Al Arabiya channel reported on Saturday that a meeting will be held today between leaders of the Fatah and Hamas movements to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip.

The Fatah delegation includes the movement's deputy chairman, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, and Central Committee members Azzam Al-Ahmad and Rawhi Fattouh.

The Hamas delegation is headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, the movement's head in Gaza, and is accompanied by other figures.

The bilateral meeting will be held under the auspices of the Egyptian Intelligence.

Rocket barrages were launched on Saturday morning at the city of Haifa and its surroundings, as well as the Upper Galilee.

According to the Israeli army, it monitored the launch of 10 missiles at Haifa and its bay area, noting that some of them were intercepted while others fell in open areas.

He pointed out that he monitored the launch of 5 other rockets towards the Upper Galilee, some of which were intercepted and others fell in open areas.

Later, a number of drones were launched over the same areas.

According to Israeli sources, a plane exploded in a factory in the Akhziv area of the Western Galilee without causing any injuries.

One of the four planes that infiltrated those areas was intercepted, and the other exploded in several other locations without any injuries being reported.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and on Saturday morning, a group of citizens during raids and incursions carried out in several areas in the West Bank.

The young man, Jihad Abu Hamdan, was arrested after the occupation forces stormed Balata camp in Nablus.

Meanwhile, a young man was arrested when the occupation forces stormed several areas in Qalqilya Governorate.

The occupation forces stormed various areas of Hebron, Bethlehem and Jenin, without any arrests being reported.

A number of Palestinians inside Israel were injured, including three with moderate injuries and eight with minor injuries, on Saturday morning, as a result of missile shrapnel, following a direct hit on a residential building by a missile and the fall of missile shrapnel at the western entrance to the city of Tira in the southern triangle area.

According to the Red Star of David, its crews provided first aid to 11 injured people, including a young man (17 years old) and a young woman (28 years old) in moderate condition, a young man (21 years old), a boy (16 years old), a young woman (22 years old) and a young man (20 years old) in light condition, all of whom were suffering from rocket shrapnel, in addition to many cases of panic.

The injured were quickly transferred to Meir and Beilinson hospitals for further treatment.

Medical crews and fire and rescue teams were called to the site of the direct injury, and worked to rescue those trapped in the building, which was destroyed on its upper floor, as reported by the Arab 48 website.

This comes after sirens sounded in dozens of towns in the Tel Aviv area and the southern triangle, following the launch of rockets from Lebanon.

The Israeli army said that 3 shells were fired from Lebanon towards the center of the country and the southern triangle area, and interceptions were carried out and a missile was detected falling in the area.

The Israeli war machine has been continuing its aggression against the Gaza Strip for more than a year, leaving more dead and wounded.

Three citizens were killed when a group of them was bombed while they were near the headquarters of the Workers' Union in the Al-Safawi neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

Israeli warplanes launched intensive raids on several homes in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, which led to the death of a group of citizens.

Various areas of the Gaza Strip were subjected to a series of air strikes and artillery shelling.

A source close to Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told Al Jazeera on Friday that an agreement had been reached with US envoy to Lebanon Amos Hochstein in Beirut on the terms of an agreement to be implemented within 60 days.

The terms include - according to the same source - a comprehensive ceasefire in both Lebanon and Israel, and the withdrawal of all unofficial military presence to the north of the Litani River.

The source added that after implementing these provisions, indirect negotiations between Israel and Hezbollah regarding the Blue Line will be revived, noting that any "points promoted in the Israeli media" were not discussed with Lebanon.

On the other hand, Reuters quoted an American official as saying that Washington did not propose that Lebanon declare a unilateral ceasefire.

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati denied that the United States had asked Beirut to declare a unilateral ceasefire.

The Lebanese denial came after Reuters published a report - quoting a senior Lebanese political source and a high-ranking diplomat - stating that Hochstein had asked Lebanon this week to declare a unilateral ceasefire with Israel.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported, on Friday evening, that mediators are putting pressure on Hamas to obtain a positive response after the latest proposal presented to it.

According to the channel, the answer at the present time seems negative from Hamas.

According to Israeli assessments, until the elections in the United States, which will be held next Tuesday, there will be no progress.

She pointed out that the head of Mossad informed the families of the kidnapped that Hamas' response will arrive early next week.

An Israeli military vehicle overturned on Friday, carrying the commander of the northern region in the Israeli army, Uri Gordin, and the commander of the West Bank, Avi Balut, during a tour on the border with Lebanon.

According to the occupation army, Jordan suffered bruises and was transferred for treatment, and his condition is minor, before he resumes his military activity.

Avi Balut was not injured in the incident.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation "Kan 11" reported on Friday evening that Israel has raised its alert level to repel a possible Iranian attack soon.

According to the Hebrew Authority, Israel has changed its defense plan regarding a sensitive strategic facility, which has not been disclosed, due to the possible Iranian response.

According to the same sources, Israel does not yet have estimates of the manner, size, and timing of the Iranian response, which is expected to coincide with the start of the US elections next Tuesday.

Israeli sources believe that if there is no direct response from Iran, the response will come from Iraq or Yemen.

The governor of Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon, Bashir Khodr, reported that the Israeli raids on the district this afternoon resulted in 39 dead , in addition to wounded and missing persons.

The Israeli army announced, on Friday evening, that it had assisted the Shin Bet in assassinating Izz al-Din Kassab, a member of the Hamas political bureau and the official in charge of the national relations file.

An Israeli army statement said that aircraft, with precise intelligence guidance, raided a vehicle in which Kassab was traveling and he was eliminated.

He explained that Kassab is considered an important power center in Hamas, as he was responsible for the organization's strategic and military relations with the rest of the factions and had the authority to make military decisions. He also ordered the implementation of offensive plans against Israel, according to the statement.

The statement added: Kassab was one of the last members of the political bureau who remained alive inside the Gaza Strip, where his assistant Ayman Ayyash was killed with him.

Hamas mourned Kassab and Ayyash in a statement, and confirmed that they were among its leaders.

She said that Kassab is a member of the National Relations Office and a member of the Follow-up Committee for the National and Islamic Forces in the Gaza Strip, while Ayyash is a member of the Follow-up Committee for the Forces.

In a move that reflects its continued commitment to supporting the Palestinian people, the United Arab Emirates has brought in 12 new relief aid trucks into the Gaza Strip through the Beit Hanoun crossing in the north of the Strip and the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south of the Strip, in coordination with the United States Agency for Near East Refugee Aid (UNERA). The trucks carry approximately 150 tons of food, medicine and humanitarian supplies, covering the urgent and pressing needs of approximately 30,000 residents of the Strip.

His Excellency Sultan Mohammed Al Shamsi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development for Development and International Organizations, stressed that the UAE always stands by the Palestinian people, having provided more than 40,000 tons of aid to date. Al Shamsi pointed out that the UAE will continue to cooperate with the United Nations and international partners to ensure that aid reaches Gaza safely and effectively, with the aim of alleviating the humanitarian crisis and ensuring immediate, sustainable, unhindered and widespread access to the population of the Strip.

More than a year after the brutal war on Gaza and the widespread destruction it caused to infrastructure and health facilities, the United Arab Emirates continues to provide relief and humanitarian support to support the residents of the Strip through its comprehensive humanitarian initiatives. It supports international, Arab and regional demands for an immediate end to the war and the return of the displaced, and works to secure the basic needs of the population, including water, food and treatment.

One of the most prominent Emirati efforts in Gaza is Operation “Birds of Goodness,” which contributed to airdropping food aid to inaccessible areas. The amount of aid dropped from the skies of Gaza to date has reached 3,623 tons. On another level, Operation “Gallant Knight 3” succeeded in delivering 104 relief convoys carrying more than 20,000 tons of urgent humanitarian aid and 4 ships carrying more than 18,000 tons of aid, including medicines, food and tents, in addition to carrying out 259 flights carrying 5,340 tons of aid.

Water supply

In terms of infrastructure, the UAE has made efforts to restore water networks, re-operate wells and tanks, combat water pollution, and provide a healthy environment, as infrastructure suffers from a severe shortage, and the daily share of water per person does not exceed one liter, compared to the global average. It has concluded agreements with the Gaza Municipality and the Khan Yunis Municipality to repair water lines, re-operate damaged wells, and provide clean drinking water for residents and displaced persons, as the UAE pumps more than one million gallons of water daily to the Strip.

In Khan Younis, the UAE’s initiatives included repairing damaged water networks and maintaining wells after 70% of the networks were damaged, contributing to providing water to more than 900,000 people.

The UAE also operates 6 water desalination plants in the Egyptian city of Rafah, with a capacity of 1.2 million gallons per day, benefiting about 600,000 people in Gaza, thus contributing to meeting the basic needs of the population and the displaced.

health care

In response to the significant challenges facing the health sector in Gaza, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, launched an initiative to treat 1,000 children and 1,000 cancer patients from the Strip. Patients are transferred to UAE hospitals and hosted in the “Emirates Humanitarian City” with their companions, to receive medical care that the region lacks due to the lack of medicine and basic medical facilities. In September 2024, 350 children and cancer patients were transferred from Gaza to the Emirates Humanitarian City. The total number of beneficiaries of this initiative reached 1,917 people.

At the healthcare level, and within the framework of Operation “Gallant Knight 3”, the UAE announced in April 2024 the rehabilitation of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. This project aims to provide medical services to the residents of southern Gaza, numbering about one and a half million, by restoring the hospital’s efficiency and providing the necessary equipment to provide the necessary medical care.

In order to provide the necessary medical care and support to the sick and wounded Palestinians who were being evacuated to Egypt from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing, the UAE established a floating hospital in the port of El Arish in cooperation with the Department of Health in Abu Dhabi and the Abu Dhabi Ports Group. The hospital has a capacity of 100 beds and includes operating rooms, intensive care, laboratories, a pharmacy, and a specialized medical staff including surgery, anesthesia, and emergency departments.

In December 2023, the UAE opened a 200-bed field hospital in Rafah, equipped with intensive care operating rooms and specialized clinics including pediatrics, gynecology and surgery. The hospital was a vital addition to providing urgent medical services to the wounded and sick.

The UAE crowned its efforts in supporting the people of Gaza in the medical field and child care, under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, by allocating $5 million to support an international campaign aimed at vaccinating hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza against polio. The first phase of the campaign was successful, with the vaccine reaching more than 560,000 children in the Strip. The UAE participated in this campaign in cooperation with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and UNRWA.

These initiatives come within the framework of the Emirati humanitarian vision to support the residents of the Strip, alleviate their suffering, and support their continued presence in their land until the war ends and life in Gaza returns to normal.

The Israeli Shin Bet confirmed, on Friday evening, that it had arrested, in cooperation with the police, two employees of the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the background of the serious security leaks case.

According to a statement by the Shin Bet, the suspects were investigated and it was decided to detain them for the purpose of completing the investigations with them.

There is talk of serious security leaks by some employees and Netanyahu's spokesman to the foreign media.

According to the same sources, these leaks harmed the achievement of the war's objectives in Gaza.

“As for Lebanon, we are working very hard and making progress in reaching understandings about what it would take to effectively implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a joint press conference with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yeol on Thursday afternoon. “That would form the basis for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis.”

“It is critical that we ensure that we have clarity from Lebanon and Israel on what Resolution 1701 would require in order to be effectively implemented: the withdrawal of Hezbollah forces from the border; the deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces; the authorities under which they would operate; and the appropriate implementation mechanism,” Blinken stressed.

“I can tell you that based on my recent visit to the region and the work that is underway now, we have made good progress on these understandings,” Secretary Blinken added. “We still have more work to do, but that is what is necessary to reach a diplomatic solution, including through a ceasefire.”

An American official confirmed to Al-Quds on Thursday, on condition of anonymity, that Hezbollah has become convinced of the necessity of separating any agreement on the Lebanese front from what is happening in Gaza, and that it now considers that the battle to support Gaza ended with the beginning of the war in Lebanon at the end of last September.

Regarding Israel’s war on Gaza, Blinken said at the same press conference on Thursday, “I can tell you a few things. First, we and our team are closely following Israel’s responsibilities to uphold and adhere to the letter of the law, and we have jointly sent the law (in a joint letter from Blinken and Austin on November 14) to our Israeli counterparts regarding the provision of humanitarian assistance. There has been real progress, but it is not enough, and we are working on a daily basis to make sure that Israel is doing what it needs to do to ensure that this assistance reaches the people who need it inside Gaza. It is not enough to send trucks into Gaza; it is vital that what those trucks carry is distributed effectively inside Gaza.”

“There’s another thing on this; one of the things that has been successful in recent months has been the polio vaccination campaign for hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza. But in order to complete that campaign, we have to complete a second round of vaccinations, and those vaccinations have to be done within a certain time frame of the first round of vaccinations. It’s imperative that that be done in the coming days, and we look to Israel to facilitate that process,” Blinken added.

“Israel has made clear for many months that its strategic objectives in Gaza — to ensure that the events and horrors of October 7 are not repeated — were to dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities, its organized military capabilities, and to eliminate the leaders responsible for October 7,” Blinken said. “So those objectives have been achieved, and the focus now must be on ending the war, while ensuring that people who need help with food, medicine, and other basic humanitarian needs get the help they need.”

American officials hint that, in conjunction with the intensive American diplomatic efforts aimed at stopping the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, prominent Arab movements have intensified during the past few days, and that these movements come in light of the escalation of violence, which reflects a growing desire to achieve a comprehensive calm that puts an end to the escalating tensions and contributes to protecting civilians and sparing the region further crises.

But experts point out that despite the importance of these American efforts, nothing has been achieved despite the passage of a full year since the war, and that the reason behind not reaching a result is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected any proposal for a ceasefire, especially before the American elections, with the aim of not giving the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, any political gain in front of Arab and Muslim voters.

Netanyahu's statements also indicate without a doubt that he does not want to end the war in Gaza or Lebanon, and prefers to use more force to subjugate the Palestinians and Lebanese to the Israeli vision for the future of the region.

Armed settlers attacked a number of citizens' homes in the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron, on Friday.

Abdullah Ghneimat, a member of the Surif Municipal Council, told the official news agency, WAFA, that dozens of armed settlers from the Beit Ayin settlement, built on the town’s lands, attacked, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, the homes of citizens in the Deir al-Nil area, and fired live bullets at them.

He added that the settlers broke the windows and glass of three houses belonging to the Ghneimat family with stones, and set fire to the surrounding area. If it were not for the vigilance of the citizens, the fire would have destroyed those houses.

It is noteworthy that the citizens in that area are constantly exposed to attacks by the colonists, with the aim of forcibly displacing them from their lands and seizing them for the benefit of colonial expansion.

In less than four days, the US presidential elections will be held, and with them the presidency of Joe Biden, the forty-sixth US president (46), will practically end, regardless of who wins, whether it is the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, or the Republican, Donald Trump, knowing that Biden will not leave the White House as US president until January 20, 2025.

According to experts, the United States and much of the rest of the world are in a much worse position than they were when he took office (January 20, 2021). While President Biden is frequently hailed by members of the foreign policy establishment as a successful foreign policy leader, his tenure has been marked mostly by deepening U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts that show no signs of ending anytime soon.

“US policies under Biden have only served to fuel destabilizing conflicts, and the president has shown no inclination to end any of the wars Washington currently supports,” Daniel Larison, a columnist for Responsible Government, writes in the magazine.

“The Biden presidency has shown the world how corrupt American foreign policy is, and most other countries will not forget what the restored American ‘leadership’ has done in the foreseeable future,” Larison adds. “Biden ran on a promise to end America’s forever wars, but after the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, he spent much of his presidency doing his best to involve the United States in conflicts where no vital American interests were at stake.”

Experts believe that the risk of great-power conflict has risen significantly under Biden, as he has pursued a policy of containment and competition with China that the United States cannot afford, while U.S.-Russian relations have sunk to new lows over Ukraine. In the Middle East, Biden has enabled Israel’s 13-month-old genocidal campaign in Gaza, backed its invasion of Lebanon, and supported its attacks on Iran. He has helped Israel sow chaos across the region and committed the United States to a new, open-ended, illegal war in Yemen.

Those who scrutinize Biden’s behavior believe that the president’s ideological fixation on Israel has led to an untenable policy of unconditional support that has fueled, and continues to fuel, the slaughter of civilians in Gaza and created one of the worst man-made famines in modern times. The president’s aversion to serious diplomatic engagement has meant that the United States has continued the disastrous economic wars against Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea that Trump launched. Biden’s refusal to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal has ensured that no progress has been made in negotiations with Tehran.

“It now seems clear that the administration’s efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza were a face-saving exercise, a smokescreen, so the United States could claim it was doing something to end the war while continuing to arm the Netanyahu government up to its neck,” Larison says. “The United States has not even pretended to care about a ceasefire in Ukraine, and on almost every front, the Biden administration’s response has been more militarization. The Biden administration has brought the United States closer to direct conflict with Iran thanks to Washington’s support for Israel. The United States and Iran could still be at war in the next few months.”

“It would be bad enough to enter an unnecessary war to support an ally, but to do so when the client is also killing and starving civilians is inexcusable,” Larison adds. “US support for the wars in Gaza and Lebanon is a strategic and moral disaster, and Biden should not be let off the hook for putting the US in that position.”

Even if the United States and Iran avoid war again, observers say, it is a measure of how dangerous the administration's policy was that it came so close to the possibility of war with Iran.

“Washington also bears no real responsibility for the atrocities and crimes committed by our leaders, by all accounts,” Larison says. “It is doubtful that Biden administration officials will face legal or personal consequences for their role in these atrocities. Regardless, Americans and others should remember that Biden and his administration were willing accomplices in mass starvation and genocide. Their complicity should never be forgotten, and they deserve all the shame the world has to offer them.”

The result of Biden’s decisions, strategic analysts acknowledge, is that US military foreign policy is already worse than it was before. The administration’s limited diplomatic efforts have been consumed by the president’s obsession with giving Saudi Arabia, for example, a security guarantee in exchange for normalization with Israel. Biden has done serious damage to the reputation and interests of the United States, they say, and will likely be remembered as one of the two worst foreign policy presidents of the past 50 years, along with George W. Bush (Jr.). Biden’s foreign policy legacy is fueling the flames of war and destroying innocent lives.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to defend himself in the case of accusations that have been circulating in recent days against his office of deliberately leaking dangerous and sensitive security information.

According to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority, Netanyahu resorted to issuing a statement on Friday afternoon in which he tried to accuse others of being behind dangerous leaks without holding them accountable, at a time when an attempt is being made to distort his office, as he said.

Netanyahu said: It was no coincidence that the prime minister demanded the immediate lifting of the gag order on the investigation, and the ongoing blackout was aimed at distorting my office.

He added: While the Prime Minister's Office did not have any leaks, there were in fact dozens of leaks.

He continued: The media in Israel and abroad published details about the negotiations to recover the kidnapped, from secret meetings in the cabinet and other sensitive forums, and this without questioning anyone, and I wonder why?

The issue addresses the fear of secret information being transmitted in unacceptable ways, which has caused unprecedented tensions between the military and political levels.

Earlier today, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid responded to posts about the issue, saying: “The issue is about the heart of the close relationship between the security establishment and the prime minister and his entourage.”

"The prime minister is trying, as usual, to distance himself from the matter and place the responsibility on others, but the facts are the opposite: he is personally responsible for every paper, word or piece of information that leaves his office," Lapid added.

He continued: "We have strong enemies from outside, but the danger coming from within the house and from the most sensitive decision-making centers shakes the foundations of the confidence of the citizens of Israel in the management of the war, and in dealing with the most sensitive issues."

12 people were killed and others were injured today, Friday, in a raid launched by Israeli occupation aircraft on the town of Amhaz in the Baalbek Governorate, eastern Lebanon.

The Lebanese News Agency reported that 12 people were killed in the initial toll of the raid launched by the occupation aircraft on a residential neighborhood in the town of Amhaz, noting that the rubble removal operations in the targeted neighborhood are continuing.

Civil Defense firefighting teams were also able to extinguish a fire in a house that was targeted by an Israeli raid in the town of Tarya, which led to the martyrdom of two people and the injury of four others with moderate injuries.

The Lebanese News Agency reported that the member of the Nabatieh Municipal Council, the executive director of the municipality, Muhammad Jaber, was killed in an airstrike launched by the occupation aircraft on a house in the Al-Maslakh neighborhood in the city of Nabatieh, south of Lebanon.

She pointed out that the ambulance teams were able to retrieve the body of the martyr Jaber from under the rubble after the raid completely destroyed it and caused great damage to the surrounding homes and shops.

At night, the city of Nabatieh was subjected to a series of Israeli air strikes that targeted a number of neighborhoods and caused significant damage to residential buildings.

In a related context, the occupation aircraft launched raids on the towns of Iaat, Bouadi, Ras al-Ain, Maqna, Qasr Naba, al-Bazaliyah, and Rasm al-Hadath in Baalbek Governorate, in addition to al-Zahraa neighborhood in Baalbek city.

Eleven people were injured when a rocket fired from Lebanon and interceptor shrapnel fell in the village of Shaab in the Galilee region, in the north of the country, on Friday.

Hayyan Intensive Care Center confirmed that it "provided treatment to eleven injuries in the village of Shaab, including five injuries to children and one injury to a pregnant woman, while the rest of the injuries were to adult men."

It stated in its statement that "most of the injuries were described as minor, with the exception of one injury to a man in his thirties, whose injury was described as moderate, and he was transferred to the intensive care unit at the Galilee Medical Center."

Before that, Hayyan reported that its crews were "providing treatment for several injuries from a missile that fell on the village of Shaab," noting that "one of the injuries is critical," before adding a short time later in a brief statement that there were "9 injuries in the village of Shaab, one of which is serious."

In another statement, the medical team said that "the serious injury is in stable condition," noting that "it has been treated, and the injury is now described as moderately stable, and she is being transferred to the intensive care unit at the Galilee Medical Center."

For its part, Hezbollah said in a statement: “In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people, the Islamic Resistance fighters bombed the Karmiel settlement at 1:45 p.m. today, Friday, with a salvo of rockets.”

Mina Shafiq Hassoun, 60, and her son Karmi Raja Hassoun, 30, were killed, and a 71-year-old man was slightly injured, on Thursday, when rocket shrapnel fell on an olive grove near the city of Shefa-Amr.

6 Arab victims due to shells and rocket fragments

With the killing of the two victims from Shefa-Amr yesterday, Thursday, 4 others were killed as a result of interceptor missiles and falling shells and missile fragments launched from Lebanon since the beginning of the escalation and mutual shelling between Israel and Hezbollah.

On August 9, young Michael Samara from Kafr Yasif died of shrapnel wounds he sustained from an Israeli interceptor missile south of Nahariya.

On October 25, Hassan Ali Suwaed from the town of Ba’ana and Arjwan Abdul Halim Manaa from the town of Majd al-Krum were killed when rocket shrapnel fell on a commercial store in Majd al-Krum.

On October 29, a young man, Muhammad Yasser Qaytan Naim, from Tarshiha, was killed by a direct hit from a rocket and shrapnel while he was on his way to the shelter to take cover.

A Hamas leader said on Friday, "The truce proposals do not meet our people's demands and needs in providing security, relief, and reconstruction, nor even opening the crossings, especially the Rafah crossing."

The leader added in a statement to Al Jazeera, "The movement heard from Egypt and Qatar ideas about a truce for specific days, increasing aid, and a partial exchange of prisoners."

He stressed that the proposals do not include a permanent cessation of aggression, a withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, or the return of the displaced. He said, "We have confirmed our people's demand for a permanent ceasefire, withdrawal from the Strip, the return of the displaced, and the lifting of the siege."

The leader also stressed that Hamas is open to any ideas or negotiations to achieve these goals and implement UN Security Council Resolution 2735, stressing the need to provide the necessities of life, reconstruction and achieving an exchange that includes alleviating the suffering of Palestinian prisoners.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced last Sunday that his country had proposed an initiative for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, starting with two days to exchange four Israeli prisoners for some Palestinian prisoners, then within 10 days negotiations would take place to transform the temporary truce into a permanent one and a complete ceasefire.

Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been mediating between Israel and Hamas in talks for months, and the negotiations stopped last August without reaching an agreement.

The Israeli occupation forces and settlers continue their attacks against citizens and their property in the West Bank.

In Qalqilya, the occupation forces suppressed the weekly anti-settlement march in the village of Kafr Qaddum, which led to clashes with citizens.

Local sources reported that the clashes erupted after the occupation forces attacked the march participants with sound bombs and toxic tear gas, without any injuries being reported.

In Tulkarm, a large group of settlers set fire to the plain lands planted with olive trees, which led to their ignition and the spread of the fire.

Local sources reported that the fire, due to the direction of the wind, rebounded onto the settlers’ tents, where the settlement outpost they had forcibly established in the plain lands, which led the settlers to pursue the olive pickers hysterically and madly, and forced them at gunpoint to leave their lands and prevented them from completing their work.

She added that the settlers pursued the farmers' vehicles, attacked them, and destroyed a number of them. They also stole the tools and equipment that the farmers were forced to leave under the olive trees. They also seized the olives of the farmer Younis Dhafer.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces stormed Al-Khader, and were stationed in the neighborhoods of "Dar Salah", "Al-Balou", "Al-Bawaba" and "Hut Al-Jami'", and pursued young men and obstructed the movement of vehicles, before seizing a vehicle.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested four citizens, raided a number of homes, and seized 15 vehicles when they stormed the village of Abwein.

Local sources reported that these forces stormed the village, raided a number of homes, and arrested: Hassan Khaled Sahweil, Abdul Jawad Saleh, Omar Ahmed Al-Tayeb, and Mahmoud Ayman Nimr. They also turned a popular café into a military barracks, and subjected dozens of citizens to field investigations.

The sources pointed out that the occupation army seized 15 vehicles belonging to citizens in the village.

In the village of Burqa, dozens of settlers attacked the Wadi al-Shami area, but the citizens confronted them and forced them to retreat.

Settlers escalated their attacks on Palestinian villages and towns coinciding with the olive harvest season.

Hunger is ravaging all areas of the Gaza Strip

Umm Muhammad: I struggle every day to get one loaf of bread. I wish we died in our homes, it would be more honorable than this humiliation.

Abu Youssef: Everyone is fighting for their livelihood. Either they kill us and spare us or they free us from the injustice we are living in.

Umm Alaa: I go at dawn to stand in line in front of the bakery... but one loaf is not enough for my children and grandchildren

"We are hungry... we are even deprived of food," with these words, "Umm Muhammad" Masoud summed up her suffering in obtaining bread, after standing for long hours in front of the bakery in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

At the door of the bakery, dozens of citizens stand for long hours in order to obtain a single loaf of bread, with which they can satisfy their families’ hunger. However, they often return home without bread, as a result of the great crowding and jostling in front of the bakery.

"Umm Muhammad", who was standing in the women's line, told "I" and "Quds.com" about her and her family's suffering: "We were displaced from Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip after the occupation bombed us and destroyed our homes, to Deir al-Balah. I struggle every day to get a single bundle," and she added, "I wish we had died in our homes, it would be more honorable than the humiliation we are living."

Despite having cancer and not taking the necessary medications and supplements, she stands in front of the bakery for long hours. She adds: “I have to stand to satisfy the hunger of my children and my daughter’s children, as there is no food or flour in the markets.”

A loaf of bread costs 3 shekels in the bakery and 15 outside.

As for a loaf of bread, Umm Muhammad cannot buy it from outside the bakery, because of its high price. She continues: “A loaf of bread inside the bakery costs three shekels, and outside they sell it for 15 shekels, and I cannot buy it at that price.”

Umm Mohammed despaired after all the women gathered around her, as she was unable to buy the loaf of bread she needed. She added: “We, the people, are victims, and no one is looking for us. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.”

Abu Youssef: Everyone is fighting for their livelihood. Either they kill us and spare us or they free us from the injustice we are living in.

No one sees our suffering

In the opposite queue, Abu Yousef Ghaban stands for more than four hours to get a loaf of bread. He tells Al-Quds.com: “Since dawn, I have been waiting for my turn to no avail. People are on top of each other, and everyone is fighting for their livelihood, and no one sees our suffering.”

The biggest suffering is waiting for long hours and getting a limited amount of bread, which is not enough for the family. Abu Youssef continues: “I am only allowed to buy one loaf, and if I want to buy again, I have to stand in line again.”

He adds: “One loaf of bread is not enough for my family of 10 people. We need four loaves a day.”

Abu Youssef expressed his frustration at the bitter situation he and his family were living in, saying: “Either they kill us and let us go...or they free us from the injustice we are living in.”

The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has increased the tragedy and severity of poverty; many citizens cannot buy bread for their families, not to mention the lack of job opportunities.

I want to take out a loan to buy bread

“I need to take out a loan to buy bread,” said Umm Alaa Bakr, expressing her inability to buy a loaf of bread for her family members, after their circumstances became difficult due to the lack of a source of income to support them.

“I go at dawn to stand in line at the bakery. After a few hours, I get one bundle, but it is not enough for my children and young grandchildren,” Umm Alaa told Quds.com. “I cannot buy it from outside, as its price is very high and I do not have a steady source of income.”

Umm Alaa faces a daily battle in the bread line. She says: “I fainted many times, especially since I have a heart condition and cannot stand for long hours.”

She added: "Many times I miss my turn because of the crowding of women and children, not to mention the problems that occur between people and the fear that I will be harmed."

Since the beginning of October 2024, the Israeli occupation has continued to close the Kerem Shalom crossing, preventing the entry of food supplies, vegetables, and the like into the markets of the Gaza Strip, deliberately using starvation as a weapon to strangle citizens.

Today, Friday, 6 citizens were killed as a result of the Israeli occupation's bombing of the central and southern Gaza Strip.

In Nuseirat camp, ambulance crews transferred three martyrs, including a child, to Al-Awda Hospital in the camp, and others were injured, after the occupation forces targeted a house belonging to the Shehadeh family.

In Khan Yunis, three citizens were martyred and their remains arrived at Nasser Hospital, after the occupation forces targeted two vehicles on the coastal road west of Al-Qarara town in Khan Yunis Governorate.

The occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the death of 43,204 citizens, and the injury of 101,640 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of missing people are still under the rubble, amid the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the besieged Strip.

Three citizens were killed and five others were injured in the town of Qamatiyeh in Mount Lebanon today, Friday, as a result of the ongoing aggression of the Israeli occupation forces on various areas in Lebanon, amid widespread destruction of buildings, facilities and infrastructure.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the martyrdom of three citizens and the injury of five others in a raid on the town of Qamatiyeh in Mount Lebanon.

Lebanese sources reported that the Israeli occupation renewed its raids at dawn today on the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, resulting in widespread destruction of buildings, facilities and infrastructure. The occupation warplanes also targeted the areas of Haret Hreik, Al-Ruwais, Al-Ghobeiry, Al-Marija, Airport Road, Al-Amerikan neighborhood, Al-Kafaat, Al-Sabil neighborhood, Tahwitat Al-Ghadeer, and Burj Al-Barajneh in the suburb.

According to sources, the occupation aircraft and artillery also bombed the city of Nabatieh and the towns of: Al-Tayri, Bint Jbeil, Al-Khiam, Al-Majadil, Al-Shahabiyeh, Kounine, Ainata, Al-Jumaijmeh, Barashit, Majdal Salm, Aitat, and Wadi Jilo in southern Lebanon.

This morning, Friday, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Al-Yamoun, west of Jenin, and surrounded a house.

Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the town after discovering a special force from the occupation army in civilian clothes infiltrating the town and besieging a house there.

She added that the occupation deployed its vehicles in the streets of the town and stormed the Al-Jaabari family's home, without reporting any arrests.

The report published yesterday by Haaretz newspaper indicates a sharp and unprecedented decline in the number of aid trucks that entered the Gaza Strip during the month of October, which turned its last page and departed carrying more tragedies and massacres. The number of trucks reached only 859 trucks, compared to 3,591 trucks as a monthly average for previous periods, which is the lowest number since the beginning of this year. This is an admission of a severe shortage that indicates a systematic and programmed starvation campaign approved by the Israeli government, in order to impose more suffering and difficulties on the citizens of the Strip.

The publication of this data coincides with a review presented yesterday by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which discussed in a detailed report the humanitarian and health conditions suffered by civilians in the Gaza Strip in light of the continuation of the Israeli aggression for the twenty-fourth day of the second consecutive year.

In the most prominent axes, reports indicate at least seven incidents that resulted in large numbers of casualties across Gaza during the past week, including four incidents in northern Gaza, in addition to the recent horrific Beit Lahia massacre. The report moves on to address the Palestinian Ministry of Health’s appeal to immediately deploy medical teams, ambulances and civil defense vehicles in order to save lives in northern Gaza, given that there are only two doctors left in Kamal Adwan Hospital, which is under enormous burden.

According to OCHA, children in Gaza are not dying because of bombs, bullets and shells alone, but because those who survive are prevented from leaving Gaza to receive life-saving care. According to UNICEF, only 127 children in critical health conditions have been allowed to leave the Strip since last May.

The report points out the difficulties faced by citizens in living and sleeping in displacement schools, which are being bombed and burned by Israel, with the continued raids carried out by Israel without justification. Despite the calls for help, Israel prevents the entry of aid and obstructs the work of international institutions and bodies.

The report, which includes a review of the past three weeks, talks about the displacement of more than 71,000 people from the North Gaza Governorate to Gaza City, while about 100,000 people remained in North Gaza, according to the latest estimates issued by the United Nations and its partners, and the announcement by the Palestinian Civil Defense Authority to stop its operations in North Gaza, leaving the area without life-saving defense services, including firefighting, search and rescue, and emergency medical assistance.

The picture of the situation remains catastrophic and tragic in terms of the overall situation, especially the rise in the number of martyrs to more than 43 thousand, several hundred and thousands missing, and more than one hundred thousand wounded. In an accurate descriptive picture, Ms. Joyce Msuya, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, says: “What the Israeli forces are doing in the besieged northern Gaza Strip cannot be allowed to continue. Hospitals are being bombed, health workers are being arrested. Shelters are being emptied and burned. First responders are being prevented from rescuing people from under the rubble.

Families are being torn apart, men and boys are being taken away on trucks. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed. Tens of thousands have been displaced once again. The entire population of northern Gaza is at risk of death,” the UN Secretary-General said in a statement, followed by an expression of shock at “the appalling levels of death, injury and destruction in the north.”

Gaza remains targeted and the occupation fires are killing all aspects of life there, and the massacres continue. Yesterday alone witnessed the death of more than 80 citizens, most of them women and children, in the northern Gaza Strip, amidst many indications that the negotiations for a prisoner exchange deal and ceasefire will fail, due to the United States’ blatant bias in favor of Israel, and their planning to move towards a limited and short deal, during which Israel will be able to resume its aggression after obtaining its detainees. This is what the resistance rejects, insisting that the solution is through a comprehensive ceasefire, the withdrawal of the army from the Gaza Strip, the return of the citizens of the Strip to their homes, and the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Strip. It seems that this will take more time.

The existence of UNRWA means the existence of refugees, and the existence of refugees means the existence of an occupying usurper, and the existence of an occupier means, by nature, the existence of resistance. Eliminating UNRWA means, in the long run, eliminating the idea of refugees completely, and thus erasing the idea of an occupation on a land usurped from its displaced people; so that the occupying state automatically becomes, over time, a resident state with a land and a homeland, and thus the project of eliminating resistance is completed under another name, which is eliminating terrorism outside the state (an illegitimate occupying state = a legitimate existing state).

This is what the Israeli occupation government seeks to achieve through the Knesset’s decision to ban the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on all of historical Palestine, after a previous decision to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state on the territories occupied in 1967. The majority of 92 votes, excluding Arab votes, granted to the two previous decisions means a Zionist consensus among all political blocs and parties, so that the opposition becomes a complete consensus regarding the United Nations resolutions regarding the political rights of the Palestinian people.

The United Nations, which undertook, through its Resolution No. 194, to establish a special body for Palestinian refugees, unlike any other similar body it has established for refugees in the world in terms of composition, structure, tasks, and political dimensions, stands today helpless in the face of the decision of the Israeli government, which challenges it on the one hand and represents its ideology on the other, in a formal contradiction and a hidden agreement.

The occupying state, which previously failed to abolish UNRWA and refer the Palestinian refugee file to other bodies with humanitarian dimensions; to strip it of its political and legal character, is now relying on force to end the presence and work of UNRWA on the land of Palestine, which reveals its goals of ending the refugees and their rights approved by the International Assembly. This is what the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, stated on Wednesday, saying: The attack on the agency is politically motivated; to get rid of the Palestinian refugees. Especially after the United Nations investigations that showed the falsity of the Israeli allegations that its employees work for the Hamas movement, and the occupation's intentions are clear through its systematic method of destroying the Gaza Strip, in light of the difficult conditions they live in, especially in the north of the Strip.

In order for Israel to achieve its goal of liquidating the Palestinian cause, the Knesset had previously approved on Tuesday 10-29-2024 a decision to prevent any country from establishing a consulate in Jerusalem that provides services to the Palestinians, thus also blocking the path for the United States to fulfill its previous promise to reopen its consulate in Jerusalem.

This decision, which did not provoke any current or future American administration, constitutes a blatant challenge to the international system, whether at the level of the universal institutions or at the level of individual countries.

The occupying state, which imposed itself by force first, before the will of the United States, as Netanyahu stated in his talk about the legitimacy of his country, is now placing itself in a challenge to the United Nations, with all its institutions, decisions, legal and value systems, and in a challenge to the existing international system, at the head of which the United States still stands, and is striving to prevent its collapse, or change it.

Although the decision to establish a Palestinian state and grant the Palestinians their rights has not yet been issued by an explicit decision, but rather by indirect decisions, including its position in the United Nations as an observer, and the recent decision of the General Assembly to strengthen its seat in the General Assembly, like its members, the UNRWA file was issued by a correct and clear decision by the General Assembly known as the “Right of Return” Resolution No. 194 of 1949.

Resolution No. 194 was one of the United Nations’ requirements for recognizing the occupying state after the 1948 war, and it constitutes part of the translation of Resolution No. 181, which concerned the partition of Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish.

The question that arises here is: If the occupying state is able to cancel the agency’s work inside occupied Palestine, can it cancel it outside it? Can it cancel 40% of the refugees in Jordan, 10% in Syria, and 8% in Lebanon, in addition to those in other Arab and foreign countries? And will it succeed in canceling Resolution 194, and what it represents in terms of protecting the right of Palestinian refugees to return?

Will Israel, with its practices that defy international and humanitarian laws, resolutions, values, and international justice institutions, impose itself as a fait accompli that countries must deal with and accept as they are? Or will its fate be that of a rogue state that does not belong to international values and institutions, which will place it in open confrontation not only with the Palestinian people but also with the international community as a whole, the global system, and the United Nations?

The Knesset’s decision on UNRWA provides the legitimate legal justification for the decision to freeze the occupation state’s membership in the General Assembly, or perhaps the courage to approve the expulsion of Israel from the international institution. There is no doubt that it is a difficult battle in the General Assembly, but the United States will not be able to prevent the issuance of a decision if it is put to a vote. Thus, the occupation state has chosen comprehensive international isolation, with no benefit to its means of power, which are in turn collapsing.

International and Arab reactions will not stop at condemnation, expressing concern, and issuing statements, knowing that the results of such a decision will awaken in every refugee his cause that has been numbed for almost a century, and thus will only increase his resistance action that will disturb the occupying state and the entire international community.

Despite America's support for Israel, the latter feels isolated globally and finds itself facing increasing diplomatic isolation due to its war in Gaza. Despite this, the extremist occupation government has become uninterested in what is said about it or in the unprecedented level of direct accusations of committing war crimes and genocide that it has reached, and that it does not care about what the world thinks of it, while it has become an unsafe country for many Israelis residing in it, most of whom have already left it for good.

Netanyahu dominated the scene through his positions and determination to change the face of the Middle East, while Israel lacked security and calm and was no longer able to convince Israelis to provide stability, as Israel became permanently isolated and became an unsafe country for many Israelis, especially those with dual citizenship, and many of them admit to being uncomfortable because they do not hear from Netanyahu any realistic end except more conflict, and they admit that they were shocked by the speed with which Israel lost global sympathy and the consequences of that and their reality and living future.

The genocidal war and the reality of the troubled state reflected a new strategy for the dominance of the Israeli right, and carried trends in reshaping the Middle East. The extremist voices within the most right-wing government in Israel’s history raise fears of what some call “expansionist aspirations toward what is known as ‘Greater Israel’,” as the extremist bloc believes that it can expand to what is known in Israel between the Tigris and Euphrates, and they declare openly through maps in front of which they take pictures that they will not be satisfied with Gaza.

Such expansionist aspirations across borders cannot be on the current agenda of the occupation government, despite the fact that the far-right bloc adopts such slogans. In fact, the image that revolves in Netanyahu’s mindset at the present time and what he can draw across the new Middle East remains about enabling Israel to settle the remaining Palestinian lands, reoccupy the Gaza Strip and annex the West Bank. Israel does not hide its intentions regarding extending its settlement project, and has explicitly announced its intention to double the number of settlers to one million, despite the Arab and international criticism that this has received.

Within the Israeli political scene, there are a number of ministers in the far-right government who do not believe in the two-state solution, and now we seem farther away from the establishment of a Palestinian state than we have been since the Oslo Accords, but it is not possible to believe that the international community will agree to these Israeli maps that are devoid of Palestinian lands, as all the data confirm that the Israeli perspective of the new Middle East cannot be achieved and is difficult to become a reality, and the Palestinian people disappear from the scene once the occupation’s liquidation plans are implemented.

The occupying state cannot continue its war without providing comprehensive and integrated support and adopting the Israeli project by the United States of America, which worked during the war to provide military, political and financial support to the extremist government, and supplied it with the appropriate weapons to wage its war, and provided it with international political cover by using the right of veto in the UN Security Council more than three times to prevent the passage of resolutions condemning Israel, as it provided great support to Israel to ensure its strategic superiority, and intensified its military presence in light of the increasing tension and instability in the region.

The source of optimism about the imminent reaching of a ceasefire agreement on the northern front and the spread of the illusion of severing the relationship between the Lebanese and Palestinian fronts, is that front which initially participated as a support front for the Gaza Strip front, since the second day of the aggressive war on the Gaza Strip. This optimism comes from the Israeli media and the caretaker Prime Minister Mikati, while Sean Savitt, the spokesman for the US National Security Agency, confirmed that what is being circulated are drafts for negotiations and do not reflect an agreement in the negotiations.

The Israeli leaders and army say that they will stop fighting on the Lebanese and Gaza fronts, after the army has achieved enough accomplishments. Netanyahu wants a ceasefire that meets the priorities of Israeli security, according to him, which is achieving political and security gains for his strategic project that goes beyond Lebanon and Palestine. He wants to amend Security Council Resolution 1701, hollowing it out and emptying it of its content in his favor. Israel has not implemented this resolution for 18 years. It did not withdraw from the occupied part of the Lebanese village of Ghajar, according to the text of the agreement, and rejected the solution of the former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regarding the dispute over the Shebaa Farms, and violated this resolution 39 thousand times. Netanyahu wants to hollow out this resolution by continuing to violate Lebanese sovereignty on land, air and sea, and to have the authority to form a security belt in southern Lebanon, and to enjoy the approval of the Lebanese state to disarm Hezbollah if the army does not disarm it with a UN mandate. Lebanon's obligations under Resolution 1701 are to cease firing bullets and rockets, deploy the Lebanese army, and refrain from armed resistance south of the Litani, while Israel's obligations are to cease violating Lebanese sovereignty by land, sea, and air, withdraw from the Lebanese part of the village of Ghajar, and implement the solution presented by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regarding the Shebaa Farms. Therefore, if a ceasefire is necessary, it will begin in the Gaza Strip, which is outside the umbrella of the Security Council and international balances, and is completely subject to the American umbrella.

The settlement on this front is made by America, not the UN Security Council, and the ceasefire and fighting on all fronts will be supported from Gaza. Therefore, all the illusion that the relationship between the two fronts has been severed and that Hezbollah or Iran has abandoned the Gaza Strip is part of a psychological and media war in which various Israeli, "Hebrew", Arab, American and Western European media outlets are participating. Its goal is to serve Netanyahu's electoral goals and his political and personal interests, as well as to serve the Democratic Party by achieving an accomplishment that will improve Harris's chances of winning the US presidential elections. How many times have they spread the false illusion that the negotiations are close to achieving serious breakthroughs that will lead to stopping the aggression and a ceasefire on the Gaza Strip front, and then we find that Netanyahu is running away and wasting time, and America stands by his side, holding the resistance responsible for the failure of the negotiations, while the Arab participants in what is known as the Quartet participating in the negotiations do not have the decision or will to hold Israel responsible for the failure of the negotiations. These are illusions and rumors being spread, as Israel is not yet ready and mature for a political path, and it is the one that has mobilized five divisions on the Lebanese land front and added several brigades to them. Despite the cracks and fissures that have begun to increase between the military and security establishment and the political establishment, due to the inability to achieve the goals of the war neither on the Gaza Strip front nor on the Lebanese front.

There is a question posed to the Lebanese resistance after the election of Sheikh Naim Al-Qassem as Secretary-General: Will the Lebanese resistance accept the separation between the two fronts? That the war on the northern front should stop and continue on the Gaza Strip front, which means that Hezbollah will break its pledges not to separate the two fronts. We are certain that what was rejected by the former Secretary-General of the party, His Eminence Nasrallah, who was assassinated by Israeli aircraft with American guided bombs weighing 900 kg, will not be accepted by the new Secretary-General, Sheikh Naim al-Qassem. The developments that took place on the Lebanese scene, with the widespread assassinations of a number of the party’s security and military leaders, within what was known as the deadly triple package, and hundreds of unprecedented air raids launched by Israeli aircraft that targeted the environment and structure of the resistance, leading to the ascension of the Secretary-General, His Eminence Sayyed Nasrallah, and his deputy, His Eminence Sheikh Hashem Safi al-Din, these developments, in addition to the comprehensive destructive war on the party and the resistance, and the quest to impose security and political conditions on Lebanon, pushed the resistance to modify its tactics, but its strategy did not change and its commitment to Gaza did not change. The Lebanese resistance has enough reasons to be convinced that the occupation cannot accept a ceasefire on the Lebanese front without obtaining gains and privileges related to its strategic project, and not to the course of its war on Gaza, the most important of which is what the occupation leaders are expressing regarding their efforts to amend Resolution 1701, and obtain the powers to pursue and chase the resistance on land inside Lebanese territory, and to overlook its continued occupation of Lebanese territory, and its violation of Lebanese airspace and waters under the pretext of security necessities, and to verify that the resistance is not armed. These aspirations open up the opportunity for the resistance to form a broad Lebanese front to defend Lebanese national sovereignty under the ceiling of the ceasefire and Resolution 1701 without amendment.

The resistance's alignment under this roof is based on the certainty that it is impossible for the occupying state to accept it after its investment in the war on the resistance in Lebanon has greatly inflated, and its costs have increased greatly, whether through the costs of the ground war or the resistance's targeting of the depths of the occupying state with missiles and drones. The occupation will not back down from seeking to achieve gains at the expense of Lebanese sovereignty to justify the size of the prices it has incurred except when forced, that is, when it is defeated.

If the occupation is forced to accept a ceasefire and Resolution 1701 without amendment, which guarantees its withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories and the cessation of its violations of Lebanese airspace and waters, it cannot do that and leave its war in Gaza continuing. There is the prisoners’ file and the question that awaits it: Why do you accept in Lebanon the end of the war without gains despite the losses, and continue the war in Gaza while the prisoners are exposed to death there?

Either the occupation is strong, in which case it will continue its war on Lebanon, or it is weak, in which case it will stop its war on Lebanon and Gaza with minimal losses. In this case, it is better for it to leave through the Gaza gate, because it is outside the umbrella of the Security Council and its balances, and under a purely American umbrella, which alone guarantees that if it stops, all other fronts will stop.

The resistance says in all its leaders’ positions that it is committed to Gaza, but it is not obligated to explain in detail how this will be achieved. As long as the war continues on both fronts, there is no need to worry. When someone sees a ceasefire on the Lebanese front but not on the Gaza front, let him ask the resistance how this happened.