Author: Steven Sahiounie

Russia sees number one priority in the Gaza Strip in ending the bloodshed and solving humanitarian problems, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the plenary session of the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum. “Our meeting is taking place amid an unprecedented aggravation of the situation in the Middle East and continuing turbulence in the world. The complicated and complex nature of emerging challenges and threats makes a collective approach to addressing the tasks of strengthening peace and security in the region and ensuring its sustainable development increasingly relevant,” Lavrov said. “After the October 7 terrorist attack, which we categorically condemned, the…

The foreign minister of Iran warned the US government and the Zionist regime that the prolongation of war against Gaza will aggravate their already dismal political and economic conditions. In a meeting with his Qatari counterpart, held in Doha on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said it appears from a series of messages and signs that the US is making new attempts to disconnect itself from the Israeli atrocities against Palestine, although it has stood by the Zionist regime in its failed militancy in practice. Time is running against the US government and the Zionist regime, he added, warning…

Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry recently held talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss the latest developments in the Gaza Strip and maritime security concerns in the southern Red Sea and Bab El-Mandeb, the strait that connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden. Ahmed Abu Zeid, a spokesman for Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Shoukry received a phone call on Tuesday evening from Blinken who spoke of America’s keenness to work closely with Egypt on regional and global issues during the new term in office of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Shoukry and…

The attack in Rafah has been carried out in an area that includes a hospital and a United Nations-run shelter where thousands of people are crammed in. The street is usually very crowded. Elsewhere, in eastern areas of Khan Younis city, two people have been killed and 10 others wounded in an Israeli military bombardment. The Israeli military published a video today showing the explosions happening in about 56 residential areas of Shujayea neighbourhood [in Gaza City]. Israeli artillery shelling and exchange of gunfire between the Palestinian fighters and the Israeli troops did not stop in the north of the Gaza…

A senior Hamas official says the Palestinian movement is ready to release all Israeli captives in Gaza in return for Israel freeing Palestinian abductees, stressing however that the regime has so far blocked an exchange deal. Saleh al-Arouri, speaking to Press TV’s “Face to Face” program, said the recent ceasefire extension talks between Hamas and Israel collapsed due to the regime’s refusal to accept the movement’s all-for-all offer. He said Hamas has always said it wants Palestinian prisoners to be freed in return for the movement’s release of Israeli military captives held in Gaza. “We said it very clearly, we were ready…

A senior official of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement says the United States is leading Israel’s brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip in an attempt to “uproot” the resistance, which has scuppered Washington’s plans to secure the occupying regime’s control over the region. Mohammad al-Hindi, deputy secretary general of the movement noted that the Operation al-Aqsa Storm was a “lightning bolt” that struck all US arrangements aimed at ending the Palestine cause and establishing Israel’s dominance over the region. Hindi noted that the US and Western countries seek to “eradicate” the resistance because Israel protects their interests in the region. He stressed that the resistance “is neither…

What is happening in Gaza is an “annihilation of human existence” enabled by Washington despite its claim to champion human rights across the globe, says Iran’s deputy foreign minister for political affairs. Ali Bagheri Kani said in an interview with Japan’s public broadcaster NHK on Tuesday that the Americans can no longer claim to be “advocates of human rights” whatsoever given their support for the brutal Israeli war. “The Americans claim to advocate human rights but what is happening in Gaza today is not just a violation of human rights but annihilation of human existence,” he said. “Therefore, the Americans…

A Geneva-based rights group has found that 71 percent of people in the Gaza Strip suffer from extreme hunger due to Israel’s devastating war on the Palestinian territory and the regime’s method of using starvation as a weapon. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor released the figure on Tuesday after it conducted an analytical study of a sample of 1,200 people in Gaza. Some 98 percent of participants at the study said they eat insufficient amounts of food and 64 percent admitted to eating grass, fruits, immature food, and expired materials to satiate their hunger. The study was published at a time, when…

Upon meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday, the head of the Palestinian Resistance, Ismail Haniyeh stated that the IOF’s aerial, naval, and ground attacks in Gaza are unprecedented, but the Palestinian Resistance stands “firm on the battlefield”. “The Zionist regime and its allies thought that they could eliminate the resistance this way and force it to raise the white flag,” he noted, adding: “The resistance, however, has still stood firm and steadfast on the battlefield and inflicted heavy damage on the Zionist regime after 75 days of Israeli crimes and mass murders as part of its scorched-earth…

The foreign ministers of Iran and Syria discussed ways to support the Palestinian people and force the Zionist regime to stop the massacre of people in the Gaza Strip. In a telephone conversation on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad talked about a series of bilateral issues and regional developments. They hailed the positive outcomes of a recent visit by the Syrian prime minister and his high-ranking delegation to Tehran. The two diplomats also touched upon the success of holding the 15th meeting of the High Joint Cooperation Committee, the signing of new cooperation…