Author: Steven Sahiounie

At least seven Palestinian civilians have been savagely murdered in an Israeli airstrike which targeted a residential building in the city of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, razing it to the ground. The Israeli airstrike also resulted in the injury of many others. WAFA correspondent said that the Israeli airstrike targeted the building of the Jouda family without any prior warning, leading to the devastating outcome of seven casualties and numerous individuals being wounded. The injured were rushed to nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for medical treatment. Earlier in the day, the Ministry of Health had disclosed an increase…

Omar Najjar, a 24-year doctor at the Al-Nasser complex in Khan Younis, has described to Al Jazeera a day in the life of medical workers in Gaza: “I’m starting my day with the first air strike in the morning. We run to the emergency room and we are directly managing the patients. Many times we are asking if those patients are our relatives. Many times we can see our close friends, close members of our family in the emergency room. “Here in the hospital we have been officially informed by managers … that we will totally run out of electricity…

The Head of the Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh issued a formal accusation against “Israel” in a letter addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, saying that “Israeli atrocities amount to war crimes.” According to the military wing of Hamas, over the last 24 hours, nine captives have lost their lives as a result of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. This information was reported on Saturday. These include five Israelis and four foreigners, Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement, noting that they had been killed by Israeli “strikes on locations where the prisoners were held”, without elaborating. The most recent fatalities…

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh has just begun a televised address, accusing Israel of committing “genocide” in the Gaza Strip. “Our enemy is doing this with the US administration and some European countries,” he said. “The people of Gaza are staying in their land. They will never leave Gaza or flee [to Egypt],” he added. “I salute the people of Gaza who are facing the barbaric machine of the Zionist machine. They are committed to their lands.” Source: Aljazeera

Palestinians wounded in Israeli air strikes on Deir el-Balah City have been taken to al-Aqsa hospital. At least 20 people were killed by Israeli shelling of a home in the area in the Gaza Strip, according to the interior ministry. Source: Aljazeera

Israeli shelling in the southern village of Shebaa has killed two Lebanese civilians. “A man and his wife have been killed in their home by Israeli shelling,” Mayor Mohammad Harb was quoted as saying. The deaths come one day after Israeli shelling in southern Lebanon killed one journalist wounded six others. Israel has traded fire with Hezbollah and allied Palestinian factions in Lebanon on a near-daily basis since Sunday, although the tit-for-tat attacks have so far remained limited. Source: Aljazeera

According to the sources, the US intelligence community produced at least two assessments based in part on intelligence provided by Israel NEW YORK, October 14. /TASS/. US intelligence agencies warned the Washington administration of a potential escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shortly before the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, CNN reports, citing sources. According to the sources, the US intelligence community produced at least two assessments based in part on intelligence provided by Israel. “One update from September 28 warned, based on multiple streams of intelligence, that the group Hamas was poised to escalate rocket-attacks across the border. An October 5…

Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that in conversations with US President Joe Biden and other world leaders, he was trying to ensure “significant international support” for Tel Aviv TEL AVIV, October 14. /TASS/. The Israeli army’ strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip are “just the beginning,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “We are responding to our enemies with great force, with unprecedented force. I would like to point out that it’s just the beginning. Our enemies have just begun to pay. I will not go into detail of what will come next, but I will say that it is…

“Let me be clear: the responsibility for the looming war in the Middle East, to a large extent, lies on the United States,” he told UNITED NATIONS, October 14. /TASS/. The Middle East is on the brink of a full-scale war, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya warned. “The region is on the brink of a full scale war and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” he told reporters following a closed-door UN Security Council meeting on the current escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Let me be clear: the responsibility for the looming war in the Middle East, to…

The Russian President previously said that Israel had been subjected to a brutal attack, but that the conflict could only be resolved through the creation of an independent Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem CAIRO, October 14. /TASS/. The Palestinian Hamas movement appreciates the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s efforts to settle the situation in the Gaza Strip, according to the group’s statement published on its Telegram channel. “Hamas appreciates Russian President Vladimir Putin’s position on the ongoing Zionist aggression against our people and the fact that he does not accept the blockade of the Gaza Strip,…