Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli occupation navy boats targeted Palestinians fishermen’s boats while sailing in the sea of the northern Gaza Strip. WAFA correspondent said that the occupation navy soldiers targeted with bullets and tear gas canisters the fishermen’s boats, which were sailing in the sea of the town of Beit Lahiya and the Al-Waha area and forced them to leave the sea by force. Since October 2000, human right centers in Gaza have documented several Israeli violations, including killing and confiscation of boats, against fishermen who were allowed, in accordance with international guaranteed Palestinian- Israeli agreements, to fish in within 4 to 6…

Dozens of fanatic Israeli settlers Wednesday morning broke into the compounds of al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy protection from the Israeli police, Islamic Waqf confirmed. The Waqf said that settlers, divded into groups, raided the holy Islamic Mosque from al-Maghariba gate and took provocative tours in its compounds. It added that the extremist settlers performed Talmudic rituals in the eastern part of the Mosque. This comes at a time as Israeli forces intensify measures against Palestinians coming from Jerusalem to enter the Mosque, inspecting their IDs and briefly detaining them. Settlers are expected to go on a flag march on Thursday,…

Six Palestinians were early Wednesday injured by Israeli gunfire during an Israeli forces and settlers raid to the site of Joseph’s Tomb, east of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent Emergency and Ambulance Department in Nablus, told WAFA that a Palestinian was shot with a live bullet in the back and taken to the hospital, while five others were hit with rubber bullets and were treated locally. He added that another Palestinian man was injured in the hand after a gas bomb hit him, while a woman was hit with…

The investigative journalist cites information reported in secret by members of the US intelligence community. Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed on Wednesday that Eastern European allies, spearheaded by Poland, are secretly urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to end the Ukraine conflict, even by resigning himself, which the Ukrainian leader is refusing to do. “This group is led by Poland, whose leadership no longer fears the Russian army because its performance in Ukraine has left the glow of its success at Stalingrad during the Second World War in tatters. It has been quietly urging Zelensky to find a way to…

Last week, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Erdogan’s chief rival in the presidential elections race accused Russia of manufacturing and spreading “deep fakes” ahead of the general elections. On Tuesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the current Turkish president, and running candidate, assured that he would maintain the same foreign policy towards Russia and other countries if he wins the presidential race in the second round. “To this day we have adhered to the policy of ’embracing’ with all countries – with Russia, the US, China, with all Western countries — we have maintained constant ties. As the President of Turkey, I cannot afford to…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister Dr. Fayssal Mikdad met his Lebanese counterpart, Abdallah Bou Habib on sidelines of meetings preparatory for Arab Summit in Jeddah. Dr. Mikdad also met his Tunisian counterpart Nabil Ammar on sidelines of meetings preparatory for the Summit. Dr. Mikdad also met his Omani counterpart Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi on the sidelines of the preparatory meetings for the Arab summit in Jeddah. Foreign Minister, Dr. Fayssal Mikdad, met his Jordanian counterpart, Ayman Safadi on sidelines of preparatory meetings for the Arab summit Source: SANA

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that contacts about the grain deal are still ongoing, but that there are a number of questions still open in this regard. This came in Peskov’s press briefing today, Tuesday, where he continued: “In general, contacts are still going on, and they have been all the time. However, there are still open questions, and there are a large number of them related to the Russian part of the deal. Now a decision has to be taken on The future of this deal, and whether the West will move forward on the ammonia supply issue.” “When…

French energy giant EDF purchased 153 tons of enriched uranium from Russia last year France will not withdraw from a contract with Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom for reprocessing uranium, as doing so would be beneficial for Moscow, the French energy transition minister has claimed. Under the 2018 deal, regenerated uranium from France is delivered to Russia, where it is enriched and then sent back. The recycled uranium is used to run France’s nuclear power plants. Terminating the contract would generate higher compensation for the Russian government than merely continuing imports at a minimum level, Agnes Pannier-Runacher told the BFM Business…

The United States is racing against time to overcome the crisis of raising the public debt ceiling after it exceeded $31.4 trillion, amid warnings from the US Treasury Department. Raising the debt ceiling is a legislative maneuver that allows the US economy to continue paying its bills to its creditors and wages to its employees. The debt ceiling has been set so far at $31 trillion, which is a record for all sovereign debt in the world in absolute terms. The Republicans require agreement to raise the debt ceiling in return for budget cuts. For their part, the Democrats refused to…

Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Sousan affirmed that the Arab League summit to be held in Saudi Arabia is the beginning of a new phase of joint Arab action. “The meeting covered serious and transparent debates that dealt with draft resolutions on the agenda,” the Assistant Minister stated in a press release following the senior officials meeting held Tuesday in Jeddah. “There is a recognition of the need for Jeddah summit to be the threshold of a new phase of joint Arab action and to overcome the implications of the past,” Sousan said. He added that the…