Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

The United States has failed its Ukrainian policy, the Russian foreign ministry’s official spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, told Channel One. “The United States of America has failed its Ukraine-related policy. They fail it not just in the context of promises that were given to Ukraine – which is their least concern, I presume <…> – they also failed it with regard to their own close circle of allies.” In her opinion, the United States treats Ukraine as “a tool,” and as “some sort of an inanimate object.” Zakharova described the US policy on Ukraine as a “gruesome bloody performance” that will…

The revised resolution calls for a ceasefire and increased humanitarian aid in Gaza and “rejects any forced displacement of the civilian population in Gaza.” The United States has presented a revised resolution to the United Nations Security Council, as confirmed by Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in New York on Thursday. The resolution pointed fingers at Hamas calling the Resistance movement a “terrorist organization” and claimed it did not represent the people of Palestine and failed to address the demands made by the group during ceasefire negotiations. The resolution calls for a ceasefire that “should lay the foundation for a sustainable ceasefire,” once again “reiterating…

The Israeli regime’s army bombed a building in the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in the western part of Gaza City on Wednesday morning, according to reports.  “The occupation army (Israel) bombed the specialized surgeries building in Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City,” in the northern Gaza Strip, Al-Aqsa channel said in a brief statement on Telegram. Earlier, Palestine TV reported that “the occupation forces threatened the displaced people inside Al-Shifa Complex through loudspeakers and demanded their immediate evacuation from the complex.” Last week, scores of Palestinians were killed and injured in intense Israeli army shelling near Al-Shifa as they were breaking…