Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

The election campaign for Algeria’s early presidential elections, scheduled for September 7, has officially begun. According to the Constitutional Council, three candidates are competing for the presidency. Incumbent President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is running as an independent candidate, while Yousef Aouchiche represents the Socialist Forces Front (FFS), and Cherif Boudflika stands for the Movement for Society and Peace (MSP). The campaign will focus on their respective platforms and visions for Algeria’s future as they vie for the role of head of state. The presidential candidates have kicked off their campaigns by detailing their programs designed to “drive development and ensure security and stability…

Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.Tests in Jordan confirmed the disease in an unvaccinated 10-month-old from the central Gaza Strip, the health ministry in Ramallah said.According to the United Nations, Gaza, now in its 11th month of war, has not registered a polio case for 25 years, although type 2 poliovirus was detected in samples collected from the territory’s wastewater in June.“Doctors suspected the presence of symptoms consistent with polio,”…

UN agencies on Friday called for two seven-day breaks in the fighting in Gaza to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been detected in the wastewater.The UN’s health and children’s agencies said they had drawn up detailed plans to reach children across the besieged Palestinian territory, starting later this month.But that would require pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said.They said they were planning two rounds of a vaccination campaign across the Gaza Strip, starting in late August, against type 2 poliovirus (cVDPV2).Last month, it was announced that type…

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the Jordan-Syria border on Friday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), it said.The earthquake, felt by residents across Syria and Lebanon, was revised from an earlier 5.2 magnitude.Syria’s National Earthquake Center said the tremor was felt by residents of Salamiyah city in western Syria, near where a 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck late on Monday, causing panic and dozens of injuries but no casualties. Source: Arab News

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said in Beirut on Friday that Cairo will “make every possible effort to spare Lebanon and its brotherly people the woes of any uncalculated escalation.” Abdelatty condemned “all provocative policies, including the violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty.” He repeated Egypt’s rejection of “the Israeli aggression on Beirut’s southern suburb and the policy of assassinations.” Abdelatty added that the security and stability of Lebanon “is an Egyptian interest and an Arab interest that we are working on maintaining.” His talks in Beirut came two days after visits by US mediator Amos Hochstein and French Foreign Minister Stephane…

Forty-one Palestinian civilians who suffered various injuries in the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in Gaza today arrived in Malaysia for treatment. The Palestinians, aged between eight months and 62 years, were flown to Malaysian from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, onboard two Malaysian Air Force transport aircraft in implementation of the President of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim’s initiative to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people. The injured were received by Malaysian Defence Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin, a host of Malaysian officials, Palestine’s ambassador to Malaysia Walid Abu Ali and Egypt’s ambassador to Malaysia Ragai Nasr, and were accompanied by 86 family…

China consistently aims to elevate its relations with Russia to unprecedented heights, the Chinese Foreign Ministry informed Sputnik. The diplomatic office reaffirmed that Beijing will grow its relationship with Moscow within the parameters established by the leaders of the two states and noted that this year marks the 75th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Russia and China. “This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and China and the opening of the Years of Culture of Russia and China”, it said. China is ready to cooperate with Russia in order, guided by the consensus reached…