Author: Steven Sahiounie

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claims that members of Hamas hide behind civilians in the Gaza Strip, saying the unfounded allegations are an attempt to justify Israel’s crimes of genocide against Palestinians in the war-torn besieged territory.

The President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas received US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah. The President discussed with the US Secretary of State the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, the efforts made to stop the Israeli aggression against Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the importance of accelerating the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, and enabling shelter centers and hospitals to operate as they provide what is necessary to alleviate the suffering of citizens. President Abbas warned of the danger of…

Riyad Mansour, the UN Palestinian ambassador, told the UN General Assembly his people are “being slaughtered,” with entire families killed and stressed that “the horrors need to end and the only way to end them is a ceasefire”. “The whole world is calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire,” he said, accusing Israel of “destroying everything to make Gaza unlivable”. But he added: “The Palestinian people are here to stay.” Israel’s far-right cabinet ministers have repeatedly called for the “voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza. Mansour said: “This assault is without precedent in modern history – in the scale and pace in the…

Former UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn will join a South African delegation for this week’s hearings at the International Court of Justice, where it accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in the war in Gaza. Corbyn was one of a number of “senior political figures from progressive political parties and movements across the globe” who will join the South African delegation at The Hague in the Netherlands for two days of preliminary hearings that begin on Thursday. Corbyn was the only foreign political figure in its delegation named by the South African government. He is a longtime supporter of…

China ’s Foreign Ministry called for a comprehensive and immediate ceasefire and urged Israel to stop “collective punishment” against Gaza civilians. It also called urged the “parties to the conflict” in Gaza to implement the relevant UN Security Council resolutions. In November, China called on the Security Council to formulate a “concrete” timetable and roadmap for a two-state solution to achieve a “comprehensive, just and lasting” settlement of the Palestinian issue. Source: AlJazeera

The defenseless Palestinian people have suffered, for more than 75 years, the bitterness of killing and displacement at the hands of the Israeli occupation, which is devoid of the most basic human values, Speaker of the People’s Assembly, Hammoudeh Sabbagh said. Sabbagh’s remarks came during the emergency meeting of Palestine Committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in Tehran on Wednesday. “The tragedies we have been witnessing daily in the photos of martyrs, the wounded, and the huge destruction inflicted by the occupation entity clearly show the malicious tools that aim to forcibly displace…

The international community has an obligation to organize security in Gaza after the war and a reformed Palestinian Authority must play a crucial role in future, Germany’s foreign minister said on Tuesday during a visit to Egypt.“Egypt and Germany are agreed that Gaza and the West Bank belong to Palestinians,” Germany’s Annalena Baerbock told reporters.Pressure is mounting on Israel from the United States and Middle East powers to ease its assault on the Hamas-run enclave of Gaza.While Germany is traditionally one of Israel’s strongest allies, a legacy of the Holocaust in which Nazi Germany was responsible for killing some 6…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II will host Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday for talks on “dangerous developments” in war-torn Gaza, the royal palace said.The meeting will be held in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba as part of “Jordan’s efforts to coordinate Arab positions to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and ensure the uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid,” a statement said.Their talks would also focus on “the situation in the West Bank,” which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.King Abdullah II , in a meeting Sunday with US Secretary of State…

Palestinian journalist Hiba al-Abadla and her daughter were martyred in an Israeli bombing targeting their home. This tragic incident brings the count of journalist martyrs to 111 since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza confirmed the martyrdom of the Palestinian journalist, Hiba al-Abadla, and her daughter, Judy, as a result of an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted her home in the city of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip. Based on medical sources, the Palestinian Information Center announced the martyrdom of journalist al-Abadla and her daughter as a result…

Israel has selected a judge who “legitimized occupation” and defended the killing of children in Gaza, to represent it in the genocide case filed by South Africa against the occupying regime at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over its ongoing war in the besieged strip.