Author: Steven Sahiounie

More than 19,000 people have been killed in Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip and the more intense clashes in the West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. “Since the start of Israel’s aggression in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, 19,088 people have been killed,” the ministry’s statement said, as quoted by the Al Qahera Al Ekhbariya television channel. According to the ministry’s statistics, “70% of the victims caused by the Israeli attacks are women and teenagers.” The ministry added that currently “only eleven hospitals are partially operating” in Gaza. Tensions flared up in the…

The Foreign Ministry stated that the two diplomats indicated “the urgent need for an immediate ceasefire to ensure unimpeded and safe humanitarian access to those in need and to protect civilians Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin and UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths touched upon the humanitarian crises in the Middle East, including in the Gaza Strip, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on its website following the meeting held on December 14. “They exchanged views on humanitarian crises, focusing on the Middle East countries. The interlocutors discussed in detail the current situation in the…

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin and Syrian First Deputy Foreign Minister Bassam Sabbagh noted at a meeting the importance of preventing the spread of the Middle Eastern crisis to other countries of the region, according to a statement released on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. “The discussion of the current situation in the zone of the Palestine-Israeli conflict took place with a focus on the necessity to stop violence in the Gaza Strip. In this respect the importance of preventing the spread of the crisis to other countries of the region was noted. The issues of activities of the…

US officials are weighing a strike on the Houthi against their fears of potentially fueling a broader war against Iran The US Defense Department is considering directly striking the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah’s (the Houthi) rebel military targets in Yemen in response to the escalating attacks on military and commercial shipping in the Red Sea, the US website Semafor reported citing sources. Biden administration officials told the portal that they’re increasingly concerned that the Houthis are trying to undermine global maritime trade, both to undercut trade to Israel and to raise the costs to the US and its allies…

A new opinion poll shows that the majority of young Americans believe Israel should be “ended and given to [the Palestinian resistance movement] Hamas” following the occupying regime’s war in the besieged Gaza Strip. Released on Saturday, the survey, carried out by Harvard-Harris polling, said 51 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 believed the key solution to bring to a close the Israel-Palestinian conflict was for “Israel to be ended and given to Hamas and the Palestinians.” The poll said only 32 percent said they believed in a so-called “two-state” solution, and 17 percent said the Arab countries in the West…

Hundreds marched through Barcelona on Saturday, December 16, during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians. Many held Palestinian flags and participated in chants calling for Palestine to be “freed”. Spain, Ireland, Belgium, and Malta want EU leaders to debate the situation in Gaza and have jointly called for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire that would end the conflict. The Israeli regime started a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on October 7, which has so far claimed the lives of about 19,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. Also, the vast majority of the population of 2.3 million has fled their…

American forces based in military installations in Iraq and neighboring Syria have been targeted dozens of times, as anti-American sentiments are rising across the region over Washington’s unconditional support for Israel’s onslaught on the Gaza Strip. A correspondent for Fox News television channel wrote in a post published on X that US forces have been “attacked for the 100th time” since October 17, the latest of which were drone strikes against US military facilities at al-Omar oilfield and Conoco gas plant in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr. U.S. forces attacked for the 100th time since October 17, the latest reportedly in Syria: https://t.co/cWDzsDUU0P—…

An Israeli military sniper has shot dead a Christian mother and daughter on the grounds of a Catholic church in the Gaza Strip sheltering displaced Palestinian families. The fatal shooting took place inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza City at around noon on Saturday, the Latin Patriarchate of al-Quds, which oversees Catholic Churches across Cyprus, Jordan, the Israeli-occupied territories, Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement. “Nahida and her daughter Samar were shot and killed as they walked to the Sister’s Convent. One was killed as she tried to carry the other to safety,” it added. The patriarchate…

The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the more destruction the Israeli regime causes in Palestine, the more nails they drive into their coffin. Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks on Sunday morning in a ceremony in Tehran to bid farewell to newly discovered martyrs of Iraqi-imposed war on Iran (1980-1988). He noted that the Palestinian people will continue to resist Israeli occupation, and the US and the Israeli regime are doomed to failure in their war on Gaza. “In the war in Palestine, the more Israeli forces destroy, the more nails they drive into…

A top Iranian envoy has warned that “conflicting interests” between Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden in the Gaza war may become “unmanageable” and cost them their political future. In an exclusive interview with the American weekly news magazine Newsweek on Friday, Iran’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani emphasized that the fates of Netanyahu and Biden are intertwined with the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. “Netanyahu finds his political future tied to the continuation of the war on Gaza, while President Biden perceives his reelection prospects entwined with bringing an end to the hostilities,”…