Ara Shawardian

The number of Palestinians martyred in 2023 is the largest since the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) said on Sunday.

A Palestinian was martyred after he stabbed and wounded two Jewish settlers near an illegal Israeli settlement in east Al-Quds on Sunday.

Thousands of Israeli protesters have held protests, calling on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign over his handling of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip and failure to secure the release of the remaining captives held in the Palestinian territory.

The Palestinians Ministry of Health said on Saturday that the Zionist regime’s occupation forces committed 14 massacres against entire families, resulting in the death of 165 martyrs and 250 injuries in the past 24 hours.

As the US-backed Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip entered day 86 on Sunday, massive aerial and artillery strikes continued to pound and level whole blocks and homes and massacre more civilians, mostly children and women.

Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi has condemned in the strongest terms the Zionist regime’s assassination of a senior military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria, stating that the occupying regime committed the crime out of despair and hopelessness.

Iraq’s former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has praised late Iranian General Qassem Soleimani for the role he played in anti-terrorism fight in the Arab country, saying Iraq would have failed to defeat Daesh terrorists if it was not for Soleimani’s assistance.

An international human rights group says in addition to killing thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces have been also conducting systematic looting of Palestinians' homes across the besieged territory, stealing their property.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says Zionist regime assassinated a senior military advisor of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in Syria due to its defeat in a host of political, military and security fronts.

South Africa has instituted proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice over the regime’s "genocidal" onslaught on Gaza, which has so far killed over 21,000 Palestinians.

US President Joe Biden’s administration has for a second time in less than a month bypassed Congress in order to approve an emergency weapons sale to Zionist regime despite growing international outrage over Washington’s support for the Tel Aviv regime’s genocidal war on Gaza.