Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Iranian Foreign Minister takes to X to further call for an end to the Israeli occupation’s crimes. Hours after the massacre that the Israeli occupation committed against defenseless civilians in al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian took to X to further call on leaders to put an end to “Israel’s” crimes. Amir-Abdollahian stressed that “the time has come for global human unity against this [Israeli] fake regime that is more abominable than ISIS and its killing machine.” While his entire post was in Farsi, the top Iranian diplomat ended it with: “Time is OVER,” using…

Government of the Syrian Arab Republic on Wednesday declared official public mourning for a period of three days, starting from 18/10/2023, over the innocent victims who died in attack by the Zionist criminal forces that targeted al-Mamdani Hospital in Gaza Strip in sisterly Palestine on 17/10/2023. The flags will be flown at half-mast across the Syrian Arab Republic, and in all embassies and diplomatic missions abroad throughout this period. Source: SANA

Iran has condemned in the strongest terms an earlier attack by the Israeli regime on a hospital in Gaza City that has claimed the lives of hundreds of people. Speaking on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani denounced the massacre as a “savage war crime” and an instance of “genocide.” By perpetrating this “bestial and appalling crime, the Zionist regime once again showed its ferocious and vicious nature to the entire people of the world,” he said. The regime “proved that it does not commit in the least bit to the principles and rules of the international law that govern the wartime.”…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says if Israeli crimes against Palestinians in Gaza continue, no one can stop Muslims and resistance forces. Speaking in a meeting with a group of Iranian elites and top scientific talents on Tuesday, Ayatollah Khamenei said that Muslim nations are angry at the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. “If these crimes continue, the Muslims and the resistance forces will become impatient, [and] no one would be able to stop them,” he said. “This is a fact that exists. Of course, whatever the Zionist regime does, it will not be able to make up for…

Bombing in the south of the tiny, crowded Gaza Strip killed scores of people overnight, local authorities said The Abu Marasa family are returning to Gaza City, having fled on Friday after Israel ordered all civilians to go south or face bombardment, saying they would rather die at home after an air strike hit the house next to where they were sheltering. Bombing in the south of the tiny, crowded Gaza Strip killed scores of people overnight, local authorities said, and the Abu Marasa family is one of several Reuters spoke to that have concluded they may as well go…

More than 12,500 others have been wounded since Israel started bombarding Gaza on October 7, in retaliation for Hamas attacks in Israel which killed more than 1,400 Around 3,000 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said on Tuesday. More than 12,500 others have been wounded since Israel started bombarding Gaza on October 7, in retaliation for Hamas attacks in Israel which killed more than 1,400 people. Source: Zawya

Palestinian authorities say at least 500 people were killed in an Israeli raid on a hospital in central Gaza. At least 500 people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities in the besieged territory. Several world leaders have condemned the attack. Here are some of the early key reactions: Palestine A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the air raid as an act of “genocide” and a “humanitarian catastrophe”. Abbas has also withdrawn from a previously scheduled meeting with US President Joe Biden, who is set to arrive…

ROME: As humanitarian supplies converged on Egypt’s border with Gaza, the United Nations World Food Programme renewed its call for sustained humanitarian access to Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of people fleeing violence desperately need food, water and medical supplies. The WFP said it already has food for 244,000 people close to the border with Gaza. More food supplies are arriving in northeastern Egypt, where an assistance hub is being set up. “We need to be allowed to bring this food into Gaza for immediate distribution. And not just once. We need sustained access. “The situation over there is catastrophic…

GENEVA, Tuesday, October 17, 2023 (WAFA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) strongly condemned the Israeli attack on al Ahli-Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. The hospital was operational, with patients, health and caregivers, and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries. The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military. The order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and…

LONDON: The International Criminal Court must investigate Israel’s siege of Gaza, Palestine’s ambassador to the UK said on Tuesday, adding that Tel Aviv has committed war crimes in its 10-day bombardment of the enclave’s 2 million people. The Israel Defense Forces have killed medical and rescue teams with airstrikes as they attempted to reach civilians, Husam Zomlot told a press briefing attended by Arab News.He described Israel’s alleged use of white phosphorus and “disproportionate, lethal” bombardments as a war crime, calling on ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to “take his job immediately and with responsibility.” Zomlot said: “The sad fact is…