Author: Steven Sahiounie

At least 26,083 Palestinians, around 70 percent of them women, young children and adolescents, have been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli bombardments and ground offensive since then, according to the Hamas government’s health ministry

SAANA: Yemen’s Houthis claimed Friday a missile strike on a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden that set the vessel on fire, the latest attack on international shipping by the Iran-backed militia.

An independent advocacy group says the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has ramped up questioning of pro-Palestine activists across the United States based on their social media activity condemning Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.

The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has broken down in tears while demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip amid relentless Israeli ground and aerial offensives against Palestinians in the war-torn coastal sliver.

Joe Biden sears his name in history by becoming the first sitting American president to be sued for complicity in genocide over the United States’ abetment in the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

Hamas says it will commit to a potential International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling mandating a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war if the Israeli regime adheres to such a verdict too.

During a telephone conversation with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday night, Raeisi lauded the “courageous” initiative, stressing that the move was taken by a country that has experienced the menace of racism and genocide for years.

Following the landmark decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s ‘Genocide Case’ against Israel, the EU High Representative and the European Commission said: “Orders of the International Court of Justice are binding on the Parties and they must comply with them. The EU expects their full, immediate and effective implementation. “The EU reaffirmed its continuing support to the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations,” said the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and the European Commission in a joint statement. source: WAFA

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom’s welcoming of a preliminary decision issued by the International Court of Justice on Friday, which aimed to stop any practices and statements aimed at genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The UN’s top court, which issued an interim ruling in a case brought by South Africa against Israel last year, stopped short of ordering a ceasefire in the enclave, but demanded that Israel attempted to limit deaths and damage caused by its military offensive there. The foreign ministry expressed the Kingdom’s categorical rejection of the practices of the Israeli occupation and violations of the UN Convention on Genocide. The ministry also…

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzouz has spoken to residents of the al-Dahra neighbourhood of Khan Younis, where flee residents came under Israeli army gunfire earlier today. Video verified by Al Jazeera captured the incident, in which Israeli army vehicles opened fire on displaced Palestinians after they were ordered to flee their homes and makeshift shelters. Press sources told Al Jazeera that many residents of al-Dahra were wounded by the gunfire. “One of the people informed us that [the Israeli army] has been gathering men and women and forcing them to take a certain road to Rafah,” Abu Azzoum said. As…