Author: Steven Sahiounie

Two Palestinians were Wednesday dawn killed, and seven others were injured, following an Israeli drone bombing of group of youths in the Jenin camp, sources said. The Ministry of Health said that Hamza Arrawi, 27, from Al-Ain camp in Nablus, and Mohammad Nasser Al-Sabti, 19, from Jenin camp, were killed after an Israeli drone bombed a group of young men in front of a house in Al-Damj neighborhood. With the killing of Ararawi and Al-Sabti, the death toll in Jenin rises to three, after the killing of the 19-year-old Ayman Youssef Hassan Azouqa by occupation forces’ bullets in Jenin. Source: WAFA

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Tuesday received a phone call from his French counterpart, Stephane Sejourne, the Kingdom’s ministry announced.During the call, they discussed regional and international development, most notably developments in the Gaza Strip and the efforts made in this regard. Source: Arab News

Ambassador Dr. Saud Al-Sati, the Saudi deputy minister for political affairs, received the Iranian Ambassador to the Kingdom Alireza Enayati in Riyadh on Tuesday. The parties reviewed Saudi-Iranian relations and prominent topics of common interest, the ministry reported on X. Meanwhile, Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Al-Budaiwi met the Chinese Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chen Weiqing at the end of the latter’s term of office. Their meeting focused on ways of enhancing cooperation and relations between the GCC and China in various fields, the council reported. Source: Arab News

Former US President Donald Trump has warned that Israel is “losing a lot of support” and must “finish up” its war in Gaza before its reputation declines any further. The comments represented a rare moment of criticism of the Jewish state by Trump. In an interview with Israel Hayom partially published on Monday, Trump said that he would have acted “very much the same way as you did” if the US was attacked like Israel was by Hamas in October. “Only a fool would not do that,” Trump added. However, Trump called Israel’s wholesale destruction of civilian homes in Gaza “a very big mistake.” “It’s a very bad picture…

Turkey refuted charges of any military activities with “Israel” on Tuesday, claiming that such cooperation would be detrimental to Palestinians. The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced earlier today that “Israel” committed eight massacres in 24 hours only, killing 81 and injuring 93. This brought the total number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7 to 32,414, in addition to 74,787 injured. Turkey’s National Defense Ministry stated that Turkey has “always supported Palestine,” making it impossible to “carry out or engage in any activity” that would harm them. “The National Defense Ministry does not have any activities…

Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet on Tuesday reiterated the Kingdom’s backing of the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. On Monday, and for the first time in 170 days of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the UN Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire, lasting for the duration of Ramadan. The US, which had vetoed previous similar resolutions, abstained. By doing this instead of using its power of veto, it allowed the resolution to pass. With all other members of the council voting in favor, the 14-0 result…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran has a fixed policy of providing support to Palestine and the people in Gaza who have been suffering from brutal Israeli aggression for nearly six months. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday with a Palestinian resistance movement Hamas delegation led by the group’s politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh. “The Islamic Republic of Iran would never hesitate to support the Palestinian cause and the oppressed and resilient people of Gaza,” he said. The Leader praised the people of Gaza for the “historic patience” they have shown…

Saudi Arabia has condemned Israel’s seizing of 800 hectares of Palestinian land in the West Bank, the Saudi Press Agency said early Wednesday. The Kingdom said that the move is a blatant violation of relevant international laws and is an extension of the brutal practices of the Israeli occupation’s forced settlement operations, a foreign ministry statement read. “The Kingdom affirms that the continued Israeli violation of the rules of international law and legitimacy resolutions without deterrence weakens the credibility of the international system and undermines the chances of a just and sustainable peace based on the two-state solution,” the statement…

Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and other international organizations working in Geneva, Ambassador Haider Ali Ahmed, has reaffirmed Syria’s inalienable right to restore the occupied Syrian Golan. In a statement at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council, under “item VII” on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories, Ali Ahmad added that the impunity of the Israeli occupation entity has encouraged it to persist in its criminal and terrorist attacks, which constitute a threat to global peace and security. He stressed Syria’s categorical condemnation of the criminals of the Israeli occupation…

The US has backed itself into a corner by jumping the gun to lay blame on the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, outlawed in Russia) for the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall even as the incident was still in progress, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “The very fact that within the first 24 hours [after the attack], even before the fire was put out, the Americans started screaming that it wasn’t Ukraine, I think, is a piece of incriminating evidence. I can’t classify it otherwise; it is evidence in and of itself,” the diplomat said on air…