Author: Steven Sahiounie

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,…

Health Minister Fahrettin Koca posts video on Türkiye’s health achievements, statistics in 2023, highlighting services in earthquake zone in country’s south, Gaza Strip Türkiye has received 292 wounded and sick from Gaza for treatment since Israel’s devastating attacks on the Palestinian enclave began earlier this year, according to a post on X by the country’s health minister on Sunday. Fahrettin Koca shared a video on X about the country’s achievements over the past year in the realm of health, showing that Türkiye also sent Gaza 15 planes and a ship-load of humanitarian aid, including medical supplies, a fully-equipped field hospital,…

Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza for nearly three months has destroyed 70 percent of the homes in the besieged Palestinian enclave, according to the Government Media Office. An earlier report said more than 200 heritage and archaeological sites were destroyed in the Israeli bombardment considered the most destructive in modern history. About 300,000 out of 439,000 homes have been destroyed in Israeli attacks, a Wall Street Journal report said. Analysing satellite imagery, the report added that the 29,000 bombs dropped on the strip have targeted residential areas, Byzantine churches, hospitals and shopping centres and all civilian infrastructure has been damaged to an…

Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for President Mahmoud Abbas, declared today that there can be no peace or stability without a complete end of the Israeli occupation of all the Palestinian territories, including Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. In response to Netanyahu’s recent statements about Israel’s plan to take control of the Philadelphi Corridor of the Palestine-Egypt border, Abu Rudeineh emphasized that the first national priorities now are to halt the Israeli aggression on Gaza and stop the attacks by army-backed Israeli terrorist settler militias on Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps in the West Bank. Abu Rudeineh further…