Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said on Saturday that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip does not aim to control the Strip permanently, but rather to undermine the capabilities of the Hamas movement and end its control over Gaza.

In a press conference, Galant accused Hamas of causing the collapse of the humanitarian truce after it refused to hand over the 17 women and children it was still holding.

Galant said: “As a result of Hamas’s decision not to implement what was agreed upon, and in accordance with the decisions of the Military Cabinet, I issued instructions to the Israeli army to resume firing on Friday morning.”

He added: “As long as Hamas does not adhere to what is stipulated, we will continue to intensify the fire, and we will work until the goals we have set for ourselves are achieved. “I closely follow the army’s operations.”

Gallant said that the ground operation would continue in the Gaza Strip, and added: “About a month ago, when we were preparing for the ground entry, there were many in (Hamas) who believed that they would be able to stop us.”

He continued: “They thought they were able to create a division in Israeli society between those who thought it was necessary to negotiate and those who thought it was necessary to enter.”

Galant stressed that intensifying the military operation would lead to striking Hamas and eliminating more leaders and more militants.

He pointed out that the intensity of military pressure resulted in the return of 110 detainees, most of whom were Israelis, he said.

The Israelis who were detained in the Gaza Strip and were released by Hamas in recent days are demanding an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, noting that the hostages in Gaza face great danger with the renewed Israeli bombing.

The "Yedioth Ahronoth" website reported on Saturday evening, "The abductees returning from captivity in Gaza and the family members of the abductees who are still there are demanding a meeting with the War Council, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tonight."

“The danger to the lives of hostages in Gaza is clear and immediate.”

A statement issued by the Detainees' Families Forum said, "The end of the ceasefire and the return to fighting requires that the families of the abductees be notified immediately. The danger to the lives of the kidnapped women and men is clear and immediate, and now there is no longer any doubt about it."

The statement added: "The returned abductees and kidnapped women are demanding a meeting this evening with the Prime Minister and members of the war cabinet, along with the families of the abductees who remained there. Every day could be the last, and it is forbidden to leave them there. We fear for the fate of every man and woman who remained there."

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, had previously published a video of an Israeli prisoner sending a message to Netanyahu, after his wife and two children were killed in a previous bombing by the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip.

Prisoner Yerden Bibas appeared in the video, crying bitterly, and said to Netanyahu after the killing of his wife, Sherry, and his two children, Kfir and Ariel, in the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip: “Netanyahu, you bombed and killed my wife and my two children, who were the most important thing in my life... Please return their bodies for burial.” in Israel".

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation announced the killing of 6 Israelis during their captivity in Gaza, while the Palestinian resistance had announced during the past days that a number of detainees had been killed during the Israeli bombing.

On Saturday, Reuters quoted a senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that Israel will seek to establish a “security envelope” that includes special areas and arrangements that prevent Hamas from establishing itself on its borders after the end of the war in Gaza.

The agency reported on Friday that Israel informed several Arab countries that it wants to establish a buffer zone on the Palestinian side of the Gaza border to prevent future attacks as part of proposals for the coastal strip after the end of the war.

Asked whether Israel was already seeking to create such a buffer zone, Chancellor Mark Regev told reporters: “Israel will have to have a security envelope. We can never again allow terrorists to cross the border and slaughter our people the way they did on October 7.” 

Israel had indicated in the past that it was considering establishing a buffer zone inside Gaza, but the sources who spoke to Reuters said that it was now presenting it to Arab countries as part of its future security plans for Gaza.

According to the agency, Regev said: “If you ask me about the buffer zone, let me be clear; you will not have a situation in the future where you can have Hamas terrorists on the border, right on the border, positioned just to cross and kill our people again.”

“This does not mean that Israel will take land from Gaza,” Regev said. “On the contrary, this means creating security zones where there is a special situation on the ground that limits the ability of people to enter Israel to kill our people. This is common sense.”

According to three regional sources, Israel shared its plans with its neighbors Egypt and Jordan, along with the United Arab Emirates, which normalized relations with Israel in 2020.

According to the agency: “They also said that Saudi Arabia, which does not have relations with Israel and which stopped the normalization process with American mediation after the outbreak of the Gaza war on October 7, had been informed of this.”

Israel launched its indiscriminate war on the besieged Gaza Strip, after Hamas fighters attacked the Gaza envelope area, and were able to deliver a strong blow to the Gaza Division of the Israeli army, whose combat situation quickly deteriorated, enabling the Palestinian fighters to enter a depth of more than 20 miles, according to most intelligence reports. And the media, on November 7.

Israel, which pledged to eliminate Hamas once and for all, responded with a bombing campaign and ground attack that destroyed large areas of Gaza and killed more than 15,000 people, the overwhelming majority of whom were women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in the Strip.

Saleh Al-Arouri, Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, said on Saturday evening that his movement’s position is that there will be no exchange of prisoners before stopping the war against the Gaza Strip.

Al-Arouri added: Our official position now is that there will be no prisoner exchange before the end of the war, and our Israeli prisoners will not be liberated until all our prisoners are liberated and after a ceasefire.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor condemned Israel's escalation of its bloody attacks in the Gaza Strip, including committing mass murder massacres by targeting entire residential squares, the victims of which exceeded a thousand people, including dead, wounded and missing.

The Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement on Saturday: The attacks witnessed in the Gaza Strip constitute the bloodiest day since Israel began its war of genocide on October 7, and raise fears of a more brutal approach to impose political and field desires at the expense of civilians’ blood and property.

The Observatory documented a series of air attacks with intense fire belts launched by Israel on the areas of Shuja'iya, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia, targeting buildings and inhabited residential squares without warning, destroying them over the heads of their residents, and burying dozens under the rubble.

Rescue workers told the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory team that they were informed of hundreds of casualties, includingdead, wounded and missing persons, from about 50 residential buildings and houses in the crowded “Al-Shujaiya” neighborhood in eastern Gaza, after simultaneous air and artillery strikes within a short time.

In parallel, the Observatory documented the destruction by Israeli warplanes of a multi-storey residential building crowded with displaced persons for the (Al Obaid) family in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, which led to dozens of martyrs and wounded, including Dr. Sufyan Tayeh, President of the Islamic University in Gaza, with his family.

The Euro-Med Monitor said: Less than 48 hours after the collapse of the temporary humanitarian truce in Gaza, which lasted for a week, and Israel resuming its air, artillery and ground attacks, we are facing a wide series of disproportionate and impulsive raids with plans for mass murder.

The Observatory for Human Rights indicated that three Palestinian journalists were killed in separate Israeli attacks since yesterday, Friday, bringing the total number of journalist martyrs to 73 journalists since the start of the war on Gaza.

He stated that Israel is currently attacking with stronger and more intense fire, and its army has announced that it has attacked 400 targets in the Gaza Strip since the resumption of raids, at a time when it announced plans for forced displacement (transfer) from new areas in the southern Gaza Strip.

In light of the severity of the bloodshed taking place, the Euro-Mediterranean Monitor renewed its call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, who is visiting Ramallah today, to uphold the principles of international justice and hold Israel accountable for the war crimes it is committing explicitly.

It stressed that Israel has relentlessly violated the International Convention to Prevent and Punish the Crime of Genocide by mass targeting the residents of the Gaza Strip because they are Palestinians, including the approach of killing, physical and mental abuse, and undermining the basics of living conditions for survival.

Article 1 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states: “The Contracting Parties affirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law that they are obligated to prevent and punish.”

While Article 2 of the Convention stipulates that “genocide means any act of mass killing or causing physical or mental harm committed with the intent to partially or completely destroy a national, racial, ethnic or religious group, which is a crime prohibited under international law.”

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israel on Saturday that its declared goal of completely eliminating Hamas could lead to a war that would last 10 years, and announced that he was on his way to Qatar to seek to resume the truce that lasted 7 days and ended yesterday morning.

Macron said in a press conference on the sidelines of the climate conference in Dubai, UAE, "What does it mean to completely eliminate Hamas? Does anyone believe that this is possible? If so, the war will last 10 years."

He urged Tel Aviv to clarify its goal of eliminating Hamas, warning of an endless war.

The French President also said that confronting what he called terrorism is not a matter of systematic and continuous bombing, and that the response to Hamas attacks is not the elimination of an entire region or the bombing of entire civilian infrastructure.

Macron continued that Israel's permanent security cannot be guaranteed if it is established "at the expense of Palestinian lives, thus displeasing all public opinion in the region," calling for responding to the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, by achieving a two-state solution.

He called for redoubling efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all detainees held by Hamas, and the delivery of aid to Gaza, saying that he was heading to Qatar - today, Saturday - to help establish a new truce that would lead to a ceasefire.

The French President adopted a position in support of the Israeli war on Gaza, and also called for the establishment of an international coalition against the Hamas movement. In the middle of last month, Macron was forced to clarify his statements regarding targeting civilians in Gaza, as he denied during a call with his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog that he had accused Israel of intentionally harming civilians.

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published details about the secret arms transfers sent by the White House to Israel since October 7, revealing that the United States had supplied Israel with 57,000 artillery shells and 15,000 bombs, including more than 5,000 bombs with warheads weighing 2,000. pound.

According to a weapons list obtained by the newspaper, the United States has shipped to Israel “more than 5,000 unguided or ‘dumb’ Mk82 bombs, more than 5,400 2,000-pound Mk84 bombs, and about 1,000 GBU-39 small-diameter bombs.” And about 3,000 JDAMs.

In addition, the United States shipped 57,000 155 mm shells to Israel. NBC News reported earlier last October that Washington had sent artillery shells consisting of cluster munitions to Tel Aviv.

Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and Marine Corps officer, described the weapons as those the United States would use in non-urban areas. He added: "It is a preferred type of weapon for the battles we fought in Afghanistan and Syria in open, non-urban areas." “The United States may use it in more urban areas, but it will first do a lot of analysis of the targets to make sure the attack was proportionate and based on military necessity.”

By contrast, Gaza has an area of about 140 square miles, is home to 2.3 million people, and is one of the densest areas on Earth. In addition, Israel has relied on artificial intelligence software to quickly prepare lists of suspected low-ranking Hamas members to target, without respect for nearby civilians.

Israeli policy has led to widespread destruction in Gaza. At least 15,000 civilians were killed. The number of Palestinian children killed exceeds the number of Hamas fighters whom Israel claims to have killed by several thousand. Nearly 100,000 buildings in Gaza have been damaged by the Israeli bombing campaign, including the destruction of universities, hospitals, schools and entire residential neighborhoods.

The New York Times reported last week that Israel is killing civilians in Gaza at a "historic pace." The newspaper added that part of the explanation for the huge death toll is Tel Aviv's willingness to drop 2,000-pound American-made bombs on various civilian centers.

Mark Garlasco, a former Pentagon analyst who advises the Dutch organization PAX, told the New York Times that he had never seen anything like this before. “It goes beyond anything I've seen in my career,” he said. In order to find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, one has to "go back to Vietnam or World War II," Garlasco added.

Israeli officials and American politicians have tried to justify Tel Aviv's massacre of Palestinians in Gaza by pointing to the Allied bombing of Tokyo during World War II. In one night during the bombing of Tokyo, more than 100,000 people were burned to death by American incendiary bombs.

The White House has submitted some requests to Tel Aviv to try to limit civilian casualties. However, the Biden administration has refused to condition future arms shipments to Israel on a reduction in civilian death tolls.

The United States has relied primarily on aircraft to quickly ship hundreds of millions of dollars worth of weapons to Israel over the past two months. In contrast to arms shipments to Ukraine, the Biden administration has refused to provide the public with information about the weapons it is providing to Tel Aviv.

The Independent Commission for Human Rights in the Gaza Strip said that 80% of the population of the Strip have become displaced under very difficult humanitarian conditions, while the Ministry of Health accused the Israeli occupation of forcing residents to flee by targeting hospitals.

The human rights body added - in a statement - that the occupation aims to transform internal displacement in the Gaza Strip into external displacement.

In the same context, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra from Khan Yunis, confirmed that the Israeli occupation wants to take all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip out of service, with the aim of forcing the rest of the population to flee.

He added to Al Jazeera that the occupation raids also targeted hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip.

On the other hand, the Director of Civil Defense in the northern Gaza Strip, Ahmed Al-Kahlot, said that the Strip needs 50 excavators and 50 bulldozers in order to continue rescue operations and recover the bodies of the martyrs, after the occupation destroyed most of the civil defense mechanisms and equipment.

For its part, Doctors Without Borders said that its investigations proved the Israeli army's responsibility for the attack on its evacuation convoy in Gaza City two weeks ago.

The organization added - in a statement - that the convoy vehicles bearing the Doctors Without Borders logo were exposed to gunfire, in which two people were killed, both of whom were families of the organization’s employees.

The organization explained that it collected testimonies related to the destruction of 5 of its vehicles and severe damage to its clinic in Gaza City.

Source: Al Jazeera

Jordanian King Abdullah II renewed, on Saturday, his country's rejection of attempts to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and separate the Strip from the West Bank.

King Abdullah stressed the need to stop settler “attacks” in the West Bank.

This came during his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, according to a statement from the Royal Court, a copy of which Anatolia received.

The Jordanian statement stated that the two sides stressed "the necessity of working to reach a permanent ceasefire, increasing and sustaining humanitarian aid to the Strip, and delivering it intensively and quickly."

The two sides considered that "the two-state solution is the only way to achieve peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis."

King Abdullah stated that "the two-state solution is the basis of peace in the region and part of its regional security, and the continuation of this war and its dire repercussions cannot be accepted."

He stressed the need to "protect civilians and adhere to international laws in this regard."

During his meeting Thursday with Western officials on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the Jordanian king warned of the "catastrophic consequences" of the resumption of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.

On Friday morning, a temporary truce between the Palestinian resistance factions and Israel ended, concluded with Qatari-Egyptian mediation and lasted for 7 days, during which prisoners were exchanged and humanitarian aid was brought into the Strip, which is inhabited by about 2.3 million Palestinians.

On October 7, Israel launched a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving massive infrastructure destruction and tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to official Palestinian and UN sources.

In late October, Pope Francis spoke by phone with Israeli President Isaac Herzog about the war in Gaza.

The call was described as “fraught” according to a report published by the Washington Post on Thursday, citing a senior Israeli official familiar with the call, which had not been previously reported.

During the call, Herzog informed the Pope of the “unprecedented shock” that Israel felt as a result of the Hamas attack on October 7, while the Pope said that “it is forbidden to respond to terrorism with terrorism,” according to what the newspaper quoted the Israeli official as saying.

On Friday, a source in the Vatican confirmed to CNN that the phone call between the Israeli president and the Pope took place at the end of October, but CNN was unable to verify that Francis used the word “terrorism.”

The Vatican said, in a statement to the Washington Post about the call, that it was “like other phone calls that took place on the same days, it took place in the context of the Pope’s efforts to contain the seriousness and scope of the conflict in the Holy Land.”

A few days after his phone call with Herzog, the Pope spoke with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on November 2, and on October 22, with US President Joe Biden about the war.

The Pope had publicly described the fighting between Israel and Hamas as "going beyond war...it is terrorism."

On November 22, during a general meeting in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis said: “This morning I received two delegations, one of them Israelis who have relatives hostage in Gaza and the other Palestinians who have relatives suffering in Gaza... They are suffering a lot, and I heard how they both suffer.” “Wars do this, but here we have gone beyond war. This is not war, this is terrorism.”

The Pope has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas and is in regular contact with the Catholic community in Gaza.

1. On Saturday evening, Israeli occupation aircraft and artillery renewed their bombardment of a number of towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
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3. The Lebanese National News Agency reported that the Israeli occupation artillery targeted with phosphorus shells the outskirts of Naqoura and Alma al-Shaab, and the outskirts of the Labouneh and Al-Allam mountains.
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5. It added that the occupation forces fired phosphorus shells at Bishop Hill, and also fired three phosphorus shells over the Marjayoun Plain.

Today, Saturday, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, President Mahmoud Abbas received the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan.

President Abbas briefed the Attorney General on the overall developments on the Palestinian scene, especially in light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against our people, the crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing that it continues to commit in the Gaza Strip, and its continuing violations in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

President Abbas called for accelerating the investigations and prosecution of Israeli war criminals in “war crimes” committed by Israel in the Palestinian territories, by targeting civilians, especially children, women and the elderly, desecrating the sanctity of hospitals and shelter centers and demolishing homes on top of their residents, as well as the ongoing colonial settlement and annexation of lands, and crimes of ethnic cleansing, "Apartheid", and the killings, forced displacement, arrests, attacks, and violations of international law and international humanitarian law committed by the occupation forces and terrorist settlers.

He explained that the absence of punishment means encouraging the Israeli occupation to continue committing its crimes against our people, who have been suffering for 75 years from injustice, oppression, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.

He also called for a complete halt to the Israeli aggression, in order to spare civilians from the scourge of bombing, killing, and destruction carried out by the Israeli killing machine, and to double the provision of humanitarian aid, and provide water, electricity, and fuel.

The President reiterated his rejection and prevention of forced displacement of the Palestinian people, whether in the Gaza Strip or in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

The Israeli occupation army has made a change in combat tactics in the current phase of its war on the Gaza Strip, specifically in the south of the Strip, according to what a prominent Israeli military commentator said on Saturday.

Ron Ben Yishai, chief military commentator in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, said that the occupation army is now adopting a combat approach based on carrying out special operations carried out by elite units and trying to "surprise" the Hamas movement, while reducing reliance on air strikes and artillery shelling.

Although 170 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured yesterday, after the end of the truce, Ben Yishai wrote in an analysis published on the newspaper’s website today, Saturday, that the change made by the occupation army to combat tactics came at the request of the American administration, which urged to reduce the level of Harming Palestinian civilians.

According to the Israeli commentator, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called on the occupation leadership not to bomb Palestinian homes from the air and destroy them on the heads of their residents, as well as not to harm the infrastructure related to water, electricity, sewage, and hospitals in the Strip, in addition to continuing to allow humanitarian aid to enter during the war.

It is noteworthy that the occupation army continues to destroy homes on top of their residents in all areas of the Gaza Strip.

Ben Yishai pointed out that Israel rejects calls for a ceasefire with the aim of continuing negotiations in order to agree on more prisoner exchange deals, as it insists that negotiations can continue in light of the continuation of its war on Gaza.

He explained that Occupation Security Minister Yoav Galant convinced his government of the necessity of continuing military operations with full force in order to achieve the war goal of eliminating the Hamas movement.

Ben Yishai claimed that the occupation army will use lighter bombs and ammunition in its raids inside the Gaza Strip at the request of the Americans, noting that the occupation army is heading to try to “surprise” the Hamas movement with special operations in the southern area of the Strip in a way that it has not done in the north.

He pointed out that the occupation army took steps to reduce the number of deaths and injuries among its soldiers due to "friendly fire" fired by their colleagues as a result of the inability to identify them during battles.

He noted that the occupation army has come to the conclusion that, unlike previous wars, the special units must work alongside the infantry brigades penetrating the targeted areas of the Gaza Strip, given that cooperation between these two military sectors leads to achieving the results of its operations.

The Israeli commentator pointed out that the occupation army concluded that slow progress in the Gaza Strip contributes to harming the "enemy's" capabilities to a greater extent than rapid military operations.

He highlighted that military estimates in Tel Aviv indicate that the leadership of the Hamas movement, including the leadership of its military wing, the “Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades,” is present in the southern Gaza Strip, and that this leadership controls what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip, noting that all indications indicate that the fighting spirit of the movement’s fighters is Hamas did not back down, and this is what prompted the occupation army to refuse to agree to a ceasefire.

The fighting spirit of Hamas fighters has not diminished, and this is what prompts the occupation army to refuse to agree to a ceasefire

Regarding the confrontation with Hezbollah, Ben Yishai explained that the data available to Israel indicate that the party’s “Radwan Unit” was not affected by the military strikes directed by the occupation army, in response to the launching of rockets, missiles, and marches from southern Lebanon.

Ben Yishai confirms that the Mini-Ministerial Council for War Affairs in Tel Aviv is still adopting the approach of “resistance aimed at not pushing towards the outbreak of a comprehensive confrontation with Hezbollah, and at the same time it is working to prepare the ground for reaching new security arrangements along the border with Lebanon after the war on Gaza approaches from its end.

The Chief of Staff of the occupation army was quoted as saying to the heads of the settlement councils in northern Israel that Israel will not allow Hezbollah fighters to return to stationing along the border.

Israel seems determined to force Hezbollah to respect Security Council Resolution 1701, on the basis of which the Second Lebanon War ended in 2006, and obliges the party’s fighters not to be present south of the Litani River, and the occupation army is not prepared to rely on international peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon, as Ben Yishai added. .

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to return the Mossad intelligence team from Doha after reaching a “dead end” in the negotiations aimed at renewing the truce and exchanging detainees with the Hamas movement, according to what Agence France-Presse reported from his office today (Saturday).

The office said in a statement: “After the negotiations reached a dead end, and under the guidance of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad Chief David Barnea ordered his team in Doha to return to Israel.”

Previously, an informed source revealed to Reuters that a team from the Israeli Mossad is in Doha today (Saturday) to discuss the resumption of the truce in Gaza with Qatari mediators.

The source added that the Mossad talks, mediated by Qatar, focus on the possibility of releasing new categories of Israeli hostages and new truce standards.

Fighting between Israel and Hamas resumed on Friday, after a 7-day ceasefire. About 240 Palestinians have been killed, according to official announcements in the Gaza Strip, since the resumption of fighting.

Israel claims that Hamas violated the terms of the agreement by launching rockets towards its territory during the night. Sirens sounded in southern Israeli towns near Gaza on Friday afternoon.

Israel and Hamas are studying new criteria for the release of hostages and a truce even before the collapse of the truce.

The truce, which began on November 24, saw the release of women, children, and foreign hostages who had been held by Hamas in the October 7 attack. In return, Israel released a number of Palestinian detainees in its prisons, including women.

Israel and Hamas exchanged accusations of causing the collapse of the truce, which lasted a week and was extended twice before the mediators failed to find a way to extend a third.

Israel accused Hamas of refusing to release all the women it detains. A Palestinian official said that the collapse came after Israel demanded that Hamas release the female soldiers.

As the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed, some world leaders at the UN climate summit criticized Israel on Friday and called for the Gaza war to end, while US and UK officials held meetings on the conflict on the gathering's sidelines.

The war's prominence in speeches at the Dubai event served to highlight international divisions over the bloodshed and presented a distraction for a summit where nations are trying to find consensus on the shared threat posed by climate change."

While discussing the climate crisis, we cannot ignore the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Palestinian territories right beside us," Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told leaders during his formal speech to the COP28 conference."

The current situation in Gaza constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity; those responsible must be held accountable under international law," he said.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa echoed the sentiment. "South Africa is appalled by the cruel tragedy that is under way in Gaza. The war against the innocent people of Palestine is a war crime that must be ended now," he said in his address. 

Jordan's King Abdullah II said it was difficult to focus on global warming while the fighting was going on. "This year's conference of the parties must recognize even more than ever that we cannot talk about climate change in isolation from the humanitarian tragedies unfolding around us," he said.

A group of demonstrators at the conference, some wearing shirts that spelled "ceasefire", chanted "Free Palestine". Elsewhere on the summit grounds, a display of shoes was meant to represent the thousands killed in Gaza.

An Israeli official told Reuters the military was abiding by international law and was intent on destroying the militant group Hamas. "Today was pretty awful," Mohammed Ursof, a Palestinian student from Gaza based in Qatar and attending the summit, said of the resumption in fighting. The "international youth delegate" said he would try to raise awareness at the COP28 conference of the Palestinian cause.

Bilaterals

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that he met officials from Arab states and discussed the future of the Gaza Strip on the sidelines of the COP28. A senior State Department official said Blinken met foreign ministers from Qatar, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain, alongside representatives of the Palestinian Authority.

The office of the British prime minister said Rishi Sunak and Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, both at the Dubai conference, discussed their deep regret over the collapse of the temporary pause in fighting. 

Israel's President Isaac Herzog was also at COP28, where a day earlier he met UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The UAE is one of few Arab states with official ties with Israel. But Herzog, who stood in the traditional "family photo" with other world leaders, did not give his scheduled address on Friday. 

Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General Oded Joseph told Reuters that Israel remained intent on freeing those held hostage by Hamas and destroying the militant group.

Israel's bombardment and invasion of Gaza has killed over 15,000 Palestinians, according to Gazan health officials. It was launched in retaliation for an attack by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 that killed 1,200 Israelis and foreigners, and led to 240 hostages being taken into Gaza.

The assault sparked outrage in the Arab world, though most Western leaders have supported what they say is Israel's right to defend itself. Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday.

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid called for an end to the war.

Iran's delegation left the summit in protest at Israel's presence, Iranian media reported, while Colombia's President Gustavo Petro linked environmental issues with the war. "If Palestine could be free today then tomorrow humanity will escape alive out of the throes of the climate crisis," he said.

Cairo fears that Israel is continuing its efforts to displace the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, pushing them by various means towards Egyptian territory and other nearby countries. 

Israel Hayom newspaper published this week a report saying Israel submitted a new initiative to the US Congress calling for conditioning American aid to Arab countries on their willingness to receive refugees from Gaza.

The Israeli proposal, which reportedly has support from senior officials in Republican and Democratic parties, calls on the US to condition foreign aid to Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, and Türkiye for accepting a certain number of refugees.

It said those countries will accept “voluntary, not forced” migration of Palestinians to their territories. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has already categorically rejected a forced resettlement of Palestinians in his country. He has expressed his country’s “rejection and denouncement of policies of displacement or attempts to eradicate the Palestinian cause at the expense of neighboring countries.” 

Earlier this week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said forced displacement remains a goal for Israel, “as it seeks to drive Palestinians from their land by making life in the Gaza Strip impossible.” 

In the early stages of the war on Gaza, the US administration announced it would oppose the forced displacement of Gaza residents from the enclave. 

On Friday, Israel Hayom said the Israeli proposal was shown to key figures in the House and Senate from both parties. It said Rep. Joe Wilson has expressed open support for it and described the proposal as “the only moral solution to ensure that Egypt opens its borders and allows for the refugees to flee from the control of Hamas and Israel.” 

Wilson said the US Government provides Egypt with approximately $1.3 billion in foreign aid, and these funds can be allocated to the refugees from Gaza who will be allowed into Egypt. He noted that Egypt should not shoulder the entire burden, but other regional countries should chip in. “Iraq and Yemen receive an approximate $1 billion in US foreign aid, and Türkiye receives more than $150 million,” he said, adding that each of these countries receive enough foreign aid and have a large enough population to be able to accept refugees adding up to less than 1% of their population.

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy described the proposal as a “political hallucination,” noting that Israelis have for years adopted a strategy aimed at decreasing the Palestinian populations in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Fahmy told Asharq Al-Awsat that even if Washington adopted such a proposal, Egypt firmly rejects any measures to eradicate the Palestinian cause, including the forced displacement of Gazans.

Last month, Cairo publicly condemned Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who said the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians is the “right humanitarian solution” for Gaza.

Smotrich was commenting on an op-ed piece written by Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak published for the Wall Street Journal last month, calling for “countries around the world to accept limited numbers of Gazan families who have expressed a desire to relocate.” 

On Friday, Rakha Ahmed Hassan, a member of Egypt's foreign affairs committee, who served as the country's ambassador to Germany, described the new proposal referred to by Israel Hayom as “unrealistic.” Hassan told Asharq Al-Awsat that the displacement of Palestinians could not be compared to hosting of Syrian refugees by Egypt and other countries. “The Syrian crisis is temporary and the displaced Syrians will return home.”

However, he said, sending Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries means the complete eradication of the Palestinian cause and the end of “any hopes to establish an independent state.”

The United Nations said today (Saturday) that it had detected an outbreak of hepatitis among displaced Palestinians inside shelter centers in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s attacks continued since October 7.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in a statement that an outbreak of hepatitis C was detected in shelters affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

The statement stated that United Nations teams provided about 10,000 medical consultations daily in shelters hosting displaced persons, while 12,000 children received vaccinations in UNRWA shelters since the fourth of last month.

He pointed out that the access of residents in Gaza City and its north to water for drinking and household purposes has not improved, as most of the main water production facilities remained closed due to fuel shortages and some also due to damage.

Water is primarily available from small private wells and UNRWA wells, amid serious concerns about waterborne diseases due to water consumption from unsafe sources.

The World Health Organization stressed that civilians in Gaza need protection, food, clean water, shelter, sanitation, and medicine, warning that overcrowding resulting from the mass displacement of residents and unsafe living conditions increase the risk of disease.

This is being done while four hospitals in Gaza City and its north are operating partially and receiving patients, with only limited services. Two other hospitals provide dialysis services for kidney patients only.

According to the United Nations, none of the hospitals in Gaza City and its north have the capacity to perform surgical operations.
Meanwhile, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, stated that the health system in the Strip is witnessing a complete collapse in light of a severe shortage of medical capabilities and life-saving means.

Al-Barsh said that Israel's attacks after the end of the temporary humanitarian truce yesterday "are more brutal and severe in light of the indiscriminate bombing and destruction of homes over the heads of their residents for the purpose of premeditated killing."

He explained that the escalation of attacks comes as the health sector in Gaza is exposed to extremely dangerous and complex conditions due to it being directly targeted in Israeli attacks, which led to the closure of more than 26 hospitals and 55 health centers.

The White House said that US Vice President Kamala Harris confirmed during her meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi that Washington would not, under any circumstances, allow the siege of the Gaza Strip or the redrawing of its borders.

The White House added that Harris confirmed during the meeting that her country "will not, under any circumstances, allow the deportation of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank."

French researcher: “France and Macron are unable to find their position to influence the course of the war between Israel and Hamas.”

Report by the French Agency:

French President Emmanuel Macron had hoped to build on the “dynamics” of the truce between Israel and Hamas to promote his country’s positions and begin shaping the post-war landscape, but his arrival at the United Nations climate conference held in Dubai coincided with the resumption of fighting in Gaza.

The end of the truce that was reached with Qatari mediation, supported by Egypt and the United States, and which allowed for the release of Hamas hostages, hindered his efforts during a trip that embodied the difficulty facing the French president, to find a way to influence this major international crisis.

On Friday, Macron held meetings on the sidelines of the climate conference (COP28) with a number of leaders concerned with the conflict that broke out following an unprecedented attack launched by Hamas on October 7th against Israel, which responded with violent and continuous bombardment of Gaza until the announcement of a truce on 24th of November.

During his meeting with his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, Macron called for the truce to be resumed as soon as possible in the hope that this would lead to a permanent ceasefire.

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Friday, "We demand the resumption of the truce. This is necessary. It is necessary to continue the release of hostages... as well as to bring more humanitarian aid" into Gaza.

She added to journalists that resuming the truce is also necessary “to continue thinking about what comes next... to restore the political horizon and return concrete discussions to the table on how to strengthen the Palestinian Authority” so that it can take over the administration of the Gaza Strip in the future “and achieve the two-state solution” as it is the only one “viable” application,” she said.

During his meetings with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Emirati Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Jordanian King Abdullah II, and under public pressure in the face of the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians, Macron nevertheless stressed the need to clearly condemn Hamas’ actions, and tried to coordinate humanitarian operations.

Finally, Macron informed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati that it is in Hezbollah’s interest to exercise restraint to avoid a regional escalation, according to what was reported by the French president’s circles.

Macron is scheduled to make a quick visit on Saturday evening to Qatar, where he will have dinner with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the small Gulf state that is leading the truce negotiations and the release of the hostages.

Macron was supposed to undertake a broader tour in the Middle East, but in the end the Elysee considered that the presence of a large number of those concerned with the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Dubai would make the conference a diplomatic meeting at the same time.

But expectations from the visit were partly frustrated. The influential Saudi Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom Macron was scheduled to meet during the conference, did not attend the Emirates neighboring his country. It was not possible to hold a meeting between Macron and a number of Arab leaders at the same time, although the French President had hoped for this, as a meeting of this kind would allow him to convey his message more strongly.

As for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, they did not come to Dubai. Macron's program does not include a visit to Israel or Ramallah.

Agnès Levallois of the Institute for Research and Studies on the Mediterranean and the Middle East believes that “France and Macron are unable to really find their place in this crisis.”

It indicates that the president lost some of his credibility when, at the end of October, he launched from Jerusalem, without paving the way, the idea of including Arab countries in an international coalition to fight Hamas. She noted that, after being criticized for his clear bias in favor of Israel, his call to “stop” bombing civilians may have strained his relationship with Netanyahu.

The researcher considers that the search for balance “based on reactions” confuses his strategy.

Emmanuel Macron is currently facing two difficulties

On the Israeli side, French diplomats do not hide their concern about the military operations that also target areas of the southern Gaza Strip, contrary to Tel Aviv’s pledge that these will be “safe” areas for civilians. They also raise questions about the Israeli authorities' pledge to "eliminate" Hamas, fearing that this would lead, without a targeted operation, to more civilian casualties.

France is searching for a formula to strengthen the faltering Palestinian Authority

But in both cases, Paris does not have the means of pressure. As for the two-state solution that I so strongly advocated, no one really sees the path to achieving it.

“Emmanuel Macron cannot achieve this alone,” Levallois asserts.

She added, "On the other hand, Europe has powerful means of influence, and there is a real card in Europe's hand that it can present," expressing her regret for not using them at this stage.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that “there was an opportunity for peace, but we lost this opportunity because of Israel’s intransigence,” adding that he had not lost hope of reaching a permanent peace agreement between Palestine and Israel.

Reuters news agency quoted Turkish media as saying that the Turkish president said that a contact group of Islamic countries is ready to develop a road map to end the conflict in Gaza after talks with Western powers.

The Turkish President noted that “Hamas cannot be excluded from potential solutions to the war in Gaza,” adding that “Hamas is not a terrorist organization and no one should expect him to classify it otherwise.”

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo indicated on Saturday that he spoke with Israeli President Isaac Herzog after the resumption of the war on Gaza and informed him that "no more civilians should be killed."

“I raised my concerns about the fact that violence has been renewed and I repeated what I said at the Rafah crossing: no more killing of civilians,” De Croo told reporters at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai.

De Croo said on Saturday that Israel "has the right to eliminate the terrorist threat from Gaza" but should do everything in its power to ensure that no more civilians are killed.

More than 100 Palestinians were killed, this Saturday afternoon, in a new massacre, committed by the Israeli occupation forces, in the Jabalia refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that about 100 citizens were killed as a result of a missile strike that targeted a residential building belonging to the Obaid family on top of its residents in the Jabalia camp, and dozens were injured, and there are still missing people under the rubble.

This is not the first massacre committed by the Israeli occupation against those safe in their homes, and the displaced in shelter schools, whether in Jabalia, or in various parts of the governorates of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that two young Palestinian citizens were injured by live bullets in confrontations with Israeli forces in the village of Beita, south of Nablus.

The occupation forces stormed the town this morning amid the wave of raids they launched in the occupied West Bank, which led to confrontations with citizens, which resulted in the two young men being shot, one in the hand and the other in the chest.

Former Israeli military officials unanimously agreed that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is still present in the northern Gaza Strip, and is capable of confronting the Israeli forces there. Some of them said that Hamas is launching the same attack that it began on the seventh of last October, in different ways.

According to reserve general Alon Avitar, an Arab affairs analyst, Hamas is trying to prove its ability, and it wants to tell Israel that it is still present and in control of the situation, and that it can launch rockets from the northern regions, and in different regions and in broader circles towards Rishon LeZion and the Gush region.

In turn, Reserve General Dan Harel, former Chief of Staff and Head of the Southern Region, said, “Let us ask about the price if they do not do this at the immediate level. It is not possible to recover all the kidnapped people and a group of male and female soldiers will remain.”

Harel added, "It is clear that they will play this game with us, and the future price that the State of Israel will pay is very large, because we cannot live next to this thing they call Hamas. We understood this on October 7, and the lesson is harsh, and it cannot be remedied."

He added, "We are forced to pass through the entire Gaza Strip and strike Hamas in a way that eliminates the possibility of it being a military organization as it is now."

He went on to confirm that Israel is still under the same attack that Hamas initiated on October 7. Through which it targeted the heart of Israeli society and the social fabric.

He said that Hamas is directing all its efforts towards division, disruption, and causing great frustration and upsetting the minds of the Israelis. It is still the same attack, but it is implementing it in a different way and by means of influencing awareness “This whole show was done for exactly that purpose.”

The former military official confirmed that Israel is still far from decisiveness, even in the northern Gaza Strip, where it has achieved “exceptional achievements” tactically. “But we eliminated half of the brigades there, which means we have half the work ahead of us,” he stressed, stressing that so far Israel has not been able to injure senior officers, so the Hamas network is still operating.

In turn, Moshe Ya'alon, former Minister of Defense and Chief of Staff, attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and said, "The latter not only refused to bear responsibility for the greatest damage to the State of Israel, which is 75 years old - in reference to the Al-Aqsa flood - but he also believes that it is possible to bear Responsibility of the state ably.”

Ya'alon went on to say that "Netanyahu is neither morally nor fundamentally qualified to extricate us from this harm."

In turn, Amos Malka, reserve general and former head of the Military Intelligence Division, believed that Hamas could not offer more than what it provided in the prisoner and detainee exchange deal, but he stressed that this does not mean the end of negotiations regarding the release of the “kidnapped.”

Source: Al Jazeera

Military expert Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi said that Israel's bombing of all areas of the Gaza Strip, and its demand that residents of Khan Yunis go to Rafah, means that it is continuing with its forced displacement plan.

The Israeli bombing included all of the Gaza Strip, north and south, in the first renewal of fighting after the collapse of the temporary truce. Residents of Khan Yunis, south of the Strip, were asked to head towards the city of Rafah on the Egyptian border, which indicates that Israel is continuing with its forced displacement plan, Al-Duwairi says.

The occupation launched a violent bombardment yesterday morning, Friday, leaving dozens of dead and wounded in a number of areas, while the resistance responded by bombing Tel Aviv, and engaged in violent clashes in a number of areas of Gaza City, according to what was announced by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

Al-Duwairi predicted - in an analysis by Al-Jazeera - that the second phase of the war would be more violent and broader in scope, and said that “its beginning heralds a lot after the bombing included all areas of the Strip.”

This expansion of the bombing indicates - according to Al-Duwairi - that Israel is proceeding with the plan to forcibly displace the residents of the Gaza Strip, a hypothesis reinforced by the demand that the residents of Khan Yunis go to Rafah, in his opinion.

The military expert points out public statements by Israeli leaders in this regard, which means that they may launch simultaneous ground operations in the north, center and south of the Strip.

The Israeli forces, which began the first phase of the ground attack, will attempt to complete their battle in the northern part of the Strip, while the new forces that were brought in will launch attacks on the central and southern sectors, according to the military expert.

Division of the southern sector

Currently, Israel is mobilizing 3 divisions that did not participate in the previous phase of the fighting, and may call in a fourth division from the border with Lebanon if the confrontations there do not expand, bringing the total number of forces participating in the entire operation to approximately 6 divisions, Al-Duwairi says.

Regarding the form of the expected maneuver in the current phase of the war, it is likely that Israel will try to divide the southern part of the Strip into 3 parts, where it will push forcefully between Bureij and Deir al-Balah, another between Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis, and a third between Khan Yunis and Rafah.

Al-Duwairi questioned the occupation’s talk about its control over 40% of Gaza City, pointing out that Israel is talking about empty or agricultural areas, but it did not control the very intertwined residential area, unlike the southern region.

The military expert believes that Israel can provide forces to penetrate the sector in general, but he doubted its ability to extend its actual control, and said that it would face fierce resistance, as happened during the past days in the north.

He added, "There are 4 Israeli soldiers who were injured today in the far northeast of Gaza, which means that the resistance is still operating in the areas that Israel entered about a month ago, after nearly 50 days of comprehensive bombardment."

In addition, - the military expert says - the Al-Qassam Brigades have 3 brigades that have not participated in the battles yet (the Al-Wasat Brigade, the Khan Yunis Brigade, and the Rafah Brigade), and all of them are fully prepared for the battle, according to his expression.

Regarding the resistance options in the new phase of the war, Al-Duwairi said that they are more open than the war in the north, because the south is open and sparsely built, which gives an advantage to the defenders and will make the response more powerful.

Al-Duwairi stressed that the goal of eliminating the Hamas movement, which Israel claims, is almost impossible, except by wiping out Gaza from the face of the earth, adding, "Israel's declared goals are not commensurate with the operational situation so far."

The Al-Qassam Brigades had said that they were clashing with Israeli forces in several places, including: Sheikh Radwan and near the Gaza coast, confirming that they had targeted tanks, concentrations and troop carriers, and caused losses among their ranks. The resistance also attacked Tel Aviv, Sderot, Ra'im, Kissufim, and Ashkelon, in the Gaza Strip.

Source: Al Jazeera

Today, Saturday, US Vice President Kamla Harris will present the main American goals when the conflict between Israel and Hamas ends, and will stress the necessity of reuniting the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank in the end under one ruling entity.

Harris will participate in a series of meetings at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai after US President Joe Biden sent her to represent him at the summit while he focuses on the war between Israel and the Palestinians.

The White House said Harris would carry a message about post-conflict Gaza as the region faces the repercussions of the war that has turned the Middle East upside down.

A White House official said: "It will emphasize that any plan for the post-conflict phase in Gaza must include a clear political horizon for the Palestinian people and ensure the reunification of Gaza and the West Bank under one entity."

The Western-backed Palestinian Authority rules parts of the West Bank. Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 from the Fatah movement, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, and has governed the Strip since then.

Harris' role in the administration is being watched increasingly closely as Biden (81 years old) runs for a second presidential term. She was tasked with helping to address a series of major challenges such as immigration, abortion and voting rights from home.

How post-conflict Gaza should realistically be managed is an issue that confounds regional leaders and Middle East experts.

The future of the Palestinian Authority

US officials have discussed strengthening the Palestinian Authority so that it can expand its scope of work to include Gaza, but a firm plan has not yet been agreed upon.

Some American officials privately expressed doubts about the Palestinian Authority's ability to manage Gaza after the war. Critics accused the Palestinian Authority of corruption and mismanagement, and opinion polls showed that its credibility with the Palestinian people was low.

Harris will meet with regional leaders and consult with them regarding the latest developments in Gaza, including Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE.

The White House official said: “In her meetings, the Vice President will set the rules regarding post-conflict Gaza and will put forward specific proposals that contribute to the involvement of Palestinian voices in the process and build regional support for our efforts.”

In her statements later on Saturday, Harris will express the United States' desire to return to the truce between Israel and Hamas in order to remove more hostages from Gaza and get humanitarian aid flowing again.

“It will certainly make clear that, as we have said many times before, we believe that the Palestinian people need to participate in determining their future and to have a role in that, and that they need governance in Gaza,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington. He takes care of his aspirations and needs.”

Harris has previously carried important messages from Biden abroad. She said at the Munich Security Conference last February that the Biden administration had officially concluded that Russia had committed “crimes against humanity” during its invasion of Ukraine.

The United Nations commemorated the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which is organized annually to coincide with the day on which the General Assembly took its decision known as the decision of partition of Palestine. The Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, delivered a speech of the President Mahmoud Abbas in which he expressed his appreciation to the peoples of the world who stood with our people and their right to freedom and independence, and Mansour opened an exhibition entitled “Palestine is a land with a people” in response to the arrogance of the occupation and its denial of our presence on our land. He stressed that nearly six million Palestinians are still refugees to this day.
On this day, marches in support of Palestine and its rights took place in many capitals of the world, during which the demonstrators carried banners of support for Palestine and its rights and rejection of the Israeli occupation and all its practices.
During the president's meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, the president asked him to work to stabilize the ceasefire in Gaza. This is something that Israel works to violate daily, with continuous bombing, demolition of homes, and the fall of hundreds of dead and wounded, especially in the Gaza Strip, even though the West Bank is also exposed to continuous attacks, especially from settlers who steal the land and work to displace our people from their homes, cities, and villages, and then plunder what is located on it. 
The International Day of Solidarity with our People must be an effective support for Palestine and the protection for Palestinian people, especially children, thousands of whom have been killed since the beginning of these attacks.
France, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called for the imposition of sanctions on settlers who attack Palestinian citizens while stealing land. The Spanish Prime Minister also called for recognition of the Palestinian state as a necessary step for stability in the region, and it is in Europe’s interest for a moral reason , this is a positive position for Spain and must be understood by the international community in general.
Last but not least, this International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People is considered positive and confirms what we have been seeking and demanding for years.

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, said that there is no safe place for the residents of the Gaza Strip to go, and they live in a cycle of death, destruction and disease.

Griffiths added in a statement on Friday that the last week showed what can happen “when the weapons are silent,” and that the situation in Khan Yunis is a shocking reminder of what happens when the weapons are not silent.

He continued in his statement: "A large number were killed and injured within hours today. Families were again instructed to evacuate, and hopes collapsed."

He pointed out that all residents of Gaza, led by children, women and men, are living in terror in the second month of the Israeli aggression.

He stressed the need to increase humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and achieve a humanitarian ceasefire.

At dawn on Saturday, Israeli occupation forces stormed the Balata and Askar al-Jadid camps, southeast of Nablus, and neighborhoods west of the city.

Local sources reported that violent confrontations broke out following the storming of the Balata and Askar camps. The occupation forces also bulldozed several streets, destroyed their infrastructure, and raided several homes in the two camps.

The same sources added that the occupation forces arrested the young man, Muhammad Akram Antar, from his home on Tal Street, west of Nablus, and stormed the Al-Makhfiya neighborhood and Al-Taawun and Al-Tur streets, west of the city.

The Wall Street Journal said that negotiators are rushing to negotiate to restore the week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, which ended on Friday morning, as Israel resumed its bombing of the Gaza Strip, reigniting the war that has been going on for nearly two months and left large parts of Gaza is in a state of complete destruction, and has claimed the lives of more than 15,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, and more than 30,000 wounded, many of whom are critically injured.

The newspaper says, “Israel launched new bombing attacks (Friday morning) and warned the Palestinians of imminent fighting in parts of southern Gaza, endangering more than a million people, including hundreds of thousands who fled there after weeks of fighting in the northern part of the Strip.” ".

The newspaper adds, "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government aims to intensify pressure on Hamas through a renewed military campaign aimed either at forcing the group to release more hostages or to continue until the militants are defeated."

An American official revealed to the newspaper that US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, pressured Netanyahu’s government in his meetings to find out how long the war would continue, and that despite increasing pressure on the Israeli government to stop its attack on Gaza, the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu and his team, refuse to provide any clear timeline. .

The newspaper pointed out that American officials say that "international pressure may force Israel to stop its operations by early next year, especially if civilian casualties continue at high levels, which is a timetable that Israel has not accepted."

On Friday, the Gaza Strip was subjected to a violent Israeli bombardment that killed more than 200 people in one day (since the end of the truce).

An American official said, "Israel promised in recent days to carry out a more targeted military operation that would limit civilian casualties or damage to buildings and infrastructure," according to the newspaper.

International calls continue to resume the truce, warning of the repercussions of the resumption of fighting on civilians in the Gaza Strip, where the humanitarian crisis is worsening.

The newspaper notes that Israel is facing internal pressure from the families of the hostages so that indirect talks with Hamas do not stop, not to mention international pressure, primarily from the United States, to restrict the timetable and tactics of its military operation in Gaza.

An Israeli official said on Friday that his country "is ready to consider future periods of stopping the war in Gaza to allow the release of the largest possible number of hostages, which represents a top priority for the country."

Israel says it wants Hamas to release its kidnapped women and children, while the movement in Gaza says it is not detaining any more women and children, and has offered to hand over the bodies of some of the dead and elderly men.

The newspaper quotes former Deputy National Security Advisor in Israel, Eran Etzion, as saying that Hamas “was able to survive the initial Israeli attack, and may believe that it has a chance to survive in the long term if pressure increases on Israel to stop its renewed attack in southern Gaza before it is defeated.” .

He added, "While the United States believes that Israel has only weeks left, it will be difficult for Israel to achieve its war goals within weeks... This is a weakness that Hamas has certainly identified."

For its part, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority quoted informed sources as saying that Israel had informed the mediators that it wanted to return to calm in the Gaza Strip for one day, while the White House said that it had expectations of the possibility of declaring a new truce in the Strip.

Israel wants a one-day truce in exchange for the release of more women and children detained in Gaza, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority.

But the sources told the Broadcasting Corporation that the possibility of a return to calm tonight is slim, and that there is a chance of reaching an agreement within two or four days.