Author: Steven Sahiounie

Israel trying to spread black propaganda, built on lies, through state officials, academics, media, says Fahrettin Altun Türkiye will never stop exposing Israel’s lies and bringing the truth to the world’s agenda, the Turkish communications director said Friday. Fahrettin Altun attended the TRT World Citizen Awards and praised the project that he said “is a kindness movement that believes that every human being is an honorable being and based on the ability of every individual to create change.” He said today the representatives of the colonial mentality revere all kinds of cruelty to those who are not like them and…

Iran has confirmed that four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been killed in the air strike on Damascus, along with several members of Syrian armed forces. “Once more the criminal Zionist regime has moved to violate the city of Damascus, the Syrian capital, and during an airstrike by the fighter jets of the invading and occupying regime a number of Syrian forces and four military advisers were martyred,” the IRGC said in a brief statement, saying more information will be published later. Iranian state television called it a “terrorist” attack by Israel. This comes weeks after Israel was…

John Kirby says the White House is gathering additional information regarding Mexico and Chile’s request for an investigation into potential war crimes by “Israel”. US National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that US President Joe Biden “still believes in the promise and the possibility of a two-state solution.” During a briefing at the White House after Biden’s call with Israeli occupation’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kirby emphasized Biden’s firm belief that the most appropriate course of action moving forward is “a two-state solution”. “Good friends and allies can have those kinds of candid, forthright discussions and we do,”…

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday said that the international community should “strongly intervene” in the Israel-Palestine conflict. “If we don’t … the seeds of hate that are being sewn in Gaza will sprout and the spiral of hate and violence will continue generation after generation, funeral after funeral,” Borrell said at the University of Valladolid, where he was given an honorary doctorate. He said the last solid attempt at peace was during the Oslo Accords 30 years ago, but that neither Israel nor Palestine had enough support for it at the time. He added that it is…

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The Houthis in Yemen have been attacking ships in the Red Sea which are associated with Israel or the US in response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza being carried out by Israel, who is supported by the US with all weapons and funding. US President Joe Biden continues to refuse all international calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. Biden has formed a military coalition to attack Yemen, the poorest country on earth, with famine and disease rampant. In an effort to understand the situation, Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse interviewed Suat Delgen. Suat Delgen,…

Only 15,000 worshippers were able to perform the Friday prayer today at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem due to Israeli occupation’s massive restrictions on the entry of worshipers to the holy site, according to the Islamic Waqf Department. The Islamic Waqf Department, the Jordan-run authority in charge of the holy site, reported that thousands of worshippers were prevented from reaching Al-Aqsa Mosque as a result of the arbitrary Israeli measures. The Waqf added that the Israeli occupation forces set up military checkpoints in the vicinity of Jerusalem’s Old City, where they stopped worshipers, conducted searches, and barred many…

Hundreds of Palestinians flocked to the seashore west of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to try to overcome communications outages in the Gaza Strip for the eighth consecutive day. Internet services in the Gaza Strip have been constantly disrupted throughout the war, with telecom firms blaming Israel’s bombardment of the besieged territory for the outages. Palestinians are forced to go to open or high places and seashore to try to pick up the signals of mobile phone networks outside the Gaza Strip, so that they can communicate with their families and the people displaced between the besieged governorates…

Those who pass judgment on human rights, freedoms have turned blind eye to children, babies, women brutally killed over last 105 days, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan Those who turn a blind eye to the massacres and atrocities committed by Israel will suffer great regret, the Turkish president said on Friday. Those who have caused the massacre of some 25,000 innocent people in Gaza, most of them women and children, will face the “burning consequences” of their actions, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a naval delivery ceremony in the northwestern province of Yalova. “To put it bluntly, Western countries and international…

The UK’s defense minister Grant Schapps has said that the country is exploring options for shipping much-needed assistance from Cyprus to Gaza, including offloading aid in Israel where it could pass through the Kerem Abu Salem (called Kerem Shalom by Israel) crossing with the Gaza Strip. Speaking on Friday, Shapps said the aid “could go to Israel directly and even through Kerem Shalom that the Israelis have opened”. Source: AlJazeera

Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that at least five Palestinians were killed and others injured when Israeli bombs targeted a house belonging to the Darwish family in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Two additional Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks on the al-Amal neighbourhood of Khan Younis. Wafa added that Israeli gunboats also carried out several attacks on the Shati refugee camp in southern Gaza. Source: AlJazeera