Author: Steven Sahiounie

Demonstrations continue around world against Israel’s attack on Gaza with thousands of people attending pro-Palestinian rallies in Australia’s state capitals Adelaide and Melbourne, with the largest held in Sydney with some 5,000 people on Sunday. Source: aljazeera

Israeli air raids have killed at least 2,329 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 9,714 others, according to the territory’s health ministry. Some 1,300 people have been killed in the Hamas attack on Israel. Source: AlJazeera

Syrian state news agency SANA has reported that “Israeli aggression” has targeted Syria’s Aleppo airport. “The consequences of the aggression against Aleppo’s airport are being assessed at the moment,” the state news agency said, without further details. The statement comes after Israel said it returned artillery fire after rockets were launched from Syria. Source: Aljazeera

Government officials indicate more time will be given for Palestinian civilians to leave the north of Gaza ahead of an expected full-scale ground offensive. Military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner did not say there is a deadline to leave north Gaza, but told a news briefing: “We have extended once again because we realised that there is a huge amount of people that need to get out. We are continuing to encourage the population in the north of the Gaza Strip and Gaza City to go south and get out of harm’s way.” Foreign ministry spokesman Lior Haiat told the briefing…

The death toll included 2,215 dead from Gaza with 8,714 injured CAIRO – At least 2,269 Palestinians have been killed and 9,814 others wounded due to Israeli attacks in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian health ministry said in a report on Saturday. The death toll included 2,215 dead from Gaza with 8,714 injured. The other 54 dead and 1,100 wounded were from the West Bank, the report added. Source: Zawya

Egypt says its side of the Rafah crossing that connects Sinai with the Gaza Strip remains open, though traffic has been halted for several days because of Israeli bombardments on the Palestinian side of the border CAIRO – New aid flights arrived in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday where relief materials are being held until safe passage for their delivery into the nearby Gaza Strip can be secured, an official from the Red Crescent and an aid volunteer said. Egypt says its side of the Rafah crossing that connects Sinai with the Gaza Strip remains open, though traffic has been…

All the living generations of 45 families have been wiped from the Gaza civil registry, the health ministry says. At least 2,215 Palestinians have been killed and 8,714 wounded in Israeli air attacks on Gaza this week. Among the dead are 720 children. The death toll will surge significantly if Israel launches a ground invasion into the besieged territory of about 2.3 million people. Source: Aljazeera

“The regional security guarantor has driven security to reach the point of no return,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel The United States’ steps have resulted in the security situation in the Middle East to reach “the point of no return,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel. Earlier, the US Department of State announced that non-emergency US government personnel of the US embassy in Jerusalem and its Branch Office in Tel Aviv, as well as members of their families, may leave Israel and return to the US. This decision was taken…

400 Palestinian civilians have been brutally massacred and nearly 1500 others have been injured over the past 24 hours, as the genocide being carried out by the Israeli war machinery in the besieged Gaza Strip enters its eighth day. WAFA correspondent on the ground reported that the Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes targeting ten inhabited homes in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The strikes resulted in the tragic loss of over 80 lives and left around 250 others injured. In the city of Gaza, approximately 260 civilians were murdered under heavy Israeli bombardment over neighborhoods of Tal…

President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed this evening in a phone call with US President Joe Biden that peace and security in our region will only be achieved through the implementation of the two-state solution based on international legitimacy resolutions. In order to achieve this goal, the President stressed the need to stop all attacks and respect international humanitarian law regarding what is going on in the Gaza Strip. During the phone call with the US President, President Abbas stressed the necessity of allowing urgent humanitarian corridors to be opened in the Gaza Strip, providing basic materials and medical supplies, delivering water,…