Author: Steven Sahiounie

Syria has condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s overnight airstrikes on several points on the outskirts of the capital Damascus. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said by attacking the Syrian territory Israel has displayed a desperate attempt to cover up its abject failures in the Gaza Strip. “The Zionist entity committed a new act of aggression against Syria this morning in the hope that it can mask failure to achieve any of its declared objectives in the Palestinian enclave, resist facing realities and spark off a regional crisis,” the ministry said in a statement on Saturday. It added,…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip has reached a breaking point due to Israel’s relentless bombardment. “Everything in Gaza is at the breaking point,” ICRC Director General Robert Mardini said on Saturday as he was attending the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Mardini’s comments came a day after Israel resumed its attacks on Gaza after a seven-day ceasefire with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas ended. He said Israel had resumed the devastating attacks on civilian infrastructure in Gaza, adding to the more than 15,200…

A senior official of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says there will be no more prisoner exchanges with Israel as long as the regime’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip has not come to a complete end. “There are now no negotiations [on the issue of prisoners], and the official and final position of the Hamas movement and the resistance is that there will be no exchanges until the Zionist terrorist aggression [against Gaza] ends completely and finally,” Saleh al-Arouri, the deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, was quoted by Palestinian media as saying in an interview with Al Jazeera news…

Holding Palestinian flags, American protesters have rallied outside the White House in the US capital city of Washington DC to demand an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip. The Saturday protest in Washington came on the second day of Israel’s renewed airstrikes on Gaza after the expiry of a week-long truce between the regime and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. More than 15,200 people have so far been killed in Gaza with over 40,000 people wounded. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 70 percent of victims of Israeli strikes on the blockaded territory are women and children. Source: Press TV

Israeli settlers and the regime’s troops have killed at least three more Palestinian men during separate attacks across the occupied West Bank. In the first incident on Saturday, Israeli settlers, who were protected by the regime’s forces, carried out a terrorist attack against the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in northwestern West Bank, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. The settlers fired live ammunition at a Palestinian man identified as 38-year-old father of six children Ahmed Mustafa Assi. Assi was then left bleeding on the ground while Israeli forces accompanying settlers did not allow medical teams or local Palestinians to reach him. Later on Saturday,…

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the United States’ supportive policies are the main factor encouraging the Zionist regime to continue massacre of civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip. Amir-Abdollahian made the comment in a Saturday phone call with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell. During the conversation, Iran’s top diplomat stressed the necessity of putting an immediate end to the Zionist regime’s crimes against Palestinians. “The Zionist regime’s military attacks against the people of Gaza must stop as soon as possible to pave the way for the dispatch of humanitarian aid,” he said. Amir-Abdollahian emphasized that “supportive policies…

The media outlet, citing unnamed officials, claims Washington has given its ally 100 of the 2,000-pound munitions since October 7 The US has supplied Israel with scores of BLU-109 bunker-buster bombs since October 7, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing anonymous officials. The media outlet pointed out that President Joe Biden’s administration has been calling on Israel to exercise restraint in its military operation in Gaza while keeping mum on its arms deliveries to the nation in the Middle East. A similar report appeared in Bloomberg last month, alleging that Washington was forced to dip into its stocks at…

The current assault on the Palestinian enclave is devastating. But we’ve seen this modus operandi before Eva Bartlett is a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years). After seven weeks of relentless Israeli bombing throughout Gaza, according to the modest estimates of the UN as of November 23 (right before a humanitarian ceasefire came into effect), more than 14,800 people have been killed in the enclave, including about 6,000 children and 4,000 women. While these Israeli attacks on Gaza are…

US National Security Council director was asked to explain Israel evacuating a million Gazans south and then attacking the south “We don’t support southern operations unless or until [the Israelis] have factored in all those additional civilians – actually, all civilians, but noting that there are now hundreds of thousands more civilians,” Kirby said, adding that the White House had “also urged them to think about how to do this in a way that keeps those civilians safe.” On Saturday, Israel announced it had hit over 400 targets across Gaza since the seven-day ceasefire with Hamas collapsed on Friday, including…

Israel and its Western backers should focus on a two-state solution instead, the Turkish president said Israel’s goal to destroy Hamas or expel the Palestinian militants from Gaza is unattainable, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday, as the fighting in the Middle East has resumed following a brief truce. “The Western countries that support Israel, especially the United States and the United Kingdom, always bring up the question ‘What are we going to do about the threat of Hamas?’ instead of looking at the two-state [solution],” Erdogan told reporters on a flight from Dubai, where he attended a climate…