Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

The Palestinian presidency warned of the dangerous demands of the Israeli occupation authorities on the people of Khan Yunis to leave their homes and move south to Rafah, particularly since the majority of them were displaced from the north and center of the Strip due to the ongoing aggression. The president slammed this Israeli demands as a war crime that cannot be tolerated. The presidency, in a statement, warned the international community against the evident intentions of the Israeli occupation authorities to displace the Palestinian people from their homeland, thus leading to unforeseeable consequences. The presidency called on the international…

The fact that Africa lacks a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is an injustice, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday. The UN chief insisted that the present structure of the UNSC is paralyzed by geopolitical divisions and does not reflect the reality of today’s world. The Security Council has 15 members, five of which are permanent – Russia, China, the US, UK, and France – and which have the right to veto any resolution. Guterres made the remarks during an engagement with reporters after addressing the Third South Summit of a group of developing countries known as the…

Syria expresses deep regret following the air strikes directed by the Jordanian Air Force on several villages and areas inside the Syrian territory, the most recent of which was the targeting of villages in the southern countryside of al-Suwaydaa governorate, killing a number of civilians, including children, women, and wounding others. Such strikes at Syrian territory can’t be justified, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said in a statement, underscoring that the country attempts to contain the situation within its keenness not to cause the tension between the two countries. The political, media and military escalation Syria has witnessed during the…

Israel’s rejection of the idea of a two-state solution with the Palestinians is unacceptable and could prolong the war in Gaza, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday.“Last week’s clear and repeated rejection of the two-state solution at the highest levels of the Israeli government is unacceptable,” Guterres said in a speech to the Security Council.“This refusal, and the denial of the right to statehood to the Palestinian people, would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security,” Guterres told the meeting.Such an outcome “would exacerbate polarization and embolden extremists everywhere,” he added.Guterres…