Author: Steven Sahiounie

Najib Mikati said the killing of al-Arouri “aims to pull Lebanon into a new phase of confrontations in light of the ongoing daily attacks on the south of Beirut ”. Mikati also warned against “the Israeli political upper echelon resorting to exporting its failures in Gaza to the southern border to impose new facts on the ground and change the rules of engagement”. Source: AlJazeera

Back in August, when Netanyahu threatened Palestinian leaders in Lebanon, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said the group would respond to attacks in the country. “Any assassination on Lebanese soil against a Lebanese, Palestinian, Iranian or Syrian person will be met with a strong response. We cannot remain silent and allow opening the Lebanese scene to assassinations,” Nasrallah said at that time. Israel’s attack in the southern suburb of Beirut represents a major escalation in the continuing clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli military, which had been confined to the Lebanon-Israel border area. Source: AlJazeera

Al-Manar is reporting that Al-Arouri was the target of the drone attack in southern Beirut. The Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel has also reported that al-Arouri has been killed, and Reuters has reported the deputy Hamas politburo leader was the target, citing three security sources. Who was Saleh al-Arouri? Al-Arouri was the deputy chief of Hamas’s political bureau and one of the founders of the Palestinian group’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades. He was born in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in 1966. He had long been living in exile in Lebanon after spending 15 years in Israeli jail. In recent weeks,…

Despite the low number, many more still support Netanyahu `s war on Gaza, according to the Reuters news agency, which cited a new poll by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI). The IDI poll found that 56 percent of those questioned said continuing the military offensive was the best way to recover Israeli captives. Meanwhile, 24 percent thought a swap deal including the release of thousands more Palestinian prisoners from Israel’s jails would be best. Netanyahu ’s political rival and present war cabinet partner, Benny Gantz, garnered support from 23 percent of interviewees. About 30 percent named no preferred leader. The…

Turkish officials have confirmed the arrest of 33 individuals suspected of being involved in a plot for Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, as reported by the state-run Anadolu news agency. The operations were conducted across eight Turkish provinces, and authorities are actively pursuing an additional 13 suspects linked to the case. Istanbul’s chief prosecutor’s office also disclosed that arrest warrants have been issued for 46 individuals in a separate investigation related to an Mossad scheme aimed at targeting foreigners within Turkey. The suspects are alleged to have been involved in activities such as reconnaissance, surveillance, assault, and abduction on behalf of…

The US plans for the Gaza Strip have stalled because either continuing support for the Israeli onslaught or acceding to a political solution in compliance with the demands of resistance will mark a defeat for Washington, the foreign minister of Iran said. Addressing a cultural event at the University of Tehran on Monday, Hossein Amirabdollahian said the Zionist regime and its allies have two options in Gaza, both of which entail defeats for them. “The first option is the continuation of (Israeli) war (on Gaza), but the continuation of war means the continuation of massacre and the continuation of a humiliating…

The Gaza Ministry of Health has published the names of 19 patients who have been approved for medical evacuation from Gaza through the Rafah Crossing with Egypt today. The group of 19 patients – including a two-week-old baby – have severe injuries and illnesses, including cancer. In late December, the UN said that the number of wounded Palestinians and other medical cases evacuated from the besieged Palestinian territory since 7 October represented just 1 percent of the total number of people reported injured amid Israel’s war on Gaza. Source: AlJazeera

Nabil Abu Rudeina, the official spokesperson for President Mahmoud Abbas, said today that the Palestinian people are facing a continuous Israeli war of genocide in the Gaza Strip, coupled with daily killings by the occupying forces in the West Bank. In a press statement, Abu Rudeinah said the latest incidents of Israeli brutality in the West Bank include the shooting-to-death of four civilians in the village of Azzun and the suspected killing of a Palestinian prisoner in the Israeli jails. Abu Rudeina emphasized that “the relentless aggression against the Palestinian people and their sacred sites, coupled with displacement attempts by…

Four Palestinians were killed and an Israeli soldier injured during a raid in the town of Azzun in the north of the occupied West Bank , according to the Israeli military. In a post on X, the Israeli military said four Palestinians, who had attacked them with explosives and barricaded themselves in a house, were killed. It also posted a photo of three Carlo submachine guns they claimed the men were carrying. Israeli forces continued the overnight raids across several areas of the occupied West Bank. Fighting was reported in Qalqilya, where footage showed a wounded Palestinian man lying on…

Over 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza are currently denied the necessary medical care following the forced closure of the Palestinian-Turkish Friendship Hospital due to the ongoing Israeli aggression on the territory for over 88 days. Health officials in the besieged territory say that cancer patients there are enduring unbearable and inhumane conditions, lacking any access to specialized cancer treatment medications. The third and final floor of the Palestinian-Turkish Friendship Hospital, the only hospital in Gaza for treatment of cancer patients, was targeted by Israeli airstrikes by the end of October, causing significant damage and rendering the hospital out of service. …