Author: Steven Sahiounie

Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military’s spokesperson, has said the war on Gaza will continue throughout 2024 , adding that tens of thousands of reservists would be needed for fighting. “[The army] must plan ahead, understanding that we will be required for additional tasks and warfare throughout year 2024 ” he said. “The objectives of the war require prolonged fighting and we are preparing accordingly.” Hagari said the army is currently planning how to deploy troops in the months ahead and “some of the reservists will return to their families and employment this week” in order to ease the burden of…

Iran’s Alborz destroyer has passed through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Red Sea amid rising tensions in the region.

All three fighters were from the eastern village of Kfar Kila, where the Israeli army had launched an attack earlier in the day. Hezbollah identified them as Hussein Yahya, Moussa Sheet and Jihad Sheet. The Israeli army had said it attacked several targets in Lebanon, including “military sites” where Hezbollah was operating. Hezbollah has lost dozens of men since it started trading fire with Israel after the Gaza war broke out. The Iran-allied group eulogises fighters who die in the current conflict as having been killed “on the road to Jerusalem” in a nod to the Palestinian struggle. The violence…

Israel’s assassination of a senior military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria will in no way help the “wicked and fake” regime continue to survive, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry dismissed media stories that the US has sent a message to Tehran about Palestine and the war on Gaza. Speaking to reporters at a presser on Monday, Nasser Kanaani rejected the media claims that Iran has received a message from the US about Palestine. Highlighting Iran’s “clear and detailed” stances on the developments in Palestine, the spokesman said Tehran is involved in talks with various parties to end the Israeli regime’s atrocities in Gaza and weigh plans to assist the Palestinian nation. Iran believes that the US government lacks the competence to play…

Gemma Connell, a representative of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), tells Al Jazeera from Rafah that several thousand doses of critically required vaccines have arrived in Gaza. “Now, the challenge is how we get those vaccines to every baby who needs it because we have the babies being born here in Rafah, but we also have babies born in Jabalia, which is an area that is essentially besieged and cut off from the outside world,” she said. She said: “The health services are struggling to keep up because they are dealing every day with trauma…

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani reiterated that the Zionist entity’s attacks on Syria are a violation of international law. Speaking at his weekly press conference on Monday, Kanaani said that such actions are a threat to international peace and security in the region. He referred to Syria’s consistent positions towards the Palestinian cause and that it is one of the most important links in the axis of resistance. He urged the United Nations Security Council to fulfill its responsibility against the terrorist actions of the Zionist entity. He indicated that the Zionist entity is used to spreading its internal…

The Palestinian presidency today expressed its strong rejection of any suspicious attempts to name Tony Blair or anyone else in charge of displacing the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, considering it a condemnable and rejected act. “We will demand that the British government not allow this meddling with the fate and future of the Palestinian people, and we will also demand that the Secretary-General of the United Nations do what is possible in order not to allow such actions that violate international law and international legitimacy, which is considered an interference and an endeavor that only serves Israel’s interests and…

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has sent a second official notice to the US administration, seeking arbitration over the 2020 assassination of Iran’s top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

The foreign minister of Iran cautioned the Zionist regime that any act of adventurism or aggression will draw a devastating response from Tehran. In a telephone conversation on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron talked about the latest regional developments and bilateral relations. Expressing hope that Britain would adopt a realistic and constructive approach to the regional developments and bilateral relations to enhance the atmosphere of ties, Amirabdollahian said, “The root cause of the Palestinian crisis does not date back to October 7 but to 75 years of Israeli occupation, continuous violation of Palestinians’…