The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced Zionist regime's limited airdrops of aid over parts of the Gaza Strip as a “deceptive” ploy aimed at managing starvation in the besieged territory, rather than ending it.

Five Palestinian citizens, including two children, died of starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip within the past 24 hours, according to a statement released by Gaza’s health ministry on Saturday evening.

The commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says the airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza are an ineffective and perilous diversion from the pressing necessity to lift the siege and facilitate the opening of land crossings.

Hamas has vehemently denounced Zionist regime’s forces’ hijacking of an aid vessel carrying nearly two dozen activists towards the war-hit Gaza Strip, which is teetering on the edge of famine.

The Zionist regime’s naval forces have hijacked a British-flagged aid ship as it was heading towards the Gaza Strip so it can break the regime’s near-total siege of the territory.

 “Friday of Anger and Victory” march held across the country after the Friday prayers to condemn the Zionist regime’s atrocities in Gaza and express solidarity with the oppressed people of the Palestinian enclave.

Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel says his country is open to recognizing the State of Palestine, after France announced that it will recognize Palestine in the coming months.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed the Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds despite the Zionist regime’s security measures that restricted their access to the holy site.

A joint statement from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany affirmed that the time has come to end the war in Gaza and that the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding there must stop immediately.

Iraq’s prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has decried the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza, particularly the deepening famine, calling on Arab and Muslim nations to take proper measures to end the appalling tragedy.

Hojjat al-Islam Sayyed Mohsen Mahmoudi, head of Tehran's Islamic Development Coordination Council addressed Jordanian and Egyptian youth and said: Where is the Arab and Muslim zeal when Gaza is weeping in blood?

In a message marking the 40th day since the martyrdom of top Iranian commanders and scientists in a US-Israeli aggression, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said both military and scientific advances will move forward with greater speed and determination.

Iran’s domestically-built Nahid-2 satellite was successfully launched into space on Friday, July 25, aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has strongly condemned Zionist regime’s military aggression in Gaza and criticized Arab and Muslim countries for their silence and inaction regarding the situation in the Palestinian territories.

Hamas has responded to the US claim that the group has stalled ceasefire talks regarding Gaza.

The Hamas Movement has welcomed French president Emmanuel Macron’s announcement of his country’s intention to recognize the State of Palestine during the upcoming UN General Assembly meeting in September.

Brazil is reportedly preparing to throw its legal weight behind South Africa’s genocide case against the Zionist regime at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

A senior Iranian diplomat has denounced the United States and the Zionist regime’s role in the underway "collapse" of the international legal order and "erosion" of the United Nations Charter.

American doctor Noor Sharaf, currently in the Gaza Strip, has warned in a statement on Wednesday that hunger in the enclave has reached a horrific level.

Two Palestinian teens were martyred early Thursday morning after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank.

111 humanitarian and human rights organizations urged world governments to impose an immediate and permanent ceasefire and lift all restrictions on humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza to alleviate the widespread famine among its residents.

The head of the Hezbollah resistance movement has condemned global inaction in response to the genocide in Gaza, urging Arab and Islamic nations to halt all forms of normalization with Zionist regime and to impose sweeping sanctions on the regime.

By Adnan Hmidan

Gordon Duff told qodsna that that Islamic Republic of Iran punitive response to the Zionist regime’s aggression and the U.S.’s bombing of its nuclear sites is not only justified but a sovereign right enshrined in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter