Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israeli bombardment on the city of Deir al-Balah in the central war-torn Gaza Strip Saturday evening killed four Palestinians and injured others, according to local sources. They said that the Israeli occupation forces targeted a house located to the south of the city, killing four civilians and injuring others. Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets launched an airstrike on a residential tower in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Strip. Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disregard of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt…

Given the severe military restrictions the Israeli occupation authorities had placed on mosque entry, tens of thousands of people performed Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosquee. About 40,000 people, according to the Islamic Awqaf Department in Jerusalem, performed Friday prayers within Al-Aqsa Mosque. According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), the occupation forces are still enforcing harsh limitations on worshipers’ access to Al-Aqsa, particularly on Fridays. Thousands of residents of the West Bank governorates are unable to travel to Jerusalem to pray at Al-Aqsa Mosque because they need special permission to pass through the military checkpoints that encircle the Holy City…

Early this morning, nine Lebanese citizens, including a mother and her two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nabatieh Governorate in southern Lebanon. Additionally, five others sustained injuries in the attack. The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that the casualties and injuries resulted from an air raid carried out by Israeli fighter jets on the Wadi al-Kfour village in the Nabatieh region. Simultaneously, the southern region of Lebanon experienced intense Israeli reconnaissance and drone flights, particularly over the cities and villages of Tyre, Bazourieh, and Qadmus. Source: WAFA

The Doha negotiations did not yield any developments as “Israel” is clinging to its positions, a senior Palestinian Resistance official told Al Mayadeen. Moreover, a senior Hamas source pointed out that what the movement’s leadership was informed of Friday regarding the results of the Doha ceasefire meetings does not include a commitment to what was agreed upon on July 2. This follows a statement that senior officials from the governments of the United States, Qatar, and Egypt will reconvene in Cairo before the end of next week with an aim to conclude a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and a prisoner…

Medical sources reported today that the death toll from the Israeli airstrike on the Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip has risen to 15. The occupation’s warplanes targeted at dawn tonight a shack and a house belonging to the Al-Ajl family near the entrance to Al-Zawaida on Salah Al-Din Street in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of at least 15 citizens and the injury of dozens of others. He added that paramedics recovered the bodies of two people and a number of wounded after the occupation fighter jets bombed the house of the Madi family in…

Firefighters in Izmir’s Karsiyaka district have resumed aerial interventions as strong winds exacerbate the forest fire that has led to widespread evacuations and destruction in western Türkiye over the past two days. The wildfire, which began in the area of Yamanlar Karatepe in the Karsikaya district, has intensified, forcing the evacuation of three neighborhoods and threatening both residential and industrial areas. As the morning light appeared, aerial firefighting efforts were resumed, with teams on the ground continuing to combat the blaze despite challenging conditions. The fire has already destroyed 16 homes and forced the evacuation of 87 houses and 45…

The Israeli settlers who attacked Hassan Arman’s village of Jit in the occupied West Bank had a simple aim, he says: “To burn, kill, or destroy” — all of which took place that night.Residents hid in fear while dozens of settlers ransacked their northern village late on Thursday, burning homes and cars, until eventually a young Palestinian man was shot dead.Arman, whose car was destroyed by fire during the attack, said he had “never seen anything like it” in Jit as he opened the charred door of his vehicle.Inside, everything had melted, leaving just a skeleton of twisted metal. When…

Türkiye on Friday strongly condemned a social media post by Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, blasting it as “slander” and “disinformation.” On X, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Katz’s post targeted both Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated last month in Tehran, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, branding it “slander intended for disinformation purposes.” “These lies, aimed at diverting attention from the genocide taking place in Gaza, will not hinder our support for the Palestinian people,” the statement added. Israel, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued…

The UAE has provided aid to the Palestinians displaced from east Khan Younis amid Israeli evacuation orders of the area, state news agency WAM reported on Friday. Shelter tents, food baskets and emergency supplies were distributed to support displaced families in their new areas. Since the evacuation began, the UAE volunteer teams have set up and equipped tents and distributed food baskets for the displaced. So far, more than 13,000 tents have sheltered 72,000 people. The number of food parcels distributed has exceeded 300,000, reaching families across various areas of the Gaza Strip. Source: Arab News

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al Sisi received a phone call, Friday from US President Joe Biden to discuss the situation in the region and efforts to restore regional stability. The Spokesman for the Presidency said the two presidents reviewed the outcome of the round of negotiations held in Doha over the past two days, within the framework of implementing the joint Egyptian-American-Qatari statement, regarding reaching an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, exchanging hostages and detainees, and ending the humanitarian plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza. They agreed to continue and intensify joint efforts in the coming days to…