Author: Steven Sahiounie

Netanyahu is collecting files that would see blame for the October 7 intelligence failure dumped on other officials amid Israeli discontent. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is running a campaign to undermine Israeli military chiefs in order to acquit himself of responsibility for the defeat suffered on October 7, Israeli Channel 12 reported, citing military sources. According to the Israeli outlet, Netanyahu is collecting reports and information that would aid his claim to avoid responsibility for the intelligence and military failure. The Palestinian Resistance led by Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades launched a wide-scale precise attack on Israeli military sites and settlements in Gaza’s Envelope. Operation…

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has said that civilians, the integrity of all UN facilities and premises, as well as civilian infrastructures, including hospitals, must be protected at all times under international humanitarian law. “Since the war began on 7 October, UNRWA has been regularly providing the coordinates of all its facilities across the Gaza Strip to all relevant parties. Nevertheless, at least 35 UNRWA facilities have been impacted so far, some were directly hit,” Lazzarini said in a statement. Half a million Palestinians in Gaza are sheltering in UNRWA facilities across the besieged coastal enclave. “They have come to these…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in his introductory statement, calls upon leaders to reach a consensus on a plan for resolving the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Leaders and high-ranking officials from over a dozen nations have convened in Cairo amid increasing concerns of a broader Middle East crisis in the wake of the brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza. Named the Cairo Peace Summit, envoys from nations such as Jordan, France, Germany, Russia, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Qatar, and South Africa are participating in the single-day gathering on Saturday. Additionally, United Nations and European Union representatives are…

Only 3 percent of the medical aid needed for the Gaza Strip has entered the besieged coastal enclave, the health ministry says. Only 20 trucks of humanitarian aid were allowed into Gaza via the Rafah border crossing from Egypt. Lynn Hastings, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories, told DW News it made a difference to the few people who receive it, but called it a “drop in the bucket”. Source: AlJazeera

Five Palestinians were injured, one critically, in an Israeli settler attack on the village of Yassouf, near Salfit, in the occupied West Bank, reports Mohamed Shtayyeh, a local journalist. “Settlers had destroyed 200 olive trees in Yassouf on Friday so when people from the village came to survey the damage, they were attacked by Israeli settlers and soldiers,” he told Al Jazeera. Three men from the village were wounded by live ammunition, and two others were attacked with stones and sticks. One had a knife held to his throat, said Abdullah Kamil, Salfit’s governor. “For months, we have been warning…

Juliette Touma, communications director at the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, has told Al Jazeera that it is “absolutely critical” for fuel to come in to Gaza. “It is critical for our own operations at UNRWA and fuel is also important to pump water into people’s taps,” she said. Touma also welcomed the opening of the Rafah crossing which has allowed aid convoys to enter Gaza. But she stressed that it needs to continue and cannot be a “one-off” delivery of aid. Source: AlJazeera

Written by: Martin Jay The temptation by Netanyahu to arrange a false flag attack on the Americans is too great if and when he sees the conflict not going his way. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is banking all he has on a single bet: that the U.S. will go the full nine yards in his madcap idea of a regional war between Israel and Iran’s proxies in the region. For Netanyahu, this was always the plan from the very beginning. But it will take a series of stepping stones to get to this objective. First off is that he…

written by: Finian Cunningham Israeli leaders often accuse Arab and Iranian enemies of desiring to “wipe Israel off the map”. The accusation is meant to designate opponents as harboring evil designs to annihilate the Israeli state with implicit Nazi undertones. Ironically, the escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence over the past two weeks appears to be giving the Israeli extremists an opportunity to finally settle the Palestinian Question that has dogged their Zionist dreams for decades. Benjamin Netanyahu called the Hamas mass killings on October 7 Israel’s “9/11 moment”. Every day since the Hamas gun and rocket attacks, the Netanyahu regime has bombarded the…

Speaking before the Cairo Peace Summit, which opened today in Cairo, President Mahmoud Abbas stressed that peace and security can be achieved only by implementing the two-state solution and resolving the refugee issue based on United Nations Resolution 194. The President condemned Israel’s “barbaric aggression” on the Gaza Strip, calling for an immediate halt to the aggression and the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow food, medicine and other necessities into the besieged Gaza Strip, warning against attempts to displace the Palestinian people in Gaza out of it, stressing “We will not leave, we will not leave, we will not…

Doctors in Gaza have appealed to the international community to take action to stop the war. A doctor at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip told Al Jazeera that the wounded people who are brought to the facility face many complications, adding that the death rate had reached 100 percent. The doctor said Israeli forces were using what he described as unusual weapons, adding that this was the first time they were seeing such injuries and fourth-degree burns throughout the body. Source: AlJazeera