The Israeli media, for the most part, have a large role in increasing the uncertainty and obscurity more than contributing to revelation, exposure, and clarification, and some of them have gone beyond that to justifying the excessive force that the Israeli killing and aggression machine has used and continues to use, not to mention justifying the war itself.

The current Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which is approaching the end of its first month, has highlighted what is described as “new Israeli heroes” and has coined terms that are being circulated for the first time. It seems that all of this will remain part of the general scene and prevailing discourse in subsequent times, which makes this a project that is constantly open to more questions related to what Israel has become, as a society and its leadership.

At the forefront of these “heroes” is security affairs researcher Eliyahu (Behrouz) Yossian, a Jew of Iranian origin, from the staff of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, affiliated with the New Israeli Right, and a specialist in Iranian affairs. His heroism, according to what one of Haaretz's regular columnists, Rogel Alpher, acknowledges, is his repeated call to kill the Gazan population completely. The refrain that Yossian repeats in all Israeli television studios is the following: If Israel wants to survive, it must brutally invade Gaza for the purpose of revenge, with zero morals, and in order to accumulate as many dead bodies as possible. When he repeats this, no one objects or even has reservations about what he says, which leads to the legitimization of the call to kill all the residents of Gaza.

On the official level, the Minister of Agriculture and member of the Israeli Cabinet, Avi Dichter, a former head of the General Security Agency (Shin Bet), said on the third day of the war, during radio and television interviews, that the era of the presence of innocents in Gaza had ended irrevocably. The current war is not another round, but a real battle to turn things around.

Dichter's conclusion was supported by a position paper issued by the Misgav Institute mentioned above, indicating that 60% of the population of the Gaza Strip support the Hamas movement from a political standpoint, and support its armed struggle against Israel. Accordingly, what is required is the necessity of overturning any ideological or political separation between most of the population in the Gaza Strip and Hamas. One of the Israeli right-wing media outlets titled its report on the contents of that paper with the following phrases: “Innocents? Not in the Gaza Strip...”

Israeli leaders used to claim that “our enemy is Hamas, not the residents of Gaza,” but, at the same time, they were keen to add to that by saying that “the residents of Gaza are guilty because they elected Hamas.” The goal they most insisted on establishing in the minds of the world, in addition to appearing as the eternal victim, was to exclude any comparison between Israel and Hamas. In this regard, former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni outdid everyone by saying that there is no comparison between Israel and Hamas, as the latter deliberately kills civilians while its state kills civilians unintentionally. She added emphatically that this is the difference between murder and premeditated murder. It was supposed, as a legal and not just a political one, to know with certainty that even those accused of manslaughter would also be punished with long imprisonment.

The Israeli media, for the most part, have a large role in increasing the uncertainty and obscurity more than contributing to revelation, exposure, and clarification, and some of them have gone beyond that to justify the excessive force that the Israeli killing and aggression machine has used and continues to use, not to mention justifying the war itself. The media, with rare exceptions, treats Israeli society's overt and latent ability to accept the killing of children, some with understanding, some with approval, and some even with extreme enthusiasm, with disgusting indifference.

There is no doubt that what enables this brutal world to survive and continue is that it is not confronted with the facts and facts bleeding from Gaza, and it is not confronted with them given that the public arm entrusted with conveying the facts (the Israeli media) is failing to carry out its mission, which has led academics to assert that if There was a prime example of “treason in wartime,” and that was treason.

Arab and international public opinion is dominated by old stereotypes and ideas, which have contributed to making Israel in the public political mind a fortified fortress whose walls cannot be penetrated. This image was built as a result of the defeats suffered by the Arab armies in some of their wars with Israel, and the latter’s investment in perpetuating its military, security and technical superiority, which It has no counterpart in the Middle East.

This is because Israel, which was established on the lands of historic Palestine by a British decision and Western collusion in 1948, has remained governed by concerns about existential danger to this day, and its rulers realized early on that overcoming those concerns requires exclusive guarantees that make the idea of maintaining survival reasonable in an Arab environment that has raised concerns. Antagonizing it by occupying lands that belong to it, therefore, the Israeli security strategy formulated by David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, was based on building a strong, multi-front, modernly armed army, and entering into international alliances that support the presence of the Israeli occupation and its military capabilities. It is no surprise when we see the United States of America It provides political, military, legal, and media cover for its ally, Israel, the features of which are clearly evident in the ongoing Israeli aggression (as of this writing) on Gaza.

When the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip opened Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, international news agencies reported the news of resistance fighters penetrating a smart iron wall built by the Israeli occupation authorities along its border with the Strip. This was followed by specific operations carried out by the resistance factions, with tactics shocking the Israeli security and military circles. In fact, that breakthrough caused a shock in the Arab and Western political imagination, in which the image of Israel as superior in security and militarily had been established for many decades.

The preventive security theory whose provisions the Gaza Division of the Israeli occupation army was assigned to operate in accordance with its terms has failed, and that failure paved the way for the resistance factions to carry out unprecedented operations deep inside Israel (the occupied territories). Although Israel was surprised by the resistance operation, it responded with a violent aerial bombardment that led to the martyrdom of As many as more than 8,300 civilians so far, Western countries have rushed to support it for reasons related to its influence in the Middle East.

Let us go back a little. The countries of the West created Israel, and not only did they do that, but they transferred to it development factors, gave it the elements for survival, and made it an agent for their interests in the region. What confirms this is that Britain decided to establish it in the beginning, and France contributed to building its nuclear reactors, which It believes in its ability to provide regional deterrence, and Germany also supports it economically and militarily, and the United States, whose president, Joe Biden, recently said, “If there was no Israel in existence, we would work to establish it, and we will continue to stand by it.”

This evidence does not fail to confirm the fact that the Israeli occupation performs a geostrategic function through which it serves the interests of Western countries and supports its control in the region. Therefore, when the Palestinian resistance was imposed on October 7, a conflict that the occupation is not good at playing according to its rules, Washington felt Western countries realized that their regional agent might disrupt his strategic functions, so the leaders of those countries quickly flocked to Tel Aviv to show support, and moved their giant battleships to the Mediterranean Sea to establish a circumstantial deterrence equation that prevents the ignition of additional fronts that threaten their influence in the region.

Despite this, the Israeli occupation is well aware that it is not fighting a regular army whose forces are stationed in bases or camps whose geographical locations are known and can be easily bombed from the air, as it did in the 1967 war. Rather, it is fighting non-state organizations that are proficient in guerrilla warfare and fight in their field, which complicates the situation. The occupation attempts to restore respect to the concept of Israeli deterrence, which has suffered a major setback. Therefore, the leaders in Israel realize that the goal of eliminating the Hamas movement and stripping it of its combat capabilities is not realistic, especially since it is still holding the strings of war. Therefore, they rely mainly on the air force to destroy the infrastructure. Infrastructure in Gaza, and stripping it of the necessities of life, to force its residents to flee within the Strip, and to plunge the Hamas movement into a subsequent confrontation with the society it rules in Gaza after the end of the war that the Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation government, Netanyahu, seeks to prolong; To escape the entitlements that haunt him.

Finally, whatever the outcome of the ongoing war on Gaza, the square of security, intelligence, military and political failure in Israel that was revealed by the Al-Aqsa Flood operation quickly erased the image of Israel with constant security vigilance and military preparedness supported by various modern technical levers, which it bet on. Arab systems to confront dangers that Israel no longer includes.

That image, which was erased by the Al-Aqsa flood, was followed by what must precede the eradication of the Israeli occupation and the liberation of Palestine, which is the liberation of the Arab political imagination, which was besieged for decades following the peace agreements with Israel, both old and new, whose complete failure to replace the historical and logical representations of the image of the colonial and existing Israel was confirmed. With the occupation in the Arab mentality, with another based on appeasement and acceptance or alliance with it and submission to it. The sixth and seventh of October are not just two consecutive days, but rather two stages, each of which has its next, and that history will be written.

Ahmed Abdel Hafez Al-Darabaa: A writer and civil activist, interested in regional and international affairs, and a research assistant in the Jordanian National Assembly

Source: Arabic post

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday, October 31, 2023, that Saudi Arabia has confirmed to the administration of President Joe Biden that the Kingdom is still interested in seeking to reach an agreement that would normalize relations with Israel after the end of the war in Gaza, according to What was reported by the American website “Axios”.

Kirby said: “Without going into details, we emerged from those discussions confident that we have a path back toward normalization and that there is interest from the Saudi side in continuing that.”

He added that the war in Gaza makes it difficult to make progress at the moment, but said: “We are still committed to it, and it is clear to us that the Saudis are still committed to it.” The Saudi embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to questions regarding Kirby’s comments, according to Axios.

The website noted that a congressional delegation from both the Democratic and Republican parties, headed by Senator Lindsey Graham, visited Saudi Arabia 10 days ago and met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The website quoted a source familiar with the talks in Saudi Arabia, saying that the message the senators heard from Saudi officials was that they “are still interested in trying to reach a normalization agreement with Israel.”

Biden is pressing for normalization

Biden spoke last week with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and both stressed “the importance of working toward a sustainable peace between Israelis and Palestinians once the crisis subsides,” according to the White House.

After their phone call, Biden said he had "no evidence" but that his "instinct" told him that Hamas "may have attacked Israel to obstruct the progress made in the Israeli-Saudi agreement."

Before the war began on October 7, Biden was pushing to reach a deal with Saudi Arabia that would include a historic normalization agreement between the Kingdom and Israel.

This comes as Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman visits Washington this week to hold talks with senior officials in the Biden administration amid the war in Gaza.

Yesterday, Monday, the Saudi minister met with White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, and the White House said that they discussed the war in Gaza and stressed the urgent need to increase humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

The White House added that they "also stressed the importance of working to achieve sustainable peace between Israelis and Palestinians, building on the work already underway between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States in recent months."

KBS said in a tweet on “X” that he stressed to Sullivan the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, protecting civilians, allowing humanitarian aid, and resuming the peace process.

The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its condemnation of the aggression launched by the Israeli occupation forces against the Jabalia camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, which caused the death of a large number of defenseless civilian victims.

The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said in a statement published by KUNA news agency today, Wednesday, that the State of Kuwait condemns the continued escalation of the occupation forces in the Palestinian territories in general and the Gaza Strip in particular, and reiterates its position calling for the need for the international community and the Security Council to assume their responsibilities and move quickly to protect the Palestinian people and stop... Circle of violence.

The State of Kuwait renewed its demand for an immediate ceasefire and a humanitarian truce in accordance with the United Nations General Assembly resolution issued last Friday.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Tuesday that the United States and other countries are considering a “variety of potential alternatives” for the future of the Gaza Strip if Hamas is isolated from its rule.

Blinken added during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that the status quo in which Hamas is in charge of the densely populated Strip cannot continue, but Israel does not want to run Gaza either.

Blinken explained that between these two situations there are “a variety of potential alternatives that we are now carefully examining, as are other countries.”

He added that what would be most logical at some point is the presence of an “effective and renewed Palestinian authority” to govern Gaza, but the question is whether this is possible.

"If we cannot do that, there are other temporary arrangements that may include a number of other countries in the region. They may include international agencies that help provide security and governance," Blinken said.

Israel responded to the attack launched by Hamas on October 7, which led to the death of more than 1,400 people, by bombarding the Gaza Strip with air strikes, vowing to eliminate Hamas in a relentless attack, but it does not seem to have a clear way to end the matter.

The Hamas Ministry of Health announced that the death toll as a result of the Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip had risen to 8,500, nearly half of whom were children.

UN and other aid officials said civilians in the besieged Palestinian enclave were facing a health catastrophe, with hospitals struggling to treat the injured and a shortage of electricity supplies.

'Unclear plan'

Washington is talking with Israel, as well as with other countries in the region, about how to govern the Palestinian Strip if Israel wins on the battlefield, but a clear plan has not yet emerged.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that among the options being considered by the United States and Israel are the deployment of a multinational force that may include American forces, or placing Gaza under United Nations supervision temporarily.

In response to the report, the White House said that sending American forces to Gaza as part of a peacekeeping force is not a matter under study or discussion.

Some aides to US President Joe Biden are concerned that although Israel may develop an effective plan to permanently damage Hamas, it has not yet developed an exit strategy.

“We had very preliminary conversations about what the future of Gaza might look like,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a press conference, adding: “I expect this will be the subject of a lot of diplomatic work going forward.”

He continued: “The possibility of achieving this goal in one step is an open question, and if this is impossible to achieve now, there are temporary arrangements that may include other countries in the region or international agencies that can provide security and governance in the sector. The ultimate goal in the long term remains achieving the two-state solution.” .

"stained hands"

Blinken was forced to stop his speech during the interrogation session in Congress, after protesters chanted to demand “save the children of Gaza” and “ceasefire now.”

The protesters waved their hands stained red, indicating blood, and calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Earlier Tuesday, the Israeli National Security Advisor, Tzachi Hanegbi, announced the launch of what he described as the “third phase” of the Gaza war, which is the ground operation in the northern Gaza Strip, noting that the first phase included containing the Hamas attack and securing the south. Israel. The second stage, as he put it, consists of “striking all enemy systems with force and precision, from land, sea and air, through intelligence information.”

Israel continues its land, air and sea aggression against the Gaza Strip for the twenty-sixth day in a row, amid a rise in the number of martyrs to more than 8,525, including 3,542 children, according to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Health in the Strip.

Dozens of Palestinians were martyred and injured in an air strike carried out by occupation aircraft on the Jabalia camp on Tuesday, which led to the death and injury of more than 400 people, after six bombs weighing 1,000 kilograms each were dropped, according to a report by the government media office in the Gaza Strip.

Egyptian sources said that the Rafah crossing will open exceptionally today, Wednesday, for the departure of 81 wounded people to complete their treatment in Egypt.

The Israeli army talks about shooting down a surface-to-air missile launched from Lebanon

The Israeli army said that its defenses intercepted and shot down a surface-to-air missile fired from southern Lebanon towards a warplane last night.

This comes after Israeli raids on southern Lebanon as part of sporadic clashes between Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli occupation forces.

Violent clashes between the resistance and the occupation forces south of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza

Violent clashes broke out between the resistance and the Israeli occupation forces penetrating south of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood (southeast of Gaza City).

The main axes of the Israeli incursion are the north and northwest of the Strip and the south and southeast of Gaza City.

It was also reported that the occupation forces attempted to penetrate the Abasan area, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Telecommunications Company announced, at dawn on Wednesday, a complete interruption of all communications and Internet services with the Gaza Strip.

The company explained in a brief statement that the interruption resulted from the international routes, which were previously reconnected, being disconnected again.

Since the seventh of last October, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a comprehensive Israeli aggression, which has resulted in about 8,500 martyrs and the injury of more than 21,000, an infinite toll, in addition to widespread destruction of infrastructure, homes, buildings, and facilities, and the cutting of electricity, water, and fuel, in light of Continuous bombardment by occupation aircraft, artillery, and gunboats.

The comprehensive strike spread throughout the West Bank governorates, including the occupied city of Jerusalem, today, Wednesday, to denounce the continuing Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which has so far resulted in the martyrdom of more than 8,610 martyrs and more than 23,000 wounded.

The strike, called for by the Fatah movement, paralyzed all aspects of life, and universities, banks, and shops were closed, amid calls from the masses of our people to escalate the confrontation with the occupation in all fields of confrontation with the occupation, in defense of our people, and our sacred right to freedom, statehood, and independence. .

Yahia H. Zoubir

As the war on Gaza continues, China is increasingly positioning itself as a counter to the U.S. and Western European approach, emphasizing diplomacy and a need to address root causes of conflict.

Zhai Jun, China’s Special Envoy on the Middle East affairs, is on a trip to the region to push for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. In his remarks at the Cairo Summit for Peace on the Palestinian Question on October 21, Zhai called for support for “the Palestinian people in restoring their lawful national rights.” This is a position shared by most countries. 

The absence of a resolution to the lingering, 75-year-old Palestine-Israel conflict has unsurprisingly caused it to flared up once again. The 2.3 million Palestinians living under occupation in Gaza, considered the largest “open-air prison,” suffer from hardship and despair with no end in sight. The powerful incursion by Hamas into Israel prompted a response by Israel, amounting to potential genocide in the form of intensive indiscriminate bombardments against an overpopulated Gaza. Israel also cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and fuel to the blockaded enclave. Gaza has undergone this kind of reprisal in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021, which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, many of them children.  

The ongoing strike on Gaza has come at a time when proponents of international multipolarity are contesting the unipolar system defended by the United States and its Western allies. The continued war in Ukraine epitomizes this contest between these two visions. The Gaza conflict has also widened the gap between the West and the rest of the world. China, for its part, emphasizes the root cause of the conflict, while officials in the U.S. and some European countries tend to de-contextualize and de-historicize it, contesting who supports Israel more strongly, calling for sending more arms to Israel and preparing for war against Iran, rather than suggesting solutions for peace. The issue is not the strong Western support for Israel, which is no secret, but the one-sided position that Western leaders have taken. 

Unlike Zhai’s declaration, Biden’s statement that “the U.S. remains committed to the Palestinians’ right to dignity and self-determination,” lacks credibility because of his decision to send more weapons to Israel. Unlike China’s neutral position, the one-sidedness of U.S. and European officials in the conflict proves that there is no indication that either the U.S. or the EU is willing to put an end to the onslaught on Gaza.  

Contrary to the U.S., China and much of the rest of the world have been calling for a ceasefire and a definitive resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict. The attitudes of the U.S. and EU underscore the perception that they are pursuing hegemonic ambitions that rest essentially on military might rather than on diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict. 

Beijing has emphasized peace and development as alternatives to perpetual conflict. In March, China successfully mediated normalization between Iran and Saudi Arabia, two countries with which it has comprehensive strategic partnerships. Before October 7, it offered to mediate between the Israelis and the Palestinians. While this looked like an arduous task, it had the merit of putting diplomacy as the conduit for conflict resolution. Mediation needs impartiality and objectivity. Beijing has consistently and unambiguously asserted its opposition to attacks on civilians and called for a ceasefire. China supports the two-state solution—even if this option might be unrealistic in view of Israeli settlement policy—and the implementation of United Nations resolutions. 

China’s attitude is consistent with one of the prerequisites of mediation: impartiality. Due to their unconditional pro-Israeli position, the U.S. and EU cannot be impartial brokers in the conflict. This was recently underlined by a U.S. veto of a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council calling for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid access to Gaza. For people in the Middle East and North Africa, and the Global South in general, the interpretation of U.S. impartiality is clear. The U.S. has pushed for normalization between Arab states and Israel through the Abraham Accords, but this policy has little chance of succeeding because it ignores the rights of the Palestinians. 

China is right to push for the resumption of genuine peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis and implement the two-state solution. Foreign Minister Wang Yi is correct in pointing out that the source of the Palestine-Israel war “lies in the long delay in realizing the dream of an independent State of Palestine and the failure to redress the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people.”  

Source: Middle East Council for Global Affairs

Local sources reported that the occupation forces, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed the city from several directions, and reached the Jenin camp, which led to the outbreak of confrontations. They stated that clashes with the occupation “targeted forces with highly explosive explosive devices, during the massive incursion into Jenin.”

Two young men were martyred and two others were seriously injured after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Jenin and its camp in the occupied West Bank at dawn on Wednesday.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that its crews were able to transport three casualties as a result of the bombing in the Al-Hawashin neighborhood.

The occupation forces began to bulldoze the streets and cause great destruction during their storming of the city of Jenin and its camp.

Clashes broke out with the Israeli occupation forces on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, who stormed the city and camp of Jenin for the second time within hours, and launched a massive campaign of raids. The Israeli army also cut off the electricity supply to several neighborhoods, as well as communications and the Internet in areas of the camp, following the storming.

Local sources reported that the Israeli forces, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed the city from several directions, from “Jenin-Nazareth” streets, “Jenin-Nablus” streets, and “Haifa” streets, and reached the vicinity of the Jenin camp, which led to the outbreak of confrontations.

It stated that clashes with the Israeli army "targeted forces with highly explosive devices during the massive incursion into Jenin."

It confirmed that "the Israel forces cut off electricity, communications, and the Internet in areas of the Jenin camp, during their storming of the camp."

Sources said that the occupation forces deployed their snipers on several buildings in the city, and at the outskirts of the camp, amid intense flights of the occupation Apache helicopters and marches in the sky of the city.

The occupation forces raided the home of the prisoner Zakaria Al-Zubaidi, and the home of the lecturer at the Arab American University, the freed prisoner Jamal Haweel, and they also surrounded a house in the Jabriyat neighborhood before raiding it.

On Tuesday evening, special units of the occupation army stormed the Jabriyat neighborhood in the city, and raided the house of the secretary of the Fatah movement in Jenin Governorate, Atta Abu Rumaila, before arresting him and his son Ahmed, after they were severely beaten.

A boy was shot dead by the occupation forces in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday evening. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported in a brief statement, “The child Abdullah Muhammad Hassan Muqbil (16 years old) died as a result of being hit by live occupation bullets in the town of Beit Ummar.”

The Prisoner's Club confirmed, late Tuesday evening, "the number of detainees in the West Bank and Jerusalem has increased since October 7 to 1,760 detainees, after 20 Palestinians were arrested today (Tuesday)."

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement to reporters that Blinken "will meet officials in the Israeli government and will have other stops in the region."

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will head to Israel, Friday, as part of a new Middle Eastern tour, as the war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip enters its twenty-fifth day, according to what his spokesman announced.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement to reporters that Blinken "will meet officials in the Israeli government and will have other stops in the region."

Israeli media reported the news of this visit, quoting Israeli officials.

For his part, US President Joe Biden discussed, by telephone, Tuesday, with Jordanian King Abdullah II, "emergency mechanisms to reduce violence, calm rhetoric, and reduce regional tensions."

The White House said in a statement that the Democratic president reiterated the United States' "steadfast support for Jordan."

The statement added that Biden and King Abdullah II agreed “on the need to ensure that Palestinians are not forcibly displaced from Gaza.”

The United States is the main supporter of Israel and currently provides it with significant military aid.

On the other hand, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller announced in a statement that Blinken spoke by phone on Tuesday with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Miller added that Blinken reaffirmed to Herzog Washington's support for Israel's right to defend itself, at the same time calling on Israel to take "measures to limit the harm to civilians."

Blinken went to Israel a few days after the unprecedented attack launched by Hamas, on a visit to show solidarity and coordinate a response.

Following that visit, Blinken made shuttle diplomatic tours in the region, which led him to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Egypt, eventually returning to Israel.

The Secretary of State was accompanied by US President Joe Biden, who met with Israeli government officials and Israeli victims during a visit he made to Tel Aviv on October 18, which was limited to one day.

On Tuesday, Blinken appeared before a Senate committee discussing additional funding for national security, but Palestinian protesters repeatedly disrupted the session, and some of them chanted “ceasefire now,” “Palestinians are not animals,” and “shame on all of you” before they were taken out of the hall.

During the session, Blinken touched on what the current conflict could lead to, noting that the Palestinian Authority must regain control of the Gaza Strip, which has been under Hamas control since 2007.

It seems clear that Netanyahu's office senses the danger coming from the "Hostage Families Forum" and seeks to contain it and dominate its decisions, in an attempt to remove any stumbling block in the way of carrying out the tasks of the Israeli War Council and in front of Netanyahu's personal ambitions.

The Israeli leadership is trying to suggest that there is a race against time between the ground operation and the prisoner exchange operation, and it is sending a message to the resistance factions that delaying the implementation of the exchange deal that was talked about, which includes children and women, is accelerating the ground operation, while suggesting to its audiences and the families of the Israeli hostages that the ground operation, Which has already begun, serves the exchange process and does not conflict with it, and the ground incursions deep into the Gaza Strip are to pressure Hamas to implement the deal, and not an announcement to drop it from its calculations.

The issue of the hostages, which the Israeli leadership tried to marginalize and drop from the goals of the war on Gaza, was forcefully brought back to the forefront due to pressure from the families of the Israeli hostages held by the resistance factions, and due to Hamas moving this issue through the release of four female prisoners and the publication of videos and recorded messages, the most recent of which was the tape that she released. Monday, for three female prisoners, which Israel still prohibits broadcasting in its media.

The “liberation” of soldier Uri Megidish, whom Israel claimed had been released, came at a time when voices were rising demanding that priority be given to a complete or partial prisoner exchange process before the ground operation that might pose a threat to the lives of Israeli prisoners. The “liberation” operation came, which the army did not reveal. The Shin Bet has not revealed any details about her so far, in opposition to that point of view and in contradiction to it and a free hand to the Israeli army in the ground war, and in this context came the statement of the former head of the Mossad, Danny Yatom, that her release proved that the ground operation and the process of liberating the prisoners were scheduled together and not in conflict.

On the other hand, the former head of the Shin Bet, Yaakov Peri, in an interview with Channel 13 this morning, expressed his support for a comprehensive prisoner exchange deal in which all Israeli prisoners, whose number according to the last amendment by the Israeli army spokesman, amounted to 240 people, in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, a deal proposed by the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar.

Perry had recently announced his withdrawal from the “Families Campaign to Return Hostages Forum” due to differences in views related to the position on Netanyahu, as a result of which the former official in charge of the prisoners and missing persons file, David Meidan, also withdrew, and it later led to the resignation of Dodi Zelmenovich, one of The founders of the campaign, who announced his resignation following accusations leveled against him of collusion with Netanyahu’s office in selecting representatives of the families who will meet with the latter, against the backdrop of the Families Forum’s protest that it was not informed of the ground operation.

It seems clear that Netanyahu’s office senses the danger coming from the “Hostage Families Forum” and seeks to contain it and dominate its decisions, in an attempt to remove any stumbling block in the way of carrying out the tasks of the Israeli War Council and in front of Netanyahu’s personal ambitions, which places the next day after the war among his priorities, which is What became clear was the people’s controlled reaction to the hostage tape broadcast by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Journalist Rafif Drucker believes that what Netanyahu and others say about the compatibility of the goal of freeing the hostages with the goal of undermining Hamas’ authority in the Gaza Strip is a kind of lie, and that there is no way to achieve the two goals together because they are contradictory, as Hamas will go to an exchange deal only if it realizes that Israel neglected the goal of eliminating it.

Drucker ridicules those who say that it is possible to conduct a comprehensive exchange, and after that we begin the battle to eliminate Hamas, because although the goal of liberating prisoners is important to Hamas, as he says, it is not the highest goal, which is to preserve its existence and authority. Therefore, a comprehensive deal will not take place unless this is confirmed.

Drucker believes that the Israeli leadership has two options: either to conduct a comprehensive exchange deal and give up the goal of undermining Hamas’s authority, with all the costs that this entails related to deterrence and the possibility of returning the residents of the Gaza envelope to their homes, or to implement a comprehensive ground operation and eliminate Hamas’ leadership, destroy the tunnels, and throw it off the rails. Authority in Gaza, then remaining there until an alternative authority is found, and paying the price by sacrificing the majority or all of the prisoners.

The most important question that Drucker poses is whether the Israeli army is capable of carrying out this mission, because the worst scenario, according to him, is to launch a comprehensive attack and incur heavy losses that will fall on the heads of the families of the hostages and the heads of all Israelis, and then get involved in Gaza, as the army commented. Russian in Ukraine.

Source: Arab48

The number of dead in the Gaza Strip rose to 8,525, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women || The Israeli army confirms the killing of two of its soldiers and the injury of two others || Abu Ubaida: The movement’s fighters “managed to destroy 22 military vehicles so far.”

The occupation committed a massacre that destroyed an entire neighborhood in the Jabalia camp, resulting in the death and injury of hundreds, while the Israeli occupation army announced that it was waging “fierce battles” inside the Gaza Strip with Hamas fighters, before it acknowledged on Tuesday evening that two of its soldiers had been killed during the clashes, while the number of The number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip reached 8,525, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women.

This coincides with the expansion of the ground incursion, while rocket shells continue to be fired from the Gaza Strip towards the center of the country, including the Tel Aviv area. The Israeli army claimed that it "and (the Israeli General Security Service) Shin Bet liquidated the commander of the Jabalia Brigade of the Hamas organization, who was one of the leaders of the deadly attack on October 7." He also claimed to "take control" of a Hamas military site west of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and to eliminate 50 fighters on Tuesday.

On the other hand, Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman, Abu Ubaida, confirmed that the movement’s fighters “were able to destroy 22 military vehicles so far with Al-Yassin 105 shells,” noting that mediators were informed that “we will release a number of foreigners in the coming days in line with our desire not to keep them.” them in Gaza.”

The government media office in Gaza said that the occupation army dropped more than 18,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip, with every square kilometer in the Strip receiving about 50 tons of explosives. He added that more than 200,000 housing units sustained varying degrees of damage in the Gaza Strip, in addition to targeting 58 government headquarters, 47 mosques, and 3 churches, noting that the specialized crews were unable to reach some of the bombed areas due to the difficult situation.

Source: Arab48

Institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs reported that the occupation forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank, where they were transferred for investigation by the occupation security services under the pretext of involvement in armed resistance against settlers and the occupation forces.

At dawn and Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of raids and incursions in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, which included arrests of dozens of Palestinians, while confrontations broke out in different areas, where armed clashes took place while confronting the invading forces.

Institutions concerned with prisoners' affairs reported that the occupation forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank, where they were transferred for investigation by the occupation security services under the pretext of involvement in armed resistance against settlers and the occupation forces.

The raids were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Tulkarm, and Jenin, during which dozens of homes were broken into, their contents were tampered with, and their residents were subjected to field investigations after being detained for hours.

The occupation forces arrested 6 Palestinians when they stormed the city of Bethlehem, the village of Abu Najim, and the town of Beit Fajjar.

The occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods in the city of Bethlehem, including the Abayat area, Wadi Shaheen, and Wadi Maali, and arrested at least 3 young men: Mutasim Adel Abayat, Anan Samir Khamis, and Baha Khader Nawara, who was arrested after the occupation soldiers beat him and his mother. And destroying the contents of his house.

The occupation forces arrested the two young men, Saleh Odeh Al-Harimi and Youssef Ahmed Salahat, after raiding their homes in the village of Abu Najim. The occupation forces also arrested the young man, Raghed Hussein Diriyah, after raiding his home in the town of Beit Fajjar.

From Hebron Governorate, the occupation forces arrested 4 young men during their storming of the town of Beit Ummar.

The Prisoners' Club stated that the occupation forces launched a campaign of raids that targeted several homes in the town, and arrested 4 Palestinians: Muhammad Nizam al-Khalil, Muhammad Mahyar Awad, Ayesh Nasser al-Khalil, and Wajih Badr al-Khalil.

The occupation forces stormed the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah, and arrested the two young men, Ali Ahmed Thabet, and the dentist, Muhammad Youssef Al-Masry, after raiding and searching their homes.

The occupation forces re-arrested the freed prisoner, Malik Obaid, after raiding his home in the town of Pharaoh, south of Tulkarm.

From Jerusalem Governorate, the occupation forces arrested 5 Palestinians, including a freed prisoner, following the storming of the town of Qatana.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that the occupation forces arrested: Muhanna Taha, Ayman Shamasneh, Suhaib Salim Shamasneh, and Hammam Saeed Tabanga, after raiding and searching their homes and tampering with their contents, while the freed prisoner Muhammad Jamal Hoshiya was arrested after he was beaten.

Confrontations broke out in the town of Qatana when the occupation forces stormed it, who fired stun grenades and toxic tear gas, but no casualties were reported.

Source: Arab48

The Bolivia Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that the government had decided to sever diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of committing crimes against humanity in its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Bolivia previously severed diplomatic relations with Israel in 2009 in protest against its attacks on the Gaza Strip. In 2020, the government of the country's president, Jeanine Anez, restored relations.

Chilean President Gabriel Buric announced that his country had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations after Israel's violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip.

“Chile strongly condemns and monitors with great concern... these military operations,” Buric wrote in a post on the social media platform (X).

In turn, Colombian President Gustapo Petro announced, in a message on the “X” website, the recall of his country’s ambassador to Israel due to its war in Gaza.

Petro said: “I decided to summon our ambassador to Israel. If Israel does not stop the massacre committed against the Palestinian people, we will not be able to stay there.”

On the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia announced yesterday that the government had decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of committing crimes against humanity in its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

25 Democratic members of the US Senate called for fuel to be brought into the Gaza Strip, expressing their concerns about an imminent crisis in Gaza’s hospitals, and the dwindling supply of clean drinking water in the Strip.

Their joint statement on Tuesday said, “Hospitals in Gaza are hours away from running out of fuel used to operate ventilators, baby incubators and other life-saving equipment, and diseases are spreading rapidly without the ability to treat and pump clean drinking water.”

Tonight, Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Jenin and its camp.

Local sources said that large forces of the occupation army stormed the city of Jenin and its camp from Jenin-Nazareth Street, Jenin-Nablus Street, and Haifa Street, and this was preceded by the infiltration of special units into the Jabriyat neighborhood, amid the outbreak of confrontations.

Director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokheiber, announced his resignation from his position, in protest against the UN bodies’ handling of the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Mokheiber stressed the need for the United Nations organization to shoulder its responsibilities, and said: “Once again, we are witnessing genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the organization we serve seems unable to stop it. What is happening in Gaza is a case of genocide.”

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces closed the military checkpoint established at the town of Al-Jib, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and prevented the residents of the town and neighboring villages from reaching their homes.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces closed the checkpoint and prevented residents of the Al-Khalayla neighborhood, Al-Nabi Samuel, and the eastern neighborhood of Qalandiya Al-Balad from reaching their homes.

She added that the occupation forces also prevented Jerusalemite citizens from passing through the checkpoint into the city of Ramallah, knowing that it is the only checkpoint in the region through which one can enter the villages northwest of Jerusalem, and into the city of Ramallah from inside Jerusalem.

The European Union said that the escalation of colonial terrorism in the West Bank will lead to the situation getting out of control.

“Very large numbers of civilian casualties occurred, and residents of some Palestinian communities were forced to leave their homes,” stressing that “the situation could get out of control in an instant, and cause untold suffering to local communities.”

The European Union stressed, in a statement, Tuesday evening, that “urgent measures are needed,” and that “it is Israel’s duty to protect civilians in the West Bank from the violence of extremist colonialists, through the intervention of the Israeli army, and to ensure that the perpetrators are held accountable, and this is a legal obligation.” It must be fulfilled.”

EU added that the settlers' attacks in the West Bank come "in conjunction with the already tragic situation in Gaza, will increases the risk of a dangerous escalation of the conflict,  which must be avoided at all costs."

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemned in the strongest terms the “inhumane targeting” by the Israeli occupation forces of the Jabalia camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, which caused the death and injury of a large number of innocent civilians.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, through its official account on the “X” website, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia “condemns in the strongest terms the inhumane targeting by the Israeli occupation forces of the Jabalia camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, which caused the death and injury of a large number of innocent civilians.”

The statement added: “The Kingdom expresses its condemnation and complete rejection of the Israeli occupation forces’ repeated targeting of sites crowded with civilians, and their continued violation of international laws and international humanitarian law, in light of the failure of the international community to pressure the occupation government to accept an immediate ceasefire and a humanitarian truce.” In accordance with the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly issued last Friday on October 27, 2032, which came with broad international consensus.

It continued: “The Kingdom affirms that the dangerous humanitarian conditions resulting from the continuous escalation cannot be justified at all, and that sparing blood, protecting civilians, and stopping military operations are urgent priorities for which any procrastination or disruption cannot be accepted, and failure to immediately adhere to them will inevitably lead to a humanitarian catastrophe for which the occupation bears responsibility.” "Israel and the international community."

Confrontations broke out with Israeli occupation forces, Tuesday evening, in the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces fired bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at citizens, but no injuries were reported.

Haaretz newspaper quoted the Israeli army as saying, on Tuesday, that 2 of its soldiers belonging to the elite unit were killed, and 2 others were seriously injured during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army had announced earlier, Tuesday, that its forces had killed a large number of Hamas militants in ground operations in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, in addition to striking about 300 targets.

On the other hand, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that its fighters opened fire from an ambush towards the vehicles penetrating west of Tawam in the northern Gaza Strip, and targeted 3 Israeli vehicles with “Al-Yassin 105” shells.

The Al-Qassam Brigades also said that its fighters ambushed Israeli vehicles penetrating the Juhr al-Dik area in the eastern Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip, and destroyed 3 of them.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, also stated that it targeted an armored force and an infantry force of Israel in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood with a number of mortar shells.

The head of the Norwegian medical mission to Gaza, Dr. Mads Gilbert, called on Israel to bring water, fuel and food into the Gaza Strip immediately, and to stop its war on the besieged Strip.

He added in statements to Al Jazeera from Cairo, "What we need now is to stop the killing and production of death in the Gaza Strip."

"The siege of Gaza is killing people, and this is against the law," he said, adding that 14 hospitals were closed in addition to many other medical clinics due to the Israeli bombing.

The Norwegian doctor called for the opening of the Rafah crossing, stressing that "the world cannot accept the entry of aid by train," stressing that the priority must be to stop the bombing and that "the world must act now."

Gilbert added that the World Health Organization has documented more than 100 attacks on medical facilities. They require unified action. The Norwegian doctor asked the Arab countries to cut off gas and oil from the United States, and said, “Maybe this will stop the bombing immediately,” considering that the massacres of civilians under siege require unified Arab action. The official of the Norwegian mission to Gaza confirmed that the Israeli army has a long history of bombing health facilities and workers, and that “the people of Gaza are imprisoned, and are subjected to the most violent attacks during this century.”

It is noteworthy that Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide expressed - today, Tuesday - his country’s belief that Israel may have violated international law by bombing the Gaza Strip, which led to the leveling of neighborhoods and the killing of thousands of Palestinians.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoer also said that it is necessary to deliver relief materials to civilians in Gaza as quickly as possible, considering that Israel has violated the rules of international law in its war on the (besieged) Gaza Strip.

Source: Al Jazeera

Massive public marches took place Tuesday evening in several cities in the West Bank, denouncing the occupation massacres in Gaza.

In downtown Tulkarm, in front of Gamal Abdel Nasser Square, the march participants roamed the city streets, chanting angry national slogans denouncing the ongoing Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip.

They expressed their anger at the international silence regarding what is happening in Gaza, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities by putting pressure towards ending this aggression and providing international protection for our people.

In Salfit Governorate, large crowds of our people participated in a march in the city of Salfit, in support of our people in the Gaza Strip.

The march called for by the "Fatah" movement - Salfit region, started from the public square and roamed the city's streets, denouncing the massacres committed by the occupation in the Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the Jabalia camp massacre, which claimed hundreds of martyrs and wounded.

The participants in the march denounced the international silence regarding all the killing, bombing and displacement committed by the Israeli machine of oppression, calling for close ranks in the face of the criminal aggression and the unification of efforts by all our people to repel the aggression and to stand firm in the face of the occupation’s malicious intentions to displace the people of the Gaza Strip, and the attacks of the colonists in the West Bank.

In the city of Nablus, a mass march took place, denouncing the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation army against our people in the Gaza Strip.

The participants in the march, which was organized at the Martyrs' Roundabout in the center of the city, chanted angry slogans denouncing the crimes of the occupation, and demanding protection for our people who are being exposed to massacres in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

In the city of Ramallah, in rejection of the Jabalia refugee camp massacre, and denouncing the occupation’s continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The march was organized at the invitation of the national and Islamic forces. The participants roamed the streets of the city and chanted slogans denouncing the crimes of the occupation and its ongoing massacres against our people in the Gaza Strip, and others calling for national unity to confront the crimes of the occupation, and calling on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the aggression and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

In Bethlehem Governorate, citizens participated in a protest denouncing the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip.

The participants gathered in the Bab Al-Zaqq area between the cities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala, chanting slogans denouncing the aggression against the Gaza Strip in general, and Jabalia in particular.

The participants performed the evening prayer, then the absent prayer for the souls of the martyrs.

Today, the city of Bethlehem witnessed another protest denouncing the continued aggression against the Gaza Strip, organized in front of the International Red Cross headquarters, on Jerusalem-Hebron Street.

In Jenin and its camp, thousands of citizens participated in a massive march denouncing the continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and the massacres committed by the occupation in the Strip, the latest of which is the Jabalia camp massacre.

The march was organized at the invitation of the national and Islamic forces, and the participants roamed the streets of the city, raising Palestinian flags, amidst chanting slogans denouncing the crimes of the occupation and its ongoing massacres against our people in the Gaza Strip.

The march participants called for unifying ranks to confront the crimes of the occupation, and called on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the aggression and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

The Arab Republic of Egypt condemned, on Tuesday, the “inhumane Israeli targeting” that targeted a residential square in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry considered this targeting a new flagrant violation by the Israeli forces of the provisions of international law and international humanitarian law, which increases the complexity of the current crisis and portends dire consequences that are difficult to remedy at all levels.

Egypt warned of the continuation of these indiscriminate attacks targeting civilians in their places of shelter and in the vicinity of medical centers and hospitals to which they seek refuge to escape the violent and continuous Israeli bombing, without any regard for lives, and in a way that exacerbates the crisis and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned the Israeli aggression that targeted the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, holding Israel, the occupying power, responsible for this dangerous development.

The Ministry also condemned the ongoing escalation in the occupied West Bank and the escalation of terrorism by Israeli colonizers against Palestinian citizens.

The Ministry's official spokesman, Sufyan Al-Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom's rejection and condemnation of this act, which is inconsistent with all human and moral values, and with the rules of international humanitarian law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention.

He called on the international community to bear its responsibility, deter Israel from committing more crimes against civilians, and stop its senseless war on the Gaza Strip, stressing the necessity of adhering to the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on protecting civilians and respecting international law and international humanitarian law, the necessity of providing international protection for the Palestinian people, and the necessity of joining hands. Efforts to stop the raging war on Gaza.

The official spokesman stressed that the continuation of this absurd Israeli war, the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip and the siege imposed on it, represents collective punishment of more than two million Palestinians in Gaza, a war crime, and pushes the entire region towards the abyss.

He said that the Israeli aggression and irresponsible measures that contradict all human and moral values, and with the rules of international law and international humanitarian law, will not achieve security for the Israelis.

On Tuesday evening, settlers seized a house in the Khalayel al-Lawz area, southeast of Bethlehem.

The director of the Office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, Hassan Barijiyah, reported that settlers seized a one-story house, located between Khalayel al-Lawz and University Housing, belonging to the citizen Bilal Abu Kamel, taking advantage of the absence of any of its residents.

It is noteworthy that settlers have recently escalated their attacks against citizens in the Khalayel Al-Luz area, represented by attacking homes at night amid gunfire, and burning a citizen’s vehicle.

On Tuesday evening, dozens of settlers closed the road between Tulkarm and Nablus.

Eyewitnesses said that dozens of settlers deployed near the Al-Taneeb Junction on the road between Tulkarm and Nablus, and closed the road to citizens amid riots in the place.