Author: Steven Sahiounie

Source: AlJazeera

Israeli air raids have bombed a number of bakeries in Gaza, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds who were queuing up to buy bread, Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. A WAFA correspondent said Israeli bombing destroyed five bakeries in different parts of the Gaza Strip, either directly or targeting their surroundings. Source: AlJazeera

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says President Biden’s announcement of 20 aid trucks to Gaza is “not enough”. “We’re talking about two million people who are in need of everything, so 20 trucks will be a drop in the ocean,” an IFRC spokesperson said. “Obviously, we do welcome any aid entering the country, but we will have to have much more than that.” He added that so far there was no commitment of a pause in air strikes when the aid is delivered. Source: AlJazeera

King Abdullah II of Jordan left on a short visit to Cairo where he will meet Egyptian President el-Sisi “to discuss means of ending the Israeli aggression on Gaza”, according to a post on X by the royal court. Source: AlJazeera

President Xi Jinping urged visiting Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to open a humanitarian corridor for civilians fleeing the fighting in Gaza. Xi also reiterated China’s backing of the formation of a Palestinian state as a solution to the ongoing violence. More than one million Palestinians, roughly half of Gaza’s population, have fled homes in the north and Gaza City after Israel ordered them to evacuate to “save themselves” as it readies a ground invasion. Source: AlJazeera

By Hani Abu Isheba in Khan Younis, Gaza The situation is going from bad to worse. Israeli bombardments continue to target residential towers across the Gaza Strip. An Israeli raid hit a residential tower, killing nine people, including seven children from the al-Bakri family. Witnesses at the scene told us that people are still trapped under the rubble. Several buildings have been levelled. Three hospitals have ceased operations. We are hearing a fourth one will stop operations shortly. This is due to a lack of fuel to run generators and a shortage of medical supplies. This will put more pressure…

One child is killed every 15 minutes by the Israeli bombing of Gaza, according to a Palestinian NGO, highlighting the toll the current war has exacted on children. More than 100 children have been killed every day since Israel started bombing the besieged Palestinian enclave on October 7 in the wake of the deadly Hamas attack. More than 3,400 Palestinians have been killed in the deadliest Israeli assault in decades. “We are witnessing a genocide in real time,” a spokesperson for Defense for Children International – Palestine said. Source: AlJazeera

The ongoing hostilities in the Gaza Strip region, triggered by the October 7 Hamas sneak attack on Israeli soil, show no signs of abating, with Israeli forces continuously hammering what they claim are Hamas targets inside the Palestinian enclave. On October 17, the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the Gaza Strip was virtually obliterated in an attack that claimed at least 500 lives, with both Israel and Hamas denying responsibility for this atrocity, while blaming it on each other. Speaking at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the hospital’s destruction as a tragedy and a humanitarian catastrophe,…

On October 17, a deadly attack on the al-Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip’s north killed hundreds of people. Palestinian authorities and the Israeli army are pointing fingers at one another for the disaster. Hamas said that the missile was launched by the IDF, while Israeli officials put the blame on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement. The international community was shocked by this catastrophe, with citizens all around the globe rallying in support of Palestine and urging for a ceasefire. Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that the attack on the hospital is an “act of dehumanization”, while Venezuela and Qatar dubbed the…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Harir Air Base in Iraq’s Erbil Governorate, where US forces are stationed, was attacked by a drone on Wednesday, an Iraqi news agency reported, citing a security source. An armed group identifying itself as Teshkil al-Warithin of Al-Aqsa Flood Operations Room has claimed responsibility for the attack, the source said. The group’s statement posted on social media was quoted by the news agency as saying that the “American occupation base in northern Iraq – Harir Base” was targeted by a drone precisely at noon. Source: Sputink