Author: Steven Sahiounie

Gas supplies will gradually resume flowing as of Thursday to fertilizer factories in Egypt after several chemical and fertilizer companies shut down plants on a temporary basis, the petroleum ministry said.

Google parent Alphabet must face a mass lawsuit which accuses it of abusing its dominance in the online advertising market, London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled on Wednesday.

Egypt welcomed on Wednesday the decision of the Slovenian government and parliament to recognize the State of Palestine, according to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid. On Tuesday, Slovenia’s parliament passed a decree recognising a Palestinian state, with 52 members of the 90-member parliament voting in favour of the government-sponsored decree. According to Abu Zeid, Cairo considered this decision an important step to support the Palestinians’ legitimate right to establish their independent state and the international efforts towards implementing the two-state solution. The European nation’s move came in response to the brutal Israeli war in the Gaza Strip. Slovenia…

The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to advance a largely symbolic bill calling for sanctions on the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor applied for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Hague-based court’s prosecutor has said Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant should be arrested on charges relating to the war in Gaza. The US House’s Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act — backed by almost every Republican and around a fifth of the Democrats — would bar US entry for ICC officials involved with the case, revoking their visas and restricting any US-based property transactions. “Today’s vote draws…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the country’s northern border with Lebanon on Wednesday and said Israel was prepared for strong action in the north.Israeli towns near the border, many of which have been evacuated, have been a frequent target of rocket and drone launches from Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. The rockets set off massive wild fires this week, burning swathes of land across northern Israel.“Whoever thinks that they can harm us and we will sit idly by is making a big mistake. We are prepared for a very strong action in the north. In one way or another we…

On International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the global community to protect the “honor and dignity, as well as the children of Gaza.” “I call on all states to protect the honor and dignity of humanity, as well as the children of Gaza, and to take a clear stance against the out-of-control Israeli barbarism,” Erdogan said on X.
 “I invite the United Nations, which declared this special day, to take a concrete step against the massacre of innocent children in Gaza by bombs for months, and to take action with the…

Israeli politicians are publicly quarreling over the fires spurred by Hezbollah’s rockets, which were renewed again on Tuesday. At least 16 Israeli settlers and soldiers were injured as a result of the untamed fires spreading through occupied northern territories since Monday afternoon. Israeli media outlets reported that among the injured Israelis were seven soldiers in the Israeli occupation forces who were transferred to the Ziv Medical Center in occupied Safad. Fires erupted in the occupied Golan and the occupied al-Jalil following an intense day of confrontations between the Resistance and the Israeli military. Spurred by high temperatures, blazes erupted and…

Macron in phone talks backed the proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal presented by US President Joe Biden. “This deal should reopen a credible perspective for the implementation of a two-state solution, the only one able to provide Israel with the necessary security guarantees and to respond to the legitimate aspirations of Palestinians,” he said. “Gaza must be an integral part of a future Palestinian state, and a reformed and reinforced Palestinian Authority, with the help of the international community, should ensure its governance,” he added. In a bid to boost mediation efforts after almost eight months of…

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Tuesday received a phone call from UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, as they discussed the latest developments in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. During the phone conversation, the two ministers mulled a proposal put forward by US President Joe Biden to secure a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave and conduct a prisoner-hostage swap. The pair also probed mediation efforts made by Egypt, Qatar and the US to encourage Israel and Hamas to agree on this proposal to end the humanitarian crisis in the Strip, said Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid. Shoukry stressed…

Hamas official Osama Hamdan underlines that the Resistance would not agree to the terms of any ceasefire deal that does not include a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan criticized the Israeli occupation’s response to a ceasefire proposal submitted by the resistance in May, stating that it does not meet the requirements for a permanent ceasefire and full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. During a press conference on Tuesday, Hamdan emphasized Hamas’s stance communicated to the mediators, which stipulates that they cannot agree to any deal that fails to ensure a lasting ceasefire…