Author: Steven Sahiounie

President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric Eggertoday said that the war in the Gaza Strip has destroyed “all meanings of common humanity.” Spoliatric said, in a statement, that after five months of the aggression, “the situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating by the hour, and there is no safe place to go.” She added, “This brutal war has broken all sense of common humanity.” “Israel, as the occupying power, must meet the basic needs of the population or facilitate the safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid,” Mirjana added. The head of the committee affirmed that…

China and Switzerland are working behind the scenes to get Russia invited to proposed Swiss-hosted talks aimed at ending the fighting between Kiev and Moscow, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Last month, Switzerland announced plans to organize a peace summit “by the summer.” No specific date has been named yet. The number of potential participants has also not been revealed. However, Ukraine indicated that Russia can only be invited if it agrees in advance to a litany of preconditions. According to the news website, China’s envoy for Eurasia Li Hui told EU officials…

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman has rejected a report by a mission mandated by the United Nations over the 2022 riots in the country, lamenting that human rights mechanisms of the world body have turned into “a plaything” in the hands of some regimes to advance their sinister and unlawful goals. In a statement on Saturday, Nasser Kan’ani vehemently denounced the contents of the report published the previous day by the UN Human Rights Council’s so-called Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran. He said the report repeats groundless allegations rooted in inaccurate and biased information, and therefore,…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Friday that a permanent cease-fire has to be reached in the Gaza Strip and the door should be opened to a two-state solution between Palestine and Israel. “It has become an indispensable responsibility to end this great tragedy and massacre experienced by our Gazan brothers as soon as possible and to ensure that concrete steps are taken towards this end,” Fidan told Turkish reporters at a news conference in Washington. Fidan is on a two-day visit to the US to meet Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss relations, regional and international issues, particularly…

Iran’s foreign minister condemns Meta’s removal of Instagram and Facebook accounts of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei as “illegal and unethical.” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in comments to the UK-based news website Middle East Eye, lambasted the “Silicon Valley Empire” for trying to censor a prominent supporter of the Palestinian cause. He condemned the suspension as “illegal and unethical” and said it was indicative of the “collapse of morality and the moral system of the world.” “Blocking the media accounts of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution is not only a violation of freedom of speech, but also an…

The Yemeni military says it has targeted a US vessel and several destroyers with naval missiles and drones in the Red Sea in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, amid the Israeli regime’s US-backed genocidal war on the besieged territory. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said in a video statement on Saturday that Yemeni forces implemented “two qualitative military operations” targeting a ship and a number of American warship destroyers in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with a “number of naval missiles and 37 drones.” “The first operation targeted the…

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan received a high-level US official Friday for talks in Washington. “Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan received Phil Gordon, National Security Advisor to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Turkish Embassy in Washington,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry wrote on X. Fidan is visiting the US where the Türkiye-U.S. Strategic Mechanism meeting was held. He met Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss relations and international issues. Regional issues, including the situation in the Gaza Strip, were on the agenda. source: Anadolu Agency

Decisions by the administration of US President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party on immigration policy are designed to change the balance of power in the upcoming presidential election, US entrepreneur Elon Musk believes. “Most Americans do not know that the US census currently counts, for purposes of voting power, all people in a district, regardless of citizenship! Senate Democrats just voted unanimously to defeat an amendment that would have stopped counting illegals for congressional seat apportionment and electoral college (presidential) votes. Since illegals are mostly in Democrat states, both the House and the Presidential vote are shifted ~5% to…

Dozens of civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, were killed and others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes that targeted multiple areas across the Gaza Strip. Medical sources said that at least six civilians were in Israeli artillery shelling of several homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City. Three children were also killed inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City due to malnutrition and starvation, which raises Palestinian death toll from hunger in Gaza since the start of the aggression to 23. In Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, nine Palestinian citizens, mostly children, were killed in artillery shelling that targeted…

Türkiye has dispatched some 40,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip through 19 aircraft and seven civilian aid vessels so far, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday. Another vessel belonging to the Turkish Red Crescent, carrying 3,000 tons of aid and dispatched a day earlier, is expected to reach Egypt’s Al-Arish port on Sunday, Erdogan told the general assembly meeting of the Istanbul-based Knowledge Dissemination Foundation. “We will increase the amount of aid throughout the (Muslim holy) month of Ramadan,” he added. At the very beginning of his speech, Erdogan said that the developments in Gaza since…