Author: Steven Sahiounie

3 United Nations agencies have called on Israel to provide faster and easier access to aid in the northern Gaza Strip to avoid famine and deadly disease outbreaks in a besieged Palestinian territory that has been witness to Israeli savagery since early October.

The Palestinian Authority’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh says the International Court of Justice needs to take urgent action to stop Israel’s genocidal campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian karate champion who was critically injured in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip has died in hospital.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has praised a retaliatory operation near Tel Aviv as a “natural” response to the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has issued a stern warning to the United States and the United Kingdom, saying the aggression against Yemen must end.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said he is deeply troubled by the “clear violation of international humanitarian law” the world continues to witness as “the long shadow of starvation is stalking the people of Gaza, along with disease, malnutrition and other health threats.” He lamented the fact that, despite some efforts to step up the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, essential relief on the required scale is still not reaching desperate civilians who have endured months of continuous Israeli attacks. He described the humanitarian situation in the territory as “beyond words” and repeated his warning that “nowhere and…

Australian foreign minister on Monday called for a “sustainable ceasefire” in Gaza as she left for a Middle East tour that includes a visit to the occupied West Bank and meetings with the families of Israeli hostages. Australian Penny Wong said she would use the visits to Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and the UAE to advocate for a pathway out of the current conflict and a lasting peace in the form of a two-state solution.Australia would also use its voice to push for more humanitarian assistance, greater protection of civilians and a de-escalation of regional tensions, she added. “Our…

A US-owned cargo ship has been targeted by a missile off the coast of Yemen, amid heightened tensions in the Red Sea over Washington’s unrelenting support for the Israeli genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced that an American ship was targeted in the Gulf of Aden. “In support of the oppressed Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, who remain to be subjected to the worst kinds of massacres by the Zionist entity, and in retaliation to the American-British aggression against our country,” Saree opened up.  “The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a military operation targeting an American ship in the Gulf of Aden, with several appropriate naval missiles, resulting in precise and direct hits.” He affirmed that all American and…

Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief has become a well-known figure around the world for his reporting and his steadfastness in continuing to work despite the immense personal suffering that he has faced in the past three months. Israeli attacks have killed Dahdouh’s wife, two of his sons, a daughter and a grandson as well as his camerman, Al Jazeera’s Samer Abudaqa. Dahdouh himself was injured in the attack that killed Abudaqa. “The cost is very high, but at the end of the day, we ask ourselves, ‘What is the other option?’” he told Ayman Mohyeldin with US-based NBC News in…