News Archive - 22 December 2023

Pro-Palestine demonstrations surged across Yemen on Friday, spanning various provinces including Sa’ada, Hajjah, al-Jawf, Hudaydah, Dhamar, al-Bayda, Ma'rib, and Ta'izz, with protesters denouncing Israeli offenses against Gazans. The death toll from Israeli atrocities has exceeded 20,000 Palestinians since October 7, prompting fervent condemnation and slogans against Israel and its key...

According to Iraqi media, Zidan Khalaf Obaid, Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq on Human Rights said that the tanker is carrying 10 million liters of diesel and is first going to Suez Port in Egypt. This shipment will be delivered to the Gaza hospitals and to the Egyptian...

According to the report, 79% of the population in Gaza is in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) or Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). "The extreme concentration or isolation of people in inadequate shelters or areas without basic services are major contributors to the risk of famine," FAO said, TASS reported. According to...

The Iraqi Resistance issued a concise statement claiming responsibility for targeting Umm al-Rashrash located in the south of occupied Palestine. The statement mentioned that Resistance forces targeted a site in Umm al-Rashrash as part of their ongoing strategy of resisting the occupation, expressing solidarity with the people of Gaza, and...

Of that number, 113 people were killed in the Gansu province and the 31 others fell victim in the province of Qinghai, the updated figure shows. Three more people are still missing in the latter province, according to TASS. A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck in the small hours on Monday,...

In an interview with IRNA published on Thursday, Hezam al-Assad, a member of the political bureau of the Ansarullah Resistance movement, spoke about threats facing Yemen following reports by the US media that planning is underway for possible military action against Yemen in response to a surge in attacks on...

Hezbollah announced in a statement on Friday that it has targeted a military location just outside the occupied Shomera village to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip in their resistance against the Israeli attacks. Hezbollah emphasized that in the attack, which was carried out accurately, some enemy forces...

Since October 7 which was the onset of the Israeli regime’s war on Gaza 53,320 people have been injured in the attacks, Shehab News Agency wrote on Friday. The statement also said that over the past 24 hours, 390 Palestinians were martyred and 734 more were injured, adding that the...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in the phone call on Thursday evening with Hossein Ebrahim Taha, expressed deep regret and condemned the continued attacks and aggressions of the Zionist regime, which have so far resulted in the martyrdom of about 20,000 residents of Gaza, including a large number of innocent women and children.

In a post on X on Friday, Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini Matin rejected the claim by ITV News as baseless, likening it to a Hollywood movie scenario. ITV News earlier published a report alleging that the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) had approached a human trafficker in October 2022, offering $200,000...

Ali Akbar Velayati made the remarks reacting to the 6th Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum statement held on Wednesday in Morroco, regarding Iran’s trio islands. This meeting was held in Morocco with the presence of some Arabs who are indifferent to the fate of the Palestinians and Russian experts, he said, adding...

Kan'ani expressed solidarity with the families affected by this tragic natural disaster and prayed for the swift recovery of the injured. Local officials reported 784 injuries across medical institutions in the province, prefecture, and county levels after the magnitude-6.2 earthquake in Gansu on Monday, as stated in a Thursday...

Tehran's interim Friday prayers leader Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi made the remarks while speaking at the sermons of Friday prayers. Referring to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, Ayatollah Sedighi stressed that the Israeli regime's defeats in Gaza continue. Saying that the true nature of the US, its allies, and...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks reacting to the 6th Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum statement held on Wednesday in Morroco, regarding Iran’s trio islands. In a phone call on Friday, the Iranian and Russian foreign ministers discussed several regional and international issues, as well as the bilateral relations between Tehran and Moscow.