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Exclusive for Mideast Discourse Al-Aqsa Flood Operation is the most honorable battle in Palestine, and we as Yemeni people are working closely with the Palestinians. Ahmed Abdu-Almalik Al-Ansi is a Yemeni journalist and translator. Mr. Abdulmalik Badruddin Al-Houthi, the commander of the Yemeni revolution, declared that Yemeni people will divert hundreds of thousands to Palestine to join the Palestinians in the Holy Jihad combat against the Zionist enemy. In response to the most recent Palestinian developments under Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” and the ongoing Zionist aggression against the Gaza Strip, Mr. Abdulmalek Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi stated in a speech today, “We…

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, additionally claimed responsibility for a missile launch directed at the Israeli capital. Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movements announced on Wednesday that they had initiated missile attacks directed toward “Tel Aviv.” “The Al-Qassam Brigades launched a missile strike on “Tel Aviv” in response to the shelling of civilians,” the military wing of the Hamas movement said in a statement. The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, additionally claimed responsibility for a missile launch directed at the Israeli occupation entity’s capital. Earlier in…

 Arab foreign ministers on Wednesday denounced Israel’s siege of Gaza following the shock attack by Palestinian militants on Israel, demanding that aid be “immediately” allowed to enter the blockaded enclave.Israel has imposed a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip, cutting off the water supply, food, electricity and other essential supplies, after Saturday’s massive assault by Hamas militants that has killed hundreds on both sides.On Wednesday, as Israel kept up its bombardment of targets in the crowded and impoverished coastal enclave for a fifth day, the only power plant in Gaza shut down.The Palestinian enclave’s electricity authority made the announcement saying…

Marwan Jilani, the director general of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, has said his organisation has seen the “worst moment in the entire history … of this long conflict”, with four emergency workers killed in Gaza. He said three of the workers were “directly hit” as they attended to the injured in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza. The fourth worker was “shot straight in the back and through the heart” while responding to casualties in east Gaza near the division with Israel. Jilani said the group had coordinated with the International Committee of the Red Cross before their worker…

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Fayssal Mikdad, discussed with his Algerian counterpart, Ahmed Attaf the latest developments in the criminal Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. That came on the sidelines of the emergency Arab ministerial meeting held at the headquarters of League of Arab States in Cairo. Both ministers pointed out that the common vision of the aspirations of the peoples of the two countries is to resist colonial schemes in the region, affirming the right of the Palestinian people to resist, and to stand by them to defend their just cause and restore their usurped rights…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that “the calls for the Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip to Sinai is not something that can lead to peace,” stressing that “Gaza is part of the historic land of Palestine.” Putin said in a statement reported by Russia Today website regarding the calls for the forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli occupation, “This is the land where Palestinians live, and it’s their land historically. An independent Palestinian state, Including Gaza, was supposed to be established. “In my opinion, this is not something that can lead to peace,” stressed Putin. Source:…

Eleven workers with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and five members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have been killed in the conflict, the aid groups say. “We are very saddened to confirm that 11 UNRWA colleagues have been killed since 7 October in the Gaza Strip,” the UN agency said in a statement. Five worked as teachers at UNRWA schools, one was a gynecologist, one an engineer, one a psychological counselor and three were support staff, it said. The IFRC said in a separate statement that five of…

Turkey is carrying out negotiations regarding civilians held by the Palestinian Hamas militant group after its attack on Israel at the weekend, a senior Turkish official says, as Ankara ramped up efforts and diplomacy to mediate the conflict. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says the talks were being carried out by Turkey’s relevant institutions upon orders by President Tayyip Erdogan, but provided no further details. Source: ALjazeera

The Russian leader noted that the Palestinian-Israeli issue has been accompanied and aggravated by “mediation activities” of a number of countries in recent years Russia has always advocated the implementation of the UN Security Council’s decision on the creation of an independent Palestinian state, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the plenary session of the Russian Energy Week. “We have always supported the implementation of the decisions of the UN Security Council, I mean, first of all, the creation of an independent Palestinian state. This is the root of all problems,” Putin pointed out. He also said that Russia’s position…

Foreign and Expatiates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, discussed with his Iraqi and Lebanese counterparts, Fuad Hussein and Abdallah Bou Habib the latest development in occupied Palestine. The talks occurred in two separate meetings on the sidelines of the extraordinary meeting at headquarter of the Arab League in Cairo. In the meetings, Minister Mikdad strongly condemned the criminal Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people, warning against the dangerous situation in the Gaza Strip in light of the occupation’s escalation and the unlimited Western support for the Israeli entity. He called for a united Arab stance supporting the Palestinians in light of the…