Author: Steven Sahiounie

“At any moment we will probably be martyrs”, says a journalist holding the press vest of a fellow reporter outside the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah ahead of the funeral of Jabr Abu Hadrous, a journalist for the Quds Channel, the day after he was killed in an Israeli strike on his house in Nusseirat. More journalists have been killed in the Gaza war over such a short period than in any other conflict in at least 30 years, said media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Source: Press TV

A high-ranking official with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says the large-scale surprise attack by Hamas and other Gaza-based resistance groups against Israel rendered ineffectual the regime’s army and its massive Western support.

Amid the Israeli regime’s genocidal war against the besieged coastal territory, truth has been the biggest casualty as disseminators of truth continue to be killed in the line of duty.

A senior official with of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says cross-border clashes with Israel will end only if the regime ends its assaults on the Palestinians in Gaza.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker aligns with the positions of the Palestinian Resistance that no ceasefire will be deemed acceptable unless the Israeli aggression on Gaza stops. In the aftermath of the Israeli assassination of IRGC military advisor martyr Seyyed Razi Mousavi in Syria, Iran’s Parliament Speaker issued a stern warning to the United States and “Israel”, cautioning that any harm inflicted on the Resistance front will cost them “dearly”. “I should emphasize that any act of aggression against the commanders or the physical infrastructures of the resistance (front) will cost the US and the Zionists dearly,” Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf warned during…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says he hopes the international community takes urgent action in the New Year to put an end to Israel’s massacre against the Palestinian people in Gaza. In separate messages on Sunday, Raeisi extended his congratulations to the leaders and people of Christian countries on the arrival of the New Year. He prayed to God Almighty for a year full of peace and health for the peoples across the world. Raeisi said the killing of innocent people in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli regime is one of the biggest crises currently facing the human society. The…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ) has welcomed South Africa’s decision to file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), after nearly three months of Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza. The OIC in a statement on Saturday called on the ICJ to respond swiftly and take urgent measures to put an end to the genocide committed by Israel in the besieged Palestinian territory, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. “The OIC stressed that Israel, the occupying power, is committing genocide by its indiscriminate targeting of [the] civilian population, killing and injuring tens of…

Ayman Safadi , who also serves as the kingdom’s deputy prime minister, says that Israel subjected Gaza to horrific war crimes this year and the UN Security Council “did nothing to stop it, exposing an Int’l system plagued with double standards”. “2024 will be a year of death too unless the Israeli prime minister’s agenda to keep Gaza ablaze, inflame the West Bank, Lebanon to drag the West into war and save his career is aborted,” Safadi said. Source: ALJazeera

Said Al Zebda, president of the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza, was killed along with his wife and children, the health ministry says. Source: alJazeera

 The President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas said that the Palestinian people will remain steadfast and adhere to their legitimate rights, and will not accept displacement from their land, whatever the cost, under the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of Palestinian people. On the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian revolution led by the Fatah movement, the protector of the national project and the leader of Palestinian people’s revolution, the President said, “Today our steadfast Palestinian people are subjected to a comprehensive war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem,…