Author: Steven Sahiounie

The General Supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, met with the US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perillo, in Riyadh on Wednesday, During the meeting, they discussed various relief and humanitarian topics. They also talked about Sudan relief projects implemented by Saudi aid agency KSrelief to help those most in need, Saudi Press Agency reported. Perillo also held talks with Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed El-Khereiji at the ministry’s office in the capital. The two discussed the latest developments in Sudan, ways of strengthening bilateral cooperation and issues of common interest. Source: Arab…

Siege, hunger, and diseases will soon become the main killer in Gaza, says commissioner- general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Philippe Lazzarini, who heads the UNRWA for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, took to X on Wednesday to vent his concern for the growing hunger and spread of diseases as a result of the Israeli siege on the besieged strip. He said starvation and illness may soon be the main killer in Gaza. “This fabricated and catastrophic level of hunger can still be reversed by flooding Gaza with food and life-saving assistance,” Lazzarini said. “More than…

Pro-Palestinian protesters heckled and interrupted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday as he tried to give a speech at the opening of the Leipzig Book Fair.Several loud cries could be heard as Scholz began his speech at Germany’s second-largest book fair after Frankfurt.The Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper said the protesters appeared to be pro-Palestinian activists and one person could be heard calling, “It’s not a humanitarian disaster, it’s a genocide.”Scholz stopped his speech to address the protesters, telling them: “Stop shouting, that’s enough.”“The power of the word brings us all together here in Leipzig, not the power of shouting,” he added,…

US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s considering inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. “It’s one of the things that we have in mind, and we may try to arrange for that,” Johnson told reporters. He said it’s “very important” for the United States to show solidarity and support for Israel “right now in their time of great struggle”. Johnson said he held a “lengthy conversation this morning” with Netanyahu and reiterated House Republicans’ “strong support for Israel”. Last week by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for new elections in Israel and criticised Netanyahu’s leadership. Johnson…

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will meet foreign ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan this week. He will also have discussions with the United Arab Emirates international cooperation minister and secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, according to an Egyptian foreign ministry statement. It did not give details but Egyptian security sources say Arab nations will present plans for a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Source: AlJazeera

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has received US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jeddah, the Saudi Press Agency said early Thursday, as the US diplomat makes his sixth tour of the region. The meeting discussed “Developments in the Gaza Strip, and efforts made to stop military operations and deal with their security and humanitarian repercussions,” the SPA added. The pair “reviewed bilateral relations and areas of joint cooperation, in addition to the latest regional and International developments.” Blinken landed in Jeddah earlier on Wednesday on the first leg of a regional tour that was extended to include…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described the Israeli crimes against Gaza as the evidence of the legitimacy of the formation of the Resistance Front in the West Asian region, urging that resistance should be strengthened day by day. On the first day of the Iranian new year on March 20, Ayatollah Khamenei delivered an annual speech in Tehran in the presence of thousands of people from various walks of life. Congratulating the nation on the occasion of Nowruz, he said that the spring of nature and the spring of spirituality coming together this year are a…

The Jenin Brigade of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement, mourned three Resistance fighters: Ahmad Barakat, Mahmoud Rahal, and Mohammad al-Fayed, who were targeted by a missile from an Israel drone earlier today. The Israeli Channel 13 reported that the Israeli army assassinated Palestinian fighters in Jenin with a drone strike, allegedly while they were heading to carry out an attack. The effects of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7 and the Israeli genocide in Gaza have unsurprisingly extended into the occupied West Bank. Despite the region’s longstanding instability following the expansion of illegal settlement, the…

Officials from 36 countries and UN agencies gathered in Cyprus on Thursday to discuss how to expedite aid to besieged Palestinians in Gaza via a sea route launched last week.Thursday’s gathering is being attended by Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, as well as Curtis Ried, chief of staff of the US National Security Council.As famine looms over Gaza, agencies are increasingly looking for alternative routes to get aid into the enclave other than land crossings. But lack of infrastructure is an issue; one charity which dispatched aid from Cyprus last week made a landing…

Moscow and Beijing will continue to stand “back to back,” supporting each other, Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told TASS in an interview. “On Monday, [Chinese President] Xi Jinping congratulated [Russian President Vladimir] Putin on re-election to the post of the president of Russia. This reflects solid friendship and mutual political trust between the two leaders. The countries firmly support each other on issues that affect their key national interests, while back-to-back strategic cooperation is becoming stronger and stronger,” the Chinese envoy said. He emphasized that under the strategic guidance of Xi Jinping and Vladmir Putin, the Russian-Chinese relations…