Author: Steven Sahiounie

There will be no peace in the Mideast until a Palestinian state is founded, warned the Turkish foreign minister. “Palestinians are being prevented from truly having a state … (But) until a Palestinian state is established, no one in that region will have peace,” Fidan said in a new magazine interview out this week. Saying the “tragedy” in Gaza didn’t just start last Oct. 7, when Israel launched a months-long offensive on the Gaza Strip, Fidan told Bosnian and Herzegovina magazine Stav that that date is rather “a manifestation of a problem has been ignored.” Saying the problem is the…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II today discussed with Egypt President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and western officials the efforts to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East, according to the Royal Hashemite Court (RHC). RHC said in a press statement that Abdullah II discussed such efforts in separate phone calls with Egypt’s Al Sisi, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In the phone call, Abdullah II and Al Sisi stressed the importance of “exerting the utmost efforts to de-escalate regional tensions and maintain comprehensive calm.” They “reiterated the importance of reaching an…

The Palestinian Cabinet discussed during its weekly meeting today the ongoing efforts to stop the war waged against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for the past 305 consecutive days. The Cabinet also discussed the occupation’s systematic targeting of the West Bank; most recently against the city of Jenin and its camp, the village of Kafr Qud and the town of Aqaba in Tubas, which left several people killed and injured and caused the destruction of infrastructure and citizens’ properties. The Cabinet also called on international institutions to shoulder their responsibilities in light of warnings of the dire health…

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, held phone talks on Tuesday with his Egyptian counterpart, Dr. Badr Abdel Aati, on regional conditions and the dangerous escalation in the region. During the call held within the context of the ongoing bilateral coordination and consultation process, the two ministers said stopping the Israeli aggression on Gaza is the first step to de-escalate and protect the region from the consequences of sliding into a regional war. The two ministers also held Israel fully responsible for the dangerous escalation in the region, calling on the international community to…

In a speech commemorating the 79th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima at the hands of the United States, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chose not to mention Washington during his speech. The ceremony, held at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Tuesday, highlighted the devastating impact of the bombing but refrained from attributing responsibility directly. On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 warplane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, resulting in the deaths of up to 126,000 people, predominantly civilians. A second bomb was detonated over Nagasaki on August 9, killing up to 80,000 people. These attacks led to Japan’s…

In recent efforts to address regional tensions, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held a telephone call with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Monday. The discussion centered on the latest developments in Gaza, joint mediation efforts for a ceasefire, and coordination to manage regional escalation. This call follows a series of similar discussions by Abdelatty, including talks with officials from Iran and Lebanon. Abdelatty also spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the United States to pressure Israel to halt its aggressive policies. Egypt, along with the US and Qatar, has been facilitating indirect negotiations between Israel…

This week Türkiye will submit a petition to join the world court genocide case against Israel, the nation’s president announced on Monday. “Our parliamentary legal team will submit our petition to join the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague” on Wednesday, said Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Türkiye is doing everything in its power to end as soon as possible the “barbarism” that has claimed the lives of 40,000 innocents in Gaza over the past 10 months, he said after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara. “No matter what atrocities this bloodthirsty genocide network…

The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression has condemned Israel’s killing last week of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and cameraman Rami al-Rifi in Gaza, urging that their deaths be prosecuted as a war crime. “I strongly denounce the deliberate targeting by Israel of two journalists in Gaza, which adds to an already appalling toll of reporters and media workers killed in this war,” Irene Khan said in a statement. The two men were killed in a July 31 air strike by the Israeli military, which said al-Ghoul was a Hamas operative who took part in the…

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned against the “real and present danger” of nuclear weapons, as Japan marks the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing on the city of Hiroshima that massacred nearly 140,000 people and for which Washington has never offered an apology. “Nuclear weapons, and the threat of their use, are not confined to history books. They have once again appeared in the daily rhetoric of international relations,” Guterres said in a message on Tuesday. “They represent a real and present danger that remains with us today,” he noted. On August 6, 1945, during World War II…

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, in a telephone call with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, emphasized Iran’s right to take countermeasures against the Zionist regime. Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says it is imperative to put an end to the Israeli regime’s vicious scheme to expand the scale of war in the region. In a phone conversation with Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani on Monday, Bagheri Kani said the Israeli regime continues its atrocities and crimes against the innocent people of Palestine, particularly women and children. Pointing to Israel’s insolent…