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Russia’s foreign ministry says it will summon the Israeli ambassador over “unacceptable comments” she made in an interview, according to the TASS news agency. Simona Halperin, according to the ministry, misrepresented Russia’s foreign policy stance in an interview with Russia’s Kommersant daily that was published on Sunday. In the interview, Halperin criticised Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for playing down the importance of the Holocaust and said Russia was being too friendly with Hamas. The ministry described her comments as “an extremely unsuccessful start” to her diplomatic posting, which began in December. Source: AlJazeera

Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad denounced recent airstrikes by the United States and Britain on Yemen. They said the attacks, targeting multiple provinces, constitute a breach of Yemeni sovereignty, heightening tensions in the region. Late on Saturday, the Pentagon reported carrying out dozens of airstrikes on locations in Sana’a, Hudaydah, Sa’ada, and others, aiming at the Yemeni Armed Forces. These, as per the Pentagon, were utilized to target Israeli-affiliated shipping in the Red Sea in support of Gaza Palestinians. Hamas issued a press statement on Sunday, stating, “We strongly condemn the American-British bombing of Yemen, and we…

Israeli occupation forces today detained 10 Palestinians, including a woman and a child, from Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, according to security sources and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). PPS said that Israeli forces conducted a military raid into the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah, where they detained four Palestinians, including a 17-year-old child. It said at least six Palestinians were detained from different areas across Ramallah city after raiding their homes and inflicted damage to their contents. Source: WAFA

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says security for the Israeli occupation will be attained once it refrains from deceiving the public opinion. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called Sunday for a focus on halting the massacres taking place in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible. In an interview with the Turkish channel A Haber Fidan said that “Israel” is destroying the civilian infrastructure in Gaza, leaving Palestinians there in need of water, electricity, and communication. He considered that Israeli occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy has brought disasters, pointing out that security for the Israeli occupation will be attained once it refrains from…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed Sunday on a new crisis tour of the Middle East as he seeks to push forward a proposal to halt the devastating conflict in return for the release of hostages.Blinken’s fifth trip to the region since the October 7 Hamas attack inside Israel comes days after the United States carried out retaliatory strikes against Iranian-linked targets in Iraq and Syria, the latest escalation of the conflict that President Joe Biden had initially sought to avoid.The trip also comes as the Biden administration gradually shows more frustration with Israel, with sanctions imposed Thursday on…

Israeli occupation artillery Monday continue dawn bombed various areas of the Gaza Strip, especially the cities of Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis, on the 122nd day of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip. Local sources said that Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip is subjected to continuous bombardment by occupation artillery, especially the western area, including the neighborhoods of Al-Amal, Al-Katiba, Sheikh Nasser, and Al-Qaizan, in addition to the southern area leading to the city of Rafah. They added that the occupation forces continue to besiege Al-Amal and Kamal Nasser hospitals in the center of the…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the elites of the Muslim world shoulder a heavy responsibility vis-à-vis the ongoing developments in Gaza and should create a public demand to cut relations with the Israeli regime. Leader Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with a group of commanders and personnel of the Iranian Air Force and Army’s Air Defense Force in Tehran on Monday. The meeting was held on the anniversary of a historic development that came days before the 1979 victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution that overthrew the former US-backed Pahlavi regime. The event…

The United States and the UK have continued their acts of aggression against Yemen, conducting more airstrikes on Hudaydah and Sa’ada provinces. According to a Yemeni military source, American and British aircraft carried out as many as 15 strikes against the western province of Hudaydah as well as Sa’ada province in the country’s northwest, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported Sunday evening. According to the military source, the attacks included eight raids on Ras Issa district and three strikes on al-Zaydiyah district in al-Hudaydah province. Four more raids were also conducted by American and British aircraft in the eastern part of Sa’ada province. Over…

A French delegation that visited the Rafah border crossing on Saturday has called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, Jordan News Agency reported on Sunday.The delegation inspected the land crossing and humanitarian aid held up at the Egyptian border. French MP Eric Coquerel stressed the need to release both Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, starting with those detained administratively. The delegation also expressed its support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees and its indispensable humanitarian work.The French delegation underlined that the negotiations should quickly include Israel withdrawing its forces from Gaza, ending its blockade…

The mother of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness. Dahdouh, who has become a symbol of the perseverance of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, had lost his wife Amna, son Mahmoud, daughter Sham and grandson Adam , and now his mother to an Israeli air raid in October. Dahdouh was later wounded in an Israeli drone attack that killed his colleague, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa. Last month, his eldest son, Hamza – a journalist who worked with Al Jazeera – was also killed in an Israeli attack alongside fellow journalist Mustafa Thuraya. Read more: Brown University…