Author: Steven Sahiounie

The European Commission said it will send no more funds to UNRWA until the end of February as the UN investigates allegations that staff took part in the October 7 attack on Israel. “The Commission will review the matter in light of the outcome of the investigation announced by the UN and the actions it will take,” the 27-member body said in a statement. It also said it expects the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to undergo a European-led audit, which will focus on “control systems needed to prevent the possible involvement of its staff in terrorist activities”. “Finally, a review…

Iranian and Syrian sources say air strikes in Syria were a failed Israeli attempt to killed more members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) in the Sayyida Zeinab neighbourhood of Damascus. The semi-official Tasnim news agency and other IRGC-linked media say the two people reported killed were Syrian civilians who worked at the targeted building. More Syrians near the site may also have died. Images were released of the purported site of the strike, which shows it was located on farmland. The Syrian defence ministry also released a short statement saying an Israeli air strike launched from the occupied…

LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday he was concerned about tensions in the Middle East and urged Iran to de-escalate, after an attack that killed three US service members in northeastern Jordan near Syria’s border.

A number of Palestinian civilians have been killed and dozens more injured after Israeli artillery bombed a school housing displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip.

The United Nations has urged the countries that have paused funding for the world body’s Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, to reverse their decision, warning that aid for some two million people in the besieged Gaza Strip is at stake.

The Israeli regime has jailed at least 6,330 Palestinians since October 7, 2023, when it launched a genocidal war against the besieged Gaza Strip and intensified its aggressive raids across the occupied West Bank.

At least 350 Palestinians have been killed over the past 48 hours in Israeli Gaza attacks as there is no let-up in relentless Israeli atrocities inflicted on the besieged territory.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced a drone attack on Sunday deep inside the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, marking another significant development amid the Israeli genocide in Gaza. 

In the last week of December 2023, the Israeli regime dropped bombs powerful enough to destroy the entire neighborhood around journalist Jabr Abu Hadros’ home in northern Gaza.

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has condemned an Israeli meeting on return of settlements to the Gaza Strip and the northern part of the West Bank, saying the event reflects the Tel Aviv regime’s ulterior motives to press ahead with its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.