Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict may escalate into a region-wide one, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. “As for the Gaza Strip, the risk of this crisis escalating into a region-wide conflict is quite serious,” Lavrov told reporters. “We are observing attempts to blame everything on Iran and we consider them quite provocative. The Iranian leadership, I believe, takes a fairly responsible, balanced position and is calling for preventing this conflict from spreading to the entire region and neighboring countries,” Lavrov said. Russia and Turkiye are in contact on the situation in the Middle East, Sergey Lavrov added. At a press point in…

In early October, the Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise large-scale rocket attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip and breached the border, killing and seizing people in neighboring Israeli communities. Israel responded with retaliatory strikes and ordered a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip. The US will lose in the war in the Middle East if Russia, China and Turkiye are drawn into it, said former Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson in his program on social network X (formerly Twitter). “The stakes are much higher than many Americans realize. It is easy to imagine several other countries being drawn…

The latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has resulted in thousands killed and injured on both sides, with over 500 perishing in the bombing of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday night. The Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) have every intention of staging in the Gaza Strip something similar to the US destruction of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, only without nuclear weapons, American journalist Seymour Hersh wrote in an article on Substack. “Gaza City is in the process of being turned into Hiroshima with no nuclear weapons used,” Hersh cited sources as telling him. Furthermore, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has every intention…

On October 7, Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise rocket and troop attack on Israel. The Israeli government declared a state of war and responded with retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip, damaging urban infrastructure and killing civilians. More than 500 people were killed in the bombing of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday night. Palestinian authorities blamed Israeli forces for the attack, while the IDF insists that the attack was carried out by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement. On Wednesday, the IOF said its forces had returned fire after coming under a cross-border attack launched by…

Rishi Sunak has just landed in Tel Aviv in a show of support for Israel. The British prime minister plans to offer condolences to Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, over the October 7 Hamas attack and discuss the war in Gaza. During his two-day visit to the region, Sunak is also expected to visit Egypt and Qatar. Source: AlJazeera

Dozens of Palestinian citizens were killed on early Thursday in strikes by Israeli occupation warplanes on citizens’ homes in various areas of the Gaza Strip. Local sources reported that the occupation aircraft launched several strikes on citizens’ homes in Rafah, killing more than 30 people from the Barika, Hassouna, and Dhair families, and injuring dozens who were transferred to the Ishlheid Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital. Occupation aircraft also bombed the upper floor of Al-Masry Tower in Rafah. Local sources added that a citizen was killed and 21 others were injured in an Israeli bombing of a house belonging to Mukhaimar…

Meta said it fixed an Instagram bug after some Instagram users, who posted pro-Palestine content, accused the social media platform of suppressing their content. Meta designates Hamas as a “dangerous organisation” and bans content praising the group. Mondoweiss, a news website that covers Palestinian human rights, said on social media platform X on October 10 that Instagram had twice suspended the profile of its video correspondent. Other Instagram users reported their posts and stories about Palestine were not receiving views. “This bug affected accounts equally around the globe – not only people trying to post about what’s happening in Israel…

Israeli warplanes fired several missiles at four residential towers in the al-Zahra area in the central Gaza Strip destroying them in total, according to local sources. The Israeli occupation army informed the residents of the 270-apartment towers of the intention to shell them, which prompted the residents to evacuate them. Sources also said warplanes attacked a house in the center of Khan Younis in the south of the West Bank killing 13 people and wounding many others. Source: WAFA

The US President says 20 aid trucks are expected to cross through Rafah into Gaza, after reaffirming unconditional military aid to “Israel”. “He (President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi) agreed to… let up to 20 trucks through, to begin with,” Biden said following a phone call with el-Sisi which he conducted from a telephone on the Presidential jet, Air Force One. He added that the 20 trucks represented a “first tranche,” but “150 or something” trucks are waiting in total. Whether the rest are allowed to cross will depend on “how it goes.” The aid packages would not reach Gazans until Friday as…

“The people of the world consider America to be an accomplice in the crimes of the Zionist regime,” Raisi told thousands of people who had gathered for a rally in central Tehran Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday accused the United States of being an accomplice in Israeli “crimes” after a rocket struck a hospital complex in Gaza, killing hundreds of people. “The people of the world consider America to be an accomplice in the crimes of the Zionist regime,” Raisi told thousands of people who had gathered for a rally in central Tehran in solidarity with the Palestinians. Source:…