Jeffrey Stevens
Jeffrey Stevens is the founder and director of Azarias Project, a 501c3 nonprofit organization publishing the truth from Gaza and the West Bank that isn’t found through mainstream media. He also covers the Middle East for multiple publications.
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Israeli forces bomb Rafah crossing, blocking Egyptian aid to Palestinians
October 11th, 20230 According to reports from Ahram Online, Israeli occupation forces bombed the Gazan/Egyptian Rafah border crossing, enforcing a siege of 2.3 million Palestinians and making it impossible to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation launched from the Gaza Strip by Hamas on October 7, Israel’s...
U.N. warns an Israeli total blockade on the Gaza Strip is equivalent to a war crime
October 10th, 20231 The human rights chief of the United Nations warned that a total blockade on the Gaza Strip by the Israeli government would violate international law and amount to a war crime. In a statement on Tuesday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said that a total blockade would “seriously” risk an already dire...
Peace talks with Yemen demonstrates Saudi intentions to step away from the U.S.
September 19th, 20230 The Biden administration is seeking trilateral meetings with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as soon as this week to discuss any differences between the Gulf countries that could “upend” the peace talks currently happening between the Saudis and Yemen. According to U.S. officials speaking with the Financial Times, Tim...
Ansarallah delegation visits Riyadh to continue peace talks
September 15th, 20230 On Wednesday, September 14, Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement announced that a delegation had left Sanaa to pursue Omani-mediated peace talks in Riyadh. A member of Ansarallah’s political bureau, Ali al-Qahoum, announced through social media that the delegation had left the Yemeni capital “on board an Omani plane to the...
Yemen suffering from one of the world’s highest rates of contamination with deadly explosives and landmines
September 13th, 20230 According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Yemen has one of the highest contamination rates with deadly explosives and landmines worldwide. “When it comes to weapon containment, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan are the three countries most affected by this,” Fabrizio Carboni, the Near and Middle East regional...
Al-Jazeera investigation exposes Israeli government’s influence on Facebook
September 12th, 20230 An Al-Jazeera investigative program has exposed the Israeli government’s influence and persuasion over Facebook censorship policies concerning the illegal occupation of Palestine and the treatment and crimes against Palestinians. Facebook deleted the personal account of Tamer Almisshal, a Palestinian journalist and the presenter...
Syria wants the U.N. to hold Washington accountable
September 11th, 20230 On Sunday, September 10, the Syrian government called on the United Nations and the international community to hold the United States government “accountable” for the continuing theft of Syrian oil and other natural resources from northeast Syria. In a letter addressed to the U.N. secretary-general, Antonio Guterres, the Syrian...
Jordan and Lebanon no longer safe havens for refugees fleeing Syria
September 8th, 20230 On September 7, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi announced that the Hashemite kingdom could no longer accept Syrian refugees. He stressed that the future of displaced Syrians lies within their own country. During a joint press conference in Amman with Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin, Safadi said, “Jordan will not be...
Israeli intelligence ministry planning moves that will create chaos throughout Iran
September 7th, 20230 Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel met with Iranian diaspora anti-government “activists and journalists” in London on Wednesday as part of an ongoing Israeli campaign to reignite protests and civil unrest throughout the Islamic Republic before the first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death. Amini died after being detained by...
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad urges joint Arab action
September 7th, 20230 Syria’s foreign minister has warned that the West is seeking to impose its will on other countries, especially throughout the Middle East. Faisal Mekdad urged Arab countries to use joint action to end challenges the Arab world is facing. While speaking in Cairo before the Arab League Council 160th session on Wednesday, Mekdad said...
The U.S. violates 2021 pact with Iraq by storing offensive weapons at Ain al-Asad base
September 6th, 20230 In breach of 2021 agreements between the United States and Iraq that saw the U.S. military officially transition to an “advisory role” instead of one of combat, American forces are storing offensive military weapons at Ain al-Asad base. A senior Iraqi military official wanting to remain unnamed told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that he...
U.N. warns Israeli government that a mass deportation of Eritrean migrants contravenes international law
September 5th, 20230 The United Nations is urging the Israeli government to refrain from the mass deportation of Eritreans after clashes over the weekend involving refugees. The U.N. warned the response would “contravene international law.” On Tuesday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman, William Spindler, told reporters in Geneva,...
According to reports, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met with Mossad chief last year to discuss Libyan-Israeli normalization in Amman
September 4th, 20230 The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar has obtained a classified diplomatic cable confirming that Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh met David Barnea, the head of the Israeli Mossad, to discuss “practical steps to normalize relations” between the two countries last year in Amman, Jordan. The meeting specifically focused on “the...
According to Iraq’s Fatah Alliance, U.S. forces plundering Syrian oil to finance and support terrorist groups like ISIS
September 4th, 20230 According to an Iraqi political faction, the U.S. government’s refusal to leave regions of Syria and plundering the country’s oil resources are part of American efforts to fund and support terrorist groups. A member of the Iraqi parliament’s Fatah Alliance, A’ed al-Helali, made the statements while being interviewed by the...
Yemen threatens a harsh response for any mistake by British or U.S. forces
August 31st, 20230 The head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council warned British and U.S. military forces that they would be given a destructive response if the slightest mistake is made against the Arab country by attempts to plunder natural assets and energy reserves, similar to what is happening in Syria. While addressing a group in Amran, Yemen......
U.S. officials plead with Yemeni leaders to start negotiations with the current Saudi-appointed government
August 29th, 20230 Washington is urging Yemen’s National Salvation Government, the NCG, to start negotiations with the Saudi-appointed parallel government currently controlling Yemen’s southern regions to “resolve” the 9-year war. “We urge Ansarallah to seize this unprecedented opportunity and sit with the government to draw a prosperous...
U.S. General Mark Milley: U.S. military forces in Syria depends on ISIS threat
August 29th, 20230 The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, told Jordanian TV on August 24 that U.S. military forces would remain stationed in northeast Syria to “fight ISIS” for the foreseeable future. “The ideology is not dead yet, and there are some ISIS terrorists that are still roaming the deserts of Syria and...
Iran backs the Syrian government’s demands for withdrawal of foreign forces
August 25th, 20230 Amir Saeid Iravani, the Iranian permanent representative to the United Nations, says Iran supports the demands of the Syrian government for a complete withdrawal of “all illegal foreign military forces from Syria.” During a U.N. Security Council meeting on Wednesday addressing the situation in the war-torn country, Iravani argued...
Syria’s U.N. representative claims U.S. is providing Syrian armed groups with chemical weapons
August 18th, 20231 Syria’s representative to the United Nations said that the U.S. has provided armed groups in western Syria with chemical weapons, training the groups to use the weapons to launch a possible false flag attack during a U.N. Security Council session on Wednesday, August 9. “U.S. occupation forces provided terrorists in Al-Tanf with......
U.S. forces making moves at the Iraqi-Syrian border
August 18th, 20231 According to local reports, U.S. military forces stationed at an airbase in the Anbar province in western Iraq plan to seal off the border running hundreds of kilometers between Iraq and Syria. The pro-Syrian government al-Watan daily newspaper cited an unnamed Syrian security source, reporting that U.S. troops are planning to close...
Hamas looks to Hezbollah for help restoring peace in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp
August 4th, 20230 The Hamas resistance movement has asked the secretary general of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, to make the best effort he could to end the deadly clashes between factions in the Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon. The head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, requested that Nasrallah get......
Palestinian clashes continue for a third day at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Saida, Lebanon
July 31st, 20230 According to local media, heavy fighting between armed Palestinian groups at a refugee camp in Lebanon continued for a third consecutive day on Monday morning. At least nine people have been killed since the clashes began on Saturday. More than 40 people have been wounded. Tensions sparked at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in Saida...
Iraq expels Swedish ambassador over desecration of the Qur’an
July 21st, 20230 BAGHDAD - According to an Iraqi government spokesman, Iraq has expelled the Swedish ambassador and is withdrawing its envoy from Stockholm for permitting the desecration of the Holy Qur’an. Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani’s office released a statement Thursday saying the prime minister “instructed the Swedish ambassador......
