Author: Steven Sahiounie

Intense international mediation efforts are working toward exchanging Israel hostages for Palestinian prisoners during a proposed month-long ceasefire in Gaza, Reuters reported on Tuesday, as the White House said its envoy was having active discussions on the issue. Qatar, the US and Egypt have held shuttle diplomacy since Dec. 28 and Israel and Hamas broadly agree in principle to the framework plan, sources said. It is being held up by the two sides’ differences over how to bring a permanent end to the Gaza war, sources said.The US State Department and White House, Qatar’s foreign ministry and Egypt’s State Information…

Fighters from the Iraqi anti-terror resistance groups have launched a drone strike against targets at a strategic port in the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories in response to the Tel Aviv regime’s unrelenting ground and aerial offensives against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

A high-ranking member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has hailed the resistance fighters’ operation in the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, saying Israel’s heavy losses in a single day show the regime has failed in all its goals in the war against the besieged territory.

The air is heavy with the acrid smell of smoke and the sound of explosions reverberates through the walls of the makeshift shelter, as a young woman, with her face giving out vibes of worry and fear, is enduring the excruciating pain of childbirth on the rubble-filled floor.

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees says more than half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic hunger as Israel presses ahead with its genocidal campaign in the besieged Palestinian territory.  

Australian police forces have attacked pro-Palestine protesters at a port in the Australian city of Melbourne, who were calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s ongoing brutal war against the besieged territory.

The Israeli military says its ground forces have “encircled” the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after two dozen of its soldiers were killed in its largest single-day toll in the three-month of aggression on the besieged Palestinian territory.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has traveled to New York to take part in a meeting of the UN Security Council on Palestine. In a post on his X account, the top Iranian diplomat said he is attending the UNSC meeting in pursuit of international peace and security. Amirabdollahian also took a swipe at the Zionist regime and its allies for the genocidal crimes that have resulted in the loss of over 25,000 lives in the Gaza Strip, injured and displaced thousands of others, and escalated instability in the region. In a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on Muslim countries to sever their political and economic relations with the Israeli regime, and cut off Tel Aviv’s vital arteries.

The Israeli regime must bear the consequences of the recent assassination of Iranian military advisers in Syria, Iran’s foreign minister said in a letter to the UN chief, reaffirming Tehran’s right to respond proportionately to such act at the time and place of its choosing. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on January 21 sent a letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres after the loss of five Iranian advisers in an Israeli airstrike on the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus. Here is the text of his letter: Excellency, I wish to draw your attention to the persistent violations of…