PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 6:09 pm - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu reply to a message from women detained by Hamas in Gaza

A reply was issued by the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening, Monday, October 30, 2023, to the message of female prisoners in the Gaza Strip, which was broadcast by the Al-Qassam Brigades in a video.


Netanyahu said in his response: “This is about harsh psychological propaganda by Hamas.”


He added, "We will do everything we can to return all the kidnapped and missing people to their homes."


The Hamas movement had published a video clip showing three Israeli hostages being held inside the besieged Gaza Strip, against which the occupation's aggression continues, leaving tens of thousands dead and injured.


During the video clip, the hostages sent a message to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to work towards their release and release all Israeli hostages in exchange of Palestinian prisoners. 

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 30 Oct 2023 5:57 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Lebanon front: targeting Israeli sites and Israeli bombing of southern towns

The Israeli bombing renewed on Monday morning in the western sector of southern Lebanon, as approximately 15 missiles fell this morning on the Al-Mushairfa area in Naqoura, while the vicinity of Al-Raheb Hill, opposite Aita Al-Shaab, witnessed the fall of incendiary bombs from the Israeli side.


The National News Agency in Lebanon reported that the Israeli artillery shelling on the outskirts of the villages of the western sector affected the vicinity of the army center in Ras Naqoura and the vicinity of the UNIFIL headquarters.


The Israeli attacks expanded this afternoon, affecting, for the first time since the July 2006 war, the area between the towns of Kafr Tibnit and the Hamra farm, with a 155 mm artillery shell that landed on agricultural land.


The outskirts of the towns of Shihin, Al-Jebeen and Majdal Zun were also subjected to concentrated artillery shelling by the Israeli occupation forces. The hostile bombardment targeted the center of the Labouneh area, where about 50 shells were recorded.


The occupation army targeted olive groves between the town of Kafr Kila and Dermamas with incendiary shells.


Hezbollah targets Israeli sites

On the other hand, Hezbollah announced in separate statements that it had targeted the technical equipment of the Ras Naqoura naval site with guided missiles, causing direct hits there.


The party's members also targeted "the technical equipment of the Metulla site with appropriate weapons, causing direct hits there, in addition to the technical and spy equipment of the Bayad Blida site, using appropriate weapons, its walls and garrison, and causing direct hits there."


Hezbollah also announced the implementation of operations against Israeli military sites in Ramiya, Al-Malikiyah, Birkat Risha, Al-Sammaqa, and Misgav Am.


Al-Quds Brigades and Hezbollah mourn 3 martyrs

In the same context, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, mourned two of its members who were martyred during an infiltration operation into the Israeli Hanita site.


The Al-Quds Brigades reported that Ibrahim Muhammad Othman (23 years old) and Mustafa Ezzedine Hussein (21 years old) were martyred while carrying out a breach of the Israeli security fence at the Hanita military site in northern occupied Palestine on the Lebanese border.


On Monday, Hezbollah also mourned Mounir Youssef “Abu Zeinab” from the town of Shaqra in southern Lebanon.


Yesterday, Sunday, the border witnessed an increase in the intensity of mutual bombardment, as the Al-Qassam Brigades - Lebanon, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it had fired 16 missiles towards the Nahariya settlement, in response to the crimes of the Israeli occupation against civilians in Gaza.


The "Fajr Forces", the military wing of the "Islamic Group in Lebanon", also announced yesterday, Sunday, that it had launched new, focused missile attacks targeting Israeli sites in the Kiryat Shmona settlement.


According to Al-Arabi’s correspondent in the Upper Galilee, Ahmed Jaradat, the occupation army is focusing on burning forest lands near its military positions on the border with Lebanon, with the aim of preventing Hezbollah fighters and Palestinian factions from hiding in Lebanon.


He added that this is the first time that resistance missiles have directly hit the Kiryat Shmona settlement since the July 2006 war.


He pointed out that the occupation army is keeping quiet about the events in the Kiryat Shmona settlement.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 5:32 pm - Jerusalem Time

Updated: 4 Palestinian injuries by Israeli army in Nablus and Ramallah

Four Palestinian citizens were injured by live bullets, Monday evening, during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in the cities of Nablus and Ramallah.


According to Medical Relief, two children were injured by live bullets, one in the head and the other in the thigh, in addition to a young man (35 years old) injured by a live bullet in his shoulder, during confrontations that broke out between young men and the occupation forces in the village of Zawata, west of Nablus.


In Ramallah, a 15-year-old child was injured by live bullets in the village of Safa, without specifying the nature of his injury.


According to local sources, confrontations broke out in the village near the apartheid separation and expansion wall, during which the occupation forces fired live bullets and toxic tear gas bombs at citizens, which led to the child being injured.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 5:17 pm - Jerusalem Time

United Nations: Gaza bakeries are threatened with complete closure within a few days

The United Nations warned today (Monday) that all bakeries operating in the Gaza Strip are threatened with a complete halt within a few days, as Israel continues an unprecedented military attack for 24 days.


The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement, a copy of which was received by Xinhua News Agency, that only one of the bakeries contracted by the World Food Program and eight additional bakeries in the central and southern Gaza Strip are operating and supplying shelters with bread.


The statement stated that fuel shortages constitute the main obstacle preventing these bakeries from meeting local demand, and unless fuel is allocated to them, most bakeries will close their doors during the next few days.


It pointed out that Israel's attacks destroyed ten bakeries, six of which were in Gaza City, two in northern Jabalia, and two in the central region of the Gaza Strip, making residents struggle to obtain bread.


It was reported that there were long queues ranging from 4 to 6 hours waiting in front of bakeries, as residents were exposed to air strikes, according to the UN statement, which stated that the World Food Program estimates that the current stock of basic food commodities in Gaza is sufficient for about eight days.


However, at the store level, available stock is expected to last for five days.


Retailers face major challenges when restocking from wholesalers due to widespread destruction and insecurity.


Of the 117 trucks that entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt since the 21st of this month, at least 57 trucks carried food supplies and three food items, including ready-to-eat foods such as canned tuna, canned meat, and other non-perishable items.


All food supplies are distributed in shelters run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).


Since the 11th of this month, Gaza has been suffering from a complete power outage, following Israel's suspension of electricity and fuel supplies to Gaza, which in turn led to the closure of the only power plant in Gaza.


This has forced the basic service infrastructure to rely on backup generators, which are limited due to the scarcity of fuel in the Strip and the goods entering Gaza have not yet included fuel.
Meanwhile, the UN statement said Gaza's hospitals are facing an unprecedented level of devastation, primarily due to the massive number of infections, severe shortages of vital resources and fears of being targeted by airstrikes.


During the past 24 hours, on two separate occasions, the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital in northern Gaza was bombed. This affects employees, patients, and 14,000 displaced people.


In the same period, residential buildings near the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia and Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City were reportedly bombed as a result of air strikes.


Since the start of Israel's attacks, more than a third of hospitals in Gaza (12 out of 35) and nearly two-thirds of primary health care clinics (46 out of 72) have closed due to damage or fuel shortages, increasing pressure on the health sector.


Israel's ongoing attacks have also displaced most of Gaza's medical workers, forcing hospitals to operate at less than a third of their normal staff levels, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.


Hospitals are still suffering from severe fuel shortages, which has led to strict rationing and the limited use of generators for essential functions only.


Furthermore, maintenance and repair of standby generators, which were not originally intended for continuous operation, have become increasingly difficult due to the scarcity of spare parts.


According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the total number of Palestinian deaths has risen to 8,306 since the start of Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip on the 7th of this month.


Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said during a press conference at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza that among the total dead were 3,457 children and 2,136 women, in addition to 21,048 wounded.


Al-Qudra stated that Israel's continuing attacks on the Gaza Strip put 25 hospitals out of service, while 25 ambulances were targeted, calling on Gazans to go to hospitals to donate blood due to the lack of sufficient quantities of it to save the injured.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 4:55 pm - Jerusalem Time

More than 20 citizens were killed in a raid on a hall housing displaced people in Gaza

Today, Monday, more than 20 people were killed in an Israeli attack on the “Tal al-Qamar” hall in Nuseirat, which houses a number of displaced people.


It is noteworthy that Israeli forces launched several raids on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 4:12 pm - Jerusalem Time

Dozens of Palestinian communities in the West Bank are on the verge of a new Nakba

Twenty-four Palestinian families in the village of Zanuta in the south of the West Bank dismantled their primitive homes made of tin, tents, and their sheep pens, and packed their belongings to return to the town of Al-Dhaheriya, south of Hebron, after repeated settler attacks on them and their property, while remaining families requested protection.


In a scene that brings to mind the Nakba of 1948, families left, sadness and grief overwhelming their feelings, while pain and a feeling of betrayal overwhelmed 12 families who decided to stay and be patient, including the family of the young man Adel Al-Tal, who was overcome with tears, and his mother whenever anyone asked them about their fate.


Al-Tal told Al-Jazeera Net that he, his brothers, and his mother decided to stay in the village despite the risk, while 24 other families were forced to leave.


The residents of the community work in agriculture and livestock raising and own thousands of dunums (a dunum is equal to a thousand square metres) of agricultural land used for rain-fed crops and pastures for their sheep, but settlements and settlement outposts have begun to surround it from all sides.


The population's suffering began decades ago, but was doubled by settler attacks that became almost daily with the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th.


Sadness and helplessness

Al-Tal says that the settlers do not stop their attacks, and with the presence of the Israeli army, "with the start of the war, until today, there is no sleep, no eating, no drinking. The (dirt) roads are closed. We cannot leave or move away from the village."


The young Palestinian man, who is keen with his mother to follow the news of Gaza, does not hide that he shares his elderly mother’s crying over their condition, their helplessness, and the absence of any protection from any party, pointing out that all their contacts with Palestinian legal and official bodies did not provide them with protection or even the slightest sense of security.


Regarding the conditions that were most oppressive and forced them to leave, Al-Tal says, “The settlers came a few days ago and destroyed our house and cars and beat us all, including my mother. This was repeated with my uncle and his wife, so the conditions were stronger than the majority’s ability to endure.”


He pointed out that the students did not attend the only basic school in the village that is at risk of demolition since the start of the aggression on Gaza due to the danger to their movement on the one hand, and the inability of teachers to reach it on the other hand.


For his part, Nasr Nawajaa, a field researcher for the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem and a resident of the Susiya community south of Hebron, which is also threatened with deportation, points to the increase in settler attacks with the start of the war in Gaza.


Settlers in army uniform

Nawajaa added that the families deported from the Zanuta community suffered from the threat of settlers for decades, and the settlers are now acting without accountability or oversight and see the current situation as an opportunity to displace the largest number of families from Area C.


Speaking to Al Jazeera Net, he indicated that a number of other families in other communities south of Hebron received warnings from settlers, including 4 families in the Anizan community near the Zanuta community southeast of Al-Dhahiriya, and two families in the Susiya community southwest of the town of Al-Samu.


He added, "In light of the current events, settler militias find an opportunity to attack Palestinian communities, harass their people, and pressure them to leave."


He said that he documented testimonies of residents in which they said that settlers known among them for their frequent attacks were raiding homes wearing Israeli army uniforms.


He continued, "Two families from the Al-Nawajaa family, numbering 24 members, received a few hours' notice to leave the village of Susiya, and 4 families numbering 35 people in the Anizan community have already left due to settlers' attacks and to preserve their safety and lives."


The human rights researcher explained that “there is no means of protection or international or human rights intervention to protect the residents.” However, he talked about consultations for legal action regarding the two families in the Susya community, without placing any hope in the Israeli courts in the current situation.


He said that the success in deporting two families later meant the deportation of the entire population of 250 people, and most of their homes were at risk of demolition from previous years.


30 thousand are threatened with displacement

According to data from the government’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, about 30,000 Palestinians living in about 250 Palestinian communities in Area C of the West Bank are threatened with deportation, and some of them have already been deported.


The Authority's popular action official, Abdullah Abu Rahma, told Al Jazeera Net that settler attacks have increased significantly after the arrival of the current Israeli government in late 2022, and they increased further with the outbreak of the Gaza war.


He added, "Since the start of the aggression on Gaza, we have monitored 315 settler attacks that caused the death of 8 citizens, the last of whom was a farmer while picking olives in the northern West Bank," while the number of attacks since the beginning of the year exceeded 1,600, leaving a total of 17 martyrs.


He said that settler attacks by force of arms are largely concentrated by the "Hill Youth" settlement groups east of Ramallah in the central West Bank, to the south of Nablus in the north of the West Bank, including the Jordan Valley area, targeting farmers and Palestinian communities in an attempt to pressure them and push them to leave, and they have already succeeded. In the displacement of a number of communities.


Arming and authorization to kill

He said that most of the communities in Area C in the Jordan Valley region in the north, up to Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the south, were “targeted systematically and by force of arms to force citizens to leave their lands.”


He pointed out that the Israeli government's arming of about 26,000 settlers and changing the rules of shooting allowed the killing of Palestinians even without justification.


It is noteworthy that Area C, where settlers target communities, constitutes about 61% of the area of the West Bank and is subject to full Israeli security control in accordance with the Oslo Accords, while Area B, which is subject to Palestinian civilian and Israeli security control, constitutes 21% of the area of the West Bank, and the areas represent About 18% of the West Bank is supposed to be under complete Palestinian control.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 3:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli female prisoners held by the Al-Qassam Brigades send a message to Netanyahu


The Al-Qassam Brigades published a video clip containing a message sent by a number of Israeli prisoners to the Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


An Israeli prisoner says in the video clip, addressing Netanyahu: “We have been in captivity by Hamas for 23 days. Yesterday, I was at the press conference with the family of the kidnapped.”


She added, "We know that there was supposed to be a ceasefire, and you were supposed to release us."


She said, “However, we are suffering from your political, security and military failure, because of the failures you caused on October 7, because no soldier was in the place and no one came to us, and no one defended here... We are citizens who pay taxes to the State of Israel.” And now we are in captivity. You are killing us. Do you want to kill us all? You want the army to kill us. Isn’t it enough that you slaughtered everyone? Isn’t it enough for you that there were Israeli citizens killed?


She said at the end of the video: “Release us now, release their citizens and prisoners now (meaning the Palestinian prisoners), release us, release everyone, we deserve to return to our families now now now..”

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 3:12 pm - Jerusalem Time

Thomas Friedman advises Israel not to get lost inside Hamas' tunnels

In his article published in the New York Times on Monday, October 30, American writer Thomas Friedman, who is close to US President Joe Biden, advises Israel to follow the Indian model in dealing with the Hamas movement, calling on Israel to be patient and think carefully about the consequences of any response or a hasty action against the incursion of Palestinian resistance fighters into its territory. He referred to the infiltration of 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba fighters into India and the killing of more than 160 people in Mumbai in November 2008. Friedman: Israel should have called its military operation in Gaza “Save Our Hostages”.


Friedman begins his article, for which he chose the title: “Please do not get lost inside Hamas’ tunnels.” Friedman called on Israel to be patient and carefully consider the consequences of any hasty reaction to the incursion of Palestinian resistance fighters into its territory, and the heavy costs that any retaliation could entail. 


“I watch the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza today and I think of one of the world leaders I admire most: Manmohan Singh,” he says. He was India’s prime minister in late November 2008, when 10 Pakistani jihadist militants from the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, which is widely believed to be linked to Pakistani military intelligence. They came to India and killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, including 61 people in two attacks. What was Singh’s military response to the events of September 11 in India? He did nothing.”


“Singh never retaliated militarily against the state of Pakistan or the Lashkar-e-Taiba camps in Pakistan. It was a remarkable act of restraint. What was the logic? In his book Options: Inside the Making of India’s Foreign Policy, India’s then foreign minister, Shivshankar Menon, explained, the reason behind this, explaining these key points: “I myself pressed at the time for clear, immediate retaliation” against jihadi bases or against the ISI, “which was clearly complicit,” Menon wrote. “Doing so would have been emotionally satisfying.” "It goes some way towards erasing the shame of incompetence shown by the Indian police and security agencies."


In his comparison between New Delhi and Tel Aviv's handling of the two incidents, Friedman believes that it is useful to reflect on the contradiction between the two countries' responses to the "terrorist" Mumbai operation and what he described as the "massacre" carried out by Hamas.


He said that the narrative of the attack on Israel quickly changed and made Hamas fighters heroes in the eyes of some people. It also forced Israel's new Arab "allies" in the Abraham Accords to distance themselves from the "Jewish state."


The writer believes that it is almost certain that after Israel summons about 360,000 reserve soldiers, its economy will suffer from a recession and shrink by more than 10% on an annual basis during the last quarter of the year, if it takes months to uproot Hamas from Gaza as expected.


The article criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government for its haste in developing Benjamin's Plan B, which aims to "wipe Hamas from the face of the earth."


He explained that he closely followed former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's "unique" response to the "terrorist" attacks in Mumbai at the time. He said he immediately called for Israel's response to be goal-focused and thoughtful.


Friedman added to this by saying that Israel should have called its military operation in Gaza “Save Our Hostages,” focusing on arresting and killing the hostage takers, as he put it.


Friedman claims that the Israeli officials he spoke to told him that they knew two things for sure: that Hamas would not rule Gaza again, and that Israel would not rule Gaza after Hamas. They suggest they would establish an arrangement similar to what exists in parts of the West Bank today, where Palestinians in the enclave run daily life, while Israeli army and Shin Bet security teams provide power behind the scenes.


The American writer describes this plan as half-baked, because those Palestinians who will be recruited to implement it will be killed, as he claims, and that Israel will bear the costs of controlling Gaza and providing health care and education to its residents. Then, in his opinion, the cost of occupying Gaza could exhaust the Israeli army and economy for years to come.


He stresses that Israel does not have a viable plan to win or a leader who can overcome the pressures and complications of this crisis, adding that Israel must keep the door open for a truce for humanitarian reasons, and for an exchange of prisoners, which will also allow Israel to wait and think about the consequences of its “hasty” military operation in Gaza. And at the price you can pay in the long run.


Friedman concludes that this delay would also allow Gazans to evaluate what the Hamas attack in Israel did to their lives, their families, their homes, and their businesses.


Friedman ends his article by saying that Hamas has allocated "almost all of its resources to building attack tunnels. Please, Israel, do not waste those tunnels!"

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 2:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

FM Malki briefs British counterpart on official Palestinian position regarding current events

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Malki, briefed his British counterpart, James Cleverly, on the official Palestinian position with regard to all the events currently taking place between Palestine and Israel, and discussed ways to avoid further deterioration.

During a telephone call, the two ministers exchanged views regarding the priorities required to be undertaken to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, reach a truce, open humanitarian corridors, bring in humanitarian assistance and provide it with food, water, medicine, fuel, and other basic human needs.

They further stressed during the call the necessity of preventing the recurrence of such a situation, by opening a political horizon that allows the return to the political process.


The two ministers agreed to continue making efforts, each in his own way, to reduce the severity of the violence and stop it, protect the lives of civilians, facilitate the smooth and permanent entry of humanitarian aid to the entire Strip, stop the terrorism of Israeli colonists in the occupied West Bank, as well as to prevent further military incursions of Palestinian residential communities in the West Bank.


Both parties also agreed to continue bilateral and multilateral work, in order to achieve these goals in the near future and to maintain bilateral communication due to its importance at this stage.

T.R.

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 30 Oct 2023 2:07 pm - Jerusalem Time

OIC strongly condemns the ongoing brutal Israeli aggression against Gaza

Hissein Brahim Taha, the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), today strongly condemned the continued and escalating Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip, persisting for 23 days in a row.


“This relentless assault has resulted in butchering thousands of martyrs and wounding innocent civilians, including women, children, medical personnel and journalists, in addition to the deliberate destruction of buildings, hospitals, schools, places of worship, and United Nations facilities. Israel still threatens to bomb hospitals, in addition to continuing to prevent access to food, medicine, water, and electricity, which constitutes collective punishment, war crimes, and flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law,” he said in a statement.


The Secretary-General also affirmed the OIC’s rejection and condemnation of “the escalation of acts of murder, incitement, and organized terrorism committed by extremist settler groups and Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian citizens throughout the West Bank, including the occupied city of Al-Quds (Jerusalem). These criminal acts have tragically led to the martyrdom of more than 115 Palestinian citizens since the beginning of the month,” holding Israel, the occupying power, “fully responsible for the continuation of these criminal acts.”


At the same time, the Secretary-General renewed his call on the international community to intervene urgently to force Israel, the occupying power, to stop its brutal aggression against the Palestinian people immediately and to oblige it to respect and implement international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, and to ensure the opening of permanent humanitarian corridors to facilitate the access of medicines and food supplies and basic needs of the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 1:42 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli ground attack on Gaza is not going according to Israeli army's plans



Bloomberg said in a report that Israel sent troops and tanks to the northern Gaza Strip in what it describes as the second and longest phase of its war against Hamas, a more cautious approach than it pledged after the October 7 attack that killed 1,400 people, including 311 soldiers, according to Israeli reports.


According to Bloomberg: “Instead of launching a large-scale ground invasion, the army started slowly, taking a day-by-day approach based on casualties, fears of the conflict spilling over into Hezbollah in the north, and internal political pressures on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The campaign is expected to continue.” “Six weeks to six months, according to a number of officials.”


The agency quoted officials, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive issues, saying, “Israel wants to destroy Hamas as an organization and ensure that Gaza will no longer be a source of threat to it.”


The extent to which that goal is realistic remains unclear, according to the agency, which indicated pressure from the United States and other allies on Israel to force it to be more specific about its goals, as well as to draw a vision for what will happen next.


The report explained that the decision to launch a ground invasion actually indicates a shift in focus away from negotiating the hostages, about 230 of whom Hamas has held since October 7. It also indicates the belief that Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran, will not resort to the decision to engage in all-out fighting and will be content with short-term skirmishes, and thus a battle will not be opened on two fronts.


Officials say, according to the agency, that the prevailing feeling is that Hamas was trying to buy time, aiming to release a small number of hostages per week while demanding a widespread ceasefire and prisoner exchange.


The agency reported that officials say that the security services have formed a group whose mission is to target every Hamas leader involved in the October 7 attack, “headed by Yahya Sinwar,” and “some of them have already been killed, according to the Israeli army.”


Another goal that is widely discussed, according to the agency, is that Israel will not return the entire Gaza Strip to whoever will eventually rule instead of Hamas. It plans to create a buffer zone to prevent a repeat attack, according to a number of officials.


Israel expressed its intention to besiege the main city in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, and published pictures of tanks on the western coast of the Gaza Strip 48 hours after issuing orders to expand ground incursions across its eastern borders, according to international media.


The agency says: “Israel initially sought not to reveal its current plan in its ongoing war with Hamas fighters, which has been going on for three weeks, as its forces were moving under the cover of darkness and in light of the cut off of communications from the Palestinians, but Israel later announced what it called the “second phase” of Its operations against the Iranian-backed movement.”


Some Palestinian citizens in the devastated and besieged Gaza Strip said that telephone and Internet services began to gradually return on Sunday, after a complete interruption for more than a day, which severely affected rescue operations at a time when Israel announced that it had bombed Hamas targets, especially in the north of the city. Gaza, where its government headquarters and command centers are located, according to the agency.


Hamas said it fired mortar shells at Israeli forces in northern Gaza and bombed Israeli tanks with missiles, downplaying reports that the Israeli army had made notable progress in the besieged Gaza Strip.


Israel has tightened its siege and bombed Gaza for three weeks without stopping, leading to the killing of more than 8,000 people, most of them civilians - including more than 3,200 children, according to the United Nations agency UNICEF, while 20,000 people were injured, and more than 35% of the area was destroyed. Gaza strip.


Hamas was able to detain 230 (according to Israeli sources), including at least 100 Israeli soldiers.


Western countries generally support what they say is Israel's right to defend itself, but international anger is mounting over the number of bombing victims, while calls are growing for a "humanitarian truce" to allow aid to reach civilians in Gaza and ease the humanitarian crisis.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 1:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

West Bank: 122 Palestinians killed since October 7

The young man, Ahmed Nofal (23 years old), died today, Monday, as a result of wounds he sustained by colonial bullets, on the twenty-fourth of this month, in the village of Ras Karkar, northwest of Ramallah.


The martyr Nofal had undergone several surgeries since his injury, which was described at the time as very critical, and he remained connected to artificial respirators throughout this period, until his martyrdom was announced today.


It is noteworthy that a colonist rammed a Palestinian vehicle carrying four young men near the village of Ras Karkar, before firing live bullets at the vehicle, which resulted in two young men being shot, one in the head and the other in the foot, and they were transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex.


And in Hebron. A young man was killed, Monday afternoon, by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets, after suppressing a student march at the entrance to Yatta, south of Hebron.


Coordinator of the Popular and National Committees to Resist the Wall and Settlements, Ratib al-Jabour, told WAFA that the occupation forces fired live bullets at a student march that reached the Ziv Triangle at the northern entrance to Yatta, which led to the death of a young man and the injury of dozens of people to suffocation.


The Ministry of Health announced that the young man, Fouad Ismail Abu Sobha (23 years old), from the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, was killed by occupation bullets, and dozens suffered from suffocation as a result of inhaling poisonous gas.


Four citizens were injured by bullets from the occupation army during the clashes that broke out at the Ziv Triangle, the northern entrance to the town of Yatta. They were taken to Abu Al-Hassan Al-Qasim Governmental Hospital in the town to receive treatment, and their injuries were described as moderate.


With the death of the young man Abu Subha, the death toll since dawn today rises to five, and since the start of the occupation’s aggression against our people on the seventh of this October, to 122.



PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 1:26 pm - Jerusalem Time

A journalist and a number of his family members were killed Gaza bombing

Today, Monday, a journalist and a number of his family members were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted his home in eastern Gaza.


Local sources reported that journalist Nazmi Al-Nadim was killed as a result of the occupation aircraft bombing his house located in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, in addition to the martyrdom of a number of his family members, without further details known at the moment.


With the death of Al-Nadim, the death toll among journalists since the beginning of the occupation’s aggression against the Gaza Strip on the seventh of this month has risen to 35 journalists, while dozens were injured, in addition to the bombing of the headquarters of 50 media organizations.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 1:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

Doctors Without Borders: The atrocities in Gaza have reached an extent we have never witnessed before

Today, Monday, Doctors Without Borders called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, to prevent more casualties and allow humanitarian aid to enter the Strip.


The organization added that the Israeli bombing of Gaza intensified in an unprecedented manner until northern Gaza was leveled to the ground, while all parts of the Strip were being bombarded, leaving no safe haven for civilians.


She pointed out that despite the issuance of a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly establishing a humanitarian truce, this did not achieve any results on the ground, as the violent Israeli bombing continued.


Doctors Without Borders called on the international community to take stricter measures to pressure Israel to stop its aggression, noting that civilians are being killed and forcibly displaced from their homes, and water and fuel continue to run out. While the atrocities in Gaza reached an extent that we have never witnessed before.


She continued: Medical aid began to run out in hospitals, and a few days ago, surgeon Muhammad Obaid, who works with the organization in Gaza, described the situation as follows: “Hospitals are crowded with patients. Amputations and surgeries are being performed without the use of proper anesthesia. The morgues have become overwhelmed with corpses.”


The organization pointed out that the communications outage on October 27 limited the crews’ ability to coordinate and provide medical and humanitarian assistance, while those trapped under the rubble, pregnant women about to give birth, and the elderly were unable to request the assistance they desperately needed. In light of this outage, MSF lost contact with most of its staff.


She pointed out that the number of wounded people who need urgent medical assistance exceeds what the health system can bear, as it includes about 3,500 beds. Never before had this number of casualties occurred in such a short period, even during previous Israeli attacks.


The organization confirmed that hospitals are crowded with patients, including Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, and orders issued by the occupation army to evacuate the hospital are an impossible and risky task. The hospital is currently operating at full capacity to provide medical treatment to patients, and shelters tens of thousands of people who have taken a safe haven there. In this context, international humanitarian law stipulates that patients, workers and health facilities must be protected at all times.


For his part, the international president of Doctors Without Borders, Christos Christou, said: Helpless people are living under the weight of horrific bombing, and there is no place for families to flee or hide after the gates of hell have been opened upon them. There must be an immediate ceasefire, and water, food, fuel, medical supplies and humanitarian aid must be re-secured in Gaza urgently.


He added that more than two million men, women and children face an inhumane siege in Gaza, which constitutes collective punishment prohibited under international humanitarian law.


Christo pointed out that the occupation authorities continue to prevent fuel from entering Gaza, even though it is necessary to supply hospitals with energy and operate desalination plants that produce clean drinking water.


He continued: Before October 7, the number of supply trucks crossing into Gaza ranged between 300 and 500 trucks every day, and most of the population relied on humanitarian aid. Today, although the Rafah border crossing is open, only 84 trucks have been able to enter the Strip since October 20, a response that is completely insufficient to meet the ongoing and growing needs in Gaza.


Christo said: We are ready to intensify our assistance in Gaza. We have a team on standby to send medical supplies and enter Gaza to support the emergency medical response when the situation allows. But if the bombing continues at its current intensity, any efforts to provide medical aid will inevitably fail.


PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 12:52 pm - Jerusalem Time

60 humanitarian aid trucks cross the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip

60 trucks of humanitarian aid crossed the Egyptian Rafah crossing into the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Egyptian sources reported today (Monday).


The sources told Xinhua News Agency that the Egyptian authorities sent the eighth batch of Palestinian aid this morning to the Al-Auja commercial crossing in central Sinai, in the amount of 60 trucks.


She explained that this quantity of trucks, which is the largest to cross into the Gaza Strip, comes as compensation for the delayed entry of two previous batches.


The sources indicated that the trucks were sent from in front of the Rafah crossing to the Al-Auja crossing in central Sinai to be examined and inspected from the Israeli side, and then sent again to the Gaza Strip through the Palestinian Rafah crossing.


Yesterday (Sunday), 48 trucks of humanitarian aid crossed into the Gaza Strip, including food, water, medicines and medical supplies.


Egypt is making intense efforts to accelerate the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip to alleviate the suffering of citizens trapped there since October 7.


Israel still refuses to allow the entry of petroleum derivatives with aid shipments, under the pretext that Hamas may seize them.
Today, the International Committee of the Red Cross delivered a shipment of medical supplies and emergency medicines to the administration of Nasser Governmental Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.



ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 30 Oct 2023 12:46 pm - Jerusalem Time

China and Russia take aim at US at Chinese military forum

There is big news at this time amid the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia has said that it is ready for talks with Ukraine. However, Ukraine has not yet responded to Russia’s proposal. At the same time, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has made many serious allegations against America. Shoigu said on Monday that the US was stoking geopolitical tensions to maintain its “hegemony”. He also warned about the danger of conflict between major countries.

Addressing the defense forum ‘Xiangshan Forum’ in Beijing, Shoigu also said that the US and its Asia-Pacific allies were undermining stability in the region. It is China’s largest annual event focused on military diplomacy. Shoigu said, “In order to maintain its geopolitical and strategic dominance, America is deliberately weakening the basis of international security and strategic stability.” He said that America and its Western allies of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ” Threatening Russia with “eastward expansion”. “The aim of Western countries is to escalate the conflict with Russia and increase the risk of confrontation between major countries,” he said. This will have serious consequences.

Russia ready to talk to Ukraine if conditions are right

Regarding Russia’s war in Ukraine, Shoigu said Moscow was ready to negotiate “if the situation warrants”. Zhang Yuxia, China’s second-ranking military officer and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, inaugurated the three-day event in the absence of General Li Shangfu. Shangfu was removed from the post of China’s Defense Minister last week. He has been away from public for two months. The Chinese government has not given the reason for Shangfu’s removal. Military representatives from many countries are participating in this event. China sees this as an opportunity to increase military cooperation with other countries and demonstrate regional leadership.


China expressed displeasure on America

The US delegation was led by Shanti Caress, the Defense Department’s principal official for China-related matters. Zhang said China was “willing to build military-to-military relations with the United States on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and cooperation.” China had suspended military communications with the US in August 2022, expressing unhappiness over the visit of former US Parliament Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. Without naming the United States, Zhang criticized “those countries that continue to create problems around the world.” He also called for a “political settlement on the Ukraine crisis” and “a resolution by all parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Called for stopping the violence and immediate ceasefire. (AP)

OPINIONS

Mon 30 Oct 2023 12:27 pm - Jerusalem Time

A German reading of the ground attack on Gaza: very complex urban warfare scenarios and the fate of the rule of the Strip

From Annahar- "Al-Quds" dot com

From Annahar- "Al-Quds" dot com

Opinion Writer

It seems that Israel has completed its preparations and expanded its ground and air operations against Gaza, despite all the talk that there is international pressure to prevent a ground attack and hopes to free more hostages held by Hamas. However, politically, it seems that there is no clear post-war plan for the Strip, where most people live. Of two million people under extremely difficult circumstances and without any real prospects. The Israeli government is facing difficult decisions, including regarding the families of the prisoners who are demanding the release of their sons, and at the same time there are calls for revenge for what happened to Israel on October 7, 2023. What are the complications of urban warfare?

 

4 goals and a number of complications

Carlo Massala, professor of international politics at the German Army University in Munich, said in a recent interview with the ARD news network that the Israeli government, after announcing the military mobilization, set four goals for its ground invasion: First, to undermine Hamas and get rid of the extensive tunnel network to make it It is unable to fight militarily, thus making Israel always safe for the population, and paralyzing its capabilities that allow it to launch more attacks on Israel’s borders from the Gaza Strip, not to mention making every effort to release its prisoners.

  

As for political analyst Christian Wagner, in an interview with Bayerischer Rundfunk, he said that destroying Hamas should not only mean killing the movement’s leaders, but all of its members, and this is impossible and will only happen in the most difficult circumstances. As for its weapons arsenal, the defect lies in the fact that it is not clear the extent of the capabilities of the secret services of the Israeli occupation to discover potential targets, and that determining their locations is difficult in the absence of reconnaissance except by means of marches. All this amid fear that a number of Israeli prisoners may have been housed inside the underground metro in Gaza, which is a dilemma for the army, not to mention the fear of explosive traps and mines. The United States bringing its forces to the region heralds an increase in the intensity of the conflict, and this also exposes the American army to danger.

 

This logic was also confirmed by Masala, who considered that the Israeli army must maintain proportionality, in the presence of military difficulties that threaten its armed forces, because urban warfare is one of the most complex military operations ever, and because the lives of prisoners are of importance to the Israeli people, explaining that when The Israelis attack partial targets from the air. The problem they face is the difficulty of focusing on Hamas sites.

 

From another angle, security experts considered that the plans of the Israeli forces are not clear exactly and what a major attack on Gaza will look like. They may rely on deploying groups of pens supported by attacks from the air, and perhaps sending tanks and infantry units to penetrate the ground. In both cases, they are at risk of suffering losses. A huge loss in the number of soldiers, considering that eliminating Hamas cannot be realistic, especially since the movement had plenty of time to prepare for ground confrontations that could take weeks or even months. Comments said that a ground attack is the only means to restore strategic deterrence in the region, and anything less than that would be a victory for Hamas and Iran.

 

The future of Gaza

Political readings have shown that strategic questions are being raised behind closed doors, including the extent to which Israel is able to achieve its declared goals. That is, at what point can the Netanyahu government declare the success of the ground attack and end the operation? If Hamas is eliminated, who will rule Gaza, especially since Israel does not want to extend its authority over Gaza in these circumstances and has no ability to do so, which it occupied until 2005?

 

This scenario was ruled out by expert Masala because it is the worst solution ever and will only fuel the movement's activity again. In this context, the scenario of the Strip being managed by the United Nations was also proposed, but Robert Bleicher of the International Crisis Group saw this as unthinkable for the Israelis. As for the third scenario, which is based on the Palestine Liberation Organization taking over the mission from Ramallah, it is illogical because it has become politically weaker than ever before, as it has lost control of Gaza to Hamas since 2007, and is not very popular in the Strip. Regarding the fourth scenario, which requires that Gaza be subject to the administration of an international group with the participation of a number of European and Arab countries, and then hand it over to a civilian Palestinian administration, this is not easy to implement because Hamas has political influence that makes it able to maneuver by imposing such a solution on it without Obligations and guarantees towards the Gaza citizen.

 

In the face of all these arrangements that involve uncertainty and the difficulty of predicting the development of the situation in slaughtered Gaza, the fear remains that the battle will expand in the Middle East with Hezbollah intervening more forcefully in the war and opening the Lebanon front. This is what worries Europe and the United States, because the political solution For the sector after that, it will not be easy.

 

Director of the Institute for Peace and Security Policy Research at the University of Hamburg, Ursula Schröder, warned that the Western and global order had reached its end, and the escalation in the region could be the final nail in the coffin of human values, noting, according to what was reported by the newspaper “Die Welt”, that the population in All parts of the world are increasingly becoming victims of violent conflicts, and this is what is happening in Syria, Yemen, Azerbaijan and others, where about 238 thousand civilians died in 2022 as a result of hostilities.



OPINIONS

Mon 30 Oct 2023 12:11 pm - Jerusalem Time

Reducing the crisis to Gaza will not solve the Palestinian issue!

Annahar- "Al-Quds" dot com

Annahar- "Al-Quds" dot com

Opinion Writer

By Youssef Badr

There are those who are pressing to stop the aggression against Gaza, including supporters of the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas", for fear of the expansion of the impact of this war on their lands. This was translated into practice by the visit of Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani to Moscow and his meeting there with a member of the Political Bureau of the "Hamas" movement Moussa. Abu Marzouk, and talk about a ceasefire deal in exchange for hostages.

 

There are also those who secretly support Israel's plan to eliminate this movement, believing that with its fall, tampering hands in the region will be loosened, which was translated into practice by the political statements and media speeches that sought to distance themselves from the Iranian square, or the Al-Aqsa Flood process was translated into political explanations ignoring the Palestinian issue. Or its conspiratorial view of the plan to get involved in a war with Israel, or its reference to resistance movements as an insinuation or statement of terrorism, or confusion in describing the situation of the Hebrew state between occupation and the right to defense; The positions were mixed with security concerns and challenges for fear of slipping into a square that would take the region back to June 1967, at a time when there was much talk about the new Middle East!

 

But the occupying state is continuing with its plan to reshape the Gaza Strip in a way that eliminates the resistance movements, even at the expense of the lives of the Palestinian people! The occupation army's plan is still in its first phase, which is based on launching harsh air attacks that destroy neighborhoods and buildings and transform the Gaza Strip into rubble and open land, making it easier for it to carry out a ground invasion without resisting street warfare, in addition to the stifling siege and starvation to push the residents of the Strip into forced displacement and return. Shaping its demographics if it ends up being in favor of the Hebrew state’s plans; Its leaders are buying time to settle their internal affairs and trying to achieve any formal victory, if in the end they are forced to respond to pressure from their Western allies to accept a truce... but the question remains: what comes after that?!

 

Search for an accused

Israel is not worried about expanding the circle of war with the northern front (Syria and Lebanon on the borders of occupied Palestine). On the contrary, it is looking for an accused to justify its actions in Gaza, or to distract international public opinion with a new front that places it in the image of a victim who is in need of the support of its allies. International parties, so that the picture appears as if what happened in Gaza was a conspiracy carried out by a country like Iran to eliminate the Zionist state, which may help it in the future to evade the rights of the Palestinian people that it ignored, which is what led us to the situation that the region is experiencing now.

 

The veto battle that took place between Russia and the United States during the UN Security Council meeting, Thursday, October 26, indicates that the West is looking for international approval to criminalize what Israel was subjected to in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation and include it under the name of terrorism. To complete the scenario that the occupation will exploit later to give its plan towards Gaza international legitimacy. Russia removed the name of its ally Iran from the draft US resolution accusing the Islamic Republic of supporting armed groups that it described as terrorist!

 

Russia, which is waging war on Ukraine, appears to have defended Iran. Because it does not want to expand the scope of the Gaza crisis outside its territory; Officially condemning Iran in the Security Council may divert attention from Hamas and open fire on a bigger culprit, which would harm Russia, which is also facing Western sanctions, especially since Iran has turned into a regional policeman working in its interest in Syria, the South Caucasus, Ukraine, and Africa.


Alliance against terrorism

The role that we have witnessed from French President Emmanuel Macron over the past few days is that of a light-hearted godfather to promote an international project to include the Gaza Strip among the tasks of the international coalition to combat terrorism currently spreading in Syria and Iraq. Although his plan is smart in the eyes of the West, it appears stupid in the eyes of the countries of the region. ; The West seeks to minimize the Gaza crisis and reduce it to “Hamas” after including it on terrorist lists, and the mission of the international coalition is to help Israel implement its plan towards that sector under an international and legitimate umbrella.

 

But in the eyes of the countries in the region that do not want Hamas to exist, this plan could increase the region’s crisis. When the international coalition fought ISIS, everyone supported it, even if there were those who supported it. But for Hamas, the matter is related to angry people and parties intertwined with this movement, such as Qatar, Turkey, and Jordan. The matter is not limited to Iran.

  

Although it seemed as if Macron had gone out alone without discussing his partners, in reality he was throwing a stone in the water to prepare public opinion. The visit made by US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian Nelson, to Qatar on Wednesday, October 25, as well as the tour of US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Wally Adeyemo, to Europe. It indicates the existence of joint Western cooperation to help Israel. If he does not succeed in forming an international coalition to represent its operation in Gaza; He succeeds in helping her in the post-process stage; It guarantees the drying up of the resistance movements’ financing network and supports the Palestinian Authority’s control over the Gaza Strip if Israel obtains what guarantees its security.

 

Confrontation with the United States!

Another mission of the French moves is to relieve the embarrassment of the United States of America, whose bases and forces in the region were subjected to symbolic attacks by armed groups loyal to Iran. Washington does not want its support for Israel to shift so that the battle with it shifts in a way that makes the crisis facing its administration internally more difficult, as indicated by the continuous communications and warnings from Washington to Baghdad after the attacks on its soldiers, as well as its intensification of security around its force bases in the Gulf, Syria and Iraq.

 

Thus, the mission of calling on France to form an international coalition is to form a mechanism that guarantees Israel and concerned regional and Western powers that a new front will not be opened in the region, especially by the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Yemeni Houthi group, or the Golan Front. If Iran gives them the green light to do so; Because fears of slipping into the Iranian square are everyone’s obsession with aligning themselves with revolutionary Iran in the end.

 

Therefore, the speech of Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei, on Wednesday, October 25, cannot be ignored, as he explicitly sought to transfer the battle with the United States, saying: “America’s hands are stained with the blood of the people of Gaza, and it is in fact managing this crime that is being committed in Gaza.”

As well as the continuous statements by Iranian military commanders, especially by the Revolutionary Guard, warning against a ground invasion of Gaza. Even if it is to save the face of the Iranian regime internally; But the experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria has proven the extent of what Iran can do against American interests.

 

In practice, managing the battle with America and putting pressure on it could relieve Iran of the dilemma of having to move its allies to confront Israel, and help it achieve its demands to stop the war and bring in aid, especially since the war in Gaza has somewhat shattered the mental image that was formed in the minds of supporters of the Iranian regime who have always heard A call to you, O Al-Aqsa, on the pulpits of their leaders, and now they find that the matter is subject to special calculations more than the calculations of the battle of good and evil! This is what the media machine is currently seeking to fix.

 

The demands of Western countries to open humanitarian corridors into the Gaza Strip indicate the effectiveness of this pressure. The issue of the hostages for Hamas represents a disturbing and embarrassing issue for the governments of these countries, which prompts them to put pressure on Israel to liberate the hostages by safe means through intermediaries such as Egypt, Qatar, or Jordan, or through specific operations that attempt to achieve a double goal: formal victory and the announcement of the hostages’ liberation.

 

Likewise, there is corresponding pressure on Iran regarding its nuclear file and the American threat to withdraw from the Sultan of Oman’s plan to reach an informal temporary agreement, according to which Tehran obtained part of its funds frozen abroad, and Washington also overlooked its oil exports, which lessened the impact of Western sanctions, the severity of which threaten the stability of the Iranian regime at home if it faces violent popular protests.


After 1967!

No one wants to return to the history of the June 1967 war. The countries of the region are seeking to overcome this history and its pain and restore what was destroyed by the Israeli aggression against them. But also what Israel is doing is because it believes that history and the region have stopped on that day, and that no one is moving except it. But this mentality is what brought Iran into the region.

 

If Israel continues to think with the same mentality after the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, this means that Iran will tend to expand its presence in the Mediterranean, through rapprochement with a country like Turkey, which has a crisis with the European powers over Cyprus, and also has a desire to achieve a balance. In front of Israel in the eastern Mediterranean region, especially since Turkey feels the need for this balance since the discovery of gas in that region, where German, British, French, and American forces are present to protect its interests and energy fields.

 

No one also accepts that Israel will continue to have the upper hand, at least there is a desire to balance it, as Turkey is geographically distant from it and manages its foreign relations in a clear and sometimes contradictory pragmatic manner. Its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, rejected Western efforts to describe Hamas as a “terrorist” movement. Because this harms Türkiye's interests and popularity at home and abroad.

 

Erdogan's statements coincided with what was said by the Iranian leader, who called on Islamic governments not to repeat Western governments' description of "Hamas" as a terrorist group.

  Also, the plans of the Western powers, which ignore the nature of the Middle East region and believe that Israel is still superior, express a crisis in their thinking. Iran will not allow the Hebrew state to repair the security and psychological defeat it has suffered, thus eliminating its ambitions towards the region.

 

Likewise, Turkey, which entered into a debate with Western powers because of its supportive support for the Hamas movement, will also not accept sacrificing its interests and regional balance in the interest of Israel’s superiority.

 

At the present time, the matter is no longer about Arab rights and a return to the 1967 borders; Rather, the matter has become more complicated for Israel, and it has wronged itself. The entry of parties geographically distant from Palestine, such as Iran, Turkey, and the Gulf states, has made the solution to the Palestinian issue a matter of a more complex network of calculations. Perhaps this matter has helped relieve pressure on neighboring countries such as Egypt and Jordan. But he managed the issue in the interests of accounts far from the solution area. The Turkish President called for holding a conference that brings together Israelis and Palestinians, similar to the Astana meeting, to resolve the Syrian crisis, and for Turkey to be a guarantor of any agreement reached. But it will not succeed if Palestine's neighboring countries, such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria, or Lebanon, are ignored, and all it will achieve is serving the agenda of any country that came from afar to support the Palestinian cause!






PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 11:40 am - Jerusalem Time

35 journalists killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza



The government media office in Gaza announced on Sunday evening that the number of martyred journalists as a result of the war launched by Israel on the Strip since October 7 has risen to 35 journalists.


The office said in a statement on the Telegram platform: “35 journalists...the government media office publishes a list of journalists who were promoted as a result of the ongoing occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip.”


The office published the names and photos of the journalist victims, as the list included: “Mohamed Al-Salhi, Ibrahim Lafi, Mohamed Jarghoun, Asaad Shamlikh, Saeed Al-Taweel, Hisham Al-Nawajha, Mohamed Abu Rizq, Aed Al-Najjar, Mohamed Abu Matar, Rajab Al-Naqeeb, Ahmed Shehab, Abdel Rahman Shehab.” , Hossam Mubarak, Hani Al-Madhoun, Issam Bahar.”


The list also included: “Muhammad Baalousha, Abdel Hadi Habib, Ali Suleiman, Anas Abu Shamala, Samih Al-Nadi, Khalil Abu Athrah, Muhammad Abu Zarifa, Muhammad Ali, Iman Al-Uqaili, Muhammad Imad Labad, Ahmed Masoud, Rushdi Al-Sarraj, Muhammad Fayez Al-Hassani, Saed Halabi, Jamal Al-Faqawi, Ahmed Abu Mahadi, Yasser Abu Namous, Salma Mukhaimer, Doaa Sharaf, Salam Mima.”


The Israeli targeting affected the family of the director of the Qatari Al Jazeera channel in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, as 12 members of his family were martyred, including his wife, son, and daughter, in a bombing that targeted a house to which they were displaced in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.


Al-Dahdouh received news of the targeting of the house where his family had taken refuge while he was covering the ongoing Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip from the Al-Jazeera office.


Since October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a war on Gaza in which 8,005 Palestinians were martyred, including 3,324 children, 2,062 women, and 460 elderly people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.


Hamas killed more than 1,538 Israelis and wounded 5,132, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health, and holds 239 prisoners, according to the Israeli army, including high-ranking military personnel.


ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 30 Oct 2023 11:21 am - Jerusalem Time

Angela Jolie denounces the bombing of civilians in Gaza

Actress Angela Jolie denounced in her Telegram account on Saturday-Sunday night "the bombing of the civilian population in Gaza."


Jolie, who has 14.6 million followers, wrote after denouncing the attack launched by Hamas: “This does not lend credibility to the killing of innocents in the bombing of civilians in Gaza, who have nowhere to go, no food and water... There are more than two million people in Gaza.” "Half of them are children and boys who have been living under a stifling siege for more than two decades, in addition to decades of uprooting and statelessness. Preventing the provision of aid, fuel and water is collective punishment of a people. Humanity demands an immediate ceasefire. The lives of Palestinians and Israelis and the lives of all people in the world are equal." .




PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 11:10 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli document from 2016: “Hamas plans to liberate all Palestinian lands until 2022”


The document was prepared by Avigdor Lieberman as Minister of Defense, as part of his then effort to push Israel into a major war against the Gaza Strip under the claim of eliminating the power of Hamas, “and to ensure that the next confrontation between Israel and Hamas will be the last by launching a surprise, pre-emptive strike.”


At the end of 2016, the former Israeli Minister of Security, Avigdor Lieberman, submitted a “top secret” document to the Israeli political and security leadership, and now claims that he warned of an attack that might be launched by Hamas, and that he accurately predicted a Hamas attack on October 7. . The document stated at the time that the goal of the attack was “to eliminate Israel until 2022, and to liberate all the lands of Palestine,” according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, which published the document today, Monday.


The newspaper added that none of the officials who saw this document took it seriously, including the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli Army Chief of Staff at the time, Gadi Eisenkot. It is clear from this document that Lieberman then sought to push Israel into a major war against the Gaza Strip, claiming to eliminate the power of Hamas.

The publication of the document comes in the wake of a tweet published by Netanyahu, the night before last, in which he said that he had not received any warning from security officials, especially the head of the Military Intelligence Division and the head of the Shin Bet, about the Hamas attack on October 7th. Yesterday morning, Netanyahu retracted his tweet and said: “I made a mistake. I apologize,” after severe criticism of him.


The return marches in the Gaza Strip, May 2018 (Getty Images)

The document dealt with assessments of the situation in the Gaza Strip, and Lieberman's position as Minister of Security. It stated that Israel must "ensure that the next confrontation between Israel and Hamas will be the last," and that "only if Israel surprises Hamas with a sudden, preemptive strike" and assassinates most of Hamas' military leaders.


The document added, “Postponing the decision to carry out a pre-emptive strike on Gaza until after July 2017 would be a serious mistake with far-reaching consequences, even worse than the results of the Yom Kippur War (in 1973), with regard to its effects on the home front, on the awareness of the citizens of Israel.” And on the image and status of Israel in the region.”


The document continued, "Hamas intends to transfer the upcoming confrontation to Israeli territory, by pumping large and well-trained forces, such as elite forces, into Israeli territory, occupying an Israeli town, and perhaps several towns, in the Gaza envelope and taking hostages. In addition to targeting them physically, this will lead to... "Severe targeting of the awareness and morale of the citizens of Israel."


The document considered that Hamas had set a goal of eliminating Israel until the year 2022, “during a series of deliberations within the framework of the movement’s ‘Executive Committee’ that took place in Qatar on September 25-27, 2016.” The document stated that Hamas stressed that it needs a "calm-down period" in order to complete building its strength and readiness.


According to the document, “Hamas is interested in making the next war against Israel multi-front, by building other fronts in addition to the Gaza Strip - Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Sinai - and even against Jewish targets around the world.”


The document added that Hamas seeks to expand the ranks of its fighters to “40,000 activists by the year 2020, and strengthening its strength will be in the ground combat system,” and that “in the wake of its increasing economic distress, the movement requested from Iran assistance in the amount of 50-60 million dollars.”


The document stated: “The defensive obstacle being built facing Gaza, and all its means and capabilities, is an important element in the current security strategy facing Gaza, but it cannot constitute a strategy in itself. Contemporary history and past precedents – the Maginot Line, the Mannerheim Line, and the Bar-Lev Line – have proven that walls Fortifications do not prevent war and do not guarantee tranquility and security.”


The document continued: “If Israel waits until it achieves intelligence control and erects a security wall, all of this superiority will be completely reduced in exchange for the increasing strength of Hamas during this period.”


The document concluded that “not taking an Israeli initiative until mid-2017 would be a serious mistake that would lead Israel to a difficult strategic situation. This would lead to an unplanned deterioration, and while in such a scenario Israel would not be able to assassinate the leadership of the military arm.” To Hamas, or worse - for Hamas to open a confrontation at a time convenient for it. I believe that the consequences of such an operation on the part of Hamas would be far-reaching, and in certain respects the consequences would be more severe than the results of the Yom Kippur War.”


Lieberman had resigned from his position as Minister of Security at the end of 2018, and justified this by Israel agreeing to a ceasefire with Hamas and the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip in the amount of $15 million. Netanyahu's office did not comment on Lieberman's document.

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 30 Oct 2023 11:07 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel refuses to receive the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

Israel refuses the entry of the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Karim Khan, to its territory, after he visited the Rafah crossing yesterday, and spoke about the suffering of the residents of the Gaza Strip due to the war launched by Israel on the Strip, and announced that the International Court intends to investigate “war crimes.” “Committed in Israel.


Today, Monday, the "Israel Hayom" newspaper quoted an official Israeli official as saying, "We know of the Attorney General's desire to visit Israel. Israel's position, like the position of other countries as well regarding the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, is known."


He added, "Israel announced that it has opened a criminal investigation and will exhaust the law with all those responsible for the horrific and criminal events committed by Hamas, which the plaintiff admitted to being so during his visit to Rafah."

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:57 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli army conducted a "limited ground incursion" into the Gaza Strip

Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said that Israeli army vehicles entered overland today (Monday) to the southern outskirts of Gaza City, amid violent clashes with Hamas fighters.


Sources and witnesses told Xinhua News Agency that dozens of army vehicles entered from the eastern area of the Gaza Strip, advanced at the Netzarim area, reached the main Salah al-Din Street and closed it with tanks in an attempt to cut off Gaza City from the center and south of the Strip.


The sources explained that clashes were taking place in the vicinity of the incursion area between Israeli army forces and Palestinian fighters, while explosions were heard.


During the past few hours, the Israeli air strikes continued non-stop throughout the Gaza Strip.


According to local sources, dozens of Palestinians were killed in the air strikes that occurred during the night and dawn today, but the final number has not yet been confirmed.


For his part, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee said that army forces continued during the night hours to expand ground operations in the Gaza Strip.


Adraee stated that during the clashes, soldiers eliminated dozens of Palestinian militants who holed up inside buildings and tunnels and tried to target Israeli forces.


He added that during the last twenty-four hours, about 600 targets were struck, including weapons warehouses, hiding and gathering places for Hamas elements, and anti-tank missile launch sites.



PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:57 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli bombing continues on the Gaza Strip and hospitals are on the verge of collapse

In light of the failed attempts to make a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, and the fierce resistance facing its forces on the northern and northeastern borders of the Gaza Strip, the occupation resorted at dawn and this morning to intensify its raids on homes and caused dozens of dead and hundreds of injuries.


On Monday morning, Israeli warplanes continued to bomb civilians by land, air and sea in various areas in the Gaza Strip, in parallel with its forces’ attempt to penetrate deep into the Strip, as the war on Gaza entered its 24th day.


In light of the attempts to make a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, and the fierce resistance facing its forces on the northern and northeastern borders of the Gaza Strip, the occupation resorted, at dawn and this morning, to intensify its raids on homes, causing dozens of dead and hundreds of injuries.


The Israeli raids continued in the early hours of Monday, and military aircraft targeted the Qalibo area in the northern Gaza Strip, the area surrounding the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza, and the neighborhoods of Tal al-Hawa, al-Sabra, al-Zaytoun neighborhood, and al-Shuja’iya.


In its escalation against the health sector in the Gaza Strip, it continued to bomb the vicinity of the Al-Quds Hospital affiliated with the Red Crescent, in an attempt to put pressure on its administration, which continues to refuse to respond to the occupation’s requests to evacuate it. The occupation also bombed the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, and it also repeatedly bombed the vicinity of the Turkish Friendship Hospital, which is the only hospital for patients. Cancer in the Gaza Strip, causing severe damage and causing panic among cancer patients and medical teams.


As the massacres against civilians continued, the toll of the aggression rose to 8,005 dead, including 3,342 children, 2,062 women, and 460 elderly people, in addition to nearly 20,000 wounded, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.


As a result of the aggression, 116 medical personnel, 18 rescue teams, and 35 media professionals were martyred since the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:46 am - Jerusalem Time

Hamas Political Bureau: A delegation from the Hamas leadership will visit Cairo within days

Member of the Hamas Political Bureau, Musa Abu Marzouk, revealed this evening, Sunday, an expected visit by the movement’s delegation to Cairo when the consultations reach advanced levels, expected to take place in the coming days.


Abu Marzouk explained, in an interview with Youm7, that the Egyptian side welcomed the visit of the movement’s leadership to Egypt and that there be a permanent delegation of the movement in Cairo to conduct consultations and discussions on various issues.


He stressed that his movement views positively the position of the Egyptian state regarding its rejection of the displacement scenario, and this is an appreciated position that serves the Palestinian people and prevents a new catastrophe.

PALESTINE

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:27 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel arrests 64 Palestinian citizens from the West Bank

At dawn on Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 64 citizens from several areas in the West Bank.


From Ramallah, the occupation army arrested 21 citizens, namely: Muhammad Saleh Alyan, Muhammad Ghawanmeh, and the two freed detainees, Fadi Nayef Alyan and Fadi Jamal Darwish, from Al-Jalazoun camp, and the girl Shatha Al-Barghouti from Deir Abu Mishaal, Awni Fares, Musa Hamed, and Saif Khalil Ezzat. Aseed Hassanein Khazna, Baraa Ahmed Khaled, Jumah Hassan Hammad, Baraa Muhammad Al-Saifi, Suhaib Imad Al-Shawareb, Farid Hammad, Mamoun Mahmoud Hamed, the two brothers Muhammad and Abd al-Rahman Raed Hamed, from the town of Silwad, Abd al-Hafiz Awni Zabin, and the liberated detainee Ashraf Wadih Saad, and Youssef. Abdel Wadi, and editor Bakr Atallah Saad from Al-Mazraa Al-Sharqiya.


From Hebron, the occupation arrested 13 citizens, namely: Qutaiba Al-Nawaja’a, Yahya Omar Abu Sobha, Raed Ibrahim Abu Aram, Ahmed Ali Al-Shawahin, and Zakaria Abu Fanar from the town of Yatta, and from the town of Al-Shuyoukh, they arrested Ahmed Majed and Rasneh, Mahmoud Ayman and Rasneh, Majed and Rasneh, and Majd. Zaki Halayqa and Hassan Shehadeh Ayida, and from the city, Nizam Muhammad Arif al-Rajabi and Haitham Ismail al-Rajabi, and from the town of Halhul, the child Ammar Ali Jamil Mansour (14 years old).


From Jerusalem, the occupation arrested 11 citizens, namely: the child Faisal Al-Rishq from the Ras Khamis neighborhood in the Shuafat camp, and from Al-Eizariya, the head of the Al-Eizariya Youth Club, Atta Yassin Jabr, Muqadheed Abu Rumi, and Omran Al-Shweiki, and from Jerusalem, Ahmed Nidal Al-Rajabi, Fouad Jibril, and Tihama. Jaber, from Silwan, Naim Odeh, and the two young men, Tamer Faisal Qandil, and Mahmoud Hani Qandil, from the town of Beit Surik, north of Jerusalem, after their motorcycle collided with an occupation forces checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Biddu. They also arrested a third young man, whose identity is not yet known.


From Nablus, the occupation arrested 8 citizens, namely: Nasser Al-Din Al-Shaer from the Al-Maajin neighborhood, Omar Al-Hanbali from the Zawata area, Iyad Abu Zahra from the Northern Mountain area, Khaled Al-Sousa, Zaher Musa, and journalist Nawaf Al-Amer from Kafr Qalil, and Qutaiba Hamadna from Asira Al-Shamaliah. And from the house of worship of Abdul Salam Mualla.


As for Bethlehem, the occupation arrested 8 citizens: the two brothers Rajai Muhammad al-Jaafari (23 years old), his brother Raneem (18 years old), Muhammad Abdullah Thawabta and his son Jihad from the town of Beit Fajjar, Raafat Osama Shakarneh from Nahalin, Issa Abdullah al-Arouj, and Faisal. Hassan Al-Arouj from Janata, and Muhammad Ibrahim Abu Sarhan from Al-Ubaidiya, after their homes were raided, searched, and tampered with their contents.


From Tulkarm, the occupation army arrested the two young men, Ahmed Nafi Arafat, and Omar Muhammad Youssef Omar from the town of Faroun. These forces also arrested the young man Muhammad Al-Duwairi (26 years old) from the city of Qalqilya.


ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:25 am - Jerusalem Time

Norway: Israel violated the rules of humanitarian law in the Gaza war

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr considered on Sunday that the Israeli army's response in Gaza to the attack launched by Hamas was disproportionate, denouncing a "catastrophic" humanitarian situation.


"International law stipulates that the reaction must be proportional. Civilians must be taken into account, and humanitarian law is very clear on this subject. I think this limit has been greatly crossed," Jonas Gahr Sture told public radio NRK.


He pointed out that "about half of the thousands of dead were children," adding that "Israel has the right to defend itself, and I realize that it is very difficult to defend oneself against attacks launched from a densely populated area like Gaza."


The Norwegian Prime Minister confirmed that "rockets are still being fired from Gaza towards Israel, and we condemn this," according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.


He stressed, "We are friends of Israel and condemn the attack carried out by Hamas three weeks ago. We also demand the release of the hostages, but we must express ourselves clearly. The situation is catastrophic and I believe it clearly violates what we call the rules of war or humanitarian law."


Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Ede announced that his country is "ready to assume responsibilities in the peace negotiations in the Middle East," and said in response to a question on a television channel, "Norway is ready if we are asked to do so."


Unlike its Nordic neighbors, which abstained from voting, Norway voted on Friday for a UN resolution that “demands an immediate, permanent and sustained humanitarian truce leading to an end to the fighting.”


The non-binding resolution, which was opposed by Israel and the United States, was supported by 120 members and 14 opposed, while 45 abstained from voting, out of 193 members of the General Assembly.



OPINIONS

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:16 am - Jerusalem Time

International support for the occupation war on Gaza declined

op-ed Al Quds dot com

op-ed Al Quds dot com

Opinion Writer

The recognition by Israeli officials that the level of international legitimacy supporting the occupying state in its aggressive war on the Gaza Strip is declining, is a recognition caused by the war of genocide and the massacres that the occupying state committed and is committing against our people in the Gaza Strip, which affected people, trees and stones, and which were exposed by satellite channels and all other media outlets. This revealed the reality of the occupying state, whose goal is not to eliminate the resistance, led by the Hamas movement, but rather to target safe citizens whose homes were bombed over their heads.
The world's vision of these massacres and the war of extermination led to a change in the positions of a number of countries that support and support the occupying entity, whether on the official level or on the level of the masses of these countries, especially the Western ones. These masses took to the streets in their millions to condemn the Israeli crime and demand that their governments side with them and not continue their support for the entity. The hostile Israeli regime occupies the Palestinian people and practices against them practices that shame all of humanity.
Therefore, large demonstrations took place, the largest in Britain for decades, against the government and its support for the Israeli occupation. Many demonstrators expressed their shame at their government’s support for the terrorist occupying state and its heinous and terrible actions against the safe citizens of the Gaza Strip.
The same applies to the United States, which threatened President Joe Biden that it would not vote in the upcoming elections, and that his position of support and even participation in the brutal aggression against Gaza is a disgrace and disgrace to America, which claims democracy and human rights. 

The masses in France also came out against the position of their government, and called for an end to the Israeli aggression. This public pressure led to the French delegate to the United Nations voting on the draft Arab resolution calling for stopping the war, opening safe corridors, sending aid to citizens, and lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing for several years. More than 16 years.


This is the tip of the iceberg, and the continuation of aggression, war of genocide, and crimes will increase day after day due to the decline in international support for the occupying state, which will further expose its truth to the world and its racism and arrogance, and perhaps in the future it will force the governments of these countries that support and support the occupying state to change their positions. 

Because the crimes committed and massacres against our people will increase the state of hostility, and this will even push our people to continue their struggle to defeat and leave the occupation.


All hail to the peoples of the world who stood and stand by our people, especially the peoples of the colonial countries who expressed their condemnation of the crimes of the brutal occupation.

OPINIONS

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:15 am - Jerusalem Time

Possibilities after the Gaza war

Nabil Amr

Nabil Amr

Opinion Writer

No one knows when this war will stop, including the direct parties involved in attack and defense, but the law of life says that it must stop.

During the war, the term “political horizon” and the two-state solution revived remarkably, as no one who gave their input on its developments, whether from the camp supporting the option of Israeli military action, or those who had reservations about it, did not adopt the idea of the inevitability of finding a political horizon, and most of those who spoke about it and a solution The two states are President Biden.

It is not logical, and perhaps not useful, to go too far in proposing detailed scenarios for the political path, while the results of the war have not become clear, not even in an approximate way, so talking about what comes after the war does not go beyond the possibilities.

The first possibility, which rises to the level of automatic axioms, is that the current American administration will make a serious effort to extinguish the burning and latent fires in the Middle East, with a political initiative that is supposed to be fairer and more effective than all previous initiatives from the first Camp David to the recent Oslo, because the American talk The two-state solution, without being accompanied by a tangible effort in this direction, and without seeing its positive impact on the Israeli position, must automatically lead to the second possibility, which is crisis management, which the administrations went to and worked on, after the door to Palestinian negotiations was permanently closed. The door to fighting of varying intensity was opened on the West Bank and Gaza fronts, which produced a severe weakness for the Palestinian Authority until it turned into a burden on its people and those betting on it, and brought the extremists of the right in Israel to power, according to the established rule... The further away the chances for peace are, the higher the chances of the right to rule. Israel.

America's incursion into crisis management policy produced a feeling among the Palestinians that their issue had become merely economic facilities, when Washington talked a lot about aid that should be provided for the well-being of the Palestinians, and then it descended into wishful thinking, when America sponsored many activities under the roof of security understandings between the two sides. Finally, in light of the impact of the destructive war on Gaza, coupled with the war suffocating the West Bank between the army and the settlers, the term humanitarian solutions appeared, which, despite their necessity, especially in Gaza, remain far from what the Palestinians are asking for, that is, a political solution.

What doubles the Palestinians’ anxiety about the policy of managing the crisis instead of treating it in a way that leads to its solution is that it has settled in this place over a long period of time, and several successive administrations have adhered to it, including Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, who made the last attempt at a political solution and announced its failure, blaming Israel. Then The Trump administration is the owner of the initiative that was stillborn due to Palestinian, Arab and international objection to it. Then the Biden administration, which promised during the election campaign to modify paths but failed to fulfill its promise.

The war on Gaza and the West Bank is difficult and extremely cruel to the Palestinians. However, what will be more difficult politically is when America, the godmother of Israel, the settlement, and the remnants of Oslo, returns to the policy of crisis management despite its admission, albeit in a faint voice, that it has created a dangerous vacuum not only on the Palestinian-Israeli track, but also at the regional level. Entire.

The Biden administration has become a direct partner in the war on Gaza, and has mobilized its fleets in the region for fear of expanding the scope of the war, which would ignite the entire region.

The most important outcome of this direct military effort was the strengthening of American influence over the Israeli decision, which was the main obstacle to any progress on the political track, after the far-right government in Israel expanded the scope of its rebellion against many aspects of American policy.

The course of the current war has revealed a deep and wide difference between America and those who are supposed to be its friends, if not its “allies.” They have all taken decisive positions not only by condemning the destructive war on Gaza, but also by declaring the inevitability of beginning an effective political path that will put an end to the wars that are raging or could be raging, in The absence of a lasting and just peace. Will what happened - which is large, costly and dangerous - shift the effort from crisis management to resolving them? This is what will appear before the war stops, as a preliminary premise, and after it stops, as a political path.

OPINIONS

Mon 30 Oct 2023 10:14 am - Jerusalem Time

Under the arch of the guillotine; The necessary initiative of the Liberation Organization

Al-Mutawakkil Taha

Al-Mutawakkil Taha

Opinion Writer

What happened on October 7, 2023, and what is happening through this horrific massacre; It is outside the box of the prevailing and usual style, and therefore dealing with it and reflecting on it requires a new language, and it should be thought of using tools outside the box.
There are vocabulary that rolls among this rubble; Such as the missing, those buried under the rubble, the continuous raids, the families that were completely removed from records, the Western alignment behind the state of genocide and ethnic cleansing, the hostages, systematic war crimes, double standards, and the suppression of demonstrations in the cities of Europe, in solidarity with the Palestinians and the victims of Gaza, while being guarded. Pro-Israel demonstrations, under the title “The Right to Expression”!
There are questions that arise in this poisoned mess.. For example: Why does the occupation have the right to defend itself, but the Palestinians do not have the right to do so? Is Palestinian, Arab and Islamic blood, in general, worthless? Did the conflict begin on the day of the crossing, October 7, so that the world would come to the aid of the Israelis? Or did the world itself remain silent in the face of the atrocities of the occupation, its fires, its settlements, its incursions and its violations, for bitter decades, until the victim exploded in the face of her killer? Why didn't the world do anything for us and put Israel above the law? Is this a healthy, civilized, and civilized world that seeks peace, justice, and the preservation of rights, or is it a partner in our annihilation? Why do some Arab officials volunteer and repeat Israel's positions verbatim? Rather, they describe us as barbarians and heinous people? Or are they worse, more severe in words, more cursing a principle, and more hateful to a soul?! In fact, some of them, at the height of the massacre, insisted on economic and security integration with the occupying state! I ask: Are these Arabs and Muslims? I invite them to stare in their mirrors.
The occupying state has nothing but revenge and blatant killing - 700 victims per day - and perhaps it thought that the fires of its settlers, the raids on the Holy Mosque, and its continuous crimes would push the Palestinians to submission... But it realized that the people would not accept the yoke of slavery, Israelization, and orgy, and that a handful of men could To wallow its face in the mud and prove that Israel is an entity fit for defeat. Yes, this entity, which breathes from an external lung, is completely fit to be destroyed, and this is what the shakers and normalizers must realize! Because Israel needs someone to protect it...how will it protect you, you fearful people?
These unprecedented massacres revealed the reality of the world, which is a jungle.
There is no law and they do not grieve! This overwhelming torrent of blood and devastation will put the region on the brink of a regional war, and will generate deep hatred... unless the Palestinian people obtain their rights.
No one wins in war except death, devastation and tragedies. We hate war, and we do not want to be martyrs, displaced, and left in pieces under the rubble...but the occupation has turned our lives into death and ruin, and funeral homes have been open for a century! Under the eyes of the world!
The occupation has been trying, for decades, and seeking, to turn the Palestinian into a “positive victim,” from his point of view. Meaning that he kills, slaughters, skins, confiscates, arrests, and burns...then he wants the Palestinian to remain silent and bow his head! But if he rises up, resists, fights, and responds... the occupation will make him extremely uncomfortable, and will exaggerate in killing and destruction... until he retreats and does not repeat his attempts... which makes some people cry out for help, lash out, and demand “calm down” and “withdrawal of pretexts”, so that the occupation does not continue its frenetic, bloody madness. 

Waiting for a political solution - which will not come - and thus their logic demands that we surrender, and even wants us to dig our graves with our own hands and sew our shrouds with our fingers! Perhaps I will stand with those calling for calm if the occupation listens, takes care, or stops its desecration of holy sites, burning towns and trees, and confiscating land, but it continues its criminality and arrogance, and I ask, gentlemen, what is the solution? Do we watch the occupation commit its atrocities and crimes, because we are “weak,” “we have no help,” and “we cannot fight with it”? Then he will resolve the conflict, complete his plans, and implement his projects, and he will devour the country and control Al-Aqsa! is not it! In a time of Arab and Islamic silence and Western hypocrisy!
I know that we are between two blades, but fighting and confronting the occupation is a necessary matter, because it is feasible, and it exaggerates the occupation on many levels, curbs its settlers, limits settlements, preserves the sanctities, restores the Palestinian cause to the forefront, mobilizes the international street, stirs up stagnant water, and costs the adversary. Huge losses. Every Palestinian must practice “resistance” appropriate to his circumstances and situation, from comprehensive peaceful resistance to what is guaranteed by international laws.
We will stand with any political proposal that empowers us with our rights, but we will not be complacent or respond to any formula that perpetuates and legitimizes the occupation, deepens its control, and keeps us under its yoke. We will not provide any “free” consent, under the pretext of pressure, power imbalance, or feeling small. Our issue is the issue of generations, even if the conflict is being initiated on the horizon of the guillotine!
Their speaker says: After we get rid of those in Gaza, you will have a state, O Palestinians! And we will call for a two-state solution. I remind everyone that during the 2002 invasion of the West Bank, America announced that it would establish a state for us, but it justified that the Palestinian leadership at the time - the symbol Yasser Arafat - was an obstacle that must be removed so that the state could emerge! Abu Ammar died as a martyr. Did George Bush Jr. give us anything? They repeat the same lie, and seek to deepen the cracks in our one body. Let us be careful! Because doubting each other will weaken us. Rather, we must all stand behind a comprehensive political initiative, different, serious, and subject to time and conditions, adopted by the M.T. F. the only legitimate representative, and we must prepare to restore our true unity, under the umbrella of national legitimacy. Otherwise, after the war and whatever the outcome, we will be facing each other, the disagreement and division will expand, and our land will be furnished with cracked glass that will make our feet bloody, without exception.
Those who support the killer are murderers like him, and they are the ones who incite conflict, deepen hatred, and destroy human principles and human values. They are responsible before the human conscience and before history... but, unfortunately, they believe that they are racially superior to other people, and they do not give weight to any law or Moral agreement or balance. What is strange is that they talk about values and claim the law. It is a forest, gentlemen. It is the forest of the savage white, who inherited the characteristics of the “Hundred Years” wars, the “Rose,” the “Inquisition,” the “Hiroshima bombing,” “two world wars,” and “the phenomena of fascism and Nazism.” “The extermination of one hundred million Native Americans,” “McCarthyism,” “The Crusades,” and “The colonialism that plundered the wealth of Africa and Asia..”


Crime is a mechanism that feeds itself and justifies itself... meaning that the more crime increases, the more its appetite opens up to kill, crush, erase, and destroy, and it finds pretexts on its own to justify what it does, without hesitation! The advocacy is often ready to defend this killing, without calculation or scrutiny, and it also finds those with precedents and interests to support it...so much so that they bend the neck of the sacred and positive texts, and say what they did not say! Or they invent weak justifications that they escalate to become decisive reasons.


This white racist who is biased towards Israel is a distillation of all this fascist black history, and it is an extension of that bloodiness wrapped in silk and so-called elegance.. Israel is only one of the manifestations of this barbaric, uncontrolled history. That is why it will seem “natural” for Israel to behave with such bloody sadism and arrogance. It is clear that Israel, with all this genocide, wants to maintain the image of the victim, which is why it attaches all the terms “terrorism and ISIS” to its opponents, and this is what explains its demonization of the Palestinians, and its portrayal of them as backward, barbaric, and murderous barbarians, and this is what provides them with additional reasons to kill them, too! But this forbidden blood will accumulate, and it will become a deep, turbulent lake, pulling into its depths all those who put their fingers on the trigger of extermination, all those who burned children and orphaned them, all those who supported this pagan slaughterer, all the blue-blooded people who will drown in their abhorrent racism, and all the hypocrites who will fall into Its lowest point. We tell them that this people who never raised the white flag are the same people who broke the day and destroyed the steel towers! He returned with the songs to the homes... so demolish them, because we will restore them more perfect and more beautiful. And kill... Pregnant women in Gaza alone will give birth to ten thousand babies every month. So pay attention! The matter you are asking about has been decided.