Author: Steven Sahiounie

BEIRUT: A senior Hamas official said Saturday that a final agreement has not yet been reached over a tentative truce deal to pause the nearly four-month war with Israel in Gaza.

JERUSALEM: Israel has attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and 3,400 in Lebanon since the war with Hamas in Gaza began in October, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said Saturday.

DUBAI: Being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing a lengthy course of treatment is a frightening prospect at any time. Enduring such an ordeal in wartime is a different league of terror altogether.

Across the United States, local governments are passing resolutions demanding a ceasefire in Gaza as pro Zionism sentiment continues its historic crumbling, under the weight of daily Israeli war crimes.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters have marched through central London, demanding the Israeli regime stop the months-long genocidal war on the defenseless Palestinian people trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Saturday received a phone call today from his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, the Kingdom’s foreign ministry said.During the call, they discussed regional and international issues of common interest, most notably developments in the Gaza Strip and its surrounding areas.The two sides also discussed the efforts to solve the conflict. Source: arab News

In London, hundreds of thousands are swarming the streets on Saturday in a pro-Palestine protest following the International Court of Justice’s ruling last week. Also expected is a forceful show of police brutality as organizers anticipate the Metropolitan police’s opposition to be harsher this time around compared to previous marches, and accuse the force of yielding to governmental political pressures. The Met has warned against wearing face covers that could hide a protestor’s identity, as an intimidation tactic that could scare people from participating, thereby suppressing the march, the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Ben Jamal, said. However, he noted…

The main request by the student coalition is the implementation of a divestment resolution by the Brown University At Brown University in Rhode Island, a coalition of students has gone on an indefinite hunger strike in protest of “Israel’s” genocide in Gaza, calling on the university to cut ties with all companies profiting from the ongoing genocide. On Friday afternoon, the group released a statement stressing that they would keep up their hunger strike until the university did its part to promote an “immediate and permanent” ceasefire, also demanding that the university implement a divestment resolution at the next meeting of…

The United Nations’ Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg commended Iran for its efforts to ensure security and stability in Yemen. In a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, held in Tehran on Saturday, the UN envoy praised Iran’s stances on Yemen and its determination to establish stability and security in the Arab country. Briefing the Iranian minister on the UN’s plans to ensure peace and reduce tensions in Yemen, Grundberg stressed the need for the employment of intraregional capacities to address the root causes of regional crises. For his part, Amirabdollahian said the US’ military approaches, the recent American…

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad received a phone call from his Omani counterpart,Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al-Busaidi, during which they discussed the latest developments in the region. Al-Busaidi expressed his country’s continued support for Syria and its respect for its unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity and pointed out the recent US attacks on sites in Syria. Al-Busaidi underlined the necessity of not interfering in the affairs of the countries of the region and the priority of stopping the Israeli agression on our people in the occupied Palestine and ending its occupation of all Palestinian and Arab lands. For his…