock so that aid supply to the territory can increase. The statement came after dozens of trucks carrying food and medical supplies were allowed into Gaza via the Rafah crossing. The delivery came after a summit in Cairo to discuss…

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says its fighters have confronted, and repelled, an “infiltrating force” of the Israeli military in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said in a statement the infiltration was carried out in the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Qassam said its fighters destroyed two infiltrating armored bulldozers and one tank in a border area inside Gaza and forced the Israeli troops to leave their vehicles and escape on foot into a military post behind the fence. The Brigades said its fighters returned to their…

The ministers accused the Israeli military of committing war crimes against the Palestinians, calling for an end to hostilities, “an end to Israel’s occupation of the territories of Palestine, Lebanon and the Golan Heights” The foreign ministers of Syria and Lebanon have decried the attempts to forcibly displace Gaza Strip residents and demanded immediate efforts to provide humanitarian aid to the area, according to their joint statement, reported by the Syrian news agency SANA. “The sides call for measures [to ensure] the immediate and unconditional provision of humanitarian assistance to Gaza, and underscore their categorical rejection of any attempt to forcibly…