Author: Steven Sahiounie

A young Palestinian man, identified as Mohammad Jaafar Mustafa Jabr, was shot dead by undercover Israeli military units on Monday night near the town of Attil, located north of the city of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. The incident occurred when an undercover Israeli special force, operating from a civilian vehicle, opened a hail of gunfire at two young men inside a commercial shop located at the junction near the town of Attil. The deliberate shooting resulted in both individuals sustaining critical gunshot wounds. The same sources revealed that Israeli forces prevented ambulance vehicles from…

NATO must continue to support Kiev so it can negotiate with Moscow about becoming an independent state, the US-led bloc’s secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, said on Monday. Speaking at the ceremony to admit Sweden into NATO, Stoltenberg repeated the bloc’s talking points about supporting Ukraine in the conflict with Russia, but chose to frame the very hypothetical peace talks in terms of independence and sovereignty. “We must continue to strengthen Ukraine to show [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin that he will not get what he wants on the battlefield but must sit down and negotiate a solution where Ukraine is recognized and…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad said that Prime Minister of Israeli occupation entity, Benjamin Netanyahu destroyed Gaza Strip and killed more than 12,000 children and more than 8,000 women there, as the total number of victims killed in cold blood reached up to 31,000, calling this a genocide. “European Union strategists’ repeated statements about building a rules-based world have faded”, Mikdad said on the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry’s X account. He added that the murderer Netanyahu eft no rule unbroken, including the international law, the international humanitarian law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations Charter, children’s…

Congratulating the Muslim world on the occasion of Ramadan, Iran calls on Muslim countries to unite against the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on the occasion of the arrival of the holy fasting month. “I cordially congratulate the honorable Iranian nation, the entire Muslims of the world, and my counterparts in Muslim countries on the occasion of the emergence of the blessed month of Ramadan,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. “Gaza’s developments showed that, as the common ideal of [all] Muslims, the issue of Palestine rests at…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has joined the chorus of European leaders expressing support for Palestinian statehood, saying he will seek legislative approval to officially recognize the sovereignty of Israel’s neighbor. “I will propose granting Spain’s recognition to the Palestinian state,” Sanchez said on Saturday at a conference in Bilbao, Spain. “I do this out of moral conviction, for a just cause, and because it is the only way that the two states – Israel and Palestine – can live together in peace.” Sanchez has been one of Europe’s most vocal critics of the Israeli bombardment in Gaza, accusing West Jerusalem of “indiscriminate killing of innocent…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday spoke on the phone with his counterpart in the United Arab Emirates, wishing him a happy birthday. During his phone conversation with Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Erdogan also extended his congratulations on the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to a post on X by Türkiye’s Communications Directorate. Erdogan invited Al Nahyan to Türkiye for the first meeting of the High Level Strategic Council established between the two countries. The directorate shared no further information on the two leaders’ conversation. Source: Anadolu Agency

The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the United States is the main party responsible for the start and continuation of Israel’s on the people of Palestine in the Gaza Strip. “The American government stood by the Zionist regime in words and deeds,” Nasser Kan’ani told reporters at his weekly press briefing in Tehran on Monday. Since the beginning of Israel’s war in October, the US has been providing the regime with large-scale shipments of weapons, he added. He noted that the US has been exerting pressure on the Palestinian people, slamming the “painful inaction” of the international community, particularly…

The head of the caretaker government Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday that the crime of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the war of starvation continues against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in the form of killing, starvation, displacement, and oppression, claiming hundreds of lives every day, most of them women and children. Shtayyeh added in a speech at the beginning of the caretaker government meeting today that the Israeli crime is revealed daily with more horrific images of what the occupation soldiers are committing, adding that the starvation is severely intensifying, which is not treated only by dropping meals,…

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan received a phone call from British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Monday. During the call, the two officials discussed regional and international issues of common interest including developments in the Gaza Strip and its surroundings, and efforts made in this regard. source: Arab News

In a message on Monday, President Raeisi extended his congratulations to leaders of Muslim countries on the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. The usurping Israeli regime has occupied the Palestinian territory for more than seven decades and committed heinous crimes, he said. Over the past months, he added, the regime has killed more than 30,000 innocent civilians, particularly children, in the Gaza Strip. The Iranian president emphasized that the heads of Muslim countries have the duty to encourage and promote peace and fraternity among Muslims and develop the atmosphere of spirituality and unity among the members of the…