PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 8:14 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli forces arrest two young Palestinians from the town of Deir Ballut

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men from the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit.


Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the Khallet Qasoul area, south of the town, and arrested the two young men: Adel Fadel Odeh Mustafa and Abu Abdul Wahab, while they were on their lands.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 8:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli settlers storm a Palestinian Bedouin community northwest of Jericho

Today, Sunday, settlers stormed a Bedouin community northwest of Jericho.


The general supervisor of the "Al-Baidar" organization for defending the rights of Bedouins, Hassan Mlihat, reported that a number of settlers stormed the Mlihat Arab community, and carried out searches and vandalism in three residences.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 7:36 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli settlers burn a Palestinian house in Burqa, northwest of Nablus

On Sunday evening, settlers burned a house in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.


The head of the Burqa Village Council, Dirar Abu Omar, said that settlers from the “Homesh” settlement stormed the outskirts of the village and attacked the house of citizen Raed Yassin Hajjah with Molotov cocktails, which led to parts of it burning, before the villagers were able to put out the fire.


Abu Omar added that settlers have been carrying out attacks on citizens’ lands since this afternoon, by setting fire to rubber tires and attempting to attack homes in the northern and eastern areas of the village.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 09 Jun 2024 6:20 pm - Jerusalem Time

Washington provided direct field assistance in the extermination operation in Nuseirat on Saturday

The United States provided some intelligence that helped rescue four Israeli hostages on Saturday, which led to the death and injury of nearly a thousand Palestinian citizens, according to a number of people familiar with the matter, according to the Washington Post.


The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Sunday that the number of dead in the Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp had risen to 274 Palestinians, and more than 698 wounded, most of whom were children and women. The raid launched by Israel with direct American assistance on Saturday, one of the bloodiest raids of the war, on the central camp in Gaza, freed four hostages. “Scenes from Gaza showed roads filled with debris and seriously injured Palestinians, some without limbs,” according to the newspaper.


According to the Washington Post, an American team stationed in Israel provided the information, which it had been collecting and monitoring since the beginning of the war.


This team consists of special operations and intelligence personnel working at the embassy in Jerusalem, and has been in Israel since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza last October. Since then, it has shared with its Israeli counterparts information about the possible location of the hostages, obtained from US drone surveillance over Gaza, communications interception and other sources, people familiar with the matter told the Post.


In turn, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said in a statement, “The United States supports all efforts aimed at securing the release of hostages still being held by Hamas, including American citizens.” He pointed out that this work includes ongoing negotiations and "other means."


Axios and the New York Times also reported on US participation in the rescue operation.


Hamas and other militants took nearly 250 hostages during their surprise attack across the border into Israel on October 7, which left 1,100 people dead, including 311 soldiers and dozens of workers in the Israeli intelligence services, according to what the Israeli Ministry of Defense stated. The Palestinians released at least 112 people, as part of an agreement negotiated between Israel and Hamas in late January.


It is believed that fewer than 80 of the hostages remaining in Gaza are still alive. Eight US citizens are believed to be among those still in captivity, including the remains of three who died.


The daytime mission on Saturday was part of a broader Israeli operation in central Gaza that local health authorities said resulted in the deaths of at least 274 Palestinians. Israeli officials described the rescue operation as taking weeks and being enabled by “accurate intelligence.” Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli army, said that two buildings were targeted and that the personnel involved were shot.


Washington maintains what one US official described on Saturday as a “very deep partnership” with Israel in its efforts to rescue the hostages.


Days after the start of the Gaza war, the Pentagon acknowledged the presence of a “small number” of American military personnel at the embassy in Jerusalem to assist the Israeli government with planning and intelligence support.


US intelligence analysts are also helping Israeli officials with some of their work mapping the vast network of tunnels that Hamas has built under Gaza, contributing to powerful analytical techniques that integrate bits of information, according to officials familiar with the work.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 6:00 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian agricultural lands in Burqa, northwest of Nablus

On Sunday evening, settlers burned agricultural lands in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.


Local sources reported that a number of settlers from the “Homesh” settlement, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, threw burning tires towards citizens’ homes in the “Al-Manshara” and “Al-Hawoz” areas, north of the village, which led to the burning of agricultural lands.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 5:41 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas announces the killing of 3 Israeli prisoners, one of whom is an American, during the Nuseirat operation

The Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - said that 3 of the prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip were killed during the operation carried out by the occupation army in the heart of the Nuseirat camp in the central Strip, to recover 4 Israeli prisoners.


Al-Qassam explained in a message addressed to the Israeli community, “After the massacre that your army committed in the Nuseirat camp yesterday to rescue 4 prisoners, your army killed 3 prisoners in the same camp, one of whom held American citizenship.”


Al-Qassam broadcast pictures of the prisoners who were killed, in a video titled “Your government is killing a number of your prisoners to save other prisoners,” stressing that “your prisoners will not be released unless our prisoners are liberated.”


It concluded the video with the hashtag “Time is running out,” which she used to publish, in reference to the shrinking period of time available to conclude an exchange deal with the increasing number of Israeli prisoners killed in Gaza as a result of the intense bombing by the occupation army.


Yesterday, Saturday, the Israeli occupation army announced the recovery of 4 Israeli prisoners from two separate areas in the heart of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, coinciding with the death of 274 Palestinians, including 64 children and 57 women, and the injury of 698, on Saturday, in a massacre committed by the occupation forces after a violent artillery and air bombardment that targeted the Nuseirat camp. According to what was announced by the government media office in Gaza.


Subsequently, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said that the Israeli army was able, by committing horrific massacres, to recover some of its prisoners, but at the same time it killed some of them during the operation, without mentioning a specific number.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 09 Jun 2024 5:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu: Our disagreement with Hamas is over ending the war without achieving its goals

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the dispute with Hamas is over ending the war on Gaza without achieving the declared Israeli goals, indicating that this prevents reaching a prisoner exchange deal under an agreement on a ceasefire in the Palestinian Strip, which is being subjected to... The Israeli war has been ongoing for 247 days.


Netanyahu's statements came during a meeting with representatives of the so-called "Hagvora (Heroism) Forum", which consists of the families of Israeli soldiers killed in the war on the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu said: “An agreement was not reached because we will not give up on completing the goals of the war. The main disagreement with Hamas revolves around the commitment to end the fighting without completing the goals.”


In turn, representatives of the "Hagvora Forum" stressed the need to continue the war and affirmed their support for Netanyahu, and said, "We are here to ensure that Israel completes all the goals of the war and achieves victory," according to what the "Israel Hayom" newspaper reported on its website, while Netanyahu is exposed to Political pressure from his coalition partners to prevent him from moving forward with negotiations with Hamas.


At the end of last May, US President Joe Biden, whose administration greatly supports Tel Aviv in its war on Gaza, spoke about Israel submitting a three-stage proposal that includes a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of detainees, and the reconstruction of the Strip. On Saturday, Israel announced the release of 4 detainees in Gaza, in a special military operation in the Nuseirat camp in the central Strip.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 5:16 pm - Jerusalem Time

21 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli raids targeting various areas in the Gaza Strip.

21 citizens were killed and dozens of others were injured today, Sunday, as a result of Israeli raids that targeted many homes in different areas of the Gaza Strip.


Health sources confirmed the death of 7 citizens as a result of Israeli raids that targeted two homes in Al-Nuseirat and Deir Al-Balah.


Local sources also reported that an Israeli bombing targeted a house for the Abu Daqqa family, east of Deir al-Balah, resulting in a number of injuries.


Local sources confirmed the fall of martyrs and injuries after the occupation bombed a house near the Akila station in Deir al-Balah, noting that residential buildings were blown up in the Abu al-Ajen area, east of the city.


Medical sources at the Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City also reported that 4 dead and several wounded arrived at the hospital as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house for the Kassab family in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, next to Al-Daraj Clinic in the center of the city.


The sources indicated that 4 dead were recovered from the bombing of a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In the south of the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses indicated that occupation artillery was targeting the areas of Al-Khirba, Musabah, and Areiba in the city of Rafah.


In the northern Gaza Strip, medical sources reported that Al Awda Hospital received 6 dead and 22 wounded as a result of renewed Israeli bombing on the center of the Nuseirat camp on Sunday afternoon.


The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen, according to medical sources, to 37,084, and injuries to 84,494, since the start of the Israeli occupation aggression on the 7th of last October.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 4:52 pm - Jerusalem Time

Confrontations with Israeli army and its settlers: 6 Palestinians were injured in Urif and a house was burned in Burqa

Today, Sunday, 6 people were injured, some of whom were injured by live bullets, during confrontations between residents with the Israeli occupation army and its settlers, in the town of Urif, in the northern occupied West Bank, while settlers set fire to a house in the village of Burqa, north of Nablus.


The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that its ambulance crews dealt with “six injuries during the settlers and occupation forces’ storming of the town of Urif, south of the city of Nablus.”


It stated that among the injuries were "4 with live bullets, one with shrapnel from live bullets, and one with a stone in the hand. All injuries were taken to the hospital."


Before that, the association reported that its crews dealt with “the injury of a 15-year-old child with live bullets in the shoulder during the settlers and occupation forces’ storming of Orif, and the injury of a 20-year-old young man with live bullets in the pelvis, and he is being transported to the hospital.”


In a later statement, the association reported, “The occupation forces detained the ambulance while transporting the injured person to Rafidiya Hospital.”


It stated that its crews also dealt with “the injury of a 22-year-old man with live bullets in the thigh, and the injury of a 20-year-old man with bullet fragments throughout the body.”


Settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, attacked the house of Issam Al-Safadi and burned a vehicle. The people of Orif rose to respond to the attack, which led to the outbreak of confrontations, during which the occupation soldiers fired live bullets, wounding a number of people, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.


This evening, settlers burned a house in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus. The head of the Barqa Village Council, Dirar Abu Omar, reported that settlers from “Homesh” stormed the outskirts of the village and attacked the house of Raed Yassin Hajjah with Molotov cocktails, causing parts of it to burn, before the villagers were able to put out the fire.


Abu Omar added that settlers have been carrying out attacks on citizens’ lands since this afternoon, by setting fire to rubber tires and attempting to attack homes in the northern and eastern areas of the village.

Also this evening, settlers burned agricultural lands in the village of Burqa.

Local sources reported that “Homesh” settlers, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, threw burning tires towards citizens’ homes in the “Al-Manshara” and “Al-Hawoz” areas north of the village, which led to the burning of agricultural lands.


Settlers storm a Bedouin community northwest of Jericho

Today, Sunday, settlers stormed a Bedouin community northwest of Jericho.


The general supervisor of the "Al-Baidar" organization for defending Bedouin rights, Hassan Mlihat, reported that a number of settlers stormed the Mlihat Arab community, and carried out searches and vandalism in three residences.


During last May, settlers carried out 221 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank, according to a monthly report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.


In conjunction with its devastating war on the Gaza Strip, since October 7, the Israeli army expanded its operations in the West Bank and Jerusalem, while settlers intensified their attacks, which led to the death of 531 Palestinians and the wounding of about 5,200, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.


While the Israeli war on Gaza left nearly 121,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.


Israel continues this war, ignoring a Security Council resolution calling for it to stop immediately, and orders from the Court of Justice to stop its attack on the city of Rafah, south of Gaza, and to take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and “improve the humanitarian situation” in the Strip.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 3:28 pm - Jerusalem Time

Government media in Gaza: Israeli soldiers disguised themselves as displaced persons in the Nuseirat operation

The government media office in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday, “The Israeli soldiers who participated in the attack on the Nuseirat camp in the center of the Strip yesterday disguised themselves as displaced persons and used two civilian cars.”


This came during a press conference held by the Director of the Media Office, Ismail Al-Thawabta, in front of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.


Al-Thawabta said, "The number of martyrs of the Nuseirat massacre has risen to 274, including 64 children and 57 women."


He added, "The Israeli occupation army used two civilian cars to commit the Nuseirat massacre, and the occupation soldiers who participated in the massacre disguised themselves as displaced persons."


Al-Thawabta confirmed that "the occupation army bombed 89 inhabited homes and residential buildings during the Nuseirat massacre."


On Saturday, hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed and injured in a massacre committed by Israeli forces after a violent artillery and air strike targeting the Nuseirat camp in Gaza, causing a widespread wave of condemnation.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 09 Jun 2024 2:26 pm - Jerusalem Time

An Israeli soldier committed suicide after receiving an order to fight in Gaza

Israeli Radio reported that a soldier committed suicide after receiving an order to return to military service in the Gaza Strip.


Earlier, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that 10 officers and soldiers of the occupation have committed suicide since the seventh of last October, a number of whom committed suicide during the battles in the settlements surrounding Gaza.


The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - also announced that it had rescued an Israeli prisoner from a suicide attempt where he was captured in the Gaza Strip.


In mid-March, the Israeli army acknowledged that it has been facing the biggest mental health problem since 1973, against the backdrop of the war that the Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip have been waging with the occupation army since the Al-Aqsa flood.


Last month, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that an internal poll in the Israeli army showed that only 42% of officers in permanent military service wanted to continue serving after the end of the war on Gaza, compared to 49% recorded in August last year.


In a related context, reports from Israel stated that the army reserve forces are suffering from a severe shortage of soldiers as the war enters its ninth month, and the Israeli army has begun searching for volunteers to fight in Gaza.


The Israeli army confirmed 3,763, including 1,902 who had been wounded since the beginning of the ground battles on the 27th of the same month.


The number of dead in the occupation army has reached 646 soldiers and officers since the beginning of the war, including 294 killed in ground battles in the Gaza Strip. However, Israeli hospitals and media have confirmed that the actual number of dead and injured in the army is greater than what is announced.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 1:41 pm - Jerusalem Time

West Bank: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians and destroy olive trees in Hebron

Today, Sunday, settlers attacked citizens, vandalized olive trees, and chased sheep shepherds, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.


They stole barbed wire and released their sheep onto citizens’ lands.


Local sources said that a group of settlers attacked citizens of the Makhamra family in the village of Susiya, and forced the farmers to leave their lands.


In the same context, settlers from the "Itzkhar Man" settlement uprooted about 200 olive trees in the Ain al-Bayda area belonging to the citizen Issa Ahmed Zein, released their livestock onto the citizens' lands, and stole barbed wire.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 1:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

American and British intelligence helped Israel recover 4 detainees in Gaza

American newspapers reported that the United States and Britain helped Israel recover its four detainees in Gaza yesterday, Saturday.


The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal said that teams to collect and analyze intelligence information from America and Britain remained in Israel throughout the war and provided intelligence information about the detained prisoners before the rescue operation.


American officials have claimed that their intelligence support for Israel is focused on the locations of prisoners and information about the senior leadership of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), largely because American officials “believe that the best way to convince Israel to end the war is to recover its detainees and capture or kill senior Hamas leaders.” ".


An Israeli official also claimed that the American and British teams did not participate in planning or implementing military operations to rescue the detainees, and that the Israeli rescue experts needed little support in tactical planning, and that foreign intelligence provided only some support.


Logistical support

An American official, who requested to remain anonymous, said that a team of American detainee recovery officials stationed in Israel helped the Israeli army to recover the four Israelis by providing intelligence information and other logistical support.


Speaking in Paris after his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden said that he welcomed “the safe rescue of 4 hostages who were returned to their families in Israel,” adding that they would not stop working until all detainees return to their homes and a ceasefire is reached. “This is necessary.”


The newspapers said that the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided information collected from drone flights over Gaza, communications intercepts and other sources about the possible location of the prisoners.


An Israeli official said that while Israel has its own intelligence, the United States and Britain were able to provide intelligence from the air and cyberspace that Israel could not collect on its own.


Other means

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan referred to US assistance to Israel, saying in a statement that Washington supports all efforts to secure the release of detainees still held by Hamas, including US citizens, through ongoing negotiations “or other means.”


Sullivan added that the ceasefire proposal, which is currently being discussed by negotiators from Hamas, Israel, Egypt, Qatar and the United States, would be the way to return the remaining detainees.


He added that the agreement to release detainees and the ceasefire proposed now will ensure the release of all remaining hostages with security guarantees for Israel and relief for civilians in Gaza.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 12:39 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel is tightening the pressure on injured and sick prisoners in “Ramla Prison”

The Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission confirmed in its report issued today, based on the visit of its lawyer to the Ramla prison clinic, that the prison guards exploit prisoners’ illnesses and injuries to continue their oppressive and tormenting measures, leaving them prey to slow death.


Since the 7th of last October, the Ramla prison administration has imposed an additional set of penalties on sick prisoners, as physical therapy has been stopped for a large number of the injured, as well as special food for patients with the stomach and digestive system, in addition to constant procrastination in conducting examinations and taking treatment for the cases. difficult and critical conditions, and only painkillers, in addition to blindfolding sick prisoners and restraining them when they go out to meet the lawyer and during their return.


In this context, the Commission stated that the prisoner Mustafa Al-Naanish (21 years old) / Tulkarm camp, suffers from severe ulcers in the lower back and feet and moves in a wheelchair and has no feeling in his feet at all, as a result of his exposure to an explosion the moment the occupation army arrested him while he was staying in Tulkarm Hospital, which led to his injury. He suffered severe injuries in the abdomen and back, as a result of which he was transferred to a civil hospital, where he underwent an operation during which part of the intestine was removed, and to this day he suffers from the presence of many shrapnel in his back.


The prisoner is currently receiving antibiotics, painkillers, and blood-thinning medications.


Regarding the case of the prisoner Saleh Hassouna (28 years old) from Al-Jalazoun Camp / Ramallah, he is awaiting the completion of treatment for his feet, as special units stormed his house on 02/28/2024, and shot him the moment he was arrested while he was sleeping, then they severely beat him, which led to his death. He was shot in both feet, and the leg of his right foot was shattered.


Hassouna was then transferred to Shaare Zedek Hospital and stayed there for 52 days, where he underwent 6 surgeries and had a platinum implant in his foot.


Note that the prisoner was interrogated more than once while he was in the hospital, and an administrative prison sentence was issued against him.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 12:17 pm - Jerusalem Time

50 Palestinan children suffering from malnutrition in the northern Gaza Strip

Medical sources announced on Sunday that fifty children are suffering from malnutrition and starvation in the northern Gaza Strip.


Quoting medical sources at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia Camp, “About 50 children suffering from malnutrition were counted in just one week, and the specter of famine looms in Gaza, and we recorded signs of malnutrition on some children. We are trying to resume medical service at a minimum in light of Fuel shortage, and the situation is catastrophic in the Strip.”


According to the United Nations World Food Programme, “9 out of every 10 children in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute food poverty.”


What exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, specifically in the north, was the closure of the Rafah and Kerem Shalom border crossings, after citizens exhausted their remaining food supplies in light of the scarcity of aid.

The occupation forces continue to close the Karm Abu Salem commercial and Rafah border crossings, for the 34th day in a row.


It is noteworthy that more than 37 children were martyred during the aggression as a result of starvation in a number of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, especially in Kamal Adwan Hospital, where about 30 children died inside.


The health system in Gaza is a target of the occupation, while medical teams are trying to resume their services and provide health and medical care at a minimum to citizens in the northern Gaza Strip.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 11:24 am - Jerusalem Time

UN rapporteur: Israel is exploiting the "prisoners issue" to give legitimacy to its massacres in Gaza

The United Nations rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said that Israel had exploited the "prisoners' issue" to legitimize the killing, wounding, mutilation, starvation and trauma of Palestinians in Gaza, and to intensify acts of violence in the rest of the occupied territories.


Albanese added in a post on the “X” platform, “Israel could have released the prisoners, alive and sound, 8 months ago, when the first ceasefire and prisoner exchange was put on the table. But Israel refused that in order to continue destroying Gaza and the Palestinians as a people.” .


She noted that this was clearly “a translation of genocidal intent into action.”


Yesterday, the occupation forces committed a massacre in the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the death of 210 citizens and the injury of more than 400 others, under the pretext of liberating 4 Israeli prisoners.

OPINIONS

Sun 09 Jun 2024 10:40 am - Jerusalem Time

Dancing on the blood of martyrs!!

op-ed Al Quds dot com

op-ed Al Quds dot com

Opinion Writer

The horrific, premeditated massacre committed by Israel in the Nuseirat camp, which led to the death of more than 200 Palestinian citizens, most of them children, and the wounding of hundreds, after bombing the central market and targeting innocent people, is an Israeli persistence and insistence on killing civilians and continuing crimes and wars of genocide, in a systematic Israeli attempt to achieve An imaginary victory and the pursuit of theatrical boasting after the liberation of four hostages who were in civilian buildings among the population..


Israel danced on the blood of the martyrs, and if it believed that it had achieved the image of victory as Netanyahu claims, it only extracted four of the hostages, and it received the message of the Palestinian resistance that committing this complex massacre would pose a great danger to the Israeli detainees, and would have a negative impact on their conditions and lives, knowing that they are more Who was harmed by the criminal process.


The occupation army directed an Israeli and an American to commit this massacre, in a desperate attempt to portray what was being circulated under pressure and negotiations under fire, in order to deepen the polarization within the Israeli street, which would wake up from the horror of artificial joy later, due to a major mistake committed by the occupation government, which forgot that it had about 120 Detained, they are still in the grip of the resistance, and this is what was indicated by the families of the detainees, who are calling for the approach of (a deal that brings everyone back).


After eight full months of war in which the Israeli army failed to achieve any of the declared goals, the process of extracting the hostages will not change the strategic reality of the war, in which Israel is eager to continue its massacres and aggression against civilians without mercy, under the pretext of trying to return the detainees and liberate them, to carry out under this cover. The false statement of more killings in the Gaza Strip, while ignoring the horror of the massacre and the indifference to it on the part of the Americans and the Israelis, and this is what they did before noon yesterday.


Israel created fake propaganda for what it describes as an achievement, but the truth that Netanyahu must know as he brags about the massacre committed by his army, which he claimed to be the most moral army in the world, is in fact the most terrorist army in the world and has no values or morals. It kills innocent people, and the pressure will remain. Against Israel, which only knows the language of killing, slaughter and destruction.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 09 Jun 2024 10:32 am - Jerusalem Time

Griffiths: There is no safe place in Gaza and it is time to end the collective suffering

Martin Griffiths, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said on Saturday that the recent Israeli attacks on the Nuseirat camp showed that “there is no safe place in Gaza,” calling for an end to the collective suffering.


In a post on his account on the X platform, Griffiths drew attention to the recent Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, and renewed his call to put an end to the tragedies in Gaza.


“Nuseirat refugee camp has become the epicenter of the seismic shock that civilians in Gaza are still suffering from,” he said. “When we see bodies on the ground, we are reminded that there is no safe place in Gaza.”


Griffiths stressed that healthcare facilities in Gaza have reached the end point, adding: "When we see blood-stained patients being treated on hospital floors, we remember how healthcare services in Gaza are tied by a thin rope."


He stressed the need to protect all civilians, and said: “This mass suffering must end, and it must end now.”


On Saturday, 210 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 others were injured in a massacre committed by Israeli forces after a violent artillery and air strike targeting the Nuseirat camp in Gaza, according to what was announced by the government media office in Gaza.


Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced on the same day that it had managed to “liberate” 4 detainees in a “special operation” in the Nuseirat camp.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 10:11 am - Jerusalem Time

War on Gaza: 283 Palestinians killed within 24 hours

A number of citizens were killed and injured today, Sunday, in separate Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip.


Here are the latest developments: The Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the Israeli occupation committed 8 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 283 deaths and 814 injuries to hospitals during the past 24 hours.


The number of dead in the occupation's massacre of citizens in the Nuseirat camp yesterday rose to 274 dead and 698 injuries, including critical cases.


The Ministry of Health indicated that the toll of the Israeli aggression had risen to 37,084 dead and 84,494 injuries since the seventh of last October.


Five citizens were killed, and others sustained various injuries, in the occupation bombing of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and the city of Rafah in the south.


Medical sources reported that at least three citizens were killed, and a number of injuries occurred, after the occupation targeted a house belonging to the Abu Al-Kass family in the Bureij camp.


A short while ago, the same sources announced the death of two citizens in the occupation bombing of the Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city of Rafah.


The occupation intensifies its missile and artillery bombardment on the Central Governorate, a day after it committed a massacre in the Nuseirat camp, which resulted in the death of 210 citizens and the injury of more than 400 others.


In Deir al-Balah, a number of casualties arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a home for the Abu Daqqa family in the east.


The occupation warplanes bombed a house for the Al-Bashiti family in Al-Maghazi camp, without knowing the details yet, while shooting continued east of Al-Bureij camp.


In the south of the Gaza Strip, sounds of violent explosions and shooting were heard by the occupation forces in various places in the city of Rafah.


While the neighborhoods of Al-Zaytoun, Tal Al-Hawa, and Al-Sabra in Gaza City witnessed artillery shelling and gunfire from occupation tanks stationed in the “Netzarim” axis area.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 10:05 am - Jerusalem Time

West Bank: Israeli forces arrest a number of Palestinian citizens in Jenin and Hebron

The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and Sunday morning, a number of citizens during a campaign of raids in various areas in the West Bank.


In Jenin, the occupation forces stormed the town of Arraba and arrested the two brothers, Nour al-Din and Muhammad Mahmoud Abd al-Rahim, Moamen Saeed Lahlouh, and Anas Farid Jabr, after raiding and searching their families’ homes and tampering with their contents.


They also arrested: Nour El-Din Mahmoud Abdel-Rahim and his brother Muhammad, Saeed Tawfiq Lahlouh and his child son Moamen, Anas Farid Jabr, Lubna Mazen Ezz El-Din, and Baraa Imad Al-Arda, after their homes were raided, searched, and tampered with their contents.


In Hebron, the occupation forces stormed the city and arrested the brothers Abdullah, Louay and Yazan Imad Nairoukh, knowing that their father is detained in the occupation prisons.


In Ramallah, the occupation forces stormed the Jalazoun camp and stationed themselves near the Jalazoun Basic Boys School, without any arrests being reported so far.


In Nablus, a number of occupying jeeps stormed the eastern area of the city and the Balata camp, and deployed snipers on the rooftops, where confrontations took place, interspersed with the firing of live bullets, poison gas bombs, and sound bombs.


Infantry soldiers stormed a number of homes, searched them, and tampered with their contents inside the camp, but no arrests were reported.

PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 10:02 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel continues to close the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings for more than a month

The Israeli occupation forces continue to close the Kerem Shalom commercial and Rafah border crossings for the 34th day in a row.


On May 5, 2024, the occupation forces completely closed the Kerem Shalom crossing, southeast of the city of Rafah, and prevented the entry of humanitarian and medical aid. After 20 days of closure, the crossing was opened for less than 24 hours, during which 200 aid trucks entered, which were very scarce quantities. Compared to the needs of the sector, especially after seven continuous months of aggression.


On May 6, the occupation forces announced the start of a ground military operation in Rafah, and the next day, they occupied the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, and prevented the entry of life-saving aid and supplies into the besieged Strip, which exacerbated the humanitarian catastrophe.


According to medical sources, no sick or wounded person has been able to leave the Gaza Strip since the reoccupation of the Palestinian side of the crossing.


The continued closure of the crossings threatens the return of famine to Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, after citizens exhausted their remaining food supplies in light of the scarcity of aid.


The United Nations said that the amount of aid entering the Gaza Strip has decreased by 67 percent since Israel closed the Rafah crossing.


The United Nations World Food Program said that 9 out of 10 children in the Gaza Strip suffer from acute food poverty.


The program explained in a series of publications on the “X” platform that “the hostilities and restrictions imposed on aid have led to the collapse of food and health systems.”


It pointed out that Palestinian families displaced from Rafah are now in areas suffering from a lack of clean water, medical supplies, and fuel, and are living with limited food aid.


The World Food Program stressed that in order to reach the largest number of people with fewer resources, it was forced to reduce rations and give priority to hot meals produced in local community kitchens.


Yesterday, the occupation forces committed a massacre in the Nuseirat camp, resulting in the death of 210 citizens and the injury of more than 400 others.


The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression against Gaza by land, sea and air since October 7, 2023, resulting in the death of 36,801 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 83,680 others, while thousands of victims remain under rubble and on the roads.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 09 Jun 2024 9:13 am - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu appeals to Gantz not to resign from the war government

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Minister Benny Gantz not to resign from the "war government," but Gantz intends to hold political consultations today, Sunday, regarding the date of his resignation from the government, after he canceled a conference that was scheduled for this purpose yesterday.


“I call on Benny Gantz... do not leave the emergency government,” Netanyahu said on the X platform, adding that the time is “for unity, not division.”


Before that, Gantz announced yesterday the cancellation of a press conference during which the Israeli media expected that he might announce his resignation. The cancellation came after the Israeli forces announced that they had recovered 4 detainees held by the resistance from the central Gaza Strip.


Gantz said after the operation, “In addition to the justified joy of the achievement, we must remember all the challenges that Israel faces.” He added, "Therefore, I say to the Prime Minister and the entire leadership: Today we must look responsibly at what is right and possible to move forward."


Gantz - the former army commander, and one of the main opponents of Benjamin Netanyahu - had previously said before joining the war government, "The return of hostages from Gaza is a priority."


Israeli media reported that Gantz will hold political consultations today, Sunday, regarding the date of his resignation from the government. She added, quoting members of the "State Camp Party", that there has been no change so far in Gantz's decision to resign from the government.


It also said, according to the same source, that the Gantz conference that was scheduled yesterday was only postponed and not cancelled. Members of the State Camp party pointed out that Netanyahu's statements "are not reflected in actions on the ground, and nothing has changed, and that he still refuses to make strategic decisions required for Israel's security."


The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted people close to Gantz as saying that despite the news they described as “good” after the recovery of the four detainees, “Netanyahu’s orientations have not changed,” stressing that “they do not want local success, as they described it.”


They added that Gantz will resign if Netanyahu's orientations do not change, amid disagreements between the two over the war on the Gaza Strip.


Gantz had called on the war government to adopt an “action plan” regarding the post-war period in the Gaza Strip, otherwise he “will be forced to resign from the government,” setting yesterday, Saturday, June 8, as a deadline.


His centrist National Union party also submitted a bill last week to dissolve the Knesset and hold early elections.


Gantz is seen as the most likely candidate to form a coalition in the event that Netanyahu's government is overthrown and early elections are held.


Source: Agencies


ARAB AND WORLD

Sun 09 Jun 2024 9:08 am - Jerusalem Time

Washington announces the resumption of aid delivery to Gaza via the pier

The US military announced on Saturday evening that it had resumed delivering humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza through the temporary pier that the United States built on the coast of the Strip and was damaged by a storm at the end of May.


The US Central Command in the Middle East (CENTCOM) said in a statement on the “Basic humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza,” she said, adding, “No American military personnel have set foot on the beach in Gaza.”


In a second statement, Centcom said, “The humanitarian dock facility, including its equipment and personnel, was not used in the hostage rescue operations Saturday in Gaza. The Israelis used the area south of the facility to safely return the hostages to Israel. Any claim to the contrary is false.” The temporary dock on the Gaza coast is for one specific purpose: to help transport additional life-saving aid that is desperately needed in the Gaza Strip.”


On Friday, the US Army announced that it had returned the floating dock designated for bringing aid to the Gaza coast, after its structure was damaged by a storm and was repaired in a nearby Israeli port.


Centcom said in a statement that it "succeeded in returning the temporary dock to Gaza, allowing the continued delivery of much-needed humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza."


Israel restricts the delivery of aid to Gaza, depriving the Strip's 2.4 million residents of clean water, food, medicine and fuel.


PALESTINE

Sun 09 Jun 2024 9:00 am - Jerusalem Time

The horrific massacre in Nuseirat.. Is it a translation of Gallant’s promise to negotiate by fire?

Major General Wassef Erekat: What happened was like an invitation not to keep any Israeli prisoner alive in the future 
 Samer Anabtawi: What happened is an attempt by Netanyahu and his army to promote an imaginary victory inside Israel and abroad 
 Dr. Raed Nairat: An escalation before reaching a decision on the prisoner deal gives Netanyahu an excuse to defend his position 
 Adnan Al-Sabah: The massacres that the occupation promotes as achievements are in fact crimes that besiege it globally as a war criminal. 

In a major escalation in which the Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre in the Nuseirat camp that claimed the lives of more than 210 martyrs and about 400 wounded, using all of its security system, the occupation announced that it had recovered four detainees alive, but that event would, according to writers and experts, change the course of dealing with the detainees. In the future, while the occupation Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wants to send many messages through him.


Writers, political analysts and military experts believe, in separate interviews with Al-Quds, that the Israeli occupation’s announcement of the recovery of four detainees held by the resistance in Gaza is not a victory after eight months of war. Rather, what happened was the commission of massacres, which reinforces the presence of the occupation leaders on the blacklists of the perpetrators. Crimes, while they confirm that Israel's risk to the lives of its prisoners may expose them to death in the future.


The military and strategic expert, retired Major General Wassef Erekat, confirms that what happened is like an invitation not to keep any Israeli prisoner alive in the future.


Erekat explains that the resistance fighters could have killed the prisoners, especially after the massacres in which dozens of citizens were martyred, double numbers of wounded occurred, and there were losses among the ranks of the Israeli army, but it usually hides its losses, stressing that these massacres place the occupation army on the list of perpetrators of massacres.


Erekat believes that what happened was not a military operation, but rather massacres in which all types of weapons were used, pointing out that the entire occupation security system moved to recover the prisoners, and that the size of the participating forces proves that the Israeli army did not achieve a tangible achievement, and that international security services may have participated in the operation.


He points out that the actions of the Israeli occupation army put the occupation prisoners in danger, and it was possible to negotiate their release instead of committing massacres, pointing out that the occupation does not protect the lives of its prisoners, explaining that there are 130 Israeli prisoners remaining, and what happened will increase the determination of the resistance. To continue the battle.


For his part, the writer and political analyst Dr. confirms: Raed Nairat said that the recent massacres can be explained from two aspects: The first is the escalation before reaching a decision on the prisoner deal, as both parties seek to demonstrate their strength. Second, the escalation was to cover a major operation represented by the release of four Israeli detainees, which will have different implications, most notably Benny Gantz’s postponement of the conference regarding talk of his resignation, and giving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the ruling right an excuse to defend their position that military pressure leads to the release of detainees. Although this happened eight months after the war.


Nairat points out that the occupation army directly announced the recovery of the detainees to promote this as a political achievement, instead of waiting for an official spokesman.
Regarding the possibility of how things will turn out, Nairat stresses that this is a war whose outcome is difficult to predict, as there are more variables than constants.
Meanwhile, Nairat points out that the occupation’s announcement of the recovery of the four detainees is not expected to have much impact on the resistance, especially since the resistance’s detainees can achieve its goals.


In turn, writer and political analyst Samer Anabtawi believes that the escalation and announcement of the recovery of four Israeli detainees comes within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to deliver several messages. The first message is that Netanyahu can release detainees by force, not through negotiations, which reinforces his decision to continue the war instead of negotiating with the resistance.


The second message, according to Anabtawi, is that this comes as a form of pressure on the resistance to accept the Israeli and American proposals regarding concluding a prisoner deal, and the third message relates to Israeli internal affairs, as this announcement gives the appearance of victory to Netanyahu and gives Benny Gantz an excuse to withdraw his resignation and remain in the war council, and the message The fourth aims to target the popular incubator of the resistance with massacres to pressure it to change its positions, while the fifth message is directed to the United States to demonstrate Israel’s ability to recover detainees by force.


Anabtawi clarifies that what happened is not a real victory, but rather an attempt to promote an imaginary victory at home and abroad, especially since Netanyahu is not seeking to end the war. For him, war means protecting the far-right government and the settlement project, and protecting himself from prosecution, indicating that Netanyahu wants to develop the war and open a new front in the north.


Anabtawi stresses that what happened will not affect the resistance, but rather will lead to a hardening of its positions and its continuation of clearly achieving its goals, indicating that the battle is still open to all possibilities.


As for the writer and political analyst Adnan Al-Sabah, he stresses that what happened may represent an achievement for Israel, but he emphasizes that there is no absolute failure or absolute victory in any battle in the world.


He points out that achieving this achievement after eight months raises questions about how long the Israeli army needs to achieve “more victories.”


He explains that the massacres that took place are a kind of negotiation by fire between the occupation and the resistance, stressing that the crimes committed by the occupation and promoted as achievements are in fact crimes that trap it as a murderer and criminal in the eyes of the world.
Al-Sabah points out that Israel committed massacres to achieve a small achievement for itself, but these massacres will not affect the resistance, especially since Gaza is now completely destroyed, and such events are expected from an army that has all the capabilities.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Jun 2024 10:55 pm - Jerusalem Time

A Palestinian child was injured by Israeli forces east of Nablus

A child was injured by live bullets, this Saturday evening, during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in the village of Salem, east of Nablus.


According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the village, leading to clashes, during which a 16-year-old child was injured by live bullets in the foot and was subsequently taken to the hospital.

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Jun 2024 9:47 pm - Jerusalem Time

UNRWA warns of the risk of a cholera outbreak in the Gaza Strip

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, expressed his concern about the risk of an outbreak of diseases in the Gaza Strip, such as cholera.


During his visit to the German capital, Berlin, with the aim of mobilizing more support for the organization, Lazzarini spoke, today, Saturday, about the almost “hopeless” situation for citizens in the Gaza Strip, pointing out the need to confront famine and confront the deteriorating situation in the south.


Lazzarini also expressed his concern about children in the Strip, saying: “We have about 600,000 school-age children in Gaza, and the top priority is getting them back to learning.”

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Jun 2024 9:21 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli settlers storm east of Ramallah

This Saturday evening, settlers stormed the outskirts of the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah.


According to local sources, a group of settlers stormed the outskirts of the town of Deir Dibwan from the western side and gathered in the area.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sat 08 Jun 2024 9:17 pm - Jerusalem Time

Demonstrations in capitals and cities around the world demanding an end to the aggression against the Gaza Strip

Today, Saturday, many capitals and cities around the world witnessed massive demonstrations denouncing the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.


Thousands participated in demonstrations organized in the American capital, Washington, the Norwegian capital, Oslo, the cities of Stuttgart and Mainz in Germany, the capital Berlin, the British capital, London, the Austrian capital, Vienna, the French capital, Paris, the city of Lyon, and the Italian city of Milan, in support of the Palestinian people, and to demand a ceasefire, and the introduction of... Humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.


Participants in the demonstrations raised Palestinian flags and banners denouncing the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation against our people.


The participants called for an end to double standards and the need to prosecute the occupation for its massacres against the Palestinian people, especially children, and condemned the genocide in the Gaza Strip.

ARAB AND WORLD

Sat 08 Jun 2024 8:43 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli demonstrators demand a prisoner exchange deal

About 1,000 people demonstrated at the Karkur junction in northern Israel, on Saturday, to demand the conclusion of a prisoner exchange deal with the Palestinian factions in Gaza, after the army announced the “liberation” of 4 detainees in a special military operation in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.


The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said: “In light of the liberation of the four detainees earlier on Saturday, about 1,000 people demonstrated at the Karkur intersection, demanding that work continue to release the other detainees by concluding a deal.”


According to the newspaper, "The demonstrators raised banners reading joy over the release of the detainees, mixed with sadness and concern for the fate of the other 120 detainees."


Earlier Saturday, the Israeli army announced that it was able to “liberate” 4 detainees in a special operation in the Nuseirat camp.


This coincides with the killing of 210 Palestinians and the injury of more than 400, on Saturday, in a massacre committed by Israeli forces after a violent artillery and air bombardment that targeted the Nuseirat camp.


On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” in response to “the continuing attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against the Palestinian people, their property, and their sanctities, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.”


During the operation that targeted the Israeli settlements and military sites adjacent to the Gaza Strip, hundreds of Israelis were killed, some of them by Israeli fire. The movement also took dozens to the Gaza Strip to exchange them for thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.


After a temporary truce that resulted in an exchange of prisoners from both sides late last year, Tel Aviv still estimates that there are 128 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, while Hamas announced that more than 70 of them were killed in random raids launched by Israel, which holds at least 9,500 Palestinians in its prisons. .

PALESTINE

Sat 08 Jun 2024 6:47 pm - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu: We will not stop until we return all the kidnapped people in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Tel Aviv will not stop until it completes the mission and returns all detainees in the Gaza Strip to their homes, after the army announced the release of 4 detainees in a military operation in the center of the Strip.


Netanyahu's statements came in an unusual way during the religious Jewish holiday of Saturday, during which he usually refrains from making any statements.


Netanyahu expressed his thanks to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, Shin Bet (General Security) head Ronen Bar, and the team that managed the operation in the Nuseirat camp, according to the Hebrew newspaper “Maariv.”


He added: "We are committed to doing this in the future as well. We will not stop until we complete the mission and return all the kidnapped people to their homes, whether living or dead."


Earlier Saturday, the Israeli army said in a statement on X: “In a complex operation by the army, the Shin Bet, and the police (the special police unit), four Israeli kidnappers were freed this morning from two separate areas in the heart of Nuseirat.”


According to the army statement, the four detainees are: Noa Argamani (25), Almoa Meir (21), Andrey Kozlov (27), and Shlomi Ziv (40), and their health condition is good.


He said that the four were "kidnapped" by Hamas fighters from the "Nova" concert on the seventh of last October in the Re'im settlement adjacent to the Gaza Strip.


This morning, the Israeli army launched a “large-scale and unprecedented attack” on the Nuseirat camp and other areas in the central Gaza Strip.


The army said in a brief statement broadcast on its account on the