Author: Steven Sahiounie

More shipping firms have decided to avoid the Red Sea although the US has created a naval coalition purportedly aimed to safeguard shipping after Yemen’s retaliatory attacks on Israel-linked vessels.

Thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets across the country to express their solidarity with Palestinians in the face of the relentless Israeli air and ground onslaught on the Gaza Strip, calling for a permanent ceasefire in the besieged coastal territory.

JONATHAN GORNALL LONDON: It is now 10 weeks since the Israel Occupation Forces mounted their first raids against Gaza in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel. “We are striking our enemies with unprecedented might,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis in a televised address on Friday, Oct. 13. However, things quickly began to go wrong for the much-vaunted IOF and operation “Swords of Iron.” The world, which until that moment had felt only sympathy for Israel after the slaughter of its civilians during the Hamas-led rampage, was suddenly confronted with an alternative, equally disturbing narrative.…

The World Health Organization said on Thursday that northern Gaza has been left without a functional hospital due to a lack of fuel, staff and supplies. Only nine out of 36 health facilities were partially functional in the whole of Gaza, according to the WHO. All these facilities are concentrated in the enclave’s south.“There are actually no functional hospitals left in the north,” Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in Gaza, told reporters via video link from Jerusalem.“Al-Ahli (Hospital) was the last one but it is now minimally functional: still treating patients but not admitting new ones.” Describing it as a “shell…

A report released Thursday by the UN finds that more than half a million people in Gaza are “starving” because of not enough food entering the territory since the outbreak of war more than 10 weeks ago.“It is a situation where pretty much everybody in Gaza is hungry,” said World Food Program chief economist Arif Husain. He warned that if the war between Israel and Hamas continues at the same levels and food deliveries are not restored that the population could face “a full-fledged famine within the next six months.” The report released Thursday by 23 UN and nongovernmental agencies…

called for immediate action to ensure aid is delivered to the people of Gaza

The UAE minister stressed the importance of prioritizing negotiations toward a framework for a two-state peace

Israel currently has no plans to reduce the intensity of combat operations in the Gaza Strip by the Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) against Palestinian movement Hamas, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in an interview with the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. “Based on the latest results of a political discussion, decreasing the intensity of military activity, at least, in the next few weeks, is out of the question,” the top Israeli diplomat stressed. That said, the newspaper thinks that by mid-January, combat in the Palestinian enclave will gradually subside because a new humanitarian pause is likely. Most IOF reservists will be able to…

David Cameron has called for a “sustainable ceasefire”

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator The Houthis are fighting in support of Gaza, by attacking Israeli owned and flagged ships that use the Red Sea to navigate toward the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean Sea, bringing ships directly alongside the Yemeni coast. The Saudi-Yemeni war began in March 2016, and the US participated in support of Saudi Arabia, as one of the wealthiest countries on earth bombed and attacked one of the poorest countries on earth.The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is refusing to participate in the US coalition to fight Yemen, because of the new foreign policy of the…