Haaretz newspaper commented remarkably on what happened in the so-called Flags March two days ago, citing what the thinker, author, and critic of Israeli society, Yehoshua Leibovich (1903-1994), said.

The newspaper described the stage that Israel is going through as brutal, saying in its editorial - today, Friday - that "it is impossible to look at the documented depiction of the ugly, violent demonstrators during the Jewish supremacy march (the flag march) in the streets of Jerusalem the day before yesterday without hearing the warning of Professor Yehoshua Levovich echoing in the background."

According to what Haaretz reported, Levovich previously said, “National pride and euphoria following the Six-Day War (in 1967) are temporary, and will lead us from a rising nationalist tendency to extreme nationalism. The third stage will be brutality, while the final stage will be the end of Zionism.” The newspaper described the philosopher as being far-sighted.

The newspaper added, describing what happened in the march, saying, "The general spirit was the spirit of revenge. The prominent symbol on the participants' shirts was the Kahanist fist. The popular chant was a particularly vengeful song, along with slogans of 'Death to the Arabs and let their village be burned.'"

"Scary" atmosphere

Haaretz said that the most popular minister was National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and the general atmosphere was "frightening," noting that its correspondent, Nir Hasson, was assaulted by a gang of boys who knocked him to the ground and kicked him.

It added that not only the reporter was attacked, but those she described as rioters threatened, insulted, pushed, and assaulted Palestinian passers-by, and every person they recognized as a journalist or trying to photograph them.

It explained, "The reason for their attack on journalists is that there were not enough Palestinian victims, as Palestinian families closed the doors of their homes."

The newspaper repeated the reason for the absence of Palestinian movement in Jerusalem, “because they have already learned that when the Jews celebrate Jerusalem Day, it is better to evacuate the square so that the revelers do not attack them.”

Haaretz considered that "brutality" is no longer limited to the margins, settlements, or outposts, but has infiltrated the ranks of the Israeli army, the Knesset, the government, and ministers and representatives, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Transportation Minister Miri Regev, Ben Gvir, and others.

The newspaper concluded its editorial with a warning: “If the Israeli community does not work to return extremists to the margins of society, eliminate Kahanism, and erase the malicious epidemic of occupation from the body of the state, then it is only a matter of time until the complete collapse of Israel. The countdown has begun,” as she put it.

Source: Haaretz

The White House said on Friday that it is still waiting to receive an official response from the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” to the latest ceasefire proposals in the Gaza war.

Spokesman John Kirby told reporters: US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, will discuss the issue during a meeting tomorrow, Saturday.

Sources told Al-Quds that a delegation from the Palestinian factions will arrive in Doha tomorrow to complete ceasefire efforts, and the resistance insists on an explicit and clear text to reach a comprehensive ceasefire agreement and complete withdrawal.

Last Friday, Biden announced a three-stage plan to end the war in the Gaza Strip. The first stage lasts 6 weeks, and includes a “complete and comprehensive” ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all populated areas in Gaza, and the release of a number of hostages from... Women, the elderly, and the wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced on Friday that the number of displaced people who were infected with infectious diseases as a result of repeated displacement trips as a result of the ongoing Israeli war reached about 1.5 million displaced Palestinians.

The government office said in statistics published via Telegram: “One million, 477 thousand and 748 displaced Palestinians were infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement from different areas in the Gaza Strip.”

The office did not clarify whether any injured people had recovered from their injuries, and did not provide any additional details in this regard, but it indicated that the number of displaced people inside the Gaza Strip since October 7 reached two million people (out of a population of 2.4 million).

In its statement, the office warned that 3,500 children in the Gaza Strip face the risk of death from starvation. As a result of the ongoing Israeli restrictions and war since October 7th.

On Thursday, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that 9 out of 10 children in Gaza suffer from a serious lack of food, and that malnutrition increases the risk to life in the Strip, according to a report it published on food shortages among children.

The government media statement in Gaza pointed out that 10,000 cancer patients are facing death and need treatment outside the Gaza Strip, while more than 71 cases of viral hepatitis infection have been recorded, according to the statement.

Hepatitis A is a highly contagious infection that occurs in the liver, and is caused by a virus as a result of consuming contaminated food or drink, or as a result of close contact with a person carrying the disease.

Cases of hepatitis have spread in the Gaza Strip, especially among children, as a result of lack of personal hygiene and water, food contamination, and overcrowding in displacement centers, due to the restrictions imposed by the Israeli army on all necessities of life, according to local institutions.

The statement stated that 17,000 children in the Gaza Strip live without their parents or one of them, as they were killed as a result of Israeli attacks on the Strip.

He explained that there are 60,000 pregnant women who are at risk due to the lack of health care in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian and international organizations had previously warned that the Israeli army would target medical staff and hospitals inside the Gaza Strip, but it ignored those warnings and put most of the hospitals out of service after targeting them and destroying large parts of them.

Since the closure of the Rafah land border crossing with Egypt (south), following Israel’s control over the Palestinian side of it on May 7, coinciding with the start of a ground military operation in the city of Rafah, no sick or wounded person has been able to leave the Gaza Strip, according to previous statements. For the ministry.

Israel continues the war on Gaza despite orders from the International Court of Justice to immediately stop the ground attack on the city of Rafah (south), and to take temporary measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and improve the dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.

Israel also ignores the request of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, to issue international arrest warrants against its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and its Defense Minister, Yoav Galant. For their responsibility for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” in Gaza.

The Israeli occupation forces continue their bloody bombing operations on the central Gaza Strip, leaving deaths and wounded among the displaced Palestinians.

A local source said that more than 21 people were killed in the Israeli bombing on Nuseirat, Al-Maghazi, and Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip since last night.

In the same context, 17 dead arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah as a result of the Israeli occupation raids on the center of the Gaza Strip since last night.

Two Palestinians were killed by occupation bullets in Deir al-Balah, and two others were also killed after a car was targeted in the Camp 2 area in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip.

Omar Al-Derawi, a photographer with Human Rights Watch, told the Associated Press that victims of the school bombing arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in nearby Deir Al-Balah, which was already crowded with a constant stream of ambulances since the incursion into central Gaza began before 24 hours.

Occupation helicopters opened fire on areas east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In Gaza City, 3 people were killed and 15 others were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a UNRWA school housing displaced persons in the Western Beach Camp.

The government media office in Gaza said, “By targeting this school, which is affiliated with UNRWA, the number of UNRWA schools designated as shelter centers and targeted by the occupation by bombing exceeds more than 150 schools affiliated with UNRWA, in addition to the bombing of dozens of other facilities, installations, and service centers affiliated with UNRWA, and which were designated for sheltering displaced persons.” ».

Witnesses said that the school was full of Palestinians who fled the Israeli attacks and bombing of northern Gaza.

Among the dead resulting from the bombing of the UNRWA school was the head of the Beach Camp Emergency Committee.

As for the southern Gaza Strip, 23 martyrs died as a result of the occupation raids on eastern Khan Yunis during the past 24 hours.

A number of dead and wounded arrived at the European Gaza Hospital as a result of the occupation bombing of a house for the Tabsh family in the town of Abasan Al Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

In an interview with Al-Ghad in the Mawasi Khan Yunis area, displaced people expressed their extreme anger at the lack of goods and the cessation of the provision of aid, in addition to the high prices. The displaced people demanded that all crossings with the Gaza Strip be opened for the entry of aid.

It should be noted that the toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 36,731 deaths and 83,530 injured since October 7, according to the latest update issued by the health authorities in the Strip.

The head of the Yisrael Beytenu party, Avigdor Lieberman, said today, Friday, that the time has come to change the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which he described as a “failure,” because it did not eliminate the Hamas movement, nor did it restore detainees in the Gaza Strip.

He added in press statements, “After 8 months of war, we received complete humiliation instead of absolute victory.”

He stressed that the Israeli government also lost in the north, and continues to surrender to Lebanese Hezbollah.

Anger is growing in Israel against the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for not concluding a prisoner and detainee exchange deal.

On the other hand, Israeli media said on Friday that Minister in the war government, Benny Gantz, will make a statement on Saturday evening, which may include announcing his resignation, due to the lack of a clear plan and vision for the war in the Gaza Strip.

It is expected that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver a speech to the Israelis tomorrow, Saturday, after Gantz’s statement.

A poll for the Israeli newspaper Maariv also showed that 42% of Israelis believe that Israeli War Council member Benny Gantz is most suitable to head the government, compared to 34% who prefer current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Maariv poll showed that 62% support launching a war on Lebanon in response to Hezbollah attacks.

The Maariv poll also indicated that 47% support the proposal announced by US President Joe Biden to release detainees in Gaza, while 37% support the return of detainees through military pressure.

Today, Friday, the government media office in Gaza announced the death of more than 15,000 Palestinian children, including 33 who died as a result of famine.

The government media office in Gaza also revealed that about 3,500 children are at risk of death due to malnutrition, and 11,000 wounded need treatment abroad.

He added that about 17,000 children live without their parents or one of them.

The office confirmed in a statement that 70% of the victims of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip were children and women.

The office indicated that the occupation army committed 3,276 massacres during the 245 days of the war on Gaza, and that about 520 martyrs were recovered from 7 mass graves that the occupation established in hospitals.

The government office statement indicated that there are 2 million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.

On Friday, Israel was included on the United Nations “blacklist” of countries and organizations that target children.

The United Nations Children's Fund said that one out of every 10 children in the Gaza Strip was living on two or fewer meals a day, before the situation deteriorated further last February, with 65% of children in Gaza receiving less than just one meal a day.

UNICEF added that the hostilities and restrictions imposed on humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip led to the collapse of the food and health systems, which led to catastrophic consequences for children and their families.

Hebrew media reported that the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, informed the Israeli army attaché in the United States, Heidi Zilberman, of his decision to include Israel on the blacklist of countries and organizations that harm children.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said on Friday: “Guterres informed the Israeli army attaché in the United States, Heidi Zilberman, that he had made the final decision to include Israel in the blacklist of countries and organizations that harm children in conflict zones, along with Russia and the ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram organizations.” .

It added: "All Israeli efforts to persuade Guterres to refrain from this step have failed, and Israel will appear on a blacklist that will be published next week as part of a report distributed to members of the Security Council."

It continued: "Although an official statement by the Secretary-General of the United Nations has not yet been published, Israel understands that the decision has been taken, and the report will be discussed on June 26."

It pointed out that "the report, which is published once a year and covers the previous year, was written by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on children and war zones, Virginia Gamba."

“The current report will cover the entire year 2023, as the last quarter witnessed a jump in data due to the events of October 7,” she said.

It added: "Last year, the blacklist included Afghanistan, Colombia, Congo, Iraq, Mali, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram organizations. The dramatic change last year is that the Russian Armed Forces were also included in the report."

It continued: “Guterres will not explicitly mention Israel or the Israeli army - but, for example, he will mention the Israeli security forces.”

It noted that "until this year, there was a chapter in the report dedicated to Israel and the Palestinians, but Israel has not yet been included in the blacklist, entitled 'Parties that have not taken sufficient steps to improve child protection.'"

It pointed out that the report indicates that "Israel killed and wounded thousands of children, bombed civilian facilities, and prevented humanitarian aid."

Itsaid: “The source of the data contained in the report is United Nations organizations and actors on the ground, but the organization does not feed on the data provided by the parties.”

It added: “The consequences of being blacklisted are reputational damage because the report has a great international reputation and will be cited in all UN bodies, including the UN General Assembly, the Security Council and the International Court of Justice in The Hague.”

It continued: “In practice, once a country or entity is added to the list, a mechanism is established that issues ad hoc reports in relation to it. In other words, the Office of the Special Envoy will have to prepare special reports on Israel. Subsequently, reports will be submitted to the Security Council Working Group.” Concerning children in conflict areas.

It added: "The working group itself can issue recommendations that the Security Council can decide to accept or not - for example, through a Council resolution on what is expected of Israel."

The newspaper noted that the move "will give negative tailwinds to initiatives to boycott, delegitimize, harm trade, and ban arms."

There was no immediate comment from the Secretary-General of the United Nations regarding what was reported by the Hebrew newspaper until 09:15 GMT.

On Tuesday, the Hamas movement called on the United Nations to include Israel on the “blacklist of criminal entities against children.”

The movement stated, in a statement, that “according to UN reports, one child is injured or dies every 10 minutes in Gaza.”

Itsaid, "14,000 children were martyred during the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza, and this number exceeds the number of children killed recorded over 4 years of conflicts in the world."

Since October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza with absolute American support, leaving more than 119,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 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 demanding that it stop the fighting immediately, and orders from the Court of Justice to stop its attack on Rafah, and take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and “improve the humanitarian situation” in Gaza.

Source: Anatolia

Today, Friday, a number of settlers attacked the village of Beitin, east of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, and set fire to the vicinity of a number of homes.

Video clips showed the spread of settlers near inhabited houses in the northeastern side of the village, close to the bridge between the villages of Beitin and Deir Dibwan, where they set fire to dry grass on lands adjacent to the houses, as an indication of their intention to burn them.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces prevented the villagers from confronting the colonists' attack, and later obstructed their attempts to put out the fire.

Residents of Rafah reported today, Friday, that the Israeli army was expanding its invasion and bombarding the city from the air and land last night, while tanks attempted to advance westward, according to what Reuters reported from them, in the absence of any indication of progress in the efforts of the mediators to reach a ceasefire. To shoot in the Gaza war.

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper reported that the Israeli army had completed its control of the Philadelphia axis from Kerem Shalom to the seashore.

Violent gun battles also took place between Israeli forces and fighters in Rafah, led by Hamas. Residents reported that tanks, which control the border strip with Egypt, launched several strikes towards west and central Rafah, wounding a number of people who were trapped inside their homes.

One of the residents said, "In my opinion, the occupation forces are trying to reach the beach area in Rafah. The raids throughout the night and the attempted incursion were tactical and under cover of fire before they retreated. This was one of the worst nights, as people were injured inside their homes before they evacuated them in the morning."

Medics said that Israeli forces also carried out operations on the ground inside the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, while launching heavy bombardment with aircraft and tanks on two other camps and a nearby city, killing and wounding many Palestinians.

The military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and other smaller factions, reported that fighters carried out attacks against Israeli forces in several areas of the central and southern Gaza Strip.

Regarding attempts to reach a ceasefire agreement, a Hamas official told Reuters, “We have shown all the flexibility required to reach a deal, but the Israeli occupation still refuses any commitment to stop the aggression against our people and withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip.”

He added, "The occupation and the Americans bear responsibility for not reaching an agreement so far because of their opposition to ending the war on our people."

An American-Egyptian-Israeli meeting in Cairo on reopening the Rafah crossing ended in failure last Sunday, after Israel rejected the Palestinian Authority’s involvement in any way in operating the crossing, according to the Walla website, citing four American and Israeli officials today, Friday.

The Biden administration says that the Gaza Strip will be part of the Palestinian state in the future, and that the Palestinian Authority will have a role in managing the sector after the war, but in all of his meetings with American officials, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected any involvement of the Authority in Gaza, according to “Walla.” ". Netanyahu said during the political-security cabinet meeting last week that he rejects any government involvement in the Rafah crossing.

However, an Israeli official told the site that Netanyahu's statements contradict the policy approved by the war cabinet a few days ago, and that Israel agrees to allow any party except Hamas to operate the crossing.

During the tripartite meeting, the American and Egyptian sides proposed the possibility of reopening the Rafah crossing with the presence of Palestinian employees from Gaza who are not linked to Hamas, and who would be representatives of the Palestinian Authority.

In turn, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah put together a list of the names of approximately 300 Palestinians from Gaza, after a security check on them and their approval to work at the crossing, according to American officials.

The Israeli delegates said at the meeting that Israel will investigate the identity of the Palestinian employees proposed on the list and will allow those who have no connection to Hamas to operate the crossing alongside a European Union monitoring force that was present at the crossing before Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, according to two Israeli officials.

They added that there is no problem with the crossing being occupied by Palestinians belonging to the Fatah movement, but Israel will not agree to them working there as official representatives of the Palestinian Authority.

They proposed that the Palestinians whose names were on the list occupy the crossing as a “local civil committee,” while Egypt and the Authority opposed this Israeli proposal.

Following the failure to reach an agreement, the Egyptian side called in the tripartite meeting to hold another meeting with the participation of the Director of General Intelligence in the Authority, Majed Faraj, but the Israeli side rejected this proposal and said that the Israeli government’s policy is not to hold deliberations on Gaza with the Palestinian Authority, and that they will need to Government approval to hold such a meeting.

The US State Department condemned the harassment and attacks suffered by two journalists during the flag parade in Jerusalem, and urged Israel to protect journalists.

The official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Matthew Miller, said on Thursday, in response to a question from the Al-Quds.com correspondent, about the American government’s position on the attack by extremist settlers on journalist Saif Qawasmi, who beat him: “We have seen video clips of this incident, and we have seen pictures of this incident.” "We strongly condemn it."

Miller added: “Journalists and media workers are essential to democracy. They should not be attacked anywhere in the world, including in Israel, for doing their work. We expect Israel to respect its stated commitment to human rights and freedom of the press. We expect them to protect journalists of this kind.” "If there are violations of the criminal law, we expect people to be held fully accountable."

In response to a follow-up question by a Jerusalem correspondent about whether the Israeli occupation authorities would take the United States’ position on this issue seriously, Miller said: “We are what the United States’ expectations are. But we have shown time and time again that we are ready to hold difficult talks with Israel about these matters.” ".

In turn, the Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the harassment and attacks against Palestinian journalists at the hands of the occupation authorities, and the Program Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Carlos Martinez de la Serna, said that the Israeli security forces “stood by without doing anything” while the demonstrators harassed and assaulted the journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Israel to investigate these incidents and hold those responsible accountable.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation police arrested the Palestinian photographer Saif Qawasmi, who was attacked on Wednesday by Israeli settlers who participated in the flag march in Jerusalem, before he was later released.

During the march, which commemorates the occupation of East Jerusalem, on June 5, 1967, Israeli settlers and demonstrators, said to be from the extreme right, attacked the independent Palestinian journalist, Al-Qawasmi, who works with the local Al-Asimah news network, and the Israeli journalist Nir Hasson, correspondent for the newspaper “Haaretz.” "The Israeli daily, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said, "The Palestinian photographer was detained for several hours, while the police did not arrest any of the attackers, nor did they summon any suspects for investigation or witnesses to testify."

It quoted Qawasmi as saying, “The police detained him after a well-known far-right activist in Jerusalem contacted them and claimed that he (Qawasmi) was a Hamas agent.”

Today, Friday, settlers burned vast areas of land in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah.

According to local sources, a group of settlers from the “Oz Etzion” colony, established on village lands, set fire to agricultural lands in the northern and western regions, with an area estimated at 500 dunams, where the fire destroyed dozens of perennial olive trees.

The village of Burqa is subjected to repeated attacks by settlers on citizens, their homes, property, and agricultural lands.

The head of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Minister Moayed Shaaban, revealed that the Israeli occupation seized a total of 385 dunums of citizens’ lands in Hebron, under the name of “expropriation orders.”

Shaaban said, in a press statement, today, Friday, that the seizure order aims to create a major expansion of “Street 60” to facilitate the movement of settlers, which is the section that begins at Jabal Johar, south of the city of Hebron, which is the point where work began in 1990 according to the seizure order. Previously, the section designated for expansion then extends from Khirbet Adissa, east of the city of Hebron, adjacent to the “Kiryat Arba” colony, all the way to the lands of Halhul at the section that was expropriated by the occupying state in 1995.

He added that the occupying state is bending the laws regulating and developing infrastructure in effect before the occupation for the benefit of the colonists, in serious violation of international laws that criminalize all forms of apartheid and land seizure for the benefit of the settlers, in that it steals Palestinian land and presents it as infrastructure to empower the settlers.

Shaaban stated that “what appears from the outside as a development of infrastructure and roads, according to the occupation’s claim, is nothing more than an occupational means to divide the Palestinian geography, stifle the Palestinian presence, and prevent communication between villages and towns in all places of the Palestinian presence.”

US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is expected to visit Israel at the beginning of next week, in light of expectations that the “National Camp” bloc headed by Benny Gantz will withdraw from the emergency government, and against the backdrop of not reaching an agreement on stopping the war on Gaza and exchanging prisoners.

This will be Blinken's eighth visit to Israel since the beginning of the war on Gaza, eight months ago. Blinken visited Israel last month in an attempt to prevent the invasion of Rafah.

Blinken will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who denied the plan that US President Joe Biden reviewed in his speech a few days ago and said that it was an Israeli plan. But Netanyahu denied what Biden said about stopping the war, after Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir said that they opposed stopping the war and threatened to topple the government if Netanyahu agreed to it, and Ben Gvir described it as a "defeatist plan."

In the meantime, the Biden administration is trying to advance an agreement that would lead to stopping the war in the Gaza Strip and lead to a cessation of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, before the US presidential elections, next November, as Biden faces unprecedented internal opposition and criticism, which may lead to preventing his access. To a second term in the White House.

Blinken had warned Israel, following previous visits, of political isolation in the world, which is now being achieved through a boycott by European countries and the recognition by some of them of a Palestinian state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, and in light of the possibility of international arrest warrants being issued by the International Criminal Court against Netanyahu and the Minister of Security, Yoav. Gallant.

Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 4 citizens from Ramallah and Jenin.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested: Ahmed Issa Hammad, Ahmed Atallah Hamed, and Ahmed Al-Sarraj, after raiding and searching their homes in the town of Silwad.

In Jenin, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Yahya Zakaria Al-Dabai, after shooting at his vehicle during their storming of the city of Jenin and its camp yesterday evening, Thursday, indicating that his family was informed that he was detained this Friday morning.

An Israeli occupation soldier posted a video clip on social media platforms of him and other soldiers storming a house in the city of Qalqilya, arresting a child and abusing him.

The video clip showed that the occupation soldiers stormed the home of the Melhem family in the Daoud neighborhood in the city of Qalqilya, at dawn yesterday, Thursday, where they broke the door of the building with cradles, before detaining the family and arresting their child son, Majed Melhem.

The video also included a picture of the child, Melhem, blindfolded and handcuffed.

The occupation forces arrested 10 citizens during their raid into several neighborhoods in the city of Qalqilya, at dawn on Thursday, including the child Majed Melhem.

Since the start of its comprehensive aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, last October, soldiers in the occupation army have published video clips on their pages on social media platforms, showing the arrest, detention, and abuse of citizens, and tampering with the contents of the homes they stormed or destroyed in the Strip. Gaza, including children's toys, taking advantage of the policy of impunity and lack of accountability they enjoy, and the international silence that gives them the green light to continue their crimes against our people.

The video clips also include expressions inciting the killing of Palestinians, in addition to insults and profanity.

Since the start of the aggression, the occupation forces have arrested more than 3,009 citizens, including 635 children from the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, in addition to detainees from the Gaza Strip, whose number is estimated at thousands, and they face the policy of forced disappearance in the occupation camps, according to the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoners’ Club. .

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to deliver a speech before the US Congress in both houses on July 24, according to what the leaders of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives and Senate announced yesterday, Thursday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell explained in a statement that Netanyahu’s visit symbolizes the enduring relationship between the United States and Israel, and will give him the opportunity to share his government’s vision of defending democracy, combating terrorism, and establishing a just and lasting peace in the region. According to him.

Netanyahu's visit to the United States comes amid increasing pressure on Israel to reach an agreement with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to end the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which has caused increasing diplomatic isolation for Israel due to the high death toll in the Strip.

American media reported that Netanyahu would respond to the invitation of congressional leaders to deliver a speech before a joint session of the House of Representatives and the Senate on June 13, but the Prime Minister’s Office denied the validity of this information.

Speech date

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office confirmed that the date of Netanyahu's speech before Congress has not been finally set, but it will definitely not be on June 13 due to this date conflicting with a Jewish holiday.

Netanyahu is under severe criticism due to the high number of civilian casualties in the ongoing war on Gaza, which has led to escalating tensions with the administration of President Joe Biden.

Last week, Biden presented an "Israeli plan" to end the aggression on the Gaza Strip in three stages, including a ceasefire, the release of all detainees, and the reconstruction of the destroyed Palestinian Strip.

Netanyahu's office confirmed that the war on the Gaza Strip will continue until all of Israel's goals are achieved, including, as he says, the destruction of Hamas' military capabilities.

Netanyahu's invitation

For his part, Johnson announced last week that Democratic and Republican congressional leaders had invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to deliver a speech to US lawmakers within weeks.

Johnson pointed out that the invitation, which was signed by the four leaders of both the Democratic and Republican parties in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, expresses the United States’ solidarity with Israel in “fighting terrorism.”

In a separate statement, Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stated that he participated in extending the invitation to Netanyahu.

Schumer pointed out that although there are clear and deep differences with the Israeli Prime Minister, which were expressed either in private or public conversations, the United States’ relationship with Israel is based on strong foundations, and is not limited to one individual or the Prime Minister, and therefore he decided to participate in I invited him to speak, he said.

Ramallah 6-7-2024 Wafa - The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, informed the so-called “Israeli Defense Attaché” in the United States, Major General Heidi Silberman, that he had finally decided to include Israel in the blacklist of countries and organizations that harm children in conflict areas, In addition to countries and organizations including ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said in a report published today, Friday, that “All of Israel’s efforts to persuade Guterres to avoid this step have failed, and Israel will appear on the blacklist that will be published next week in a report that will be distributed to members of the Security Council, and will be discussed on June 26.” “This June.”

A report by Israeli Channel 13 also confirmed, on Thursday night, that the Secretary-General of the United Nations took the decision despite Israeli efforts to persuade him to retract this step.

Last month, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper and its Ynet website revealed that there is real fear in Israel regarding this step, after the many statements made by Guterres against Israel.

It claimed that "various sources familiar with the matter say that the current Secretary-General hates Israel - and it is no longer possible to influence him."

Israel expressed concern that this move could lead to the imposition of an arms embargo against it.

Yedioth Ahronoth indicated that the report, which is published once a year and covers the previous year, was written by the United Nations envoy for children and war zones, Virginia Gamba. The current report will cover the entire year 2023, as the last quarter witnessed a jump in data due to the war on the Gaza Strip that broke out in October.

Last year, the blacklisted countries included Afghanistan, Congo, Mali, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and others, in addition to organizations such as Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram.

The newspaper noted that "Guterres will not mention Israel or the Israeli army specifically, but rather will refer to the Israeli security forces."

It pointed out that "Israel will find itself in the company of non-democratic countries and will be the first democratic country to be included in the report, which surveys conflict areas around the world and devotes about two pages to Israel," as she claimed.

The data contained in the report depends on UN organizations and field factors.

Yedioth Ahronoth said, “The consequences of entering the blacklist include damage to the image, as the report gains great international reputation and will be cited in all United Nations bodies, including the United Nations General Assembly, the Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and the International Criminal Court in The Hague.”

It added: “In practice, once a country or entity is placed on the list, ad hoc reports are produced in relation to them, which means that the Office of the Special Envoy will prepare ad hoc reports in relation to Israel, and the reports will subsequently be submitted to the Security Council.”

It continued, "The draft report that Israel received a few months ago includes several criticisms, including the use of large-scale bombs in the occupied territories, imposing a severe siege on Gaza, attacking vital infrastructure, attempting to recruit minors as informants, and using children as human shields."

The continued Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since last October led to the death of 36,654 citizens, including about 15,500 children and about 10,300 women, in addition to the injury of 83,309, the majority of whom were children and women, in an infinite toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in Roads, where the occupation prevents ambulance and rescue crews from reaching them.

A number of children were martyred in the Gaza Strip, as a result of hunger, malnutrition, and drought, in light of the occupation preventing the arrival of relief aid and destroying hospitals and medical centers.

During the same period, 526 citizens, including 132 children, were martyred, and 5,000 others were injured in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.

This panel provides an international humanitarian law-based analysis. Moderator: Hilde Sandvik 

Speakers: 

Espen Barth Eide, 

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Ambassador Marie Antoinette Sedin, 

Palestinian ambassador to Norway 

and Gershon Baskin, Israeli Columnist 

and Political Activist Mustafa Barghouti, Head of the Palestinian National Initiative

Based on the title, we will not talk about the “historical legacy” of insults and calls for murder and enslavement contained in the pages of the Torah, distorting the content and text, and directed against everyone who is not Jewish, that is, those who were called “goyim” (“the Gentiles” or “the others”), and we will suffice. In the new Zionist dictionary (but not separated from the spirit of their aforementioned religious dictionary).

The first thing that comes across to the historian/researcher is the designation of the indigenous people of Palestine with the phrase “non-Jewish communities residing in Palestine,” which was mentioned in the text of what was called the “Balfour Declaration,” which - of course - was formulated by the Zionist movement and agreed with Lord Arthur James Balfour. ) on his announcement, on November 2, 1917), in the form of a “promise” known by his name during his assumption of the position of British Foreign Secretary (1916-1919) after he had assumed the prime ministership of the “United Kingdom” in a previous period. In any case, this description, full of political meanings and connotations that ignore the existence of Palestinians/Arabs of Palestine, was not the “ugliest” of insults!!!

As long as the discussion is political and specific to the “dictionary of contemporary Zionist political insults,” it is necessary to point out the public insults contained in the programs of Israeli political parties that belong to the extreme Zionist right and are influential in the current Israeli government. In this context, and very briefly, the political literature of these parties describes Arabs in general (including Palestinians) as “a cancer in the Israeli demographic body...

Cockroaches... leeches... and they multiply like fleas, so let us throw them into the sea... eradicate them, throw them outside, and even - whenever necessary - exterminate them.” Accordingly, what must be presented to the Palestinian Arabs are the same three options that “Joshua ibn Nun” presented to the ancient Canaanites: departure from the country, absolute submission to Jewish rule, or destruction by fighting. And many other disgusting Israeli ideas/words/policies.

However, what is even more disgusting was embodied, and even “manifested”, in the actual practices on the ground that came - as they say - in response to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on the seventh of last October. These actual practices did not come from nowhere! Rather, it came as an authentic expression of the political positions and statements made by the leaders and symbols of the Israeli far right, along with the leaders and symbols of the ruling Likud Party, which considers itself the “Zionist Center Party” (what a horrific lie!!!) and even with them are the leaders and symbols of those who classify themselves as part of The “Israeli opposition” parties, or some symbols and leaders who consider themselves the “center left” or even the “left” of the Israeli political pendulum!!!

Because these racist and fascist positions and statements are still fresh and have not been “corrupted” by the passage of time, we ignore them, recording only their actual and tangible results on the ground: the destruction of people, trees, and stones along the “largest open prison in the world” (Gaza Strip), exceeding war crimes (according to definitions). International and humanitarian law, and the most prestigious international organizations and bodies internationally) led to genocide through acts of air, ground and sea bombardment that (repeatedly) exceeded what Hiroshima and Nagasaki witnessed, systematic starvation and the pursuit of a “scorched earth” policy that almost reached the point of making “the Strip” an unfit area. for life. This situation is the most horrific translation of the dictionary of contemporary Zionist political ideas and insults.

What is even more disgusting was embodied, and even “manifested,” in the actual practices on the ground that came - as they say - in response to the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation on the seventh of last October. These actual practices did not come from nowhere! Rather, it was an authentic expression of the political positions and statements made by leaders and symbols of the Israeli far right.

In the context of existential politics and fear of the neighborhood, David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, said, “The essence of our security problem is our very existence, and this is the terrible meaning of our security problem.” Ben-Gurion’s words mean that there is an organic and inseparable connection between security and existence, as its security problem is considered an existential problem of the first degree, meaning that Israel’s existence or non-existence is linked to security. The extremist minister in Netanyahu's government, Yisliel Smotrich, says that the establishment of a Palestinian state next to Israel will pose an existential threat to the State of Israel. He spoke publicly about an existential threat, as he put it, but he did not speak about his religious belief, which considers the West Bank to be an integral part of the Torah. Although he is new to the political arena, he addresses the world from another different perspective, which is security, terrorism, and what happened to Israel on the seventh of last October.

Since its inception, the Zionist movement has sought to establish a national homeland for the Jews, provided that it enjoys legitimacy from its establishment, that is, with the approval of the territory of the nascent state and the group of great powers. Hence, the founder and first leader of the movement, Theodor Herzl, decided to obtain the approval of the Ottoman Empire to establish a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine. However, the great rejection of its Sultan Abdul Hamid II pushed him to think in other directions, such as Uganda and sometimes Al-Arish in Egypt, apart from the experiment. Settlement in Argentina. According to the Jewish faith, the entirety of Hebrew history was in the West Bank, according to their claim. The state of “ancient Israel” was established, as well as the states of “Judea” and “Israel” after their division in the West Bank. Judaism attributes to itself the legacy of the Prophet David and the Prophet Solomon, peace be upon them. The Kingdom of “Israel” was established in the northern West Bank, and its capital at that time was Nablus “Shechem” and called Samaria (Shomron), while the Kingdom of “Judah” was established in the south, with its capital being Jerusalem, called “Somron.” The name “Judea”, so that the name of the West Bank, according to the Jewish faith, becomes “Judea and Samaria”, the name that “Israel” gives to the West Bank until today, refusing to recognize the Palestinian name.

Therefore, it is clear that the wave of settlement that has swept and continues to accelerate in areas of the West Bank has carried within it a noticeable change in the demographic composition of settlers in all areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem, and does not reflect the nature of the demographic composition of the entire population. What the Israeli government is doing in occupied Arab Palestine, in terms of attempts to expand and settle, annex more Palestinian lands, and build housing and settlements, cannot be called a new colonial phenomenon in the thought of this occupier, but rather it is a thought rooted in the roots of the history of the occupying state since its establishment.

According to this trend, the manifestation of hatred for the Palestinians and the call to get rid of them was circulated on the lips of Zionist leaders, and became more circulated by Jewish extremists, after the burning and killing of the child Muhammad Abu Khudair in Jerusalem in 2014, the burning of the Dawabsha family, the martyrdom of the father and mother and their infant child, and the mutilation of their other son in The village of Duma, located in the northern West Bank, in 2015.

It suffices to prove this that the most fundamental issue in the separation wall policy, as the construction of the apartheid wall in Jerusalem was not aimed at preventing what Israel called “terrorist and sabotage operations,” but rather in order to complete the absolute separation and isolation of Jerusalem from its geographical reality and its Arab-Palestinian dimension, and to cram it into In a Jewish environment, the idea of the wall was not a new idea, but rather it was a very old idea even before there was a significant Jewish presence in Palestine. Demographically, the early Zionists deliberately ignored the presence of the Palestinian people on their populous land, and painted a false scene of Palestine as an empty desert, waiting for Jewish colonizers. In Herzl’s speeches before the six Zionist conferences, as well as in his book entitled “The Jewish State,” there was no mention of the indigenous Arab population, except once. This established the lie that the English Zionist writer, Israel Zangwill, borrowed in 1882 from the movement of “Christian Zionism” and Lord Shaftesbury, and then mentioned it in an article published in the magazine “New Liberal Review” in 1901, to the effect that “Palestine is a land without a people who must Given to a people without land.

In addition to the above, the myth of the occupation of Palestine came, and the pure colonial dimension was linked with the biblical dimension, and the major revolution in the doctrine of the “Savior.” This is why we find different spectrums of extremists who saw entering and occupying Palestine as not linked to the return of Christ, but rather that this must be preceded by the occupation of Palestine as a prelude. For the appearance of the Messiah the Savior, and this is what the members of “Neturei Karta” and others oppose. In summary, the Israeli extremists want Palestine from the sea to the river, and anything else is unacceptable if this leads to killing and assassination among the Jews, as happened to former Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin.

The early Zionists deliberately ignored the existence of the Palestinian people on their populous land, and painted a false scene of Palestine as an empty desert, waiting for Jewish colonizers.

Al-Ghad obtained details of Hamas’ response to the negotiation paper, as the movement’s response included stopping the war on Gaza a week before the implementation of the deal began, and a clear Israeli acknowledgment of withdrawal from the Gaza Strip with international guarantees that this withdrawal would be achieved, and there are no humanitarian truces under this name, but rather a cessation. The aggression against Gaza.

The paper also emphasized freedom of movement in the Gaza Strip and allowing all displaced persons to return to their homes and areas without any conditions. From the first day of implementing the deal, aid is allowed to enter all of the Gaza Strip without dividing the Gaza Strip into security squares.

The paper included that after the first week of stopping the war on the Gaza Strip, the exchange process would begin, as Hamas does not mind that it be in installments and with international guarantees that Israel will not violate these agreements, with absolute rejection of any liberators exiting the deal outside the Palestinian territories and anyone being released in their region.

The paper demanded the release of all 57 detainees from the Shalit deal who were re-arrested as a break from the deal without being part of the deal. The detainees inside and in Jerusalem are an essential part of the deal and an Israeli veto on this criterion will not be accepted.

The paper stressed that Hamas and the resistance factions will submit the names of the batch of Israeli prisoners 48 hours before the payment is carried out, and there will be no prior lists of the number of prisoners and bodies because the census process will take more time if the war stops.

The paper said that Hamas, for the first time, presented a list of names to be the first batch for the exchange process, and it was specified as follows:

First: “160 detainees from high and old sentences, and the list begins with the following names: Marwan Barghouthi, Ahmed Saadat, Abdullah Barghouthi, Ibrahim Hamed, and Abbas Al-Sayyid, and the rest of the names on the list are in order of age and sentence without taking into account faction or geography.”

Secondly: “All women, regardless of rule, faction, or geography.”

Third: “All patients, regardless of their ruling, age, or identity, and this item is titled The Captive, Born of Accuracy.”

Fourth: “The elderly. The definition of the elderly is determined by the age of sixty and above according to international standards.”

Fifth: “All children and young people, regardless of their status and identity. The age of 18 and under has been set to define this group according to international standards.”

The paper indicated that after completing the first batch, the second batch will be moved to amid a comprehensive ceasefire agreement, achieving the complete withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip, and opening all crossings for all aid to reach the people of the Strip without Israeli control.

The movement stressed that without achieving this, the rest of the batches, which include bodies, will not be transferred.

The United States of America warned that Israel would witness a "huge" negative impact if the Palestinian Authority collapsed, at a time when Washington is once again pressuring its ally to back down from preventing the transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinians.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Thursday, “We made clear to the government of Israel in some direct conversations that there is nothing that could conflict with Israel’s strategic interests more than the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.”

He added, "The Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority helped maintain stability in the West Bank, even as the war raged in the Gaza Strip, which has been run by Hamas for years."

He continued, "If you see the Palestinian Authority collapsing and instability spreading throughout the West Bank, this not only poses a problem for the Palestinians," adding, "It also constitutes a tremendous security threat to the State of Israel."

Under peace agreements signed in the 1990s, Israel raises money for the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank. But Israel continues to prevent the transfer of revenues to the Authority since it launched the war on the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who belongs to the extreme right, is a defender of Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also a long-time critic of the Palestinian Authority and its moves toward establishing an independent Palestinian state.

The World Bank recently warned that the financial situation of the Palestinian Authority has “deteriorated significantly” with the risk of complete collapse.

Qatar announced yesterday, Thursday, that the Hamas movement informed it that it is still studying the latest proposal for a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange with Israel, which was announced by US President Joe Biden a few days ago.

This came in a statement made by Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al-Ansari to the official Qatar News Agency (QNA).

Al-Ansari said, “The mediators have not yet received a response from Hamas regarding the recent proposal regarding a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal with the Israeli occupation,” explaining that the movement “reported that it is still studying the proposal.”

He added that "Qatar's joint mediation efforts with Egypt and the United States are continuing."

Al-Ansari called for "not paying attention to inaccurate media reports, and to rely on reliable official sources, especially in light of the sensitivity of the current negotiation situation."

Once just an obscure military barracks, the Israeli Sde Teman camp, which opened after the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, gained widespread fame recently after Israel was accused of using it to torture thousands of detainees, including people who were later determined to have no connection to Hamas or other armed groups. .

The American newspaper "The New York Times" conducted a three-month investigation into the camp, in which it conducted interviews with former detainees, Israeli military officers, doctors and soldiers who served there, and also examined data related to the released detainees provided by the army.

The newspaper found that 1,200 Palestinian civilians were detained in Sde Teman in humiliating conditions, without the ability to plead their cases before a judge for up to 75 days.

Detainees were also denied access to lawyers for up to 90 days, and their whereabouts were withheld from their relatives, lawyers and human rights groups, as well as from the International Committee of the Red Cross, which some legal experts say is a violation of international law.

A number of former detainees described to the New York Times their beatings and other abuses at the camp, where they said they were held in overcrowded cages, had their hands tied and blindfolded at all times, and were prohibited from speaking loudly, and from standing or sleeping except when allowed to do so. They were completely isolated from the outside world, and were sometimes forced to listen to extremely loud music that prevented them from sleeping.

The Israeli army allowed The New York Times to briefly view part of the detention center in the Sde Teman camp, as well as to conduct interviews with a number of leaders and officials of the camp, on the condition of anonymity.

According to camp leaders, by late May, Israel had arrested nearly 4,000 people from Gaza at Sde Teman, including dozens of people captured during a Hamas attack in October.

Muhammad al-Kurdi (38 years old), an ambulance driver who was detained in Sde Teman late last year, said: “My colleagues did not know whether I was alive or dead.” He added that he was arrested in November after the convoy of ambulances he was driving attempted to pass through an Israeli military checkpoint south of Gaza City. He continued: "I was imprisoned for 32 days, but it felt like 32 years."

Eight other former detainees said they were punched, kicked, and beaten with batons, gun butts, and a portable metal detector while in detention. One said his “ribs were broken” after a soldier kicked him in the chest, while another said they were broken after he was kicked and hit with a rifle, an assault a third detainee said he witnessed.

Seven former detainees said that they were stripped of their clothes and forced to wear diapers during interrogation, while three others confirmed that they were subjected to electric shocks during interrogation. Most of these accusations were echoed in interviews conducted by officials from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) with former detainees in the camp, while others pointed out

Use of electric shocks. 
An Israeli soldier who served at the site said that his fellow soldiers regularly bragged about beating detainees. The soldier, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid prosecution, said that one of the detainees was taken for treatment at the temporary field hospital at the site because of a broken bone during his detention, while another was briefly taken out of sight and returned with bleeding around his rib cage. The soldier said that a person died in Sde Teman from wounds to his chest, although he noted that it was unclear whether his injury occurred before or after his arrival at the base.

Of the 4,000 detainees who have been housed at Sde Teman since October, 35 died either on site or after being transferred to nearby civilian hospitals, according to officers at the base who spoke to the New York Times.

Yoel Donchin, a military doctor serving at the site, said he did not understand why Israeli soldiers captured so many of the people he treated there, some of whom were unlikely to be fighters who participated in the attack on Israel.

He explained, "One of them was paraplegic, another weighed about 300 pounds (136 kilos), and the third had been breathing since childhood through a tube that was inserted into his neck." He added: "Why did they bring those people to the camp? I don't know. They seemed to be detaining anyone."

In turn, Fadi Bakr, a law student from Gaza City, said that he was arrested on January 5, as he was searching for flour for his family, but during his search an exchange of gunfire occurred in which he was injured by accident, falling to the ground bleeding, and then the soldiers arrested him thinking he was armed. A member of Hamas, they stripped him of his clothes, confiscated his phone and savings, and beat him repeatedly, not believing that he was an unarmed civilian.

The conditions of Bakr's detention mirror those of other former detainees interviewed by The New York Times.
Younis Al-Hamalawi (39 years old), a senior nurse, said that he was arrested in November after leaving Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City during an Israeli raid on the site, which Israel considers a Hamas command center.

A number of citizens were killed and others were injured, at dawn and early Friday morning, in new massacres committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip, as its aggression entered the 245th day.

Here are the latest developments: The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the Israeli occupation committed 8 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, including 77 deaths and 221 injuries to hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The toll of the Israeli aggression rose to 36,731 martyrs and 83,530 injuries since the seventh of last October.

3 citizens were killed and 15 others were injured, including those with critical injuries, after the occupation aircraft bombed a room inside the UNRWA Asmaa C School in Al-Shati Camp. They were transferred to Al-Ahli Al-Arabi Hospital “Al-Ma’amdani” in the city.

Also, 10 citizens were killed and others were injured in a raid launched by the occupation aircraft on the house of the Tabsh family in the town of Abasan Al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Two citizens were killed in a raid launched by the occupation air force on the Al-Jaafrawi area, east of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, and they were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city.

Medical sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip reported that two citizens were killed this morning in an occupation air strike that targeted the “Abu Holi” area in the city.

A citizen was also killed and others were injured after the occupation forces fired shells and bullets at areas west of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources at Al Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip reported that two citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation targeting a civilian vehicle in Camp (2) in Nuseirat.

A citizen was killed and others were injured in a raid launched by the occupation aircraft on the town of Al-Zawaida in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and they were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

Six citizens from the Al-Maghari family were killed in a raid launched by the occupation aircraft, at dawn today, on a house in the Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The killed are: Bassam Al-Maghari, his wife Rada, his son Suleiman, his daughter Fidaa, her child Khalil, and her child Sarah Muhammad Asalia.

The occupation artillery also bombed the area west of the Saffron Mosque and the vicinity of the youth stadium in the Maghazi camp, in addition to bombing citizens’ homes east of the Bureij camp, east of the city of Deir al-Balah, and north of the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, which led to a fire breaking out in the vicinity of the “Abu al-Rus Roundabout” in the Bureij camp.

Medical sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah reported that a number of injuries were reported as a result of the occupation bombing of a house for the Issa family in the vicinity of the Bisan Medical Center in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The occupation vehicles fired intense fire east of the Bureij camp, coinciding with the occupation aircraft launching violent raids on the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources at Al-Ahly Al-Arabi Hospital “Al-Maamdani” reported that two citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation aircraft bombed a house for the Ashram family near Al-Salam Mosque in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.

The occupation artillery bombed citizens' homes in various neighborhoods of Gaza City, including: "Tal al-Hawa", "Sheikh Ajlin", "Al-Zaytoun" and "Al-Sabra", in conjunction with firing from occupation vehicles stationed south of the city.

The occupation warboats also fired several shells at citizens' homes in the Fishermen's Port area and the sea in the Sheikh Ajlin area, west of Gaza City.

The occupation artillery bombed the eastern areas of the town of Al-Qarara, north of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the occupation aircraft launched violent raids on the Oraiba area, north of Rafah, and on the Sultan neighborhood, west of the city.

The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October has risen to 36,654 dead, the majority of whom are children and women, in addition to 83,309 wounded, while thousands of victims remain under the rubble and on the roads, as the occupation prevents ambulance and rescue crews from reaching them.

Today, Thursday, the US State Department imposed sanctions on the Palestinian “Lions’ Den” armed group located in the occupied West Bank.

The group - which is based in the city of Nablus - is accused of being responsible for a number of attacks on Israeli settlements and on Israeli security forces, between September 2022 and last April.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement: “The United States condemns all acts of violence committed in the West Bank, whoever committed them.”

He added that the United States "will use the tools at our disposal to expose and hold accountable those who threaten peace and stability there."

The targeting of the Palestinian group with sanctions comes after sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.

The United Nations said earlier this week that at least 505 Palestinians have been martyred in the West Bank at the hands of the Israeli army, other security forces and settlers since the outbreak of war in Gaza more than 8 months ago.

Also, about 24 Israelis, including 8 soldiers, were killed in clashes in the West Bank or in supposed attacks carried out by Palestinians during the same period, according to the United Nations.

The Lions' Den group appeared in 2022 in the Old City of Nablus, and consisted of militants affiliated with several Palestinian factions. It also included former members of the Palestinian security services, but they refused to associate themselves with a specific faction.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Tel Aviv is waging a war on several fronts despite “great international pressure.”

This came after his participation in a security assessment at the headquarters of the Central Command of the Israeli army in Jerusalem, according to the official broadcasting authority.

Netanyahu added: “We are fighting in the south, in the north, and in Judea and Samaria.”

He continued: "This effort is being implemented under difficult international pressure, but I can guarantee one thing, which is that what happened (the Al-Aqsa Flood attack on October 7) will not happen (again), and we will change this reality."

On more than one occasion over the past few days, Netanyahu stressed that he is “not ready to stop the war” on Gaza.

This comes despite the announcement by US President Joe Biden, whose country strongly supports Tel Aviv, on May 31, of the existence of a three-stage “Israeli proposal”, which includes a sustainable ceasefire, prisoner exchange, and the reconstruction of Gaza.

On Tuesday, Washington asked Tel Aviv not to escalate with Hezbollah before completing the prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, according to what was reported by the Kan channel, affiliated with the broadcasting authority, quoting an unnamed American official.

Netanyahu is subject to widespread international criticism because of his insistence on continuing the war in the Gaza Strip, ignoring mounting warnings about its repercussions on the entire region.

Last May 20, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced that he was seeking to issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing “war crimes.”

The United States has warned Israel against the idea of a “limited war” in Lebanon, for fear of pushing Iran into intervention, which could lead to the conflict spiraling out of control.

The Axios news website quoted American and Israeli officials as saying that there is growing concern in the Israeli army that the situation in Lebanon has reached a turning point.

The United States and France are trying to find a diplomatic solution to reduce tensions on the border between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel, but they have not yet made progress.

According to the website, the administration of US President Joe Biden believes that it will be impossible to restore calm to the Israeli-Lebanese border without a ceasefire in Gaza.

American officials told Axios that the Biden administration informed Israel that it does not believe that “a limited war in Lebanon or a small regional war is a realistic option, because it will be difficult to prevent it from expanding and getting out of control.”

They added, "Washington warned Israel that a ground invasion of Lebanon, even if only in areas near the border, would likely prompt Iran to intervene."

One scenario the administration raised with Israel was that Lebanon might be flooded with militants from pro-Iranian militias in Syria, Iraq and even Yemen, who might want to join the fight.

An Israeli official explained that the war council meeting did not take a decision on Lebanon, but the Israeli army presented several options to expand the fighting, including a ground invasion aimed at pushing Hezbollah's Radwan Division away from the border.

The Radwan Division is one of Hezbollah's elite forces, and is known for its advanced military capabilities.

The Israeli official added to "Axios" that since October 7, the directives issued by the political leaders of the Israeli army were to focus on defeating Hamas in Gaza and avoiding war in Lebanon, warning that "changing this policy may have long-term consequences."

He added that a war with Hezbollah or a limited operation in Lebanon “would have dire consequences for Israel, and after causing loss of life and draining resources, would likely result in an agreement similar to the one currently being sought between Israel and Lebanon.” : “We need to understand this before making decisions.”

The American CNN network revealed that "the Israeli army used American weapons in its attack on an UNRWA school housing displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat camp" in the central Gaza Strip.

CNN's analysis of a video clip from the site of the Nuseirat massacre and a review conducted by an explosive weapons expert (which it did not name) concluded that American-made munitions were used in the attack on the UNRWA school.

CNN identified fragments of at least two American-made GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs (SDB) in a video clip taken by a journalist working for the same network at the scene of the attack.