Author: Steven Sahiounie

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan discussed developments in the Gazan city of Rafah with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa on Thursday. During a meeting in Riyadh, the two officials also discussed strengthening cooperation relations between their countries, and the Palestinian government’s priorities and work program. Israeli forces massed tanks and opened fire close to built-up areas of Rafah on Thursday, residents said, after US President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city. Israel has defied international objections by sending in tanks and conducting “targeted…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the ‘barbaric attack’ carried out by extremist Israeli colonial groups against the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in occupied Jerusalem. In a statement, OIC considered this to be an extension of organized terrorism and ongoing Israeli crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces and extremist colonists in the occupied Palestinian Territory. OIC stressed that this serious attack comes in the context of the Israeli occupation’s attempts to undermine the role of UNRWA, distort it and dry up its funding sources, as the Israeli occupation…

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi reiterated that the country will not negotiate over its missile and defense capabilities. Addressing a gathering of the people of Qom during a one-day visit to the holy city on Thursday, the president said there were some people who warned that the country may get involved in a war and in order to prevent it, Iran should make concessions over its military and missile capabilities. However, he added, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei judiciously rejected the idea and underlined that military capabilities and components of the country’s power are in no way…

Political Bureau member of Hamas, Izzat al-Rishq confirmed that the movement continues to adhere to its position regarding the ceasefire proposal approved by mediators. Political Bureau member of Hamas, Izzat al-Rishq has confirmed that “Israel’s” invasion of Rafah and occupation of the crossing only aims to block the efforts of mediators and escalate the aggression and genocide. In a statement, al-Rishq expressed that the movement continues to adhere to its position regarding the ceasefire proposal approved by mediators. He revealed that the Hamas delegation left the Egyptian capital, Cairo, a short while ago, heading to the Qatari capital, Doha. Deputy secretary-general…

The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry described as shameful and heinous the attempts by US lawmakers to provide immunity for the Israeli regime’s officials sought by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their war crimes in Gaza. “The goal of a group of representatives of the US Congress and the US Senate is to threaten and pressure the prosecutors and judges of the International Criminal Court, to provide immunity for war crimes and genocide by the officials and military commanders of the Zionist regime, and this is a shameful and worrying action,” Nasser Kanaani wrote in a post on X.…

Concerns of potential war crimes have been raised after the discovery of a third mass grave in the remains of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza which has been under the Israeli bombardment since October last year.

Students in the Irish capital have ended their pro-Palestine protest rally after college authorities agreed to divest from Israeli companies.

Israeli warplanes have carried out a series of airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, resulting in the loss of civilian lives and leaving several others wounded as the brutal war enters its 216th day.

Iran’s president has called on international organizations to push for increased delivery of humanitarian assistance to the war-stricken Gaza Strip and to intensify efforts to overcome obstacles created by the Israeli regime. 

A senior Hamas official says the Israeli regime is prolonging underway negotiations on a potential truce in Tel Aviv’s months-long war on the Gaza Strip so it can carry out a full-scale invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.