Author: Steven Sahiounie

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

Gaza’s civil defense says in a video statement to Al Jazeera it completed more than 22,000 rescue missions “in tragic conditions” as its personnel, vehicles, headquarters and field points were subjected to systematic Israeli bombardment. Mohammed al-Mughayir, director of supply and financial affairs at the civil defense, said all civil defense headquarters are out of service as a result of shelling and bulldozing by Israeli vehicles. He added crews in the Tuffah neighborhood, in eastern Gaza, were targeted twice, which led to the death of 12 members. Al-Mughayir pointed out the rescue team death toll stood at 45, with more…

Speaking at a memorial event, Aviv Kohavi said he shouldn’t be exempt from scrutiny when Israel investigates military failures leading up to Hamas’s October 7 attack. “I constantly ask myself what we could have done differently,” said Kohavi, according to The Times of Israel. Kohavi, who led Israel’s military from January 2019 to January 2023, said a comprehensive investigation is needed to determine how Israel’s security wall was “completely breached” by Hamas. This would “of course” cover the period in which he led the military, he said. Moving forward, Israel must also “re-examine the perception of war and security along…

Fierce fighting is under way between Palestinian fighters and Israeli troops in southern Khan Younis city in Gaza . The Palestinian press agency Safa reports that Israeli tanks are firing near the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza . In the Nuseirat refugee camp, local journalist Doaa El-Baz showed footage of what once was the street where she lived. “This whole neighbourhood is destroyed. Not a single house has been spared,” she said, standing before mounds of rubble. “They killed all our dreams here. The house where I grew up and spent all my childhood,” El-Baz said, her…