The Arab Parliament condemned the Israeli occupation's decision to seize the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem and turn it into a colonial outpost, considering this decision a blatant violation of the rights of the Palestinian people and international organizations working to serve refugees, and a flagrant violation of international law and United Nations resolutions.

The Arab Parliament, in a statement issued today, Monday, called on the international community to intervene urgently to stop these ongoing violations against the Palestinian people and their institutions, and stressed the need to respect UNRWA and its vital role in providing humanitarian services to Palestinian refugees, considering that this escalation aims to liquidate the issue of Palestinian refugees and their right to return.

He also renewed his support for the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people to achieve their legitimate rights, most notably their right to self-determination, the right of return, and the establishment of their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Last Thursday, the occupation authorities announced the seizure of the land on which the UNRWA headquarters is located in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, and its transformation into a colonial outpost.

Medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, announced the arrival of 13 new injuries to the hospital as a result of the Israeli occupation army targeting citizens in the Al-Yaman Al-Saeed shelter center in Jabalia camp.

According to the sources, the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,289, most of them children and women, since the start of the Israeli aggression on October 7. The sources also indicated that the number of injuries has reached 98,684 since the beginning of the aggression, and there are still thousands of victims under the rubble.

The sources also reported that the occupation forces committed 4 massacres during the past 24 hours, resulting in the death of 62 citizens and the injury of 220 others. They also explained that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, which hinders the efforts of ambulance and civil defense crews to reach them.

Today, Monday, a citizen was killed and four others were injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets, during their ongoing aggression on the city of Jenin and its camp, in the northern West Bank.

The director of Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, Fawaz Hammad, reported the martyrdom of the child Rayan Ibrahim Al-Sayed (17 years old), who succumbed to his wounds, which he sustained from the bullets of the occupation forces during their storming of the city of Jenin.

Medical sources announced that four citizens were injured by the occupation forces' bullets during clashes with the occupation forces in various areas of the city and its camp.

Israeli special forces, "Musta'ribeen", infiltrated the outskirts of Jenin camp, and surrounded a house, before sending reinforcements accompanied by a military bulldozer into the city and its camp from the Jalameh military checkpoint.

The occupation forces deployed a number of their vehicles in the Cinema Roundabout area in the center of Jenin, near Al-Hisba Street, and at the entrances to the camp, and deployed their snipers on the roofs of a number of tall buildings.

The official Wafa agency reported that explosions are heard in the camp from time to time, amid intensive flying of occupation drones in the sky of the city and its camp.

She pointed out that violent clashes erupted with the occupation forces in Jenin camp, during which live bullets were fired at the youths, which led to four citizens being injured by bullets.

The official agency confirmed that the occupation forces opened direct and deliberate fire at a group of journalists while they were covering the aggression, near the Cinema Roundabout in the city center.

Years before the October 7, 2023, attack, Hamas leaders planned a more deadly wave of attacks against Israel — including a Sept. 11-style skyscraper bombing in Tel Aviv — while pressuring Iran to help realize their vision of Israel’s annihilation, according to documents captured by Israeli forces in Gaza and reviewed by the newspaper, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

“Electronic records and papers that Israeli officials say were recovered from Hamas command centers show advanced planning for attacks using trains, boats and even horse-drawn carriages — though many of the plans were poorly conceived and highly impractical,” terrorism experts said. These bet on drawing in allied militant groups to launch a joint attack against Israel from the north, south and east.

The documents include a presentation explaining potential attack options as well as letters from Hamas to senior Iranian leaders in 2021 requesting hundreds of millions of dollars to fund and train an additional 12,000 Hamas fighters, the newspaper reported. It is not yet clear whether Iran was aware of the planning document or responded to the letters, but Israeli officials view the requests as part of a larger effort by Hamas to draw its Iranian allies into the kind of direct confrontation with Israel that Tehran has traditionally sought to avoid.

The newspaper says: "The 59 pages of letters and planning documents in Arabic obtained by The Washington Post represent a small fraction of the thousands of records that the Israeli Defense Forces say they have seized since the start of the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza on October 27."

The decision to disclose these documents comes at a time when Israeli leaders are considering a possible retaliatory strike after Iran launched more than 180 ballistic missiles against Israel on October 1, in response to the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, and the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27.

“Hamas is so determined to wipe Israel and the Jewish people off the map that it has managed to drag Iran into a direct conflict — under conditions for which Iran was not prepared,” an Israeli security official who has seen the messages and planning documents told the newspaper on condition of anonymity.

The minutes reveal, according to the same source, that Hamas initially planned to carry out its attack on Israel in the fall of 2022, but postponed the plan in an attempt to convince its regional allies, Iran and Hezbollah, to participate.

The documents cited by the Washington Post claim that in July 2023, Hamas sent a senior official to Lebanon to meet with a senior Iranian commander, and asked the senior Iranian commander for help in striking sensitive sites, within the first hour of the attack.

The Iranian leader told Hamas that Iran and Hezbollah support Hamas's plans in principle, but they need more time to prepare.

The movement also planned to discuss the attack in more detail with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah (who was assassinated by Israel on September 27), but the documents do not clarify whether this meeting actually took place, according to the newspaper.

The newspaper says that the movement adopted a well-thought-out strategy to deceive Israel about its intentions, as it deliberately avoided provoking any confrontations and avoided escalation for two years since 2021, with the aim of maximizing the element of surprise in the October 7 attack, as the leaders stated in their meetings that it was necessary to “keep the enemy convinced that Hamas in Gaza wants calm,” according to the documents.

Timing and other factors were crucial to Hamas's decision to carry out the attack, with documents showing that Hamas leaders discussed the possibility of launching the attack during the Jewish holidays, in September or October 2023.

Other factors influenced their decision, including a desire to disrupt efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and concerns about Israel's development of a new advanced air defense system.

In addition, Hamas leaders noted that Israel's "internal situation" - an apparent reference to the turmoil caused by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial plans to reform the judiciary - was among the reasons that "forced them to move toward a strategic battle."

The newspaper reported that the documents were found by Israeli soldiers in late January 2024, on a computer during a search of an underground Hamas command center in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.

“These plans, in addition to the plan to bring down a skyscraper in Tel Aviv similar to the September 11 attacks, include targeting the Israeli railway network using trains loaded with explosives, in addition to converting fishing boats into fast attack boats, and using horse-drawn carriages to transport fighters and weapons,” the newspaper reported.

Israel claims that Yahya Sinwar, in his letter to senior Iranian officials in 2021, asked Tehran for $500 million over two years, in addition to training and equipping an additional 12,000 Hamas fighters, “$20 million per month (for two years),” promising in the alleged letters that with Iran’s support, Hamas could completely destroy Israel within two years, saying: “We promise you that we will not waste a minute or a penny unless it brings us closer to achieving this sacred goal.”

The Washington Post reported that although the documents show Hamas's great ambitions to strike Israel, experts described some of these plans as impractical and incomplete, in their interview with the newspaper.

The documents also revealed a change in the relationship between Hamas and Iran since 2014, as Hamas sought more Iranian support, while Iran showed greater interest in directing how the money was spent.

Although American and Israeli officials believe that Iran was surprised by the October 7 attack and was not aware of its details in advance, they believe that both Tehran and Hezbollah were aware that Hamas was preparing a major strike, according to the newspaper.

In response to the report, the Iranian mission to the United Nations denied the allegations, accusing Israel of spreading misleading information.

“We consider the Israeli regime to be a criminal, lying and anti-human entity, and we do not believe their delusions. They have a long history of spreading lies, fabricating genuinely fake documents, and conducting deceptive psychological operations,” a mission spokesman said.

The Hamas offensive on October 7, planned for months in great secrecy, was a simultaneous breach of the Gaza fence by an estimated 3,000 fighters who attacked nearby Israeli military bases, towns and kibbutzim, killing more than 1,200 people, including 311 soldiers, and taking some 250 hostages. The attack, the brainchild of Sinwar and other leaders of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, was the most audacious and deadly attack against Israel.

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris urged Israel on Sunday to increase its aid to Gaza, citing a report by the United Nations World Food Programme.

“The UN reports that no food has entered northern Gaza for nearly two weeks. Israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid to those in need. Civilians must be protected and must have access to food, water and medicine. International humanitarian law must be respected,” Harris said in a post on the social media platform X.

In a report released on Saturday, the World Food Programme (WFP) said, “The escalation of violence in northern Gaza is having a catastrophic impact on the food security of thousands of Palestinian families” and that “the main crossings to the north have been closed and no food assistance has entered since October 1.”

The World Food Programme reported that places such as “food distribution points, as well as kitchens and bakeries in northern Gaza, were forced to close due to” factors including “airstrikes, military ground operations and evacuation orders.”

“The north is essentially cut off and we are unable to operate there,” said Antoine Renard, WFP’s Country Director in Palestine, in a statement. “WFP has been on the ground since the beginning of the crisis. We are committed to delivering life-saving food every day despite the increasing challenges, but without safe and sustainable access, it is almost impossible to reach those in need.”

It is noteworthy that more than a year has passed since the brutal Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which claimed the lives of 42,000 Palestinian citizens, most of whom were women and children, and wounded more than 80,000 Palestinian citizens, most of whom were also women and children, and forced all of the Strip's 2.2 million inhabitants to flee internally.

Israel launched its ongoing war on the Strip after fighters from the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas managed to penetrate Israeli fortifications in the Gaza Strip, killing 1,200 Israelis, including 311 soldiers, according to official Israeli statements on October 7, 2023.

Tensions in the Middle East escalated after Israel assassinated leaders of the Lebanese Hezbollah, bombed the Lebanese capital Beirut repeatedly, and penetrated Lebanese territory, which led to the intervention of Iran, which launched 180 missiles at Israel on October 1.

Experts expect that Israel is preparing to attack Iran, a response that would be followed by an Iranian response, which could plunge the region into a regional war.

1. Since yesterday, and until Monday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests and extensive field investigations, which included at least 50 citizens from the West Bank.

The Commission of Prisoners' Affairs and the Prisoners' Club said that among the detainees were children, former prisoners, and two journalists who were later released. The arrests and field investigations were concentrated in the governorates of Bethlehem and Jenin, and the rest were distributed among the governorates of Jerusalem, Nablus, Ramallah, Salfit, and Jericho.

The arrests were accompanied by attacks and threats, in addition to severe beatings of the detainees and their families, in addition to widespread acts of vandalism and destruction in citizens’ homes.

It is noteworthy that the number of arrests since the beginning of the ongoing war of extermination and comprehensive aggression against our people has risen to more than 11,300 citizens from the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

It is worth noting that the occupation forces continue to escalate arrest campaigns in the West Bank, which constitute the most prominent fixed and systematic policies used by the occupation forces, with the aim of undermining any escalating confrontation.

It is noteworthy that the data related to arrest cases includes detainees from the West Bank, excluding Gaza, whose numbers are estimated in the thousands.

Medical sources announced today, Monday, that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,289, the majority of whom are children and women, since the beginning of the Israeli occupation aggression on October 7.

The same sources added that the number of injuries has risen to 98,684 since the beginning of the aggression, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble.

She pointed out that the occupation forces committed 4 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 62 citizens and the injury of 220 others, during the past 24 hours.

It explained that a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.

Between their fun and their death, there were only a few minutes, which were enough for the planes to arrive and spot them stealing moments of joy, trying to pass the time by playing next to the displacement tents, which they had taken refuge in after fleeing under the showers of bullets from their homes, before they turned into rubble in Jabalia camp.

They were ten young children, five of them were killed instantly, their tender bodies turned into charred corpses and body parts scattered in the streets and roads, and the others were seriously injured and were transferred to receive treatment in hospitals that were in danger of going out of service.

Two days ago, families including women, children and patients, carried in carts, were bombed by quadcopters while they were fleeing, and their remains were scattered in the streets, while ambulance crews were prevented from reaching them.

All of this is being implemented in accordance with the so-called “Generals’ Plan,” a plan that relies on tactics aimed at displacing about half a million citizens who are still suffering in the north, by starving them, depriving them of water, or killing them directly.

One of the plan's provisions includes a warning to residents of the north: "Anyone who remains in the area after the siege is imposed will be considered a Hamas fighter, regardless of his identity, and will be subject to killing."

The hellish plan has two goals, one apparent and the other implicit. The apparent one carries the slogan of subduing Hamas, while the implicit one is killing, terrorizing and displacing people, and giving free rein to rebuilding settlements within an ideological vision covered by security blankets.

Stop the killing now...!

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By Jawad Al Anani

Does the intensification of the battles with the Palestinian and Lebanese sides indicate that these battles will end soon? Are pressures being exerted on the warring parties, especially Israel, that the time has come for the war to end, and for the civilian victims to be given the attention they deserve so that a window of hope can open up for them?

It seems that there are Jewish groups in the world who do not want the war to continue and have begun to actively approach the Arabs they can contact, and those who fear for the future of Israel from the bloodbath in which the extremist, oppressive government is drowning, and they have begun to say that the time has come to stop this bloodshed, and to move forward towards a solution that will recover what remains of a glimmer of hope for the possibility of reaching a just peace that ends this great tragedy in the twenty-first century.

It has been noted recently that news channels have begun to focus more on the effects of the war on the global economy, from chaos and confusion in global stock markets, to the rise in gold and precious metals prices, and the recovery of oil prices, which reached more than eighty dollars in the North Sea, compared to about 75 dollars a few days ago.

There is fear within the United States, especially the Democratic administration, that the continued rise in prices will accumulate economic burdens on poor and middle-class American families, who will either refrain from voting in the elections next November, or will side with Republican candidates in their states, especially the so-called swing states, in which Kamala Harris has begun to make some slight progress at the expense of her competitor Donald Trump.

Also, the continuation of the war will increase pressure on international supply chains, because this continuation will mean that Israel will strike Iran, even if this strike has not been agreed upon in detail. If the matter is left to Netanyahu's individual decision, he, his army and his government will strike Iranian oil depots and facilities, or he may go so far as to seek to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities that are said to be located in Isfahan and Tabriz.

In this case, Iran will send hundreds, if not thousands, of ballistic missiles to Israel, causing great destruction there, embarrassing the Biden administration and the Starmer government in the United Kingdom, to the point that it will participate with Israel in striking Iranian military bases. And what if Russia then exploits the dangerous results of this war to expand its occupation of Ukrainian territory or occupy Kiev and neutralize the Zelensky regime, or China occupies islands in the Pacific Ocean.

An Israeli soldier on a boat at a naval base in Haifa, November 23, 2023 (AFP)

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What comes after all that is happening?

A commentator on an Arab news channel said that Iran possesses nuclear weapons and that it can produce them. Although such a matter is not settled or definitive, such as the claim of killing the new Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine, or killing the leader of Hamas forces in Gaza Yahya Sinwar, Iran could produce a dirty bomb, according to some experts, because such a bomb would be highly effective but less harmful and easier to produce than a regular nuclear bomb.

Therefore, the risk of continuing the war according to multiple scenarios harms the major interests of many parties in the region and the world, and even Israel, whose leaders are eager to continue the war, expand its scope and intensify its violence, is exposed to such a risk. However, the current battles remain limited in their harm, compared to the use of missiles with high-intensity explosive warheads, or nuclear bombs, even if their enrichment rate is lower than the level at which they are called nuclear bombs.

I had the opportunity to watch an important television interview on the American CNN channel, in which the presenter of the program "Connecting the World" met the mediator in exchanging the prisoner Gilad Shalit with Palestinian prisoners. The name of this mediator is Gershon Baskin, who presented a formula for an agreement that he said Hamas had agreed to.

The formula for the agreement includes a ceasefire for twenty-one days, during which Israeli military and civilian prisoners, estimated at one hundred or one hundred and one, will be exchanged for a large number of Palestinian prisoners, during which an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza will take place, and an agreement to start a political process that will lead to a just and acceptable solution to the Palestinian issue, in which Hamas will not participate, and the resistance movement will pledge not to return to war or acts of resistance.

Baskin stated in the interview that the Arab parties negotiating had accepted this proposal, but the Netanyahu government and its prime minister themselves were the ones who obstructed this deal, which, if it had been completed, would have returned the prisoners to their families, the war would have stopped, the battle in the north on the Lebanese border would have ended, the Iranian ballistic attack on Israel would not have occurred, and Hassan Nasrallah would not have been killed. It seems that the military leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, has accepted this matter, and that he did not object to moving to a safe place.

In light of Baskin's words, the movement demanding an agreement with the resistance to stop the fighting and release the prisoners has intensified, and peaceful demonstrations have returned to the streets of Israeli cities and many European and Arab countries.

Why is the war on Gaza still going on?

Baskin has prepared a letter from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to US President Joe Biden, informing him that the Israeli government agrees to the framework agreement approved by Hamas, and includes the most important points he presented during the interview with CNN, including providing international guarantees after the complete Israeli withdrawal from the Strip that no attack against Israel will be repeated like the one that occurred on October 7, but Netanyahu did not sign this letter.

It seems that activists, Israelis and Jews in many Western countries who want to end the bloody war have begun to move, and are demanding that Arab countries like them do the same. Some of them from the United States and the United Kingdom have told me that they are ready to visit Jordan and talk to opinion leaders and politicians there, to convince them that there is a large segment of Jews and Israelis who do not see the current Israeli government as representing them, but rather seek to exonerate themselves from it, and that they are ashamed of the positions and language it adopts, and the threats it issues.

We are now standing on the threshold of the door of Raddad, either it opens towards light and hope, or it closes on darkness whose extent and calamities only God knows.

A few days ago, I had the opportunity to listen to Prince Hassan bin Talal during an Iftar on Saturday, October 5, 2024. He presented an in-depth analysis of the reality in the region, and the need for Jordanian researchers to develop strategic studies to put Jordan’s internal house in order and confront its problems and challenges, and to organize regional and international relations. He stressed the need for the role of strategic research in Jordan to contribute to developing its vision on this subject. The main lesson we learned is that our future should not remain hostage to decisions made by others, of which we are victims and forced to deal with them, because they will directly and undeniably affect our strategic interests.

Two citizens were killed and others were injured this evening, Sunday, in the ongoing occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Health sources reported the death of two citizens as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted a group of citizens east of Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In the Mufti area, north of Nusairat, a number of displaced people were injured by artillery shells that targeted a school housing displaced people.

Medical sources also reported that the Israeli occupation arrested paramedics during the evacuation of patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital, despite prior coordination for the evacuation.

Earlier this evening, 5 children were killed and others were injured in a new massacre committed by the occupation army west of Al-Shati camp, north of Gaza City.

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 42,227 citizens and the injury of 98,464 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced today, Sunday, that the death toll from the Israeli attacks that targeted several areas in the country yesterday (Saturday) has risen to 51 dead and 174 wounded, in the context of the military escalation that has been ongoing since early October.

The ministry explained in a statement that the total number of victims since the start of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon on October 8, 2023 has reached 2,306 dead  and 10,698 wounded.

Reflecting the scale of the humanitarian disaster that the country is experiencing as a result of this aggression.

The continuous Israeli raids on many Lebanese areas led to widespread destruction of infrastructure and the direct targeting of civilians, resulting in a large number of dead and wounded.

Since the start of military operations, areas in southern Lebanon in particular have been under intense bombardment, which has led to the displacement of thousands of families and the demolition of many homes and civilian facilities.

Lebanon is witnessing an unprecedented escalation of airstrikes and artillery targeting residential and civilian areas. According to medical reports, many of the wounded are suffering from serious injuries, and there is a shortage of medical supplies in hospitals that are now working at maximum capacity to receive the large number of wounded.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health stressed in its statements the need to intensify humanitarian and medical support to Lebanon, noting that the situation is worsening with the continuation of military operations. It called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop the attacks and provide necessary assistance to the injured and displaced.

A number of citizens suffered from suffocation, Sunday evening, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces storming the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, the occupation forces were stationed in the gate area and around the Grand Mosque, and fired tear gas and sound bombs towards citizens' homes, which led to a number of citizens suffering from suffocation as a result of inhaling the gas.

The town of Al-Khader is witnessing repeated confrontations between citizens and the occupation forces, which are intensifying their raids on residential neighborhoods.

Twenty-five Israeli soldiers were injured Sunday evening in an attack targeting the Binyamina area south of Haifa, including 10 seriously and three critically, according to Eli Bin, director general of the Magen David Adom.

According to Channel 12, the attack was carried out by a drone that exploded in the area.

The occupation army radio said that the operation resulted in the death of 3 soldiers and 24 injuries, including 9 in critical condition, as a result of a drone explosion in Binyamina, south of Haifa.

The occupation authorities called in helicopters to evacuate the injured, according to our correspondent.

The Hebrew media said about the incident: "The alarm was not activated when the drone was penetrated, and the Israeli army will need to investigate why it was not intercepted, as well as the Home Front Command about why the alarm was not activated."

He explained that the march was launched towards Haifa under the cover of a barrage of rockets towards the Galilee, explaining that the "Israeli" ambulance dealt with 22 injuries, including 3 critical, 5 serious and 14 moderate.

Videos showed ambulances transporting injured and dead soldiers.

Israeli journalist Amit Segal confirmed that the attack targeted a base belonging to the Golani Brigade, one of the brigades of the occupation army.

A child was injured, Sunday evening, with live bullets, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus.

According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the town and clashes erupted in its western part.

The Red Crescent explained in a brief statement that its crews dealt with a 15-year-old child who was injured by live bullets in the foot and shrapnel in the back.

Five children were killed and others were injured, Sunday evening, in a new massacre committed by the occupation army west of Al-Shati camp, north of Gaza City.

According to local sources, an occupation drone targeted a group of children who were playing around the Ghaban Café in Al-Shati camp, which led to the immediate death of 5 children, and the injury of others who were near them.

The occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which has resulted in the death of 42,227 citizens and the injury of 98,464 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.

A number of Lebanese citizens were killed and injured today, Sunday, as a result of the Israeli occupation aircraft bombing several towns in Lebanon, amid widespread destruction of buildings, facilities and infrastructure.

The occupation warplanes and artillery targeted the towns of Khiyam, Kfar Kila, Shama, Al-Bazourieh, Al-Dhahirah, Yater, Rshaf, Qana, Al-Sittiniyah, Kfar Shuba, Alma Al-Shaab, Miqdoun, Shaqra, Dab’al, Sarbin, Al-Mansouri, Beit Lif, Aita Al-Shaab, Al-Sharhabeel, Ramyeh, Rmeish, Kafra, Haris, Al-Safri, Yahmor, Maroun Al-Ras, Kfar Tibnit, Rumin, Shebaa, Wadi Al-Hujayr, and Wadi Al-Saluqi in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa.

Yesterday evening, the occupation raids destroyed the ancient market in the city of Nabatieh, south Lebanon, which was built about 400 years ago.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces prevented farmers from reaching their lands west of the town of Dura, south of Hebron.

Local sources said that the occupation forces prevented farmers from reaching their lands in the areas of "Khalat Taha" and "Al-Abed" from reaching their lands and picking olives.

For years, these lands have been subjected to continuous attempts to impose the occupation’s control over them. The occupation forces recently demolished a number of homes there, in addition to bulldozing the lands, uprooting trees, destroying water wells, and poisoning grazing lands, in order to force the citizens to leave.

Israeli army detonates booby-trapped robots loaded with tons of explosives to expand the circle of killing and destruction in northern Gaza

A screenshot taken from scenes broadcast by Al Jazeera News Channel of an Israeli booby-trapped robot in a neighborhood in Jabalia camp, northern Gaza Strip - May 2024

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Palestinian Territories - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that the Israeli occupation army is using booby-trapped robots loaded with tons of explosives in the extensive destruction and killing operations it is carrying out in northern Gaza, during its ongoing invasion for the ninth consecutive day, with the escalation of the crime of genocide against the Palestinians there by committing massacres, premeditated murder, starvation, and large-scale forced displacement.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor explained that the Israeli army completely separated the northern Gaza governorate from Gaza City, by positioning vehicles, placing sand barriers and rubble of destroyed homes, in addition to fire cover from drones.

This robot destroys about 6 or 7 homes at once. The occupation army blows up the robot in homes without knowing whether there are civilians inside or not

Eyewitness in Jabalia camp, northern Gaza Strip

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor highlighted that it received numerous testimonies about the Israeli army's use of booby-trapped robots and their remote detonation, causing widespread damage to homes and surrounding buildings and significant loss of life, at a time when the work of ambulance and civil defense crews is almost completely disrupted, except for a narrow area in some neighborhoods.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said that Israel's use of booby-trapped robots is prohibited under international law, as these robots are considered random weapons that cannot be directed or their effects limited to military targets only. Due to their nature, they directly hit civilians, or hit military targets, civilians or civilian objects indiscriminately. Therefore, it is considered a prohibited weapon under international law, and its use in residential areas constitutes an international crime in itself.

In his testimony to the Euro-Mediterranean team, one of the people trapped in one of the neighborhoods near the "Al-Qassabi" neighborhood southwest of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip (the name of the witness is being withheld by Euro-Mediterranean for security reasons) said: "On Wednesday evening (October 9), a huge explosion occurred in the Al-Qassabi neighborhood, close to where we were. The sound of the explosion was very loud, I had never heard it before, we have become able to distinguish between the sounds of explosions, we know whether this sound is from bombing by aircraft, artillery, or something else. In fact, the sound of the explosion was many times louder than the sound of air strikes, to the point that white dust covered the entire area. We later found out that this explosion was the result of the detonation of a robot loaded with tons of explosives, and that this robot destroyed about 6 or 7 houses at once. The occupation army detonates the robot in the houses without knowing whether there are civilians inside them or not."

The Euro-Mediterranean field team documented the Israeli army blowing up two other robots in the "Tawam" area and in the "Zahraa" neighborhood adjacent to the Civil Defense west of Jabalia camp, and another robot in the vicinity of the "Abu Ali Mustafa" intersection in "Bir al-Naja" in the western areas of Jabalia camp. Another witness trapped in the Faluja area told the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: “There were huge explosions in the area where we are trapped near the Al-Sharafi roundabout, and we cannot tell what they are,” adding that more than 50 people are currently trapped in a house, three of whom were injured but could not be transferred to the hospital.”

The Israeli army began using these robots for the first time in Gaza last May, during the second incursion into Jabalia camp. This led to the killing of a number of civilians and the destruction of several homes in the camp. At the end of last May, images emerged from the “Tamraz Station” area in the middle of Jabalia camp of two booby-trapped robots prepared for detonation.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor confirmed that the Israeli army has expanded its operations to destroy and blow up homes and residential buildings in the areas of its incursion in northern Gaza, using three methods: aerial bombardment, booby-trapped robots, and planting homes with explosives and blowing them up.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor indicated that despite the difficulty of obtaining an accurate number of The population in the North Gaza Governorate, however, estimates indicate that there are more than 200,000 people in the remains of destroyed homes and shelters, and they reject the systematic and public Israeli plans to forcibly displace them, as the Israeli forces issued no less than six displacement orders within a week, including dropping leaflets calling on residents to head to the southern Gaza Strip.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned that there are about 200,000 others in the Gaza Governorate who are also suffering from the ongoing bombing and hunger as a result of the cessation of the entry of aid and goods, which means that more than 400,000 residents in the northern Gaza Valley are exposed to various types of killing, displacement and starvation.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor warned that those who survive the killing and direct bombing remain at risk of death by hunger or thirst, as the Israeli forces prevent the entry of any aid to the north of Gaza, and have destroyed and burned bakeries there, in addition to bulldozing what remained of water wells. Moreover, the population trapped in their homes and shelters cannot move to search for any food in their surroundings, and some of them have been forced to be internally displaced several times, forcing them to abandon their belongings and their food and water supplies. Therefore, most of them are trapped without food or the necessities of life.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that despite the Israeli occupation army’s request for residents to move south via Salah al-Din Street, they are targeted as soon as they leave their homes or shelters. Israeli aircraft have also fired at several shelters, wounding dozens of displaced people inside them.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor indicated that the health situation in northern Gaza is catastrophic, as Kamal Adwan Hospital, which is partially operating, has become the main hospital receiving victims, despite the Israeli occupation army’s order to its management to evacuate it completely. Al-Awda and Indonesian hospitals are also partially operating due to the small number of medical staff. Ambulance and civil defense crews face difficulties in moving to transport victims after the Israeli attacks, either as a result of roads being cut off after more homes were destroyed, or because they were targeted by Israeli quadcopter fire.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor called on the United Nations and the international community to intervene immediately to save hundreds of thousands of residents of northern Gaza, stop the genocide committed by Israel for the second year in a row, impose a comprehensive arms embargo on it, hold it accountable and punish it for all its crimes, and take all effective measures to protect Palestinian civilians there.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several members of his government have attacked 130 Israeli soldiers who announced a few days ago that they would refuse to serve unless the government sought to reach a prisoner exchange agreement with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

Haaretz newspaper quoted informed sources as saying that Netanyahu called during security discussions to end this issue forcefully and firmly and to use all measures permitted by law to confront this disobedience, stressing that these soldiers have lost their "national conscience."

In turn, Transportation Minister Miri Regev said during the meeting that if this was a rebellion, these soldiers should be sent to prison.

Defense Minister Yoav Galant stressed that the figures presented by the media regarding this message do not reflect reality, and that the Israeli army responds forcefully to any sign of disobedience.

While representatives of the Israeli army confirmed at the meeting that they had not received the message sent to the media.

Soldiers' Message

A few days ago, Haaretz published a letter signed by 130 Israeli soldiers warning that they would no longer serve unless the government worked to reach an agreement regarding the detainees in Gaza.

The newspaper added that the letter was signed by reserve soldiers from the Armored Corps, Artillery Corps, Home Front Command, Air Force and Navy.

The letter stated that "it is now clear that the continuation of the war in Gaza not only delays the return of the hostages from captivity, but also puts their lives in danger: many more hostages have been killed by IDF strikes than those rescued in military operations."

"We who serve faithfully, and at the same time risk our lives, hereby declare that if the government does not immediately change course and work to reach an agreement to return the hostages home, we will not be able to continue serving," the letter added.

Israel estimates that there are 101 detainees in the Gaza Strip, while Hamas announced that dozens of them were killed in random Israeli raids.

Despite the ongoing joint mediation efforts of Qatar, Egypt and the United States for months, and the presentation of one agreement proposal after another to end the war on Gaza and exchange prisoners, Netanyahu continues to set new conditions, including continued control over the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between Gaza and Egypt, the Rafah crossing in Gaza, and preventing the return of Palestinian faction fighters to northern Gaza by inspecting returnees through the Netzarim corridor in the middle of the Strip.

For its part, Hamas insists on a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Strip and a complete cessation of war to accept any agreement.

Today, Sunday, a citizen was injured by Israeli occupation forces' bullets, near the racist separation and expansion wall, north of Tulkarm Governorate.

According to local sources, ambulance crews dealt with the injury of a young man from Tulkarm (24 years old) with live bullets in the feet, in addition to a fracture in them, fired at him by occupation soldiers in the vicinity of the racist separation and expansion wall west of the town of Deir al-Ghusun, north of the governorate.

He added that the injured person was transferred to Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarm.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported today, Sunday, that the Israeli occupation committed 4 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 52 dead and 128 injuries arriving at hospitals during the past 24 hours.

In a brief statement, it confirmed that the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 42,227 dead and 98,464 injuries since October 7.

Due to its border location on the armistice line, and the nature and topography of its lands that extend inland, the occupation has constantly targeted the lands of the border and wall village of Anin, northwest of the city of Jenin. During the Nakba of 1948, it devoured and confiscated large areas of its lands. Since the Nakba, the confiscation and looting operations have not stopped, and they continued after the construction of the racist separation wall, until vast areas planted with olives, which are considered a source of income and livelihood for its residents, became besieged behind the wall. During the past year, the occupation prevented the residents from picking olives, and with the beginning of the current olive season, hundreds of citizens are still waiting to be granted permits so that the season is not lost. In the midst of all this, the village is exposed to attacks and arbitrary practices, especially the siege that has raised unemployment rates, as the vast majority of its residents are farmers and workers.

The head of the village council, Mohammed Issa, expresses the residents’ ongoing concern over the daily arbitrary practices of the occupation against the residents of his village, whose population, according to the village council’s statistics, is 5,500 people. He considers his border and besieged village marginalized and deprived of support and many of its rights, despite the repeated appeals and demands, especially to support the workers affected by the war on Gaza.

The village of Anin is 17 km away from the city of Jenin. It is bordered to the north by the village of Taybeh, to the south by the Shaked settlement, to the west by the "Me'ame" settlement, and to the east by the village of Ta'anek and the apartheid wall that was built within its borders.

Speaking to Al-Quds, the head of the council, Mohammed Issa, explained that the Israeli ambitions for his village and its lands are old and date back to the beginning of the Nakba in 1948. Before that, its historical area was 47,000 dunams, and during the Nakba, the occupation rushed to steal and confiscate 30,000 dunams. He said, “These policies destroyed the lives and livelihood of the residents in the field of agriculture, due to the fertility of its lands and its strategic location. After the construction of the racist separation wall, the occupation did not stop its harassment and settlement plans that aim to gradually annex and confiscate the land.” He added, “The wall was a major disaster for the village, as it isolated 11,600 dunams of land planted with olive trees, and the occupation prevented farmers from accessing them except with official and specific permits and according to a destructive system. During the past year, farmers were deprived of picking olives and lost the season completely.”

At the same time, the people of Anin faced great suffering that affected all the farmers whose lands are located adjacent to the racist separation wall on the village side. Issa explained that agricultural lands with an area of 1,200 dunums are owned by their owners with fences and identification papers, and are closed and it is forbidden to approach or enter them because they are adjacent to the wall. Their owners have suffered heavy losses and no one has compensated them. He added, “The occupation completely monitors this area and practices arbitrary policies against herders and farmers, including persecution, detention, suppression and abuse. The occupation soldiers fired live bullets at the citizen Moatasem Fawaz Mustafa Issa years ago while he was tending the livestock on his land and he was martyred, as a threatening message to the citizens and farmers.”

An atmosphere of anxiety and fear has prevailed among farmers since the beginning of the current olive season, with the occupation not issuing permits that allow them to reach their lands and pick the olives. Issa says, “Coordination was made through the Palestinian liaison, in order to grant us permits for farmers to pick olives this year, and we are still waiting for a response and approval, knowing that our agricultural lands behind the wall are considered the food basket for the villagers.”

Gate 214..

After the completion of the construction of the apartheid wall within the village’s lands, the occupation installed a permanent military checkpoint known as Gate 214, which is a source of great suffering for farmers and owners of isolated lands. The soldiers control the lives and movements of farmers even though they have obtained permits. Issa says, “Entering and exiting through the gate is a disaster and a major and dangerous setback in light of the arbitrary practices of detaining citizens in long lines waiting for long hours in the summer and winter, amidst humiliation and inspection. Sometimes even permit holders are prevented from passing without reason. We are currently waiting for the gate to open so we can work inside and pick olives so that we do not lose the season.”

Arbitrary practices..

The head of the council stated that the occupation practices arbitrary policies to harass and oppress the residents, even within the village’s borders and areas far from the wall. The most dangerous of these, he explained, is the method of confiscating homes and turning them into military barracks and imposing coercive measures on their residents without knowing the reasons. He said, “Recently and until today, the occupation has been storming the village, raiding and occupying homes and turning them into mobile military barracks. For a week now, soldiers have been moving from one house to another without taking into account the people’s living conditions.” He added, “The occupation controls the targeted house and deals with its residents in inhumane ways, then expels them and forces them to leave until the end of the operation and the evacuation of the barracks, which causes them terrible suffering, especially since the targeted families have no other shelter.” He continued, “The continued presence of the barracks without knowing the reasons and the expulsion of its residents, and the night raids accompanied by gunfire, have turned into terrifying nightmares for the residents.”

Wild pigs..

The people of Anin complained about the occupation releasing wild pigs from the gate of the wall into their village, which poses a threat to the lives of the villagers. Issa explains that the pigs attack and destroy agricultural crops, causing farmers huge losses, and causing fear and panic among the citizens, especially children, who live under a curfew and are prevented from leaving their homes all night long for fear of the wild pigs that are spreading widely and all attempts to eliminate them have failed.

Unemployment and suffering..

The occupation's policies against land and agriculture have pushed many citizens to turn to labor, especially inside the country. They have lost their jobs due to the restrictions and siege imposed by the occupation after the war on Gaza. Issa believes that the labor sector is a marginalized and destroyed group since the war. The majority of citizens in the village of Anin were working continuously inside the country, but after the war they became unemployed and unable to support their families and have no other source of income. He added, "We have demanded and are demanding that the Palestinian government and all ministries and institutions pay attention to the workers of our village and stand by them, support them, and provide projects to protect them from poverty, destitution, and unemployment."

Issa said that his village is marginalized and does not receive support or projects. It needs programs and plans like those implemented by the government in the border and wall areas to advance, develop, and strengthen the people’s steadfastness. The village also needs a project to rehabilitate the main street and the village entrance to relieve the suffering of the citizens.

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Issa stated that the occupation restricts the movement of construction and urban expansion in the village, and prevents construction, especially in the lands located opposite the settlement and the racist separation wall, indicating that the harassment of citizens is multiple and continuous, including the confiscation of agricultural equipment, pagers and construction tools, because they completely prevent construction in several areas, and the goal, as he says, is "to displace people and turn their lives into suffering to expel them and facilitate the confiscation of our lands." He added, "We demand that President Abu Mazen issue his instructions to all relevant ministries to include our marginalized and afflicted village within their priorities and plans, and to support it with important and vital projects to thwart the occupation's plans, as we are steadfast and steadfast and we are resisting alone and everyone must support us in every way."

The Israeli army said that 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon in the past few hours towards Haifa, Tiberias and the occupied Golan Heights, and some of them were intercepted. In return, Israeli raids targeted several towns in southern, central and northern Lebanon, leaving dead and wounded among civilians.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced yesterday, Saturday, the killing of 15 people and the injury of dozens of others, in 3 Israeli raids that targeted Mount Lebanon Governorate in the center of the country and the town of Deir Bella in Batroun in the northern region.

While Al Jazeera's correspondent said that an Israeli fighter jet raided a residential building in the town of Barja in the Chouf Coast area in Mount Lebanon, destroying part of the building.

An Israeli fighter jet also raided a house in the town of Al-Maaysra in the Keserwan district in Mount Lebanon.

In the northern region of Lebanon, the town of Deir Bella in the Batroun district was subjected to an Israeli raid that led to the destruction of two houses and their leveling to the ground.

In the past hours, Israeli fighters launched simultaneous raids on several towns in the Baalbek region in eastern Lebanon, including the towns of Tamnin and Younin in the Bekaa region.

40 missiles

In contrast, the Israeli army said it had detected the launch of about 40 rockets towards Haifa Bay and the Upper Galilee and intercepted some of them.

Israeli media reported that about 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the Upper Galilee, including two rocket salvos launched towards Acre and Haifa Bay.

Hezbollah announced that it had attacked the air defense base in Kiryat Eliezer, west of Haifa, and Ein Margaliot with a squadron of suicide drones, and hit the targets accurately.

He said that he bombed an explosives factory south of Haifa with a barrage of qualitative missiles, and the city of Tiberias with a missile salvo, and targeted gatherings of occupation forces in several locations in northern Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan.

Targeting soldiers

Hezbollah also announced that it had targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of Moqi al-Marj and Ramim with missiles, and that it had bombed an Israeli infantry force that had tried to infiltrate from the direction of the Ramiyah site with a guided missile, killing and wounding its members.

It is noteworthy that since September 23, Israel has expanded its aggression on the Gaza Strip to include Lebanon and the capital Beirut, by launching unprecedented air strikes. It also began a ground incursion into southern Lebanon, disregarding international warnings and UN resolutions.

These raids have resulted - until Saturday evening - in 1,437 deaths and 4,123 injuries, including a large number of women and children, and more than 1,340,000 displaced persons, according to official Lebanese data.

Hezbollah responds daily with missiles, drones and artillery shells targeting military sites and settlements, and while Israel announces some of its human and material losses, military censorship imposes a strict blackout on most of the losses, according to observers.

The American CNN network said that the Israeli occupation army has begun implementing a large-scale operation in northern Gaza, as it issued evacuation orders for the more than 400,000 Palestinian citizens in the area, and is preventing food supplies from reaching it, just weeks after reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu studied and discussed the plan with the "mini-war cabinet", based on blockading the area, starving its people, and forcing Hamas to release hostages.

The network notes that the Israeli occupation forces launched the operation this week following intelligence information that it said showed “the presence of terrorists and a terrorist infrastructure in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip, as well as Hamas’s efforts to rebuild its operational capabilities in the area.” In fact, the renewed attack was much more widespread than just the Jabalia refugee camp.

Four sources told CNN that the Israeli cabinet has not approved the blockade proposal put forward by retired Gen. Giora Eiland. But the operation currently underway is similar to the plan Eiland presented (known as the General’s Plan) in a public video, and in a private session of the Israeli cabinet and the Knesset.

A former senior military official familiar with the thinking of the Israeli government and security leadership — though not directly involved in decision-making — told CNN that the cabinet had adopted a “version” of Eiland’s proposal, which became known as “the general’s plan.”

Eiland told CNN the claim was "absolutely true" but said there were significant differences between his proposal and what was implemented on the ground. The operation comes at a time when the Israeli government is known to be considering several plans to reset the war in Gaza.

Last month, Eiland proposed forcing all civilians out of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, and then cutting off all supplies to the area. He said the goal was to force a reset on the war and throw off the calculations of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. “The reality today in Gaza is that Sinwar is not really nervous,” he said in a video released at the time. “What [the government] embraced was the need to do more in Gaza, to change Sinwar’s mindset,” the former military official told CNN. “And that proposal was embraced without any conceivable means of violating international law.”

Retired Maj. Gen. Gershon Hacohen, who helped draft the proposal, told CNN that Eiland’s proposal did not include any plan to allow civilians in Gaza to return to northern Gaza. That would seem likely to raise accusations of ethnic cleansing, something that has already been raised by academics such as Omer Bartov, an Israeli-born professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"The cabinet is already acting on my recommendation to take control of northern Gaza, but I have recommended a blockade (after evacuating civilians) and stopping supplies from entering this area. None of this is happening," Eiland told CNN via text message.

On Monday, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson ordered all Palestinians in the northernmost areas of Gaza—Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya—to leave and move to Mawasi, an Israeli-declared “humanitarian” zone in southern Gaza that has nevertheless been subjected to heavy aerial bombardment for months. On Saturday, the army added additional mandatory evacuation zones, dropped leaflets and posted on X, and ordered people in the Nazla area and more areas of Jabalia to leave. “The army is operating with great force against the terror organizations and will continue to do so for a long time,” Avichay Adraee said on X. “You must evacuate the area immediately via Salah a-Din Street to the humanitarian zone.”

Settlers cut down dozens of olive trees in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, at dawn on Sunday.

According to local sources, settlers cut down dozens of olive trees in the eastern area of the town of Qusra, following an attack on the area since yesterday morning.

He added that the settlers attacked the farmers and olive pickers, and expelled them from the area at gunpoint, under the protection of the occupation army.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that the lives of children in the Middle East are being destroyed by ongoing conflicts.

This came in a statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, today, Sunday, regarding the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, published on the UN organization's website.

She stressed the need for all parties to commit to protecting civilians, especially children, humanitarian workers, schools and health facilities.

The UN official stressed the need for all parties to allow unrestricted access to life-saving aid.

She said these commitments were “flagrantly ignored” in the region, and that “children do not start wars and do not have the power to end them, but their lives are being destroyed by conflicts.”

"Tens of thousands of children have been killed, and thousands are still in captivity, displaced, orphaned, out of school, and traumatized by violence and war," she continued.

UNICEF Executive Director called for an end to violence against children.

October 7 and Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa were undoubtedly an unexpected surprise and a security shock for Israel, as thousands of rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip, coinciding with an incursion by Hamas fighters using gliders, and then the border was stormed by armed units who penetrated the border barrier after blowing it up, to enter the headquarters of the Southern Command, and what is known as the Gaza Division of the Israeli army. This was also accompanied by electronic jamming of the communications devices of the military leaders, and as a result of this operation some were killed and some of them were transferred as prisoners to Gaza.

The previous brief field explanation constitutes the beginning of the conflict that continued after October 7, 2023 until today, and the facts turned into a devastating war between the two parties in Gaza, for matters and events to develop to open new fronts, such as the main front after Gaza in southern Lebanon, and what was known as the term unity of arenas, in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, represented by factions supported by Iran. All these rapid and successive developments and the repercussions of October 7 have exceeded a year and more in their time period until today. The fuse of the ongoing war is still lit and the rockets are burning everyone. October 7, after a year of fighting, has turned into a regional war in the region, and its ongoing fires are difficult to extinguish until now.

Unfortunately, what we and the world have witnessed of the worsening results of this conflict, especially in Gaza, including the destruction, killing and heavy losses of victims among the missing and wounded, including those who died of hunger, confirms that the Palestinian people have suffered a lot and are the biggest losers from this ongoing conflict. From a military perspective, Israel has defined and declared its goal, which is to eliminate the Hamas movement, especially its military capabilities in the Gaza Strip, in a way that ensures that in the future it will not pose a threat to Israeli national security, specifically to the settlements in what is known as the Gaza Envelope. In addition to these Israeli goals, there is the pursuit of returning the kidnapped Israelis and returning the residents to their homes, which is the same goal intended from the conflict with Hezbollah and the northern border region.

October 7, 2024, which marks the first anniversary of the conflict, saw clear messages sent, represented by what we saw of a wave of rocket attacks by Hamas on Israel, which was linked in terms of its timing and implications to simultaneous rocket attacks also coming from southern Lebanon, Yemen and Syria, in a way that indicates the continuation of this conflict. Regarding the political and military situation of the conflict with Israel, it is clear that some of Israel’s goals have been achieved in Gaza, in addition to killing some of Hamas’s military leaders, such as the martyr Ismail Haniyeh, and destroying vast areas in the Gaza Strip. As for the raging conflict in southern Lebanon, some of the leaders of the Radwan Unit have been killed, leading to the assassination of the commander-in-chief of Hezbollah, in addition to his martyrdom along with others. Israel has declared that its goal is to eliminate the armed resistance fighters on its northern borders, eliminate their military combat capabilities, and work to establish a weapons-free zone, in addition to implementing UN Resolution No. 1701. Despite all these assassinations and great destruction, it is clear that the conflict continues even after a year of fighting. It seems clear today that calm is absent from this conflict, and the unity of the arenas continues. In fact, we have practically entered an advanced state of war, most notably its expansion to include neighboring countries. Among its features are the greater use of missiles and fighters, and the entry into the stage of the Israeli army’s ground invasion of southern Lebanon, and the scenes of killing and destruction that accompanied these developments. And the displacement in Lebanon, in a manner similar to what happened in Gaza to some extent, and recently we notice a broader flare-up on the Syrian front and to a greater extent than the internal wars that it is already suffering from, including a more prominent flare-up in the area parallel to the Golan, as the war in Iraq expanded, and this included Iranian militias striking targets in Israel, and thus it can be said, through the map of conflicts, that the security situation worsened after October 7 and turned into a bloody regional conflict in the region, and the question that imposes itself on our reality today is where are the situations heading? What are the repercussions and dimensions of this raging conflict between the resistance and what is known as the unity of the arenas on the one hand, and Israel on the other hand, in a manner that witnesses non-stop missile bombardment?

The anniversary of October 7 coincided with the speech of the Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei and the Friday sermon in Tehran. The speech included two parts in Persian and Arabic, with the intention of addressing the Arab peoples. In his speech, he stressed Hezbollah’s right to defend Gaza, saying: “Fight the aggressor and defeat it.” He praised the October 7 earthquake and urged the Lebanese (Hezbollah) and the Palestinians to fight and continue the support war.

I believe that the war of support and assistance today needs someone to support it because of the difficult circumstances it is going through. The Guide also explained that “it is all faith that victory is coming,” but unfortunately the people in Gaza and southern Lebanon do not have the basic requirements. They are sleeping in the open and cannot find food, shelter, or the necessary treatment. The displaced people in the southern suburbs had their homes destroyed and turned into piles of cement and iron. Unfortunately, the partnership has become clear that it is only in gains and profits with the unity of the arenas. The partnership is never clear in the losses, victims, and blood that was especially in the Arab countries and from Arab blood.

The Supreme Leader also said in his speech: "Removing the entity stained with shame from the arena of existence", but in all realism and according to the results and after a year of ongoing conflict, we notice that the military power between the militias on the one hand and Israel supported by military capabilities from several countries on the other hand, is clear and does not need explanation, especially with what we see of destruction in Lebanon and Gaza, and of course this painful field situation does not include Iran itself, which was limited to missile strikes from time to time, and unfortunately the Arab people are fighting and do not know exactly where their fate and current future will be, and what we noticed of the severity in the speech of the Supreme Leader Khamenei put the region in a position far from any political solution that could help extinguish the raging fires, and it also does not contribute to saving the lives of Arabs in the unity of the arenas that we are losing every moment, and the question that is repeated is do we Arabs know where our future and the future of our region are heading, the signs of which are clear from the killing and extreme destruction in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen? So where are our Arab countries heading? While we find that others are negotiating to gain and protect interests, without exposing their countries to destruction and sabotage, such as Iran’s interests and its negotiations with America related to the nuclear file and the financial sums due to Iran, the problem here, after October 7, has become clear, and is related to the extent of our awareness in the Arab countries of the reality of the balance of power in this war, and the destruction it has left behind in our Arab cities and countries, unfortunately.

Where is the current conflict heading? What is the future of the Middle East, specifically in this ongoing devastating war? Will October 7 continue for years to come? And if it does, what are its consequences for the economic, social, health and educational conditions in our Arab countries, which have not benefited or won yet? Which leads us to another question: Will we win or lose? What are the repercussions of success or failure on us? And if we win, what is the future of cities destroyed by war, as is the case in Syria, Lebanon and Yemen?

The current tense geopolitical situation in our region poses an important question: Will the situation remain tense? Are we really witnessing a phase of changing influence or a phase of changing maps on the ground in terms of borders, politics and economy? There is no doubt that the answers to these questions will be given in the coming days, as they alone are capable of clarifying the results based on what the conflicts will leave behind on the ground and in the military arena.

With throats wounded by the call for freedom, and with the bleeding wounds of the brutality of the overwhelming force in the raging war of extermination that is unparalleled in its brutality and horror, and with the blood that extends from Rafah to Jenin to Beirut, we cheer for the Great Sandinista Republic in its adherence to the values of truth, justice and freedom, despite its poverty and scarcity of resources, and the ambush of its enemies, by announcing the severing of its relations with the oppressive state.

The greatness of nations is not measured by their population, the vastness of their lands, or the accumulation of their wealth, but rather by their adherence to their values and principles, and what they translate into behavior and accomplished action in their humanitarian biases, far from slogans and throaty speeches whose effects end with the last cry they utter.

Like South Africa in pursuing the rogue state before the International Court of Justice, and the countries that followed it, Nicaragua being one of them, the poor country that suffers from the dictatorship of geography with the United States, the partner, inspiration, protector and exclusive sponsor of the rogue state in the war of extermination against our people, is today leading the boycott locomotive by severing relations with the criminal, murderous state, cutting the ribbon, and opening the door for other friendly countries to join it in the locomotive, and to put an end to the horrific crimes that are claiming the lives of tens of thousands of victims, most of whom are children and women, without being deterred or curbed.

Thank you Nicaragua for the noble humanitarian stances and wise practical steps.. Thank you Daniel Ortega..

Save Jabalia from the terrible holocaust..!

Stop the war of extermination now

The Israeli occupation forces launched an arrest campaign in the West Bank at dawn and this morning, Sunday.

In Nablus, they stormed the village of Beit Iba, raided a house, searched it, wreaked havoc on it, destroyed some of its contents, and arrested the young man, Muhammad Abdullah Ismail.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces arrested the young man Saad Jaber Abayat from the Al-Saff Street area, after raiding and searching his family’s home.

The family of the young man, Yazan Muhammad Al-Ahmar, from Al-Saff Street, also handed over a notice to turn himself in to its intelligence, after raiding and searching the house.

In Hebron, the occupation forces stormed the town of Sa'ir, raided and searched several homes, vandalized their contents, and abused citizens. They arrested the following: Alaa Ayed Al-Froukh, Yazan Jamal Suleiman Al-Froukh, Riyad Sami Jaradat, Basil and Abdul-Moneim Jaradat, Sayel Tayseer Shaheen Jaradat, Nidal Ishaq Jaradat and his son Abdullah, Iyad Ishaq Hamed Jaradat, Ishaq Iyad Ishaq Jaradat, and Ahmed Nasr Al-Froukh.

The occupation forces also raided the town of Bani Naim, east of Hebron, and arrested Ali Yaqoub Sawalha, Baha Mazen Balout, Abdul Yousef Marai, and his brother Hussam.

In Jenin, the occupation forces arrested the young man Shams Bilal Muhammad Yassin Jaradat (17 years old) after raiding his family’s home in the town of Silat al-Harithiya.