Author: Steven Sahiounie

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On Monday, Hezbollah announced it shot down an Israeli Drone, the Hermes 900, over southern Lebanon. The Lebanese resistance group used air defense weapons to down the drone which fell in the vicinity of al-Rehan mountain in Jezzine District.Hezbollah poses the largest military threat to Israel, according to Israeli and regional security experts. In 2006, Hezbollah successfully defended an all-out assault by Israel and has only grown stronger since then by greatly expanding their weapons and technologies. Hezbollah has said the day fighting in Gaza stops will be the day fighting in southern Lebanon…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that President Vladimir Putin will receive Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan when he arrives in Moscow later on Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Peskov said after receiving the Turkish foreign minister around 06:00 Moscow time (1500 GMT), Fidan and Putin would hold a meeting. “After 18:00 Moscow time, the President will receive Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan, who is on a working trip. Fidan has contacts at various levels in Moscow these days, (and will hold) negotiations. He will inform the head of state about the outcome of these negotiations,” he said. The…

Leaders of Palestine, Egypt and Jordan today stressed that the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the Palestinian state. During a trilateral summit held on the sidelines of the “Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza” conference at the King Hussein bin Talal Convention Center in the Dead Sea area, President Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II stressed the need for the immediate cessation of the Israeli aggression on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. They also stressed the need for the withdrawal of the occupation forces from…

On the sidelines of the “Gaza Emergency Humanitarian Response Conference” held in Jordan, President Mahmoud Abbas met today with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, during which he expressed his great appreciation to Egypt for its steadfast positions and support for the rights of the Palestinian people; above all the right to embody their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Resident Abbas thanked Sisi for organizing this important international conference on emergency humanitarian response for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip who are subjected to genocide and starvation by the Israeli occupation. He further praised Egypt for its…

Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh held separate meetings on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the Emergency Humanitarian Response Conference on Gaza, with Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati.During his meeting with the Moroccan Prime Minister, Khasawneh underlined the strong relations between the two countries and the commitment to enhancing these ties in various fields, reflecting the visions of His Majesty King Abdullah II and King Mohammed VI.The Prime Minister commended Morocco’s participation in the Emergency Humanitarian Response Conference on Gaza, highlighting the conference’s significance in mobilizing humanitarian support and ensuring the timely, comprehensive, and sustainable…

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, arrived to Amman on Tuesday to participate in the Emergency Humanitarian Response Conference on Gaza in the Dead Sea. El-Sisi was welcomed upon touchdown at the Queen Alia International Airport by Ibrahim Jazi, Minister of State for Prime Ministerial Affairs, alongside the Mayor of Amman, Youssef Shawarba, and the Governor of the capital, Yasser Adwan. Source: Petra news

Arab leaders convened in Jordan for an emergency international conference on Tuesday to assess the humanitarian response for Gaza, at the invitation of King Abdullah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The conference aims to strengthen the international community’s response to the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip by identifying effective mechanisms and steps for operational and logistical needs. It also seeks to coordinate a unified response to the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The ongoing war in Gaza has caused a humanitarian catastrophe for over 2.3 million Palestinians, leading to widespread famine, psychological suffering, and massive destruction. Access…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with the Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golub, on the sidelines of the “Gaza Emergency Humanitarian Response Conference” hosted by Jordan. President Abbas thanked the Slovenian Prime Minister for his country’s courageous and principled position on the recognition of the State of Palestine, which complements Slovenia’s positions in support of international law and international legitimacy, as well as the right of the Palestinian people to freedom and independence. The President stressed that the decision to recognize Palestinian statehood would contribute to protecting the two-state solution, which is being systematically destroyed, as well as to achieving security,…

President Rashad Al-Alimi, chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, returned to Aden on Monday after visiting several countries in the region to discuss ways to bring peace and prosperity to the war-torn nation. During his trip, the PLC leader held talks with officials from Saudi Arabia and other key regional and international actors. They discussed prospects for reviving the peace process, and ways to mitigate the economic hardships worsened by the Houthi militias’ attacks on oil facilities and ships in the region, the Yemeni News Agency, Saba, reported on Monday. Al-Alimi thanked the members of the Arab Coalition including Saudi…

In a meeting on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the importance of a post-conflict plan in Gaza along with the necessity of preventing the war from spreading, the State Department said in a statement. “He reiterated that the [ceasefire] proposal on the table would unlock the possibility of calm along Israel’s northern border and further integration with countries in the region,” the statement reads. This development comes as part of efforts led by the US to push forth a ceasefire proposal that would see the release of all captives in exchange…