Author: Steven Sahiounie

Biden has warned that Israel is starting to lose support from the international community because of its relentless bombing of Gaza. “They’re starting to lose that support,” Biden said at a campaign fundraising event in Washington, as reported by the Reuters news agency. Biden also said Netanyahu needs to change his hardline government. Source: AlJazeera

Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh today received in his office in Ramallah the United Nations Resident Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, due to the end of her official duties as a result of Israel not renewing her work and residence visa after the Israeli Foreign Minister had attacked her several times. Shtayyeh thanked Hastings for her courage and firm and clear position as she represents the voice of truth and justice, noting that Israel is fighting at all levels all voices that reject the injustice and occupation to which the Palestinian people are subjected, and advocate for…

The prime ministers of the three countries back urgent international efforts towards a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza, a joint statement says. “We are alarmed at the diminishing safe space for civilians in Gaza. The price of defeating Hamas cannot be the continuous suffering of all Palestinian civilians,” they said in the statement. A ceasefire cannot be one-sided and Hamas must release all hostages and stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields, they added. Source: AlJazeera

The US president Biden has acknowledged that Netanyahu’s far-right government opposes establishing a Palestinian state. “This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history,” Biden said, adding that the Israeli government “doesn’t want a two-state solution”. Biden’s comments come as his administration repeatedly calls for a two-state solution to the conflict after the war in Gaza. Washington has said it favours bringing Gaza under the control of the Palestinian Authority – a proposition that Netanyahu has openly rejected. Palestinian rights advocates have urged Biden to use US leverage – including billions of dollars in aid – to pressure the Israeli…

By: Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator America is the chief supporter of Israel, and holds immense leverage over Israel, but refuses to demand that they stop the genocide and bring home the hostages. A UN Security Council vote on December 8, demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war, failed because the U.S. used their veto power in the sole dissenting vote. The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, did not cast the damning vote, she sent her assistant instead, shielding herself from the disgust of the international community. Thomas-Greenfield is the direct descendant of African slaves…

About two dozen Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah, which has been packed with tens of thousands of displaced civilians. The civilians were killed after Israeli warplanes bombed several homes in Rafah, in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Several women and children were among those killed in the latest Israeli bombardment. The city has been packed with tens of thousands of displaced civilians. Israeli airstrikes have been pounding locations across Gaza, including southern parts that Israel had declared as safe zones. Several Palestinians were killed and wounded in the southern…

The Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dubbed the bloody crimes against Palestinians in Gaza “barbarism”. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated on Tuesday that major arms companies, especially US ones, have sold weapons worth $32 billion in the past two months to “Israel”, which it used in shedding the blood of Palestinians, including children, women, and elderly individuals, adding, “This is barbarism.” Maduro, during a televised interview published on Tuesday, said, “The war on the Gaza Strip is a demonic bloodthirsty trade war that history has never witnessed before,” adding that “the genocidal crimes committed by Israel remind us of the worst crimes of Adolf…

The foreign ministers of Iran and Turkey weighed plans to use diplomatic leverage to mount regional and international pressures on the Zionist regime and force it to give in to a ceasefire and stop the onslaught on Gaza. In a telephone conversation on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan discussed a range of bilateral and regional issues, most notably the Zionist regime’s heinous crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank. Hailing the growing relations between Iran and Turkey, Amirabdollahian highlighted the importance of an upcoming meeting between the presidents of…

The official spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, today said that the statements made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he said that the occupation army is preparing for a possible confrontation with the Palestinian Authority’s security services in the West Bank clearly express his premeditated intentions and an Israeli decision to flare up the West Bank as part of the overall war waged by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people, their land, and their sanctities in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem. Abu Rudeineh said Netanyahu’s statements, in which he…

In a pivotal moment at the United Nations, the General Assembly is poised for a crucial vote on Tuesday, deliberating a non-binding resolution that urgently calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The UN General Assembly is set to vote on Tuesday on a non-binding resolution urging an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza; a plea that the inactive Security Council has not been able to make. The United States, one of the five permanent Security Council members, vetoed a draft resolution on Friday, highlighting a clear complicity in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The Council, after over a month…