Day: 5 November 2023

Israeli colonists tonight attacked Palestinians and their vehicles on the Ramallah-Nablus Road, north of Ramallah, according to security sources. Sources informed WAFA that a group of colonists attacked Palestinian vehicles driving on the Ramallah-Nablus road, near the illegal colony of Eli, with stones, causing damage to at least one car. Scores of colonists reportedly gathered on the said road, blocking the way before the Palestinian movement and harassing Palestinians.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

The College of Medical Sciences at Dhamar University organized a cultural awareness seminar on the Palestinian issue and the conspiracies targeting the Palestinian people, under the slogan “Al-Aqsa Flood… A Continuing Revolution.”

At the opening of the symposium, the President of Dhamar University, Dr. Muhammad Al-Haifi, considered the Palestinian issue to be the first issue for the Yemeni people and the Arab and Islamic nations.

He praised the positions of the revolutionary leadership and the Supreme Political Council in support of the Palestinian cause.

Source: Yemen News Agency

The death toll due to the Israeli aggression on the Gaza strip and the West Bank has reached 9,883, with over 26,000 individuals wounded, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in an update. The Ministry said in a statement that the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip has reached 9,730, while the death toll in the West Bank also surged to 153 In addition, the ministry said, 25,000 Palestinians have been injured in Gaza, and nearly 2,200 others in the West Bank, WAFA News Agency reported.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Baghdad, The Palestinian Resistance / Al-Qassam Brigades / announced the bombing of Tel Aviv with a batch of missiles in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that we do not want any confrontation with Iran, but we will take all measures to protect our forces and citizens.

He added in a press conference: We are working seriously to reach a humanitarian truce in Gaza.

He continued: We are making our efforts to ensure that the conflict does not expand beyond Gaza.

Blinken stressed: The humanitarian truce may be a good opportunity to release civilian prisoners held by Hamas.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad, The Head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate and President of the Arab Journalists Union, Moayad Al-Lami, saluted the government’s courageous stance towards the Israeli aggression against Gaza.

He also saluted in a televised statement tonight the positions of brothers and friends who stood with us in condemning the aggression.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad, Head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate and President of the Union of Arab Journalists, Moayad Al-Lami, confirmed that the Zionist entity is committing massacres against civilians and journalists in Gaza.

Al-Lami said in a televised statement tonight: International organizations did not pay attention to the Zionist entity’s massacres against civilians, and this entity did not exclude journalists, but rather targeted them with bullets.

Al-Lami, confirmed that the Zionist entity is targeting all the buildings of international institutions amid their strange silence.

He said in a televised statement: The Union of Arab Journalists asked all media institutions in Arab countries not to host war criminals who incite the killing of innocent people in Palestine.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad, The Head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate and Head of the Arab Journalists Union, Moayad Al-Lami, said that we are facing a great tragedy in everything, including journalists and their families in Gaza.

He said in a televised statement tonight that thousands of Palestinian citizens and dozens of journalists and their families were killed and injured, and all their homes were demolished as a result of the Zionist aggression against Gaza.

Al-Lami, confirmed that the biggest stance towards the aggression against Gaza came from Iraq, as everyone testified.

He said in a televised statement that the government’s clear position regarding the aggression strengthened our position in the Union of Arab Journalists in moving quickly to condemn the aggression.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad, The Head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate and President of the Union of Arab Journalists, Moayad Al-Lami, announced the establishment of a media platform for the Union of Arab Journalists based in Baghdad to convey the true picture of what is happening in Gaza, in several languages.

Al-Lami explained in a televised statement tonight that the Western media, unfortunately, failed us by not conveying the true picture of the killing operations taking place against Palestinian civilians and journalists.

He announced an effort to transfer the mass killing of Palestinians to international courts in some countries.

He said in a televised statement: We agreed to hold a meeting with the International Federation of Journalists next Thursday for this purpose and to agree to condemn the Israeli aggression.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad, Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani received, this Sunday evening, United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

During the meeting, according to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office, the developments in the escalating events in the Gaza Strip were discussed, and the need to contain the crisis and ensure that it does not expand was discussed. The deteriorating humanitarian situation of the Palestinian people was also discussed, and the importance of coordination and work to deliver supplies of food, water, medical care, and other matters were discussed. Required aid; To meet the humanitarian needs of the people.

Al-Sudani reiterated Iraq’s clear and principled position of rejecting the Zionist aggression against Gaza, the necessity of an immediate ceasefire, and the opening of the crossings to avoid the worsening humanitarian catastrophe, which has claimed the lives of civilians, women and children.

The Prime Minister stressed the need for the international community to bear its responsibility regarding the massacres committed daily by Israeli forces against innocent women and children, the targeting of hospitals and shelters, and the continued approach of escalation and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.

For his part, Minister Blinken affirmed the United States of America’s efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to the population in the Gaza Strip, noting his country’s government’s desire to continue bilateral coordination and cooperation with Iraq. In order to enhance regional and international stability.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency

Baghdad, A security source announced that the Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq was targeted with mortar shells, without specifying the extent of the losses.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency