Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Palestinian Health Ministry has recorded that the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has resulted in over 560 Palestinian martyrs and as many as 2900 people injured. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Monday to “change the Middle East” in “Israel’s” war on Gaza, as the occupation launches continuous airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. As of 4:00 pm on Monday, the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has resulted in over 560 Palestinian martyrs, as reported by the Palestinian Health Ministry. This number is preliminary as many Palestinians remain unaccounted for under the rubble of collapsed residential buildings due to Israeli brutal airstrikes.…

Operators have refused to speculate on the source of the system failure, according to Reuters An undersea gas pipeline connecting Finland and Estonia is temporarily out of service after gas system companies in both countries observed an unexpected drop in pressure likely caused by a leak, its operators have said. “I do not want to speculate at all on the cause of the leak,” Janne Gronlund, a senior executive at Finnish energy firm Gasgrid, told Reuters on Sunday. He added that gas supplies remained stable, and that measures had been taken to isolate the pipeline to prevent further gas from escaping.…

At least 560 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since October 7, says the health ministry in the besieged coastal enclave. The ministry also said some 2,900 people have been injured. Source: Aljazeera

The Israeli army says it is carrying out one of the largest waves of air attacks against Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip. Israeli media has also reported that Israel has hit 1,000 targets in Gaza, adding that the military has announced it will continue hitting the territory, even if it comes at the cost of harming Israeli captives in the enclave. In Gaza, residential buildings, mosques, a university, a hospital and a telecommunications company have all been hit, according to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum. The correspondent said that Israeli drones continue to roam the skies of Gaza, as…

Harrowing images from inside the Gaza Strip show panicked residents, enveloped by a cloud of black smoke, trying to search through the rubble after the Israeli army launched air and artillery strikes, including in two refugee camps. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israel “completely destroyed” several residential buildings and mosques in the besieged enclave and partially destroyed four schools belonging to UNRWA. Following the attack, Gaza’s health ministry said there were dozens of Palestinians killed and wounded. Source: Aljazeera

The Venezuelan government called on Israel to fully and immediately end all settlement and occupation activities in the Palestinian territories, considering it the only way to achieve peace. It stressed in a statement issued today the necessity of ending violence throughout the Palestinian territories, through direct dialogue and commitment to Security Council Resolution No. 2334, noting that the development of recent events in the Gaza Strip is the result of the inability of the Palestinian people to find space in multilateral international legitimacy to assert their historical rights. The statement stressed that now more than ever, it is necessary to…

Arab League foreign ministers will meet on Wednesday to discuss “Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip”, the regional bloc has announced. The “extraordinary meeting” in Cairo will seek to find “avenues of political action at the Arab and international level”, as Israel keeps pounding Gaza, Arab League deputy chief Hossam Zaki said in a statement. Source: Aljazeera

Israeli energy minister, Israel Katz, has ordered “to immediately cut the water supply” to Gaza, his spokesperson said. The move comes after an earlier announcement of a “total blockade” on Gaza by the defence ministry. source: Aljazeera

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator October 8, 2023, Latakia, Syria: The former chief of Mossad, told CNN today that Israel had “no warning of any kind”. A massive attack on Israel by Hamas, a Palestinian resistance group in Gaza, was carried out yesterday on Jewish communities in southern Israel, near the Gaza border. Hamas fired between 2-5 thousand rockets at Israel and hundreds of Israeli are dead, while dozens of Israelis were captured as prisoners of war. In the ensuing air response by Israel, hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Gaza. Experts warn that Israel appears to be…

The Israeli occupation forces wage brutal and indiscriminate airstrikes on the Gaza Strip using thermobaric weapons. The Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre early Monday in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, by bombarding residential buildings, murdering with cold blood an entire family in the Strip’s south. The shelling resulted in scores of casualties being reported between martyrs and wounded as a result of the occupation’s extensive shelling. Reports suggest that the number of martyrs is at least 11, with five being injured in an air raid that targeted a residential building in Khan Yunis. Airstrikes were renewed in the northeastern and…