The US State Department said on Tuesday it does not want to see a ceasefire in Lebanon and supports Israel's heavy bombardment of the country "to weaken Hezbollah."

At his daily press briefing at the State Department, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller was asked about comments by Hezbollah MP Sheikh Naim Qassem, who said the group supports Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's efforts to reach a ceasefire without mentioning that it should also include a ceasefire in Gaza.

Miller responded by telling reporters: "Now that Hezbollah is on the defensive and is being hit, all of a sudden, they have changed their position and want a ceasefire."

Miller claimed that the United States "ultimately wants a diplomatic solution" but expressed strong support for the Israeli military operations, which have killed more than 1,250 people, including more than 100 children. "We support Israel's efforts to degrade Hezbollah's capabilities," he said.

The United States is also calling on Lebanon to hold new presidential elections amid the Israeli bombardment. Lebanon has been without a president since 2022, as the various political forces in parliament have failed to agree on who to elect. Hezbollah’s political wing currently holds 15 seats in the 128-seat parliament.

"What we ultimately want to see from this situation is for Lebanon to be able to break Hezbollah's grip on the country... break the stranglehold that Hezbollah has imposed on the country," Miller said.

The United States continues to describe the Israeli attack on Lebanon as a "limited incursion" despite massive bombings in Beirut and across the country.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated on Tuesday that further escalation was coming. In a threatening message to the Lebanese people, he called on them to “liberate” the country from Hezbollah or face “destruction and suffering as we see in Gaza.”

Before Israel launched a strike that killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, the United States had been calling for a temporary 21-day ceasefire. But the United States put no real pressure on Israel to accept a truce because it offered a massive new military aid package and Netanyahu rejected the idea of a ceasefire.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib said Nasrallah had agreed to a 21-day ceasefire with Israel a few days before his assassination, and that the United States had been informed of his decision.

The State Department denied that the United States had been informed of Nasrallah's acceptance of the truce, but CNN later reported that a Western source familiar with the negotiations said Hezbollah had agreed to a ceasefire.

Medical sources announced today, Wednesday, that the death toll from the occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 42,010 and over 97,720 wounded, since October 7, 2023.

The same sources added that the occupation forces committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of 45 citizens and the injury of 130 others during the past 24 hours.

It pointed out that thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.

Six Israelis were injured, on Wednesday afternoon, in a stabbing attack that took place in the city of Hadera, inside the 1948 territories.

According to Israeli media, "some of the injured are in critical condition," noting that the perpetrator was shot, and the nature of his injury is not yet known.

Today, Wednesday, settlers broke dozens of olive trees in the lands of Husan village, west of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, the settlers broke 70 olive trees in the lands of "Wadi al-Hamra" adjacent to the "Beitar Illit" settlement, which is located on citizens' lands.

It is noteworthy that the settlers have escalated their attacks on citizens’ lands in Husan, by seizing lands, bulldozing others, and uprooting olive and almond trees.

Recently, settlers carried out 206 acts of vandalism and theft of Palestinian property, covering vast areas of land. The attacks also resulted in the uprooting of 477 trees, including 397 olive trees, in the governorates of Hebron, Salfit, Bethlehem, Nablus and Ramallah.

The Israeli occupation forces are besieging the northern Gaza Strip from all sides, amidst intensive artillery and air bombardment and the demolition of citizens' homes, on the fourth day of its ground incursion.

Our correspondents reported that the occupation army imposed a siege on Jabalia, and the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, and is shooting at anyone who moves, in conjunction with artillery and air bombardment targeting homes, streets, and facilities, and forcing citizens to flee towards the southern part of the Strip.

Quadcopters are deployed in the streets of the northern Gaza Strip, shooting at any moving object, while the occupation snipers are positioned on tall buildings, amidst extensive bulldozing in the streets and areas of Jabalia camp and its surroundings.

The occupation army has intensified its raids during the past hours around Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and Al-Awda hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, and is carrying out a bombing operation against citizens’ homes and properties.

According to eyewitnesses, the army is preventing food, drink and medicine from entering the northern areas, exacerbating the humanitarian situation left by the war of extermination.

They explained that tens of thousands of citizens are trapped in their homes, without food or water, and are afraid to go out, for fear of being shot.

It is noteworthy that the occupation demanded that Kamal Adwan, Indonesian, and Al-Awda hospitals evacuate patients and health personnel, similar to what happened at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

In a non-final tally, the number of martyrs since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th has risen to about 41,965 dead, and 97,590 wounded, the majority of whom are women and children, and thousands of victims who are still under the rubble and on the roads where they cannot be reached.

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, said that "at least 400,000 people are trapped in the northern Gaza Strip, and Israeli evacuation orders are forcing people to flee again and again, especially from Jabalia camp."

Lazzarini explained in press statements today, Wednesday, that a large number of Palestinians refuse to evacuate, because they realize that there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip, pointing to the spread and worsening of famine throughout the Strip, with the lack of basic supplies.

He revealed that some of the agency's shelter and service centres were forced to close for the first time since the start of the war.

The Commissioner-General of UNRWA continued, "The continued bombing threatens the implementation of the second phase of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip."

The Israeli army continued its wide-scale aggression on Lebanon for the seventeenth day on Wednesday, by launching violent raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut and the cities and towns of southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah continued to launch rocket barrages into the Israeli interior.

The sirens sounded several times in several areas in the north of the country, the Upper and Western Galilee, southern Haifa and the Carmel region, where Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets that hit the city of Hadera and its surroundings and the city of Caesarea, where the defense systems failed to intercept some of them.

This comes as the Israeli army continues its attempts to penetrate by land into some border areas with Lebanon, while Hezbollah announced that it had confronted it and thwarted all its attempts to advance and occupy some southern villages.

Hezbollah announced the detonation of an explosive device against an Israeli force as it attempted to infiltrate the town of Blida, confirming that it had inflicted precise casualties on the force, as well as targeting a group of soldiers who had attempted to advance towards the Labouneh area, confirming that casualties had been inflicted on them, which led to their retreat.

On the Israeli side, the Israeli army spokesman announced that 3 of its soldiers were seriously injured in the battles on the border with Lebanon.

The cycle of death continues in Gaza, with the Strip offering martyr after martyr every day, as a result of the deliberate massacre war waged by Israel against civilians, without any justification, in a clear attempt to continue the policy of killing only, and to leave those who remain alive, injured, grieving, wounded, oppressed, deprived, poor, or orphaned.

Yesterday, Gaza presented 60 martyrs and dozens of injuries due to the insistence of the occupation army on shedding blood. In a tally presented by the World Health Organization yesterday, which stated that 6% of the population of the Strip are dead or wounded, this percentage is considered shocking and completely unusual, and the people of the Strip are facing the most severe and difficult aggression witnessed in history.

The war on the Gaza Strip from north to south has not stopped for a single day, and the residents have not had a day of truce, except for what happened in November of last year during the first part of the exchange deal, for which there were no solutions. Despite all the killing, destruction and sabotage committed by the occupation against all aspects of life, despite the stories of pain and loss, the never-ending state of sadness and grief, and the absence of lights from the houses that used to tell the beauty of Gaza, with national and heritage evenings, whose echoes emanated from the beautiful alleys, to tell the wounded and oppressed land, as a result of the previous siege, Gaza will remain, with its people and residents, the most beautiful city on the coast, despite all the pain that is squeezing it.

Gaza will be patient forever, as long as Netanyahu wants to turn the war into the name (Doomsday) to prolong the aggression. Gaza’s patience is a weapon of seeking reward from God Almighty for everything that happened and the belief that the clouds of the sky will clear one day.

The decision of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity of Peoples, in an official statement condemning the ongoing genocide in Palestine over the course of a whole year, did not come by chance. Rather, it included a call for an immediate ceasefire, because Israel is waging a dangerous aggression that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian victims and the complete destruction of the infrastructure and civilian life in the Strip.

The toll of the aggression has reached catastrophic numbers that the mind cannot comprehend at all, including the enormity of the loss of life, the horrific number of wounded, and the loss of all resources and capabilities. Despite this, the occupation army is still violating Jabalia and some of the surrounding areas in northern Gaza, and forcing its people to flee. So where will they go, and where is the escape from this fate?

One of the displaced people said yesterday, “God’s will is enough.” The question that is repeated daily is, where is the world, where are the organizations and institutions? Is there no one who can exert pressure on this oppressive entity, so that the war of extermination and the cycle of death stop?

The UN Security Council will hold a briefing session, followed by closed consultations, late Wednesday, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza under the agenda item "The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question."

Algeria and Slovenia, with the support of France, requested the meeting, and members are expected to hear two briefings: the first from Lisa Dutton, Head of the Finance Section of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and the second from Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

Yesterday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel against harming UNRWA, stressing that it is "indispensable and irreplaceable."

Israel is threatening to issue a draft resolution that would prevent UNRWA from continuing its essential work in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Guterres explained that such legislation would be completely contrary to the UN Charter and would violate Israel's obligations under international law, adding that "Israeli legislation cannot change those obligations."

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

In Jenin, Jihad Taher Fashafshe and Musab Jabr Fashafshe were arrested and searched after their homes were raided and their contents were ransacked in the town of Jaba.

In Qalqilya, the following were arrested: Muhammad Abu Haniya, Samih Abu Asab, Khaled Khadrawi, Anas Daoud, and Ezz Nofal, after raiding and searching their homes.

During the raid, the occupation soldiers fired live bullets, sound bombs and gas bombs at citizens' homes, without any injuries being reported.

The occupation forces also stormed the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, and arrested the young man Abdullah Yaqoub Sweidan after raiding and searching his house in the "Al-Ghanawi" neighborhood. They also raided a residential building in the center of the town and an agricultural barn.

In Bethlehem, the occupation forces arrested the child Yousef Imad Muhammad Thawabtah (17 years old) from the town of Beit Fajjar in the south, and raided the home of the citizen Munir Jamal Abdul Sabah from the town of Tuqu’ in the southeast and detained him for several hours before releasing him.

In Nablus, the occupation forces stormed the Ras al-Ain area and Hawash 24 Street, and arrested the young man, Muhammad Mutawwa, after raiding his house.

In Hebron, the young man Tariq Yassin Zahdeh was arrested, and the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, was raided and the two young men, Moaz Mahmoud Makhamreh and Shadi Ghaleb Qaraish, and the Arroub camp, north of Hebron, was stormed and the citizens Adam Bassam Banat and Muhammad Bassam Jawabreh were arrested. The town of As-Samu was also raided and the young man Ismail Ahmed Al-Hawamdeh was arrested, and from the town of Idhna, the citizen Kazem Hassan Suwaifeh was arrested, after searching their homes and tampering with their contents.

In the Al-Liya area in the town of Idhna, west of Hebron, the occupation forces fired live bullets to disperse a number of citizens who tried to cross through the main entrance to the town of Idhna, west of Hebron. The occupation forces also stormed the homes of the Al-Badawi family in the Al-Jalajel area in the town of Taffuh, west of Hebron, and vandalized and destroyed their contents.

There is nothing more worrying and stressful than waiting for a response. Waiting puts pressure on the nerves, disturbs dreams, and makes the person waiting sleep with half an eye in anticipation of surprises, followed by slips, in which everyone finds themselves being led by compulsion, not by choice, to the bottom of the abyss.

CIA Director William Burns, a soft-spoken, taciturn man, says Iran is on the nuclear threshold and is only a week away from having the “bomb,” while Secretary of State Antony Blinken says it is two weeks away.

Burns's words, coupled with Amos Yadlin's statement to CNN that "an attack on Iran will be unparalleled in the Middle East," as well as the call by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to attack Iranian nuclear facilities and not just oil facilities, all of these statements raise more than one red flag about the extent of the response and its expected repercussions.

The accumulation of all these signals, in conjunction with the silence of the wounded wolf, which has been constantly harassing Iran for the past years, to bring it into the wrestling ring and deal it blows, and to pounce on its facilities, and to abort its nuclear fetus, which is slowly taking shape away from the eyes of the International Atomic Energy Agency, makes the coming days pregnant with rapid developments, in which the skies of the region will be filled with the flashes of missiles, in a series of ballistic responses that will get out of control.

Netanyahu waiting all this time after the Iranian attack is not wise or rational, but rather it is ambush, preparation and mobilization for something big that is expected!

Stop the war now.. Prevent the disaster..!

Dr. Omar Rahhal: The crimes committed by the Israeli occupation do not expire under any circumstances

Nour Odeh: The effects of Israel's trial for its crimes have begun to be reflected in international policies towards it

Dr. Saad Nimr: International institutions are capable of identifying crimes, but they lack the power to implement their decisions

Sari Arabi: International prosecution of Israel is still limited and unfair, and the possibility of its impunity is likely

Muhammad Hawash: International courts face several obstacles in holding Israel accountable due to US hegemony

The crimes committed by the Israeli occupation in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip, raise increasing questions about the possibility of bringing Israel to trial before international bodies, in light of complex political and legal pressures.

In separate interviews with “I”, writers, political analysts and specialists believe that “although the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court have the jurisdiction to prosecute war criminals, there are major obstacles to prosecuting Israeli officials, as a result of international interventions and pressures exerted by some major powers, especially the United States of America, which also applies to the adoption of international resolutions condemning Israel.”

Writers, analysts and specialists point out that Israel enjoys extensive political and legal protection, especially from the United States and some Western countries that provide it with cover within international institutions, which strengthens its position and gives it the ability to escape punishment. This support makes it difficult for international courts to take decisive or binding decisions against Israel, despite the existence of previous decisions condemning its aggressive practices.

Despite these challenges, writers, political analysts and specialists confirm that signs of attempts to legally pursue Israel have begun to appear, but these moves are still limited and not fully effective.

Setting a date for Israel's trial depends on the international balance of power

The writer and political analyst Dr. Omar Rahhal, Director of the Shams Center for Human Rights, explains that it is possible to prosecute the occupying state for the crimes it commits against the Palestinian people, whether before the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court, especially since the crimes it commits in the occupied Palestinian territories fall within the framework of exercising the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, especially Articles (5, 6, 7, 8) of the Rome Statute, where Israel can be prosecuted for the crimes committed by its officers, soldiers and political officials, noting that Article (25) of the Statute of the International Criminal Court speaks of the personal jurisdiction of the court, which is limited to prosecuting natural persons, and thus the statute excludes the criminal responsibility of the state.

Rahhal points out that in practice, the matter may seem out of reach at present, due to the pressures exerted by some international parties on the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and on the judges of the court.

He stressed that the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation will not be subject to a statute of limitations under any circumstances, even if they remain without trial for long periods, pointing out that what the occupation is committing constitutes crimes described in international agreements.

Rahhal points out that setting a date for Israel's trial depends primarily on the international balance of power that grants it protection, especially from the United States, which provides legal and political cover for the occupation within international institutions, especially in the UN Security Council.

Rahhal confirms that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, especially Article (16), allows for the postponement of investigation or prosecution by the court, and this also constitutes interference in the work of the court.

Despite this protection, Rahhal asserts that Israel will not be able to escape punishment if it is actually brought before the International Court of Justice, which is concerned with trying states.

Rahhal explains that the International Criminal Court can issue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, and in this case the countries that signed the Rome Statute are obligated to arrest and hand over these officials to the court. The International Criminal Court also has special prisons to implement the rulings, while the International Court of Justice can go to the Security Council to implement any decisions issued by it based on the United Nations Charter, especially Article (94).

US support encouraged Israel's crimes

Rahhal asserts that the unconditional American support for Israel, along with some countries’ justification of the occupation’s crimes and the absence of a firm Arab position, contributed to encouraging Israel to continue committing its crimes.

Rahhal points out that some European countries and the United States have never supported national liberation movements, considering them colonial states, explaining that Israel is the natural extension of these colonial powers in the region. These countries have left colonialism in terms of geography, but they have not left it in terms of thought and practice.

Rahhal stresses that the United Nations and its specialized international organizations are merely an expression of the wills of states, and therefore will not be able to do anything in isolation from the will of states. Moreover, the movement of the United Nations is linked to the balance of power and the nature and form of the prevailing international system.

Rahhal points out that there are international balances that prevent the United Nations from playing an effective role in holding Israel accountable, based on Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter.

Trials are starting to bear fruit.

Writer, political analyst, and specialist in diplomatic affairs and international relations, Nour Odeh, believes that the trial of Israel for its crimes before international institutions has already begun, noting that this process may take years.

Awda stresses that the issue is not only in the trial of Israel, but in how these trials affect international policies towards it.

Awda explains that there are signs of this influence beginning to appear. Several countries have taken measures to ban arms exports to Israel after the International Court of Justice issued preliminary injunctions in the genocide case brought by South Africa, including Canada and Japan. Although some other countries have not reached the level of a complete ban, they have been forced to at least reduce their military exports to Israel, aware of their legal responsibility and unwillingness to openly challenge international law.

Awda points out that these countries do not necessarily take these measures out of sympathy for the Palestinian cause, but rather because they seek to maintain the stability of the international system that depends on respect for international law, especially with regard to the crime of genocide, which is considered the greatest crime in international law.

Regarding the possibility of the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants against Israeli figures such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Awda explains that some countries have announced that they will respect such warrants if they are issued, and will carry out arrests in accordance with international law.

However, Awda points out that there are real threats from the United States to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court and its employees, especially since it coincides with the election season between Democrats and Republicans.

Israel feels real pressure

Despite these threats, Awda believes that Israel has begun to feel real pressure, as its trial has begun, which will affect its international standing.

Awda expects this to have repercussions on the ability of Israel and its officials to move freely between countries, noting the possibility of building on this dynamic to the point of imposing international sanctions and isolating Israel because of its criminal policies.

She addresses the role of the international community in this issue, explaining that there is a difference between the position of the colonial Western countries that seek to maintain the balance of power that serves them, and Israel is part of this system that protects it financially, politically and militarily, and the rest of the countries of the world that are tired of double standards and feel anxious about the future of the international system because of these policies.

Awda confirms that there is a conflict of wills between these two groups of countries, and that Palestine has become the real test of the integrity of this system and its ability to continue.

American influence in the face of international law

Although international institutions prosecute war criminals and stop wars if there is political will from member states, Awda stresses that the inability of these institutions to stop wars, including the war in Palestine, is due to American influence that prevents effective measures from being taken against Israel.

However, she stresses that these institutions remain the preservers of international memory and international law, and that decisions related to Palestinian rights cannot be bypassed because they are part of international legislation.

Awda points out that this dynamic can be built upon, if countries with common interests decide to ally and act collectively to pressure Israel and hold it accountable.

Israel's failure to be held accountable is a reflection of the interests of Western powers.

In turn, Dr. Saad Nimr, Professor of Political Science at Birzeit University, explains that what is happening on the international scene regarding the failure to hold Israel accountable is a reflection of the interests of Western powers, especially countries that were former colonial states, as they support Israel directly or indirectly as an ally representing them in the region.

Nimr points out that these countries, including the United States, have no interest in condemning Israel, because they realize that supporting it is in line with their geopolitical and economic interests, which allows Israel to act brazenly and commit its crimes without fear of international punishment, given that it enjoys the support of the colonial bloc from the international community.

Nimr asserts that these countries protect Israel from any real measures against it, which prompts it to continue its aggressive policies without regard to the consequences.

Despite this support, Nimr explains that some countries that constitute the largest part of the international community and do not have hegemony may take individual steps towards the Palestinian cause, such as recognizing the State of Palestine or reducing their relations with Israel.

Nimr believes that these steps carry symbolism and political importance, but they remain limited due to the enormous pressure exerted by the United States and its allies on countries not to take strong steps in this direction.

Ethical and legal factors

Nimr points out that what happened after October 7 may push some countries to take action against Israel, as there are two main factors pushing in this direction: the first is the moral factor, which is evident in the wave of global demonstrations and the growing student solidarity movement, and the second is the legal factor, which is represented by the potential decisions issued by the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

At the level of international institutions, Nimr stresses that they are capable of identifying crimes and violations, but they lack the power to implement their decisions effectively, with the exception of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, which work to issue binding legal decisions.

However, Nimr points out that these courts face great pressure that prevents them from taking strong decisions against Israel.

Nimr stresses that any real decision by international institutions requires international will to support it, which is something that clashes with the strong American influence that prevents these institutions from taking effective steps against Israel.

Nimr considers the United States to be a partner in the war on Gaza, and therefore it always seeks to thwart any international resolutions condemning Israel, as the United States’ acceptance of condemning Israel may open the door to condemning countries that supported Israel, including American officials, which would push them to obstruct any such resolutions.

Limited and unfair prosecution

Writer and political analyst Sari Arabi believes that there is a limited shift in the course of pursuing Israel in international institutions on the legal and human rights levels, in light of the cases brought before the International Court of Justice and the memoranda issued by the International Criminal Court.

But Arabi stresses that these prosecutions are still limited and unfair, and even grossly unfair.

Arabi points out that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Galant, while Arabi criticizes the decision issued by the court’s Attorney General Karim Khan, which he considered full of lies and adopting the Israeli narrative about the events of October 7.

Arabi points out that despite issuing arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, Khan demanded the arrest of only two Israeli occupation leaders, and the decision did not include high-ranking Israeli military figures such as the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army.

Arabi points out that the International Court of Justice has not yet issued urgent decisions to stop the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, despite the horrific crimes committed by Israel there.

Although Israel has begun to be relatively prosecuted due to the scale of the crimes committed in Gaza, Arabi confirms that this prosecution is still limited, which means that the possibility of Israel escaping punishment remains possible.

Western powers' dominance of the international system

Arabi believes that the reason behind these limited prosecutions and the lack of response by international institutions in the required manner is due to the nature of the international system, which is subject to the dominance of Western powers, led by the United States.

Arabi believes that this hegemony is what makes the international community appear cold towards the crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, stressing that this position is not based on moral values or justice, but rather is subject to the balance of power that is primarily controlled by the United States.

Arabi stresses that the current international system, which is controlled by the West, does not give sufficient importance to the prosecution of Israeli war criminals.

Arabi believes that talking about actually pursuing these criminals may be premature under the current circumstances, as Western power and hegemony remain the decisive factor in directing international decisions, not the logic of justice and equality in applying laws to everyone.

Israel is committing crimes and its accountability is still pending

Writer and political analyst Muhammad Hawash explains that Israel is committing a clear crime against the Palestinians, which has been condemned by the international community and public opinion. However, holding Israel accountable for these crimes, whether in Gaza or the West Bank, including Jerusalem, is still being held back by major countries and powers, most notably the United States of America.

Hawash points out that the international courts established under the umbrella of the United Nations face several obstacles in holding Israel accountable, as a result of American hegemony that is not limited to obstructing legal procedures, but also extends to threatening the judges themselves.

The United States, according to Hawash, adopts a selective stance toward these international organizations, joining them when they align with its interests, but threatening or ignoring them when they conflict with its policies, especially when it comes to protecting Israel from accountability.

Hawash points out that the United States and its allies constantly stand in the way of international resolutions that aim to protect the rights of the Palestinian people, and work to provide diplomatic and legal cover for Israel, even though the latter has previously faced accusations from the International Court of Justice, but has not adhered to any of its resolutions.

According to Hawash, Israel continues to commit war crimes without deterrence and remains immune from accountability, as it refuses to recognize the role of the United Nations and its organizations, and even goes further by preventing officials of these organizations from entering the occupied territories, in a move that reflects its continued defiance of international law.

Hawash believes that these crimes are exacerbated under the continued American cover, which is clearly evident in American laws that criminalize hostility to Israel and promote absolute bias towards it, and this protection has become illogical.

As a result, Hawash believes that the next phase will witness a greater escalation in Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, exceeding those that occurred during the year of the current war.

Three citizens were killed and others were injured, at dawn on Wednesday, when Israeli occupation aircraft bombed a tent housing displaced people in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that three people were killed and others were injured in the occupation's missile attack on a tent housing displaced people from the Abu Obeid family, northwest of the camp.

In a non-final tally, the number of martyrs since the beginning of the aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th has risen to about 41,965, and 97,590 wounded, the majority of whom are women and children, and thousands of victims who are still under the rubble and on the roads where they cannot be reached.

The administration of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip reported that the Israeli occupation army had asked it to evacuate the hospital of patients, medical staff and displaced persons within 24 hours.

This demand came amid a tight siege on the hospital, where the occupation forces arrested a paramedic and obstructed the evacuation of premature babies, which further exacerbated the humanitarian situation.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that Kamal Adwan Hospital was being bombed, as the occupation forces opened fire on the hospital administration office, noting that the hospital may stop working within hours due to the depletion of fuel needed to operate medical equipment.

In a joint statement with neighboring hospitals, the administration of Kamal Adwan Hospital called on international institutions to intervene immediately to stop these violations and prevent hospitals from being put out of service, as the occupation seeks to displace the residents of northern Gaza by targeting health facilities.

The occupation army did not limit itself to Kamal Adwan Hospital only, but issued orders to evacuate the Indonesian and return hospitals, which exacerbates the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Strip.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed on Tuesday that "UNRWA is indispensable and irreplaceable."

Speaking to the press at UN headquarters in New York, Guterres said he had written directly to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express his deep concern about the bill, which could prevent UNRWA from continuing its essential work in the occupied Palestinian territory. He stressed that such a measure would stifle efforts to alleviate humanitarian suffering and tensions in Gaza, and in the occupied Palestinian territory as a whole.

"It would be a disaster," he added, asking: "Let's be clear in practical terms, what would such a measure mean? In practical terms, this legislation is likely to deal a devastating blow to the international humanitarian response in Gaza."

“Without UNRWA, the delivery of food, shelter and health care to most of the population of Gaza will cease,” the Secretary-General stressed, adding that “without UNRWA, Gaza’s 660,000 children will lose the only entity capable of resuming education, risking the fate of an entire generation.” Many health, education and social services will also end in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Guterres warned that "if this legislation is approved, it would be completely contrary to the United Nations Charter and would violate Israel's obligations under international law."

He added that "politically, such legislation would constitute a huge setback to sustainable peace efforts and the two-state solution, leading to further instability and insecurity."

Guterres spoke about the situation in Gaza, describing it as "horrible and abhorrent," as this was "the year of crises," and described what was happening as a "humanitarian, political, diplomatic, and moral crisis."

Guterres stressed: "We cannot and will not abandon our calls for irreversible action towards a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine," saying: "All peoples of the region deserve to live in peace."

The so-called "Foreign Affairs and Security" Committee in the Israeli "Knesset" approved last Sunday a bill to ban the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Israel. The committee's approval of the bill means referring it to a vote in the second and third readings in the Knesset plenum to become an effective law.

A citizen was injured, Tuesday evening, in an attack by settlers on citizens' vehicles north of Nablus.

According to local sources, settlers attacked citizens' vehicles with stones while they were passing on the road between the cities of Jenin and Nablus, which led to a citizen who was riding in one of the vehicles being injured in the shoulder and eye, and she was transferred to a hospital in Nablus.

The same road witnesses repeated attacks by settlers who assault citizens and throw stones at their vehicles.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said that the Israeli occupation committed the largest and most horrific massacre against the press in the world throughout history during a year of the war of extermination it is waging against our people.

The Syndicate stated in its report on the first anniversary of the Israeli war of extermination, issued by the Freedoms Committee, that “the occupation committed 1,639 crimes against journalists and media institutions, especially in the Gaza Strip, including the martyrdom of 167 journalists and media workers.”

The biggest massacre in history

According to the monitoring and follow-up of the Freedoms Committee in the Syndicate, the occupation has killed 167 journalists and workers in the Palestinian media sector since October 7, 2023, including 21 female journalists and one male journalist in the West Bank governorates, Ibrahim Mahameed from Nour Shams Camp in Tulkarm. These figures indicate that the occupation has killed 11% of Gaza’s journalists.

The union said, "The knights of truth from fellow journalists paid the price for the message of truth and conveying it to the world, and the Israeli occupation carried out the greatest massacre of assassinations against them to bury the truth and its witnesses."

The union pointed out that a number of colleagues were martyred and their bodies remained with their families under the rubble of their homes for months, as happened with colleagues Hiba Al-Abdallah (who is still under the rubble to this day), Salam Meema, and Ayat Khadura.

The Syndicate's report revealed 357 cases of injury among journalists during the year of the war of extermination, due to the occupation's missiles and direct bullets, in addition to toxic gas bombs and settler attacks.

The Syndicate explained that 101 injuries were a result of the occupation targeting journalists with its missiles and bullets, the latest of which was the serious injury of fellow journalist Ahmed Al-Zard, the injury of his mother, and the martyrdom of his brother and a number of his family members as a result of an Israeli bombardment that targeted their home in Khan Yunis.

The report added that a number of journalists sustained serious injuries that led to the amputation of their feet, such as colleague Sami Shehadeh, whose right foot was amputated as a result of being hit by an Israeli bombardment while covering the displacement movement in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, in addition to injuries among journalists in deadly locations, which indicates the desire to kill on the part of the Israeli army.

Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Abu Omar's right leg was amputated during a bombing in the Mirage area north of Rafah, and his left leg was severely injured. The same was true for photojournalist Abdullah al-Hajj, who was injured while covering the news in al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, which led to the amputation of one of his legs. Photographer Mohammed al-Za'anin was injured in his left eye after being targeted by a drone that dropped explosive bombs on him near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis.

The union indicated that the remaining injuries were distributed between 21 direct injuries from gas and sound bombs, 26 attacks by settlers, and 121 suffocation injuries from inhaling toxic gas.

The Israeli occupation arrested 125 journalists

The Syndicate's data indicated that the occupation authorities have arrested 125 journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since October of last year, 61 of whom are still in occupation prisons.

The Syndicate said that 16 Palestinian female journalists were arrested by the occupation, 6 of whom are still under arrest. The occupation also deported journalist Siqal Qaddum (51 years old) from Hebron who works for Palestine TV to the Gaza Strip via the "Kerem Abu Salem" crossing.

The Syndicate noted that 33 journalists were subjected to what is called "administrative detention", and that the occupation courts exploited the so-called Israeli "emergency law" and accused some imprisoned journalists of incitement through the media and social media platforms, such as fellow journalist Rasha Harzallah at the Palestinian News and Information Agency "Wafa" and fellow journalist Ali Dar Ali, a correspondent for Palestine TV.

Since October 7, 2023, journalists Nidal Al-Wahidi (who works with Al-Najah TV and New Press platform) and Haitham Abdul Wahid (Ain Media Foundation) have been forcibly disappeared, and the occupation refuses to release any information about their fate or respond to all international and human rights efforts to find out their circumstances.

Total destruction of media institutions in Gaza and closures in the West Bank

The Israeli occupation destroyed 73 media institutions in the Gaza Strip, according to documentation by the Freedoms Committee in the Syndicate, including 21 local radio stations, 3 broadcast towers, 15 news agencies, 15 satellite channels, 6 local newspapers, and 13 media and press services offices.

The occupation also closed 15 institutions in the West Bank, most notably the Palestine TV office in Jerusalem, and the offices of Al-Mayadeen and Al-Jazeera channels, in addition to closing 12 press printing presses in various governorates of the West Bank.

514 martyrs from the families of journalists in Gaza

Journalists' families paid a heavy price as a result of their sons' profession, as figures from the Syndicate's Freedoms Committee indicate that 514 members of journalists' families were killed in Gaza as a result of missile attacks on journalists' homes and places of displacement.

The report added that the Israeli occupation targeted about 115 homes of Palestinian journalists’ families in the Gaza Strip with aircraft missiles and artillery shells. The families of a number of journalists were completely erased from the civil records of the population, such as Al-Quds Channel journalist Hussam Al-Dabaka, after his apartment was targeted and his wife, children and a number of other family members were killed in Al-Maghazi camp, Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab and 11 of his family members, including his wife, children and brother, and journalist Salam Meema, her husband and three children Hadi, Ali and Sham, in the bombing of their home in Jabalia camp.

Bullets are the language the occupation uses to communicate with journalists.

The most widespread attack in the West Bank since the beginning of the war of extermination was the direct shooting at press crews, as 198 members of press crews were documented to have been exposed to these dangerous incidents, most of which occurred in the Jenin and Tulkarm governorates, which exposed them to the risk of death.

For example, the last quarter of 2023 saw 26 incidents recorded in this regard, while during the third quarter of this year the number of incidents rose to 106. Many colleagues were harmed by these attacks as well as their equipment (cameras and vehicles).

Colonial terrorism with governmental legitimacy

The report indicated that about 26 journalists were subjected to brutal attacks by settlers in the West Bank, and on many occasions this happened in the presence of the occupation police and army without their intervention to protect the journalists, and without any of them being held accountable by any party.

Examples of these incidents include: brandishing a weapon and threatening to kill, as happened with journalist Shuruq Issa after a settler brandished his weapon at her while she was covering events in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, and beating and smashing with the intent to kill, as happened with photojournalist Joseph Handal while he was passing through the “Container” military checkpoint east of Bethlehem, where he was assaulted and his vehicle was smashed with stones and sticks by a group of settlers, as well as being sprayed with poisonous pepper gas in his face, which led to him sustaining injuries and fractures.

In occupied Jerusalem, a large group of journalists were attacked by settlers, beaten and burned, such as what happened to journalist Saif Al-Qawasmi, who suffered burns to his hand as a result of settlers deliberately putting out cigarettes on his hands, as well as correspondent for Al-Hayat Al-Jadida newspaper, Diala Juwayhan, who was beaten and assaulted, her colleague, journalist Malak Arouq, correspondent for Al-Arabiya channel, Bara’a Abu Ramouz, and a large group of colleagues, both male and female.

Poison gas still makes journalists' eyes tear up and its bombs destroy their bodies

The report explained that 152 injuries among journalists were documented due to gas bombs, 140 of which were caused by inhaling toxic gas and 19 by the gas bomb hitting the journalists’ bodies, as happened with journalist Sidqi Rayyan, who was injured by a gas bomb in the head after the occupation targeted journalists in “Jabal Sabih”, on which the “Avitar” colonial outpost was forcibly established in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, as well as Reuters photographer Raneen Sawafta, who was injured by a gas bomb in the face and was transferred to the hospital in Jenin, after the occupation forces fired gas bombs at journalists.

A flood of crimes preventing crews from working

The Freedoms Committee report stated that there were 396 cases of detention of individuals and press crews, preventing them from working, and pursuing them with verbal threats and threats of shooting and arrest in the event of non-compliance, with a clear escalation in cases of prevention, even with pursuit and attempts to run them over with heavy bulldozers and military vehicles.

For example, on the road near the city of Tubas, an Israeli military jeep hit the vehicle of journalists Majdi and Ali Ishtia, while they were covering the news in the Tayasir area east of Tubas. The military vehicles also tried to run over Al Jazeera correspondent Guevara al-Badri, photographer Aref Tuffaha, Palestine TV correspondent Amir Shaheen, and a group of journalists.

A number of journalists were also subjected to an attempted run-over by an Israeli military bulldozer while covering the demolition of streets in the city of Jenin. Among them were Al-Arabiya TV correspondent Amid Shehadeh, Al-Ghad TV correspondent Diaa Hoshiya, Roya TV correspondent Hafez Abu Sabra, and Al-Quds newspaper correspondent Ali Samoudi.

Other forms of crime and assault

The Israeli occupation uses many forms of persecution, harassment and targeting of journalists, such as travel bans, seizure of personal and professional belongings, summons for investigation, unfair military courts, financial fines, threats, incitement and house arrest.

The submission of the Supreme Court, the highest judicial authority in the occupation system, reflects its complicity with the Israeli occupation government and army by rejecting the request of the Foreign Journalists Association to allow them to enter to work and cover the Gaza Strip.

The report concluded that the most prominent indications of the series of brutal crimes committed against Palestinian journalists and the ease with which they were killed are the result of a decision from the highest levels of political decision-making in the Israeli occupation government, and cannot be a field effort but rather the work of a “political institution” that the “security establishment” translates into this high level of killing.

The Syndicate stated in its report that the so-called Israeli Supreme Court’s rejection of the Foreign Journalists Association’s request to enter and cover the Gaza Strip is an indication of the occupation regime’s persistence in maintaining its monopoly over Palestinian journalists and casting doubt on the facts they transmit to the world.

She said that making the families of Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price, represented by losing their lives because of their sons’ profession, is something that history has never witnessed in terms of ugliness and moral decadence that is contrary to humanity.

She added that the increase in the number of bloody injuries caused by missile shrapnel and bullets to a level much higher than the injuries resulting from beating with clubs and kicks is also an indication of targeting with the intent to kill. In all the reports of the unions and human rights institutions in the world that cover wars and conflicts, you cannot find any convergence to these facts and figures.

She pointed out that the occupation aircraft's bombing of press offices with missiles, including those belonging to foreign media institutions, is a message of defiance from the occupation government to the world that it does not care about the series of crimes and genocide.

She pointed out that the dangerous increase in the level of targeting with live bullets to prevent crews from working in the West Bank is confirmation of the persistence of brutality and violations in order to create a state of terror and intimidation of journalists with the aim of concealing the truth.

She stressed that the continued detention of journalists without trial or visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross and families is contrary to all international agreements and conventions.

She pointed out the "continuous gang-style robbery by the occupation army of the property of journalists and press institutions without a court or any right, and the seizure of equipment and personal belongings without any documentation or acknowledgment of these thefts, which are called 'confiscations'."

The Syndicate indicated that the extent of targeting journalists according to the geographical and temporal distributions has implications for the Israeli targeting of Palestinian society. In the Gaza Strip, the occupation is working on genocide, believing that the extermination of journalists there will hide the truth of its brutal acts. The clear increase in targeting journalists in the northern West Bank governorates indicates the extent of targeting citizens in those governorates. Likewise, the clear chaos of the occupation army in the city of Jerusalem towards journalists indicates and confirms the targeting of components of the holy city. As for the temporal dimension, the higher the rate of targeting journalists in a certain area, this is a prelude to comprehensive targeting of that area.

She stressed that the noticeable increase in attacks and terrorism by settlers against journalists confirms that they have obtained legitimacy from the Israeli occupation government to commit massacres and dangerous acts against journalists and citizens.

The Journalists Syndicate recommended that clear decisions be issued by the United Nations and the UN Security Council demanding that the Israeli occupation government stop killing journalists.

She stressed that the International Court of Justice has a professional, moral and humanitarian responsibility, which requires it to take action to take a series of decisions to protect Palestinian journalists. The reputation and professionalism of the International Criminal Court is also at stake, as it has not yet considered the series of cases brought before it by the Syndicate regarding previous Israeli crimes, such as the assassination of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and a number of journalists in the Gaza Strip who were martyred in previous years.

The union called on the International Federation of Journalists to continue its support and provide a union and human rights network in order to put more pressure on the International Criminal Court to try the leaders of the occupation, politicians, military personnel and colonists, to ensure that they do not escape punishment for their crimes.

She stressed the need for the Arab Journalists Union to lead a movement that includes Arab parliaments, the Arab League, unions and human rights institutions to support Palestinian journalists in practicing their profession and exposing the crimes of the occupation.

It recommended activating the Palestinian National Mechanism to End Impunity to follow up on providing protection for journalists at the Palestinian level in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, departments of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Bar Association, the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors, the Independent Commission for Human Rights, the Al-Haq Foundation, and all relevant sectors.

She stressed that the Palestinian journalist, especially in the Gaza Strip, is in dire need of all means of legal and moral support, as well as means of a decent living in light of the lack of sources of income amidst this siege and the loss of many of their equipment, offices and crews.

She pointed out that she will continue, with all institutions working in the field, to monitor, document and publish the occupation's crimes and attacks on all journalists.

She stressed that local and Arab media outlets are required to provide press coverage of the occupation’s crimes against journalists, and to show their suffering and that of their families with clear humanity rather than being mere numbers. She also called on all staff working in the media sector to maintain their commitment to professional safety standards to preserve their lives, as well as to adhere to all ethical standards for the quality of sound news reporting.

Since the beginning of the war, Hamas has become a burden on the Arab world, complicating the political and security situation in the region. In this article, we will review how Hamas transformed from a resistance movement into a burden on the Arab world, how its adventures affected the Shiite resistance axis, and finally how it was able to divide the arenas instead of uniting them.

Since the outbreak of the last war, Hamas has become a burden on the Arab world due to its policies and hardline positions. It has caused tension in relations between Arabs, as opinions were divided over supporting or opposing it. Some believe that Hamas is causing instability in the region and hindering peace efforts.

** Hamas's Impact on Hezbollah and the Resistance Axis

Hamas's adventures, led by Yahya Sinwar, crushed Hezbollah and the Shiite Resistance Axis. The Resistance Axis was severely damaged by Hamas's aggressive policies, which led to an escalation of tensions with Israel. This escalation led to painful military strikes against Hezbollah, which ended with the targeting of its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and many of its leaders, which greatly weakened its position in the region. As a result, Hamas was left alone, as it no longer enjoyed the strong support of its former allies in the Resistance Axis. This decline in support reflects the damage to relations between Hamas and the rest of the Shiite factions, which led to a decline in their influence in the region.

Hezbollah, which was considered a strong supporter of Hamas, found itself in an unenviable position. On the one hand, it cannot abandon its support for the Palestinian cause, and on the other hand, it cannot bear the negative consequences of Hamas’s miscalculated adventures. These moves have weakened the axis of resistance, as each party in this axis now operates independently of the others, which has led to a decline in the regional influence of these forces combined.

** Dividing the arenas instead of unifying them

Instead of unifying the Arab and Islamic arenas against the Israeli occupation, Hamas has managed to divide them. Its policies have led to the division of the Palestinian factions, with opinions divided between supporters and opponents of Hamas' approach. This division has weakened the Palestinian position in general, and made it difficult to achieve national consensus on key issues. In addition, Hamas has caused tension in relations between Arab countries, which has led to a decline in Arab support for the Palestinian cause.

Hamas' policies have contributed to the division of the Arab and Islamic street. While everyone was sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, now there are questions about the wisdom of Hamas's moves and strategies, especially with regard to escalating military operations without considering the consequences. This division makes it difficult to achieve an Arab or Islamic consensus on the Palestinian cause, which serves the interests of the Israeli occupation, which exploits these divisions for its own benefit.

Hamas must realize that continuing with this approach may lead to the erosion of Arab and Islamic support for its cause, which may make it even more isolated. In the end.

In conclusion, it can be said that Hamas has become a burden on the Arab world since the beginning of the war. It has complicated the political and security situation in the region, negatively affected the Shiite resistance axis, and divided the arenas instead of uniting them. These policies and hardline positions of Hamas have made it difficult to achieve peace and stability in the region, and have weakened the Palestinian position in general.

The Arab countries, which previously supported Hamas almost completely, now find themselves in a critical position. On the one hand, they cannot abandon their political support for the Palestinian people, and on the other hand, they feel that Hamas has become a burden on them due to its military policies that may expose the region to the risk of slipping into greater confrontations. This new dynamic makes Hamas a harmful element to unifying the Arab ranks in the face of common challenges.

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Today I listened to the statements of the Israeli Defense Minister Galant, which he made on the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine, and I was keen to listen to him carefully, and it became clear to me that the man is disconnected from reality, as he says that Hezbollah is no longer able to threaten, and it is without leadership, and there is no one to make decisions in it, and that the return of the settlers to the north is imminent... while the field scene indicated a disastrous failure of his forces to cross even a few meters into southern Lebanon, and Haifa was hit by more than a hundred missiles, and electricity was cut off in three settlements, and we saw on television screens the smoke of his vehicles burning, and Ben Gurion Airport was shut down, and here we ask is all this happening without a "leadership directing the resistance"? 

The truth is that Galant’s allegations are not separate from a phenomenon that has been established throughout the confrontation from October 7 until now, which is that Israel has been the victor throughout the major confrontations with the Arabs in an undeniable way, which does not require it to lie or falsify the news, as the successful person does not twist the truth of his success, but rather the Arab recipient is accustomed to tending to believe the Israeli media because the reality was identical to what that media says, and the Arab media has been a model of lying and “stupid” falsification since the Ahmed Said phenomenon until now, almost. It may lie but intelligently, but the Arab media combined lying and stupidity in those periods, and it still suffers from some of the “viruses of that period.” But the new shift in this issue from the Israeli side appears in two aspects:

1- Israel is still unable to achieve great and clear successes, but sometimes faces many setbacks, which has caused its media to fall into a kind of confusion, as it is a media accustomed to reporting victory but is not accustomed to reporting stumbles, and from here came this confusion, otherwise how do we explain the following phenomena:

A- The great discrepancy in the numbers of dead and wounded from one source to another, which I have demonstrated in previous articles and with documented numbers, and in fact some relevant Israeli sources had the number of dead in the later report less than the number of dead in the previous report (as if some of the dead had returned to life) (you can refer to my documented articles in this regard), and the reports of Israeli hospitals are not consistent with the numbers announced by the official spokesman, but rather the numbers vary from one newspaper to another. 

B- Preventing the media from transmitting and photographing the material damage, and all we see is only individual efforts or a shot by a journalist from here or there, but the relevant media are not allowed to transmit that, and this became clear in the recent Iranian strike on some bases that Israel denied until the missiles reached them, then the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal came out with expert analyses of satellite images that confirmed that there is a significant gap between what Israel said and what actually happened. 

C- Despite some Israeli writers pointing out the severe decline in Israel's image in the mind of world public opinion, the official bodies (the government, ministers, security leaders and the army) avoid addressing this matter completely as if it were a military secret. 

D- The discrepancy between the reports of the Israeli media itself, as what Haaretz says is far from what Yedioth Ahronoth or Maariv or Channel 12 or 13 says, and the discrepancy is not in the diversity but in the content of the same news about the same incident, in fact the bickering between ministers and opposition leaders and between politicians and military personnel appears in one newspaper and is denied by another. 

2- Breaking the monopoly of news through social media, as the Arab media used to say whatever it wanted because the Arab reader did not find other sources, especially in light of the official media’s monopoly of the entire scene, which makes the field of lies and forgery spacious, while the Israeli media did not need to lie previously, as there is no justification for the victor to lie, but now, due to its lack of decisive victory and the successive surprises it receives, it finds itself without the means to inform “non-victory” at the very least, and from here the confusion appeared on it, and the scene became more confusing for it that social media and the leaked or smuggled image or the one that can be sold to major media outlets at tempting prices have become uncontrollable, and from here the confusion increased. It is difficult to say that Israel has been defeated, but it has certainly not won yet, and hence its media is blind this time. Will it become blind? Perhaps.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the death of 36 citizens and the injury of 150 during the past 24 hours in Lebanon.

The National News Agency said that the total number of martyrs has risen since September 23 to 2,119  and over 10,019 wounded.

It added: "During the past 24 hours, 137 airstrikes were recorded, bringing the total number of attacks since the beginning of the aggression to 9,400 attacks."

990 centres have also been opened to receive displaced persons, 781 of which have reached their maximum capacity.

It explained: "To date, 181,700 displaced persons have been registered in the shelters included in the regulations issued by the National Operations Room."

It pointed out that 304,897 Syrian citizens and 107,333 Lebanese crossed into Syrian territory, until October 8.

CNN reported Tuesday that the famous American author, Bob Woodward, who brought down former President Richard Nixon 50 years ago, says in his new book, “War,” that US President Joe Biden called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a damned liar and a son of a bitch” after the Israeli occupation army entered Rafah on May 6, “and he also shouted at the prime minister after an Israeli airstrike led to the assassination of a senior Hezbollah leader.”

The relationship between the two leaders became increasingly tense during the spring of 2024, according to the network, which obtained an advance copy of the book titled “War.”

According to excerpts, Biden asked Netanyahu in a phone call last April: “What’s your strategy, man?”

Netanyahu replied that Israel should enter Rafah, on the border between Gaza and Egypt, which “has become the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza,” to which Biden responded, “Bibi, you have no strategy.”

Also last April, Israel assassinated two Revolutionary Guard generals at the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital, Damascus. After the United States and other allies helped Israel intercept most of the missiles Iran fired in response, Biden urged Netanyahu not to respond and to “win.” According to the book, Biden viewed Israel’s limited response to the Iranian attack as a success. “I know he’s going to do something,” Biden told advisers, “but the way I end it is to tell him not to do something.”

After Israel entered Rafah, Biden said of Netanyahu: "He is a damned liar."

According to Woodward, Biden said in a private session: “This son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad man. He’s a bad, bad man!”

It is noteworthy that Politico magazine reported last February that Biden uses these expressions when talking about Netanyahu.

And when Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, on July 31, Biden shouted in their subsequent conversation, “Bibi, what the hell?” “You know, the perception of Israel around the world is increasingly that you are a rogue state, a rogue actor.”

The United States claimed that Fuad Shukr played a key role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines. The United States had a $5 million bounty on Shukr's head when he was killed.

Woodward also wrote about US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about normalizing relations with Israel. Blinken asked whether the Saudis were insisting on a Palestinian state as the price for normalization.

“Do I want it?” Bin Salman asked. “It doesn’t matter much. Do I need it? Sure.”

Woodward gives priority and the largest space in the book to the Russian-Ukrainian war.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Monday that the United States rejects the reoccupation of Gaza or any part of it by Israel as a result of the war that Israel is currently waging.

“We have seen these reports (about reoccupation or separating the south from the north); let me first and foremost emphasize very clearly that we do not want to see Gaza occupied by Israel. We do not want to see the territory of Gaza shrink in any way on a permanent basis,” Miller said in response to a question from a Quds.com correspondent about the current operation being carried out by the Israeli occupation army, especially in its quest to separate the north from the south, and to create buffer zones or for military or settlement concentration.

“When it comes to these reports (of Israeli control of Gaza or parts of it), we are engaging with the government of Israel to see exactly what they intend to do,” Miller said. “But I would say, in general, that we want to see people in Gaza able to return to their neighborhoods, not have to leave their neighborhoods.”

“Now, if there are Hamas militants operating under an apartment building, before Israel attacks those militants, I think you would want to see civilians evacuated,” Miller added. “That would be a good thing for those civilians, to see that they are out of harm’s way. But it goes back to this broader point that I made, which is that as long as you don’t have a political path forward and you don’t have a resolution to the real issues of governance, you can kill Hamas militants, but Hamas will continue to recruit other militants, you will continue to endanger the Palestinian people, and you will continue to endanger the security of Israel as well.”

“We want to see a ceasefire that brings the hostages home, alleviates the suffering of the Palestinian people, and allows humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza,” Miller said. “We want to see an agreement on a political path forward that ensures that the Palestinians choose their own leaders, and that Hamas no longer rules Gaza as a terrorist organization. Ultimately, we want to see Gaza and the West Bank united as an independent Palestinian state.”

In a related matter, former President Donald Trump (and Republican Party candidate in the upcoming elections on 5/11) said on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of October 7, 2023, in an interview with broadcaster Hugh Hewitt, who asked Trump, if Gaza, large areas of which were destroyed during Israeli air and ground strikes, could be “Monaco if it was rebuilt the right way? And be a place that all Palestinians would be proud of and want to live in?” Trump replied, “It could be better than Monaco. It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything. It’s the best, I’ve said that for years. I’ve been there, and it’s tough. It’s a tough place, before, you know, before all the attacks and before everything that’s happened over the last two years.”

"They never took advantage of it. You know, as a developer, it could be the most beautiful place, the weather, the water, everything, the climate. It could be so beautiful... it could be one of the best places in the world," he continued.

The New York Times reported that there is no record of Trump visiting Gaza at all, during his presidency or as a businessman.

In 2017, his first year in office, Trump visited Israel and traveled to the West Bank, meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem.

Commenting on Trump's claims of visiting Gaza, a Republican campaign official, who declined to be identified, said, "Gaza is in Israel" and that he had visited Israel.

Settlers attacked the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, on Tuesday evening.

According to local sources, settlers attacked the outskirts of the village, threw stones at citizens' homes, and set fire to areas near citizens' homes.

Sabah pointed out that the settlers and the Israeli occupation forces continue their settlement expansion operations in the village’s lands, through continuous bulldozing operations and placing mobile homes on the lands of citizens who have proof of ownership.

The Minister of Energy in the Israeli occupation government claimed that his soldiers, our soldiers, occupied the Maroun al-Ras area in southern Lebanon and destroyed houses from which Hezbollah had launched missiles.

The occupation army raised the entity's flag in Maroun al-Ras, claiming to control it, noting that the occupation army raised the flag in a building directly opposite the border strip and 20 meters away from the strip.

Earlier, the Israeli occupation army claimed that the Golani Brigade had taken control of a Hezbollah compound in Maroun al-Ras, southern Lebanon.

The occupation army said that it found a loaded launcher ready to fire rockets at settlements in the north of the occupied Palestinian territories.

The occupation army announced on Tuesday that it had launched raids targeting Hezbollah in southwestern Lebanon, while announcing the expansion of its ground operations after mobilizing additional forces.

The occupation army stated that the 146th Division began limited and focused operations against Hezbollah targets and infrastructure in southwestern Lebanon.

The occupation army indicated that it had monitored the launch of about 85 rockets from Lebanon towards the northern regions, including the city of Haifa, while confirming that it was launching raids targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Supporting Israel's war on Gaza and other escalations in the Middle East has cost the United States at least $22.76 billion since October 7, 2023, the Costs of War Project at Brown University said in a research paper published Monday.

The cost of the war was arrived at, a very conservative estimate, by combining the cost of US military aid to Israel with the cost of related US military operations in the region, including the war against the Houthis in Yemen.

The report found that the US government approved at least $17.9 billion in military aid to support Israeli military operations in Gaza and elsewhere in the region over the past year, a figure far greater than any other year since the United States began providing military aid to Israel in 1959.

The report notes that tracking U.S. military support to Israel is difficult due to the Biden administration’s lack of transparency. “For example, the Biden administration has concluded at least 100 arms deals with Israel since October 2023, which were below the amount that would have triggered a requirement to notify Congress of the details,” the paper states.

The $17.9 billion figure also does not include a $20.3 billion major arms deal the Foreign Ministry approved for Israel last August, with the money to be spent over the coming years. It is also unclear at this time how much of the $20.3 billion, which includes an $18.8 billion deal for F-15 fighter jets, will be covered by U.S. military aid through 2028.

The paper details how the United States has supplied Israel with weapons for decades. “The United States has been Israel’s largest arms supplier for more than five decades. Israel is the world’s largest cumulative recipient of U.S. aid since World War II, and is in the midst of a 10-year, $38 billion military aid agreement negotiated under the Obama administration, covering fiscal years 2019 through 2028,” the paper states.

The report says the United States has spent at least $4.8 billion on its military operations in the Middle East, including $2.4 billion on intercepting Houthi missiles and drones and launching missile strikes in Yemen. Another $2.4 billion for spending on U.S. operations in the region was included in the $95 billion foreign military assistance bill that President Biden signed into law in April. The bill adds another $50 million to $70 million in additional combat pay for U.S. military personnel.

The cost to American taxpayers will continue to rise as there is no end in sight to Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza or its bombing and incursion campaign in Lebanon. The risk of a full-scale war with Iran is also high as the United States coordinates with Israel on plans to attack Iran in response to last week’s Iranian missile barrage that struck Israel, which was in response to several Israeli escalations. The U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen has also failed to deter the Houthis, who have vowed that they will not stop their attacks on shipping unless there is a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip called on Palestinians in the northern areas not to respond to the occupation's threats of evacuation.

The Ministry of Interior in Gaza confirmed that the occupation is working to deceive citizens by claiming that there are safe corridors and displacement areas, and its lies have been proven.

In this context, Jordanian strategic expert Dr. Ibrahim Issa Al-Abadi revealed exciting details about the Israeli occupation’s goals for the war, especially after a year has passed since the start of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, warning of dangerous indicators, especially with the division of the Gaza Strip between the south and the north.

He added that Tel Aviv wants northern Gaza because it overlooks a large gas reserve on the Palestinian coast, indicating that there is a dangerous indicator, which is that the occupation government has decided to rebuild the settlements that were dismantled in 2005.

He explained that there is a hypothesis that says that "Israel" does not want to eliminate Hamas and does not want to free the prisoners at the current stage, and that what it wants is to divide the north from the south to achieve its political goal.

A number of citizens were killed and others were injured today, Tuesday, as a result of the occupation's bombing of various areas in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a number of citizens were killed when a warplane bombed a civilian vehicle at the western entrance to Nusairat in the central Gaza Strip. At least one young man was killed and others were injured when an Israeli warplane targeted agricultural land in the vicinity of the entrance to the town of Az-Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip.

Three citizens were injured with various wounds after the occupation aircraft bombed a tower in the Al-Alami area in Jabalia camp in the north, and a number of citizens were injured when the occupation helicopters fired on houses in the Beit Lahia project in the north, and the occupation aircraft bombed a house in Al-Shuhada Street in Al-Rimal neighborhood in the center of Gaza City.

A fire also broke out in a house as a result of Israeli shelling targeting the eastern areas of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Since October 7, 2023, the occupation forces have continued their aggression on Gaza from land, sea and air, which has so far resulted in the death of 41,965 citizens and the injury of 97,590 others, including a large number of children and women. The numbers are expected to rise in light of the presence of thousands of missing people under the rubble, while rescue teams face enormous difficulties in reaching all affected areas.

The Jerusalem Governorate said today, Tuesday, that 78 people have been killed and 1,791 citizens have been arrested in the governorate since October 7, 2023.

The ministry explained in its report on the situation in the Jerusalem Governorate during the year of aggression that the frequency of repeated incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque has increased in an unprecedented manner, as (50,475) settlers stormed the mosque, and these incursions have become part of a broader plan to impose the reality of temporal and spatial division on the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

According to the report, Jerusalem has also witnessed an unprecedented campaign to forcibly displace Palestinians from their historic neighborhoods, such as Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, as the occupation seeks to empty these areas of their original inhabitants and replace them with settlers.

The demolition and seizure of Palestinian homes has not stopped for a year, but has systematically increased to create a new reality that serves the colonial project, as the governorate witnessed 340 demolition and bulldozing operations.

The occupation imposed a stifling economic siege on the residents of occupied Jerusalem, through restrictions on the movement of goods and people, and arbitrary measures taken by the Israeli occupation authorities against Jerusalemite merchants and investors.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces injured a young man, arrested him and handed him notices during their raid on the town of Beit Idhna, west of Hebron.

According to local sources, these forces shot a young man, directly hitting him, and detained and interrogated him before arresting him, without knowing his health condition yet.

It also raided the Wadi Risha area and delivered notices to demolish four barracks used for recycling scrap metal, belonging to: Khaled Mohammed Younis Abu Juhaisha, Mahmoud Muslim Abu Juhaisha, Ahmed Abu Juhaisha, and Dheeb Nidal Abu Juhaisha.

It is noteworthy that the occupation forces recently demolished more than ten barracks in the town as part of the punitive policy it is pursuing against the citizens.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported today, Tuesday, that 56 citizens were killed and 278 others were injured in 8 massacres committed by the occupation during the past 24 hours.

The ministry confirmed in a brief statement that the death toll from the Israeli aggression has risen to 41,965 dead and 97,590 injuries since October 7.