Author: Steven Sahiounie

“Seems a bit dangerous there right now, but I do believe that a long-term prosperous Gaza is good for all sides,” US entrepreneur Elon Musk said US entrepreneur Elon Musk said he was not yet ready to visit the Gaza Strip, because the situation there “seems a bit dangerous.” Commenting on a recent invitation from Hamas, Musk said on the X social network (formerly known as Twitter): “Seems a bit dangerous there right now, but I do believe that a long-term prosperous Gaza is good for all sides.” Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official, said on November 20 that Musk…

November 29 marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the partition resolution 181 in 1947. The partition resolution 181 provided for the establishment of a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international regime. Source: WAFA

The Russian Defense Ministry says a frigate of the Russian Black Sea fleet received an “urgent” directive to strike Ukrainian military infrastructure with Kalibr cruise missiles. A frigate from the Russian Black Sea Fleet has launched four Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukrainian armed forces facilities, as announced by the Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday. The Russian Defense Ministry disclosed that the frigate, while on a mission in the Black Sea, received an “urgent” directive to strike Ukraine’s military infrastructure with Kalibr cruise missiles. The objective was to carry out the attack in the shortest possible timeframe. According to the ministry’s statement, the…

Questioning “Israel’s” actions and their misalignment with international law, she said that a permanent ceasefire is necessary to save the lives of civilians in Gaza. Speaking before delegates at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said she could not bear the sight of thousands of women and children being massacred in Gaza. “I cannot stand still to see thousands of deaths of innocent women and children. I cannot stand still to see homes, schools, and hospitals being flattened to rubble,” Retno said. Questioning “Israel’s” actions and their misalignment with international law, she said that a…

Prime Minister Hussein Arnous, chairs the delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic participating in the COP28 Summit, which will be held on the 1st and 2nd of December in Dubai, UAE, as part of the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (cop28). The Syrian delegation includes Minister of Local Administration and Environment, Hussein Makhlouf, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Bassam Sabbagh, Assistant Minister of Water Resources, Jihad Kanaan, and a number of specialists in the fields of environment, water, and agricultural research. The Syrian delegation will present…

Wang Yi reaches New York to chair high-level meeting on Palestine at Security Council China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said “flames of war” should not be let “re-ignited” in the Palestinian besieged enclave of Gaza. Discussing the humanitarian pause in Gaza with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York on Tuesday, Wang said: “China has always firmly stood on the side of peace, human conscience, and international law in the Palestine-Israel conflict.” Wang also extended Beijing’s support to the UN chief in “playing a unique and irreplaceable role in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” according to an official statement and…

The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling upon Israel to withdraw from the occupied Golan Heights, a TASS correspondent reported. A total of 91 countries voted in favor of the document, including Russia, Brazil, India, China and Saudi Arabia. Eight countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, voted against. 62 countries abstained. The resolution was co-authored by a group of nations that includes Algeria, Venezuela, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Qatar, North Korea, Cuba, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, the United Arab Emirates, Syria and Tunisia. The document contains eight provisions. The first one states that Israel has so far failed…

Spokesman John Kirby says the US is working “hour by hour” with its partners in the region to free more captives held by Hamas. “We want to see all the hostages released and so, if there would be extended pauses beyond these two days’ extension, then we’re in favour of that,” Kirby told reporters. Source: AlJazeera

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko stressed that Russia will be taking all possible precautions in response to NATO’s activity near its borders The Russian side knows that Finland has already agreed to allow NATO forces to be deployed on its territory, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said. “Evidently, the entire [North-Atlantic] alliance has increased the zone of contact with its main enemy, as Russia is viewed by the alliance, by 1,300 kilometers. And they will demand that Finland do what other allies are doing, i.e. take all necessary measures and deploy foreign forces on its territory. We know…

Spokesman Patrick Ryder told a news conference that the US has complied with the truce agreement and suspended its drone flights. “Those [flights] have been paused for now,” he said. The US military has said it was carrying out drone flights over Gaza to aid with the search for American captives held in the enclave. Source: AlJazeera