Author: Steven Sahiounie

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…

Voting for Egypt’s presidential election, a contest between four candidates including the incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, began on Sunday. The electoral process will take place over three days from 9 a.m. (0700 GMT) until 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) local time, with results due to be announced on Dec. 18. While President al-Sisi is poised to win a third term, his opponents are Farid Zahran, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, Abdel-Sanad Yamama, leader of the Egyptian Wafd party, and Hazem Omar, head of the Republican People’s Party. In Egypt’s 27 governorates, voting began in 11,631 polling stations in…

The Israeli occupation forces today detained 50 Palestinians in raids at their homes across the occupied West Bank, including two women. In Ramallah, the occupation forces detained 22 people, including Wasim Snaiber, who was shot by the soldiers by live bullets, and a woman. The Israeli forces detained 12 people from Bethlehem, six from Hebron, two from Nablus, one from Tubas and six from Jenin, including a woman. Source: WAFA

We’re getting reports of an Israeli bombardment on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Palestinian medical sources are saying at least 20 people have been killed, including seven children and at least five women. Three homes were destroyed by the strikes in the north of the city. People are feared trapped under the rubble. Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled to Rafah after evacuation orders by the Israeli army but the city has been subjected to heavy bombing in recent days. Source: AlJazeera