This morning (Monday), a convoy set off to transport newborn babies from the Gaza Strip to transport them to hospitals in Egypt, after their evacuation from the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement, a copy of which was received by Xinhua News Agency, that its ambulance crews set off in front of the Emirati Hospital in the city of Rafah to transport 28 newborn babies to the Rafah crossing, in preparation for transporting them to receive treatment in Egyptian hospitals.

The association stated that the step is being carried out in coordination between the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

The World Health Organization and international institutions worked to remove premature babies from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after it was evacuated yesterday (Sunday).

The occupation army said today, Monday, that it bombed several sites in southern Lebanon with artillery in response to bombing operations on northern Israel.

Israeli army explained, in a statement on Monday, that the bombing operations from Lebanon targeted the areas of Arab Al-Aramsha, Piranit, and Bar’im, without causing any casualties.

The army reported that a fire broke out in Beranit as a result of the bombing, noting that forces from the army and the Israeli fire and rescue services were at the scene.

An almost daily exchange of bombardment broke out between the occupation army on the one hand, and the Lebanese Hezbollah and armed Palestinian factions in Lebanon on the other hand, across the border, following the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip, on the seventh of last October.

The Yemeni Houthi group's seizure of a cargo ship in the Red Sea raised fears of a rise in oil prices when markets open, and the cost of insurance for maritime shipping, in a vital region for global trade, according to Al-Sharq/Bloomberg.

The Houthi group in Yemen had threatened earlier, on Sunday, that it would target all ships carrying the Israeli flag or ships operated by Israeli companies, or owned by Israeli companies, in response to the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.

Hours after the threat, the group announced that it had seized an Israeli ship and taken it to Yemeni territorial waters, and said that it was conducting an investigation with the crew.

For its part, "Israel" said that the detained ship is owned by the British and managed by the Japanese in the southern Red Sea, and that there are no Israelis on board.

In statements to Al-Sharq/Bloomberg, Andrei Kovatario, co-founder of the research company ECERA, expected oil prices to rise by a few dollars when markets opened in Asia, warning that the size of the increase would be linked to the repercussions of the accident.

He added that any disruption of this kind, especially during a period of heightened geopolitical risks, could send a bullish signal to markets.

He expected that the rise in prices would be directly related to how things would develop in the coming hours, and he believed that if this was the beginning of escalation, we would see a big jump in prices.

Covatario also considered that the region will witness an increase in marine shipping insurance rates, especially for oil shipments that pass through these regions.

Although the Houthi group in Yemen was the one who seized the ship, “Israel” was quick to accuse Iran, and the occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, considered the incident “an escalation in Iran’s aggression” and had “international repercussions on the security of global shipping lanes,” which is what Increased fears of further developments.

Bloomberg Economics conducted a study of the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on global growth and inflation according to three scenarios.

Under the first case, hostilities would remain largely confined to Gaza and Israel. As for the second case, it assumes the expansion of the conflict to neighboring countries such as Lebanon and Syria, which include powerful armed groups supported by Tehran. Which essentially turns it into a proxy war between “Israel” and Iran. The third possibility involves a direct escalation between these two regional enemies.

In the most severe scenario, oil prices could jump to $150 per barrel, and global growth could decline to 1.7%, which could deduct about a trillion dollars from global economic output.

The statements of former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki Al-Faisal about the “events in Gaza and Israel” during his participation in the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain on Saturday topped social media sites.

Al-Faisal said during his speech: “I categorically condemn Hamas’ targeting of civilian targets. I condemn it for providing an excuse for this hateful government to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its residents and completely destroy them. I condemn it for undermining the Palestinian Authority, and I condemn it for sabotaging Saudi Arabia’s attempt to reach a peaceful solution for the Palestinian people. But equally, I condemn Israel’s indiscriminate bombing” of innocent civilians, I condemn Western politicians for crying when Israelis are killed by Palestinians and refusing to even express sadness when Israelis kill Palestinians.

 He believed that "this war is a turning point in the process of serious search for a just solution to the Palestinian issue that deals with the roots of this conflict."

Source: Sama News

The American ABC channel, citing informed sources, revealed that the Joe Biden administration is working on preparing several plans for operations to free Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip.

The channel said, citing its sources, that the US President’s administration is working to develop tactical plans for the operation in the event that circumstances change, although “hostage rescue” missions are always risky, and the United States believes that the deal is the best option for releasing large numbers of prisoners.

The channel indicated that the military or employees of the American security services "will not necessarily participate directly in such an operation, as the forces of foreign countries often implement the action plans that were drawn up with their American colleagues."

The sources confirmed to the TV channel that the Israeli occupation and Hamas are discussing the release of at least 50 prisoners, most of them women and children, in exchange for a truce for several days, but no progress has been made in this regard.

The occupation government informed the Qatari mediators late last Friday, according to what was reported by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, that it completely rejects the updated prisoner exchange deal with “Hamas”, which includes the release of 50 Israeli hostages held in Gaza, noting that “Israel” insists on not separate detained families, and demand the release of all women and children detained together.

The occupation government expressed its willingness to be flexible regarding the number of days of the expected truce to facilitate the release of more prisoners.

Source: Sama News

Yair Lapid, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, held the army, the Shin Bet security service and the Supreme Court responsible for “the failures that led to the Hamas attack on October 7.”

In a video on his account on the Telegram application, Yair spoke about “how the Supreme Court changed the security arrangements and instructions for opening fire on the borders of the Gaza Strip.”

The clip showed a lawyer from the Kohelet Political Forum, a conservative think tank whose ideas formed the ideological basis of the controversial judicial reform program launched by the government last January.

Yair also shared a screenshot of a story from the Kan public broadcaster on October 2 that said: “The message sent by Shin Bet and the IDF to the political level: In order to maintain peace in the Gaza Strip – economic operations because Gaza must continue.”

The Prime Minister's son shared with his 14,000 subscribers a headline from a Channel 12 report about surveillance soldiers who warned of Hamas activity on the Gaza border for months before the attack, but were ignored by their commanders.

He also criticized journalists for "asking political questions and conducting opinion polls," in an apparent reference to recent opinion polls showing a sharp decline in support for his father, the prime minister, and his party, Likud.

A scandal threatens the Israeli army. After it was proven that it mistakenly killed large numbers of its citizens during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, according to the Israeli newspapers Yedioth Ahronoth and Haaretz, an American investigative website revealed evidence that this mass killing of Israeli citizens was not carried out by mistake but rather intentionally, based on what It appears to be an Israeli military directive called the Hannibal Directive.

Many of the allegations, and even myths, surrounding the Al-Qassam Brigades’ attack on southern Israel on October 7, known as the Al-Aqsa Flood, are being demolished one after another. After it was proven false that Hamas beheaded 40 children and raped women, it was finally revealed that Israel apparently killed A large portion of the civilians who died on October 7.

There is strong evidence that the occupation forces, during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, bombed Israeli targets and citizens, including the Erez crossing, Kibbutz Be’eri, and the Nova electronic music festival.

The testimonies of survivors of the Al-Aqsa Flood, in addition to the previous documented actions of the occupation army against captured Israeli soldiers and civilians, raise questions about the real reason behind the high number of Israeli deaths in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, especially since Hamas was primarily aiming to obtain prisoners to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners, according to a report. The Real News Network (TRNN) is an American news organization dedicated to investigative journalism.

The two largest newspapers in Israel confirm the occupation army's bombing of its citizens

Two reports by the two largest newspapers in Israel revealed that Israeli military helicopters opened fire on Palestinian militants but wounded Israelis who were participating in a festival during the attack launched by Hamas against Israel on October 7.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that this emerged from an Israeli security assessment based on a police investigation of Hamas fighters who were arrested on October 7.

It said, according to the assessment, that Hamas fighters had no prior information about the festival that was held near Kibbutz Ra'im, near the border with Gaza, because the party was postponed shortly before the attack, according to the Israeli police.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth also reported on the Israeli army helicopters attacking the ceremony.

The newspaper reported that Israeli forces "found it difficult to identify Hamas fighters," adding that helicopter pilots "used artillery" against civilians at the festival.

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood

A Palestinian resistance attack on the city of Ashkelon/Reuters

The newspaper said in its report: “Hamas fighters were instructed to slowly blend in with the crowds and not move under any circumstances.”

In this way, they tried to fool the Israeli Air Force into believing that they were Israeli. This deception worked for a while.

He added, "The report said that the pilots found it difficult to distinguish between Hamas fighters and Israelis."

But what is noteworthy in the newspaper’s report is that “after the hoax was exposed, the Apache helicopters were forced to free themselves from all restrictions.”

This indicates the possibility that the Israeli forces were aware that Hamas fighters had infiltrated the Israeli crowds and deliberately bombed these crowds, including Israelis and Palestinians.

The newspaper said, "When they realized this, some of them decided to use artillery shells against Hamas fighters independently, without obtaining permission from their superiors."

The police estimated the number of people killed at the festival at 364 people, but did not reveal their identities. There are no Israeli estimates regarding the number of Israelis killed by the occupation, but there are indications that most of them were killed by the Israeli army.

The details of the investigation contradict the official Israeli story about the attack carried out by the Palestinian resistance movement, which claimed that Hamas gunmen slaughtered revelers at the festival.

Israel has killed more than 12,300 Palestinians in its air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since the surprise attack launched by Hamas. Meanwhile, the official Israeli death toll of 1,400 was reduced to about 1,200.

An Israeli woman says that her lover was shot by Israelis and praises the good treatment of the resistance fighters

Israeli Yasmin Porat (44 years old), who was arrested by Hamas resistance for a period during the Al-Aqsa flood, said that Israeli civilians were “without a doubt” killed by the Israeli army.

Yasmin Porat watched her partner, who was handcuffed by her Palestinian captors, being shot by Israeli commandos, who then dropped two tank shells on the house she was in.

Yasmin Porat had previously fled the electronic music festival that came under attack, which was held between Kibbutz Be'eri and Kibbutz Rahim, which also had military bases built into them.

These two kibbutzim were attacked. Many prisoners were taken from them.

Yasmin Porat, fled to Kibbutz Be'eri, entered a house with her partner, and were then momentarily captured by gunmen.

She told Israeli National Radio that when the Israeli special forces arrived, they started shooting everyone, and that most of the prisoners, along with Hamas gunmen, were caught in the crossfire, and that everyone was killed except for her and her family, who were used by a gunman as a human shield to ensure his safety before he surrendered.

She said that Palestinian fighters treated them and others “humanely,” after she fled the Nova Music Festival and after they succeeded in getting them out of the house and detained her with additional captives.

She said: "After an hour, the gunmen succeeded in opening the door of the shelter and took the four of us out. They took us to a house where there were 8 additional hostages. So we became 12 hostages with 40 gunmen who were guarding us."

“The Israeli army eliminated everyone, including the hostages,” she added. “There was a very intense exchange of fire” and even tank shelling.

The Israeli citizen denied the occupation’s story about the Al-Qassam Brigades’ torture of hostages in the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip during Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.”

She said that the hostages were in the crosshairs of the exchange of fire between the occupation forces and the Palestinian resistance, and added, "They were often trying to kill Hamas resisters, but they (the Israeli forces) killed everyone."

What is more dangerous is that Borat also revealed other details related to the incident, pointing to the firing of shells from a tank towards a small house, noting that everyone who was in the house was killed except for a girl named Hadas Dagan who survived.

Regarding who was responsible for the killing of the hostages, Yasmine answered in a way that indicated that the occupation forces may have been behind those events.

They were giving us water

Yasmine confirmed that Hamas members were providing water to the hostages and trying to calm them down when they felt tense, noting that the feeling was frightening, but she was not harmed despite the difficult circumstances.

Yasmin Porat's testimony shatters the occupation's false narrative about Hamas members, and this is not the only incident in which settlers' testimonies reveal details different from the official narrative. A settler had spoken about how Hamas members refused to harm her and her two children. She pointed out that one of the resistance fighters told her in English: “Don’t worry, we are Muslims, we will not harm you.”

Did the occupation deliberately kill its citizens during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in implementation of Hannibal’s directive?

There is growing evidence that in the chaotic fighting that occurred as soon as Hamas fighters entered Israel on October 7, the Israeli army decided to target not only Hamas fighters, but also the Israeli prisoners with them, and that it was not done by mistake, the news network reported "(TRNN) is an American news organization dedicated to investigative journalism"."https://therealnews.com/did-israels-military-kill-its-own-civilians-on-oct-7"

Tuval Eskaba, a member of the security team of Kibbutz Be'eri, told the Israeli press that he had set up a hotline for coordination between kibbutz residents and the Israeli army. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that his despair began to creep inside him. Field commanders made difficult decisions, including bombing homes and occupants in order to eliminate what they described as "terrorists and hostages." The newspaper reported that Israeli leaders "were forced to request an air strike against their facilities inside the Erez crossing (a military zone) into Gaza in order to strike the resistance fighters who took control of the area."

Israel reduced its death toll from about 1,400 to 1,200, including several hundred civilians, who Israel says were killed by Hamas activists. Other testimony from survivors of the October 7 incident suggests an alternative explanation: that Israeli leaders, obsessed with defeating Hamas, may have targeted Israeli soldiers and civilians and willingly sacrificed them in the crossfire, according to a TRNN report by Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Middle East bureau chief and former Balkans bureau chief for The New York Times, and in an interview with American journalist and blogger Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone website, who worked for several newspapers, including The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera English, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times.

Did Netanyahu intend to leave the leftist Israelis?

Max Blumenthal says: There is a prisoner who was in the hands of Hamas for a period. She appears to be from one of the kibbutzim where the largest number of prisoners were captured, which is located near Nir Oz.

It is a kibbutz that includes many people, most of them from the left of the Israeli political spectrum, who might criticize Netanyahu. So Netanyahu and his government may not be willing to deal with them positively. But one of these hostages, an elderly woman, appeared on camera from where she was being held inside Gaza and criticized Netanyahu, saying: You have no desire to reach us. What do you do? They reached a ceasefire, negotiated our release, and took us out of here. You've already killed 50 of us.

The Israeli army had previously implemented the Hannibal Rule and killed one of its soldiers

The report believes that the killing of Israeli citizens by the occupation during Operation Al-Aqsa Flood did not occur by mistake, but rather as a result of a rule or directive that the Israeli army followed, called the Hannibal Directive, and it was named after the Carthaginian general who poisoned himself instead of being arrested by the Romans.

Established in 1986 after the capture of Israeli soldiers, this directive aims to prevent Israeli forces from falling into enemy hands through the maximum use of force, even if this leads to the killing of captured soldiers and civilians.

The directive was implemented during the 2014 Israeli attack on Gaza, known as Operation Protective Edge. On August 1, 2014, Hamas fighters captured an Israeli soldier, Lieutenant Hadar Golden. In response, Israel dropped more than 2,000 bombs, missiles and shells on the area where he was being held. Golden was killed along with more than 100 Palestinian civilians. The directive was supposed to be canceled in 2016.

Max Blumenthal says: “Israel is now promoting new stories about children baked by Hamas in ovens. We have previously heard stories about children cut from their mothers’ wombs by so-called Hamas terrorists, about women being raped after they were taken, and gang rapes in the streets of Gaza City.”

The White House admitted that the beheading story was false after Biden repeated it.

All of these lies were repeated and put forward in order to give Israel the freedom to carry out the genocidal attack we are now witnessing in Gaza.

Hamas was aiming to obtain the largest possible number of prisoners to exchange them for its own

Max Blumenthal adds, “I am still trying to unravel these lies and began my investigation when testimonies began leaking to the Israeli media that contradicted the official Israeli story about October 7.”

The official story, told to Americans and Israelis, is that Hamas “terrorists” stormed into southern Israel and began shooting and killing people indiscriminately. Then they burned them alive, tied up entire families in their homes, and then somehow burned them all, burned the cars, burned the people in their cars as they were trying to escape, and carried out this massive mass shooting. It seems clear that many Israeli non-combatants were killed by Hamas gunmen, but that is where the official story ends.

He added, "What I was able to determine through these testimonies, in addition to the basic and visual analysis of the images presented by the Israeli Foreign Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Prime Minister's Office, is that Israel used disproportionate force against its citizens in order to eliminate Hamas."

“The Al-Aqsa flood is a politically motivated military attack by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and it was aimed at extracting political concessions from the State of Israel, which has been besieging the Gaza Strip for 15 years,” he said.

Max Blumenthal says: “It is important to understand that the main goal of the military attack launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad was to collect as many prisoners as possible, especially Israeli soldiers, in order to trigger the prisoner exchange that we witnessed when Gilad Shalit was released in 2011.” ". The Israeli soldier who was captured in 2006, in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners, including the current Hamas Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar. Therefore, this entire Al-Aqsa flood operation is understood against the background of the exchange of prisoners.

So militants were sent with detailed maps to population centers and military bases. It is clear that they received instructions at the military bases to attack and kill the Israeli soldiers who were imposing the siege on Gaza, and carried out the massacres that took place in the Strip during the past years.

Israeli helicopters arrived after most Hamas fighters had left

But when the Apache helicopters took off in the morning. The attack began around 6:00 a.m. at dawn, and by 10:30 a.m., according to Israeli media reports, all the well-trained Special Forces commandos and Hamas teams had already left.

By that point, two squadrons of Apache helicopters had been dispatched, and they were not even at full strength until 12:00 noon.

These planes bombed several sites that Hamas had controlled, including the Erez Crossing and Kibbutz Be'eri, which was the site that recorded the largest number of non-combatant casualties. I counted approximately 150 among the confirmed death toll published by Haaretz and most of them were not soldiers. These are people who were caught in the crossfire, Hamas militants tried to capture them, and there were confrontations in their homes. By the time Israeli commandos arrived, many of those confrontations had ended or were simply ended by bombing people's homes with tanks.

Kibbutz Be'eri was subjected to Israeli bombing, similar to what is happening in Gaza

“If you look at pictures of Kibbutz Be'eri they look like the houses that were bombed in Gaza, because they appear to have been bombed by Israeli tanks and artillery,” Blumenthal says. “Because there is no way that Hamas militants could have done that much structural damage to this entire kibbutz using small arms that “They were equipped with them, like Kalashnikovs and some RPGs.”

I24, a propaganda network sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, actually went to this kibbutz on a guided tour and said it saw traces of tanks everywhere. What happened there is clear and was clearly stated by the security coordinator of Kibbutz Be'eri, who revealed that he was on the hotline with the Israeli military command and they decided to bomb homes over their occupants, including Israeli civilians.

Based on the extent of the devastation on October 7, 2023, "we have to wonder whether Hannibal's directive was triggered that day," the TRNN report says.

The occupation bombed the Erez crossing, causing the death of its soldiers, and helicopters were asked to bomb indiscriminately.

The matter was not limited to the bombing of Israeli civilians, but also included soldiers, as the occupation bombed the Erez crossing after Hamas took control of it. Which led to the killing of many soldiers.

There is severe structural damage to the roof of the Erez crossing, which indicates that it has been subjected to aerial or artillery bombardment.

And in Kibbutz Be'eri where there was tank shelling, then we have Apache helicopter pilots in the air who stated in their testimonies in Hebrew to the Israeli media that they had no intelligence information. There is no way to distinguish between a civilian and a fighter on the ground.

However, they were told to completely unload their ammunition, return to base, fill their tanks again, reload, and then shoot as many cars and people on the ground as possible.

These testimonies were completely ignored by the Western media.

The report asks: “Were they encouraged to kill prisoners or shoot at cars they thought contained prisoners?” The report comments: “We do not know. But what happened appears to be similar to the same military doctrine used in Gaza: any civilian is a military target if he is a ‘neighbor of the resistance’.” Israel actually calls it "neighborhood policy." They do not know any other faith. They had no other means of targeting, and they were clearly not prepared for this military attack. So they went with their basic doctrine of bombing everything in front of them.

Has the influx of fighters not affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza increased the chaos of the scene?

“This leads to the third scenario,” the American network report says. “It seems clear that after many of the elite teams of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad left, many people from Gaza began to flow in, including lower-level figures from the armed factions who may have possessed weapons” But they were not part of the process or was not trained.

This is an element that has been overlooked in a lot of Western media. There are onlookers, people who wanted to see what Israel looks like, to see the land from which their families were expelled. The report claims that there were some gruesome killings, and you could see real prisoners being taken by men On motorcycles, they didn't even have weapons."

It was a spontaneous operation by an oppressed people against those who had oppressed them for seven decades.

A lot of this happened during the Nova Music Festival. There was a lot of shooting between festival security guards and various gunmen, and a lot of people were killed, but a lot of people were fleeing the festival in cars.

The melted cars indicate that the festival's losses were caused by Israeli bombing

There is a video clip of some Hamas gunmen stopping cars and shooting people.

But it seems that the greatest losses that occurred during the festival were not inflicted by the Palestinian resistance, but by Israel itself.

Pictures released by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs show completely melted cars, with charred bodies inside. Max Blumenthal says: “Those, to me, are telltale signs of Hellfire missile strikes from Apache helicopters, Apache crews, and squadrons. The Israelis then posted a video of themselves shooting Cars, hitting cars with Hellfire missiles, and shooting people walking on the ground with cannon fire.”

“We don't know who these people were, but if you look, a lot of the cars were heading back to Gaza,” Blumenthal says. “So it's very likely that they were cars of people from Gaza who might have been taking prisoners, and a lot of the captives or potential captives were killed.”

Among these is a famous woman named Shawnee Locke.

This woman, in whom the Israeli Foreign Ministry aroused great interest, was a festival-goer, attractive, and a German citizen. There are some videos taken of it. They say they found part of her skull.

The report asks: Was she in a car that was hit by a Hellfire missile fired from an Israeli plane? It's not clear. But it is very clear that many of these cars were hit by Apache helicopter missiles, and the helicopter pilots said they had no idea who was inside them. They were shooting at people on the other side of Gaza after entering, by the afternoon of October 7. It is very clear that many Israelis were killed by Israeli forces, along with many Israeli soldiers who were on duty.

The scene of the cars is reminiscent of the tank massacre carried out by the American Apaches on Iraqi tanks

Chris Hedges says:

“I went to Kuwait after the first Gulf War and drove on the Highway of Death, which was miles and miles of Iraqi military vehicles, all of which were being bombed by Apache helicopters. When I saw one of the pictures from Israel, I felt it was exactly like what I had seen in Kuwait.

Some of these photos were removed after they were published by the Israeli army.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a website called hamas-massacre.com. (Hamas massacre) and its ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, announced that these images will be available and include images of charred cars, melted bodies, and all kinds of other atrocities committed by Hamas. But all the pictures eventually disappeared, and Gilad Erdan said that there was a technical error that prevented the pictures from being published.

“My initial reading was that they concluded that a lot of these images were either fake, or perhaps showed Hamas fighters being hit by Hellfire missiles,” Chris Hedges says.

The latest lies: Hamas baked a child inside the oven!

Recently at a fundraising event for the Republican Jewish Coalition, Eli Ber, a nationalist religious Jew from New York who lives in Israel, said on stage that an Israeli child had been burned in an oven and baked by, in his words, Hamas “terrorists.”

In fact no child was seen in the oven.

But the origin of this lie goes back to a person named Eli Moskowitz, a member of the Israeli first responders to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

Eli Moskowitz has never seen a baby baked in the oven. But he said he found a small bag containing body parts that had apparently been compressed by a heating element.

Netanyahu displayed these body parts after Netanyahu felt embarrassed to retract the story of 40 headless children, and photos of them were sent to influential people by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The American site report asks: “What is the heating element that could generate all this heat to burn a part of the body, which was not even a child as Israel says?” It is likely that the American-made Hellfire missile used by Israel and the parts of the body that were blown up by Hellfire missile, possibly an Israeli citizen, but possibly someone from Gaza.

Here's how many Israeli children were killed in the operation

But the story suggested that it was the remains of an Israeli child. But if you look at the confirmed death toll, only one Israeli child was killed. It's terrible and tragic. It was a 10-month-old girl named Millie Cohen, who was accidentally shot by Hamas gunmen during an exchange of gunfire.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz's reports on the dead show that there is no other child.

There is no child burned in the oven, and Hamas did not kill children, but linking a child to an oven is something that aims only to demonize Hamas by recalling the memory of Holocaust ovens.

The American website comments: “What we are looking at is false and terrible propaganda being spun in order to justify the beheading of actual children with missiles in the Gaza Strip and the systematic extermination of a group of children and the entire community.”

Source: Arabic Post + The Real News Network (TRNN) is an American news organization dedicated to investigative journalism.

The war on Gaza had an explosive and sudden impact on the cohesion of the “democratic” coalition. For decades, the American political body has been divided mainly on social and cultural issues ranging from race and gender to guns and immigration—usually between “Republicans” on one side and “Democrats” on the other.
But foreign policy concerns have rarely been a part of the equation, and never more so than with the eruption of events between Israel and Palestine in recent weeks. But these controversial issues were largely limited to Washington and did not reach the political grassroots.
They remained partisan issues without expanding their scope. However, Hamas's deadly October 7 attack on Israelis and the brutal Israeli attack that has been ongoing for nearly a month and a half were different, as they profoundly affected both communities affected - American Jews and Arab Americans/Palestinians. Scenes and reports that documented what happened during the current and past months horrified the Jewish community and aroused in it painful past traumas and feelings of weakness. The devastating Israeli bombing of Gaza and the genocidal language used by Israeli leaders have left Palestinians and Arabs in a state of shock and anger. With thousands killed, half the housing in Gaza City destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fleeing to an uncertain future in the impoverished southern part of the Strip, Palestinians and Arab Americans saw the Nakba unfolding in real time.
Here too was weakness and shock. This drama had a partisan dimension among the Republicans, fueled by their extreme right-wing Christian base that stands with Israel. But while Democratic elected officials who have long respected the pro-Israel lobby have shown their support for Israel, the party's base has been divided. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations erupted across the country, culminating in a massive rally in Washington, an unprecedented outpouring of support for the Palestinians. It is worth noting that the mobilization demanding a ceasefire and supporting Palestinian rights was unusually diverse, as it included large groups of young Jewish Americans, Arabs, blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans.
What is unfolding in Gaza and here in the United States has resonated with the same constituencies that have long been seen as essential to “democratic” electoral victories. When political leader Jesse Jackson raised the issue of Palestinian rights during his presidential run in the 1980s, and when Bernie Sanders did the same in the past decade, they mobilized support. But support today is similar to the mass mobilization we saw in the Women's March, the anti-Trump Muslim ban, and the Movement for Black Lives.
However, those demonstrations were Democratic mobilizations and faced little opposition from the party leadership. These pro-Palestinian demonstrations have turned into an intra-party conflict, as pro-Israel groups seek to threaten, insult and punish those who criticize the Israeli attack on Gaza. The party was already divided on Palestinian rights before October 7, with Democrats having more positive attitudes toward Palestinians than toward Israelis.
As the horrors of the Israeli response to the massacre committed by Hamas against civilians became clear, opinion polls showed that a majority of Democrats opposed the Israeli response and wanted a ceasefire. Key groups such as youth and people of color remain supportive of the Palestinians. With pro-Israel groups taking repressive measures against students and others, and announcing they will spend millions to defeat members of Congress who speak out against Israel or support Palestinian rights, a real rupture in the “democratic” coalition is possible.
The congressional representatives being threatened are all young men of color, and the image of a pro-Israel group threatening to spend money (raised from a handful of billionaire donors - including some Republicans) will not appeal to other Democrats. For the party leadership to succeed in 2024 and beyond, it must intervene to quell this behavior. You can encourage discussion and rational discourse, but stop the threats before the division becomes too deep and it is too late to back down.

Today, Monday, Israeli forces arrested 50 Palestinians citizens, in West Bank including 13 workers from the Gaza Strip.

Egyptian and Western diplomatic sources in Cairo revealed details of the amendments to the “new diaspora plan for the residents of the Gaza Strip,” which the United States seeks to promote to countries in the Middle East, and to persuade them to participate actively in it, to ensure Arab cover for it, in order to disrupt the population bloc in the Strip, which has a population of about 2.3 million. 

An Egyptian source familiar with Cairo’s movements regarding the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, “The steadfastness of the resistance in the Gaza Strip contributed greatly to repeated amendments to Western and American plans related to dealing with the Gaza Strip and its future.”

He pointed out that "the initial perception that the occupation government presented to the American administration and some Western supporters before the start of the aggression included field estimates that were much lower than what appeared in the field of the strength of the resistance and the Hamas movement and their ability to confront, which caused widespread confusion in the American administration's plans."

Source: European and UN delegations are keen to go to North Sinai

The source added, "The occupation government presented a vision to the American administration at the beginning of the aggression that indicated the elimination of the bulk of the resistance capabilities within two weeks at the latest, during which a huge and unusual volume of fire would be used." He pointed out that this scenario "was aimed at obtaining American support regarding the pressures that would be generated by the volume of fire used."

The source revealed that “until now, European and international delegations are keen to go to Egypt’s North Sinai,” adding that “the plan to resettle or temporarily transfer a number of residents of the Strip to Sinai is still being pursued by some Western circles,” despite Egypt’s position rejecting the plan, “as a result of a reluctant position from influential agencies and institutions in the country.”

The source explained, "It has been noted that some European delegations present in North Sinai are currently collecting detailed information about the situation in the region, in terms of population, size of uninhabited areas, and the characteristics of the region in general."

He stated that "Egypt has intensified, in recent days, the presence of border guard forces along the border strip with the Gaza Strip," revealing that "the number of monitoring and stationing points on the strip, which is 14 kilometers long, has increased by about ten new points."

In this context, a Western diplomat in Cairo said, in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, that “there is progress in one of the visions proposed regarding the population of the Gaza Strip,” adding that “the American administration is working on a vision that will ultimately lead to absorbing one million and one hundred thousand residents of the Strip.” In a number of Arab countries, among their citizens and foreigners working there, and not in the form of camps or designating specific areas for them.”

The Western diplomat explained that "a number of countries in the region, and outside it, have expressed their willingness to discuss approval of the plan and determine the numbers that can be accommodated on their lands," explaining that "some countries can accommodate 250,000 Gazans in their country."

Displacing the people of Gaza is a strategic goal

For his part, the head of the political department of the Hamas movement in Gaza, Bassem Naim, in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, expressed his belief that “this matter is a strategic goal that was placed on the enemy’s table and the table of its supporters, even though the enthusiasm of Europeans and Westerners for it has declined.” ".

He explained that the reason was because they "collided with the legendary adherence of our people to their land and homeland, fierce resistance, and a cohesive Arab and Islamic position rejecting the idea of displacement and repeating the scene of the Nakba."

He added, "Everyone has become convinced that the matter is not related to the seventh of last October, nor to the Hamas movement, but rather to a political issue that began 75 years ago." He pointed out, "If this matter is not resolved within the framework of an integrated political vision, the problem will not be resolved, and displacing people or changing the features of the Gaza Strip, whether geographical or demographic, will not lead to security and stability."

Naeem: The occupation tried more than once to change its plans of action in Gaza

Naim pointed out that “the enemy tried more than once to rearrange its forces and change its plans of action, sometimes by ground attack, and sometimes by brutal, bloody bombing of population centers without any justification, whether for asylum schools, civilian residential neighborhoods, or others,” in addition to “depriving People receive services that help them stay in the cities, such as destroying hospitals, bombing water wells, destroying bakeries, and a brutal siege for more than 45 days that deprives people of water, medicine, fuel, and communications.”

He considered that all of this comes “within the framework of using the utmost resources in his hands to achieve this goal,” pointing out that “until this moment, he has failed to achieve it, and the evidence for that is the latest statistics that we heard, which indicate that more than 80 percent of the population is still In the northern Gaza Strip, in their areas, they refuse to leave despite all the bombing and destruction.”

A deliberate Israeli intention to displace the Palestinians

In turn, Mohamed Mahmoud Mahran, professor of public international law and expert on international conflicts, said in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that “the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip fall within attempts to implement plans for mass forced displacement against the Palestinians.” He said, "The massive destruction caused by the continuous Israeli bombing, the bombing of civilian facilities and hospitals, and the displacement of thousands of families as a result of terror and panic, confirm the presence of a deliberate Israeli intention to force the people of Gaza to leave their lands en masse."

Given the massive scale of devastation destruction caused by the bombing, and the displacement of thousands of families, Mahran asserted that “we are facing a new Israeli attempt to implement mass forced displacement plans against the people of Gaza, by terrorizing them, threatening their lives, and completely destroying their homes and property.”

He recalled "previous Israeli displacement plans from the Nakba of 1948 until today, whose goal was to expel the largest possible number of Palestinians from their homeland and empty Palestine of its indigenous population to facilitate control over it."

Mahran pointed out that "although Israel has not officially announced any displacement plans at the present time, its brutal actions and practices on the ground confirm the existence of a premeditated intention to push the Palestinians to leave Gaza en masse in any way, whether through killing and destruction or creating an atmosphere of extreme terror and panic." ".

He pointed out that these practices "flagrantly violate international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Article 49 of which categorically prohibits the displacement or forcible transfer of protected populations outside the occupied territories."

He believed that "Israel's scorched earth policy in Gaza, and the deliberate indiscriminate bombing of homes, hospitals and civilian infrastructure, amount to war crimes in accordance with Article 147 of the Convention and Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court."

Israeli control of what enters Gaza

On the other hand, another Egyptian source revealed that “the process of bringing aid from Egypt to the Gaza Strip is now taking place completely according to Israeli conditions.” He said, "A UN technical delegation resides in the city of Al-Arish (border) to supervise the receipt of aid, unload the aircraft, and review their cargo."

He explained the path of the aid being loaded “on trucks until it reaches the Kerem Shalom crossing (between Egypt, Gaza and Israel) or Al-Awja (between Egypt and Israel), so that another international team can receive it, review it again and inspect it thoroughly.”

The same source pointed out that these measures were “Israeli conditions for agreeing to pass a small amount of humanitarian aid.” He said, "This is the first time, during the confrontations of conflict and aggression by Israel against the Gaza Strip, that an international team is supervising the entry of aid from Egypt," explaining that in the past, "the Egyptian Red Crescent used to receive aid shipments, divide them, distribute them, and review them until they enter the Palestinian territory."

It is likely that the Israeli condition for the presence of a supervising UN team on the Egyptian side “may have come in light of indications from some official parties that Egypt is turning a blind eye to the weapons entering the Gaza Strip, as the Egyptian border with Gaza is the main route to it.”

Source: Alaraby Al-Jadeed

The Ministry of Education said that more than 5,000 children, including more than 3,000 students, have been killed since the start of the Israeli occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip, on the 7th of last October.

The Ministry of Education added in a press statement today, Monday, on the occasion of International Children’s Day, that the scenes of killing children and school students in the Gaza Strip exceeded all norms and conventions, as these horrific scenes, which are transmitted on television and the media, reveal the mentality of the occupation and its continued targeting of education in all governorates of the country. Pointing out that there are other scenes taking place in the governorates of the West Bank and Jerusalem, including Cold-blooded killings, raids on schools, and obstruction of the arrival of students and educational staff.

The Ministry of Education called on the countries and institutions of the world to protect the right of Palestinian children and school students to life and education, and to stand against the occupation and the oppressive practices of its army and colonialists through a series of continuous targeting of children, stressing the natural right of our children to a decent life and a safe and stable education.

The Ministry called on all organizations and institutions defending childhood and the right to education to assume their responsibilities within the context of their jurisdiction, curb the escalating violations, stop the crimes committed by the occupation against children, students, and educational personnel in all regions, and intervene urgently and immediately to stop this aggression.

A young Palestinian man was killed by Israeli army gunfire - at dawn on Monday - after Israeli forces stormed the Arroub camp, north of the city of Hebron, as part of numerous raids into towns and cities in the West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said, in a brief statement, that the Israeli army handed over to its crews in Hebron a martyr who had fallen in the Al-Arroub camp.

Eyewitnesses reported that an Israeli force chased a Palestinian vehicle near the Arroub camp and opened fire on it, wounding one of its passengers, while Israeli forces arrested another Palestinian who was on board.

Eyewitnesses said that the army detained the injured Palestinian for several hours before handing him over to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, only to announce his death later.

Storms and arrests

The occupation forces stormed several cities and towns in the West Bank - at dawn on Monday - most notably the city of Ramallah, Tulkarm, Jericho, the Al-Far'a camp near Tubas, and the towns of Bidya, Masha and Qarawa in Salfit Governorate, according to local Palestinian sources.

The Israeli army launched an arrest campaign that injured many Palestinians, including a university student from the city of Ramallah.

In Al-Faraa camp, confrontations broke out between the occupation forces and dozens of Palestinians, during which Israeli forces used live bullets against civilians, resulting in the injury of a Palestinian, according to the Red Crescent Society.

The Palestinian News Agency reported that the Israeli occupation forces also stormed the city of Jericho and the Aqabat Jabr camp, southwest of the city yesterday.

It quoted local sources as saying that the occupation forces stormed Jericho, raided the Katf al-Wad neighborhood, and surrounded one of the residential buildings in the neighborhood, with reports of storming a residential apartment inside it.

Local Palestinian sources also reported that the occupation forces also stormed the Aqabat Jabr camp, and confrontations broke out in the camp, with the Israeli occupation forces firing bullets randomly.

The West Bank has witnessed a wave of tension and confrontations between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupation army forces since last October 7, the intensity of which increased during the Israeli incursion into the cities and towns of the West Bank.

The number of killed in the West Bank has risen to more than 200, in addition to about 2,800 wounded since October 7, with escalating tensions and confrontations coinciding with the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.

The intense Israeli war on Gaza resulted in the death of more than 13,000 Palestinians - most of them women and children - as well as the injury of more than 30,000 others.

Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia + websites

The United Nations Population Fund said that about 70% of the victims in the Gaza Strip are women and children.

The United Nations Population Fund for the Arab States wrote, in a blog post on its account on the “X” platform, that “Palestinian women and children deserve life.

It added, "Palestinian women and children are not military targets. Stop shooting now."

15 citizens, including children and women, were killed today, Monday, during the bombing by Israeli  warplanes on two homes in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources reported that Israeli aircraft bombed two homes belonging to the Dhahir and Abu Shalouf families in Rafah, on the heads of those in them, near Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, which led to the death of 15 residents, most of them children and women, and the injury of dozens, in addition to the presence of dozens under the rubble.

Israel is preparing to face internal pressure to stop the escalation against the Gaza Strip, represented by demonstrations demanding an end to the war.

According to what was published by the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, Kan, on Saturday, in its account on the “X” platform, the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality “succeeded in reaching a settlement in the Supreme Court, and obtaining police approval to organize the first anti-war demonstration.”

A day before that, the same body announced on “X” that, “For economic reasons, the security authorities are studying the possibility of reducing the number of reserve forces and demobilizing some of them to their homes, so that they can return to their places of work.”

Israel summoned more than 300,000 soldiers from the reserve force to participate in the war, which began after the Hamas attack on Israeli settlements near the Gaza Strip on October 7.

According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, Israel pays more than $1.3 billion in salaries to these soldiers, in addition to half a billion bonuses, which places a burden on the country’s economy, which began borrowing as a result of the war.

Israeli reserve system

In 1984, the reserve service system was established in Israel, according to which every Israeli, after being released from compulsory service, is obligated to join the reserve forces unless he obtains an exemption.

The reserve system aims to strengthen the army in times of emergency at sea, land and air, and consists of 456 thousand soldiers, that is, double the Israeli soldiers who are in compulsory service.

These units participate in carrying out various security and military operations, and have combat capabilities acquired during service or during annual mandatory training.

Fears that Israel will launch a ground attack on the southern Gaza Strip

Economist Youssef Al-Tabei attributes the rapid impact of the Israeli economy on the call-up of the reserve forces, because this economy is “a machine driven by gears, and if one person goes out of work, it stops completely,” and that “the workforce in Israel is 80 percent of the reserve forces.”

Regarding the impact of the Israeli economy since the start of the battles, Al-Tabei explains to Sky News Arabia:

There are basic sectors that were so severely damaged that Israel tried to bring in workers from abroad, but found that it would pay large salaries.

The agricultural, industrial, oil and tourism sectors, even civil airports and administrative institutions, are now operating at half their strength.

The economy's weekly losses amount to $600 million, and the war in Gaza is apparently continuing and prolonged due to the failure of the Israeli army to achieve its goal so far of eliminating Hamas and returning the hostages.

Otherwise, Israel pays 5 billion shekels (about 1.25 billion dollars) per month in salaries to the reserve forces, and this is another burden on it.

Thinking about reducing the number of reserve soldiers is very logical for Israel, but it will lead to another security and military failure, especially if other fronts flare up, especially with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Likewise, military expert Jamal Al-Rifai expects the Israeli war to continue for months.

Regarding its impact on Israel’s economy regarding armament costs, Al-Rifai adds to Sky News Arabia:

Every week in this war, the Israeli army consumes equipment, weapons and ammunition worth more than a billion dollars.

The price of the least armored vehicle operating in the Israeli army exceeds half a million dollars, and there are tanks whose price exceeds 5 million.

The cost of the missiles that are bombing Gaza exceeds $250,000 each, and the cost of flying each time is about $50,000.

Even the Iron Dome missiles, the price of each missile exceeds 50 thousand dollars (they are intended to repel the missiles that the Palestinian factions continuously fire at Israel).

The economic cost to Israel is high, and Israel will be exposed to an economic disaster if the war extends for months or expands in scope.

Source: Sky news Arabi

The newspaper's sources reported that the Biden administration is concerned about the potential domestic repercussions of full support for Israel, adding that Washington has expressed its frustration to the Israeli government regarding the number of civilian deaths in Gaza.

The relationship between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is witnessing a state of tension, due to their disagreement over the course of the war on Gaza, which has so far resulted in the death of more than 13,000 Palestinians, most of whom are women and children.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “Biden and Netanyahu’s talks have become more tense as Netanyahu continues to reject longer truce periods in Gaza.”

The newspaper quoted American officials as saying that they were concerned about the number of Palestinian casualties and Israel's final plans for Gaza.

According to US officials, the Biden administration is struggling to persuade Netanyahu to prevent escalation as the images coming from Gaza grow in momentum.

The newspaper's sources reported that the Biden administration is concerned about the potential domestic repercussions of full support for Israel, adding that Washington expressed its frustration to the Israeli government regarding the number of civilian deaths in Gaza.

In the context of the aggression against the Palestinian people, the US President directed his senior aides to prepare sanctions against settlers who use Palestinian violence in the occupied West Bank.

Biden directed the preparation of a ban on issuing visas and imposing sanctions on extremist settlers who attack and displace Palestinians in the West Bank, according to an internal document whose contents were reported to the American newspaper Politico.

The government memo calls on senior aides such as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to "develop policy options to take swift action against those responsible for violent behavior in the West Bank."

Through this memorandum, the Biden administration aims to show that it supports Palestinian civilians, while strongly defending the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip that has continued since last October 7.

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"China is a good friend and brother of Arab and Islamic countries," Wang said. He added, "We have always firmly defended the legitimate rights and interests of Arab and Islamic countries, and we have always strongly supported the efforts of the Palestinian people to restore their rights and legitimate national interests."

On Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced before a delegation including foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority and four Arab and Muslim countries that the international community must take urgent measures to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” unfolding in Gaza.

"Let us work together to quickly calm the situation in Gaza and restore peace in the Middle East as soon as possible," Wang said in his opening speech in Beijing.

Wang added to the diplomats that "there is a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza," noting that "the situation in Gaza affects all countries around the world and reconsiders the principle of good and evil and the basic principles of humanity."

He stressed that "the international community must act urgently and take effective measures to prevent the spread of this tragedy."

"China is a good friend and brother of the Arab and Islamic countries," Wang said. He added, "We have always firmly defended the legitimate rights and interests of Arab and Islamic countries, and we have always strongly supported the efforts of the Palestinian people to restore their rights and legitimate national interests."

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that ministers from Arab and Islamic countries will visit China on Monday and Tuesday. The ministry added that China will discuss with the foreign ministers of those countries ways to promote the need to calm the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, protect civilians, and reach a just settlement of the Palestinian issue.

The delegation includes the Palestinian Foreign Minister and his counterparts in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Indonesia, in addition to the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning explained in a statement, “During the visit, China will conduct in-depth communication and discussion with the joint delegation of foreign ministers of Arab and Muslim countries regarding pushing for reducing the escalation in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, protecting civilians, and resolving the Palestinian issue justly.”

The number of dead in Gaza rose to more than 13,000 Palestinians, including more than 5,500 children, while the Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevy, following an assessment of the situation he conducted yesterday, Saturday, approved plans to continue the ground incursion into Gaza.

The war and the continuous Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip and populated areas and displaced persons resulted in the death of more than 13,000 people, including more than 5,500 children and 3,500 women, while the death toll exceeded more than 30,000 injured, most of whom were children and women, in addition to more than 6,000 missing persons. According to official data issued by the Government Information Office in Gaza and the Ministry of Health.

On Sunday evening, the Israeli army announced the killing of an officer and a soldier - both from the Givati Brigade - in clashes in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the number of Israeli soldiers and officers killed to 65 since the start of the ground incursion on October 27, after it was announced during the day. 5 others were killed, while 383 soldiers and officers were killed since the start of the war on Gaza and the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle.

Following an assessment of the situation he conducted on Saturday, Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy approved plans to continue the ground incursion into Gaza. The Walla website, citing unnamed military officials, reported that Halevy had approved operational plans to advance by land in the southern Gaza Strip. The report indicated that this is awaited approval by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli aircraft continue their raids on the Gaza Strip for the 44th day, at a time when the occupation army artillery intensified its bombardment of various areas in the Strip, while the Ministry of Health announced the death and injury of dozens in the raids and bombing that targeted populated areas and residential areas on Sunday.

Israeli fighters and artillery targeted several sites in the Gaza Strip, while continuing to target places where civilians gather, including health centers and schools affiliated with UNRWA, while Israeli threats to target the south of the Strip escalate, in conjunction with the interruption of communications, and the lack of extensive information about the targeting locations and numbers. Martyrs and injuries.

This comes as the Washington Post reported that there is information about the existence of a US-brokered agreement between Israel and Hamas that would allow for the release of dozens of women and children held hostage in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a five-day cessation of fighting. The newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying that all parties will stop combat operations for at least five days while some hostages will be released in batches, provided that there will be aerial monitoring to stop the fighting.

The Director General of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Dr. Azmi Bishara, ruled out the realization of any scenario of displacing Palestinians from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank as long as there is a serious rejectionist position from Egypt and Jordan. 

While Bishara considered, during his fourth interview with Al-Arabi TV from the city of Lusail in the State of Qatar, that the resistance had only involved ten percent of its capabilities so far in the fighting, he saw, on the other hand, that the national security of every Arab country requires regimes to take action as it is the correct position today towards Israel and alongside the Palestinians. He expressed his belief that Egypt is not exploiting its influence to break the siege of Gaza, and on another level, he revealed new details related to prisoner exchange negotiations between the resistance and the occupation.

Azmi Bishara: If this lack of Arab position continues, after the end of the war, Israel will feel that it is not obligated to provide anything to the Arabs

Resistance performance

Arab thinker Azmi Bishara said that a small part, perhaps not more than ten percent, of the capabilities of the Palestinian resistance has been involved in the fighting so far, expecting that the ferocity of this resistance will increase when the occupation dares to go down to where it is, that is, “underground” in the tunnels. He believed that Israel's emptying of areas and facilities of their population would backfire, because that would increase the ferocity of the resistance's actions, because "after Israel finishes the easy task, i.e. killing civilians, they begin to face fierce resistance," as happened recently in Al-Rantisi Hospital and major places in northern Gaza that were emptied of its population and resistance activities are currently concentrated there. 

Bishara reiterated his conviction that the Israeli ability to bear losses is not unlimited, but they are able to bear more yet as long as the internal consensus on war still exists and as long as American support is still available. He compared their ability to bear losses between the Gaza Strip and the 2006 Lebanon War. In this country, the ability to bear losses is “limited because there is no Israeli consensus on occupying Lebanon, unlike the case of Gaza.” The resistance’s media performance received a large portion of Bishara’s remarks, who stressed that “people today are more inclined to believe the resistance’s narrative, so they must narrate it in more detail.”

Among what must be dissected, according to the director of the Arab Center, is what happened in detail on the seventh of last October, in reference to the military operation in the settlements. Bishara added, “Given the magnitude of what happened from that day until now, returning to the events of October 7 may seem detailed and perhaps inappropriate, but Israel itself publishing some of what happened on that day provides an appropriate timing for the resistance to present its account” of those events, referring to Until the Hebrew media revealed the number of Israelis who were mistakenly killed by occupation soldiers and were counted among those killed by Palestinians on that “Black Saturday,” according to the Israeli narrative. 

In a context related to the same idea, Bishara explained that some international media organizations are currently trying to save face, such as the BBC and CNN, to correct their promotion of Israeli lies, stressing that “this is a media battle that must be fought relentlessly for the truth.” and expose the lies.

Azmi Bishara: The Palestinian resistance has involved 10% of its capabilities in fighting so far

In response to a question about the Hebrew state not learning from the lessons of history to realize the futility of pressuring the popular environment to abandon resistance, Bishara pointed out that settler colonialism produces concepts similar to the logic of the rulers of Israel that the Palestinians are “human animals,” and this logic “prevents them from thinking rationally.” To realize that the political solution is the only solution with the Palestinians, the true owners of the land.” He pointed out that if they conclude peace with Israel, they will be the ones who made the concession, not Israel. In this context, he concluded, "This Palestinian resistance, which they want to eliminate and do not dare to go underground, would be crazy if they later refused to engage in political dialogue with it."

Azmi Bishara: The Israeli leadership has abandoned those with dual nationalities, and Hamas releases them on its own initiative

Prisoner deal

Bishara stopped at some of the details of the prisoner exchange negotiations between the resistance and the occupation, with Qatari mediation. He first ruled out the existence of the many disagreements that are sometimes reported between Israeli officials in everything related to the war, because the generals draw up the war plan and they go through it and agree on it, which applies to the negotiations. "Prisoners' Deal" They also all agree that the best way to liberate Israeli prisoners and hostages is additional military pressure on Hamas, which he described as "primitive tribal retaliatory destruction" of Palestinian society in order for this to put pressure on Hamas, and this is one of the definitions of terrorism. On this issue, he revealed that the generals still reject the number of days of ceasefire demanded by Hamas, and they still do not believe that Hamas knows where only fifty Israeli civilians are being held in the Gaza Strip. He expressed his hope and expectation that this deal would end “today or tomorrow.” Bishara also revealed that the Israelis abandoned those with dual nationalities and explained that “Hamas” releases these people “on its own initiative.” 

Much evidence led the Arab thinker to reaffirm that the Israeli prisoners “are not a priority for the Netanyahu government,” including that “Hamas” has repeatedly warned them that some of these prisoners will die. Bishara reminded that the failure of Israeli prisoners to give priority to Tel Aviv governments “is not a new matter, and history provides us with many examples of this.” He concluded his response to a question related to the exchange deal negotiations by saying that what is currently being proposed is that “Hamas” is aware of the whereabouts of fifty prisoners and hostages in Gaza, and is offering a ceasefire for a sufficient number of days to gather them in one place and secure their transfer to hand them over to the Israeli authorities in exchange for the release of captive Palestinian children and women. In exchange for the entry of sufficient aid, which exceeds 150 fuel and gas trucks, sufficient to operate vital sectors, “the decision is in the Israeli court to reject or approve it.”

Azmi Bishara: Egypt does not exploit its influence to break the siege of Gaza

Displacement is unlikely

Regarding what is said about the displacement plans, starting from the people of Gaza and ending with the West Bank, Bishara described this possibility as “difficult” because it “will not happen without the region allowing it, mainly Egypt and later Jordan,” even if he does not diminish the danger of what he is thinking about. Some Israelis are obsessed with reducing the population of Gaza. But it is likely that the real goal behind the extreme Israeli crime is to restore the prestige of deterrence that they lost on October 7 and to eliminate Hamas, not displacement. Israeli society, in Bishara’s words, “acts during crises like a tribe that unites in a primitive form of revenge in order to teach the other party a lesson.” . Regarding what is happening in the West Bank with the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes, Bishara explained that the settlers there are trying to exploit what is happening in Gaza to blackmail residents who covet their agricultural lands and to displace them, “and this has drawn the world’s attention.” But he asserted that "the displacement of the people of the West Bank to Jordan is a difficult issue, and the Arabs, Egypt and Jordan, can thwart the displacement plans."

Azmi Bishara: The displacement of the people of Gaza and the West Bank will not happen without Egypt and Jordan allowing it

Egypt and breaking the siege

Moving on to his assessment of the Egyptian behavior towards the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, Bishara summarized the situation by saying: “As long as a large country like Egypt waits for permission from the other party to bring in or take out wounded and aid, it is not exploiting all of its influence as the largest Arab country is expected to "Do more than today." In this context, he recalled that “no one in Gaza wants any problem with Egypt, their only Arab neighbor.” Among Egypt’s strengths, in Bishara’s opinion, is that “both Israel and America need it and will not open a war against it” if it decides to bring in the trucks by its own sovereign decision, without forgetting that Egypt is supported by a pledge from 58 countries (Arab and Muslim), in reference to the decisions of the 11 summit of  joint Arab-Islamic conference in Riyadh. This is on the humanitarian side, but politically, Bishara repeated what he had previously said in his previous interviews with Al-Arabi TV, that “what is happening in the Gaza Strip requires an Arab position that includes steps that Israel takes seriously, such as severing relations and other strategic matters.”

In exchange for what is required in the Arab world, Bishara stopped at the fact that some Arab countries prevent the raising of the Palestinian flag, which does not even happen in Israel, and prevent any demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinians. While he reviewed the justification of some Arab countries regarding taking a negative position towards the Palestinian issue, that it is related to relations with America and the unwillingness to quarrel with the Western position, Bishara warned that “what the Arab rulers must understand is that their interest and the interest of the national security of their countries require them to take position against Israel.” 

Azmi Bishara: People today are more inclined to believe the narrative of the resistance, so they must tell it in more detail

America and the renewed Palestinian Authority

In his fourth interview with Al-Arabi TV since the start of the aggression on Gaza, Bishara insisted that there is no serious dispute between America and Israel so far. He acknowledged the existence of what he called “detailed differences,” such as the extent to which Israel could reach in its war, but he described all of this as “requests and wishes without condemnation or position,” as evidenced by what was stated in an article by US President Joe Biden in the Washington Post newspaper a few days ago. He described the American talk about “renewing the Palestinian leadership” to rule Gaza one day as falling within the framework of “promising something new,” as if the problem in Palestine lay in changing the leadership in the West Bank and not the occupation, aggression, and settlement. Bishara mocked the fact that Biden and Israel see that President Mahmoud Abbas is extremist on some positions (the borders of June 4 and Jerusalem) and want him to make more concessions. He warned that Biden is talking about the two-state solution “in the context of personal opinion” and not as a binding American policy, so “all the chatter today about the two-state solution is selling cheap talk because the topic today is nothing other than stopping the war on Gaza,” in the words of Arab thinker Azmi Bishara. 

He noted that “even this non-binding statement is not approved by Israel because it would prefer to have a militia ruling the Gaza Strip instead of having a single authority ruling the West Bank and Gaza.” Bishara pointed out, "If this Arab lack of position regarding what is happening continues, after the end of the war, Israel will feel that it is not obligated to provide anything at all to the Arabs." 

In Bishara’s opinion, the behavior of the Palestinian Authority makes it appear as if it is its own enemy, even though it knows the extent of the Israeli conspiracy against it and that its turn is coming. In this context, Bishara asked: “Is it reasonable that the first contact the authority makes with the Hamas movement takes place 40 days after the start of the aggression?” Bishara listed examples of what he called the poor positions of the authority, including the fact that its representatives and institutions have not yet gone to the Rafah crossing as part of pressure to open it.

Azmi Bishara: Biden talks about the two-state solution within the framework of personal opinion and not as a serious policy

Hospital syndrome

On the 44th day of the aggression, Bishara concluded that the occupation had what could be called the “hospital syndrome” in bombing them and killing patients until they were evacuated, and this is unprecedented in the brutality of targeting hospitals. He repeated his reminder of the severity of the Israeli lies that were exposed regarding tunnels and military equipment in hospitals, but added that “even if there were fighters in the hospitals, which has not been proven true, it is forbidden to bomb hospitals.” He concluded by saying that the scandal of targeting health facilities is “a scandal committed by the international community, not just Israel.” 

In conclusion, Bishara remained adamant that “as long as there is an American green light and an Israeli consensus on war and the absence of any serious Arab steps, we must expect the worst.”

Source: Al Araby Aljadeed

On Sunday evening, Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Qaffin, north of Tulkarm.

According to local sources, Israeli forces stormed the town and roamed its streets and neighborhoods, and confrontations broke out in the area during which heavy bullets and poison gas bombs were fired, but no injuries were reported.

French President Emmanuel Macron informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “the number of civilian casualties is very large” in the Gaza Strip, reminding him of “the absolute necessity of distinguishing between militants and the population,” the Elysee Palace announced on Sunday.

Macron also spoke to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, assuring him that he “condemns acts of violence against Palestinian civilians” in the occupied West Bank, according to the French presidency.

It is noteworthy that the office of French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that France will send more medical supplies and a second medical ship to the Gaza Strip.

The office added, in a statement, that France will send a plane carrying more than 10 tons of medical supplies this week, and will also contribute to sending medical aid from the European Union on November 23 and 30.

France is currently preparing a second ship to work as a hospital, which is the Dixmude helicopter carrier, which will arrive in Egypt within the coming days.

France has already sent its first French helicopter carriers to the region, with about 60 beds and two operating areas.

The League of Arab States affirmed the right of the Palestinian child to a free and dignified life on his land, and to live a safe and reassured life away from all causes of fear, asylum and displacement, and away from all forms of violence.

It called on the international community to assume its full responsibilities towards protecting Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, and to sound the alarm to protect them by obligating the Israeli occupation forces to adopt decisions and laws that guarantee the protection of children.

An American public opinion poll showed that the popularity of US President Joe Biden declined in light of his administration's handling of the Israeli war on Gaza, in a remarkable change in the pattern of American voters' voting, as it was not common for the American political scene to be affected by foreign policy.

An American public opinion poll showed, on Sunday, that the popularity of Democratic President Joe Biden has fallen to its lowest level since he assumed the presidency, in light of the objection of large segments of voters to his foreign policy, especially with regard to his handling of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

The poll conducted by the American network NBC News showed that the former US president and the Republican candidate with the greatest chance of competing for the position of president in the upcoming elections, Donald Trump, was ahead of Biden, with the former receiving 46% support compared to 44% for Biden.

What is striking about the poll is that it shows an “unprecedented” impact of American foreign affairs and policy on the American political scene, due to the way Americans view the Biden administration’s path to the conflict in the Middle East and the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, especially among young Democrats.

The erosion of Biden's popularity is highlighted among Democrats, most of whom believe that Israel "went too far" in its military operations in Gaza, especially among voters between the ages of 18 and 34, as 70% of them rejected the Biden administration's handling of the war in Gaza.

According to the poll, 40% of registered voters are satisfied with Biden's job performance, while 57% disapprove, marking the lowest level of satisfaction with Biden's performance ever (and highest level of disapproval ever) in the poll since he became president; 62% of Americans said they disapprove Biden's handling of foreign policy (30% of Democrats).

However, what stands out in the new poll is the shift among voters between the ages of 18 and 34. In September, 46% of this segment said they supported Biden's job performance, and Biden's support among this segment dropped to 31% in the current poll.

Only 34% of the total voters support Biden’s handling of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, compared to 56% who say they do not support the Biden administration’s handling of the war. In a partisan breakdown, the poll showed that only 51% of Democrats approve Biden’s handling of the war, compared to the majority of independents (59%) and Republicans (69%) who say they do not agree with that.

The poll found that a majority of American voters (47%) believe that Israel is defending its interests in the war, and that its military operations in Gaza are justified. In contrast, 30% believe that Israeli military operations have gone beyond the limit and are unjustified. Another 21% say they do not know enough to express their opinion on this issue.

Among Democratic voters, 51% believe that Israel has gone too far in its war on Gaza, compared to 27% who say that Israeli military actions are justified. While a majority of voters (55%) support US military aid to Israel, nearly half of Democrats (49%) say they oppose such aid.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said on Sunday that “the killing of such a large number of people in schools in the Gaza Strip contravenes measures to protect civilians under international law.”

This came in press statements published on the United Nations website.

Turk added, "The horrific events of the past 48 hours in Gaza are unbelievable."

He explained that "the killing of this large number of people in schools, which were turned into shelters in Gaza, contradicts measures to protect civilians, in accordance with international law."

The UN Human Rights Commissioner noted that the pain, terror and fear etched on the faces of children, women and men in Gaza are “too great to bear.”

Turk urged the international community to "defuse the powder keg in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories."

He stressed that "Israeli military operations are still continuing inside and around Al-Shifa Hospital, and United Nations colleagues visited the site on Saturday, and saw with their own eyes what they described as a death zone."

At dawn on Wednesday, the Israeli army stormed the Al-Shifa complex after besieging it for days, which included civilians displaced from their homes as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing in the area.

He concluded his speech by saying, "Humanity must come first, and there is an urgent need for a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons, and for reasons related to human rights. Now."

The head of the burns department at Al-Shifa Complex in Gaza, Dr. Ahmed Mufid Al-Makhalati, said that the situation is tragic and getting worse in the complex, pointing out that the Israeli army is using patients as human shields.

Al-Makhalati added: We are 15 members of the medical team and we have 260 patients still in the hospital.

He pointed out that two patients were lost in intensive care, and the complex is no longer fit to provide care.

Al-Makhalati continued: We cannot reach the laboratories, and for 8 days neither food nor water has entered, and the radiology department has been destroyed.

He explained that the occupation is delaying emptying the hospital and deliberately buying time.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said that Israel has turned its horrific war on the Gaza Strip, which has been ongoing for 44 days, into killing Palestinian journalists by systematically targeting them and their workplaces, in an effort to impose a real and comprehensive media blackout on the entire Strip.

The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory documented the killing of 59 journalists as of today, Sunday, November 19, in addition to the injury of dozens, representing the largest bloody toll of journalist casualties during wars and conflicts in modern history.

The Observatory drew attention to the fact that the journalist victims are from almost all media groups working in the Gaza Strip, as they include a correspondent for the official Palestine TV, employees of the official Palestinian News Agency, and others working for local media outlets, international or civil institutions, or those who are active independently.

The escalation in targeting journalists was accompanied by public incitement against them by Israeli ministers and officials through the publication of reports that attempted to cast doubt on the integrity of some of them, by claiming that they had advance knowledge of the attack launched by Palestinian fighters on southern Israel on October 7, in unproven accusations that lack any logical evidence. .

The former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and representative of the ruling Likud Party, Danny Danon, had publicly called for the killing of all participants in the October 7 attack, adding photojournalists to the list.

Euro-Med highlighted that Israel deliberately did not leave any safe place for journalists in the Gaza Strip, and targeted them while they were working while wearing their own jackets in the field, and in press tents set up near hospitals to facilitate media coverage, or even if they were with their families in their homes that were destroyed above their heads.

In parallel, Israeli air and artillery attacks targeted at least 117 press headquarters, which were completely or partially destroyed, while the broadcasting system of the vast majority of the 24 radio stations in the Gaza Strip was disrupted as a result of Israel’s raids or because it prevented the entry of fuel into the Strip.

In addition, Israel intended to restrict satellite channels operating in the Palestinian territories due to their press coverage, such as stopping the work of the Al-Mayadeen Media Network in Palestine, and threatening the Al-Jazeera Network with the same fate.

Euro-Med said that it received identical testimonies from journalists expressing their fear that the media equipment they received from international bodies through Israel may include spying and location identification devices, which may have contributed to their targeting operations during the war.

Euro-Med confirmed that targeting journalists falls within war crimes and violates international law, as well as UN Security Council Resolutions 2222/2015 and 1738/2006, which condemn international attacks on journalists and media workers in situations of armed conflict.

Also, Article 79 of Additional Appendix (Protocol) I to the 1977 Geneva Conventions stressed the necessity of giving special protection to journalists who carry out their work in areas of armed conflict.

Euro-Med called for the opening of an independent international investigation into Israel’s crimes against journalists, especially given its track record of targeting them, whether in the West Bank or during repeated military operations on the Gaza Strip, and to end the reality of impunity that has led over the years to an increase in the frequency of targeting journalists.

Euro-Med reiterated its strong condemnation of the Israeli targeting and indiscriminate killing of journalists in conflict areas to prevent them from only doing their work and reporting news from their locations, calling for quick international measures to lead to holding those involved accountable, and putting an end to the systematic Israeli targeting of journalistic work in the Palestinian territories.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sunday that he was “deeply shocked” by the death and injury of dozens, including women and children, as a result of the bombing of two UN schools in less than 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.

He added that the victims “were searching for safety in the United Nations buildings.”

He added in a statement, “Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are seeking shelter in United Nations facilities throughout Gaza due to the intensification of fighting. “I reiterate that the sanctity of United Nations buildings must not be violated.”

He added that the war between Israel and the militants of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which runs in the Gaza Strip, had caused a “shocking and unacceptable number of civilian casualties,” calling again for an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian reasons.

The World Food Program revealed on Sunday that “a small number of trucks are delivering food supplies to families in the Gaza Strip, whose members have been without food for several days.”

The United Nations program wrote, in a blog post on its account on the “X” platform: “Due to the scarcity of available fuel, a small number of trucks can deliver vital food supplies to families in Gaza, whose members have been without food for several days.”

He added: "Our teams are on the ground and supervising the movement of food trucks, but the matter becomes more difficult with today's bad weather and the intensification of the winter cold."

Today, the 44th, the Israeli army is waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving 12,300 Palestinians dead, including 5,000 children and 3,300 women, in addition to more than 30,000 injured, 75 percent of whom are children and women, amid calls to open an international investigation into the Israeli attacks, and stop Immediate firing for humanitarian reasons.

The spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, said on Sunday that targeting the agency’s headquarters “was not a mistake as we thought.”

He stressed that what is happening on the ground indicates the opposite of what "Israel" states, that targeting the agency's headquarters was a mistake, expressing that this is not acceptable.

The number of displaced people in UNRWA facilities has reached 914,000, and the agency is barely able to meet 30% of the needs.

He added that UNRWA is keen to provide services, documents everything, and transfers all information to the level that deals with international law, and the priority now is to preserve the lives of civilians.

He pointed out that the number of displaced people in UNRWA facilities reached 914 thousand, and that there are 21 schools in Jabalia camp, and moving in the sector and communicating with the crews is very difficult.

He called for the necessity of a ceasefire, and the opening of a humanitarian corridor and a truce to see the true extent of the damage, and demanded that the occupation adhere to international humanitarian law, "and spare civilians the scourge of war."

He pointed out that UNRWA barely meets 30% of needs, and "the quantities of fuel that entered the Strip are a drop in the ocean."

The war council of the occupation government unanimously approved a joint recommendation to the occupation army and the Shin Bet, to comply with the United States’ request and allow the entry of two diesel tankers daily, to meet the needs of the United Nations to support the water and sanitation infrastructure.

UNRWA is sheltering approximately 780,000 people in more than 150 overcrowded facilities even as basic services have collapsed. The agency said that 102 UNRWA relief workers were killed and 27 were injured in the occupation's aggression against Gaza.

A depression accompanied by a cold air mass hit the Gaza Strip, which in turn caused rain to fall and exacerbated the suffering of hundreds of thousands of residents of the Strip, who were forced to leave their homes and move to tents and schools run by UNRWA, in light of the ongoing Israeli blockade that prevents the entry of basic materials into the Strip.

Partly cloudy weather, cool tending to very cold, accompanied by thunderstorms and strong winds prevails in the north of the country and the rest of the Palestinian territories, according to the Director General of the Palestinian Meteorological Department, Yousef Abu Asaad.

The suffering of the residents of the Gaza Strip displaced towards the south has become more difficult as a result of their direct exposure to frosty weather without the availability of heavy clothing to protect them from the cold.

Hisham Muhanna, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, appealed to international organizations and countries to provide heavy winter clothes for children and adults alike, especially since the displaced people left their homes more than 40 days ago before the harsh winter season began.

Muhanna stressed that winter clothing is not the only thing that residents of the southern Gaza Strip lack, noting that they also suffer from:

A shortage of winter blankets, and the difficulty of providing them in light of the current conditions that the Gaza Strip is suffering from, especially since there is no place to buy these clothes, no new goods entering Gaza, and no shops opening their doors.

The potentially catastrophic effects of rain on refugee camps and shelter centers are catastrophic, and there are fears that they will be flooded with water, which will make them an unfit place to stay in, which in turn worsens the conditions of the displaced.

Muhanna warned of the possibility of torrential rains and floods in low-lying areas and valleys, as well as high wind speeds, which will worsen the conditions of the displaced.