Russia and the United States began talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday to discuss a possible truce in Ukraine, where Russia has been waging a war for more than three years, Russia's state-run TASS news agency reported, citing a source familiar with the negotiations.

The source said that the Russian delegation, which included Senator and former diplomat Grigory Karasin and Federal Security Service member Sergei Beseda, met with the US delegation in Riyadh.

Last night, settlers plowed dozens of dunams of agricultural land in Al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley.

Head of the village council in Al-Malih and the Bedouin encampments, Mahdi Daraghmeh, reported that a number of settlers plowed nearly 200 dunums of rain-fed agricultural land in Al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley last night, noting that these lands have not been cultivated this season.

For months, the area has been subjected to repeated attacks by settlers, who graze their livestock on citizens' rain-fed crops, prevent herders from accessing pastureland, conduct frequent raids, particularly at night, on Palestinian communities, and intimidate children and women.

An Israeli was killed and another injured on Monday in a shooting and ramming attack near the Yokneam area, south of Haifa.

The Israeli police said in a statement that the attacker arrived at the scene in his car and ran over a group of citizens at a bus station, then opened fire on them.

It stated that the operation resulted in the injury of a number of people, and that the police forces present at the scene "neutralized" the perpetrator.

According to the Magen David Adom (MDA), its crews dealt with two injured people (75 years old) and a young man (20 years old) in critical and serious condition. The death of the injured person in critical condition was declared at the scene, while the other injured person was transferred to Rambam Hospital in Haifa for further treatment.

Palestinian lawyer Ghaid Qassem said that the Israeli occupation authorities subjected the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh, to five rounds of interrogation, during which he was subjected to psychological and physical pressure.

Abu Safia's lawyer added in press statements that the occupation authorities tortured, beat, and abused Dr. Abu Safia, according to what was reported by the Palestinian Information Center.

She noted that the imprisoned doctor spent 25 days in solitary confinement at Ofer Prison, where he underwent several interrogations, the longest of which was 13 days. She said, "Dr. Hussam Abu Safia was physically, mentally, and psychologically exhausted in Ofer Prison," according to the Al-Jarmaq website.

She continued: "During my last visit to Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, he confirmed with me whether his son had been buried...where he was buried." She added: "When Dr. Hussam Abu Safia learned that the war had returned, it affected him psychologically and morally."

Attorney Qassem stated that Dr. Hussam Abu Safia's only concern from within his captivity was the well-being of the medical staff in the Gaza Strip and the condition of the wounded and nurses.

She explained that Dr. Hussam Abu Safia had been classified as an "unlawful combatant," but that he had not yet received any actual compensation.

In previous statements, Attorney Qassem said that Kamal Adwan's manager was transferred to the notorious Sde Teiman prison and held in isolation for 14 days. He was later transferred to Ofer prison and held in isolation for 25 days. Following his isolation, he was transferred to Section 24 with the rest of the detainees from the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Abu Safia was quoted, during a previous visit, as saying, "Sde Tamman prison is a slaughterhouse in every sense of the word, in terms of the unprecedented torture, violations, and starvation it inflicts."

He explained: "There are prisoners who have been shackled for 10 months, prisoners whose limbs have been amputated without treatment, elderly prisoners who are shackled and blindfolded, and prisoners who have lost more than 70 kilograms in weight, in addition to the severe cold."

In his testimony, Abu Safia noted that the prisoners are kept in open cages, meaning they are exposed to wind and rain. The jailers force them to sit on the floor at all times, prohibiting them from speaking to one another, praying, or reading the Quran.

The Israeli ambassador to Austria, David Roet, sparked widespread controversy after a video of him visiting the Jewish community of Keltos in the Austrian city of Innsbruck was leaked.

"I'm going to play golf in Gaza, whether I like it or not," one of the attendees said in the leaked video to Ambassador Roet. "I'm very happy to be here. I proudly represent the State of Israel."

The Israeli ambassador responded in what amounted to direct incitement, saying, "There are no innocent people in Gaza, no civilians," noting that "Israel did not intentionally kill children."

He also indicated that he supports imposing the death penalty even on Palestinian children, citing examples such as a 16-year-old carrying a gun or a 17-year-old teenager carrying a hand grenade.

The Israeli diplomat acknowledges that Tel Aviv detains many Palestinian children in its prisons for years without trial, a clear violation of fundamental UN legal texts.

The ambassador continued his threats, saying, "Will Europe be crazy enough to invest money in Gaza again? Because if it does, we'll have to destroy it next time, as soon as Hamas is no longer there."

Royt pointed to military solutions, with reference to Trump's intervention and the possibility of Arab countries assisting him, saying, "Maybe Trump? Maybe some Arab countries? Maybe we'll be persuaded differently? And maybe there will be an alternative Palestinian leadership, perhaps from within the Palestinians themselves, or with the participation of the Palestinian Authority."

These statements sparked widespread anger among social media users who support the Palestinian cause. Many activists considered the Israeli ambassador's remarks to be direct incitement to the killing of Gaza's children and the destruction of the Strip. They asserted that they reveal the criminal, racist mentality that fuels the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Bloggers noted that the Israeli ambassador clearly explains how Israel's ethnic cleansing policy is implemented, making no distinction between civilians and combatants, nor between children, men, or women. In their view, all are legitimate targets.

Activists believe the leaked statements demonstrate a dangerous approach by Israeli officials toward the Palestinian people, reflecting an aggressive policy that promotes genocide and ethnic cleansing.

They added that these practices, publicly acknowledged by some Israeli politicians and diplomats, come within a broader context of documented violations of international law and human rights, which reinforces international criticism calling for Israel to be held accountable for policies that exacerbate the suffering of the Palestinian people.

The Rafah Municipality said Monday morning that the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah is being subjected to genocide, with thousands of civilians, including children, women, and the elderly, still trapped under heavy Israeli bombardment, with no means of escape or to deliver their distress calls to the world.

The municipality added in a statement, "Communications have been completely cut off from the neighborhood, and the fate is unknown. Families are trapped in the rubble, without water, food, or medicine, amid a complete collapse of health services. The wounded are being left to bleed to death, and children are dying of hunger and thirst under the siege and relentless bombardment."

The Rafah Municipality confirmed that the fate of the ambulance and civil defense crews remains unknown for more than 36 hours, after contact was lost with them while they were en route to Tel al-Sultan to rescue the wounded. Targeting rescuers and obstructing their work constitutes a heinous war crime and a flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws.

It held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for this crime, and held the international community and all relevant parties responsible for their silence and inaction in the face of these massacres.

Since Donald Trump entered the White House, he has been delighting us with his statements, sometimes hostile, sometimes less hostile, and sometimes understanding. From complete displacement and the construction of a Riviera, to abandoning the idea, then returning to it, then improving it, marketing it, imposing it, or selling it to the Israeli occupation, which seized on it and quickly formed an expulsion committee called "voluntary displacement," as if there were a difference between voluntary and forced displacement. However, those laughable humanitarian gestures that occupiers usually resort to are necessary. Anyone who hears Trump talk about Gaza, its destruction, the suffering of its residents, and the need to relocate them to beautiful and safe places feels like the man resembles the Pope of the Vatican. However, this "Pope" cannot, and does not, dare to say who caused these catastrophic scenes.

This contradiction in Trump's statements, or what might be interpreted as confusion or contradiction, also extended to the statements of Secretary of State Rubio, who appeared in a television interview drawing a cross on his forehead, in an explicit declaration of his puritanical and extremist tendencies. This was also a blatant and clear declaration of the transition of American secularism to a brutal religious liberalism that seeks to confiscate the world, "reform it," or mortgage it to a specific vision. The contradiction also appeared in the statements of Adam Boehler, who forcefully removed the hidden and overt lobbies after his provocative, new, and shocking statements. The contradiction also appeared in the statements of the beautiful White House press secretary in her continuous attempts to explain or justify anything except supporting Israel in its second war on the devastated Gaza Strip. The contradiction also appeared in the statements of Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's trusted envoy. Is there really a contradiction in the statements and declarations of the American administration?!

In my opinion, what appears to be a contradiction at first glance is a reflection of the debate between the Zionist and Jewish lobbies, on the one hand, and Trump's ambitions and desires, on the other. In other words, these lobbies do not agree among themselves on the choices of Netanyahu and the rabbinic right in general. Major factions within these lobbies do not support rabbinic Israel and believe it will lead it to destruction, as happened in the distant past. Other factions want a secular, democratic Israel acceptable to the colonial West. In other words, Netanyahu is not the address that all components of these lobbies agree upon. That is why you find complete agreement on supporting Israel, its security, stability, and control over the region. However, this support does not mean giving Netanyahu everything he wants or everything he requests. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, Trump’s ambitions and desires also represent a partial or complete resolution of this conflict as quickly as possible by building on his first “achievement,” which is the Abrahamic peace. This peace cannot continue or continue if Netanyahu remains so aggressive and destructive. This peace cannot be marketed without a solution to the Palestinian issue, or at least drawing the actual and real features of this solution. The Arab countries that have normalized and non-normalized relations cannot accept a final Israeli victory in the region and accept the abolition of the Palestinian state and people. Or at least these countries are prepared to accept, market, and perhaps impose a settlement on the Palestinians with American and European support that does not include displacement or the violation of Palestinian rights. It seems that Trump is well aware of this. He wants a strong Israel, but he knows that America’s interests are not only protected by Israel, and that America's crises are not solved solely by Israel. On the contrary, Israel drains American money, effort, and even values, and this is what the American street has begun to speak out about.

This is why the US dialogue with Hamas took place, and the US administration's position on the Arab plan changed somewhat, demanding that the Palestinian Authority develop and reform its new tasks. This is also why Steve Witkoff's recent statements, statements that open all doors, lay out all options, and say one thing and its opposite, because the US administration realizes that the Netanyahu government, with this extremism and this aggression, could destroy the US administration's ultimate vision.

The White House certainly wants Israel to win, but it also wants Trump to win. The White House wants to lower the ceiling of the Palestinian people's demands to a mere search for a loaf of bread. It wants to promote a flawed peace with the Arab world based on normalization in exchange for military protection. But it also wants to achieve its own economic and security interests. The White House wants to make our region an area of complete influence in the face of major enemies. It wants to guarantee its regimes, its people, its waterways, its wealth, and its tranquility. Furthermore, to ensure all of this, the White House must reach a swift solution to the conflict in Palestine. Trump may serve Israel for a thousand reasons, but ultimately, he is the president of the United States. We Arabs and Muslims may not understand why the president of a great empire would behave this way toward Israel. But Trump certainly has the strategic and ideological justifications and pretexts that make him elected and supported by more than half of the US population to do what he does. Finally, the apparent contradiction in American discourse is a disagreement over perspectives, not over the scene; a disagreement over approaches, not goals; a disagreement over people, not topics.

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What appears to be a contradiction at first glance is a reflection of the debate between the Zionist and Jewish lobbies on the one hand, and Trump's ambitions and desires on the other. In other words, these lobbies do not agree among themselves on the choices of Netanyahu and the rabbinic right in general.

Two prominent phenomena sweeping the Israeli colony:

The first is the phenomenon of extremism among right-wing political parties and extremism among ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious parties.

The second phenomenon is the sharp disagreements and differences between Israeli decision-making institutions, and between them and Israeli society, and the emergence of the phenomenon of street protests against government policies and choices.

The phenomenon of extremism is an expression of "political philosophy" and a sense of arrogance, against the backdrop of Palestinian and Arab weakness in general, and because of the unlimited American support for the continuation of the colony's expansionist, occupying, and substitutionary options, and because of the slow change in the weak European transformations. Europe is the one that created the colony: Britain's decisions, and the facilities it provided to the Zionist movement in settling and colonizing Palestine against the backdrop of the Balfour Declaration and its repercussions, and France's conventional and nuclear weapons that made the colony a state feared by the Arab countries, and Germany provided financial compensation as an alternative to the massacres to which the Jews were subjected, in addition to the human energy of foreign German Jews with superior professional ability, which contributed to the advancement of society and the colony in a distinctive way, and helped it achieve a qualitative superiority in confronting the Arabs who did not possess the ability, coverage, and qualified human energy to confront the colony's superiority and capabilities.

Extremism is evident in settlement, expansion, and the insistence on transforming Jerusalem into the unified capital of the colony. This is done to Israelize, Judaize, and Hebraize it through human settlement and the establishment of institutions that impose standards of change and reduce the Arab, Palestinian, Islamic, and Christian presence in the holy city.

The ruling coalition in the colony acts as if the West Bank is not Palestinian, is not Arab, is not occupied, but rather Judea and Samaria. Accordingly, they work to dissipate and fragment the Palestinian Arab presence, as they did in the camps in the northern West Bank, the demolitions in Jerusalem, the displacement of its residents, and the construction of settlements on its ruins.

This ruling group also declares that it is against the establishment of a Palestinian state and supports the reduction of the Palestinian Arab presence in the rest of Palestine.

As for the manifestations of conflicts and disagreements between the various Israeli institutions, this is due to:

1- The surprise operation on October 7, 2023, which shocked the military, security, official and civilian components of Israeli society. The army commissioned an investigation committee into the “negligence” it committed, and a report was issued on that. The intelligence service commissioned an investigation committee, and the result was that it bears responsibility for the failure. Meanwhile, Netanyahu evades forming an investigation committee with the government, so as not to bear responsibility for the “negligence” and be exposed to conviction and trial. He refuses to form an investigation committee in advance under the pretext that he is still in a state of war against the “Palestinian enemy.”

Secondly, the failure suffered by the colony, the surprise of October 7, and the failure of the Israeli attack and invasion of the Gaza Strip, which did not achieve its declared goals:

1- Release of Israeli prisoners without an exchange.

2- Ending and eliminating the Palestinian resistance, especially the Hamas and Jihad movements.

3- Expulsion and displacement of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Sinai.

Third, there is disagreement over whether to continue the war after fifteen months of failure. Netanyahu is seeking to continue the war to avoid forming an investigative committee, while the military and intelligence leadership insists that there is no longer any strategic objective achievable in the Gaza Strip that would require continuing the war. Therefore, they have publicly rejected the continuation of the war.

Fourth, Netanyahu's change of military and security leadership: 1- Minister of Defense, 2- Chief of Staff, 3- Director of Mossad, 4- Director of Military Intelligence, Aman, 5- and his decision to dismiss the Director of Shin Bet, the internal security service. This decision sparked widespread criticism, especially since the State Comptroller and Attorney General rejected the dismissal and appealed it, deeming it illegal.

Fifth, demonstrations by the families of the Israeli prisoners who were not released, and sympathized with them and participated in the protest and demonstration: 1- The families of the dead soldiers whose sons fell without achieving any political goals, but rather the result of the war was failure and debacle, 2- The families of the soldiers who have been in reserve for a long time, without political benefit, and their refusal to continue the war without goals that can be achieved.

The development, aggravation and shortcomings sweeping the Israeli colony are unprecedented in their intensity and division, and will have repercussions open to all negative possibilities.

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Extremism is evident in settlement, expansion, and the insistence on transforming Jerusalem into the unified capital of the colony. It is thus being Israelized, Judaized, and Hebraized through human settlement.

It is neither new nor surprising that the White House announced that it has given Israel the green light to resume its genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip. The light has remained on, unblinking or changing, for more than seventeen months.

However, this time, it is more dangerous than all previous times, because of the brutality, penetration, and revenge it entails, with killing, destruction, starvation, and thirst, through a declared American decision to create an environment that repels people by displacement, after they found themselves in the middle of hell, in an unprecedented manner, and we see its shocking and painful signs in every home, tent, hospital, and street.

Negotiations, even if resumed under fire and over the corpses of children, with those who embrace the doctrine of erasure, burning, and annihilation, are useless. Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, and their leader who taught them magic, are based on the concept of a racist religious state, which has aroused the fears of the secularists taking to the streets of Tel Aviv. Peace was killed the moment Netanyahu stepped on Rabin's body thirty years ago.

The United States is proceeding with its plans to displace the Palestinian people and uproot them from their land, in implementation of Trump's vision of building a "Riviera" on the ruins and corpses of children in the slaughtered Gaza Strip, where the massacre intensifies as if it were on its opening day, seventeen months ago.

Stop the genocide now...!

While there is no dispute that Netanyahu's main motives for resuming the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip were to preserve his government, bring the fascist Ben-Gvir back into its fold, and ensure the success of the budget vote in the Israeli Knesset, it is a mistake to believe that this was the sole motive for Israel's violation of the armistice agreement and its dangerous escalation, the brutality of which exceeded all restrictions and warnings. The greatest strategic motive for resuming the war of extermination was, without a doubt, Netanyahu and his fascist government's ambition to achieve what they had failed to achieve during 15 months of bloody war: the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip and the extermination of as many of its inhabitants as possible. This constitutes the core of the fascist Zionist ideology embodied by Netanyahu, who now promotes the theory of resolving the conflict with the Palestinian people by undermining their right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state.

Anyone studying Netanyahu's political history and ideological thought, including what he explicitly wrote in his books "A Place in the Sun" and "Bibi," will find that he has dedicated his political life to preventing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and promoting his vision that all of Palestine is for Jews only. Netanyahu embodied this in his well-known campaign against Yitzhak Rabin and the Oslo Accords, despite their flaws, until the matter culminated in Rabin's assassination and his election as prime minister in 1996. From that moment, he devoted his energies to implementing his extremist racist ideology. He began by sabotaging all agreements with the Palestinians, implementing and expanding unprecedented colonial settlements in the West Bank, and making every effort to separate the West Bank from Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Then, years before October 7, he arrogantly passed the "Nation-State Law" in the Knesset, which stipulated that the right to self-determination in Palestine was exclusive to Jews alone. Then, in cooperation with Trump and other US administrations, he sought to use normalization and the so-called "Abraham Accords" to isolate the Palestinian cause and liquidate it in all its components. He followed this with another law in the Knesset, along with numerous others, to prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Currently, through his bloody war in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, he is attempting to address the greatest challenge facing the Zionist movement: the demographic presence of Palestinians on Palestinian land in numbers exceeding the number of Jews, despite the displacement of no less than seven million Palestinians from their homeland.

Since Israel, with all its components in government and opposition, rejects the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and rejects the idea of a one-state democratic solution, there is only one solution for Zionist thought: to implement ethnic cleansing first of the residents of Gaza, and then of the residents of the West Bank.

Israel would not have dared to commit all these crimes, were it not for the absolute and declared American support for its crimes.

Netanyahu and the Zionist movement's leaders fed Trump this idea, until he dared to publicly advocate for it, despite knowing that his call to expel the people of Gaza from their homeland constituted a war crime under international law. But Trump backed down when he saw the global, Arab, and Islamic backlash against this idea, and the heroic steadfastness of the Palestinian people clinging to their land. This retreat was a source of concern for Netanyahu and the hardliners of the Zionist movement, who began escalating their violations of the ceasefire agreement they had signed and then repudiated, hoping that this escalation would lead to the restoration of American support for the idea of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

Perhaps the most dangerous idea that embodies this trend is what some Israeli military leaders have said, that they will reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip and establish the largest concentration camp in human history under the name of a small, alleged “safe zone” in the Gaza Strip. They will cram two million Palestinians into it, close its doors, and control who enters or leaves it. Then they will liquidate and kill everyone who remains outside. They will then begin a gradual deportation of the residents of the concentration camp to any place that will accept them, claiming that this is a “voluntary departure” for the Palestinians after placing them in stifling and deadly humanitarian conditions.

There is nothing more shameful than the American declaration of support for Israel's war of extermination in Gaza, and its attempt to hold the Palestinian side responsible for it. This is a disgusting and tiresome repetition of attempts to hold the victim accountable for the crimes they are subjected to at the hands of Israel's rulers. What is even more disgusting is the continued support of many Western parties for Israel, while refusing to condemn and impose sanctions on it. This is despite these parties' full knowledge of Israel's perpetration of more than 1,400 violations of the ceasefire agreement they signed, including the killing of 175 Palestinians during the ceasefire, its refusal to implement the agreement's provisions regarding the commencement of negotiations on the details of the second phase, its subsequent imposition of an unprecedented, suffocating blockade on the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of a single piece of bread, pill, or glass of water to the two million people trapped there, and finally, the launching of the barbaric, comprehensive aerial bombardment and ground invasion, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of children, women, and defenseless civilians.

The rising fascism ruling Israel has begun to tear apart the internal structure of Israel itself, including the conflict that erupted over the dismissal of the head of the Shin Bet.

Israel would not have dared to commit all these crimes were it not for the absolute and declared support of the United States for its crimes, and were it not for the weakness of the Arab, Islamic, and international position, which did not go beyond statements and condemnations to the imposition of real sanctions on Israel, forcing it to stop its disregard for the most basic human rights and its complete disregard for and aggression against international law and international humanitarian law.

There is an unprecedentedly dangerous situation, not only in the Gaza Strip, but also in the West Bank. It can only be addressed through a unified Palestinian position and a unified national leadership based on a combative program to confront the crimes of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and collective punishment. It can also be addressed through an immediate Arab, Islamic, and international stance that threatens Israel with actual sanctions and makes the United States feel that its interests in the region will be at risk unless Trump reins in Netanyahu once again and compels him to halt his dangerous military escalation and commit to a ceasefire that leads to a full prisoner exchange, an end to the war, and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip.

Perhaps one of the ironies of fate is that the rising fascism ruling Israel has begun to tear apart the internal fabric of Israel itself, including the conflict that erupted over the dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, the government's intention to fire the attorney general, and Netanyahu's announcement that he would refuse to implement the Supreme Court's decision to freeze Bar's dismissal. As we expected, the brutal fascism directed against the Palestinian people has begun to erode its own internal fabric.

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Israel would not have dared to commit all these crimes were it not for the absolute and declared support of the United States for its crimes, and were it not for the weakness of the Arab, Islamic, and international position, which did not go beyond statements and condemnations to the imposition of real sanctions on Israel.

On Monday, the Israeli army expanded its military operations and ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, continuing its war of extermination against Palestinians. It launched intensive airstrikes on various areas across the enclave, killing and wounding dozens of people over the past 24 hours, most of them women, children, and the elderly.

On the seventh day of the resumption of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army assassinated Ismail Barhoum, a Hamas leader, in an airstrike targeting the operations room at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Air Force launched intensive airstrikes on various areas across the Gaza Strip, while heavy artillery shelling targeted several areas. The ground incursion continued from the north and south, while the siege continued, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid and starving and depriving Palestinians of their homes with the aim of rendering the Gaza Strip uninhabitable and implementing displacement plans.

In addition, informed sources reported that Egyptian officials have been conducting intensive contacts over the past few hours with their counterparts in Israel, the US administration, and the Hamas leadership. An Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza was put forward as part of ongoing calming efforts.

In this context, sources reported that high-level Egyptian-American contacts recently took place, during which the Egyptian side expressed its willingness to reach an understanding with Hamas regarding the continued release of the hostages, provided there are clear American guarantees for any potential agreement.

This morning, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a large-scale arrest campaign in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

In Salfit, the occupation forces arrested six citizens from the city of Salfit: Muhammad Fatah Allah Dahdoul, Samer Hassan Yassin, Karam Al-Masry, Ahmed Al-Halabi, Hamada Maraytah, and Rizq Ashtiyeh, after raiding and searching their homes.

The occupation forces also arrested four citizens from the town of Kafr ad-Dik, west of the city: Ahmed Nabih Naji, Izzat Saleh Ali, and the two brothers Zahi and Omar Ibrahim ad-Dik. They also assaulted their brother, Anan, and transferred him to the hospital.

In Tulkarm, occupation forces arrested Saed Maazoz Abu Zeitoun and Muhammad Salam Raja after raiding their homes in the town of Deir al-Ghusun, while they arrested Malik Sabah while he was in the neighboring town of Attil.

The occupation forces raided a number of citizens' homes in the Al-Haraiq area in Deir al-Ghusun, conducted a wide-ranging search operation, and destroyed their contents.

In the same context, the occupation forces' heavy machinery and bulldozers patrolled the road connecting several villages and towns in Al-Sha'rawiya, north of Tulkarm, passing through the Shuweika suburb and the village of Al-Jaroushiya, heading towards the towns of Attil and Deir Al-Ghusun, coinciding with the ongoing Israeli aggression on the city and its two camps for the 57th consecutive day.

In Nablus, occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods in the city, the villages of Zawata to the west, Surra to the southwest of Nablus, and Beita and Aqraba to the south.

The occupation forces also raided a number of homes there, searched them, and ransacked their contents. They arrested five citizens: Raed Saada from the Rafidia area in Nablus, Mahmoud Abdullah from Surra, Othman Abu Amsha from Zawata, Nafeth Hamayel from Beita, and Yousef Abdul Jabbar Bani Fadl from Aqraba.

In occupied Jerusalem, occupation forces arrested two brothers, Muslim and Ali Al-Faqih, after raiding their home and ransacking its contents in the town of Qatna.

In this context, Israeli occupation forces stormed several towns in occupied Jerusalem this morning.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces raided several homes during their incursion into the towns of Biddu and Qubeiba, northwest of Jerusalem, while an occupation force raided the Shuafat refugee camp and took up positions in the Ras Shehadeh neighborhood of the camp.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces arrested Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Qurna from Beit Ta'mar (45 years old), Baha Mahmoud Al-Arouj from Al-Arouj to the east, and Wael Mahmoud Abu Mufreh (45 years old), from the town of Tuqu' southeast of Bethlehem, and seized his agricultural tractor after raiding and searching their homes.

In Ramallah, an Israeli occupation force stormed the village of Deir Abu Mash'al and arrested Raafat Mahmoud Zaki, after raiding his home and ransacking its contents.

In Jenin, occupation forces stormed the town of Silat al-Harithiya, raided a number of homes, and arrested Fakhri Jaradat, Osama Jaafar Zioud, and Humam Fuad Zioud.

Israeli occupation forces have intensified their raids on towns and villages in Jenin Governorate since the start of the aggression on the city and its camp 63 days ago, launching widespread arrest campaigns there.

After midnight tonight, the General Authority of Civil Affairs informed the Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the Prisoners' Club of the death of the minor detainee Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmed (17 years old) from the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, in Megiddo Prison.

In a joint statement, they explained that his martyrdom adds him to the list of dead who have died as a result of the systematic crimes perpetrated by the prison system in an unprecedented manner since the start of the war of extermination on October 7, 2023, with the war on prisoners representing yet another aspect of the genocide.

They said that the minor martyr, Walid Ahmed, was arrested on September 30, 2024, and remains detained to this day. The circumstances of his death have not yet been confirmed.

The Prisoners’ Authority and the Prisoners’ Club explained that the minor Walid is the (63) dead who has been killed since the beginning of the war of extermination, and they are the only ones whose identities are known, including at least (40) from Gaza. Thus, this stage is the bloodiest in the history of the prisoner movement since 1967, and thus the number of dead of the prisoner movement whose identities are known since 1967 rises to (300), noting that there are dozens of dead from Gaza detainees who are subject to enforced disappearance. The number of dead prisoners whose bodies are being held rises to (72), including (61) since the beginning of the war.

They added that the death of the minor detainee, Ahmed, constitutes a new crime in the record of Israeli brutality, which has reached its peak since the start of the war of extermination.

They stressed that the increasing number of victims among prisoners and detainees will take a more dangerous turn as more time passes for the detention of thousands of prisoners and detainees in the occupation's prisons, and as they continue to be exposed to systematic crimes, most notably torture, starvation, assaults of all kinds, medical crimes, sexual assaults, and the deliberate imposition of conditions that lead to their contracting serious and contagious diseases, in addition to the unprecedented policies of theft and deprivation.

They held the occupation fully responsible for his martyrdom.

They renewed their call for the international human rights system to move forward in taking effective decisions to hold the occupation leaders accountable for the war crimes they continue to commit against our people, and to impose sanctions on the occupation that would place it in a state of clear international isolation, and restore the human rights system to its fundamental role for which it exists, and put an end to the terrifying state of impotence that it has been afflicted with during the war of extermination, and to end the state of exceptional immunity that the old colonial powers granted to the occupying state of Israel, considering it above accountability, accountability, and punishment.

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, said that Hamas may have "tricked" him into believing it was interested in reaching a deal. In an interview on Sunday on Fox News, Witkoff said that Hamas may have "tricked" him earlier this month, initially believing the movement had agreed to his proposal regarding the bridge to extend the ceasefire in Gaza, before backing down.

Speaking to the channel, which is close to the Trump administration, about his visit to Doha on March 12, where he presented his proposal for the bridge, Witkoff said, "I thought we had an acceptable agreement. I even thought we had an agreement with Hamas. Maybe I was just fooled. I thought we had arrived, and clearly we hadn't."

The proposal was supposed to extend the ceasefire until April 19, and for Hamas to release five live hostages in exchange for a larger number of Palestinian security prisoners. Israel says it accepted Witkoff's proposal, but said it expected the release of 11 live hostages.

Hamas insisted on adhering to the original terms of the deal, the second phase of which was supposed to begin in early March. Israel refused to enter into talks on the specific terms of the second phase, as expected on February 3. The general framework for the phase requires a full withdrawal from Gaza and agreement to a permanent end to the war.

By submitting his preliminary proposal earlier this month, Witkoff endorsed Israel's refusal to move to the second phase.

On March 14, Hamas offered to release the last living American-Israeli hostage, Aidan Alexander, and the bodies of four other American-Israeli citizens, but Witkoff described this response as unworkable. Four days later, Netanyahu resumed the war on the besieged Gaza Strip, ending the two-month ceasefire.

"This is Hamas's responsibility. The United States stands fully with the State of Israel," Witkoff told Fox News. "We expressed our view that Hamas had every opportunity to disarm and accept the bridge proposal, which would have given us a 40- or 50-day ceasefire where we could have discussed disarmament and reached a final truce. There were all sorts of opportunities to do that, but they chose not to do it." He added, "This (war) becomes the alternative, and that is unfortunate." Witkoff made clear that the United States would remain "cooperative" if Hamas reached out again. "I certainly hope we get everyone back to the table and get the hostages home," he said.

Witkoff told Tucker Carlson on Friday that the two sides were already "talking" after Israel resumed its bombing of Gaza.

When the Fox host asked about Iran, Witkoff repeated what he said on Carlson's podcast on Friday about US President Donald Trump's letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei.

"Our signal to Hamas and Iran is: Let's sit down and see if we can get to the right place through diplomacy. If we can, we're prepared to do that. If we can't, the alternative is not a great option," Witkoff said, adding that Iran cannot be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon.

In a separate interview also broadcast on Sunday, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz made clear that Washington wants to completely dismantle Iran's nuclear program.

"I think getting Palestinians out of Gaza is a very practical idea," Waltz told Fox News. "Who wouldn't want to move their family to another place that would provide decent housing and a place to live? Trump is asking a very practical question: How can two million people live for a decade with all this (destruction) in Gaza?"

"Trump looks at the massive destruction in Gaza and knows it will take years to fix," Waltz added. "Even before his inauguration, President Trump said the continued detention of these Americans would cost a lot. Our enemies respect and fear the commander in chief sitting in the Oval Office."

Waltz emphasized that: "It is insane to spend billions of dollars rebuilding Gaza only to see terrorist attacks everywhere again."

The Palestine Red Crescent Society expressed deep concern over the fate of its besieged staff in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

The association stated in a statement issued Sunday evening that the Israeli occupation forces are refusing to coordinate the rescue of the crew members trapped in Rafah, noting that contact with them has been lost for approximately 15 hours.

Israeli occupation forces surrounded a Red Crescent ambulance crew early this morning as it was on its way to rescue wounded people in Rafah. Its fate remains unknown.

A number of citizens suffered suffocation during clashes that erupted with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that several Israeli jeeps stormed the village, sparking clashes with residents who resisted the incursion.

Sources indicated that the occupation forces fired tear gas, sound bombs, and live bullets, causing suffocation among citizens.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned, in the strongest terms, Israel's announcement of the establishment of a special agency aimed at displacing Palestinians under the pretext of "voluntary departure" from the Gaza Strip. This came in conjunction with the Israeli Security Cabinet's approval of the demolition of 13 illegal settlement neighborhoods in the West Bank, in preparation for their "legalization" as colonial settlements.

In this regard, she stressed that all Israeli measures targeting the Palestinian presence on their land are invalid, represent a flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law, and are part of practices that constitute the crime of forced displacement of Palestinians from their occupied land.

The Ministry's official spokesperson, Ambassador Sufian Al-Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom's absolute rejection and condemnation of the Israeli government's decision, which continues to violate international law and relevant UN resolutions, particularly Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemns all Israeli measures aimed at changing the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem. The Kingdom also condemns the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice, which affirmed the illegality of the Israeli occupation and settlements, their annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory, and its rejection of the displacement of Palestinians inside or outside their homeland.

Ambassador Qudah called on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities, compel Israel to immediately halt its aggression against Gaza and its dangerous escalation in the occupied West Bank, and fulfill the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to establish an independent, sovereign state on the June 4, 1967, lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Two citizens, including Hamas political bureau member Ismail Barhoum, were killed Sunday evening when Israeli warplanes bombed Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

According to local sources, occupation aircraft bombed the second building of the hospital, killing two civilians and wounding eight others.

Two citizens were injured on Sunday evening, one of them by Israeli occupation forces' bullets in the town of Dura, south of Hebron.

According to the Ministry of Health, one citizen was shot in the lower limbs with live ammunition, while another was injured by physical assault.

The Ministry of Health stated that the two cases arrived at Dura Government Hospital and are in stable condition.

According to local sources, these forces stormed Dura, firing bullets and sound bombs at civilians and businesses, forcing them to close their doors.

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said on Sunday that Israel's ban on the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip constitutes "collective punishment" against its citizens.

In a post on the X platform, Lazzarini noted that "three weeks have passed since the Israeli authorities banned the entry of supplies into Gaza."

He pointed out that Palestinians in Gaza "rely on imports via Israel to survive."

Egypt called on Sunday for the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip to be completed and for "quick action" to begin its second phase, warning of the repercussions of a "dangerous escalation" by Israel in southern Lebanon.

This came according to what Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aty stated at a press conference in Cairo with European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaya Kallas, according to a broadcast by the state-run Nile News Channel.

During his meeting with the European official, the Egyptian minister stressed the need to "move quickly toward the second phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza."

He stressed that "the only way to release all detainees is to return to the negotiating table and adhere to the ceasefire agreement."

Abdel-Ati described the Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon as a "dangerous escalation," warning of their potential to expand the conflict in the region.

The Egyptian Foreign Minister stressed the importance of fully implementing UN Resolution 1701.

Israeli occupation forces sent military reinforcements to Jenin camp on Sunday evening.

Local sources said that the occupation forces sent military reinforcements from the Jalameh military checkpoint to Jenin camp, while drones have continued to fly over the city and camp since the morning. The occupation forces are continuing to comb the camp's neighborhoods and homes, while military armored vehicles are patrolling the area.

Jenin Municipality announced this morning that the occupation authorities had issued demolition orders for approximately 66 residential buildings in the camp, totaling approximately 300 apartments.

The occupation's aggression on the city of Jenin and its camp continues for the 62nd consecutive day, leaving 34 martyrs and dozens of injuries.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday that 7 percent of the Strip's total population of 2.4 million people have been killed or wounded in the ongoing genocidal war.

"About 7% of the total population of the Gaza Strip have become victims of the genocidal war, either dead or wounded," the ministry's director general, Munir al-Barash, said in a statement.

He explained that more than 25,000 of the total number of injured people require "long-term rehabilitation and treatment."

He stated that the number of amputations among the injured reached approximately 4,700, including 850 children.

He warned of a further deterioration in the situation in the Gaza Strip, due to "the comprehensive blockade imposed by the occupation forces on both the health and humanitarian levels."

He stressed that hospitals are no longer able to cope with the "massive influx of casualties arriving due to their lack of even the most basic medical equipment and capabilities amid the escalating Israeli aggression."

Since March 2, Israel has closed the Gaza Strip's crossings to relief, humanitarian, medical, and goods, leading to a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the Strip.

Israel also prevented the entry of fuel to power generators that replace electricity, threatening the operation of hospitals.

The Government Media Office has repeatedly warned of the dangers of the crossing closures to hospital operations, the deteriorating health conditions in the Gaza Strip, and the humanitarian situation in general. Last week, it announced that the Gaza Strip had entered the first stages of famine.

Since resuming its genocide in Gaza on Tuesday and continuing through Sunday, Israel has killed 673 people and injured 1,233 others, most of them women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

This escalation, which Tel Aviv said was taking place in full coordination with Washington, represents the most significant violation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, the second phase of which Israel has refrained from implementing since the first phase expired in early March.

Despite Hamas's commitment to all terms of the agreement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to proceed with the second phase, yielding to pressure from extremists within his government.

The Israeli war on Gaza left more than 162,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.

Washington stressed on Sunday that it seeks to completely dismantle Iran's nuclear program, indicating that all options are available if this does not happen. It also announced the killing of high-ranking Houthi leaders.

This came in statements made by US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Sunday evening.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,021 dead and 113,274 injuries since October 7, 2023. A further 673 martyrs and 1,233 injuries have been recorded since the resumption of Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip, including 41 dead and 61 injuries in the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Sunday.

The Israeli army continued its renewed aggression on the Gaza Strip for the sixth consecutive day, launching new ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip and continuing its incursion into the Rafah area and the Netzarim axis, under the cover of intensive air strikes. This resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries, most of them women, children and the elderly. Today, it issued orders to evacuate the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah, announcing the start of a military operation in the area.

On Sunday morning, Hamas political bureau member Salah al-Bardawil and his wife were killed in an Israeli airstrike west of Khan Younis. Hamas said in a statement that al-Bardawil and his wife were killed in a "treacherous Zionist assassination operation" while they were staying in their tent in the al-Mawasi area on the night of the 23rd of Ramadan. It added that this is "part of a series of brutal massacres committed by the enemy against our steadfast and patient people in the Gaza Strip."

This comes as Israeli military vehicles advanced into the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood amid relentless gunfire, with artillery moving from east to west, and warplanes and helicopters flying overhead, along with reconnaissance aircraft and quadcopters.

On Sunday, Israeli occupation forces besieged more than 50,000 Palestinian civilians in the Barakat area west of Rafah Governorate, prompting the General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip to warn of "an imminent danger threatening their lives." Meanwhile, the Civil Defense Directorate and the Red Crescent Society announced they had lost contact with ambulance and rescue crews besieged by the occupation in Rafah.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the Israeli military is expanding its ground operations across the Gaza Strip, with forces operating in key locations across the territory in an attempt to pressure Hamas as talks to end the fighting and release more hostages stall.

Israeli forces entered the northern Gaza border town of Beit Hanoun on Saturday to lay the groundwork for expanding the Israeli security buffer zone, a several hundred-meter-wide area established by the Israeli military inside Gaza and extending along its border with Israel.

The army said it is now operating in areas to expand its scope and uproot Hamas infrastructure throughout Gaza, from Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia in the north to the Netzarim corridor that divides the central Gaza Strip and Rafah across the Egyptian border in the south. New evacuation orders were issued on Sunday for Palestinians to leave the expanding operations in Rafah.

Israel is also attempting to assassinate prominent Hamas members. Hamas said its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Sunday night killed Salah al-Bardawil, a member of the movement's political bureau. According to Palestinian health authorities, Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 600 Palestinians since Netanyahu resumed his war of annihilation in Gaza with an intense airstrike at dawn on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.

The war of extermination has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 50,000 Palestinians since it began more than 17 months ago. The war erupted after Hamas launched Operation Protective Edge on October 7, 2023, which killed approximately 1,200 people, including 311 Israeli soldiers on duty, and saw 250 hostages taken, according to Israeli authorities.

The first phase of the ceasefire agreement, which entered into force on January 19, ended on March 2, as Israel refused to implement its commitments to move to the second phase, which, according to the agreement, stipulates the withdrawal of the occupation army from the entire Gaza Strip.

According to experts, Israel's current moves are part of the Netanyahu government's strategy to pressure Hamas into accepting a deal to release the approximately 60 remaining hostages in the Strip, 24 of whom are believed to be alive.

The Israeli government is under intense public pressure to secure their release. Tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets in the days since the fighting resumed, urging their leaders to pursue a deal. Many on the Israeli right have called for the state to retain Palestinian territories and support Palestinians who want to leave the Gaza Strip, arguing that such pressure tactics are necessary to pressure Hamas.

Arab countries have rejected President Trump's plan to displace Gaza's residents to neighboring countries while the Strip is rebuilt.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced on Sunday that the Israeli security cabinet had approved the establishment of a new department to facilitate voluntary emigration from Gaza, after saying over the weekend that he had directed the Israeli military to seize additional territory in Gaza and expand its buffer zone. Katz said on Friday: "As long as Hamas continues to refuse to release the hostages, it will lose more and more territory that will be annexed to Israel."

The Houthi Ansar Allah group announced on Sunday that it had carried out a military operation targeting Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel, as well as the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman and a number of its accompanying naval vessels in the Red Sea.

The group's armed forces stated in a statement that they launched a "Palestine 2" hypersonic ballistic missile toward Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa region. They also targeted a US aircraft carrier and several of its warships using multiple missiles and drones.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military announced Sunday morning that it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen before it entered Israeli airspace, after air raid sirens were activated in several areas in central Israel.

Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said, "The air force intercepted a missile launched from Yemen a short while ago before it could penetrate Israeli airspace."

The Israeli Home Front Command reported that air raid sirens sounded in various areas of central Israel, including more than 20 cities and towns, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and the northern West Bank.

Israel's Channel 12 reported that air traffic at Ben Gurion Airport was temporarily halted while air raid sirens sounded, while the Ynet website reported that a FlyDubai plane was forced to change course and not land at the airport.

For its part, the Magen David Adom organization said there were no reports of rocket fire or human casualties.

The Israeli military also announced last Friday that it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen before it entered Israeli airspace. The Houthi group claimed responsibility for the operation, confirming that Ben Gurion Airport was targeted with a high-speed "Palestine 2" ballistic missile.

US President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, revealed intriguing information about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stance on the hostage deal, which is facing a stalemate.

Israel's Channel 12 reported that Witkoff indicated in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson that "the Israeli public is demanding the return of the kidnapped soldiers, while Netanyahu is acting contrary to the public mood."

It continued, saying that Witkoff said during the interview that Netanyahu "believes he is doing the right thing" by using military pressure in Gaza as a means to return the hostages.

In contrast, the US envoy stressed that Hamas must disarm, "after which it can participate politically in Gaza."

In response to Witkoff's "surprising" remarks, a source in Netanyahu's office told Channel 12 that he "believes the prime minister is committed to returning the abductees" and that "US President Donald Trump's policy is to eliminate Hamas, a policy that aligns with the war's objectives."

Earlier, Channel 12 revealed escalating tensions between the United States and Israel over the failure of ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip and the resumption of military operations, amid sharp criticism of the Israeli government's handling of the situation.

According to the channel, the disagreements between the two sides did not stop at Witkov's recent statements, but extended to include criticism of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, one of Netanyahu's closest confidantes, who was accused of obstructing the negotiations and escalating the situation.

The channel quoted informed Israeli sources as saying that the Dermer-Witkoff axis failed in its mission, adding that Ron Dermer, the Israeli negotiator, lacks the political tools required to manage this sensitive issue, despite Netanyahu's confidence in him.

President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, said, "World Water Day comes this year at a time when our Palestinian people are being subjected to ongoing genocidal crimes at the hands of the brutal Israeli occupation forces for more than a year and a half, claiming the lives of thousands of children, women, and the elderly, and destroying most of their property, facilities, and infrastructure."

He added, in a speech on the occasion of World Water Day, that the occupation did not stop there, but rather used another weapon to increase the suffering and displacement, and even the slow death of our people, by halting all basic services, especially water, and preventing the arrival of humanitarian aid, all without deterrence or accountability, in flagrant violation of international human rights treaties and international legitimacy resolutions.

The President emphasized that Israel's use of water as a weapon of torture, displacement, and extortion is not new, but rather an extension of a decades-long systematic policy of plundering and controlling all surface and groundwater resources, with the aim of controlling the lives and development of Palestinian citizens, uprooting them from their land, and implementing its political agenda of illegal settlement expansion and undermining the two-state solution.

He stressed the need for the world to realize that there is no more important cause than the cause of Palestinian children in Gaza, who are deprived of a drop of water to quench their thirst. Children line up for hours to get a liter of water, children drink contaminated water, children deprived of food and medicine, children dying of dehydration and thirst, and deprived of living safely like the rest of the world's children.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,021, and the number of injuries to 113,274 since October 7, 2023.

Medical sources reported that the death toll includes 673 dead and 1,233 wounded since March 18.

It said that 41 dead, including two who were recovered, and 61 injured people arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.

It explained that a number of martyrs remain under the rubble of destroyed homes and facilities, and on the roads, and that ambulance and specialized crews are unable to reach them due to limited resources.