Author: Steven Sahiounie

DUBAI: Since the eruption of the latest war in Gaza on Oct. 7, the international community has sought an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and a clear pathway to a two-state solution as a means to settle the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The United States knows very well that only a political solution can end Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Gaza Strip and the crisis gripping West Asia, says Iran’s foreign minister.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has strongly condemned the assassination of Palestinian patients by Israeli forces in a hospital in the occupied West Bank, calling on the international community not to remain silent in the face of the “terrorist act.”

A senior Palestinian resistance leader has announced four conditions for the release of Israeli captives being held in the territory amid efforts by the US and allies to secure their release.

For more than 35 years of her life, Hala Khreis worked as an Arabic teacher at a local school in Gaza, where she was born and raised.

The leader of the Hamas resistance movement has strongly denounced a Western pause in funding the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, which assists the displaced people across the Israeli-bombarded Gaza. 

The attack by the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU), an umbrella group of the Iraqi resistance that is part of the Axis of Resistance, against a US military base on the Syria-Jordan border on Sunday left three US soldiers dead and at least 40 others injured.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it is “studying” a new ceasefire proposal, stressing that its priority is to end the Israeli aggression and a full withdrawal of occupying forces from the besieged Gaza Strip.

Health authorities in Gaza are sounding alarm bells on the rapid spread of epidemics, as dead bodies remain scattered in the streets and under the rubble of buildings destroyed by the Israeli airstrikes.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington, it was announced on Tuesday. The meeting focused on ways to strengthen strategic relations between the two states, Qatar News Agency said. The two officials also discussed the most recent developments in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and the importance of finding a long-term solution to the Palestinian issue. They also emphasized the importance of delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, and solving recent regional escalation elsewhere. Qatari has served as the main mediator between Hamas and Israeli…