Author: Steven Sahiounie

LONDON: Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip has spared no one, burying entire families under the rubble of their own homes, paralyzing essential healthcare facilities and traumatizing the Palestinian enclave’s population of 2.3 million — of whom, according to the Euro-Med Monitor, at least 130,000 were living with permanent disabilities before the conflict.

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator When US President Joe Biden was elected in 2020, he had first considered appointing William J. Burns as Secretary of State, but eventually chose Antony Blinken. Burns was later tapped to be the Director of the CIA. Sources close to Biden say that should Biden be re-elected in 2024, he may replace Blinken with Burns. Burns left a diplomatic career in 2014 after 32 years, and took the position of president at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace before becoming the head of the CIA in 2021. Last month, Zaha Hassan wrote on their website,…

A Health Ministry spokesperson said Sunday that at least 178 bodies were brought to Gaza’s hospitals in 24 hours

Prince Faisal says only way for the region to see true peace and real integration is “through peace” and an irreversible process to a Palestinian state

Hundreds of people have marched in the centre of the Belgian capital Brussels, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian enclave. “The point [of the protest] is to insist on the fact that there is no military solution to this conflict, which has led to far too many deaths, and which has created an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe,” said Gregory Mauze, the spokesperson for the Belgo-Palestinian Association. “Now is the time for Belgium and the European Union to say that not only must this war end and there must be a ceasefire, but…

France’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne issued a short statement on X affirming Palestinians’ right to sovereignty. “France will remain faithful to its commitment to achieve this goal,” he said. Sejourne’s comments come in the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s public comments stating his opposition to the idea of Palestinian statehood. source: AlJazeera

The Iranian president applauded South Africa’s “historic” move to file a genocide case against the Israeli regime at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “South Africa’s move to lodge a complaint against the Zionist regime for its crimes is a historic, indelible and commendable measure,” President Ebrahim Raisi said after receiving the credentials of South Africa’s new ambassador to Tehran Francis Molloy. The president also expressed Iran’s support for South Africa’s “smart and wise” action against Israel. Lauding the close and growing ties between Iran and South Africa, Raisi said there is no obstacle to the expansion of relations. In…

Grant Shapps, the UK defence secretary, says the Israeli leader’s outright rejection of Palestinians’ right to statehood is “disappointing”. “I don’t think I can be more explicit; I think it’s disappointing to hear Benjamin Netanyahu saying he doesn’t believe in a two-state solution and a Palestinian statehood. In fairness, he’s said that all of his political career as far as I can tell,” he told the London-based Sky News. “I don’t think we get to a solution unless we have a two-state solution. So we do disagree on that particular issue, but we do agree that Israel has a right…

The foreign minister of Iran paid tribute to five Iranian military advisers who were martyred in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus, promising that the Islamic Republic’s advisory missions in the region will continue incessantly in the fight against terrorism. “The activities of Iran’s military advisers in the fight against terrorism and for ensuring regional security will continue vigorously,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a post on his X account on Saturday night, after the loss of five Iranian advisers in an Israeli airstrike on the Mazzeh neighborhood of Damascus. Branding the Zionist regime as the prime accomplice of terrorist…

In videos obtained by Al Jazeera, Palestinians at the Jabalia refugee camp market in the northern Gaza Strip expressed their suffering as they looked to secure daily food sustenance amid dire shortages of flour and food in the markets and an absence of humanitarian aid. “We have only some rice. We do not have flour. There is crowding over the available quantities,” one person said. “We have been living in suffering for 104 days. Today we are searching for our daily eats. There is no flour or wheat. People eat corn, and this is food for birds and animals, not…