Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has issued an official statement on the effects of the Israeli aggression on Palestine. The statement said 70% of the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip are children, women and elderly, detailing that 1903 children, 1024 women and 187 elderly were killed in the Israeli aggression. The Ministry also said that 65% of Gaza’s health care center stopped working and 20 hospitals stopped functioning since the aggression. It explored that the number of Palestinians who are now displaced due to the Israeli aggression is now 1.4 million. The statement added that there are…

Top US officials tell Axios that the threats of a war widening from the Gaza Strip are increasing. According to senior US sources, there is a genuine and growing fear of a war spreading beyond the Gaza Strip, which has prompted the Pentagon to raise the alert level for rapid deployment of additional US soldiers and move weapons systems closer to the area, a new column by Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and co-founder Mike Allen, “Behind the Curtain”, wrote. Just three days prior, “Behind the Curtain” revealed five “global threats” that were causing concern for top US officials at the same time:…

The president of Iran said hopes for the UN Security Council to play a role in maintaining world peace have been lost after the US vetoed a resolution in condemnation of the Israeli crimes while it has been supplying the Zionist regime with arms to commit more crimes against Gaza. In a meeting with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa Naledi Pandor, held in Tehran on Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi hailed South Africa’s support for the Palestinian people and expressed hatred and disgust at the atrocities of the Zionist regime. Questioning the functioning of the UN…

Medical sources said the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank since the start of the Israeli occupation’s aggression on October 7 surged to 5,182. They explained that the recorded number of those killed in the Gaza Strip is 5,087, including 2,055 children, 1,119 women and 217 elderly people, and 15,273 wounded. The occupation forces committed 23 massacres in the past 24 hours, claiming the lives of 436 people, including 182 children, the majority of whom were from the south of the Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, the death toll rose to 95 with the…

We’re hearing that an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza, has killed at least 18 people, according to the interior ministry in the besieged enclave. Source: AlJazeera

Dutch authorities have apprehended 19 activists who occupied the entrance to the International Criminal Court (ICC), protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza. The activists, associated with the Extinction Rebellion group, seized a bridge in front of the court in The Hague while displaying a banner that accused Netanyahu of being a war criminal. “The demonstration did not cause any disturbance to the ICC normal activities. The situation was addressed by the ICC security with the police,” Sonia Robla, ICC spokesperson, said. After a brief detention, the police released the activists, who then joined a small pro-Palestinian protest outside the ICC’s…

The aerial strike left one airport worker dead in Damascus, while the Aleppo airport is also out of service after the attack An Israeli air strike on two of Syria’s main airports left one person dead and another injured, the Syrian state-run media outlet SANA has reported. Both airports have been put out of operation. According to SANA, citing Syrian military officials, “at about 05:25 am on Sunday, the Israeli enemy simultaneously carried out an aerial act of aggression with waves of missiles from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea west of Lattakia and from the direction of the occupied…

By the time the operation is finished, “there will be no Hamas,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has said Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza could take up to three months, but will result in the final destruction of Hamas, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told members of the country’s Air Force on Sunday. “This needs to be the last [ground] maneuver in Gaza, for the simple reason that afterwards there will be no Hamas,” Gallant said at the Air Force’s headquarters in Tel Aviv in remarks carried by multiple Israeli media outlets. “It will take a month, two months, three, but in the end,…

The bloc’s representatives were reportedly slammed for treating Israel differently to Russia Representatives of the European Union faced a barrage of accusations of hypocrisy and double standards over their approach to Russia and Israel during Saturday’s Peace Summit in Cairo. The event, which was aimed at tackling the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hosted reperesentatives from over 30 countries and a number of international and regional organizations. According to the Financial Times, “country after country assailed the EU’s representatives,” namely the prime ministers of Italy, Spain, Greece, the president of Cyprus, EU Council president Charles Michel, the bloc’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell and the foreign ministers of…

IOF spokesman Jonathan Conricus said there would be no ground operation if Hamas surrenders and releases all hostages Israel will not conduct a ground operation in Gaza if Hamas surrenders “unconditionally” and frees all its hostages, Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus has said. If the looming offensive goes ahead, however, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant estimates that it could take up to three months. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Monday, Conricus dodged a question as to why Israel appears to be delaying its ground operation. Instead, the spokesman simply vowed that…