Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces notified the demolition of a mosque in Jabal al-Mukaber, southeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that the residents found a demolition notice that the occupation soldiers had stuck on the gate of Al-Shiyah Mosque in the town of Jabal al-Mukaber, within 5 days, noting that it had been there for 20 years.

Large forces of the occupation army also stormed several neighborhoods in the town of Silwan, and raided several homes there.

In a related context, the occupation forces prevented the residents of Qalandia village from picking olives, after closing the iron gate in the racist separation and expansion wall, which prevents the residents from reaching their lands.

Lebanese Hezbollah announced on Sunday evening and Monday morning that it had attacked several military bases and settlements in northern Israel, in response to the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and in support of the Gaza Strip.

Since September 23, Israel has been launching an aggression against Lebanon, resulting in hundreds of martyrs and thousands of wounded, and has also begun a ground invasion in the south.

In return, Hezbollah responds daily by launching missiles, drones and artillery shells targeting military sites, intelligence headquarters, military gatherings and Israeli settlements.

Hezbollah bombs Israeli bases and settlements

The party said that it targeted the settlements of Eilet Hashahar, Sha'al, Hatzor and Dalton with rocket barrages at midnight on Sunday-Monday.

In another statement, the party added that its members targeted "the air control unit at the Meron base with a missile salvo."

In a previous series of statements via the Telegram platform, the party said: “For the first time, we bombed the Haifa Technical Base (which belongs to the Israeli Air Force and contains a training college for preparing Air Force technicians) in the occupied city of Haifa with a batch of qualitative missiles.”

Hezbollah fighters launched a squadron of drones at the Elyakim base (which contains training camps affiliated with the Northern Command) south of Haifa and "hit their targets accurately," according to the party's statement.

They also fired a barrage of rockets at the Beit Lid base, which belongs to the Central Command (which contains training camps for the Nahal Brigade and the Paratroopers Brigade) east of the city of Netanya, and "hit its targets accurately," according to a statement.

According to its statements, the party targeted the Zevulon military industries base north of Haifa with three missiles, a gathering of Israeli forces at the Israeli Al-Baghdadi military site, and a gathering at the newly established headquarters of the Western Brigade command in the Yara barracks.

Its elements also fired a guided missile at a "command room in the settlement of Matala, hitting its target accurately, killing and wounding those inside."

Hezbollah also said that its fighters targeted "a Merkava tank at the gate of Metula (a military site in northern Israel) with a guided missile, which led to it burning and its crew being killed and wounded."

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They also fired rockets at gatherings of soldiers in the Khallet al-Bardoshe area near the Manara settlement and the settlements of Sa'ar, Metulla (twice), Shlomi (twice), Rosh Hanikra, Kedem Zvi, Shamir, Baram, Metsova, Even, Shomera and Zer'it.

They also bombed the settlements of Netova Nimra and Katzrin with two rounds of rockets.

Hezbollah fighters targeted Israeli forces on the eastern outskirts of the town of Mays al-Jabal in southern Lebanon three times with barrages of rockets.

The party stressed, in its statements, that these attacks come "in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in defense of Lebanon and its people."

On Sunday, three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Harat Saida in southern Lebanon, while two others were killed in a raid on the town of Jabal al-Batm in the Tyre district (south).

The Israeli army announced on Sunday that it had detected two missiles launched from southern Lebanon towards the northern city of Haifa, while two drones crossed the border before one of them crashed and the other was intercepted.

This morning, Monday, the Palestinian presidency called on the world to take serious and tangible steps on the ground against Israel and oblige it to abide by all signed agreements.

Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Dina said, "The Israeli occupation government, by officially informing the United Nations of the severing of relations with UNRWA, is ignoring all international norms, charters, resolutions and international humanitarian law."

He added: "Israel is continuing to target UNRWA, with the aim of liquidating the refugee issue, eliminating the right of return, and obstructing its activities and role. The world must take serious and tangible steps on the ground against Israel, holding the occupation government fully responsible for the serious repercussions of this decision."

Abu Rudeineh also condemned the settlers’ attack at dawn today on the city of Al-Bireh, and the burning of about 20 citizens’ vehicles, stressing that these attacks and crimes by the terrorist settler militias are nothing but a result of the continued war of extermination waged by the Israeli occupation state against our people, their holy sites and their property, and that the occupation government and the United States bear responsibility for it alike.

He stressed that the legalization of colonial outposts in the West Bank, and the promotion of plans to build new colonial units, comes within the framework of the comprehensive war waged by the Israeli occupation state against the Palestinian people, their land and their holy sites.

Today, Monday, the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz published a report entitled: “A Siege Within a Siege”... The Israeli army is withholding humanitarian aid from tens of thousands remaining in the northern Gaza Strip.

The newspaper says, on October 18, a building in Al-Faluja in Jabalia camp was bombed, and inside it were 32 Palestinians, some of whom barely escaped and asked for help for those under the rubble. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) intervened and tried to enter the place, but its request was completely rejected, as happened with dozens of requests submitted last month.

The Israeli army was informing the UN that there was no longer any point in going to the place because the possibility of any of the trapped people surviving was zero.

The newspaper says: To this day, the Israeli army has not published the reason for attacking the building in Fallujah, and has not claimed that any of the victims of the attack were members of Hamas.

Giorgos Petrolios, the UN official in Gaza, says: There is a major humanitarian disaster in the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli army refuses to allow aid in and bombs on a daily basis. Dozens of people are killed every day and for 3 weeks now the attacks have not stopped every day. There is a clear use of humanitarian aid as a weapon against civilians there.

Haaretz says: Indeed, today there are three circles of siege in the Gaza Strip subject to different restrictions: First: The entire Strip is besieged, and no one enters or leaves it except with the permission of the army.. Another siege is imposed on the entire northern Gaza Strip from the Gaza Valley area to the north, including Gaza City, the refugee camps and other areas.. Early last month, the army imposed another and more severe siege in the northern Gaza Strip, specifically in Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun.. A senior UN official described it as "a siege within a siege within a siege."

The newspaper added: There are between 75 and 90 thousand citizens remaining in Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun who are unable or unwilling to leave despite the Israeli army’s demand to move south.

“When the rest are asked why they stay, they answer: It is difficult to live here and it is difficult to live there (south of the blockade), but at least here I am not living in tents,” says Petropoulos. “It does not mean that the houses in the area are intact, but in the Rafah area people sleep under nylon in harsh conditions.”

“We would rather die in Jabalya than live in tents and be humiliated,” a resident of the besieged area who refuses to leave told Haaretz. “There were difficult discussions about what to do with the children and whether to separate them, but we will stay together and die with dignity. Also, who will guarantee that we will not be bombed or shot at as soon as we leave? There is no safe place in Gaza. All the statements about a safe passage or a humanitarian zone are lies. People do not understand how dangerous it is to move from one place to another within the Strip.”

Haaretz published testimonies from many citizens about what is happening in the northern Gaza Strip with them from the stifling siege and the attempt to force them to move south, but they insist on staying there.

The newspaper says: The only entry permit to the isolated area was reserved for ambulances that arrived to transport seriously ill patients from the hospitals there to the hospital in Gaza City. This transfer requires complex coordination with the headquarters of the Israeli government’s coordination of activities. After that, a convoy goes to the hospitals, loads the patients into the ambulances and returns south, where it is asked to stop for inspection. The paramedics are asked to remove each injured person from the ambulance and walk with him for a distance of 50 meters and present him to the soldiers.

“One time when we were transporting the wounded, the officer asked us why we weren’t taking the wounded out of the ambulance,” Petropoulos says. “I said, ‘Come and see, this is a seven-year-old girl with a wound on her head where you can see her brain,’ but apparently the only way not to be a terrorist in Gaza is to be a child.” We were delayed for three hours during the examination, and all the while the paramedic continued to give the girl oxygen. We took her to the hospital in Gaza, but I don’t know if she survived.

In addition to allowing ambulances to enter, the Israeli military last month allowed food, medical equipment, fuel and blood transfusions to be transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, but not all requests for that hospital in the besieged area have been granted. The area has a kidney dialysis department that treats about 65 patients.

The dialysis machines depend on the hospital's diesel to operate, and according to Petropoulos, when the fuel runs out, which could happen soon, all the patients in the ward will die.

The same applies to other chronic patients. The hospital also has an intensive care and respiratory department, but since there are no ambulances with ventilators in the Strip, they cannot be transferred to other hospitals. “They will live or die in Kamal Adwan, you cannot get them out of there,” Petropoulos explains.

He pointed out that during his visits to the hospital, he encountered cases of post-traumatic stress and psychological injuries that no one was able to treat.

The newspaper refers to the large numbers of Palestinian victims in the northern Gaza Strip, whom no medical or civil defense teams can help.

Regarding the Israeli skepticism about the number of victims, Petropoulos says: “In any case, there are dozens of deaths every day. If there are not 100 deaths but only 50, is that good? Is the killing of 50 people proportional to the killing of one person? There was a brutal attack on October 7, but the brutality has continued every day since then, and not only against the people, but also against the place where they live, the landscape, the buildings, the roads.”

About six months ago, Petropoulos witnessed an attack in Khan Younis that targeted a senior Hamas official. “It looked like Nagasaki,” he recalled. “They counted the bodies, but there were 70 people who just evaporated. When they bombed Moasi on September 10, I jumped out of bed, and there were also 10 or 20 people killed. I was in the tents before the attack and they just disappeared. I was also in the hospital after the bombing, and it looked like a slaughterhouse, there was blood everywhere.”

Petropoulos, a Greek national who lives with his family in Jordan, has been working in humanitarian aid around the world for about 20 years, 14 of them through the United Nations. He has visited Darfur, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and other countries. He has been in the Strip since January, staying there for four or five days a month. According to him, the difference between other war zones in the world and Gaza is that there is no safe place in Gaza.

He stresses: There is no such thing as a humanitarian zone in Gaza. Every place can be exposed to gunfire from any direction all the time. People here are exposed to attacks everywhere, even in areas that are described as safe. This makes everything very tragic. You have to imagine what would happen if 60 civilians were killed in Ukraine every day.

He pointed out that the Israeli army treats UN employees in humiliating ways, and makes them wait for hours for coordination in order to enter, even though they obtain prior coordination.

Petropoulos says the whole sector smells of rotting corpses coming from the rubble people are buried under, wild dogs roam with human organs in their mouths, and we collect bodies of people killed from the roads we pass that no one can reach and hand them over to the Red Cross.

Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it is severing ties with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), a move that is expected to lead to reduced aid distribution across the war-torn Gaza Strip, Israel's Channel 12 reported.

Israel's UN envoy, Danny Danon, confirmed that Tel Aviv had notified the UN of the cessation of work with UNRWA, and claimed that Hamas controlled it.

Danon said, "Tel Aviv continues to work with humanitarian organizations, but not with organizations that serve terrorism," as he put it.

Last Monday, the Israeli Knesset finally approved, by a majority of 92 votes out of 120, a ban on UNRWA activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, in a move condemned by European and Western countries and international organizations.

According to the law, “UNRWA’s activity in East Jerusalem will cease, and its powers will be transferred to the responsibility and control of Israel.” The 1967 agreement that allowed UNRWA to operate in Israel will also be cancelled, and the agency’s activities in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories will cease, and any contact between Israeli officials and its employees will be prohibited.

Israel claims that UNRWA employees contributed to the October 7, 2023, “Al-Aqsa Intifada” attack, and that “the agency’s education system supports terrorism and hatred,” which has been proven false.

UNRWA denied Israel's allegations, and the United Nations confirmed that the agency is neutral and focuses exclusively on supporting refugees.

UNRWA supports Palestine refugees in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, as well as in neighbouring countries.

Concerns

On Sunday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini commented on the Israeli law banning the agency's work, saying, "The focus should be on reaching an agreement to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip, rather than on banning the agency or finding alternatives to it."

Lazzarini added, in a statement published on his account on the X platform, that "dismantling UNRWA, in the absence of a viable alternative, will deprive Palestinian children of education."

“Why are children and their education not mentioned in any discussions when experts or politicians talk about banning or replacing UNRWA?” he asked.

He stressed that "the children of Gaza are now losing a second year of education," and pointed out that "UNRWA is the only UN agency that provides education directly in its schools. In the West Bank, about 50,000 children receive education in these schools."

As of October 2023, UNRWA provided education to more than 300,000 boys and girls in Gaza, which represents about half of the total school children in the Strip, according to Lazzarini.

It is a day that passes like any other day, even if it bears the title of “Super Tuesday,” to magnify the overflowing spectacle, the hopes pinned on it by voters, and the fears and apprehensions that afflict observers, politicians and ordinary people. This is because the new occupant of the White House determines the outcomes of global policies and the destinies of peoples in the four corners of the globe. He is able to loosen the rope of Israeli arrogance, or curb its excesses, and control the rhythm of the counter-strikes to the tunes of his melodies and timings, so that they do not exceed his specific standards and specifications.

Tomorrow is another day, but it will not be the same in Gaza, where the rubble is rising, the cemeteries are too small for the bodies, the hospitals are too small for the sick and injured, and the bakeries are unable to satisfy the hunger of the hungry.

It is a day that passes in the lives of Americans, loyalists and opponents, Democrats and Republicans, but it will determine their lifestyle in the issues that occupied their attention, during the only debate that took place between the former attorney general, the vice president and the lady of laws, and the truck driver and potato seller who is fond of business, making profitable deals and reckless driving.

In a cold reading of the poll results, the narrow differences between the two rivals appear in a way that places expectations in the category of wishes, as the polls are not free from the dominance of agendas that do not reveal the true orientations of voters, at the moment of awakening conscience before the ballot boxes.

Netanyahu succeeded in playing the long distance of the US election date, and exploiting it to blackmail Democrats and Republicans alike. He continued to evade by spreading false hopes about a deal being concluded soon in Gaza and Lebanon, and succeeded in extending the tongues of fire to Isfahan, under the auspices of the current administration for revenge, to be a winning card that it counts for it, while it counted his evasions and reneging on his promises as an advance bribe, if Trump wins, who will find himself indebted to Netanyahu, who did not offer that gift to his predecessor, to be a factor in his victory, to collect its price later when he ascends to the throne.

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Vice President Kamala Harris focused her efforts on the Rust Belt yesterday, while her rival Donald Trump headed to three major battleground states; in a last-ditch effort to win votes, 24 hours before the date of the election, which is witnessing a historically close election. Seventy-five million people have voted early before the general election, tomorrow (Tuesday), at a time when polls show the results of the candidates are at an unprecedented level of equality at this stage.

A recent New York Times/Siena poll released yesterday indicated some gradual changes in key swing states, but the results from all seven remained within the margin of error. Harris, who is seeking support in the Great Lakes states, spent yesterday in Michigan. Trump’s agenda focuses on Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, all of which are crucial wins.

1. The Associated Press report on Israel’s deliberate attacks on hospitals in the Gaza Strip, without providing any evidence of military activity inside them, reveals organized Israeli crimes that are destroying the entire health sector and spreading fear among medical teams and patients, as happened yesterday with an Israeli bombardment of children’s rooms in Kamal Adwan Hospital.
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3. The agency's report is based on investigations that lasted several months, and accounts were obtained from eyewitnesses, and a number of doctors and medical and humanitarian workers in Al-Awda, Indonesian and Kamal Adwan hospitals, all of which refute Israeli claims that its attacks on hospitals are due to military necessity because they are used as command and control bases for planning attacks by Hamas. All of what the Israeli army spokesman presented was not based on facts or evidence.
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5. Certainly, the aim of attacking hospitals is to complete the series of destruction of infrastructure, to tighten the noose on citizens, and increase the difficulties facing them, as the Israeli attacks have previously affected seven hospitals, although they should be protected under international law, but Israel, which is accustomed to violations, did not respect the sanctity of hospitals, and destroyed them completely.
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7. The occupation’s practices against the health sector have crossed all humanitarian barriers and red lines. The army deliberately launched shells, missiles and bombardment from the air, used bulldozers and heavy machinery to storm and destroy hospitals and health centers, arrested medical teams, their staff and workers, crushed the tents of the displaced inside the hospitals, and humiliated patients and workers.
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9. What happened yesterday in Kamal Adwan Hospital, according to Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, when the occupation bombed the children’s floor, the nursery, and the water tanks in the hospital, turning it into a state of near-total collapse, injuring a number of patients, being subjected to heavy Israeli bombardment during a visit by a delegation from the World Health Organization, and not having a single ambulance in the northern Gaza Strip, confirms that these Israeli measures against hospitals are part of a policy of collective punishment against the Palestinians in the Strip. There is no better evidence of what we have presented than the conclusions of international reports issued by official institutions, bodies, and media outlets, most notably the Associated Press, which said that Israel implemented a coordinated policy to destroy the health care system in Gaza.
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11. The entire Palestinian health sector is calling on the world to intervene to protect hospitals from continued Israeli targeting. Is there anyone who will respond?

The US presidential elections on the fifth of this month, and the outcome of the victory of the Democratic candidate Harris or the Republican candidate Trump, what will change for the region and for us? We realize that Trump raised the slogan of America First, and reducing intervention in wars or not provoking new wars, but what we found in his first term, which came on the back of his victory over the Democratic candidate Obama, and the war was raging in Syria, is that he continued to intervene in the war on Syria, and postponed the withdrawal of his forces from it twice. On the Palestinian level, he is more extreme than the Democrats, but on the level of blind adoption of Israeli positions and political support, what can he add? The Democrats have provided Israel with everything, and unprecedented support, military, political, material, logistical, intelligence, political and legal protection in international institutions, to the point of threatening the President and judges of the International Court of Justice, and blackmailing them on a personal and financial level, and threatening South Africa, which dared to file a case against Israel before the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide. It has not left any bullying method unused in the service of Israel. It has prevented four times the issuance of a resolution by the UN Security Council to stop the aggression on the Gaza Strip, and it has also prevented the issuance of a resolution by the same council to grant Palestine full membership in the United Nations. It said that the establishment of a Palestinian state must necessarily be with Israeli approval, and as an Israeli protectorate, it does not possess the components of a state, nor political or economic independence, nor sovereignty. All that remains is for its armies to participate in the battles directly, not in secret ways. Direct intervention in wars with direct American military participation during the era of Democrats or Republicans is not expected to be done. Trump was president when Iran shot down the latest American spy plane, the Global Hawk, in 2019, and he did not respond to Iran militarily. What Trump will add in his victory will not go beyond a moral charge, which will not have an impact on a major change in American foreign policy. We must not be deceived by any tactical and urgent disagreement between the Israeli government and the American administration. These disagreements take place under the roof of a Zionist America, and Israel is the advanced base in the region that serves American and Western interests in the region. Therefore, we find that the American, German and British administrations in particular are more Zionist than the Israeli governments themselves. This is not what we saw from Blinken’s pride in his Jewishness, nor Biden’s Zionism, nor the rest of the American and Western European choir, such as US Secretary of State Annalena Gerbiok and her boss, Chancellor Olaf Scholz. They all raise the same slogan and saying, “Israel’s right to defend itself.” The impudence reaches the German Foreign Minister. To say that "Israel has the right to bomb hospitals and schools, if there are "terrorists" to protect itself, and Musaylimah the Liar Blinken, the American Secretary of State who is proud of his Jewishness, said that the Israeli army did not kill a single civilian in the Gaza Strip, but rather aliens are the ones killing them. It is the American and Western colonial "prostitution" that has no limits, and which sees us, Arabs, Muslims and Africans, as backward peoples who are not susceptible to Western "civilization", and in order for security and stability to prevail in the world, those peoples must be eliminated. The racist and brutal capitalist theories formulated by the theorists of what is known as American and Western civilization, which were revealed in a rude and blatant manner and fell at the gates of Gaza, Beirut and the southern suburb, killing, blood, hunger, siege, expulsion and displacement, they are the theories of the end of history by "Fukuyama" and the clash of civilizations by "Hemington".

In order for our readings of the US presidential elections to be correct, we must realize that both the Republican and Democratic parties are competing in their love for and flirtation with Israel, and that its security, stability, and military and security superiority in the region are above all considerations. Even the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing it is waging in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, both parties find justification for these crimes by claiming “Israel’s right to defend itself.” Therefore, the two parties exchange accusations about which of them is more loyal to Israel and its Zionist project. Trump, in the debate that brought him together with the Democratic candidate Harris, and because she did not attend the meeting with Netanyahu during his last visit to Washington, in the “house of American slander,” Congress, accused her of not loving Israel. We must realize that the American military, financial, and security machine is led by a deep state, behind which stand huge military, financial, and economic cartels and monopolies, the Pentagon and the CIA form its arms and mind, and it is distributed between the two parties and the camps of the candidates, and its vision stems from the deep interests of the imperial project. American colonialist.

As for the impact of these elections, their results and repercussions on Iran, Iran realizes that it will remain in the circle of American targeting from both parties, Republican and Democratic, targeting its role and regional position, targeting its military and armament capabilities, targeting its nuclear program and facilities and its programs for ballistic missiles and suicide drones, and therefore sanctions on Tehran will be tightened. Beyond that, Iran realizes that the American-Israeli project has moved from the stage of defense to the stage of attack, and it goes beyond geographical maps and the aggressive war on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon to a war that aims to create what is known as the New Middle East, a new Middle East in which the maps of the region are being changed and reformulated anew, in a way that ensures the region remains within the framework of American hegemony for the coming decades and under Israeli leadership and American administration, through security and military blocs and alliances between Israel and the countries of the collapsed official Arab system, whose greatest wish and concern is to launch the broadest normalization process with the occupying state, deluding itself that a state that is unable to provide security and protection for its society is able to protect this official Arab system. And his thrones.

Tehran realizes that the American-Israeli project, in its strategic attack through the assassination of Nasrallah, is an entry point to overthrow the Lebanese resistance experience represented by Hezbollah, which represents the surplus power of the resistance axis and its spearhead. Therefore, the goal is to impose new deterrence equations that “dwarf” Iran’s regional role and allow America and Israel to make geostrategic changes. Therefore, within the framework of the battle over deterrence, which has become the issue, Iran will not abandon the confrontation with Israel and America, within the framework of its defense of its regional position. Therefore, Supreme Leader Khamenei, Revolutionary Guards Commander Ismail Salami, and the strategic level official for foreign policy Kamal Kharrazi, confirmed that the Iranian response is coming, and it is more severe, broader, and more painful than the response in “True Promise 2.”

While it must be remembered that if Trump wins, he will continue the policy of financial “milking” of the Gulf states, in a more blatant and impudent manner, and will also expand the normalization alliances between the occupying state and the Arab and Islamic states.

Since the start of his devastating war after October 7 of last year, Benjamin Netanyahu has promoted two contradictory ideas: First, that Israel is fighting an existential war in which it is defending its survival, and he exaggerated this to the point of describing the Israeli losses in the Al-Aqsa flood as the largest since the Holocaust. The fundamental goal of this idea is to portray Israel as the victim, and even to monopolize the title of victim in general. Netanyahu and his supporters from the West and East did not mind that Israel occupies the land of another people and is practicing the worst oppression and war crimes of our time.

The second idea was that Israel was all-powerful and all-powerful, and would redraw the map of the entire Middle East for the next fifty years, something that had not happened since the infamous Sykes-Picot Agreement.

There is no need for us to refute the first idea, as it has no credibility, because the real existential danger is the conspiracies and crimes that the Palestinian people are facing to liquidate their national cause and their right to freedom and self-determination, although it is necessary to hint at the validity of the belief of some Israelis that their entity is entering, at an unusual speed in the path of states, into a phase of decline that may reach the point of demise, if the current fascist approach of the Zionist movement continues with all its components.

What concerns us is the second idea that Israel is all-powerful and will redraw the map of the Middle East. This idea contradicts a series of events and facts that have been revealed over the course of the war that has been going on for more than a year.

First, after more than a full year of the longest war in the history of the Israeli entity, it seems unable to complete or achieve its military objectives in the Gaza Strip, despite the huge difference in capabilities, capacities, weapons and number of soldiers, as the Israeli army, which is considered among the strongest armies in the world, faces a resistance force that has been besieged for seventeen years, and yet it has failed to uproot the resistance, failed to impose its military control, failed to recover its prisoners, and failed to achieve the ethnic cleansing that was its main goal. This army finds nothing to compensate for its failure except the brutal brutality of civilians, especially women and children.

The second fact is that the Israeli army, before opening the Lebanese front, was unable to confront the Palestinian resistance in Gaza without an American air bridge, and support in the form of weapons and intelligence services from a significant number of European countries, including Germany and Britain. It even needed the American fleet to flow into the region’s seas in order to be able to focus on its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

The third fact was that the “mighty Israeli army!!” was unable to confront the Iranian missile and drone attack without full defensive air support from NATO, the US Central Command, and a number of Western bases and armies deployed in the region. Despite all that support, Israeli military bases were seriously damaged in that attack, and the United States was forced to send its most advanced air defense system (THAAD) with its American military operators to Israel.

The fourth fact was Israel’s inability to confront the marches coming from Lebanon, the failure of the Israeli army to carry out a large-scale ground invasion of southern and central Lebanon as it had planned, and its inability to capitalize on its intelligence success and assassinate a significant number of Hezbollah’s leadership to achieve the complete collapse of the party that it had dreamed of.

The fifth fact is that the rise of fascism in Israel could not protect it from escalating internal disintegration due to the length of the war, the increasing human losses, the deepening of the economic crisis resulting from unexpected losses, and the flight of hundreds of thousands in search of security and safety, after all of Palestine became an open arena of confrontation.

The irony is that all this failure is taking place in the shadow of regional and global opportunities that Israel has not had in the past, and will not have in the future. It launched its war in the shadow of the complicity of a number of regional countries, and those who want to increase it can refer to Bob Woodward’s new book entitled “War”, and in the shadow of an unparalleled weakness at the level of governments in Arab and Islamic solidarity with the Palestinian people, in contrast to the positions of the peoples, of course, who are the ones who are defeated.

On the international level, Israel received absolute support in terms of weapons, money, and political support, and even direct military participation from the US Army and a number of Western armies. It also enjoyed financial support of up to $40 billion from the Biden administration, and protection that reached the point of insolence in the Security Council and the corridors of the United Nations. In this confrontation, the Palestinians did not have a pole parallel to the American and Western pole globally, as was the case in the Cold War, in light of the American-Soviet competition at the time. There is, of course, a difference between support with political statements and positions, and material support with weapons, money, and even soldiers and officers.

Despite all these huge differences in capabilities, resources and sources of support, Israel failed to achieve its goals, and continued to stagnate, finding nothing but the brutality of defenceless civilians as a means to vent its anger and sense of failure.

It is not our intention here to diminish the extent of the human and material losses caused by the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, especially in the Gaza Strip. These are enormous human losses whose horror cannot be described in words.

However, all these losses did not achieve a strategic victory for Israel, nor did they even bring about the strategic transformation it sought.

With the beginning of the decline that Netanyahu and his government leaders are facing, it seems clear that the image of strategic might that he tried to promote has evaporated, and this will have an impact on the behavior of many governments in the region that were hoping that Netanyahu would fulfill their dreams of getting rid of what they consider, unjustly, to be their enemies.

Netanyahu will have to confront his strategic failure and the personal difficulties that haunt him, in light of the exposure of the facts of the ongoing conflict, especially among the components of the Palestinian people after the illusions of compromise solutions and reliance on the United States as a mediator have disappeared, and after entire generations of Palestinians have become deeply convinced that what they are facing is not only the effects of the first Nakba, from ethnic cleansing, the longest occupation in modern history, and the worst system of racial discrimination (apartheid), but rather they are facing the same system of settler colonialism that has escalated to become fascist in every sense of the word, and how clear this was in the vote of the Knesset, with its ruling and opposition parties, to prevent the work of the International Relief Agency, in what embodied the greater truth, that Israel is trying unsuccessfully to escape from its past, its crimes, and its short history.

One day separates us from the American elections, to decide the results and know who will sit in the White House for the next four years, and who will win the elections that are witnessing a close race according to opinion polls, and the votes counted between the Democratic and Republican candidates, and until the date of announcing the official results, the speculations and expectations sometimes give the lead to Donald Trump and other times to Kamala Harris, and while these elections take a different form, whether in the size of the threat and intimidation by Trump in the event of his loss, and the waving of chaos in the American states, on the other hand, it is counted on to stop the war of extermination in Gaza and stop the war on Lebanon and restore calm to the region, as it will be strong and supported by the electoral vote, and it is at the peak of its beginning, not like this period that is flabby with the weakness of the ends and the last days.

Some believe that Trump's return may open the door again to restructuring the region according to the "Deal of the Century", which is rejected in form and substance. Others believe that Harris' victory will be a continuation of the bloodshed in the region, especially the war of extermination in Gaza. However, American policy towards the region cannot be viewed as changing, but rather as fixed in its bias towards Israel through all successive presidents in the White House. As for the rest of the other files, it may be flexible and not as fixed as it is towards Israel, and this explains the lack of reliance on the success of either candidate.

One day before the US elections, the world is watching the election results, while no one in Palestine is counting on what these elections might produce, because the abhorrent experience with all successive administrations and the constant bias in favor of Israel, made both parties and their candidates two sides of the same coin, and even their recent statements during the election campaign, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, pushed a torrent of support and endorsement for Israel, as the first began talking about the necessity of expanding the map of Israel east and west and in every direction, and the second continued Biden's lies about the necessity of finding a peaceful solution and calming the situation, while he continued to provide Israel with equipment and weapons, and provide it with cover in all international forums, and opened all weapons stores for it and sent battleships, planes, experts and soldiers, so looking at both parties in their vision and bias, there is no difference, and therefore counting on the victory of either of them is a grave mistake.

Under the pretext of waiting for the US elections, the war of extermination in Gaza continued, and the occupation government continued to jump from one front to another. It will try to take advantage of the vacuum that follows the election results, from this November until the inauguration of the new president next January, while the people of Gaza will continue to live in hunger, thirst, siege and war, and are exposed to death and killing at every moment in massacres and mass slaughters. Israel will continue to commit its crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide unless it finds a real international deterrent. Shame, shame on humanity, will remain as long as this genocide continues.

The United States warned Iran against touching the Israeli colony, and monitored and brought in ground defenses, warplanes, and aircraft carriers to protect the colony and preserve its superiority and capabilities, despite the fact that it occupies the lands of three Arab countries: Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, and bombs and deliberately kills civilians until it excelled in obtaining the description of practicing genocide and ethnic cleansing, in a blatant, clear, provocative manner, not only in a way that contradicts the laws of international legitimacy and human rights, but even in a way that contradicts American values and laws that have been bypassed and disregarded, and Washington’s will has withdrawn from them and fallen into immoral, inhumane, and illegal quagmires, with its silence and inaction on the crimes of the colony.

The colony is committing massacres and crimes against Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, and the American administration, instead of reprimanding it and deterring it from continuing to deliberately target civilians, provides it with protection, care and support for its occupation, colonization, racism and crimes, to the point that it almost becomes a partner with it, and it is, not only in confronting Iran and warning it, but in supporting and partnering in confronting Hamas and Hezbollah, assassinating their leaders and praising the flagrant crimes they committed in the assassinations and physical liquidations, accompanied by the killing of civilians during the bombing operations, which is an illegal, illegitimate and inhumane procedure, absolutely.

The United States seeks to maintain its uniqueness in managing international politics after the end of the Cold War in 1990, just as it seeks to impose Israeli hegemony over the Arab East region. For this reason, it works to end any role, any country, any party, or any side that rejects Israeli hegemony, domination, and colonialism over our Arab region.

The name Middle East and North Africa is not innocent of not acknowledging or respecting our Arab nation, our national identity, and our Islamic and Christian religions. The name is intended to eliminate the Arab national identity from the lands, areas, and extensions of the Arab world. Many people fail to realize the motives behind this misleading name, which is to erase the identity and history of the region, so that the colony becomes part of it, and even dominates it. This is what it is doing in Palestine, first of all, by rejecting its name and replacing it, erasing its history and identity, dissipating its people and their cohesion, and working to liquidate them through killing and displacement.

What the criminal murderer Netanyahu says about changing the situation in the region, its form and content is the intention, the work and the goal, and those who remain silent or keep quiet will not be innocent of collusion and paying the price, and this is what we will see later.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported today, Monday, that estimates in Israel indicate that the administration of US President Joe Biden will pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza after the US presidential elections.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, the prevailing assessment in Israel is that Biden will take real steps in an attempt to push forward towards the end of the war, including making decisions that have so far been avoided, including in international forums, or regarding harming the American arms supplies on which Israel depends.

This assessment is based, among other things, on the letter sent to Israel by the Biden administration’s defense and state secretaries, Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken, last month, in which they warned that if Israel did not significantly improve its procedures regarding the transfer of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip within 30 days, this could lead to the cessation of American support, including in the field of weapons.

The deadline set by the Israeli government in the letter expires the week following the elections, and so far there has been no significant increase in the amount of aid provided to the population of Gaza.

The administration also warned Israel in the letter against harming UNRWA's activities in the Gaza Strip, which currently plays a major role in distributing humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, but the Knesset approved two laws last week that could make its work in Gaza more difficult.

Senior Israeli officials estimate that the legislation will force the Biden administration to declare that Israel is making it more difficult to deliver aid to civilians in Gaza, and that this policy will require the administration to take practical steps in response.

Three Western diplomats who spoke to Haaretz said the amount of aid provided was insufficient.

One of them pointed out that "the Americans demanded that Israel bring in more than 400 trucks a day, and Israel is not even close to meeting that number."

According to him, the Israeli explanations are not convincing, and there is growing suspicion that Israel is trying to carry out a mass deportation of the Palestinian population from the northern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation forces launched a wide-scale campaign of arrests and raids in the West Bank at dawn and on Monday morning.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested 5 citizens from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

Sakher Ayed Qawqas Akhlil (45 years old), Muhammad Wahid Hamdi Abu Maria (23 years old), Baha Bassam Hamad Al-Alami (22 years old), and the child Muhammad Bassem Muhammad Saeed Attia (14 years old) were arrested after raiding their homes, searching them, and tampering with their contents.

The occupation forces also raided several homes in the town and ransacked their contents. The occupation soldiers deliberately threw sound bombs into the home of prisoner Wahid Hamdi Abu Maria, and assaulted a number of citizens in the town and seized four vehicles.

The occupation forces also arrested the young man Ashraf Asfour from Hadab Al-Fawar, south of Hebron.

The occupation forces also set up several military checkpoints at the entrances to Hebron, its towns, villages and camps, and closed a number of main and secondary roads with iron gates, cement blocks and earthen barriers.

The occupation forces arrested two young men from Qalqilya Governorate, Ahmed Salmi and Mashhour Yamin, after raiding and searching their homes.

Meanwhile, the young man, Ahmed Shabita, was arrested after storming a residential building in the Al-Makhfiya neighborhood in Nablus.

The Balfour Declaration, in which most of the colonial Western countries participated 107 years ago, in writing and translation, support, protection and nourishment, is still the same with its intentions and directions, in support, protection and nourishment. Therefore, Balfour was nothing but the spearhead of the colonial West in transforming the theological into the colonial, and in transforming the colonial into a political entity that now has teeth and claws, and with it and through it it threatens or embarrasses Britain itself. What I want to say here, 107 years after this ugly and criminal promise that covered up the theft, killing, displacement and dismantling of the Palestinian people group until now, and deprived them of establishing their state and society on their land, is the clearest and most explicit image of the meaning of colonialism, racism and the corrupt and sick ideology that does not see the division of peoples and the theft of their lands and wealth as a hateful or unacceptable act. This criminal promise is nothing but a moral, political and civilizational exposure of the entire colonial West that does us a favor and always boasts about morality, democracy and the rest of those lies. The Balfour Declaration is actual proof of moral, human and civilized immorality, and it has not yet been corrected or apologized for. On the contrary, the British Prime Minister boasted several years ago that Britain established Israel, in a brazen challenge to everything that is humane, Arab and Islamic.

The important thing is that after 107 years have passed since this criminal promise, the Palestinian people have found themselves facing an unparalleled predicament. They have faced what was not expected or have fallen into the most dangerous thing that a group can fall into, which is occupation, denial, erasure, transgression, dismantling, killing, displacement, homelessness, and prevention of the means of a decent life. This promise meant that the Palestinian would carry his stick and travel under every planet that suffers from neglect, siege, impoverishment, killing, exile and apprehension. He had to keep the ember of longing in his heart and dig in the rock in order to return to his paradise from which he was expelled. Over these long decades, the world and people have changed, goals and challenges have changed, priorities and leaderships have changed. Therefore, in every era, the Palestinian had to provide definitions for parts of his heart and intimate organs. He had to choose between the homeland as he dreams of it and the homeland that politics allows, between his state and his revolution, between his absolute and his relative, between his people and his audience. In every era, the Palestinian had to redefine his definitions, as if he were redefining or confirming his sonship to his mother and his land. During these decades, the Palestinian had to provide - forced - another definition for everything he loves due to balances, settlements, pressures or global changes. What is the Palestinian homeland now, between that which is in his heart and that which is on the political map, and what is the definition of his people, that which he sings to morning and evening, and that people distributed in the spaces and squares?

The Palestinian - throughout this long and bitter period - has not yet been able to regain his rights or build his state. On the contrary, he is now forced to humble himself, make concessions and accept humiliating settlements under the pressure of fire, threats and sieges, as the colonial countries that signed the Balfour Declaration have become more wicked and impudent. Therefore, although the Balfour Declaration established an entity for the Zionists, it certainly did not guarantee them security, stability or perhaps survival. The Balfour Declaration certainly offended the Palestinian people, but it also harmed the Jewish communities that were safe and secure in their country, and caused the greatest harm to the security and stability of the Arab and Islamic region, and it certainly threatens world peace. This is what Balfour and his promise and everyone who helped him did, and then they come crying over world peace... It is not only a lie but an abomination!!

Several Palestinians were killed and injured during the hours of last night and Monday morning, as a result of a series of continuous Israeli raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Civil Defense, a group of martyrs were recovered after the bombing of the Batsh family home near Dar Al-Arqam School, east of Gaza City.

This morning, Israeli aircraft bombed unknown targets in Jabalia camp and Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip, amid artillery shelling of the two areas.

Two citizens were killed in a bombing in the vicinity of Street 8, east of Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

Some areas were subjected to aerial and artillery bombardment.

The following are axioms:

• The war in Gaza will not end until all of the Israeli and foreign hostages are freed from Gaza.
• The war will not end as long as Hamas continues to rule Gaza.
• Hamas may be willing to give up civil governmental control over Gaza to a professional, non-partisan, technocratic government, but it will not voluntarily give up its weapons.
• The war will not end without a significant release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons.
• Hamas wants the war to end and for all Israeli forces to withdrawal from Gaza.
• Hamas will not end the war until all Israeli forces leave Gaza.
• The Sunni Arab states around Israel want a unified Palestinian government which is not Hamas to rule the West Bank and Gaza, but not the current Palestinian Authority leadership.
• Prime Minister Netanyahu does not want to end the war.

I am in regular contact with the people responsible for negotiations in Israel, Egypt, Qatar, the United States and Hamas. I have 18 years of experience negotiating with Hamas. I believe that I am the Israeli citizen with the most hours of discussions with Hamas leaders, except perhaps Israeli prison guards and prison authorities and their discussions with Hamas people are entirely different than mine. From what I have been told by several Hamas leaders over the past two months I believe that Hamas’s primary goal now is to end the war in Gaza and for Israel to withdraw all of its troops from the Strip. Hamas will not make any agreement with Israel to release hostages held in Gaza without the end of the war and the Israeli withdrawal.  Hamas will also demand a significant release of Palestinian prisoners from Israel, especially those serving life sentences for killing Israelis. Hamas is will to have their control over Gaza transferred to a professional, technocratic Palestinian government which is not composed of members of the various political factions, including Hamas and Fatah.  Although Hamas has stated that they are willing to turn over all aspects of government to the new non-Hamas government, including security and control of border passages, several Arab intelligence agencies have stated that they do not believe that Hamas will surrender their weapons to the new government.

Assuming that Hamas is willing for a new Palestinian government to be established, most of the Arab states involved, along with the United States would like to see a reunification of Palestinian government, with one authority governing both the West Bank and Gaza. All parties concerned do not see the viability of the current Palestinian Authority, including its latest Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa as having the legitimacy in the eyes of the Palestinian street, in the West Bank and Gaza in order to actually govern Gaza post-Hamas. Most of the parties involved would like to see President Mahmoud Abbas appointing a new Prime Minister with much greater independence than Mr. Mustafa has and that the new Prime Minister be granted by Abbas the real powers to govern. Mr. Abbas would remain President, but he would be more ceremonial than what he is today which is in charge of executive, legislative, judicial powers as well as controlling the money and the security.  The newly appointed Prime Minister should be granted the powers to independently appoint a governing council for Gaza (at least) with real executive powers and the ability to invite an Arab-led international peace keeping force to Gaza. If President Abbas refuses to give up power and to appoint a truly independent Prime Minister, then the Arab states, the US and the EU should pressure Abbas to at least appoint a head for a Gaza governing council that would be independent to establish the non-partisan technocrat professional governing council. According to the leaders and people involved in negotiations, Prime Minister Netanyahu has no plan for post Hamas Gaza and has voiced opposition to every plan put forward by the Arab mediators and by the United States.

Hamas has agreed that in a deal to end the war and for Israel to withdraw all of its forces from Gaza, it is willing to release all of the hostages held in Gaza.  Hamas has said that they require 3-5 days of cull ceasefire including no Israeli fly-overs to locate all of the hostages and to know what is their condition. Hamas claims that they do now have that information now, and I believe them.  They don’t have freedom and ability to move around Gaza and their chain of command is quite broken and destroyed. There are hostages that might be held by non-Hamas groups, such as Islamic Jihad or the Popular Front. There might be hostages being held by non-affiliated civilians. There are also likely to be hostages who are buried underneath the rubble of buildings bombed by Israel along with thousands of Gazans who status is “missing”.  It may be that all 101 hostages held in Gaza cannot be returned. When a deal is made, the first test of Hamas’s ability to implement the deal will have to be to produce a list of all of the hostages and their status and that list needs to be given to the Qatari and Egyptian mediators.   It will be difficult for Hamas to lie to the mediators and therefore, the list that they produce will be as accurate as possible.

Israel has legitimate security concerns regarding leaving Gaza. Even if a new Palestinian non-Hamas government is established, as I have heard in Egypt and in Qatar, Hamas will not turn over their weapons to the new government. Turning Gaza into a non-militarized zone is a process that will take time.

First, Israel (and Egypt) must agree that any Hamas civilian or military personnel that want to leave Gaza to a third country that would accept them, should be granted safe passage out of Gaza – most likely through Egypt.

The Hamas or Islamic military people that would choose to leave, would do so, of course without their weapons. The new government in Gaza will form a professional security force. Hamas police and other security or military personnel remaining in Gaza should be encouraged to join the new security force with the enticement of receiving double the salary that they were receiving before.  The new Palestinian non-Hamas government would have to be committed to a non-aggression policy towards Israel, otherwise it will not be supported by the Arab countries (Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and maybe others) and will receive no funding from these countries or from the USA or the EU or other donor nations. Even if the majority of remaining Hamas military people join the new governing security force, or leave Gaza, there will remain more radical armed militants willing to continue their attacks against Israel.  This will be a challenge for Israel, for the Palestinian government in Gaza and for the Arab-led international peace keeping force, but it is not a reason for Israel to not withdraw from Gaza. In fact, the longer Israeli forces remain in Gaza, the longer the war will continue, more Israeli soldiers will be killed and armed insurgency will be supported by the general Palestinian public in Gaza, of whom today a large majority simply want the war to end. Israel will not be facing the Russian army and the forces that remain in Gaza have little access to more weapons, no ability to produce new weapons and severely damaged military command and control capabilities.  Israel forces need to be deployed on the Israeli-Gaza border so that there is a zero chance of another attack such as October 7. Egypt needs to continue to guarantee that the Egypt-Gaza border will be sealed and that the legal crossing point at Rafah will be controlled against smuggling by Egypt from the Egyptian side on the Gaza side, it is advisable that international observers be stationed there, perhaps from the Arab-led international peacekeeping force.

The economic blockade on Gaza must come to an end and Gazans must be reintegrated into the world with the right for movement and access, just like any other people in the world.   The continuation of the economic blockade on Gaza cannot be justified in anyway. Obviously, security systems need to be put in place to ensure the safe passage of people and goods in and out of Gaza.

Israel will have to release Palestinian prisoners in order for Hamas to agree to release hostages in Gaza. This is the price to be paid to retrieve the hostages. Before October 7, 2023 there were 559 Palestinian prisoners serving life-sentences for killing Israelis. Some of them are serving multiple life-sentences for killing many Israelis. Some of these prisoners are considered the symbols of Palestinian terrorism by Israel and these will be the most difficult for Israel to release. As such, they will be the prisoners that Hamas is most anxious to release. Israel will probably not have a choice and Hamas will not agree to an Israeli veto on the names of Palestinian prisoners. One solution might be for the most dangerous (as considered by Israel) of the prisoners to be granted safe passage to a third country (perhaps Algeria, Turkey, Iran, maybe some others). They would not be allowed to return to Palestine according to the agreement.   This was done partially in the Schalit deal of 2011. My advice to the Israeli side would be to allow all other West Bank prisoners to return to their homes in the West Bank. All prisoners released have historically been required to sign an undertaking that they will not return to acts of violence against Israel.  The main reason for this document to be used is that it provides the legal pretext for re-arresting those who violate the terms of their release, as was done in 2014 when 68 prisoners released in 2011 were re-arrested by Israel. By allowing them to remain in the West Bank there is greater ability for Israel to monitor them and to re-arrest them if need be.

The end of the war in Gaza needs to be the beginning of a genuine new regional based peace process to enable the Palestinian people to establish their own independent state next to Israel in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967. I won’t go into the contours of what that peace should be.  I will only state that this war in Gaza must be the last Israeli-Palestinian war, but if the occupation over the Palestinian people continues, it will not be the last Israeli-Palestinian war.

Almost everything that I have written above is opposed to by Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu. I have heard from very senior sources in Qatar, Egypt, the EU and the United States that the primary obstacle to ending the war today is Prime Minister Netanyahu.   In all honesty, the United States is also opposed to ending the war as long as Hamas continue to control Gaza. But there is a way out. What I have heard from Qatar, Egypt and the USA is that with Netanyahu’s refusal to agree to any possible day-after scenario for Gaza, the mediators are stuck and don’t know how to move forward. To me this is shocking. The formulation of a non-Hamas professional technocratic government for Gaza is a Palestinian issue over which Israel should not be granted a veto. Israel should not be asked or consulted on this matter.  Both Egypt and Qatar have the ability to work with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and other independent Palestinian personalities in order to come up with a solution that enables the legitimate creation of a Palestinian government that can take Gaza forward into reconstruction. This is not a matter on which Israel should even have the right to decide. As long as Egypt and Qatar are satisfied that the new government in Gaza will not be Hamas and will not provoke new attacks against Israel, they should support it and enable the international community to begin to assist in the reconstruction of Gaza.

The President of the United States Biden has said that the war must end. US officials have said that President Biden wants the war to end by the end of his term in office on January 20, 2025.  There are 75 days between Election Day and the day that the new President is sworn into office. That is sufficient time for the US to use its enormous leverage on Israel to even force Netanyahu to accept a deal – assuming that Hamas does not continue to control Gaza after the war ends. If Hamas is willing to release all of the hostages and to give up control over Gaza, then Biden needs to use the full weight of the Office of the President to even force the deal on Netanyahu. There are so many points of US leverage over Israel, I am not even referring to the doomsday leverage of withholding military support and weapons. There is leverage behind closed doors which can be very effective, but there is also the kind of leverage which is used openly and announced publicly and that has proven, in the past to be even more effective on changing Israeli public opinion.

Lastly, the Israeli public is very divided on the issue of ending the war. The division derives from the belief that Hamas will never release all of the hostages and that Hamas will never give up control over Gaza. This is clearly part of the narrative of the Israeli government and it has penetrated deeply into Israeli public opinion. But if it is turns out that Hamas is ready to release all of the hostages and that Hamas is prepared to give up control over Gaza, the overwhelming majority of Israelis would support the deal to end the war and to withdraw from Gaza.  This is what must happen now to bring this war to an end, to return the hostages to Israel, to free Palestinian prisoners and to enable the millions in Gaza to begin the process of reconstruction.

Settlers burned a number of citizens' vehicles at dawn on Monday after attacking the city of Al-Bireh and the town of Deir Dibwan to the east.

Local sources reported that a number of settlers attacked the industrial area in the city of Al-Bireh, and burned a number of vehicles there before withdrawing, while fire engines rushed to extinguish the fire that broke out in 20 vehicles.

They added that settlers fired into the air and towards civil defence vehicles when they arrived in the area to put out the fire, before fleeing.

Settlers also burned a building in the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, and wrote racist slogans on a retaining wall.

Israel has officially notified the United Nations of the cancellation of the agreement regulating the operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a letter notifying the United Nations of the decision on Sunday that Israel "withdraws its request to UNRWA, as stated in the (Exchange of Notes between Israel and UNRWA Constituting an Agreement on the Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) of June 14, 1967," "based on legislation passed by the Israeli Knesset on October 28."

The letter, which was published by an Axios correspondent on his X account, added that the decision “will enter into force after a period of three months,” and during this period, and after it, “Israel will continue to work with international partners, including other UN agencies, to ensure the facilitation of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza in a manner that does not undermine Israel’s security.”

The Israeli army announced, on Sunday evening, that it had kidnapped a Syrian citizen from within his country, claiming that he was working for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

This comes two days after the Israeli army kidnapped a Lebanese man from within his country, claiming that he was a military official in Hezbollah.

The Israeli army said in a statement: "In a night operation across the border with Syria, Egoz unit forces, under the command of the 210th Division, arrested an element of an Iranian network in Syrian territory."

He explained that the detainee is a Syrian named "Ali Suleiman Al-Asi", who resides in the city of Saida (affiliated with Daraa Governorate) in southern Syria.

He claimed that he "was working to collect information about (Israeli) forces in the border area (with Syria) for the Revolutionary Guards."

The Israeli army said it was investigating him, and did not specify the date of his kidnapping, but said he carried it out during the "recent months."

This is the first operation of its kind in Syrian territory announced by the Israeli army.

There was no comment from Damascus or Tehran on this matter until 17:30 GMT.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that 4 people were arrested in the security leaks case, including an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Media reported that the main detainee in the leaks case is Eli Feldstein, who worked as a spokesman in Netanyahu's office.

This evening, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces targeted Kamal Adwan, Al-Awda, and Indonesian hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital reported that the occupation forces targeted its facilities with direct artillery shelling, as they bombed the dormitory, the nursery, the hospital yard and the water tanks, noting that a child was seriously injured.

The occupation artillery also shelled the vicinity of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia camp, while an Israeli drone opened fire at the gate and walls of the Indonesian Hospital in the town of Beit Lahia.

The occupation forces continue their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which resulted in the death of 43,341 citizens, and the injury of 102,105 others, the majority of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble, amid the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the besieged Strip.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa called on the European Parliament on Sunday to confront Israel's decision to ban the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Mustafa met a delegation from the European Parliament at his office in the city of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, according to a statement issued by his office.

Mustafa called on the European delegation to "confront Israel's decision to ban UNRWA, which aims politically to eliminate the right of Palestinian refugees to return, and contributes to the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories."

A child from the town of Halhul, north of Hebron, was killed this evening, Sunday, after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces.

Security sources said that the occupation forces opened fire at the child Naji Nidal Al-Baba (16 years old), while he was in the Al-Ramuz area near the northern entrance to the town of Halhul.

The Red Crescent Society reported that its crews in the city of Hebron received the victim Al-Baba.

The occupation forces have strengthened their military measures in the area.

A win of just a few percentage points in the popular vote could translate into an Electoral College win for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, a significant shift from the last two cycles in which Democrats have been losing ground, according to polls and analysis released Saturday night, two days before voting begins on Tuesday, Nov. 5.

The reason, according to experts, is the shifts in voters that may allow Republicans to outperform Democrats when it comes to the popular vote, but that may not translate into more electoral votes for former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

“You can win some states that you win by a large margin, but it doesn’t help you anymore,” Jason Roberts, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina, told The Hill, a website that specializes in races and domestic politics. “Winning a state 80-20 doesn’t help any more than winning a state 55-45.”

Democrats have often been the victims of this equation. Since 2000, Democrats have won the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, but they have won the Electoral College in only three of those elections.

In 2016, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million votes but fell short of victory. She outscored Trump when it came to the popular vote in states like California and New York, but that was little consolation when she won by just 232 electoral votes.

To win the "Electoral College" and the presidency, a candidate must secure at least 270 electoral votes (from the Electoral College) out of 535 votes, which is equal to the number of members of the House of Representatives (Congress, 435), and 100 members of the Senate.

24 years ago, (2000 election), then-Vice President (Bill Clinton), Al Gore lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush, even though Gore won the popular vote.

In 2020, President Biden won both, but his advantage in the popular vote and the Electoral College obscured how close the election was. Biden won the popular vote by 7 million and received 306 electoral votes (to Trump’s 229) from the Electoral College, but he only won key states that gave him an advantage of a few tens of thousands of votes at most.

According to Zachary Donini, an expert at the polling firm Decision Desk (DDHQ), the circumstances of the 2020 race allowed Trump to have a chance of winning the Electoral College even if he lost the popular vote by as much as 3.5 points, but Biden won the popular vote by about 4.5 points.

According to experts, this year’s presidential election cycle looks a little different. “If Harris wins the popular vote by 3.5 points, she has an 80 percent or higher chance of winning the presidency,” he told the same site. That’s because polls show her doing better in the so-called “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin than nationally.

As a result, Harris's margin in the popular vote is unlikely to be as large as those of previous Democratic candidates.

“There’s a lot of random variation here based on this, but the DDHQ model, in our forecast now, pegs this number at between 1.5 and 2.5 percent compared to the 3.7 percent it was in 2020,” Donini said. “So we think it’s going to narrow, but we can’t be absolutely sure.”

Polls indicating demographic shifts in support for each candidate may explain some of the shift.

Harris has not performed as well as Biden with minority voters but has shown some improvement with white voters, Chris Jackson, senior vice president of public affairs at polling firm Ipsos, told The Hill.

This could mean she loses ground in traditional Democratic strongholds, such as California and New York, while still winning them comfortably, but gains ground in the key states needed for her to reach 270 electoral votes.

“Because swing states, especially swing states in the Midwest, have larger numbers of white voters than the country as a whole, this stronger performance with white voters means she has a little bit more room in those states to make up for any potential losses with minority voters,” Jackson said.

He noted that Clinton came within a “throw of a stick” of winning the Electoral College in 2016, losing by a fraction of a percentage point in key states. A two-point popular vote win for Harris, like Clinton, could give her the White House this year. But a one-point win may not be enough.

"I think anything less than two points, that's a real warning sign and very concerning" for Harris, Jackson said.

The possibility remains, though unlikely, that the opposite effect will occur with Trump winning the popular vote and losing the Electoral College.

John Cluverius, associate director of the Center for Public Opinion at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, said he could see either scenario playing out, with Trump narrowly winning the popular vote and Harris narrowly winning the electoral vote if the former president can narrow the traditional Democratic lead in California and New York enough. A margin of just a few percentage points in the popular vote could translate into an Electoral College win for Vice President Harris, a significant turnaround from the last two cycles when Democrats faced a significant disadvantage in the count.

The reason is shifts in voters that may allow Republicans to edge out Democrats when it comes to the popular vote, but that may not translate into more electoral votes for former President Trump and the GOP.

“Because of Republican gains in states like California, New York, and Florida, it may help in the popular vote, and it may even help in the House of Representatives, but it’s not effective from an electoral college standpoint,” Donini, a data scientist at Decision Desk Headquarters (DDHQ), points out.

The “traditional” situation of Harris winning the popular vote but not the electoral vote seems more likely, Cluverius said, but some may underestimate how much some key blue-state areas are talking about issues like immigration, where Republican voters broadly favor Republicans.

“I think people are going in with a lot of assumptions about voters that are based on that historical data,” he said. “Now that’s not a bad thing, but it also means that people are going to assume that what’s going to happen is traditional Democratic strength in the popular vote and traditional Republican strength in the electoral vote.” The amount of split voting can be crucial in determining margins, Cluverius added. Polls have regularly shown Democratic Senate candidates performing relatively strongly relative to the top of the ticket, though split voting in recent history has not happened in large numbers.

"Because there is so much uncertainty in the race, and because the race is so close, we have to have a broad mindset about what could happen," he said.

Jackson noted that more people ultimately support Harris and Trump than will vote for them in the election, meaning the side that can best mobilize its supporters may emerge victorious. Polls can sometimes struggle to measure this adequately, he said, since they can gauge someone’s likelihood of voting but can’t guarantee their behavior.

"We all have to be prepared for a very close race to something that looks like an explosion, which in the context of the poll is still only a few percentage points," he said.

The Associated Press reported on Sunday that "Israel has provided little evidence that Hamas fighters were present in the hospitals targeted in the Gaza Strip in many cases."

This came in an investigation conducted by the American agency over the course of months, during which it collected testimonies about the Israeli raids that targeted Al-Awda, Al-Indonesian, and Kamal Adwan hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including interviews with more than 30 patients, witnesses, and workers in the medical and humanitarian fields, in addition to Israeli officials.

The investigation concluded that "Israel provided little evidence of the presence of Hamas fighters in those cases."

The Associated Press reported that the Israeli military spokesman's office declined to comment on a list of incidents related to Israeli attacks on hospitals in the Gaza Strip.

The agency quoted the office as saying that it "cannot comment on specific events."

Since the beginning of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Israeli army has deliberately targeted Gaza’s hospitals and health system, putting them out of service, endangering the lives of patients and the wounded, according to Palestinian and international data.

The agency says: "These hospitals were built to be places of healing. But once again, Israeli forces surrounded three hospitals in northern Gaza and came under fire.

Heavy bombardment is underway around it as Israel claims to be launching a new offensive against Hamas fighters it says have regrouped nearby. As staff rush to treat waves of wounded, they remain haunted by a war that has seen hospitals targeted with an intensity and publicity rarely seen in modern warfare.

The three hospitals were besieged and attacked by Israeli forces about ten months ago. Kamal Adwan, Al Awda and Indonesian hospitals have not yet recovered from the damage, yet they are the only partially functioning hospitals in the area.

Medical facilities often come under fire in war, but combatants often portray such incidents as accidental or exceptional, since hospitals have special protections under international law. In its year-long campaign in Gaza, Israel has been notable for carrying out an open-ended assault on hospitals, besieging and raiding at least 10 across the Gaza Strip, some multiple times, and hitting many others in airstrikes.

Israel claims this is a military necessity in its goal of destroying Hamas after the October 7 attacks. It also claims that Hamas uses hospitals as "command and control bases" to plan attacks, house fighters and hide hostages. It claims this negates the protection of hospitals.

“If we intend to destroy the military infrastructure in the north, we have to destroy the philosophy of (using) hospitals,” Israeli military spokesman Adm. Daniel Hagari said of Hamas in an interview with The Associated Press in January after the first round of hospital strikes.

Israel has twice raided Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in the Strip, and produced video animations depicting it as a major Hamas base, although the evidence it presented remains disputed.

But the focus on Shifa has overshadowed strikes on other facilities. The Associated Press spent months gathering accounts of the strikes on the al-Awda, Indonesian and Kamal Adwan hospitals, interviewing more than three dozen patients, witnesses, medical and humanitarian workers, as well as Israeli officials.

It found that Israel had provided little evidence of a significant Hamas presence in those cases. The Associated Press provided a file listing the incidents reported by those interviewed to the Israeli military spokesman’s office. The office said it could not comment on specific incidents.

Al Awda Hospital: “Death Sentence”

The Israeli military has never claimed that Hamas was present at Al-Awda Hospital. Asked about the intelligence that led troops to surround and raid the hospital last year, the military spokesman’s office did not respond.

In recent weeks, the hospital has been paralyzed again, with Israeli forces fighting in the nearby Jabalia refugee camp and no food, water or medical supplies entering northern Gaza. Hospital director Mohammed Salha said last month that the facility was surrounded by troops and had been unable to evacuate six critically ill patients. Staff were forced to eat just one meal a day, usually just flat bread or a spoonful of rice, he said.

As the war's wounded poured in, exhausted surgeons struggled to treat them. There were no vascular or neurosurgeons left north of Gaza City, so doctors often resorted to amputating limbs shattered by shrapnel to save lives.

“We are reliving the nightmares of November and December last year, but worse,” said Dr. Mohammed Salha, the hospital’s director. “We have fewer supplies, fewer doctors, and less hope that anything will be done to stop this.”

The Israeli military, which did not respond to a specific request for comment on Al-Awda Hospital, says it takes every possible precaution to prevent civilian casualties.

Last year, fighting was raging around Al-Awda Hospital when a shell exploded in the facility's operating room on November 21. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujila, two other doctors and a patient's uncle died almost instantly, according to the international charity Doctors Without Borders, which said it had provided the Israeli military with its coordinates.

Dr. Mohammed Obaid, a colleague of Abu Nujaila's, recalled trying to avoid shelling inside the hospital compound. Hospital officials said Israeli sniper fire killed a nurse and two cleaners and wounded one.

By December 5, Al-Awda Hospital was under siege. Coming back and forth became a “death sentence” for 18 days, Obaid said.

Survivors and hospital managers recounted at least four occasions when Israeli drones or snipers killed or seriously wounded Palestinians as they tried to enter. Staff said two women about to give birth were shot and bled to death on the street. Salha, the manager, watched as his cousin, Soma, and her 6-year-old son were shot and killed as she carried the boy to be treated for his wounds.

The agency quotes Shatha al-Shuraim as saying that labor pains left her with no choice but to walk an hour to al-Awda Hospital to give birth. She, her mother-in-law and her 16-year-old brother-in-law held up flags made of white blouses. Her mother-in-law, Khatam Shariir, kept shouting: “Civilians!” Right at the gate, a volley of bullets returned, killing one of the group.

On December 23, troops stormed the hospital, ordering the men, aged between 15 and 65, to strip and submit to interrogation in the courtyard. Mazen Khalidi, whose injured right leg had been amputated, said nurses begged the soldiers to let him rest rather than join the blindfolded and shackled men outside. They refused, and he stumbled downstairs, the stump of his leg bleeding.

“Humiliation scared me more than death,” Khalidi said.

Israeli forces arrested the hospital director, Ahmed Mahna; his whereabouts remain unknown. One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors, orthopedic surgeon Adnan al-Barsh, was also arrested during the raid and died in Israeli custody in May.

In the wreckage of the November bombing, staff found a message Abu Nujila had written on the whiteboard in the previous weeks.

“Whoever survives to the end will tell the story,” the message read in English. “We did our best. Remember us.”

Indonesian Hospital: 'Patients are dying before your eyes'

On Oct. 18, several blocks away, artillery hit the upper floors of the Indonesian Hospital, staff said. People fled in fear for their lives. Israeli forces had effectively surrounded them, leaving doctors and patients inside without enough food, water and supplies.

“The shelling around us has increased,” said Eddy Wahyudi, an Indonesian volunteer. “It has paralyzed us.”

Muhannad Hadi, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Palestinian Territories, said two patients died due to power outages and lack of supplies.

Tamer al-Kurd, a nurse at the hospital, said only about 44 patients and two doctors remained. He said he was so dehydrated he began hallucinating. “People come to me to save them,” he said in a weak voice message. “I can’t do it by myself, with two doctors. I’m tired.”

The Israeli military said on Saturday it had facilitated the evacuation of 29 patients from the Indonesian hospital and back.

The Indonesian Hospital is the largest hospital in northern Gaza. Today, its upper floors are burned, its walls are riddled with shrapnel, and its gates are strewn with piles of rubble—all a legacy of Israel’s blockade in the fall of 2023.

Rather, the attack, the Israeli military claimed, was an underground command and control center located beneath the hospital. It released blurry satellite images of what it said was a tunnel entrance in the courtyard and a nearby rocket launch pad, outside the hospital complex.

The Indonesia-based group that funds the hospital has denied any Hamas presence. “If there was a tunnel, we would know,” Arif Rahman, the hospital director for the Indonesia-based Emergency Medical Rescue Committee, told The Associated Press last month. “We know this building because we built it brick by brick, layer by layer. It’s ridiculous.”

After surrounding and raiding the hospital, the military did not mention or show evidence of the facility or the underground tunnels it had previously claimed. When asked if any tunnels had been found, the military spokesman’s office did not respond.

It released photos of two vehicles found at the compound - a pickup truck with military vests and a blood-stained car belonging to a kidnapped Israeli, suggesting he had been taken to hospital on October 7, 2023. Hamas said it had taken the wounded hostages to hospitals for treatment.

During the siege, Israeli shelling moved closer and closer, hitting the second floor of the Indonesian Hospital on November 20, killing 12 people and wounding dozens, according to staff. Israel said its forces responded to “enemy fire” from the hospital but denied using shells.

Over the next few days, fires ripped through the walls and quickly spread through the intensive care unit. Explosions set fires outside the hospital grounds, where about 1,000 displaced Palestinians had taken refuge, according to staff. The Israeli military denied targeting the hospital, though it acknowledged that nearby shelling may have damaged it.

For three weeks, the wounded streamed in—up to 500 a day into a facility that could hold 200. Supplies had not entered for weeks. Blood-stained sheets piled up. Doctors, some working 24-hour shifts, ate just a few dates a day. The discovery of moldy flour on November 23 was particularly dramatic.

Without medicine or ventilators, doctors could do little. Wounds became infected. Doctors said they had performed dozens of amputations on injured limbs. Medics estimated that a fifth of the patients arriving had died. At least 60 bodies lay in the courtyard. Others were buried under a nearby playground.

“Seeing patients dying in front of your eyes because you don’t have the ability to help them means you have to ask yourself: Where is the humanity?” asked Durgham Abu Ibrahim, one of the volunteers.

Kamal Adwan: "This makes no sense"

Kamal Adwan Hospital, once the hub of the health system in northern Gaza, was on fire on Thursday of last week.

The World Health Organization, which delivered the equipment a few days ago, said Israeli shells hit the third floor, sparking a fire that destroyed medical supplies. The hospital director, Hussam Abu Safia, said the artillery hit water tanks and damaged a dialysis unit, seriously injuring four medics who tried to put out the fire.

In videos of him pleading for help over the past weeks, Abu Safia had tried to maintain his composure as Israeli forces surrounded the hospital. But last weekend, tears filled his eyes.

“They burned everything we built,” he said, his voice breaking. “They burned our hearts. They killed my son.”

On October 25, 2024, Israeli forces stormed the hospital after what an Israeli military official described as heavy fighting with militants nearby. The official said Israeli fire targeted the hospital's oxygen tanks during the battle because "they could be booby-traps."

Israeli forces withdrew after three days, during which Palestinian health officials said nearly all of Kamal Adwan Hospital's medical staff were detained, an Israeli drone killed at least one doctor and two children died in intensive care when generators stopped working.

Days later, a drone struck Abu Safia’s son in nearby Jabaliya. The 21-year-old had been shot by Israeli snipers during the first military strike on Kamal Adwan last December. Now buried in the hospital courtyard, Abu Safia and another doctor were the only ones left to treat the dozens of wounded who poured in every day from new strikes on Jabaliya.

The Israeli military said troops arrested 100 people, some of whom were “posing as medical personnel.” The military said soldiers stripped the men to check for weapons, before sending those deemed armed to detention camps. The military said the hospital was “operating at full capacity, with all departments continuing to treat patients.” It released footage of several rifles and an RPG launcher with several rounds of ammunition it said it found inside the hospital.

Kamal Adwan Hospital staff say more than 30 medical workers are still being held, including the head nurse, who works for MedGlobal, a US organization that sends medical teams to disaster zones, and Dr. Mohammed Obaid, a surgeon with Doctors Without Borders who previously worked at Al-Awda Hospital and has moved to Kamal Adwan Hospital.

The unrest was echoed by Israel’s nine-day siege of Kamal Adwan last December. On Dec. 12, soldiers entered and allowed police dogs to attack staff, patients and others, according to multiple witnesses. Ahmed Atabil, 36, who had taken refuge in the hospital, said he saw a dog bite a man’s finger.

Witnesses said soldiers ordered boys and men, ranging in age from their mid-teens to their 60s, to stand in rows outside the hospital, squatting in the cold, blindfolded and nearly naked, for hours of interrogation. “Every time one of them raised his head, he was beaten,” said Mohamed al-Masry, a lawyer who was arrested.

The Israeli military later released footage of the men walking out of the hospital. Al-Masri identified himself in the footage. He said the soldiers staged the photos, ordering the men to drop the hospital guards’ guns as if they were surrendering militants. Israel said all the photos released were authentic and that it had captured dozens of suspected militants.

Three detainees said that when soldiers released some of the men after interrogation, they opened fire on them as they tried to re-enter the hospital, wounding five of them. Ahmed Abu Hajjaj recalled hearing bursts of gunfire as he made his way back in the dark. “I thought, this doesn’t make sense – who are they going to shoot?” he said.

Eyewitnesses said a bulldozer entered the hospital compound, destroying buildings. Abu Safia, Abu Hajjaj and Al-Masri described being held by soldiers inside the hospital while they heard people screaming outside.

After the soldiers withdrew, the men saw that the bulldozer had crushed tents that had previously housed about 2,500 people. Most of the displaced had been evacuated, but Abu Safia said he found the bodies of four people crushed, with shrapnel from their recent hospital treatment still on their limbs.

Three Lebanese citizens were killed today, Sunday, in an occupation raid on the Saida neighborhood in southern Lebanon, and two others were martyred in a raid on the town of Jabal al-Batm in Tyre district.

The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health stated in a statement that "the Israeli enemy's raid on the Saida neighborhood led, in an initial toll, to the martyrdom of three people and the injury of nine others."

The National News Agency also reported that two people were killed in an airstrike targeting the town of Jabal al-Batm in southern Lebanon.

This afternoon, the Israeli warplanes launched 3 airstrikes, targeting the town of Harid, the town of Ghandouriya, and the vicinity of the government hospital in the town of Tebnin, south Lebanon, according to the same source.

The spokesman for the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Basal, confirmed today, Sunday, that "the Israeli occupation, around the clock, has not stopped bombing inhabited citizens' homes, especially in the northern areas of the Strip."

He added, "The bombing caused the destruction of a large number of buildings and infrastructure, and service providers were not spared from this bombing."

"Israeli artillery and drones pose a major threat to citizens, creating a state of constant fear and panic," Basal said.

He added: "All the appeals we made to international organizations and humanitarian institutions were of no use in changing the reality," noting that the civil defense system in the northern Gaza Strip had stopped working and was not allowed to intervene in rescue operations.

Basal stressed that the occupation prevented the entry of civil defense vehicles and equipment for more than 400 days, which shows "the occupation's intention to keep civil defense in a state of paralysis and inability to respond to events," stressing the necessity of providing "humanitarian services to our people in light of the war on the Strip" and for civil defense crews to continue performing their work without any obstacles.

"We have more than 100,000 people in northern Gaza who lack food, water and medicine, and we are unable to provide them with any assistance," Basal continued. He concluded by appealing to "the free people of the world to pressure the international community to enable service providers to perform their humanitarian duty in accordance with humanitarian laws."

The Abu Al-Hawa family was able to reclaim their home and land in the town of At-Tur in occupied Jerusalem, after settlers seized them.

According to local sources, settlers seized the house and the land on September 16, and forced the family of citizen Ahmed Abu Al-Hawa to leave the house under the protection of the occupation forces, and closed it with locks and barbed wire.

She added: "The person in charge of the property, Ms. Ibtisam Abu Al-Hawa, filed a complaint with the occupation police, challenging the ownership papers that the settlers claim to own the house and the land, and we demanded their return."

She pointed out that they obtained a decision from the occupation court to return the house to the Abu Al-Hawa family, and rejected the settlers’ request to take possession of the house.

Settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, stormed Al-Khalwa Street in At-Tur, raided a residential apartment, locked its doors, placed barbed wire around it, and installed surveillance cameras.

A number of citizens were killed and others were injured, Sunday evening, in an Israeli bombing east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that at least 9 citizens were killed and several others were injured after an Israeli air strike targeted a group of citizens in the Sheikh Nasser area, east of Khan Yunis.

The occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, which has resulted in the death of 43,341 citizens and the injury of 102,105 others, while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and rescue teams cannot reach them.