On Sunday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested three citizens, including a woman, from occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the town of Sur Baher, south of Jerusalem, and arrested the young man, Asim Abed Bakirat, after raiding and searching his house.

They added that the occupation forces arrested the young man Abdul Rahman Rukn from his workplace in Jerusalem, and Samiha Salama as she passed through the Shuafat Camp military checkpoint.

Demonstrations and vigils continued in Arab and international cities denouncing the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which entered its 23rd day, leaving 8,000 martyrs and about 20,000 wounded, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Morocco witnessed popular demonstrations in several cities, including Casablanca, Marrakesh, Nador, Safi and Benslimane, in support of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip.

A demonstration was also organized near the French Consulate in the city of Agadir, during which participants chanted slogans denouncing Western and American support for Israel and the international silence regarding the massacres committed by the occupation in Gaza.

Demonstrations and vigils continued in Arab and international cities denouncing the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which entered its 23rd day, leaving 8,000 martyrs and about 20,000 wounded, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Morocco witnessed popular demonstrations in several cities, including Casablanca, Marrakesh, Nador, Safi and Benslimane, in support of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip.

A demonstration was also organized near the French Consulate in the city of Agadir, during which participants chanted slogans denouncing Western and American support for Israel and the international silence regarding the massacres committed by the occupation in Gaza.

In the occupied West Bank, a number of cities and villages in the West Bank witnessed demonstrations and night sit-ins, rejecting the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, calling on the international community to intervene to bring about a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and to quickly send humanitarian aid to the residents of the besieged Strip.

Hundreds of citizens went out in massive demonstrations, taking to the streets in Tubas, Jenin and its camp, Tulkarm, the Shuafat camp in Jerusalem, and other separate areas in the West Bank, in support of the resistance and in support of the people of Gaza.

In the United States, Washington, DC, witnessed a protest demonstration against the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, demanding a ceasefire, an end to the occupation, and freedom for Palestine.

The demonstrators also criticized the position of the administration of US President Joe Biden and its support for Israel during the war on the Gaza Strip.

In France, demonstrators organized a march in solidarity with Palestine in the city of Marseille, in the south of the country, to denounce the Israeli army’s intensification of its bombing of the Gaza Strip and demand an end to the war and relief for the victims.

Thousands also gathered in marches in various parts of the country yesterday, Saturday, while a large police force prevented a demonstration in the center of the capital, Paris.

In Canada, a demonstration took place in the cities of Vancouver and Toronto in solidarity with the Palestinians, and the participants in the demonstration raised slogans demanding an end to Israeli crimes against the Palestinians and demanded an end to what they described as massacres and genocide against the residents of the Gaza Strip.

Digital platforms broadcast video clips documenting the participation of hundreds in a demonstration in the Canadian city of Toronto, demanding a ceasefire and the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip in light of the violent Israeli bombing.

The Australian city of Sydney also witnessed a demonstration of solidarity with the Palestinians, in which participants demanded an end to the war on the Gaza Strip and denounced the practices of the Israeli occupation.

In Spain, demonstrations took place in cities, including Madrid, Bilbao and Valencia, to demand an immediate end to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

The demonstrators chanted slogans criticizing the positions of European governments and accused them of supporting Israel and refusing to provide assistance to the people of Gaza. The protesters demanded an end to what they described as genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

In Austria, a demonstration took place in support of Palestine and denouncing the crimes of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the war.

These demonstrations come as part of a pro-Palestinian momentum and condemnation of the intense Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip for the 23rd day, leaving thousands of martyrs and wounded, with the continuation of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” launched by the Palestinian resistance factions at dawn on October 7th in response to the attacks of the Israeli occupation and settlers against the Palestinian people. And its sanctities.

Source: Al Jazeera + social networking sites

On Sunday evening, Israeli occupation forces blew up a house under construction in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces blew up the house of the martyr Khaled Saif at the western entrance to the village, where the occupation army was based as a military point.

On Sunday, Hezbollah announced that it targeted military sites and forces belonging to the Israeli occupation army in the border areas of southern Lebanon, while the occupation announced that it attacked a group of fighters that targeted Israeli sites, and the occupation planes also bombed Hezbollah infrastructure.

Today, rocket shells were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israeli positions in the north of the country. The occupation army said that its air defenses intercepted two missiles, while a third fell in an open area. Israeli reports indicated that the two interception operations were carried out by the Patriot air defense battery.

On the other hand, Lebanese sources reported that the Israeli army bombed with artillery the outskirts of the towns of Al-Bustan, Marwahin, and Zibqin and the vicinity of the Labouneh area, south of Lebanon. The sources pointed out that two Israeli raids targeted the outskirts of the towns of Kafar Shuba and Shebaa in southern Lebanon.

For more than two weeks, the border areas in southern Lebanon have witnessed an almost daily exchange of fire and shelling between Israeli forces, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions active in Lebanon, with the intensity of the confrontation escalating against the backdrop of the war launched by Israel against the besieged Gaza Strip, the intensification of air strikes and the destruction of entire neighborhoods on top of their residents. Which led to the death of thousands.

Today, Sunday, settlers attacked farmers in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

Eyewitnesses reported that armed settlers wearing military uniforms attacked the citizen, Jibril Musa Abu Aram, and his two sons, Nael and Ahmed, threatened them with death, and prevented them from continuing to work and harvest olives in the Qweqis area.

They added that the occupation forces, who came to the place to protect the settlers, detained the citizen Jibril, his son Ahmed, and the citizen Naeem Khaled Abu Aram, who was present at the place and tried to prevent the settlers’ attack on the farmers.

Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh said that in response to the directives of King Abdullah II, the Council of Ministers decided to allocate 45 thousand tons of wheat and grains and 7 trucks of medicines, medical and pharmaceutical needs and equipment to the West Bank and arrangements are underway to send them, adding that the path of humanitarian aid continues to the West Bank and Gaza.

Al-Khasawneh indicated, in his speech at the Jordanian Cabinet session on Sunday, that the advanced effort led by King Abdullah II succeeded in issuing a resolution from the United Nations General Assembly calling for a ceasefire and a sustainable humanitarian truce, and many basic contents and elements in support of the Palestinian people.

Today, Sunday, Israeli occupation aircraft launched several raids targeting various places in southern Lebanon, including the villages of Kafr Shuba and Aita al-Shaab.

The occupation artillery also targeted the villages of: Al-Jabain, Tair Harf, Majdal Zoun, Shihin, Al-Dhaira, Alma Al-Shaab, Zibqin, and Marwahin.

The Israeli bombing targeted a house in the town of Maroun al-Ras on the Lebanese-Palestinian border, without causing casualties. Today, the occupation artillery also targeted with incendiary shells the forests surrounding the towns of Naqoura and Alma al-Shaab.

Last night, the occupation bombed the forests adjacent to the Blue Line with incendiary shells in order to set them on fire, and fired flares in the sky of the western and central sectors, amidst reconnaissance aircraft flying overhead.

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

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the town and were stationed in the Al-Hawoz area, firing bullets and tear gas bombs from time to time, while the occupation soldiers stormed a number of citizens’ homes in the area and searched them, without any injuries or arrests being reported. .

Today, Sunday, Israeli occupation bulldozers bulldozed 8 dunums of lands in the town of Kafr al-Dik, west of Salfit.

The mayor of Kafr al-Dik, Muhammad Naji, reported that the occupation bulldozers bulldozed 8 dunums of land belonging to the heirs of the late Ayoub Ali Ahmed, in the Diriyah area, to expand the “Beduel” and “Eli Zahav” colonies built on Kafr al-Dik lands.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces closed the headquarters of “Dream Radio” in the city of Hebron, and prevented it from broadcasting.

The director general of the radio station, Talab Al-Jaabari, said that the occupation authorities informed him, via a phone call, of the decision to close the radio station and stop its work, and threatened him to storm it and destroy its contents if it resumed broadcasting, under the pretext of disrupting the movement of occupation aircraft.

He added that this measure is the third in recent years, and is part of the occupation's violations against media institutions in Palestine, as it continues to commit crimes against citizens.

The young man, Hussein Yousef Rabie (25 years old), from the Dheisheh camp, south of Bethlehem, was killed as a result of his wounds by occupation bullets while storming the camp on Sunday.

Medical sources at the Palestinian Red Crescent in Bethlehem reported that the young man, Hussein Rabie, was shot in the head while he was on the roof of the house when the occupation forces stormed the Dheisheh camp, and he remained in the place bleeding without anyone knowing of his injury.

The source added that he was transferred to Beit Jala Hospital, where he was declared dead.

With the death of young Hussein Rabie, the number of dead who rose since dawn today during confrontations with the occupation in the West Bank to 5, and to 116 since the beginning of the aggression on the seventh of this month.

The director of the Office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority in Bethlehem Governorate, Hassan Brijiyeh, said that the occupation has tightened its closure on the governorate since the seventh of this month with the start of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, by erecting 73 military barriers and stone and earth berms.

He pointed out that there are 26 dirt berms that close the side and agricultural roads that open to the main and bypass roads.

Brijiyeh said: This led to the lack of communication between the Palestinian communities and the lack of citizens’ access to their agricultural lands, while at the same time working to connect the colonial communities to each other and facilitate the movement of the occupation forces and colonists, an embodiment of the apartheid system, especially since the colonialists are now exploiting the prevailing conditions to control More private lands classified as C, and the displacement of farmers from them.

With every new day, internal pressure on the Prime Minister of the occupation, Benjamin Netanyahu, increases after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, on October 7th.

Netanyahu faces many criticisms, whether for his failure to protect citizens, or his government’s failure in the issue of detainees held by the Qassam Brigades, due to the growing pressure within Israeli society.

Since the first days that followed the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” the families of the detainees took part in demonstrations, demanding that Netanyahu and his government take action to save their relatives.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, about 230 families have been informed that their relatives are detained in Gaza.

Almost daily, the families of Israeli detainees gather to demand intervention to return them. Clashes even broke out between them and supporters of the Likud Party, who support the government’s moves, in front of Netanyahu’s house.

After more than three weeks and after demands to meet him, a delegation of them met with Netanyahu yesterday, in an attempt to calm their anger, but this was to no avail.

The families of the detainees confirm that the responsibility for the fate of their relatives lies with the government, but Yedioth newspaper indicated in another report that the file of these detainees is not a priority for the government now, and that the first goal of the emergency government headed by Netanyahu is “to destroy Hamas.”

Prisoners versus detainees

Many of them demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners from the occupation prisons in exchange for the return of the detainees. The family of one of the detainees, named Jonathan Samrano, said: “Jonathan and all of them do not deserve to be there today.. Let all the imprisoned prisoners return to Gaza.”

These demands were present during Netanyahu's meeting, as many of them demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of their children, but he promised them that all options were on the table to return them.

In Caesarea, demonstrators chanted against Netanyahu, saying: “You are responsible for what happened. Resign and leave. Take responsibility for the people.”

One of the demonstrators said: “It is not possible that with all the failure here, Netanyahu will continue to run the country. He must resign and leave his position quickly. You must leave the position, and look at the parents who are protesting.”

In occupied Jerusalem, dozens gathered and chanted: “We do not want to wait until the end of the fighting because there may be no one to return.” They raised banners that included demands for the release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of the detainees as quickly as possible.

The bombing continues and detainees are ignored

In the latest statement from Al-Qassam, it announced the killing of 50 detainees as a result of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, which increased the anxiety of the families of these detainees, who went out to demonstrate, demanding clarifications regarding the government’s pledges not to expose their families to danger.

Ronen Nutra, the father of one of the detainees, said: “We demand that the war government explain how to carry out the ground operation... and not expose the kidnappers to danger.” He pointed out that the violent bombing of the Gaza Strip is also affecting detainees.

The criticism directed at the head of the detainees committee, Gal Hirsch, also continues, and Yedioth quoted a relative of the detainees: “Hirsch came to have the first conversation with us after three weeks... and he did nothing. He gave us updates, and assigned us the tasks of helping with the information mission!” And when we dared to ask what he would do to bring everyone home, he said, “We are all in the same boat!” These are statements that sparked widespread outrage.

This comes as the occupation continues its brutal aggression against Gaza, coinciding with its forces launching a ground operation in the Strip.

The brutal raids launched by occupation fighters continue, targeting the homes of defenseless civilians, in addition to targeting hospitals, mosques and churches, which has led to thousands of martyrs and wounded, while those who have survived the bombing so far are suffering from a catastrophic humanitarian situation, in light of the restrictions on them.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression rose to more than 8,000 martyrs.

An advertising campaign was launched in Kuwait to boycott the products of international companies that support the Israeli occupation, in a move of solidarity with Palestine and the people of the Gaza Strip who have been subjected to widespread Israeli aggression for 20 days.

Video clips and pictures of the billboards were shown in the advertising campaign that filled the streets of Kuwait. The boards, which included pictures of children, were written under the slogan: “Did you kill a Palestinian child today?”, in addition to the tag “Boycotters.”

An example of solidarity with Gaza

The advertising campaign received great interaction on social media platforms. Activists praised it and considered it an example of solidarity with Gaza.

Activists from the Arab world shared the video clip depicting billboards on a street in the State of Kuwait, and some accompanied them with comments calling for a boycott of the products of American and European companies that support Israel.

Some went on to use the advertising campaign slogan, "Did you kill a Palestinian today?" He attached pictures of some products, calling for their boycott.

Some activists also shared pictures displaying some brands and products of companies supporting Israel and attached them with the hashtag “Boycott enemy products.”

Campaigns calling for a boycott

Since the start of the aggression on Gaza, Arab activists and influencers have sought to call for non-financing of the war on Gaza by boycotting the products of companies that support Israel, including baskets from American fast food restaurants, especially McDonald's, which donated tens of thousands of free meals to the Israeli army.

McDonald's reported that it donates 4,000 meals a day to the Israeli army and citizens, and also offers a 50% discount to soldiers and security forces.

The hashtag “Boycott McDonald’s Campaign” and other companies topped the most popular list on the “X” platform in a number of Arab countries.

Videos have also spread that aim to raise awareness about well-known products that are consumed daily, but they were made in Israel or by Western companies that support them, including Coca-Cola, Lays, Danone, Burger King, the American coffee company Starbucks, and others.

The Palestinian National Committee for the Boycott of Israel had called on its website to strengthen campaigns to boycott Israel at all levels: economic, academic, cultural, artistic and sports.

Cairo News TV reported on Sunday that a new aid shipment, including 10 trucks, began crossing the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip.

The television quoted high-level sources earlier (Sunday) as saying that Cairo is intensifying its contacts with all international parties to bring large quantities of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip during the current week, according to what was reported by the Arab World News Agency.

A medical aid truck, accompanied by a delegation from the Red Cross, arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday, while the Israeli raids on the Strip entered their twenty-third day.

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spolijaric Egger, warned on Saturday that the hospitals still working in Gaza were on the verge of collapse, and described the inability to provide adequate aid in Gaza as a “catastrophic failure” that the world must not tolerate.

Can Hamas be dismantled and destroyed?

The government and military control of Gaza by Hamas can be dismantled and destroyed. It will not be easy and the human costs will be great. Israel has for sure developed plans for how to smoke or gas the Hamas fighters and leaders out of the web of tunnels underneath the entire Gaza strip. If Israeli civilian hostages – the children, women, elderly, wounded and sick are not brought out under an agreement with Hamas, they will be at risk of death with all of the hostages that Israel considers soldiers. Hamas already claims that 50 hostages have been killed in Israeli bombings. We have no way to know if this is psychological warfare or the truth. There is great pressure on Israel to meet its moral responsibility to bring home all of the hostages because of the failure of Israel to provide security and protection for these citizens – which is the primary and most important duty of any state. 

While some important Israeli leaders have said that Israel should empty its prisons out of all Palestinian prisoners and send them to Gaza in exchange for all of the hostages, this seems very unlikely to happen. Israel seems to be exhausting every possible avenue to bring home the civilian hostages, but eventually the military incursion into Gaza will happen in full force.

I believe that Israel should agree to a ceasefire to allow for the civilian hostages to be freed. Israel can agree to allow fuel trucks into Gaza for the hospitals only accompanied by United Nations non-Palestinian personnel who will stay with the trucks and then stay at the hospitals to ensure that the fuel will not be stolen by Hamas. We should now allow for this issue to prevent the possibility of retrieving the majority of the hostages through agreement. It is not clear that Hamas is prepared for such a deal. It is not clear that Hamas has control over all of the hostages. It is not clear that Qatar is speaking to the people who are holding the hostages. 

It is more likely that Egypt has the ability to speak to the Al-Qassam people who are holding most of the hostages. I have spoken to Hamas political leaders in Gaza, Beirut and Doha. My sense is that they are not in control and their demands or statements on what they want are not consistent and probably cannot be trusted. It is a very complex situation. The fact that it is also not 100% clear who is the interlocutor for this on the Israeli side is also a complicating factor. 

It seems that Gal Hirsch is not in charge as the coordinator for missing Israelis. He does not seem to have the confidence of the War Cabinet and I have heard that even Netanyahu is not really engaging with him. I have grown tired of Israeli statements that “we are doing everything possible to return the hostages – leaving no stone unturned.” I heard it for five years when Shalit was in captivity when I knew that for very long periods of months and even more than a year, no negotiations were taking place at all. I have heard the same thing for years about Oron Shaul, Hadar Goldin, Avera Mengisto and Hisham A-Sayed.

So, I believe that sooner or later Israel will enter Gaza with a huge force. Many hostages may be rescued, many others may not. Many soldiers will be at risk as well. All of the people who are holding hostages will be killed. Maybe there will be some who don’t actually want to die and maybe some of them will hand hostages over to Israel. If they do, they will be granted amnesty and free passage and money to leave to wherever they want to go. Every person who had something to do directly with the capture and captivity of Gilad Shalit is no longer alive. That will be the fate of almost everyone responsible for what happened in Israel on October 7.

My final words in this (too) long article is to the people of Gaza, to the Palestinian people, and to all of us Israelis. My heart bleeds for all of the innocent people of Gaza who have been killed, many of them buried alive under the thousands of homes that have been destroyed by Israeli bombs. 

War crimes are being committed by Israel in Gaza. Killing innocent people is not “collateral damage.” We are talking about the lives of thousands of people who are victims of this conflict as well, regardless of their political opinions or their views on Hamas. If they are non-combatants, they are innocent victims. The indiscriminate bombings have to end. There will be a day after tomorrow when this war ends. There will still be two peoples living on this land and we will either look back at the horrors of what we have done to each other, or we will begin to look forward. These events are the biggest traumas for Israelis since the Holocaust and for the Palestinians since the Nakba. We will not forget. This will be the new chapters in our collective memories and narratives. The question is will we stand up from the ashes and from the pains and finally realize that everyone living between the River and the Sea must have the same right to the same rights or we will continue to say that only my side has the rights to express our collective identity on this Land?

We must wake up from this trauma and make those who have led us to this point pay the price for their failures. None of our leaders, on both sides should have the legitimacy to stay in power. 

They all have to go. We, Israelis and Palestinians need new leaders, a new generation who stand up and say “NO MORE!” We need people with new visions, new ideas, new hopes and the ability to generate support of masses of people who start paving a new path. I don’t know if we need to talk about one state, two states, three states or ten states. It begins with the mutual recognition that we all have the same right to the same rights. If we are realistic – it will probably be more talk about two states. If that is the case, two things need to happen quickly – a new peace process has to begin with the end state being up front and loud. If it is two states, then that needs to be clear from the outset, unlike the open-ended failed Oslo process. Secondly, if it is two states, then all of the countries of the world that have voiced the words “two states solution” must finally and immediately recognize the second state. They can do that with conditions, such as, when Palestine holds new elections and elects a new government.

Finally, the following are some thoughts on steps that need to be taken immediately after the war – to some extent, some of this could happen without the massive Israeli incursion into Gaza.

How to end the war with Hamas no longer in control of Gaza• Without risking wider regional war and destabilization• Without additional massive civilian casualties in Gaza• Without risking the collapse of the regimes in the West Bank, Jordan and Egypt• With the best chance of bringing home as many hostages as possible

Pre-conditions for implementing the plan

1. • Full US buy-in and lead on the diplomacy – with the use of significant pressure
2. • Support of Israel (even reluctant with significant arm twisting and persuasion – this is an offer you can’t refuse…)
3. • Support from President A-Sisi
4. • Support from King Abdallah
5. • Support from MBS
6. • Endorsement of the Arab League
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Desired conditions

• Support of President Abbas

• Support of the democratic opposition within Fatah

General Lines of the Plan 

The Plan is based on prior (not the same) situation of the need to end the civil war in Lebanon

1. • Ceasefire
2. • Release of hostages – civilian hostages
3. • Arab League decision (or just the agreement of several Arab states – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and others) to send a multilateral Arab led force to Gaza with the mandate to take control of the military/security situation in Gaza. Qatar may have to be involved to apply pressure on Hamas to accept.
4. • Group of Arab states to take on guarantor role agreed to sustain these principles:
5. • Guarantee of ceasefire
6. • Timetable for removal of Hamas leadership and/or disarmament
7. • Issuing a plan for Civilian control of Gaza’s governance, led by the PA which will also hold immediate Parliamentary elections. Parties participating in elections will be only those which agree to the demilitarization of Gaza and the West Bank.
8. • Prior to those elections a small group of Arab states party to this agreement will agree to take on advisory and trustee role with the PA, interfacing with Israel and the US, and guaranteeing implementation of all agreed aspects of deal.
9. • Political reforms in the PA supported by the international community (with a lot of money) in which power is transferred from the Presidency to the Parliament from which a government is formed which governs over the West Bank and Gaza. (The shifting of power from the Presidency to the Prime Minister occurred during the Arafat period when the US forced Arafat to surrender powers to Abbas who became Prime Minister).
10. • A regional/international peace conference advancing progress to Palestinian Israeli agreement towards the eventual implementation of the two states solution.
11. • A Marshal Plan for the rebuilding of Gaza led by the International Donor Community.

The main question we are addressing is how is it possible to bring about the desired end result of the war (removing Hamas from its ability to rule and threaten Israel) without killing many more civilians in Gaza, lowering the risk to Israeli soldiers, decreasing the chances of destabilization of the regimes of the PA in the West Bank (to avoid uprising of more radical groups there), Jordan and Egypt.

There is probably no way of avoiding the Israeli plans to eliminate the political and military leaders of Hamas. This does not necessarily have to be done at the time of a military incursion into Gaza. Exiling them, model PLO Beirut 1982 seems very unlikely. Who would take them? Wouldn’t they continue to pose a lethal threat to Israel from wherever they relocate.

First steps towards implementing this plan

1. Selling it to the Americans – without American backing first, there is little chance of advancing it.

2. Americans have to bring Israeli support – this will also help to prepare the Israeli public for the plan.

3. Engage with Palestinian leadership in Ramallah regarding the plan and the demand for elections for the Parliament, the forming of a new government for West Bank and Gaza, with a power shift from the President to the Prime Minister (this was done with American pressure to Arafat who was forced to empower Abbas as Prime Minister and Salam Fayyad as Finance Minister)

4. Planning the administration of Gaza with the Palestinian elected leadership – civil service force in Gaza of about 50,000 people who have been on the payroll of Hamas for years and while not combatants have a certain loyalty to Hamas. They should not be fired and sent home – the lesson from Iraq should be learned. Those who are willing and able to work under the new order should remain and receive salaries from the new government.

5. After conducting a series of high level closed door meetings with Arab leaders – US convenes summit of key Arab states: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and maybe Qatar – where the proposed Arab Multi-national force to Gaza is discussed and decided. The mandate of the force must be developed in consultation with the member states, and presented at the summit. It should not be open-ended, must have a planned exit strategy aligned with the resumption of Palestinian control over Gaza reunited with the West Bank.

6. US Convenes multi-nation summit for the reconstruction of Gaza -based on Arab multinational force, with stated political goals of renewing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations with robust international support (particularly regional Arab support – including Saudi promise for full normalization with Israel at the conclusion of the process of reaching agreements between Israel and Palestine.

7. The Israeli-Palestinian process needs to have a stated end game from the outset – whether it is two states or something else – it must be set and stated by the international community without any “constructive ambiguity.” 

In fact, all partners to this process should declare that they will recognize the State of Palestine at an agreed time based on parameters to be set, e.g. post elections in Palestine and the forming of a new government. Palestinian Israeli negotiations then conducted on the state-to-state basis.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Sunday that the situation in the Gaza Strip is deteriorating rapidly, calling again for a ceasefire to put an end to the "nightmare" of bloodshed.

“The situation in Gaza is getting more desperate hour by hour,” Guterres said during a visit to the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, expressing his regret for “Israel intensifying its military operations instead of declaring a humanitarian truce supported by the international community in light of the dire need for it,” according to Agence France-Presse.

He stressed that "the number of civilians killed and wounded is completely unacceptable," as reported by the French Agency.

The Israeli army has been waging a devastating bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip since October 7 in response to an unprecedented attack launched by Hamas on Israel.

Today, Sunday, a young man died as a result of wounds he sustained during the occupation forces’ storming of the Balata camp, east of Nablus.

Medical sources at Al-Najah Hospital announced the death of Rasmi Fayez Arafat, a young man from Balata Camp, after sustaining serious injuries during clashes that broke out this morning in Balata Camp.

High-level sources said today (Sunday) that intensive Egyptian contacts are taking place with all countries and parties concerned internationally and regionally to reach a ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners and detainees in the Gaza Strip, as reported by the Cairo News Channel today (Sunday).

The sources added that Cairo is intensifying its contacts with all international parties to bring large quantities of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip “during the current week.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry warned today (Sunday) of the humanitarian and security consequences of Israel’s practices of collective punishment against the residents of Gaza.

This came during Minister Shoukry’s reception today, Hajja Habib, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Foreign Trade and Federal Cultural Institutions of Belgium, who is visiting Egypt to consult and coordinate on ways to deal with the military escalation in Gaza, and efforts to coordinate international efforts to contain the crisis, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid.

The spokesman said, in a statement published by the ministry on its Facebook page, that “the two ministers exchanged visions and evaluations regarding the overall field and humanitarian situation in Gaza, the urgent need to deliver humanitarian aid to the residents of the Strip, and the necessity of reaching a humanitarian truce that allows for the provision of protection for civilians and facilitating the entry of relief aid.” and humanity urgently and sustainably.”

Minister Shukri was keen to welcome Belgium's decision to support the Arab resolution in the United Nations General Assembly, stressing that the decision taken by Belgium is the right decision, because it means supporting peace, stopping bloodshed, and protecting civilians.

The two ministers also discussed the risks surrounding the possibility of expanding the conflict, and the need to make all international and regional efforts to prevent this scenario.

The spokesman revealed that Minister Shukri stressed the serious risks surrounding the path of Israeli forces expanding their ground operations in Gaza, stressing the need to make coordinated international efforts and build on the discussions of government officials during the Cairo Peace Summit, in order to stop the ongoing war and provide the necessary protection for civilians, which is what The Belgian Foreign Minister agreed with him, considering this an urgent priority to ensure the access of humanitarian aid to the Strip.

The Belgian Foreign Minister also stressed her country's full awareness of the magnitude of the challenges facing Egypt as a result of this crisis, and its aspiration to hear Egypt's vision on ways to support the Palestinian cause and revive the peace process, given that Egypt is always the leader in efforts to achieve peace in the region, and has long experience in supporting... Mediation efforts between the Palestinian and Israeli sides.

The spokesman stated that the discussions between the two ministers dealt extensively with the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where Minister Shukri warned of the dire humanitarian and security consequences of Israel’s escalatory policies against the Palestinian people in Gaza, especially the continuous bombing, siege, and forced displacement in violation of the provisions of international humanitarian law, stressing Egypt’s categorical rejection. For these practices, or for any attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause at the expense of the countries of the region.

The spokesman indicated that the two ministers agreed to continue consulting closely over the coming days to push for internationally coordinated efforts to contain the crisis, prevent its expansion in the region, and work with all international partners in order to restore hope in reviving the peace process with the aim of establishing an independent, effective and capable Palestinian state. To survive and achieve the aspirations of its people, alongside the State of Israel, in accordance with the vision of the two-state solution.

On Sunday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the start of talks between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in the city of Jeddah.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry said that the talks between the army and the Rapid Support will not discuss any political issues, and will be limited to a ceasefire and confidence-building measures.

The talks focus on facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid, achieving a ceasefire, confidence-building measures, and the possibility of reaching a permanent cessation of hostilities.

The two facilitators (the United States and Saudi Arabia) confirmed that they are the sole joint spokesperson for the talks, to consolidate the rules of conduct that were agreed upon by the two parties and that will guide the talks.

Pope Francis called on Sunday for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas", and renewed his call for the release of people held by the movement in Gaza.

"No one should give up the possibility of stopping weapons," he said at the weekly Mass in St. Peter's Square.

He added, "Ceasefire... We say 'ceasefire, ceasefire'. Brothers and sisters, stop! War is always a defeat, always."

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi considered on Sunday that Israel had crossed “red lines” by intensifying its attack on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which “may” push other parties to “take action.”

Iran supports the Hamas movement, which has been waging a war with Israel since October 7, when it carried out an unprecedented attack on this country, which responded with intense air and artillery bombardment on Gaza.

The Iranian President warned in a post on the “X” website (formerly Twitter) that “the crimes of the Zionist regime have crossed red lines, which may prompt everyone to take action.”

He added, "Washington asked us not to do anything, but it continues to provide broad support to Israel."

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Raisi explained that “Iran considers it its duty” to support the “axis of resistance,” which includes armed factions such as Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon. He added, "But the resistance factions are independent in their opinions, decisions, and actions."

Washington held Iran partly responsible for the attacks that targeted American forces in Syria and Iraq in recent days and led to the wounding of about twenty soldiers.

President Joe Biden sent a message to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning him of any further attacks targeting his forces.

Raisi warned in the interview with the Qatari channel that “the United States knows very well our military capabilities” and “knows that it is impossible to defeat them.”

Iran praised the "success" of the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7, but stressed that it did not participate in it.

Since this attack, more than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel, most of them civilians, according to Israeli authorities.

Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since 2007, confirms that more than eight thousand Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed in the Israeli bombing.

Raisi believed that "countries that do not support the Palestinians should justify their failure to defend those who are killed during the legitimate defense of their country and land."

Today, Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deleted a tweet in which he criticized the heads of the General Security Agency (Shin Bet), Military Intelligence (Aman), and the Israeli security authorities.

Netanyahu said in the deleted tweet: “No party provided him with warnings of Hamas’ intention to go to war, as their assessments were that the Palestinian factions were deterred and directed them to calm down. These assessments were presented to me time after time and to the cabinet from the security and intelligence agencies.”

Netanyahu deleted the tweet, after violent criticism was directed at him by former Defense Minister Benny Gantz, a minister in the current war government, which he reluctantly joined despite his deep differences with Netanyahu, due to the deteriorating security situation in Israel since the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, which she launched. Palestinian resistance on the 7th of this month.

Opposition leader Yair Lapid also criticized Netanyahu's tweet on the social media platform (X), saying that he "did not receive any notification about the intentions of the Palestinian resistance from the Shin Bet and Aman services before the war."

It is noteworthy that Lapid, a former prime minister, refused to join the war government as it emerged from a government in which there are two extreme right-wing ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

Lapid said: "Netanyahu has crossed the red line. While the soldiers and leaders of the Israeli army are fighting against Hamas and Hezbollah, he is trying to blame them instead of supporting them," calling on Netanyahu to retract his tweets.

For his part, Gantz said: “The prime minister must immediately retract his tweet.”

Today, Sunday, the Ministry of Health revealed that 116 medical personnel were martyred as a result of the open holocaust launched by the Zionist occupation in the Gaza Strip since October 7, which led to more than 8,000 wounded.

The spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirmed in a press conference that the number of martyrs among medical personnel had risen to 116 martyrs, in addition to the destruction of 25 ambulances and the targeting of 57 health institutions, in the continuing Israeli bombing.

Since the start of the aggression, the occupation forces have repeatedly bombed ambulances while they were working, while bombing the Baptist Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital, which led to the martyrdom of a number of medical staff and the injury of others, along with hundreds of citizens.

The occupation forces also bombed the homes of many doctors and medical staff on the heads of their residents in brutal crimes unprecedented in history.

In addition, the spokesman for the Ministry of Health said: The Israeli occupation committed 56 massacres in the past hours, claiming the lives of 302 martyrs, the majority of whom were displaced.

He pointed out that the number of martyrs in Gaza rose to 8,005, including 3,342 children, 2,062 women, and 460 elderly people as a result of the Holocaust committed by the occupation forces since October 7.

He stressed that the occupation forces deliberately targeted families, stressing that the occupation targeted 881 families (families, by bombing their homes over their heads).

He stressed that the return of communications (at dawn today, two days after they were interrupted) revealed the extent of the holocaust committed by the occupation and the hundreds of victims, martyrs and wounded.

He revealed that nothing new had occurred in the file of medical aid to hospitals in accordance with the needs of the Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health spokesman warned of the rapid spread of epidemics among the displaced due to water scarcity and lack of personal hygiene.

The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said today (Sunday) that Israel is launching a “scorched earth” policy in the Gaza Strip for the purpose of displacement at the expense of neighboring countries.

Aboul Gheit added during the activities of the “Sixth Cairo Water Week” with the participation of regional and international organizations that the destruction of infrastructure and water networks in Gaza is “war crimes,” according to what the Arab World News Agency reported.

In another context, the Secretary-General of the Arab League stated that Arab water security still faces “growing challenges that require strengthening joint Arab action to keep pace with those challenges.”

He explained that these challenges threaten “an alarming decline in water levels.”

The Hamas government media office in Gaza announced on Sunday that the toll from Israel's attacks on the Strip 23 days ago had risen to 10,000 dead and missing under the rubble. The media office said, in a statement, that the Israeli army continued today its intensive raids and artillery shelling on various areas in the Gaza Strip, leaving dozens dead and wounded, according to the German News Agency.

According to Palestinian sources, sounds of violent clashes were heard on the northern border of the Gaza Strip, resulting from clashes between resistance fighters and Israeli army forces trying to enter the Strip by land, and violent air strikes inside the Strip.

Amid the Israeli escalation, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza announced today that there were deaths and injuries as Israeli forces targeted a bus carrying citizens in the south of the Strip.

The Ministry said, in a statement, that the Israeli targeting occurred on a street south of Gaza City, according to what was reported by the Arab World News Agency.

For his part, spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Education, Sadiq Al-Khadour, announced today the killing of 2,000 students in the Gaza Strip and more than 70 educational staff so far as a result of the ongoing Israeli military operations in the Strip. Al-Khadour said that 200 schools were subjected to “occupation aggression.”

The Israeli army continues its military operations against the Gaza Strip, which has been exhausted by a siege that has been ongoing for 22 days, while the number of victims of Israeli operations has risen to more than 8,000 and 20,000 injured.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has abandoned his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, ending his campaign for the White House after having difficulty raising money and gaining support in opinion polls.

“After much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president effective today,” Pence said at a Jewish-Republican Coalition rally in Las Vegas. “We always knew this would be an uphill battle, but I have no regrets.”

Today, Sunday, Israeli occupation vehicles bulldozed large areas of citizens’ lands in the area surrounding Ezbet Abu Basal, northwest of the city of Salfit.

Settlement affairs researcher Khaled Maali said that the occupation bulldozers continue to bulldoze dozens of dunams in the area surrounding Ezbet Abu Basal for the benefit of expanding the settlements and their infrastructure at the expense of citizens’ agricultural and pastoral lands.

His Excellency explained that this area is surrounded by the “Ariel” and “Ariel” industrial settlements, and the Ras settlement outpost, and the goal of the bulldozing work is to expand them and connect them together, stressing that what is happening in Salfit Governorate is an unprecedented process of settlement encroachment.

President Mahmoud Abbas received, today, Sunday, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, Dr. Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al Zayani.

The Bahraini Foreign Minister conveyed to President Abbas a message of solidarity and support from His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, his Crown Prince and the Bahraini people to President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian people, stressing that Bahrain, as king, government and people, stands by the Palestinian people in these difficult circumstances that they are going through.

President Abbas welcomed Bahraini Foreign Minister Al-Zayani, appreciating this visit and the solidarity message from the King of Bahrain, which expresses the strong fraternal relations that bind the two brotherly peoples.

The President reviewed to the Bahraini guest the latest developments and discussed ways to confront these dangerous conditions that the Palestinian territories are witnessing in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and stressed the need to immediately stop the aggression against our people, which blatantly violates international law, calling for the establishment of permanent humanitarian corridors to bring in humanitarian aid and provide water, electricity and fuel. Providing international protection for the Palestinian people, and going to an international peace conference, stressing the rejection of any partial or security solutions to the Gaza Strip or the Palestinian issue, and adhering to the comprehensive political solution based on international legitimacy, which ends the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, reiterating holding Israel responsible. On the ongoing aggression.

President Abbas renewed his refusal to displace our people from their homes and lands, whether from Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem, stressing that we will not accept more military or security solutions, which have brought us to where we are today, which may lead the region to a regional and global war.

The President appreciated the positions of the Arab countries and their brotherly peoples, for their positions of support and support for the rights of our Palestinian people and demanding an end to the Israeli aggression, renewing the call for holding an emergency Arab summit.

The meeting was attended by Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ziad Abu Amr, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information, Nabil Abu Rudeina, and Advisor to the President for Diplomatic Affairs, Magdi Al-Khalidi.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates confirmed that the failure of the international community to stop Israel’s destructive aggression to liquidate the Gaza Strip, and thus the Palestinian cause, seriously threatens the foundations of the world order.

The Ministry explained in a statement, today, Sunday, that the absence of international will to stop the aggression loses the institutions of international legitimacy, especially those based on preserving and guaranteeing the principles of human rights, and what remains of their credibility, and turns the contents of the United Nations Charter and the texts of international law and international human rights law into mere ink on the surface. Paper, and replaces it with the law of the jungle, and the logic of “the strong eats the weak.”

The Ministry condemned Israel's continuation of its destructive war against the Gaza Strip for the 23rd day in a row, and the continuation of committing massacres and crimes, and the series of bloody raids on Palestinian cities, towns and camps in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.