Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit in Cairo on Monday. The secretary-general and the foreign minister discussed various Arab and international issues of common interest, especially the Palestinian crisis and developments in Gaza. They exchanged in-depth views on the conflict, agreeing on several ways to ease the crisis. Wang Yi is visiting Egypt, Tunisia, Togo and the Ivory Coast until Thursday. Aboul Gheit received the Chinese minister, who was accompanied by a high-level delegation, at the headquarters of the league’s General Secretariat. The Arab League chief highlighted the longstanding and strong relationship…

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Monday that his government believed that all planned targets had been destroyed in last week’s US-led strikes against Iran-backed Houthis.The British leader also told lawmakers that there were no reports of civilian casualties from the joint strikes, which occurred overnight between Thursday and Friday.“I can tell the House (of Commons) today that our initial assessment is that all 13 planned targets were destroyed,” Sunak said during an address to parliament, describing the strikes as “successful.”Nine buildings were “successfully hit” at a drone and cruise-missile base in Bani in northwestern Yemen, he added.A further three…

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) says Israel has forcibly displaced a considerably large number of Palestinians during its continuing genocidal campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Two young Palestinians in their early 20s, including a female, succumbed to their critical wounds this evening shortly after being shot by Israeli forces’ gunfire during confrontations in Dura town, south of Hebron. The Ministry of Health said that 22-year-old Mohammed Hasan Abu Sabaa died of serious live fire wounds he sustained shortly after being shot directly in the heart by Israeli forces. According to Muhammad Rabi, the director of Dura Governmental Hospital, a 23-year-old young female, who was also critically injured by live fire in the head during the confrontations, succumbed to her wounds shortly after reaching the hospital.…

In his most recent statement, the former Security minister of the Israeli occupation government, Avigdor Lieberman, criticized the occupation government: “This is not how you run a war.” Israeli Knesset member and former Security minister Avigdor Lieberman wrote in a post on X, that ” the War Cabinet lost the North, ” emphasizing that “What is happening with Hezbollah is lawlessness of the first order.” Lieberman warned, “If we don’t come to our senses quickly, we will lose control over strategic parts for the security of the State of Israel.” The occupation’s MK commented on “photos that have been coming out of…

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir delivered harsh words to Turkey after Israeli Nazism footballer Sagiv Jehezkel’s arrest. “Turkey acts toward Israeli players, and toward anything with a scent of Israeliness, with Nazism,” the ultranationalist politician said in a post on X. Calling on all Israelis not to travel to Turkey and impose a boycott on Turkish products. “The state of Israel and Israeli citizens must not act with forgiveness toward Turkey. We won’t let ourselves be trampled on.” Source: AlJazeera

In a televised joint press conference with his Indian counterpart in Tehran, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called on US officials “not to tie the security and national interests of the US to the fate of Israel’s prime minister, who is falling”. He also told the United States it cannot call for restraint while supporting Israel’s war on Gaza. Amir-Abdollahian demanded a diplomatic solution to the conflict in the besieged enclave. Source: AlJazeera