Author: Steven Sahiounie

The IDF reportedly managed to recover several bodies of Israelis during a “localized” incursion The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sent tanks and foot soldiers into Gaza on Friday to conduct what it called “localized raids” ahead of a likely invasion of the Palestinian enclave, in an effort to locate some of the people taken hostage by Hamas militants. IDF forces carried out several raids into Gaza in order to “cleanse the area of ​​terrorists and weapons” while making “an effort… to locate missing people,” according to the IDF account on X (formerly Twitter). “Infantry and armored forces searched and gathered in the area for findings that may…

The network’s team witnessed an armed clash during a ‘day of rage’ Finoshina and her crew were in Wadi al-Joz, an Arab neighborhood north of the Old City, filming a Palestinian demonstration in solidarity with the people of Gaza. As rocks flew at Israeli police, officers brought out the tear gas grenades and a truck with a water cannon. In a video filmed by the RT crew, the “pop-pop-pop” of gas grenades can be heard as police move into the residential area, while riot police aim their rifles at the windows above. Finoshina used the phrase “sewage tank” for the water cannon vehicle. In the past…

Six other reporters were injured when they were allegedly shelled by Israeli forces A Reuters videographer has been killed in southern Lebanon, the news agency said on Friday. Six other journalists were injured in the incident. The group was hit by Israeli artillery, Al Jazeera and Lebanese security sources said. “We are deeply saddened to learn that our videographer, Issam Abdallah, has been killed,” Reuters said in a statement. Abdallah was providing a live video feed from near the Israeli border at the time of his death, the agency continued, adding that it is “urgently seeking more information” from authorities in the region.…

Croatia’s Zoran Milanovic says the bombing of civilians in Gaza has gone beyond self-defense Having the Croatian Foreign Ministry fly an Israeli flag was “idiotic” and inappropriate, President Zoran Milanovic said on Friday, adding that the atrocities by Hamas do not give Israel the right to bomb civilians for revenge. “I think it was an idiotic move, for all my sympathies for Israel – which they unfortunately wasted after 15 minutes – after the horrors and massacres by Hamas,” Milanovic told reporters who asked him about the flag incident. “I condemned the killings [by Hamas], and expressed my horror and revulsion, but the right…

A memo to officials suggests Washington will not urge Israel to restrain its military action in the Palestinian enclave The US State Department has advised diplomats to avoid calling for “de-escalation” or a “ceasefire” in Gaza amid continued fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants, multiple media outlets have reported. US officials have voiced loud support for the Jewish state’s right to “self-defense” in the wake of a deadly Hamas raid last week. In an email addressed to a small group of officials on Friday, the State Department said US press materials should steer clear of phrases such as “restoring calm,” “end to violence/bloodshed,” or “de-escalation/ceasefire,” unnamed administration officials told NBC News…

The UN has called Israel’s forced relocation order impossible and disastrous Dozens of people, mostly women and children, have been injured and killed in Israeli airstrikes on evacuation convoys fleeing Gaza City, according to Hamas officials. The IOF has yet to respond to the accusations, after ordering more than 1 million people to leave the northern part of the enclave “to save their lives.” The UN humanitarian body, OCHA, said several “vehicles of those evacuating the north were hit, killing more than 40 people and injuring 150 others,” citing data from health officials in the Hamas-governed Palestinian enclave. “These incidents prompted many people to abandon their…

China’s representative to the Middle East has met with senior members of the Arab League in China, for an emergency session to discuss the crisis in Israel and Gaza, according to a statement from China’s foreign ministry. In a statement issued on Saturday, the ministry quoted Zhai Jun as saying that Beijing supports the 22-member strong Arab League in playing an important role on the “Palestinian issue” and will continue to provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people. “The international community should earnestly enhance its sense of urgency to return to the correct basis of the two-state solution to realise…

Jan Egeland, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, has denounced Israel’s order to forcibly evacuate over a million Palestinians from northern Gaza as a “war crime”. In an interview with Sky News, Egeland urged Western and Arab countries to press Israel to lift the order. “Under international humanitarian law, it is called forcible transfer of population and it is a war crime,” he said, while pointing out that the order does not include “a real promise to return at any point”. “It is an outrage.” Source: AlJazeera

The Israeli army says it will allow safe movement for Palestinians in Gaza to move from Beit Hanoon in the north to Khan Younis in the south between 10am and 4pm. Spokesperson Avichay Adraee said residents can travel on two designated streets: Al-Bahr and Salah al-Din, “without any harm”. “If you care about yourself and your loved ones, go south as instructed,” he wrote in Arabic on X. Source: Aljazeera

Israeli air raids have killed at least 256 people, including 20 children, and wounded 1,788 others in less than 24 hours, according to hospitals in Gaza. A correspondent from the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported that Israeli forces targeted Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood and the Red Crescent’s al-Quds Hospital where hundreds of families took refuge seeking protection from Israeli bombing. The bombardment also destroyed dozens of homes and residential buildings throughout the Strip, WAFA reported. It said Nasser and Abu Yousef al-Najjar hospitals in the south are no longer able to help the wounded after they were damaged by…