Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli forces Wednesday detained 16 Palestinians from the occupied West Bank, including three former prisoners and two siblings. In Bethlehem, Israeli forces detained three Palestinians, while in Qalqilya, one Palestinian was detained. Three Palestinians, including two siblings, were detained from Jericho. Additionally, the soldiers detained three Palestinians, including two former prisoners, from Tulkarm. Israeli forces detained one former prisoner from Hebron, two from Jerusalem, one from Ramallah and two from Nablus. Source: WAFA

Israeli forces Wednesday raided and ransacked the home of WAFA journalist Joueid al-Tamimi as well as several others houses, including his brother’s. According to al-Tamimi, Israeli forces broke into his house as well as houses of his brothers and relatives, including Alaa’ al-Tamimi, head of the Palestinian Land Authority, and carried out a wide-scale inspection and ransack operation, breaking doors and windows. He added that the soldiers fired toxic gas grenades in the houses, inspected vehicles and personal mobiles and conducted a local investigation about his family. Source: WAFA

President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to visit the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp today in order to check citizens’ conditions, and the progress of work in the reconstruction of the camp and the city following the last Israeli aggression. Abu Rudeineh added that President Abbas will meet with representatives of official and popular events. Source: WAFA

“After the collapse of the USSR Washington and its European satellites deliberately brought the military infrastructure closer to our borders, creating unacceptable threats to the security of the Russian Federation,” Anatoly Antonov noted Declarations made in Vilnius where a NATO summit is being held confirm the US-led bloc’s anti-Russian attitude and its readiness to accumulate more troops near Russian borders, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said. “The statements in Vilnius confirmed the anti-Russian drive of NATO. Without exaggeration, Russia is identified as the main threat to the North Atlantic Alliance. All the bloc’s resources have been thrown…

Authorities have asked fishing boats in the designated splashdown area to remain vigilant and stay away from potential missile fragments if they detect them North Korea launched what is presumed to be a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, the Japanese coast guards reported. The authority requested fishing vessels in the designated splashdown area to remain vigilant and do not approach the potential fragments of a missile if they discover them. A crisis response center was set up at the office of the Japanese prime minister in connection with the launch. The premier himself is currently on…

Russian Foreign Ministry denounced the “high-ranking” UN representatives’ disregard for the rules and basic principles of international humanitarian assistance and the suffering of millions of Syrians in order to satisfy the political demands of Western countries to undermine Syria’s sovereignty and deepen its territorial division. “Moscow’s attention was drawn to the collective appeal of representatives of the humanitarian wing of the United Nations on July 5, against the background of the discussion in the Security Council in New York regarding international humanitarian assistance to Syria, including the cross-border mechanism,” a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry read Tuesday. The statement…

One of Erdogan’s demands in return for Sweden’s NATO approval is the ability to renew delayed EU membership talks. At a meeting during the NATO summit in Vilnius on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his “courage” in withdrawing from blocking Sweden’s entry to NATO. “I want to thank you for your diplomacy and your courage to take that on. And I want to thank you for your leadership,” Biden expressed to Erdogan. This comes after frustration kept mounting in the West as Erdogan kept blocking Sweden from accessing NATO after Sweden submitted…

Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on how realistic was the plan of Ukraine’s fast-track accession to NATO, adding that it was necessary to wait for specific decisions Ukraine’s potential accession to NATO is very dangerous for European security and those who make such decisions should be aware of that, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. “Potentially, this is very dangerous for European security and this really harbors very big dangers,” the Russian presidential spokesman said, commenting on the possibility of Ukraine’s accelerated accession to NATO. “Those who make such a decision, should be aware of that,” Peskov said. The…

A Palestinian was injured and nine others were arrested today during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of different parts of the West Bank. Palestinian media reported that the occupation forces stormed the new Askar refugee camp in Nablus, amidst shooting, which resulted in the injury of a Palestinian. They also arrested two other young men. The occupation forces raided the homes of Palestinians in the towns of Shufa in Tulkarm and Fahma in Jenin, and Jalazone refugee camp in Ramallah, and arrested six Palestinians, while a young man was arrested while he was passing through one of the occupation’s checkpoints,…

Supplying Kiev’s regime with weapons by the US administration and several of its Western allies is an immoral issue, which uncovers their political hypocrisy and confirms their irresponsible acts, said the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday in a statement . The statement added that the plans by the US to supply Kiev with cluster bombs violates the international agreements and the warns by UN which confirms that such acts prolong the war of aggression waged against Russia. Syria categorically condemns this dangerous escalation, calling on the whole world to stop such reckless acts by the US which impose a severe threat…