Author: Steven Sahiounie

Ronen Bar, head of the Israeli internal security agency Shin Bet, is planning to resign after the war on Gaza, according to a report by the N12 Israeli news website. It cited Yaakov Peri, former head of Shin Bet and ex-member of the Knesset, as saying Bar announced the news to his staff. Peri said Bar told Shin Bet employees the spy agency failed to issue an early warning on October 7 attacks “that would allow us to thwart” it. He has, therefore, chosen to resign in acceptance of responsibility for the failure. source: ALJazeera

Namibia’ s President Hage Geingob has expressed “deep concern” that Germany has failed to “draw lessons from its horrific history” after Germany announced it would support Israel against genocide charges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Geingob called on Germany “to reconsider its untimely decision to intervene as a third-party in defence and support of the genocidal acts of Israel”. The Namibia n president’s office described the case filed by South Africa at the World Court as “morally upright” and recalled Germany’s role in the Namibian genocide of 1904-1908. “The German Government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on…

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Sunday for the establishment of a Palestinian state and a cease-fire in Gaza, where 100 days of the Israel-Hamas war have killed thousands.In a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo, Wang Yi said “it is necessary to insist on the establishment of an independent, fully sovereign state of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital.”A joint statement from the two ministers urged an immediate end “to all acts of violence, killing and targeting of civilians and civilian establishments.”Israel launched an intense military campaign in response to…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that no one would stop Israel from achieving victory in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.“No one will stop us — not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil and no one else. It is possible and necessary to continue until victory and we will do it,” Netanyahu told a televised press conference as the war in Gaza moves into its 100th day on Sunday.He was referring to a case brought before the UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, alleging Israel’s offensive is in breach of…

Raisi points out that the sacrifices of the Palestinians reveal the hypocrisy of the United States, Britain, and France, expressing his hope that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) would make a responsible decision in response to South Africa’s lawsuit against “Israel.” Speaking at the Al-Aqsa Flood and Awakening of Human Conscience conference on Sunday, held by the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the Palestinian cause evolved into the most prominent humanitarian issue today and remains a top priority within the collective consciousness of both people and governments. He added…

RIYADH: US forces conducted a fresh strike against a Houthi radar site in Yemen, the American military and the Iran-backed militia’s official media both announced on Saturday.

Josep Borrell said that the conflict between Israel and Hamas was the “most urgent geopolitical issue we have to deal with”

GAZA: Health officials in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Saturday that Israeli strikes killed at least 60 people in the besieged territory, 99 days into the war.

Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement says the Yemeni response to the US aggression against the Arab country will be carried out on the land and sea, and sternly warned that the American vessels and warships will be targeted in the Red Sea.

Amid simmering anti-US sentiment over Washington’s support for the Israeli air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iraqi anti-terror resistance groups have carried out an attack against a US military installation in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr.