The Palestinian Telecommunications Company announced, at dawn on Wednesday, a complete interruption of all communications and Internet services with the Gaza Strip.

The company explained in a brief statement that the interruption resulted from the international routes, which were previously reconnected, being disconnected again.

Since the seventh of last October, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a comprehensive Israeli aggression, which has resulted in about 8,500 martyrs and the injury of more than 21,000, an infinite toll, in addition to widespread destruction of infrastructure, homes, buildings, and facilities, and the cutting of electricity, water, and fuel, in light of Continuous bombardment by occupation aircraft, artillery, and gunboats.

The comprehensive strike spread throughout the West Bank governorates, including the occupied city of Jerusalem, today, Wednesday, to denounce the continuing Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, which has so far resulted in the martyrdom of more than 8,610 martyrs and more than 23,000 wounded.

The strike, called for by the Fatah movement, paralyzed all aspects of life, and universities, banks, and shops were closed, amid calls from the masses of our people to escalate the confrontation with the occupation in all fields of confrontation with the occupation, in defense of our people, and our sacred right to freedom, statehood, and independence. .

Yahia H. Zoubir

As the war on Gaza continues, China is increasingly positioning itself as a counter to the U.S. and Western European approach, emphasizing diplomacy and a need to address root causes of conflict.

Zhai Jun, China’s Special Envoy on the Middle East affairs, is on a trip to the region to push for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. In his remarks at the Cairo Summit for Peace on the Palestinian Question on October 21, Zhai called for support for “the Palestinian people in restoring their lawful national rights.” This is a position shared by most countries. 

The absence of a resolution to the lingering, 75-year-old Palestine-Israel conflict has unsurprisingly caused it to flared up once again. The 2.3 million Palestinians living under occupation in Gaza, considered the largest “open-air prison,” suffer from hardship and despair with no end in sight. The powerful incursion by Hamas into Israel prompted a response by Israel, amounting to potential genocide in the form of intensive indiscriminate bombardments against an overpopulated Gaza. Israel also cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and fuel to the blockaded enclave. Gaza has undergone this kind of reprisal in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021, which caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians, many of them children.  

The ongoing strike on Gaza has come at a time when proponents of international multipolarity are contesting the unipolar system defended by the United States and its Western allies. The continued war in Ukraine epitomizes this contest between these two visions. The Gaza conflict has also widened the gap between the West and the rest of the world. China, for its part, emphasizes the root cause of the conflict, while officials in the U.S. and some European countries tend to de-contextualize and de-historicize it, contesting who supports Israel more strongly, calling for sending more arms to Israel and preparing for war against Iran, rather than suggesting solutions for peace. The issue is not the strong Western support for Israel, which is no secret, but the one-sided position that Western leaders have taken. 

Unlike Zhai’s declaration, Biden’s statement that “the U.S. remains committed to the Palestinians’ right to dignity and self-determination,” lacks credibility because of his decision to send more weapons to Israel. Unlike China’s neutral position, the one-sidedness of U.S. and European officials in the conflict proves that there is no indication that either the U.S. or the EU is willing to put an end to the onslaught on Gaza.  

Contrary to the U.S., China and much of the rest of the world have been calling for a ceasefire and a definitive resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict. The attitudes of the U.S. and EU underscore the perception that they are pursuing hegemonic ambitions that rest essentially on military might rather than on diplomacy and the peaceful resolution of conflict. 

Beijing has emphasized peace and development as alternatives to perpetual conflict. In March, China successfully mediated normalization between Iran and Saudi Arabia, two countries with which it has comprehensive strategic partnerships. Before October 7, it offered to mediate between the Israelis and the Palestinians. While this looked like an arduous task, it had the merit of putting diplomacy as the conduit for conflict resolution. Mediation needs impartiality and objectivity. Beijing has consistently and unambiguously asserted its opposition to attacks on civilians and called for a ceasefire. China supports the two-state solution—even if this option might be unrealistic in view of Israeli settlement policy—and the implementation of United Nations resolutions. 

China’s attitude is consistent with one of the prerequisites of mediation: impartiality. Due to their unconditional pro-Israeli position, the U.S. and EU cannot be impartial brokers in the conflict. This was recently underlined by a U.S. veto of a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council calling for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid access to Gaza. For people in the Middle East and North Africa, and the Global South in general, the interpretation of U.S. impartiality is clear. The U.S. has pushed for normalization between Arab states and Israel through the Abraham Accords, but this policy has little chance of succeeding because it ignores the rights of the Palestinians. 

China is right to push for the resumption of genuine peace talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis and implement the two-state solution. Foreign Minister Wang Yi is correct in pointing out that the source of the Palestine-Israel war “lies in the long delay in realizing the dream of an independent State of Palestine and the failure to redress the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people.”  

Source: Middle East Council for Global Affairs

Local sources reported that the occupation forces, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed the city from several directions, and reached the Jenin camp, which led to the outbreak of confrontations. They stated that clashes with the occupation “targeted forces with highly explosive explosive devices, during the massive incursion into Jenin.”

Two young men were martyred and two others were seriously injured after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Jenin and its camp in the occupied West Bank at dawn on Wednesday.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that its crews were able to transport three casualties as a result of the bombing in the Al-Hawashin neighborhood.

The occupation forces began to bulldoze the streets and cause great destruction during their storming of the city of Jenin and its camp.

Clashes broke out with the Israeli occupation forces on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, who stormed the city and camp of Jenin for the second time within hours, and launched a massive campaign of raids. The Israeli army also cut off the electricity supply to several neighborhoods, as well as communications and the Internet in areas of the camp, following the storming.

Local sources reported that the Israeli forces, accompanied by bulldozers, stormed the city from several directions, from “Jenin-Nazareth” streets, “Jenin-Nablus” streets, and “Haifa” streets, and reached the vicinity of the Jenin camp, which led to the outbreak of confrontations.

It stated that clashes with the Israeli army "targeted forces with highly explosive devices during the massive incursion into Jenin."

It confirmed that "the Israel forces cut off electricity, communications, and the Internet in areas of the Jenin camp, during their storming of the camp."

Sources said that the occupation forces deployed their snipers on several buildings in the city, and at the outskirts of the camp, amid intense flights of the occupation Apache helicopters and marches in the sky of the city.

The occupation forces raided the home of the prisoner Zakaria Al-Zubaidi, and the home of the lecturer at the Arab American University, the freed prisoner Jamal Haweel, and they also surrounded a house in the Jabriyat neighborhood before raiding it.

On Tuesday evening, special units of the occupation army stormed the Jabriyat neighborhood in the city, and raided the house of the secretary of the Fatah movement in Jenin Governorate, Atta Abu Rumaila, before arresting him and his son Ahmed, after they were severely beaten.

A boy was shot dead by the occupation forces in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday evening. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported in a brief statement, “The child Abdullah Muhammad Hassan Muqbil (16 years old) died as a result of being hit by live occupation bullets in the town of Beit Ummar.”

The Prisoner's Club confirmed, late Tuesday evening, "the number of detainees in the West Bank and Jerusalem has increased since October 7 to 1,760 detainees, after 20 Palestinians were arrested today (Tuesday)."

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement to reporters that Blinken "will meet officials in the Israeli government and will have other stops in the region."

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will head to Israel, Friday, as part of a new Middle Eastern tour, as the war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip enters its twenty-fifth day, according to what his spokesman announced.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement to reporters that Blinken "will meet officials in the Israeli government and will have other stops in the region."

Israeli media reported the news of this visit, quoting Israeli officials.

For his part, US President Joe Biden discussed, by telephone, Tuesday, with Jordanian King Abdullah II, "emergency mechanisms to reduce violence, calm rhetoric, and reduce regional tensions."

The White House said in a statement that the Democratic president reiterated the United States' "steadfast support for Jordan."

The statement added that Biden and King Abdullah II agreed “on the need to ensure that Palestinians are not forcibly displaced from Gaza.”

The United States is the main supporter of Israel and currently provides it with significant military aid.

On the other hand, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller announced in a statement that Blinken spoke by phone on Tuesday with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Miller added that Blinken reaffirmed to Herzog Washington's support for Israel's right to defend itself, at the same time calling on Israel to take "measures to limit the harm to civilians."

Blinken went to Israel a few days after the unprecedented attack launched by Hamas, on a visit to show solidarity and coordinate a response.

Following that visit, Blinken made shuttle diplomatic tours in the region, which led him to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, and Egypt, eventually returning to Israel.

The Secretary of State was accompanied by US President Joe Biden, who met with Israeli government officials and Israeli victims during a visit he made to Tel Aviv on October 18, which was limited to one day.

On Tuesday, Blinken appeared before a Senate committee discussing additional funding for national security, but Palestinian protesters repeatedly disrupted the session, and some of them chanted “ceasefire now,” “Palestinians are not animals,” and “shame on all of you” before they were taken out of the hall.

During the session, Blinken touched on what the current conflict could lead to, noting that the Palestinian Authority must regain control of the Gaza Strip, which has been under Hamas control since 2007.

It seems clear that Netanyahu's office senses the danger coming from the "Hostage Families Forum" and seeks to contain it and dominate its decisions, in an attempt to remove any stumbling block in the way of carrying out the tasks of the Israeli War Council and in front of Netanyahu's personal ambitions.

The Israeli leadership is trying to suggest that there is a race against time between the ground operation and the prisoner exchange operation, and it is sending a message to the resistance factions that delaying the implementation of the exchange deal that was talked about, which includes children and women, is accelerating the ground operation, while suggesting to its audiences and the families of the Israeli hostages that the ground operation, Which has already begun, serves the exchange process and does not conflict with it, and the ground incursions deep into the Gaza Strip are to pressure Hamas to implement the deal, and not an announcement to drop it from its calculations.

The issue of the hostages, which the Israeli leadership tried to marginalize and drop from the goals of the war on Gaza, was forcefully brought back to the forefront due to pressure from the families of the Israeli hostages held by the resistance factions, and due to Hamas moving this issue through the release of four female prisoners and the publication of videos and recorded messages, the most recent of which was the tape that she released. Monday, for three female prisoners, which Israel still prohibits broadcasting in its media.

The “liberation” of soldier Uri Megidish, whom Israel claimed had been released, came at a time when voices were rising demanding that priority be given to a complete or partial prisoner exchange process before the ground operation that might pose a threat to the lives of Israeli prisoners. The “liberation” operation came, which the army did not reveal. The Shin Bet has not revealed any details about her so far, in opposition to that point of view and in contradiction to it and a free hand to the Israeli army in the ground war, and in this context came the statement of the former head of the Mossad, Danny Yatom, that her release proved that the ground operation and the process of liberating the prisoners were scheduled together and not in conflict.

On the other hand, the former head of the Shin Bet, Yaakov Peri, in an interview with Channel 13 this morning, expressed his support for a comprehensive prisoner exchange deal in which all Israeli prisoners, whose number according to the last amendment by the Israeli army spokesman, amounted to 240 people, in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, a deal proposed by the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar.

Perry had recently announced his withdrawal from the “Families Campaign to Return Hostages Forum” due to differences in views related to the position on Netanyahu, as a result of which the former official in charge of the prisoners and missing persons file, David Meidan, also withdrew, and it later led to the resignation of Dodi Zelmenovich, one of The founders of the campaign, who announced his resignation following accusations leveled against him of collusion with Netanyahu’s office in selecting representatives of the families who will meet with the latter, against the backdrop of the Families Forum’s protest that it was not informed of the ground operation.

It seems clear that Netanyahu’s office senses the danger coming from the “Hostage Families Forum” and seeks to contain it and dominate its decisions, in an attempt to remove any stumbling block in the way of carrying out the tasks of the Israeli War Council and in front of Netanyahu’s personal ambitions, which places the next day after the war among his priorities, which is What became clear was the people’s controlled reaction to the hostage tape broadcast by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

Journalist Rafif Drucker believes that what Netanyahu and others say about the compatibility of the goal of freeing the hostages with the goal of undermining Hamas’ authority in the Gaza Strip is a kind of lie, and that there is no way to achieve the two goals together because they are contradictory, as Hamas will go to an exchange deal only if it realizes that Israel neglected the goal of eliminating it.

Drucker ridicules those who say that it is possible to conduct a comprehensive exchange, and after that we begin the battle to eliminate Hamas, because although the goal of liberating prisoners is important to Hamas, as he says, it is not the highest goal, which is to preserve its existence and authority. Therefore, a comprehensive deal will not take place unless this is confirmed.

Drucker believes that the Israeli leadership has two options: either to conduct a comprehensive exchange deal and give up the goal of undermining Hamas’s authority, with all the costs that this entails related to deterrence and the possibility of returning the residents of the Gaza envelope to their homes, or to implement a comprehensive ground operation and eliminate Hamas’ leadership, destroy the tunnels, and throw it off the rails. Authority in Gaza, then remaining there until an alternative authority is found, and paying the price by sacrificing the majority or all of the prisoners.

The most important question that Drucker poses is whether the Israeli army is capable of carrying out this mission, because the worst scenario, according to him, is to launch a comprehensive attack and incur heavy losses that will fall on the heads of the families of the hostages and the heads of all Israelis, and then get involved in Gaza, as the army commented. Russian in Ukraine.

Source: Arab48

The number of dead in the Gaza Strip rose to 8,525, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women || The Israeli army confirms the killing of two of its soldiers and the injury of two others || Abu Ubaida: The movement’s fighters “managed to destroy 22 military vehicles so far.”

The occupation committed a massacre that destroyed an entire neighborhood in the Jabalia camp, resulting in the death and injury of hundreds, while the Israeli occupation army announced that it was waging “fierce battles” inside the Gaza Strip with Hamas fighters, before it acknowledged on Tuesday evening that two of its soldiers had been killed during the clashes, while the number of The number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip reached 8,525, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women.

This coincides with the expansion of the ground incursion, while rocket shells continue to be fired from the Gaza Strip towards the center of the country, including the Tel Aviv area. The Israeli army claimed that it "and (the Israeli General Security Service) Shin Bet liquidated the commander of the Jabalia Brigade of the Hamas organization, who was one of the leaders of the deadly attack on October 7." He also claimed to "take control" of a Hamas military site west of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, and to eliminate 50 fighters on Tuesday.

On the other hand, Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman, Abu Ubaida, confirmed that the movement’s fighters “were able to destroy 22 military vehicles so far with Al-Yassin 105 shells,” noting that mediators were informed that “we will release a number of foreigners in the coming days in line with our desire not to keep them.” them in Gaza.”

The government media office in Gaza said that the occupation army dropped more than 18,000 tons of explosives on the Gaza Strip, with every square kilometer in the Strip receiving about 50 tons of explosives. He added that more than 200,000 housing units sustained varying degrees of damage in the Gaza Strip, in addition to targeting 58 government headquarters, 47 mosques, and 3 churches, noting that the specialized crews were unable to reach some of the bombed areas due to the difficult situation.

Source: Arab48

Institutions concerned with prisoners’ affairs reported that the occupation forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank, where they were transferred for investigation by the occupation security services under the pretext of involvement in armed resistance against settlers and the occupation forces.

At dawn and Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of raids and incursions in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, which included arrests of dozens of Palestinians, while confrontations broke out in different areas, where armed clashes took place while confronting the invading forces.

Institutions concerned with prisoners' affairs reported that the occupation forces arrested dozens of Palestinians in the West Bank, where they were transferred for investigation by the occupation security services under the pretext of involvement in armed resistance against settlers and the occupation forces.

The raids were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Tulkarm, and Jenin, during which dozens of homes were broken into, their contents were tampered with, and their residents were subjected to field investigations after being detained for hours.

The occupation forces arrested 6 Palestinians when they stormed the city of Bethlehem, the village of Abu Najim, and the town of Beit Fajjar.

The occupation forces stormed several neighborhoods in the city of Bethlehem, including the Abayat area, Wadi Shaheen, and Wadi Maali, and arrested at least 3 young men: Mutasim Adel Abayat, Anan Samir Khamis, and Baha Khader Nawara, who was arrested after the occupation soldiers beat him and his mother. And destroying the contents of his house.

The occupation forces arrested the two young men, Saleh Odeh Al-Harimi and Youssef Ahmed Salahat, after raiding their homes in the village of Abu Najim. The occupation forces also arrested the young man, Raghed Hussein Diriyah, after raiding his home in the town of Beit Fajjar.

From Hebron Governorate, the occupation forces arrested 4 young men during their storming of the town of Beit Ummar.

The Prisoners' Club stated that the occupation forces launched a campaign of raids that targeted several homes in the town, and arrested 4 Palestinians: Muhammad Nizam al-Khalil, Muhammad Mahyar Awad, Ayesh Nasser al-Khalil, and Wajih Badr al-Khalil.

The occupation forces stormed the town of Shuqba, west of Ramallah, and arrested the two young men, Ali Ahmed Thabet, and the dentist, Muhammad Youssef Al-Masry, after raiding and searching their homes.

The occupation forces re-arrested the freed prisoner, Malik Obaid, after raiding his home in the town of Pharaoh, south of Tulkarm.

From Jerusalem Governorate, the occupation forces arrested 5 Palestinians, including a freed prisoner, following the storming of the town of Qatana.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center reported that the occupation forces arrested: Muhanna Taha, Ayman Shamasneh, Suhaib Salim Shamasneh, and Hammam Saeed Tabanga, after raiding and searching their homes and tampering with their contents, while the freed prisoner Muhammad Jamal Hoshiya was arrested after he was beaten.

Confrontations broke out in the town of Qatana when the occupation forces stormed it, who fired stun grenades and toxic tear gas, but no casualties were reported.

Source: Arab48

The Bolivia Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that the government had decided to sever diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of committing crimes against humanity in its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Bolivia previously severed diplomatic relations with Israel in 2009 in protest against its attacks on the Gaza Strip. In 2020, the government of the country's president, Jeanine Anez, restored relations.

Chilean President Gabriel Buric announced that his country had recalled its ambassador to Israel for consultations after Israel's violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip.

“Chile strongly condemns and monitors with great concern... these military operations,” Buric wrote in a post on the social media platform (X).

In turn, Colombian President Gustapo Petro announced, in a message on the “X” website, the recall of his country’s ambassador to Israel due to its war in Gaza.

Petro said: “I decided to summon our ambassador to Israel. If Israel does not stop the massacre committed against the Palestinian people, we will not be able to stay there.”

On the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia announced yesterday that the government had decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of committing crimes against humanity in its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

25 Democratic members of the US Senate called for fuel to be brought into the Gaza Strip, expressing their concerns about an imminent crisis in Gaza’s hospitals, and the dwindling supply of clean drinking water in the Strip.

Their joint statement on Tuesday said, “Hospitals in Gaza are hours away from running out of fuel used to operate ventilators, baby incubators and other life-saving equipment, and diseases are spreading rapidly without the ability to treat and pump clean drinking water.”

Tonight, Israeli occupation forces stormed the city of Jenin and its camp.

Local sources said that large forces of the occupation army stormed the city of Jenin and its camp from Jenin-Nazareth Street, Jenin-Nablus Street, and Haifa Street, and this was preceded by the infiltration of special units into the Jabriyat neighborhood, amid the outbreak of confrontations.

Director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Craig Mokheiber, announced his resignation from his position, in protest against the UN bodies’ handling of the situation in the Gaza Strip.

Mokheiber stressed the need for the United Nations organization to shoulder its responsibilities, and said: “Once again, we are witnessing genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the organization we serve seems unable to stop it. What is happening in Gaza is a case of genocide.”

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces closed the military checkpoint established at the town of Al-Jib, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and prevented the residents of the town and neighboring villages from reaching their homes.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces closed the checkpoint and prevented residents of the Al-Khalayla neighborhood, Al-Nabi Samuel, and the eastern neighborhood of Qalandiya Al-Balad from reaching their homes.

She added that the occupation forces also prevented Jerusalemite citizens from passing through the checkpoint into the city of Ramallah, knowing that it is the only checkpoint in the region through which one can enter the villages northwest of Jerusalem, and into the city of Ramallah from inside Jerusalem.

The European Union said that the escalation of colonial terrorism in the West Bank will lead to the situation getting out of control.

“Very large numbers of civilian casualties occurred, and residents of some Palestinian communities were forced to leave their homes,” stressing that “the situation could get out of control in an instant, and cause untold suffering to local communities.”

The European Union stressed, in a statement, Tuesday evening, that “urgent measures are needed,” and that “it is Israel’s duty to protect civilians in the West Bank from the violence of extremist colonialists, through the intervention of the Israeli army, and to ensure that the perpetrators are held accountable, and this is a legal obligation.” It must be fulfilled.”

EU added that the settlers' attacks in the West Bank come "in conjunction with the already tragic situation in Gaza, will increases the risk of a dangerous escalation of the conflict,  which must be avoided at all costs."

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia condemned in the strongest terms the “inhumane targeting” by the Israeli occupation forces of the Jabalia camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, which caused the death and injury of a large number of innocent civilians.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, through its official account on the “X” website, that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia “condemns in the strongest terms the inhumane targeting by the Israeli occupation forces of the Jabalia camp in the besieged Gaza Strip, which caused the death and injury of a large number of innocent civilians.”

The statement added: “The Kingdom expresses its condemnation and complete rejection of the Israeli occupation forces’ repeated targeting of sites crowded with civilians, and their continued violation of international laws and international humanitarian law, in light of the failure of the international community to pressure the occupation government to accept an immediate ceasefire and a humanitarian truce.” In accordance with the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly issued last Friday on October 27, 2032, which came with broad international consensus.

It continued: “The Kingdom affirms that the dangerous humanitarian conditions resulting from the continuous escalation cannot be justified at all, and that sparing blood, protecting civilians, and stopping military operations are urgent priorities for which any procrastination or disruption cannot be accepted, and failure to immediately adhere to them will inevitably lead to a humanitarian catastrophe for which the occupation bears responsibility.” "Israel and the international community."

Confrontations broke out with Israeli occupation forces, Tuesday evening, in the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces fired bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas at citizens, but no injuries were reported.

Haaretz newspaper quoted the Israeli army as saying, on Tuesday, that 2 of its soldiers belonging to the elite unit were killed, and 2 others were seriously injured during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli army had announced earlier, Tuesday, that its forces had killed a large number of Hamas militants in ground operations in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours, in addition to striking about 300 targets.

On the other hand, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that its fighters opened fire from an ambush towards the vehicles penetrating west of Tawam in the northern Gaza Strip, and targeted 3 Israeli vehicles with “Al-Yassin 105” shells.

The Al-Qassam Brigades also said that its fighters ambushed Israeli vehicles penetrating the Juhr al-Dik area in the eastern Central Governorate of the Gaza Strip, and destroyed 3 of them.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, also stated that it targeted an armored force and an infantry force of Israel in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood with a number of mortar shells.

The head of the Norwegian medical mission to Gaza, Dr. Mads Gilbert, called on Israel to bring water, fuel and food into the Gaza Strip immediately, and to stop its war on the besieged Strip.

He added in statements to Al Jazeera from Cairo, "What we need now is to stop the killing and production of death in the Gaza Strip."

"The siege of Gaza is killing people, and this is against the law," he said, adding that 14 hospitals were closed in addition to many other medical clinics due to the Israeli bombing.

The Norwegian doctor called for the opening of the Rafah crossing, stressing that "the world cannot accept the entry of aid by train," stressing that the priority must be to stop the bombing and that "the world must act now."

Gilbert added that the World Health Organization has documented more than 100 attacks on medical facilities. They require unified action. The Norwegian doctor asked the Arab countries to cut off gas and oil from the United States, and said, “Maybe this will stop the bombing immediately,” considering that the massacres of civilians under siege require unified Arab action. The official of the Norwegian mission to Gaza confirmed that the Israeli army has a long history of bombing health facilities and workers, and that “the people of Gaza are imprisoned, and are subjected to the most violent attacks during this century.”

It is noteworthy that Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide expressed - today, Tuesday - his country’s belief that Israel may have violated international law by bombing the Gaza Strip, which led to the leveling of neighborhoods and the killing of thousands of Palestinians.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoer also said that it is necessary to deliver relief materials to civilians in Gaza as quickly as possible, considering that Israel has violated the rules of international law in its war on the (besieged) Gaza Strip.

Source: Al Jazeera

Massive public marches took place Tuesday evening in several cities in the West Bank, denouncing the occupation massacres in Gaza.

In downtown Tulkarm, in front of Gamal Abdel Nasser Square, the march participants roamed the city streets, chanting angry national slogans denouncing the ongoing Israeli aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip.

They expressed their anger at the international silence regarding what is happening in Gaza, calling on the international community to assume its responsibilities by putting pressure towards ending this aggression and providing international protection for our people.

In Salfit Governorate, large crowds of our people participated in a march in the city of Salfit, in support of our people in the Gaza Strip.

The march called for by the "Fatah" movement - Salfit region, started from the public square and roamed the city's streets, denouncing the massacres committed by the occupation in the Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the Jabalia camp massacre, which claimed hundreds of martyrs and wounded.

The participants in the march denounced the international silence regarding all the killing, bombing and displacement committed by the Israeli machine of oppression, calling for close ranks in the face of the criminal aggression and the unification of efforts by all our people to repel the aggression and to stand firm in the face of the occupation’s malicious intentions to displace the people of the Gaza Strip, and the attacks of the colonists in the West Bank.

In the city of Nablus, a mass march took place, denouncing the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation army against our people in the Gaza Strip.

The participants in the march, which was organized at the Martyrs' Roundabout in the center of the city, chanted angry slogans denouncing the crimes of the occupation, and demanding protection for our people who are being exposed to massacres in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

In the city of Ramallah, in rejection of the Jabalia refugee camp massacre, and denouncing the occupation’s continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The march was organized at the invitation of the national and Islamic forces. The participants roamed the streets of the city and chanted slogans denouncing the crimes of the occupation and its ongoing massacres against our people in the Gaza Strip, and others calling for national unity to confront the crimes of the occupation, and calling on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the aggression and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

In Bethlehem Governorate, citizens participated in a protest denouncing the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip.

The participants gathered in the Bab Al-Zaqq area between the cities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala, chanting slogans denouncing the aggression against the Gaza Strip in general, and Jabalia in particular.

The participants performed the evening prayer, then the absent prayer for the souls of the martyrs.

Today, the city of Bethlehem witnessed another protest denouncing the continued aggression against the Gaza Strip, organized in front of the International Red Cross headquarters, on Jerusalem-Hebron Street.

In Jenin and its camp, thousands of citizens participated in a massive march denouncing the continued Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and the massacres committed by the occupation in the Strip, the latest of which is the Jabalia camp massacre.

The march was organized at the invitation of the national and Islamic forces, and the participants roamed the streets of the city, raising Palestinian flags, amidst chanting slogans denouncing the crimes of the occupation and its ongoing massacres against our people in the Gaza Strip.

The march participants called for unifying ranks to confront the crimes of the occupation, and called on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the aggression and provide protection for the Palestinian people.

The Arab Republic of Egypt condemned, on Tuesday, the “inhumane Israeli targeting” that targeted a residential square in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry considered this targeting a new flagrant violation by the Israeli forces of the provisions of international law and international humanitarian law, which increases the complexity of the current crisis and portends dire consequences that are difficult to remedy at all levels.

Egypt warned of the continuation of these indiscriminate attacks targeting civilians in their places of shelter and in the vicinity of medical centers and hospitals to which they seek refuge to escape the violent and continuous Israeli bombing, without any regard for lives, and in a way that exacerbates the crisis and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned the Israeli aggression that targeted the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, holding Israel, the occupying power, responsible for this dangerous development.

The Ministry also condemned the ongoing escalation in the occupied West Bank and the escalation of terrorism by Israeli colonizers against Palestinian citizens.

The Ministry's official spokesman, Sufyan Al-Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom's rejection and condemnation of this act, which is inconsistent with all human and moral values, and with the rules of international humanitarian law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention.

He called on the international community to bear its responsibility, deter Israel from committing more crimes against civilians, and stop its senseless war on the Gaza Strip, stressing the necessity of adhering to the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on protecting civilians and respecting international law and international humanitarian law, the necessity of providing international protection for the Palestinian people, and the necessity of joining hands. Efforts to stop the raging war on Gaza.

The official spokesman stressed that the continuation of this absurd Israeli war, the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip and the siege imposed on it, represents collective punishment of more than two million Palestinians in Gaza, a war crime, and pushes the entire region towards the abyss.

He said that the Israeli aggression and irresponsible measures that contradict all human and moral values, and with the rules of international law and international humanitarian law, will not achieve security for the Israelis.

On Tuesday evening, settlers seized a house in the Khalayel al-Lawz area, southeast of Bethlehem.

The director of the Office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, Hassan Barijiyah, reported that settlers seized a one-story house, located between Khalayel al-Lawz and University Housing, belonging to the citizen Bilal Abu Kamel, taking advantage of the absence of any of its residents.

It is noteworthy that settlers have recently escalated their attacks against citizens in the Khalayel Al-Luz area, represented by attacking homes at night amid gunfire, and burning a citizen’s vehicle.

On Tuesday evening, dozens of settlers closed the road between Tulkarm and Nablus.

Eyewitnesses said that dozens of settlers deployed near the Al-Taneeb Junction on the road between Tulkarm and Nablus, and closed the road to citizens amid riots in the place.

Since the war began in Gaza following the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, there has been a steady rise in incidents of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in many countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and other countries.

United State

Incidents of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the United States have included violent attacks and online harassment.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that it received 774 complaints about incidents motivated by Islamophobia and bias against Palestinians and Arabs in the period following the war in Gaza, and explained that this is the highest rate since 2015.

The figure is almost three times the average number of complaints for 2022 compared to the same period.

The Council also noted that an 18-year-old Palestinian was assaulted in Brooklyn, along with death threats received at a mosque, and the stabbing death of a 6-year-old Muslim child in Illinois. The American authorities said that the perpetrator targeted him because he was an American of Palestinian origin.

While the Anti-Defamation League indicated that its preliminary data showed a 388 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in the period from October 7 to 23 compared to the previous year.

It reported 312 incidents, including harassment, vandalism and assault. She added that about 190 of them are directly related to the war between Israel and Hamas.

The Anti-Defamation League said the complaints included violent private messages on the Telegram platform and rallies “at which the League found strong explicit or implicit support for Hamas and/or violence against Jews in Israel.”

France

As for France, French Minister of Justice Eric Dupont-Moretti announced on Sunday, October 29, that more than 400 people had been arrested on charges of “anti-Semitism” since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.

Moretti's statements came a day after a massive demonstration in Paris, in which thousands of people participated in support of the Palestinian people, despite the issuance of a security ban decision upheld by the judiciary. A large police force prevented the march of demonstrators from marching from Châtelet Square in the center of the French capital.

Drawing the Star of David on the walls of some homes in which Jews live in the suburbs of Paris also sparked a great wave of condemnation, because it brought to mind this practice that occurred during the rise of Nazism in Germany.

Britain

London Police announced that anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic hate crimes have increased in light of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. She noted that 218 anti-Semitic attacks were recorded in the British capital between October 1 and 18, compared to 15 such attacks in the same period last year.

She added that the number of Islamophobic crimes increased from 42 to 101 in the same period. Police reinforced their patrols throughout the capital and in religious schools and places of worship after the Hamas attack.

Among those arrested was a man arrested on suspicion of defacing posters of missing Israelis, while another man was charged in ten incidents of anti-Islamic graffiti at bus stations.

In this context, the British government stressed that there should be “no tolerance for anti-Semitism or the glorification of terrorism” on the streets of Britain.

She recalled that supporting Hamas is a crime in Britain and that public expression of support for the Palestinians, including carrying the Palestinian flag, is not a criminal offence.

Germany

Germany witnessed a series of anti-Semitic incidents following the October 7 attacks launched by Hamas on Israel and the Hebrew state's response with violent bombing of the Gaza Strip.

On Sunday, October 29, thousands of people demonstrated in Berlin in support of Israel, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged to put an end to the incidents of anti-Semitism that have been increasing in the country since the outbreak of war between the Hebrew state and the Palestinian Hamas movement.

The police reported that about ten thousand demonstrators gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in solidarity with Israel and to denounce anti-Semitism, noting that the organizers estimated the number of participants at 25 thousand.

Addressing the crowd, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said, "It is unbearable for Jews today to live again in fear, especially in our country." He continued, "Every attack on Jews and Jewish institutions is a disgrace to Germany. Every attack fills me with shame and anger."

Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had sent a similar message when he participated in the inauguration of a new synagogue in the city of Dessau, and stressed that there must be “zero tolerance for anti-Semitism in Germany.”

Schulz added that Germany "will defend and protect Jewish lives," expressing his shock at the spread of anti-Semitism "all over the world, and shamefully also in Germany."

As part of the hostilities, some Jewish homes in Berlin were marked with the Star of David symbol, and attackers threw two Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in the city.

The German Chancellor stressed that we must not turn a blind eye "when Jews are not safe on the streets of Germany, when homes are stained with Star of David symbols, and when synagogues are firebombed." He also called on his citizens to show solidarity with the country's Jewish population and ensure their safety, and condemned the incidents that occurred during pro-Palestinian marches.

Germany has strengthened the protection of Jewish institutions throughout the country, considering it its responsibility to protect Jewish life since the Holocaust.

A citizen and his son were injured, Tuesday evening, in a settler attack near the town of Seneria, south of Qalqilya.

Local sources said that a group of settlers attacked with weapons the citizens in the Khallet Hussein area, located between the towns of Seneria and Bidya, and assaulted the citizens Abd al-Rahim Ahmed Omar (62 years old) and his son Zaidan Abd al-Rahim Omar (43 years old) while they were picking olives, which led to their injuries. Serious.

The Israeli army announced today (Tuesday) that the number of prisoners held by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip is 240 people.

Army spokesman Daniel Hagari said during his daily briefing, “So far, we have notified 240 families of the kidnapped,” adding that “some of them are not citizens of Israel, which makes identifying them difficult.”

Hagari also pointed out that the death toll of the Israeli army since the outbreak of the war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has so far reached 315 dead.

The spokesman said in this regard, "So far, 315 families of the killed Israeli army soldiers have been notified."

On the other hand, Hagari said that the military systems detected an “air target” approaching Israel and warnings were activated, stressing that the matter “does not constitute a threat or danger” without further details.

Regarding the situation on the border between Israel and Lebanon, the spokesman said that last night, Israeli warplanes destroyed infrastructure (facility) belonging to Hezbollah, adding, “Our policy is clear. We will respond to every attempt to harm us, and we will eliminate every cell that tries to fire or infiltrate our lands.”

On the seventh of this month, Israel declared a state of war for the first time in fifty years, and launched Operation “Iron Swords” against the Gaza Strip after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack under the name “Al-Aqsa Flood,” during which its fighters stormed Israeli towns adjacent to the Strip.

In light of the war in the Gaza Strip, for three weeks the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed an exchange of bombing and shooting between Hezbollah and Palestinian movements on the one hand and the Israeli army on the other, which led to deaths and injuries and the displacement of thousands of residents from the Lebanese border towns.

The Houthi group in Yemen announced today (Tuesday) launching attacks with "ballistic and winged missiles and drones" on Israel against the backdrop of the war that has been taking place in the Gaza Strip since October 7th.

The military spokesman for the Houthis, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a televised statement broadcast on Al-Masirah channel, the group’s mouthpiece, that “for the twenty-fifth day, the world is witnessing what is happening in occupied Palestine and what the Gaza Strip is being subjected to from the brutal Israeli-American aggression.”

He added, "In the face of all this, and to come to the rescue of our oppressed people in Gaza, it was necessary for the Yemeni armed forces to carry out their duty in victory over the historical oppression of the Palestinian people."

Saree continued, saying, "Our armed forces launched a large batch of ballistic and winged missiles and a large number of drones at various targets of the Israeli enemy in the occupied territories."

According to Saree, “This operation is the third operation in support of our oppressed brothers in Palestine.”

He went on to say, "Our armed forces emphasize carrying out more qualitative strikes with missiles and drones until the Israeli aggression stops."

The Houthis control the capital, Sanaa, and most of the northern Yemeni governorates, including the coastal governorate of Hodeidah on the Red Sea, west of the country, and large parts of the coastal areas on the Red Sea in Hajjah governorate (northwest).

On October 19, from areas under its control in Hajjah Governorate, the Houthi group launched several missiles and explosive drones towards the Red Sea, according to local sources.

An official local source told Xinhua News Agency at the time that members of the Houthi group launched a number of drones from the coast of the Buhais region of the Midi District on the Red Sea in Hajjah Governorate.

He added that the Houthis launched more than ten drones towards the Red Sea, noting that the launch team left the area immediately after the operation.
A source in the local authority in Abs District in Hajjah Governorate also confirmed that the Houthis fired a number of ballistic missiles from an area near Al-Jar farms in the district towards the Red Sea.
The leader of the Houthi group, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, threatened in a televised speech on October 10 to bomb Israel and support the Palestinian resistance, saying, “If Washington intervenes militarily, we are ready to participate in missile bombing, marches, and military options with everything we can against Israel.”

In statements to Al Jazeera on Tuesday, Iyad Al-Bozm, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip, said that the Israeli occupation forces are seeking to separate the north of the Strip from its south.

As the ground incursion attempts accelerated, Al-Bazm explained that Israeli occupation vehicles are present on Salah al-Din Street and are trying to reach Al-Rashid Street.

Salah al-Din Street is located on the eastern outskirts of the Gaza Strip and is a main road extending from the north of the Strip to its south. As for Al-Rashid Street, it is the main road west of the Strip and is located on the Mediterranean coast.

In another context, the Gaza Interior Ministry spokesman explained that the occupation forces entered the Strip from the northwestern side and that their vehicles are located in the Karama area.

Al-Bazm stated that the occupation forces "annihilated entire residential areas in the northwestern Gaza Strip" before they were able to advance through that axis.

Earlier today, the Israeli occupation army spokesman said that fierce fighting was taking place in Gaza and that the situation required steadfastness and patience, as he put it.

For its part, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that its fighters are waging violent battles in the axes south of Gaza City and the Tawam and Karama area northwest of Gaza. The brigades announced the destruction of a number of Israeli vehicles penetrating the axes north and south of Gaza City.

The occupation army seeks to penetrate the Gaza Strip through agricultural and open areas described as soft perimeters of the Strip, after carrying out unprecedented bombing operations from land, sea and air.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Al Jazeera that the occupation has begun to move on the ground in a number of axes, and that in practice it has launched a ground attack that it does not want to announce for its own considerations. He added that the occupation is advancing through weak and bombed axes and in agricultural areas, and “there is no achievement.” His military."

Source: Al Jazeera

The Ministry of the Interior in the Gaza Strip announced today (Tuesday) that Israeli army forces have penetrated the outskirts of the Strip from the northwestern Gaza area, and that their vehicles are in the Al-Karama area, north of the city.

Ministry spokesman Iyad Al-Bazm told reporters that Israeli forces are currently stationed in the Al-Tawam area and west of the Karama neighborhood, “after committing massacres and targeting all citizens’ homes there in a manner similar to targeting a nuclear bomb.”

Al-Bazm added that Israeli army vehicles have reached Salah al-Din Street again, and are advancing towards al-Rashid Street to cut off Gaza City and the north from the south.

Later, the Ministry announced that 400 Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on the northern Gaza Strip.

Al-Bazm said during a press conference at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza that Israeli warplanes bombed a residential neighborhood in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip with seven bombs, each weighing a thousand tons of explosives.

Al-Bazm stated that the Israeli bombing destroyed the entire residential neighborhood, including inhabited homes above the heads of their residents.

Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee posted on his website on the (X) platform, “The attack order issued by the commander of the southern region of the ground forces operating in the Gaza Strip.”

The “attack order” stated, “We now launch an attack on Hamas and the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip... Our goal is the same: victory, no matter how long the fight lasts, and no matter how difficult it is, there is no result other than victory.”
He added, "We will fight professionally and forcefully, guided by the IDF values that we were raised with, most important of which is the commitment to achieving the mission and striving for victory. We will fight in the alleys, we will fight in the tunnels, and we will fight wherever necessary... We will eliminate the sinful enemy."

On the seventh of this month, Israel declared a state of war for the first time in fifty years, and launched Operation “Iron Swords” against the Gaza Strip after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack under the name “Al-Aqsa Flood,” during which its fighters stormed Israeli towns adjacent to the Strip.