Author: Steven Sahiounie

Beijing’s clarification of its stance on commerce with the European Commission comes after the bloc warned of a “growing trade imbalance” China has invited EU member states to take advantage of its “mega market,” responding after the European Commission warned it could soon deploy protectionist measures to guard local industry from Chinese firms. Speaking during a press briefing on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin was asked whether Beijing feared a “trade war” with the EU, in light of recent remarks by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “China has never deliberately sought a trade surplus. On the contrary, we have consistently advanced high-level…

“Today, the eyes of the women and children of Gaza look at the Rafah crossing, and they are without water, medicine, or food, and they are awaiting Egypt’s decisive decision in this regard,” Hossein Amirabdollahian said on X. He added that Egypt is “expected” to open the Rafah border crossing to allow aid into the Gaza Strip. Earlier, Al Jazeera spoke to a representative of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, who said that the humanitarian aid the organisation is receiving only meets “10 percent” of the need in Gaza. Source: AlJazeera

The UN human rights chief says Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living in “utter, deepening horror” as he pleaded for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the ongoing Israeli aggression on the besieged Palestinian territory. Volker Turk told a press conference Wednesday that some 1.9 million displaced Palestinians are being forced into smaller and smaller pockets of southern Gaza. The conditions are “overcrowded” and “unsanitary,” he said. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights further said there was a high risk of atrocity crimes being committed in such “catastrophic” humanitarian circumstances.” “Civilians in Gaza continue to be relentlessly bombarded…

The media network, in a statement, says it “expresses its heartfelt condolences and profound sympathy” to correspondent Momin Alshrafi, his family and colleagues. The network said that 22 of Alshrafi’s family were killed in the Israeli attack today at the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, including his mother and father and three of his siblings. Several children in Alshrafi’s family were also killed in the attack. The network said it “demands that the Israeli military is held accountable for the daily crimes committed against journalists and innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip”. “Al Jazeera reaffirms that it will pursue…

Arab nations at the United Nations are fine-tuning a proposed UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian UN ambassador, says it’s essential that the UN’s most powerful body demand a halt to the conflict. Surrounded by members of the 22-nation Arab Group, Mansour also told reporters a ministerial delegation from Arab nations and the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation, headed by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, will be in Washington on Thursday to meet US officials. “On top of the agenda is this war has to stop,” he said. “A ceasefire has to take place…

Amid the Israeli regime’s indiscriminate attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip, the death toll of journalists has already risen above 70, most of them Palestinian scribes working for local and international media. Families of journalists reporting on the Israeli-American war on the territory have also been killed. On Monday, CNN producer in Gaza, Ibrahim Dahman, was shocked to know that at least nine members of his family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on his aunt’s house in northern Gaza. His childhood home in Gaza City was also destroyed in a separate bombing the same day, CNN reported. However, bizarrely,…

‘Israeli rulers will sooner or later be tried in court of humanity, suffer punishment they deserve, and take their place in dustbin of history,’ Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel will be held accountable for all oppression it has caused in Palestine since World War II, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding that there would be “no escape” from this. “The more the Israeli administration escalates its oppression, the heavier the price it will pay,” Erdogan said after a Cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara. “Israeli rulers will sooner or later be tried in the court of humanity,…

The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Israel cannot withstand a prolonged onslaught against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stressing that the regime’s prime minister is intent on continuing the war solely for personal interests. Major General Hossein Salami made the remarks on Wednesday as he addressed a gathering at the premises of the Iranian Foreign Ministry in the capital Tehran. The occupying regime, from military and political perspectives, cannot manage a war for a sustained period of time, the general pointed out. Salami went on to highlight that 30% of jobs in the occupied lands have been lost as a…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Israel of a “heavy price” if the Tel Aviv regime carries out its alleged plot to target members of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group on Turkish soil. The Turkish leader made the warning as he was speaking with journalists on his return flight from a two-day Qatar trip on Tuesday, just a day after the Shin Bet chief revealed that Tel Aviv intends to assassinate Hamas members living outside Palestine. “If they dare to take such a step against Turkey, they will pay a price which they cannot recover from,” Erdogan said, stressing,…

Beirut says it will file a complaint at the UN Security Council over the recent killing of one of its soldiers in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon. Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said he has instructed Lebanon’s mission to the UN to submit the complaint over the Tuesday attack that targeted a Lebanese army center in Odaisseh area, killing a soldier and injuring three others. Bou Habib said, “Lebanon deeply believes in the importance of adherence to international law and the respect for resolutions issued by the Security Council, while Israel persists in violating Lebanon’s sovereignty and attacking it by…