54 citizens were killed and dozens were injured, most of them children and women, in three massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces, on Saturday, in three separate locations in Gaza City.

Local sources reported that the occupation aircraft bombed a residential square in the Beach Camp, west of Gaza City, destroying seven houses on top of their residents, leading to the death of 24 citizens and the injury of dozens.

The Civil Defense said that its crews in Gaza were able to recover a number of dead and wounded, most of them children and women, after the occupation aircraft targeted several residential buildings for the “Muhanna, Odeh, Al-Qishawi and Hassouna” family in the Karm Maslih area near the Al-Susi Mosque in Al-Shati camp, west of Gaza City, and rescue teams are still searching for them. Missing under the rubble.

The occupation aircraft also launched air strikes targeting a house in the vicinity of Jabal Al-Rayes, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City, which led to the death of 19 citizens and the injury of dozens of citizens.

The Gaza Civil Defense Service confirmed that its crews recovered 19 dead bodies and more than 35 wounded, a number of them in critical condition, after the occupation aircraft targeted a house for the “Shabat” family near the Al-Batsh cemetery in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, and there are still a number of missing people under the rubble.

The occupation planes also bombed the house of an artist’s family in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza, resulting in 4 martyrs.

Seven people were killed in an Israeli artillery shelling this morning on the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.

Yesterday, Friday, 42 Palestinians were killed and 85 others were injured, most of them women and children. Their wounds varied from moderate to serious in several Israeli raids on Gaza City.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called on Saturday for an “independent investigation and accountability of the perpetrators” responsible for the bombing of the International Committee of the Red Cross office in the Gaza Strip and the killing and wounding of dozens.

Borrell added, in a series of posts on his account on the X platform: “The (Gaza) Red Cross must be able to safely carry out all its duties under the Geneva Conventions, including humanitarian protection, assistance to victims, and access to prisoners.”

Condemning the bombing of the Red Cross office in Gaza, the European official said: “There is a need to conduct an independent investigation and hold those responsible accountable.”

On Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross denounced the fall of Israeli shells near its office in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, causing damage to it.

It warned that such incidents endanger the lives of civilians.

The committee said, "High-caliber projectiles fell a few meters away from the office and residence of the International Committee of the Red Cross, west of Rafah, on Friday afternoon."

It added, "The strike caused material damage to our office, which is surrounded by hundreds of displaced civilians living in tents, including many of our Palestinian colleagues and their families."

It pointed out that "this incident caused a large influx of victims to the Red Cross field hospital in the area, where it received at least 22 dead and 45 wounded, with reports of additional injuries."

On Saturday evening, clashes broke out with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Ajul, north of Ramallah.

According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the town and fired bullets, stun grenades and poisonous gas at the citizens, but no injuries were reported.

The families of Israeli prisoners detained in Gaza said on Saturday that it is not possible to conclude a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian factions in Gaza without removing the government of Benjamin Netanyahu from the presidency of the country.

This came during a press conference held in front of the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, where they called on all Israelis throughout the country to participate in demonstrations being organized on Saturday evening at several points.

The families of the prisoners said during the conference, "There will be no exchange deal and we will not have a resurrection without overthrowing the Netanyahu government."

The families of the prisoners detained in Gaza organize, weekly (every Saturday), a joint press conference in front of the Ministry of Defense headquarters in the Kirya area in central Tel Aviv, in which they call for the conclusion of an urgent exchange deal and the overthrow of the Netanyahu government.

The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that the ongoing 9-month Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has deprived 800,000 students of their right to education.

The office said, in a statement published by the Ministry of Education in Gaza, that “more than 800,000 male and female students from various educational levels in the Gaza Strip were deprived of their right to education after they stopped studying since October 7, due to the genocidal war.” launched by the criminal Zionist occupation on the Gaza Strip.”

It added that among them are: “40,000 male and female students in the various branches of high school, who will not be able to join this session of the high school exams (baccalaureate, which began on Saturday), which represents a precedent and a serious violation that threatens their future and undermines their chances of enrolling in local and foreign universities and colleges.” .

On Saturday morning, about 50,000 students, both male and female, headed to the exam halls for the final year of the “Tawjihi” secondary stage in the West Bank governorates and Palestinian schools abroad, while the devastating Israeli war deprived Gaza Strip students of taking the exams.

The government journalist pointed out that, “Since the beginning of this war, the occupation has deliberately targeted children, women, and civilians. Tens of thousands were martyred, wounded, and arrested, including thousands of students and education workers.”

He explained that "85 percent of educational facilities were out of service as a result of their direct and deliberate targeting, which will pose a major challenge to efforts to resume the educational process after the end of the war."

The office added: “The necessary plans have been put in place to compensate for the academic year for students in grades one (primary) to eleven and for higher education students, to ensure that the academic year is not lost, and that they possess the basic concepts and skills necessary for the continuation of their subsequent learning.”

Documentary footage showed the Palestinian occupation forces handcuffing a wounded man and using him as a human shield, following his arrest from the Al-Jabriyat neighborhood in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

The occupation soldiers tied the injured man to the hood of an armored car while it was moving in the Jenin camp after imposing a siege on two homes.

The director of Jenin Hospital stated that the occupation forces abused one of the wounded and used him as a human shield, after tying him to the front of the military jeep.

The occupation forces prevented ambulance crews from transporting the injured person, or providing first aid to him, and arrested him, according to the Palestinian Agency.

The occupation forces arrested the injured person and four others from the Jabriyat neighborhood in Jenin, and launched a massive sweep and search campaign in the neighborhood, and deployed snipers on the rooftops of houses.

CNN said that American officials reassured their Israeli counterparts regarding developments in the confrontations between the Israeli occupation army and Lebanese Hezbollah.

The network confirmed, citing officials, that the Biden administration will support “Israel” if war breaks out with Hezbollah.

In the same context, the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is preparing to leave the Red Sea and head to the Mediterranean, while the accompanying destroyers will remain in the US Fifth Fleet.

This decision comes within the strategic movements of the American forces in the region, where it is expected that the carrier "Roosevelt" will replace it, according to the website of the US Naval Institute.

According to an American official, the carrier "Eisenhower" and its accompanying cruisers will move to the Mediterranean, while the accompanying destroyers will remain in the US Fifth Fleet.

Flight controllers tracked the separation of a C-2A Greyhound from the US 5th Fleet base in Bahrain to the Mediterranean Sea.

Eisenhower's departure comes at a time when tensions have escalated between the Lebanese Hezbollah and the occupation over the past few days, but an American official confirmed that Eisenhower's transfer has nothing to do with the recent escalation between Israel and Hezbollah.

David Hearst

The marriage between the Israeli government and European parties who demonise Muslims in the same way the far-right groups nurtured hatred for the Jews is no coincidence

The next generation of political leaders in what we continue, fondly, to call western democracy is clear for all to see.

It has energy, charisma and speaks a language everyone can understand. It connects with an electorate neglected by today’s elite, has strategic patience and plans for the election after the next. 

It's also clear about what it thinks. It believes that "western civilisation" is threatened by Islam, and the "native populations" are threatened by migrants. It subscribes to the clash of civilisations and the great replacement theory.

And it's vocificerally, if not physically, pro-Israel.

I use inverted commas because even in recent history the concept of a "Judeo-Christian" civilisation is nonsense. 

No one in 16th century England nor Germany in the 1930s would have dared talk about a "Judeo-Christian" civilisation for the simple reason that Christians were the main persecutors of Jews.

But truth does not stop good propaganda.

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was interviewed on French television recently, he was asked whether anyone could compare, as he had just done, the allied landing at Normandy to Israel's attack on Gaza.

Netanyahu replied in French: "Our victory is your victory! It's the victory of Judeo-Christian civilisation over barbarism. It is the victory of France! If we win here, you win here," he told TF1.

The fact that a major French commercial channel gave a platform to a man awaiting an arrest warrant for war crimes produced a large demonstration in Paris.

But looks should not deceive.

More than political expediency

Netanyahu’s framing of his assault on Gaza in terms the Crusaders would understand is shared by large sections of the French political spectrum, and everyone, not least President Emanuel Macron, has played in these waters.

It's a short step from criminalising what Macron speciously called "Islamist separatism" to targeting the freedom of religious worship of six million Muslim French citizens itself.

The links contemporary Israel is nurturing with the far right in Europe go deeper than mere political expediency

But no one profits more from the collapse of liberalism under Macron than Jordan Bardella, the poster boy of the far right, and the man tipped one day to become prime minister. "Go for a walk in all the neighbourhoods where I lived in Seine-Saint-Denis," he said in 2021, speaking of "a demographic sea change" which could "alter the face of France in a few years".

It's a grave mistake to cast Israel’s embrace of Bardella, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands' Party for Freedom (PVV), Santiago Abascal, leader of Spain's far-right Vox party, and the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AFD), as mere political opportunism.

True, there was much schadenfreude in Israel at the success of the far right in the recent European parliamentary elections. They saw it as a pay back for Spain, Ireland, Norway and Slovenia recognising a Palestinian state.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz tweeted a meme - in English and Spanish - of Spain’s leaders with egg on their faces, claiming they had been "punished by voters"  for recognising Palestinian statehood.

"The Spanish people have punished @sanchezcastejon and @Yolanda_Diaz_coalition with a resounding defeat in the elections. It turns out that embracing Hamas murderers and rapists doesn't pay off," Katz wrote.

Amichai Chikli, former member of the far-right Yamina formation and now Israel's diaspora affairs minister, crowed at the resignation of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.

De Croo had gone to Rafah last November before the first hostage release and had been almost a lone voice in Europe in denouncing the slaughter of civilians in Gaza. "Supporting terror doesn't resonate with the Belgian people," Chikli said.

That said, the links contemporary Israel is nurturing with the far right in Europe go deeper than mere political expediency. It's more than just "myopic rejoicing" as one Haaretz columnist put it. 

Unholy alliance

An alliance with European political parties who demonise Muslims in the same way the far-right groups nurtured hatred for the Jews has become more than an act of flirtation. It has quickly been cemented into a much more extensive alliance, in deed as well as word.

Anyone who thinks these expressions of support by the far right for Israel are merely rhetorical should look at what is happening.

Wilders’s ally Gideon (Gidi) Markuszower had his candidacy to become the Netherlands' new migration and asylum minister revoked, after concerns about the connections of the Israeli-born man with Mossad were flagged by the Dutch Intelligence service (AIVD).

The prospect of a far-right government is being seen as a golden opportunity by Israel’s security services to place plants into the highest levels of government. But most of the time it does not even need them. 

Serbia’s arms exports to Israel have spiralled since the Gaza offensive began. Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) and Haaretz identified six Israeli military flights from Belgrade to Beersheba since October last year, carrying 15.7m euros (almost $17m) worth of arms.

Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic said in February that he and Netanyahu had discussed a "further advancement of bilateral relations" for which the Israeli premier "expressed my gratitude for his unwavering support both in word and deed". 

Vucic’s Serbian nationalism is unravelling a shaky peace in the Balkans. Recently, he appeared alongside the leader of the Serb-led entity within Bosnia-Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, to call for the unity of ethnic Serbs throughout the region during a rally in Belgrade.

Dodik claimed that Republika Srpska, the Serb-led entity, was committed to the Dayton accords but added ominously that this entity will soon have to seek Serbia's support to "resolve its status".

This is an implicit threat to the Dayton accords which formed a Bosnian state consisting of two entities - a Bosniak-Croat federation and Republika Srpska - held together by string, and a weak central government.

"It is impossible to live with those who so treacherously and maliciously, falsely, and secretly tried to impose genocide as a permanent feature of this nation, which it is not," Dodik said. 

Dodic is referring to the massacre that took place at Srebrenica in 1995, after the United Nations approved a resolution to establish an International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica, thus establishing an annual day of commemoration for the massacre.

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It is no coincidence that the Jerusalem Post gave this particular holocaust denier a large amount of space in an uncritical if not to say fawning interview.

Dodic said about Srebrenica: "It cannot be called genocide. Authoritative experts who have devoted their entire professional lives to the study of genocide have determined that it was not genocide. All those with authority on the matter say that it was not genocide. I trust these people more than the politicians, who decided it was a genocide."

This, of course, is music to the ears of his Jerusalem Post interviewer who drew parallels between the non-genocide of Srebrenica to the non-genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, or as the interviewer referred to them "so-called Palestinians".

Dodic said: "They don’t like me in the West, because I speak my mind directly. But if we look back at history, there has never been a peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Jews, in the same way that coexistence is not possible here, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, between Muslims and Serbs.”

The marriage between an Israeli government which has the express intention of forcing as many Palestinians out of the territories it occupies, and European far-right extremists who want to expel as many Muslims as they can out of Europe, is no coincidence.

We had already seen more than one fig leaf falling from the image of Israel as a democratic state under siege from barbaric forces. As Israel’s war on Gaza enters its ninth month, no pretence at all is being made to talk the language of democracy.

Contagious fascism

The recent anniversary of an infamous event at the very start of the Second World War also proved to be revealing.

It was one day in July 1939 when the St Louis, a ship that set sail for Cuba with over 900 Jewish refugees was rebuffed by the US and Canada. When the ship had to return to Europe, Adolf Hitler ranted on the radio that it was not only the Nazis who hated Jews. "See the whole world hates the Jews," the Nazi dictator said.

No greater threat to the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East is posed than by the words and deeds of Israel’s leaders today

This is a common sentiment on the Israeli talk shows and in social media about the Palestinians in Israel today.

The problem with forcing them from their homes in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank, the speaker's muse, is that "no-one else wants them either".

Hitler is becoming quite a role model for Israel these days. Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud MK, invoked him when he said last week on a television panel: "As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left'. We can't live here if one 'Islamo-Nazi' remains in Gaza."

This is fascism pure and simple and it is increasingly becoming common currency in the Israeli mainstream media. All the old taboos have disappeared. It is not just the extreme right Itamar Ben Gvir screaming: “For victory we need to encourage emigration from Gaza”.

That is why Europe's fascists are so readily accepted as the soulmates of Israel's fascists.

This is not about history. It's about Israel today. It matters not how many millions of Jews were the victims of fascism in Europe. It matters not that true anti-semites are their bedfellows today. 

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For Israel, however, there are distinct perils in following this path. Because they are not in a land where Muslims are a minority.

They are not even the majority in their own state and they are in a region where they are the minority. Furthermore, the "Jewish State" is not on the periphery of the Muslim world. It is right in the centre of it.

This is not 1948 all over again, at least not for the Palestinians.

If Israel attempts a major act of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Jordan will erupt and become the base of an active resistance movement along Israel’s longest land border. Israel will have no quiet borders ever again.

If an apartheid, supremacist Jewish state adopts fascism as its ideology in an attempt to find the final solution to its conflict with Palestinians, it will face an existential moment sooner than it thinks. 

No greater threat to the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East is posed than by the words and deeds of Israel’s leaders today. 

And no greater threat to Jews around the world exists now, as in the 1930s, from fascists who find common cause with Israel, coming back to power in Europe once again.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned on Saturday that “the shortage of supplies and the collapse of law and order in the Gaza Strip is undermining the provision of aid.”

This was stated by UNRWA Planning Director, Sam Rose, in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Commenting on the continuation of the Gaza war, Rose said, "There is no real ceasefire in Gaza."

The UNRWA Planning Director added, "The shortage of supplies and the collapse of law and order undermine the process of providing assistance to the people of Gaza."

He concluded his speech by saying: “Every day that the Gaza war continues, humanitarian operations become more difficult.”

Two American writers said - in two separate articles in the Washington Post - that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing battles on many fronts with groups he relied on as allies, and he is exploiting all the tools in his power, in an increasingly desperate effort to cling to power.

The two writers talked about what they called Netanyahu's many battles with those far and near, amid the devastating and unprecedented war on the Gaza Strip, where tens of thousands of people were killed and most of the Strip's residents were displaced, as well as amid the escalating tensions on the northern border with Lebanon.

Ishaan Tharoor said - in his column in the Washington Post - that Netanyahu recently canceled his wartime “government”, which included more moderate political rivals, which was formed to manage Israel’s response to the shocking attack launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on October 7. The first in the south of the country.

Disagreements over Netanyahu's handling of the war and his appeasement of the extreme right led him to stray from the purpose of the committee, quarreled with Israel's generals, and also attacked US President Joe Biden for what he said was withholding weapons from Israel and thwarting its goal of completely defeating Hamas, ignoring the huge amount of The support provided by the Biden administration to Israel.

American anger

But it seems to Tharoor that Netanyahu's criticism of the White House is aimed at gaining support from his right-wing base and strengthening Biden's Republican opponents, who - amid intense polarization - have invited him to address a joint session of Congress next month.

Martin Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel, said that Tel Aviv is at war on several fronts, with Hamas in Gaza, with the Houthis in Yemen, with Hezbollah in Lebanon, and with Iran, and yet Netanyahu is attacking the United States based on a lie he invented, which means that Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson should withdraw his invitation to Netanyahu to address Congress until he retracts and apologizes.

The rapprochement with the Biden administration did not last long, and American officials complained about Netanyahu’s refusal to formulate a plan for the next day, as well as about the increasing humanitarian collapse inside Gaza, and the hatred became more apparent - according to the writer - by Netanyahu publishing a video clip in which he accuses Biden of obstructing the Israeli war effort, saying, “ “It is unreasonable for the administration to withhold weapons and ammunition from Israel over the past few months.”

American officials reacted angrily in private, canceling a strategic planning meeting scheduled for this week. Amid public confusion, officials said that only one shipment of heavy bombs was delayed, while other weapons worth millions of dollars continued to flow. “We really don't know what's going on," officials said. He talks about it,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Internal anger

Internal anger over Netanyahu's unwillingness to conclude a ceasefire agreement and release detainees in Gaza has fueled protests and calls for his resignation and new elections, at a time when an opinion poll showed that Defense Minister Yoav Galant's approval ratings are much higher than Netanyahu's approval ratings.

Netanyahu insists on the need to allow Israel to eliminate Hamas, although many senior experts confirm the impossibility of completely defeating it militarily in the absence of a permanent political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as do the senior ranks of the army. Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said, “Hamas cannot be destroyed; “Hamas is an idea. Those who think it can be made to disappear are mistaken.”

Hagari appears to be clearly referring to Netanyahu and his far-right allies, including far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, whose support he relies on to remain in power, and who have openly opposed any “day after” strategy, angering the Israeli security establishment and many in the country. Netanyahu's centrist rivals, according to the writer.

A small uprising

For his part, American writer Steve Hendricks says - in an article in the Washington Post - that Netanyahu moved quickly, in the midst of the chaos that followed the sudden attack launched by Hamas, to unify the many warring factions in Israel.

He took the initiative to invite the opposition to share power in the emergency war government, and Likud and coalition members united their ranks behind him. The military commanders saluted and set off to continue the war, and even Biden - who had a tense relationship with Netanyahu - made a dramatic wartime visit and wrapped his arms around the prime minister.

Hendricks continued that this unit held out for several months, but as the war continued, the reserve soldiers were exhausted, and popular anger escalated due to the government’s failure to reach an agreement to return the detainees to their homeland, the cracks began to widen, and perhaps the most surprising and perhaps dangerous internal battles are the recent rebellion within his coalition. , and even within his own party, when members refused to support a piece of legislation he ordered them to pass.

Likud mayors and lawmakers, in a rare rebellion, rejected the bill giving the government more power over municipal rabbis, and Netanyahu was forced to withdraw it, marking a small uprising but a sign that the prime minister's iron grip on Likud could be slipping.

In the same context, writer Hendricks pointed out that Benny Gantz's departure from the coalition government and its dissolution raised fears that Netanyahu would rely more on his more extremist partners in the conflict in Gaza, even with the threat of a second war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

As the fighting in Gaza continued, senior officers cited the need for a “day after” plan to determine who would run Gaza when the fighting ended, because without a plan they could not withdraw their forces from Gaza without fear of Hamas quickly regrouping, rearming and threatening to carry out an operation. Others, such as October 7th.

As for Netanyahu, who stands in this political minefield - the author explains - and whose most extremist partners advocate Israel’s permanent occupation of Gaza and the rebuilding of the Jewish settlements there, he refuses to talk about any plan at all, and when pressed, he repeats that Israel will continue to fight. Until Hamas is “destroyed” and the prisoners are freed.

Source: Washington Post

The American magazine Foreign Affairs published an article saying that Israel, after 9 months of its air and ground war in Gaza, has not defeated the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), nor is it on the verge of defeating it. On the contrary, Hamas has become stronger than it was. Before the Al-Aqsa flood attack.

The article, written by Robert Pabb, an American political scientist who lectures on national and international security affairs, explained that the main flaw in Israel's strategy is not a failure of tactics or the imposition of political and moral restrictions on military force, but rather a comprehensive and blatant failure to understand the sources of Hamas' power.

He considered that Israel failed, to its great detriment, to realize that the massacre and destruction it unleashed in Gaza only led to an increase in the strength of the Hamas movement.

The death toll fallacy

The writer pointed out that for several months, governments and analysts focused on the number of Hamas fighters killed by the Israeli army as if this statistic was the most important measure of the success of the Israeli campaign against the movement.

He added that Israel says that 14,000 out of 30,000 to 40,000 Hamas fighters before the war were killed, and mentioned that the movement says it lost only between 6,000 and 8,000 fighters. He quoted American intelligence sources as saying that the real number of Hamas dead is about 10. Thousands.

However, Pape says that focusing on these numbers makes it difficult to assess the strength of Hamas, and explained that the movement, despite its losses, still controls large areas of Gaza, including the areas where civilians in the Strip are now concentrated, and also enjoys support. Massive loss of Gaza's population, allowing its fighters to obtain humanitarian supplies and easily return to areas previously "cleared" by Israeli forces.

He pointed out that a recent Israeli assessment confirmed that Hamas now has a larger number of fighters in the northern areas of Gaza than in Rafah in the south.

Guerrilla war

The writer continues his assessment to say that Hamas is currently waging a guerrilla war, which includes ambushes and hand-made bombs (often made from unexploded ordnance or weapons belonging to the Israeli army), and this war may last, at least until the end of 2024.

Hamas, Pape asserts, can still strike Israel, and more than 80% of its network of underground tunnels is still usable for planning and storing weapons, evading Israeli surveillance, and for seizures and attacks. Most of Hamas's senior leadership in Gaza remains intact. In short, the rapid Israeli offensive in the fall gave way to a grinding war of attrition that would leave Hamas with the ability to attack Israeli civilians, even if the IDF continued its campaign in southern Gaza.

Sources of strength

The American political scientist explains that the strength of a movement like Hamas does not come from the typical material factors that analysts use to judge the strength of states, such as the size of the economy, the technological development of the armies, the amount of foreign support it enjoys, and the strength of the educational systems. Rather, the most important source of these movements is the ability to On recruitment, especially its ability to attract new generations of fighters and operatives who carry out deadly campaigns and are willing to die for the cause. This ability to recruit is rooted, ultimately, in one factor: the volume and intensity of support the group derives from its community.

The writer provided many details about professional polls and surveys that confirm the support of the Palestinian community in Gaza and the West Bank for Hamas and the increase of this support over the days, describing this support as very high.

He said that Hamas currently enjoys great popular support around it, which helps explain the failure of Gazans to provide more intelligence information to Israeli forces about the whereabouts of the movement's leaders and Israeli hostages.

All Palestinian society

The writer believes that support for armed attacks against Israeli civilians has risen in particular among Palestinians in the West Bank, and is now on par with the consistently high levels of support for these attacks in Gaza, indicating that Hamas has made widespread gains in Palestinian society since October 7. /October.

He pointed out that the terrible Israeli punishment of the residents of Gaza did not have a significant deterrent effect among them, but rather failed to limit their support for armed attacks against Israeli civilians and their support for Hamas, as he put it.

Pep said that the time has come, after 9 months of arduous war, to acknowledge the stark reality: the military method alone will not defeat Hamas, as it is more than the sum of the current number of fighters, and it is also more than just an evocative idea. Hamas is a political and social movement that is not on the verge of defeat, and will not disappear any time soon. Its cause is more popular and its appeal is stronger than it was before October 7. Its fighters will continue to flow in and participate in the fighting in greater numbers, and its threat to Israel will increase.

Source: Foreign Affairs+ Aljazeera

Israeli media discussed developments in the recent tension between the administration of US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in addition to the escalation on the northern front with Lebanon.

Channel 13 reported that the Israeli Prime Minister continues to clash with the American administration, and there is a clear escalation in the American tone towards him.

Neria Kraus, the channel's correspondent in the United States, said, "The White House sent a firm message, after the incomprehensible and very disappointing video from the point of view of the Americans," noting that White House spokesman John Kirby held a briefing for journalists, and said that "the administration expressed "She told Netanyahu several times to protest his statements. This video is very disturbing." He added, "The Americans are unable to understand why Netanyahu made inaccurate statements."

Netanyahu had criticized the Biden administration in a video recording, and stated that it was unreasonable for Washington to withhold weapons and ammunition from Israel during the past months.

Mutual escalation

Regarding the possibility of war breaking out with Lebanon, the former head of the Military Intelligence Division, Amos Yadlin, told Channel 12 that this is related to three things: “What will happen in Gaza? And what will happen in Washington?”

The third matter, according to Yadlin, is: “To what extent will Hassan Nasrallah go beyond his illusions that he is able to occupy the Galilee, and to achieve what he said in his speech, even if he will regret it, but as late as he regretted it in 2006?”

As for Tamir Hayman, head of the Institute for National Security Research at Tel Aviv University, he suggested the possibility of Israel retreating from entering into a war with the Lebanese Hezbollah, and said, “Israel is escalating assassination operations on the northern front, and Hezbollah is escalating, and the problem is that everyone has reached a major stage.” "It requires escalating messages directed to awareness."

From the point of view of the Israeli spokesman, "the third party, namely the United States, which believes that the war in Lebanon is the worst that could happen before the elections, will do everything in its power to prevent that from happening."

He added, "The Americans sent an aircraft carrier to the region, sent special envoy Amos Hockstein, and leaked information questioning the capabilities of Iron Dome... all with the aim of cooling the situation and ensuring its stability until the elections."

On the other hand, Channel 12 reported that in order to finance the war, there is a tendency to pay for it through the budget, including “raising the value-added tax by 1%, reducing child allowances (this is a very big political mine), and freezing salary increases in the public sector.”

Source: Al Jazeera

US officials say that Israel and Hamas are in “a fundamental conflict of interest, and that the leaders of both sides have an interest in continuing the war forever.”

American officials believe that the leaders will tire of the war and prefer to reach an agreement, but not as quickly as US President Joe Biden had hoped, according to the American Wall Street Journal.

The officials add that Netanyahu and Sinwar have nothing on fire, and in fact have a common interest in the war continuing for a long time.

“Their (Netanyahu and Sinwar) clocks are out of sync with Biden’s,” said Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The clocks are ticking very slowly.”

In the White House, of course, they fear that the fighting in Gaza will have consequences for the northern sector as well, and they realize that there is a great possibility that the continued fighting in Gaza will lead to the war spreading to Lebanon.

While Netanyahu has expressed his willingness to accept the broad ceasefire outlines presented by Biden, he has not yet outlined a practical and sustainable plan for long-term governance in Gaza.

The newspaper said that Netanyahu and Sinwar talk about their support for a ceasefire, but in reality they both enjoy a political advantage in continuing the war.

It added that Sinwar believes that Hamas's popularity is rising significantly throughout the Arab world, despite the many losses suffered by the residents of Gaza since the beginning of the war. On the other hand, Netanyahu's popularity is declining, and he may be politically harmed by any type of agreement. In fact, Netanyahu would be happy to "prolong the negotiations forever and remain in power, because the day this war ends, the hourglass will turn for the end of his term."

The Ministry of Health announced that the number of victims of the aggressive war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 37,551 dead and 85,911 injured since the seventh of last October.

It said in its report on Saturday that 101 were killeded and 169 others were injured as a result of the occupation committing 3 massacres in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

American officials reassured a delegation of senior Israeli officials that President Joe Biden's administration is ready to support Israel if an all-out war breaks out between it and Lebanese Hezbollah, according to what a senior American official told CNN.

The official confirmed that although it is not possible to provide American forces on the ground, the Biden administration is ready to provide military aid to the Israeli army in the event of a broader war breaking out between the two parties.

The network reported that these confirmations came during a meeting of American officials with the Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, and the head of the Israeli National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, who are visiting Washington.

This week, the two officials participated in a series of meetings with US administration officials such as National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and White House Middle East Affairs Coordinator Brett McGurk.

The conflict expanded

It should be noted that the possibilities of expanding the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah have increased recently, especially in light of Israeli threats to launch a large military operation in Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said - earlier this month - that the Israeli army is ready for an intensive operation in Lebanon if necessary, pledging to restore security to the northern border. Foreign Minister Israel Katz also vowed to eliminate Hezbollah in the event of an “all-out war” breaking out, and the Israeli army announced its approval of operational plans to carry out an attack in Lebanon.

On the other hand, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said - in a televised speech last Wednesday - that the possibility of sliding into a major war is possible at any moment, even though the party does not want a comprehensive war, stressing that if war is imposed on Lebanon, the resistance will fight without restrictions, Without rules and without a ceiling, there will be no place in Israel safe from our missiles.

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Moayed Shaaban, said that the occupying state has begun, since the formation of the last government, to make radical changes in the way it deals with the lands of the West Bank and Jerusalem, through a series of measures that it imposed on the reality of the Palestinian lands.

Shaaban stated in a statement today, Saturday, that the series of measures and steps initiated by the occupying state firstly reduced the steps for approving expansion plans for the colonies from four steps to two steps, then allowed the return of colonialism to the northern West Bank and facilitated the procedures for settling the status of colonial outposts or legitimizing them according to the occupation name. In addition to the forced displacement of Bedouin communities in order to evacuate the land from its original owners, hand it over to the colonial project, and finally intensify the land seizure operations, all of which were aimed at eliminating the Palestinian presence and weakening its capabilities.

He said: The occupying state has drawn up a list of more than 70 colonial outposts in order to work to settle their situation by providing basic and security services, which means imposing a system of ghettos and cantons aimed at causing a systematic disruption of the Palestinian geography, which necessarily leads to the complete destruction of the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state.

He stated that the occupying state, since the beginning of last year and coinciding with the formation of the far-right government, whose most important slogans and goals were the issue of colonial settlement, has seized more than 75 thousand dunums of Palestinian land under various names, including: state land declarations, natural reserves, and military orders.

Shaaban revealed that the most dangerous thing the occupying state has done in the past few years, which was fully embodied by the current occupation government, is to give the form of its colonial procedures an administrative character, by removing the security and military dimensions from the operations of land control and colonial expansion.

He continued: This form, which amounts to the levels of administrative annexation of lands, represented the integration of the processes of publishing plans according to the sites of the occupation ministries and not according to the sites of colonial institutions, in addition to the discussion of annexing the colonies of the southern West Bank to the Negev Development Authority in the occupation Knesset, and what it entails in terms of it being a form. Among the forms of administrative annexation of these areas, and what was announced in the past few days regarding the creation of the position of Vice President of the Civil Administration, granting the position superior powers at the level of lands, buildings, water, reserves, and antiquities.

Shaaban stressed that what the occupying state is doing and what it aims to implement, in addition to being considered retaliation against the will of the countries that began to recognize the Palestinian state, is an attack on the will and international legitimacy that criminalized colonialism and the behavior of the occupying state that requires control of Palestinian land.

He stressed that had it not been for the weakness of this international will to protect its decisions and positions and the double standards, the occupying state would not have dared to proceed with the assault on the capabilities of our people.

The Prisoner's Society  said that the occupation authorities continue to arrest 37 high school students from the West Bank in its prisons, according to data from the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, in addition to hundreds of cases of arrest and detention among students from schools and universities, since the beginning of the ongoing war of genocide against our people.

The Prisoner's Society  pointed out, in a statement, that the cases of arrest include those who were arrested, and the occupation maintained their detention, and those who were later released.

He pointed out that this figure does not include students from our people from Gaza who were arrested, some of whom are still detained, and are subject to enforced disappearance in the occupation’s prisons and camps.

The Prisoner's Society  confirmed that the occupation targeted students over many decades, within the framework of a systematic policy through which the occupation targeted the Palestinian educational process, through a set of tools and policies, which form part of targeting the Palestinian presence and erasure operations, as the ongoing arrest campaigns come alongside the martyrdom of 430. Of high school students in Gaza, and 20 others from the West Bank during the current academic year.

In addition to being deprived of education, being uprooted from the embrace of their families, and trying to rob them of their future, students in the occupation prisons are exposed to it. Since the beginning of the genocidal war, all systematic retaliatory measures have been imposed on them, including torture, abuse, and attacks in all its forms, as are all male and female prisoners in prisons. The occupation is facing crimes of unprecedented scale.

The Prisoner’s Society renewed its demand for the necessity of opening an investigation under international supervision into the crimes and grave violations committed against detainees in the occupation’s prisons and camps, as an aspect of the ongoing genocide against our people in Gaza, despite the bleak picture that afflicts the international human rights system, and the terrifying state of helplessness that has prevailed. In its image, in the face of the crimes and atrocities committed by the occupation since the beginning of the war of extermination until today.

Since yesterday, the Israeli occupation forces have arrested at least 25 citizens from the West Bank, including former prisoners.

According to the prisoners’ institutions, the arrest operations were distributed among the governorates of Nablus, Ramallah, Tulkarm, Hebron, and Jenin.

During the arrest operations, the occupation forces continue to carry out widespread raids and abuse, attacks against detainees and their families, and direct shooting to kill, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes.

It is noteworthy that the total number of arrests after October 7 amounted to more than (9,325) arrests, which included all segments of Palestinian society, noting that this number includes those who were arrested from homes, through military checkpoints, those who were forced to surrender themselves under pressure, and those who were held hostage. .

The American administration is obstructing an option and proposal put forward by some European countries in order to address the dilemma of salaries for the cadres of the Palestinian National Authority, which has become a problem that interacts in the territories of the West Bank, noting that the European proposal referred to included that the Palestinian financial tax rights be deposited in coordination with the Israeli government in a new special account. A fund directly supervised by the World Bank.

 The proposal included securing the amounts for salaries and expenses of the Palestinian Authority in accordance with the Oslo Accords and pressuring Israel to carry out the clearing, but not transferring the funds at this stage and temporarily to the Palestinian Ministry of Finance directly, but rather transferring them to the benefit of a fund supervised directly within the Palestinian Ministry of Finance by the World Bank.

Meaning that the World Bank will manage expenditures until the Palestinian government proves its worth in financial transparency and reducing what Arabs and Americans call corruption of the Palestinian Authority.

The proposal is still under discussion, but the American administration is not enthusiastic about it and the Israeli Finance Minister completely rejects it.

 This happens while observers already link the expected collapse of the Palestinian Authority due to the lack of allocations for salaries and public expenses and Western proposals that attempt to preserve the structure of the Palestinian Authority as a reference.

 What is noteworthy is that the authority, for its part, does not press any papers to collect its financial rights.

 An informed source explained the US administration’s failure to support the European proposal on the basis that Washington wants to put pressure on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to force him to form a real government and considering that the government of Dr. Muhammad Mustafa is “unacceptable.”

 Washington talks about “measures that Abbas did not take” that are required in the path of “renewed authority free of corruption” until its financial problems with the Israeli Minister of Finance are addressed.

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Abdel Raouf Rawabdeh was the first to publicly reveal “Mustafa’s government does not cross the channels to Western countries” in a public lecture.

It seems that the American administration does not want to cooperate with the ministry of Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, and therefore the proposal, due to an implicit American veto on Mustafa’s government crossing, faces difficulties in American support.

Bloomberg said in a report that the news coming from the occupying entity indicates that the “army” is retreating from the declared main goal of the war on the Gaza Strip, which is to eliminate the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

The Bloomberg report recalled a statement by Israeli occupation army spokesman Daniel Hagari, in which he considered that “saying that we will destroy Hamas and make it disappear is just a speck of dust in the eyes of the Israelis,” adding that “Hamas is an idea, and whoever thinks that we can make it disappear is mistaken.”

The American agency confirmed that regardless of the Israeli position, it is clear that Hamas may not be completely eliminated, as the movement has thousands of fighters and an extended network of tunnels under the main cities, and all data shows that it “will not announce its surrender soon.”

She added that this situation complicates the task of occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in declaring victory in this war based on its declared goals, foremost of which is eliminating Hamas and liberating prisoners.

Netanyahu reiterated this week that the war will not end until he eliminates Hamas and frees the prisoners. He added angrily, "This is my position, and whoever opposes that, let him oppose it publicly."

Bloomberg said that these developments are occurring in conjunction with tension in Netanyahu’s relations with the administration of US President Joe Biden, and explained that US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby assured reporters that these tensions have no impact on the common goal between Washington and Tel Aviv, which is “extracting the hostages and reaching an agreement.” To a ceasefire, and try to find a way to end this war.”

According to Bloomberg, what is most dangerous is that the northern front with Hezbollah threatens to ignite at any moment, and it quoted the head of the company that manages the energy infrastructure in

Bloomberg said that these developments are occurring in conjunction with tension in Netanyahu’s relations with the administration of US President Joe Biden, and explained that US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby assured reporters that these tensions have no impact on the common goal between Washington and Tel Aviv, which is “extracting the hostages and reaching an agreement.” To a ceasefire, and try to find a way to end this war.”

According to Bloomberg, the most dangerous thing is that the northern front with Hezbollah threatens to ignite at any moment, and it quoted the head of the company that manages the energy infrastructure in “Israel,” Shaul Goldstein, as saying that “the country is not ready for a real war” with Hezbollah.

This is a statement that the company was later keen to reject, saying in a statement that it rejects its president’s assessment of the situation in the region.

The child, Muhammad Murad Hoshiyeh (12 years old), died d this Saturday morning by Israeli occupation bullets in Ramallah.

According to the Ministry of Health, the child Houshieh died from critical wounds he sustained about a week ago in Ramallah.

Senior US officials in the Biden administration pledged to Israeli officials who visited Washington this week that if “an all-out war breaks out between Israel and Hezbollah, the US administration is fully prepared to support its ally.”

This came within the framework of discussions held by a number of Israeli officials, according to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on its website, this morning, including the head of the Israeli National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, and the Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, with officials in the Biden administration, They include National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and White House Middle East Coordinator Brett McGurk.

The source quoted American officials as confirming that the Biden administration is “ready to stand behind Israel” and that it will “provide it with all the security assistance it needs.”

The source also indicated that the Biden administration made clear to Israeli officials that “in such a scenario, it does not intend to send its soldiers, and will not deploy American forces on the ground.”

In addition, American and Israeli officials discussed, in meetings this week, the source continues, “possible out-of-the-ordinary methods” to try to “reduce the rise of fires” on the border with Lebanon, including the scenario of “returning the residents of the north to their homes.”

Israel is preparing for the journey to descend from the tree to which it climbed without achieving any of the objectives of the military or civil war, and thus it has failed miserably as it launches a destructive and aggressive war that was targeting only defenseless civilians amid a campaign of destruction of all aspects of life in the Gaza Strip.

Instead of declaring failure soon after the aggression against Rafah ends, the Israeli army is trying to emerge victorious by claiming that it has eliminated two of the four Hamas brigades and that what remains are moderately effective and active brigades, and that it will move to the third phase, which focuses on bombing specific targets from the air and from a distance. ..

The vague declaration of victory is an Israeli attempt to end the war in a way that will try to convince the Israeli street and public opinion that it has achieved a sweeping victory and that it has removed the danger of the possibility of another battle such as the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood. In fact, the Israeli step is considered the beginning of coming down from the tree and declaring defeat after reaching complete conviction of inability. To defeat Hamas and use the excuse of the need to launch a new battle in southern Lebanon.

Here we wonder: Did Israel succeed in completely eliminating Hamas and isolating it from the Gaza Strip?

The army spokesman answered this part specifically when he said: Hamas is an idea, a belief and an ideology, and it is difficult to defeat it because it is in the hearts of the people.

Another question that resonates, and Netanyahu has long been searching for an answer, but has not found it yet: Was he able to return all the detainees, and did he succeed in stopping the firing of rockets and missiles from the Gaza Strip at the surrounding settlements?

The main goals that Israel set since the beginning of the war - eliminating Hamas, recovering detainees, and stopping the firing of rockets from inside the Gaza Strip - were not achieved at all, and Israel continued to engage in a chaotic war without goals and without plans, and its main interest was taking revenge on the Palestinian people as a response to the Al-Aqsa flood battle.

It is clear that Israel has finally decided to come down from the tree, at the command of America, which ensures that it portrays the image of victory to the fullest extent. The truth is that Israel has failed at all levels, but it will not accept leaving Rafah unless it has achieved the goals of the aggression, and from here the echoes of the vague victory and the accounts of the army spokesman’s attempt resound. To convince the Israeli street that Israel has won, but this street’s awareness of Israel’s losses and the blows that the army received cannot comprehend the vague story of victory and will insist on dismissing the Netanyahu government and isolating it from the political scene sooner or later.

Perhaps the most important thing that military and political leaders in Israel should read, as they witness what was announced by the publication of the photos taken by the high-tech Hoopoe drone, is that they are facing a technical development that they had not expected before, in addition to the fact that its mere disclosure by Hezbollah in Lebanon means that What is hidden is greater, which represents a deterrent warning that should not be ignored.

What is meant by the “visit” of the hoopoe march to the skies of Haifa and its environs, and its “safe” wandering without being detected by radar sensors, or anything that reveals the entry of a foreign object over the most important city, necessitates further recalculation in waging a war; The Israeli army announced that it was preparing for it.

Israeli threats to wage war have increased in response to the escalation that occurred during the past two weeks, specifically after the assassination of the military commander in the resistance forces, the martyr Talib Sami Abdullah “Hajj Abu Talib.”

The military situation in the war between Hezbollah and Tel Aviv is on the verge of launching a comprehensive war by the enemy, and it is suffering defeats within the rules of engagement in which mutual escalation has been maintained for eight months, entering the ninth month a few days ago.

This was done by launching 200 missiles and drones over three consecutive days, at the northern Palestinian territories occupied since 1949, which would have required the immediate launch of war, if the army and the occupying state were as they were in the old days. They did it, for much less than that, when the 2006 war was launched due to or under the pretext of capturing two soldiers and blowing up a Merkava tank.

The military situation in the controlled war between Hezbollah and the occupying state is on the verge of launching a comprehensive war by the enemy, and it is suffering defeats within the rules of engagement in which mutual escalation has been maintained for eight months, entering the ninth month a few days ago.

The arrival of the war to this level, which was characterized by the occupation raining down hundreds of missiles and drones in a single day, makes it likely that a comprehensive or high-level war will be launched from one moment to the next, knowing that the launch of an aggressive war by Israel has been on the table awaiting implementation for five or seven years. At least. There is no explanation for the hesitation in implementing it except for one of two obstacles: the first is the lack of certainty of victory in it, but rather the preponderance of the fear of its failure on the one hand, or the inability to bear the losses in Haifa and Tel Aviv, for example, in the event of an outbreak of mutual bombing in the depths, which is considered a war. Almost comprehensive.

There is no explanation for the hesitation in implementing it except for one of two obstacles: the first is the lack of certainty of victory in it, but rather the preponderance of the fear of its failure on the one hand, or the inability to bear the losses in Haifa and Tel Aviv, for example, in the event of an outbreak of mutual bombing in the depths, which is considered a war. Almost comprehensive

The question is: Is the hesitation to wage war, in response to the deterrence achieved by the resistance in Lebanon, due to the two reasons above, and perhaps also with American intervention to avoid such a war, with the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip?

If the answer is to prefer to keep the response within the ceiling to which the current situation has escalated, then this necessitates keeping the finger on the trigger in anticipation of the outbreak of war, due to foolishness in assessing the situation, a foolishness that has become part of the characteristics of Netanyahu’s decisions over the past eight months, even if the calculations are different with the party. God.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez announced that his country will join South Africa in its lawsuit against Israel before the International Court of Justice.

Rodriguez said in statements published on Saturday, “Cuba decided to participate, as a third country, in South Africa’s complaint against Israel before the International Court of Justice.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated - in a statement yesterday - that "Cuba will use its right to present, as a third country, its interpretation of the rules of the agreement, which Israel has blatantly violated through its actions in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories in Gaza."

It added that the Havana Initiative comes in line with “its firm and sustainable commitment to support and contribute as much as possible to the legitimate international efforts aimed at putting an end to the genocide committed against the Palestinian people.”

A third state, not a party to the conflict, can present its legal arguments before the International Court of Justice to support the interpretation of the Genocide Convention.

At the end of last December, South Africa resorted to the International Court of Justice, where it filed a complaint accusing Israel of violating the United Nations Convention on the Prevention of Genocide concluded in 1948, in its war on Gaza.

In a ruling issued on January 26, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to do everything in its power to prevent acts of genocide during its military operations in Gaza.

On May 24, the court again ordered Israel to stop its military attack “immediately” in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, but Tel Aviv refused to comply with the decisions, and the Israeli army continues its attacks.

Expand the circle

The lawsuit filed by South Africa before the International Court of Justice against Israel received Arab and international support and support.

Since the initial rulings, several countries - including Turkey, Libya, Palestine, Nicaragua, Colombia, Chile and Spain - have submitted requests to intervene in the case using a clause in the statute of the International Court of Justice that allows third parties to join the proceedings.

The International Court of Justice is the highest judicial body of the United Nations, and its decisions are legally binding, but it lacks mechanisms to implement them.

On Saturday morning, the Israeli occupation army announced the killing of a settler in a shooting attack in the center of the city of Qalqilya.

According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the city of Qalqilya after shooting at an Israeli vehicle, and its driver was critically injured and his death was later announced.

3 citizens were injured and 3 others were arrested today, Saturday, during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the Jabriyat neighborhood in Jenin.

According to the Red Crescent, these forces stormed the neighborhood and fired live bullets, wounding three citizens and transporting them to the hospital.

Meanwhile, Al-Quds.com correspondent reported that the occupation forces arrested 3 young men, whose identities are not yet known.

He pointed out that those forces withdrew from the neighborhood.

Today, Saturday, the Israeli occupation committed massacres against civilians in the Beach Camp and the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.

Al-Quds.com correspondent reported that large numbers of martyrs and wounded arrived at Al-Baptist Hospital following the massacres.

The occupation aircraft targeted four residential apartments in the middle of the Beach Camp, west of Gaza, near the Susi Mosque, killing a number of citizens and wounding others.

While the Civil Defense in Gaza reported that 19 martyrs and more than 35 wounded were recovered as the occupation targeted a residential square in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.

The occupation artillery also bombed the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, resulting in the death of two young men who were taken to the Baptist Hospital.

The occupation aircraft launched several air strikes in the vicinity of Jabal Al-Rayes, east of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, which led to the deaths of a number of martyrs and the wounding of others with various injuries.

In the middle of the Gaza Strip, a citizen was killed, and another was injured, in an artillery shelling near the power station north of Nuseirat.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that the Israeli occupation committed 3 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 19 deaths and 89 injuries to hospitals during the past 24 hours.

It indicated that the toll of the aggression rose to 37,431 dead and 85,742 injuries since the seventh of last October.

Pro-Israel political groups have transformed the Democratic primary in the New York City suburbs, sweeping the race with record-breaking outside spending to unseat one of Israel's most outspoken critics, Black Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman.

The attack by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful Israeli lobby influencing members of the US Congress, and allied groups was a warning to lawmakers like Bowman after the Hamas attack on October 7: “Lighten your critical views of Israel.” Or face a flood of political attacks,” according to the New York Times on Thursday.

The newspaper reports that in just one month, AIPAC's super PAC spent $14.5 million — as much as $17,000 per hour — on the race, filling television screens, filling mailboxes, and clogging phone lines with vitriolic attacks. As days passed, expenditures had already exceeded what any lobby group spent on a single House race.

Pro-Israel groups are using the same extortionist approach elsewhere, most notably in the Missouri primary next August in St. Louis, where AIPAC, a super PAC, has already spent $1.5 million there to defeat Democratic Rep. Cori Bush. A supporter of the Palestinian cause, she is a black member of the leftist “squad” in the House of Representatives, like Bowman, and both of them accused Israel of committing genocidal massacres in Gaza.

The expensive paid messages never mention Israel — instead they smear Bowman to the party's base as a pariah who "continues to attack President Biden" and sows "controversy, chaos and conspiracy."

"Jamal Bowman has his own agenda, and he's hurting New York," warns one TV ad. Tracking company AdImpact estimates it has been viewed 180 million times, according to the New York Times.

This approach has angered Bowman, an ally of President Biden, who says he is being punished because he stood with moral conviction against the war between Israel and Hamas, while his more moderate opponent, George Latimer, is wavering on Biden's main priorities.

The extraordinary intervention also galvanized a coalition of left-leaning organizations to run their own influence campaign aimed at discrediting AIPAC, by asserting that the group receives significant funding from major Republican donors and favors positions to the right of its base.

“I am an outspoken black person,” Bowman said in his debate with his opponent this week. “I am fighting genocide in Gaza, and I am fighting for justice here.”

But only days have passed, and AIPAC's influence is becoming clear. Polls suggest that Latimer, who is white, has taken the lead and his pro-Israel supporters are urging other Democrats to take notice. Congressman Bowman's allies - and even some Democrats who oppose him - worry that defeat will set an even more troubling precedent.

They fear that if AIPAC succeeds in defeating those calling for an end to the war, it will mean that the massive spending by the major Israel lobby will not only have a negative impact on Democrats willing to speak out against the war, but will also present a replicable strategy for wealthy interests in both parties. .

“This is the message of this campaign: If you stand up to powerful interests, they will try to take you down,” said Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who participated in a campaign event for Representative Bowman on Friday.

“Today, they are in the Democratic primary,” he added. Tomorrow, they will be in the Republican primaries. They don't care. All they want is to support Netanyahu until the end."

Super PACs are not new in American politics. And they have become bigger players than ever since the Supreme Court began allowing outside groups to spend unlimited money, as long as they do not directly coordinate with candidates.

AIPAC has been lobbying American politicians from both parties for decades and has close relationships with presidents and legislative leaders. She only formed her own political action committee in the 2022 midterms. It spent $26 million that cycle, targeting mostly progressive Democrats who in recent years have begun to push their party toward a more critical vision of Israel.

Two years later, the war and Israel's fragile position on the world stage have accelerated both trends. Republicans such as Paul Singer and Bernard Marcus have stepped up their multi-million-dollar donations to AIPAC's political action committee, as have some Democrats.

Despite previous threats, the group chose not to launch a large-scale attack on Israel's democratic critics. After struggling to identify viable challengers, they have so far chosen not to meaningfully challenge other Israel critics, including Reps. Summer Lee, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Bowman, who represents a large Jewish population, presented himself as the ideal target.

Although he condemned the October 7 Hamas attack, he was among the first lawmakers to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, accuse Israel of committing genocide there, and push for cuts in US military aid to Israel — positions that AIPAC opposes. " directly.

Instead of backing down in the face of AIPAC's threats, he has become more vocal and bolder in recent weeks. In a recent speech, Bowman said he was "under attack by the Israeli regime we call AIPAC."

"This race presents an unambiguous choice," AIPAC spokesman Marshall Whitman said in response. “George Latimer is a progressive, pro-Israel candidate while Jamaal Bowman has refused to support the Jewish state as it wages a moral and just war against Iranian proxies.”

After helping recruit Latimer, the Westchester County executive, AIPAC became his largest funder, directing more than $2.4 million directly into his campaign accounts, some of it from Republican donors. Then, in mid-May, her political action committee began spending, saturating local television despite New York's high ad rates.

By comparison, Bowman and his allies, the Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party, raised about $4 million for ads, less than a third of what AIPAC spent.

“This is an astronomical amount of spending in any House race, let alone a Democratic primary in New York,” said Meredith Kelly, who managed communications for the House Democrats' campaign arm.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday that humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is witnessing “total chaos and chaos.”

At a press conference in New York, Guterres stressed the need for a “mechanism that ensures a minimum order” to facilitate the distribution of aid.

He explained, "The situation in Gaza has become a state of chaos, as most of the trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are being looted."

He added: "Unlike traditional war, where the occupation forces ensure the security and management of the territories they control, the conflict in Gaza is characterized by continuous attacks and bombings."

Guterres said that there is "total chaos in Gaza, and there is no authority in most areas."

He stressed that "Israel does not even allow the so-called blue police to accompany our convoys, because they are police linked to the local administration."

Guterres stressed, "The chaos has made the distribution of aid inside Gaza very difficult."

He added, "The problem does not lie only in bringing things (aid) to Gaza, but rather in the need for a mechanism that guarantees a minimum of law and order to facilitate the distribution of aid."

Guterres stressed, "The ceasefire is absolutely necessary in order to properly organize and implement the plan (to distribute aid)."

Regarding the Israeli military attack on northern Gaza and on the displaced people near Rafah, Guterres said that the military operation has a “major impact on civilians and does not solve any problem.”

On Thursday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in press statements that a number of families in the southern Gaza Strip eat “one meal every two or three days,” while other families rely on “sharing food” with each other.