The national activities in Qalqilya and the national and Islamic forces in Jenin called on citizens to go on a comprehensive strike in the two governorates today, Wednesday, to mourn the spirit of the martyrs.

In Qalqilya, national activists called on citizens in a statement read over loudspeakers to go on strike to mourn the soul of the young martyr, Hamza Sayel Taha (19 years old), who died at dawn after being critically wounded by live bullets from the occupation. They called for the widest participation in the funeral of his body after the noon prayer. In front of the old mosque in the city.

The Ministry of Health had announced the death of the young man, Taha, by live bullets from the occupation forces in the chest, after the occupation forces stormed the city and besieged his family’s home.

In Jenin, the national and Islamic forces announced a comprehensive strike for all aspects of life, with no working hours permanently, in mourning for the souls of the city’s martyrs, and in solidarity with the steadfast families of the martyrs in the Gaza Strip.

The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, met with the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad al-Nakhalah, and Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, to discuss developments in Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.”

A statement issued by Hezbollah’s military media said: “The Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, received the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, Mr. Ziad Nakhla, and the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas Movement, Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, where the recent events in the Gaza Strip since The start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the subsequent developments at every level, as well as the ongoing confrontations on the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine. An assessment was made of the positions taken internationally and regionally and what the parties of the resistance axis must do at this sensitive stage to achieve a real victory for the resistance in Gaza. And Palestine and stop the treacherous and brutal aggression against our oppressed and steadfast people in Gaza and the West Bank, and it was agreed to continue coordination and permanent follow-up of developments on a daily and permanent basis.”

This is the first media appearance of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah since the outbreak of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation.

Earlier, a Hezbollah official revealed the reason why its Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, did not appear in the media to address public opinion, stressing that this was part of his management of this battle.

Member of the Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc, MP Hassan Fadlallah, said in statements to Al-Mayadeen channel, “The resistance knows the path it has chosen to defend its country well, and it knows which enemy it is fighting, and who stands behind it, and it has a solid environment that is not affected by all disinformation and intimidation campaigns.” . He stressed that "The Secretary-General of the Party, Hassan Nasrallah, is following the course of this confrontation here in Lebanon and what is happening in Gaza, hour by hour and moment by moment. He is supervising the management of this battle in direct communication with the field leadership of the resistance, and supervising all field and political developments."

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that a naval force of its fighters was able to infiltrate the beaches of Zikim, south of Ashkelon, and clash with the occupation forces, while the Israeli army announced that it had killed a number of infiltrators.

The Al-Qassam Brigades said that a force of "frogmen" was able to "infiltrate by sea and land on the beaches of Zikim, south of occupied Ashkelon, and armed clashes are now taking place with the occupation army in that area."

Al Jazeera said that this sea penetration may be the largest by the resistance since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza following Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, which also witnessed the infiltration of resistance fighters to Zikim Beach, northwest of the Strip.

Sirens sounded twice in the settlements of Zikim and Karmiya as reports of the infiltration continued.

The channel indicated that previous infiltration operations were carried out by a few members of the resistance, but the number of infiltrators this time appears to be large, according to Israeli media reports.

For his part, an Israeli army spokesman announced that the infiltration operation at Zikim Beach had been thwarted, and said that his forces were still combing the area, but he did not reveal details regarding the size of the operation and the number of participants in it.

The spokesman said that Palestinian naval commandos infiltrated through a tunnel into the sea and then to Zikim Beach.

Israeli Channel 12 said that at least 10 militants were killed by Israeli naval fire, while Channel 14 said that clashes were still continuing in the area.

A video clip showed what appeared to be flash bombs fired by the occupation forces in the area to detect intruders.

On the 19th day of the war on Gaza, Israeli aircraft continued to bomb civilians, and 4 Palestinians were killed in a missile strike launched by Israeli aircraft on the outskirts of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.

According to data issued by the Ministry of Health and Gaza Strip hospitals, the number of killed civilians in the Gaza Strip has risen to about 6,000 martyrs, the majority of whom are women and children.

16 killed in separate Israeli night raids in Gaza

The Ministry of the Interior in Gaza said that 16 citizens were killed as a result of Israeli raids on the areas of Jabalia, Tal al-Hawa, the Nuseirat camp, and Khan Yunis, south of the besieged Strip.

It seems that the stagnation of the situation has begun to raise many questions about Israel's intention and the readiness of its army and its ability to achieve the ambitious goals of the war set by the political leadership, and about the realism of these goals and the possibility of achieving them in the first place and how to get down from the tree of these lofty goals.

It was clear from the beginning that the Israeli statements about “crushing Hamas” and “wiping out Hamas” were a spontaneous reaction motivated by revenge for the recent painful blow it dealt to Israel, and that they were not based on rational and realistic thinking and were not based on a post-Hamas political plan in the Gaza Strip. It is also not based on a realistic military plan capable of carrying out this mission.

In the midst of the atmosphere of “against them” that swept the Israeli arena, some voices could be found that warned against this rush and saw that revenge was not a strategy. Some of them even mocked the threats of “crushing,” “crushing,” and “terminating,” recalling that they were repetitive. This was echoed by statements made by the same leaders since 2008, some of whom believed that the issue of eliminating Hamas was not possible, because it is an idea, an ideology, and a religious-social movement that permeates the structure of Palestinian society.

Today, after 18 days of deadly and devastating aerial bombardment that turned into a war of genocide and displacement, we hear that the Biden administration fears that Israel has no military objectives and is not ready for a ground attack supported by a practical plan, and that the US Secretary of Defense urges his Israeli counterpart on the necessity of conducting a careful review of the plan. Ground entry into the Gaza Strip.

Senior officials indicated that the US administration is concerned that the Israeli army has no way to implement the goal set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to eliminate the authority of Hamas. Senior officials who have been in telephone contact with their Israeli counterparts since October 7 said that they did not see action plans whose goals were achievable, at a time when Biden himself had warned during his visit to Tel Aviv last week that Israel must set clear goals. And a real appreciation of whether the path you take will lead to achieving those goals.

It seems that the stagnation of the situation has begun to raise many questions about Israel’s intention and the readiness of its army and its ability to achieve the ambitious goals of the war set by the political leadership, and about the realism of these goals and the possibility of achieving them at all, and how to get down from the tree of these lofty goals and rationalize them before failure to achieve these goals turns into defeat. .

In light of the dispute between Netanyahu and the army leadership and the public crisis of trust between the two parties, Netanyahu met in recent days with more than one military figure from outside the security staff managing the war, including the former chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, Gallant’s rival and arch friend of Gantz.

Netanyahu also met with Reserve General Yitzhak Brik, who had previously warned that the Israeli army was not ready to fight a war, and he warns today that the ground “maneuver” is a trap that Hamas has been preparing for a decade, and that it will also shed a lot of blood of Israeli soldiers. It will lead to Hezbollah, which will enter the war, being bombarded with five thousand missiles daily and causing destruction and death parallel to the destruction and death that Israel will cause to Lebanon, in addition to attacks from the West Bank and a Palestinian uprising within the Green Line.

Yedioth Ahronoth attributed the delay of the ground operation mainly to the fact that Netanyahu was not concerned with it, and pointed out that those close to him published videos praising the effectiveness of the aerial bombardment only, as military commentator Avi Issakharov wrote that Netanyahu is doing a lot to delay the ground operation, under logical reasons. Sometimes, such as "hostages" and "international credibility", but in reality he knows that this operation will not bring him much good, in reference to the investigation committee that is waiting for him and other officials for their failure in this war.

In this context, The Marker newspaper revealed that those close to Netanyahu are behind the “secret media campaign” that is sweeping social media and aims to put a brake on the ground operation, claiming that there is a need to destroy all Hamas tunnels from the air first.

This campaign includes WhatsApp groups, a Facebook page, and extensive explanations of the campaign in which it appears that a lot of money has been invested. It lacks the signature of the responsible party, but it refers to a Facebook group that was launched last Friday, showing that the organization is An association whose members are anonymous, and after excavations and investigation carried out by the newspaper, it became clear that the person behind the campaign is a public relations office close to Netanyahu.

But although Netanyahu, as is clear, takes into account the first day after the war and attaches great importance to his political future when he postpones or disrupts the ground operation and tries to descend from the tree of lofty goals that he himself set, such as “crushing Hamas,” we know that the latter did not go. To this option in “better days” than these days, perhaps because he also realizes that this goal is also expensive and unrealistic.

To realize this, it is enough to read what Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times, stating that Israel’s invasion of Gaza may turn the humiliating tactical defeat that Tel Aviv suffered at the hands of Hamas into a long-term strategic moral and military crisis, indicating that it has not yet been eliminated. On any of the Islamic/jihadi movements; Because it has deep cultural, social, religious and political roots in its societies.

Source: Arab 48

A number of reasons explain the absolute bias of Biden and his administration towards Israel, which are:

Biden's personal passion for Zionism and Israel, and he keeps repeating a statement he made decades ago bragging about his Zionism, "You don't need to be a Jew to be a Zionist." He always repeats that "If there had been no Israel, we would have had to invent Israel." He reiterated these positions in his speech on the 10th of this month, which was the most closely aligned with Israel, and he absolutely adopted its position.

political calculations: The approaching presidential elections next year represents an opportunity for Biden and the Democrats to present themselves as strong supporters of Israel and its security, after years of tension with Netanyahu and his right-wing government, and Republicans exploiting this to accuse them of abandoning Israel, especially in light of the Biden administration’s efforts to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran. Opinion polls show a decline in Democratic support for Israel, specifically among the progressive wing of the party. Biden's relations with Netanyahu were marred by great tension, this year in particular, against the backdrop of the latter's government's insistence on passing a package of "judicial reform" laws, which caused a sharp Israeli division. Republicans claim that the prisoner exchange deal between Iran and the United States, last month (September), and the conditional release of six billion frozen dollars belonging to Iran, contributed to financing the Hamas operation, although Iran has not received it yet. 

The Biden administration also found itself in a position of defending its Middle East policy. 

Some experts held it responsible for what happened on October 7, and considered it evidence of the failure of its approach to the Middle East, which was based on expanding the Abrahamic Accords, initiated by the Donald Trump administration, for normalization between Arab countries and Israel, while ignoring the Palestinians. Critics here cite a statement by the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, on September 29, 2023, in which he praised the administration’s approach to the Middle East, saying: “The Middle East region is calmer today than it was two decades ago.” The existing assumption was that achieving some kind of peace between the Arabs and Israel would force the Palestinians to accept what Israel wants to impose on them, after they find themselves isolated under Arab-Israeli political and economic normalization, while events prove that the suffering of the Palestinians and their legitimate demands cannot be overlooked. With freedom, dignity and independence.

The close American-Israeli alliance relationship; The United States views Israel as an advanced base in the region, and it constitutes the cornerstone of its security approach in the Middle East. However, the security and military fragility that Israel appeared to exhibit on the morning of October 7 surprised Washington, shocked it, and shook its confidence in it. In this sense, direct American intervention aims to prevent a possible Israeli collapse if the conflict expands, and the resulting repercussions on American strategic calculations. Since the Biden administration came to the White House declaring that China was the primary “geopolitical challenge” to the United States, and to a lesser extent Russia, it sought to reduce American commitments in the Middle East. 

To achieve this, this administration attempted to build on the Trump administration’s approach to expanding the scope of Arab-Israeli normalization, especially at the level of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and to build a new regional security structure linked to it, and strengthened it with an economic component, represented by the economic corridor between India and the Middle East. And Europe, which was proposed on the sidelines of the G20 summit held in New Delhi, last month (September), to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In all of this, the Biden administration assumed that Israel would serve as a lever for its Arab allies to offset Iranian influence and capabilities in the region, but this seemed to be crumbling after the recent Hamas attack. This is what prompted the Biden administration to return to the region to enable Israel to restore its image of deterrence, which had suffered a major blow, and to prevent the opening of new fronts against it, which might cause a regional war that Israel may not be able to confront.

Conclusion

The military operation carried out by the Hamas movement and the approach adopted by the Biden administration in confronting it threaten to undermine the American strategy in the Middle East region. The Israeli collapse in the first hours of the operation and the increase in the American military presence in the region, with the aim of deterring Iran and its agents from opening a new front with Israel, if its aggression against Gaza continues, may drag the United States into a regional war that it does not want, as it wants to focus on China’s challenge to it. In addition, the absence of a clear American vision in the region and the tense situation there may destabilize some allied Arab countries, which fear popular protests, in addition to the concerns of Egypt and Jordan that Israel will push the Palestinians into new waves of asylum towards their borders. At the level of Biden’s electoral calculations, his absolute bias towards Israel in its brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip, although it may benefit him in terms of his relationship with the pro-Israel lobby in the United States, may cost him dearly in terms of the support of the progressive movement for him and the youth base in the Democratic Party, as well as votes. Arabs and Muslims are in favorable states, such as Michigan, Virginia, Georgia, and Arizona, and from here, his calculations may turn against him. The position of Biden and his administration, which is excessively biased towards Israel and their disregard for the suffering of the Palestinians, has resulted in resignations and widespread dissatisfaction in the State Department, and this dissatisfaction has expanded to include employees and members of Congress, specifically from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, as well as divisions in society, in universities, and even in American technology companies, and its repercussions have reached Hollywood.

Source: Arab 48

The official Israeli channel refers to a “systematic deception operation” through which the Hamas movement was able to “mislead” Netanyahu’s office and exhaust it with “intensive negotiations” during which it made him feel that he was “close to a prisoner exchange deal,” before the October 7 attack.

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (“Kan 11”) revealed what it described as the “trick” that Hamas practiced on the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in the weeks preceding the attack on October 7, which was launched by members of the Palestinian Brigades. Al-Qassam, on Israeli military sites and towns adjacent to the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to the official Israeli channel, the Hamas movement sent letters to the office of the Israeli Prime Minister, expressing its readiness to proceed with a prisoner exchange deal through which the two Israeli soldiers Hadar Goldin and Shaul Oron, who have been detained by the Hamas movement since the aggression on Gaza in 2014, will be released, in addition to the citizen Avra Mengistu. .

The channel considered that the Hamas movement tried to distract Israeli officials from the situation on the ground, and occupied them with indirect “intensive negotiations” that took place through several mediators, at the highest political level in Israel, and were managed by officials in Netanyahu’s office, while the movement’s military wing was preparing for the largest attack that would take place. It was carried out on Israeli targets.

The channel's report stated that intense negotiations took place during the past two years in an attempt to reach a prisoner exchange deal between the Hamas movement and the Israeli occupation authorities, and added, quoting Israeli officials, that these negotiations "intensified and escalated over the past months."

According to “Kan 11,” these negotiations took place through several mediators on the one hand, and the Prime Minister’s Office on the other hand, and under the supervision of Netanyahu’s military secretary, General Avi Gil. The channel indicated that Netanyahu refrained from appointing a new coordinator for "prisoners and missing persons" affairs after Yaron Blum ended his service in the position about a year ago.

The channel considered this to be further evidence that the recent negotiations initiated by the Hamas movement “were managed by Netanyahu himself, and his military secretary coordinated the file.” The channel quoted informed sources as saying, “The negotiations witnessed ups and downs, but on several occasions, Hamas made Israel feel that... "Very close to reaching a deal."

After the start of the war on Gaza, and in the wake of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” Netanyahu appointed Gal Hirsch, coordinator of prisoners and missing persons affairs, amid a state of Israeli dissatisfaction with the latter’s performance and his treatment of the families of prisoners and hostages held by Hamas and other factions in the Gaza Strip, noting that Israel appreciates The number of prisoners and hostages in the Gaza Strip is 222 people

Source: Arab 48

The raids come amid the occupation army's continuous hints that it will launch a ground invasion, while the humanitarian situation in Gaza is witnessing an unprecedented catastrophe, with the health system reaching the worst stage in its history.

For the 18th day in a row, Israeli warplanes continue to bomb populated areas and civilians in various areas of Gaza. 110 Palestinians were killed, including children and women, while the Ministry of Health in the besieged Strip confirmed that more than 700 people were killed during the last 24 hours, including more than 300 children. While the occupation army said that it would not allow fuel to enter Gaza, despite UNRWA warning that it would be forced to stop working throughout the Gaza Strip on Wednesday if it did not supply fuel. The occupation also repeated its call for civilians to flee south.

This comes amid the occupation army's continuous hints that it will launch a ground invasion, while the humanitarian situation in Gaza is witnessing an unprecedented catastrophe, with the health system reaching the worst stage in its history, while the number of displaced people in the Strip has reached one million and 400 thousand people, half of whom are in shelter centers.

The number of dead rose to 5,791, including 2,360 children and 1,292 women, and the death toll rose to 18,000, according to the media office in the besieged sector.

According to the information office in Gaza, the occupation army committed 597 massacres against Palestinian families, in which 3,813 were killed, the majority of whom were women and children, and the number of displaced people reached about 1,400,000 citizens.

According to what was reported from a Hamas leader in Lebanon, who was speaking, a few days ago, at a press conference in Beirut, “the movement’s demand to stop the war is an end to the occupation, the return of refugees, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.” Thank you, Mr. Osama Hamdan. There are two reasons for gratitude: The first is old, and the second is new. The first is to remind you of what was known, before the emergence of “Hamas,” Khawatim, in 1987, on the eve of the launch of the first intifada against the Israeli occupation from the Gaza Strip, in a spontaneous manner that surprised even the leaders of the Palestinian factions at that time, and then it spread throughout the entire occupied territory. What is known here is the demand of the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, within the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, after the withdrawal of all Israeli occupation forces, on the basis that its establishment will in turn lead to a comprehensive peace that will establish An end to the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole.

The second reason is that a Hamas leader set the required condition to stop the movement’s latest war against Israel, after it began with a surprise attack that was unprecedented in size, planning, implementation, and impact, on the seventh of this month. Defining the condition is important in itself. If it proves to be truly strategic, it will tell people that Hamas has a target for its attack. The goal here is what specialists refer to as “ENDGAME,” meaning that every party that participates, or is involved in any political game, must not mess around, but rather enter the field aware of the consequences of what it is approaching. In light of the above, it is possible to reconcile Osama Hamdan’s words with the statement of Mr. Khaled Meshal, “the head of the movement abroad,” during an interview conducted with him by Al-Arabiya channel, that the attack was a “thought-out adventure,” stressing the following: “We know very well the consequences of our operation on the day of October 7.

The words of the two, Mishal and Hamdan, are very important, as they may help to understand the purpose of what is happening, and therefore it is necessary that they be documented historically, as no one knows, until now, with certainty, the results of the endings of the series whose chapters began rolling nineteen days ago. As a result of the confusion, you see and hear how people multiply fifths by sixths, and engage in speculative adventures, some of which are expected to have an ending no less disastrous than the First Nakba of Palestine (1948), and some of which indicate the possibility that it will result in a new map of the region between Rafah, the Gaza Valley, and Al-Aqsa. In the northern Gaza Strip, it imposes a reality that surprises everyone.

It is also important to note Hamas’s words about the demand for an “independent Palestinian state.” What is assumed is that the movement’s charter contradicts this perception fundamentally, based on its rejection of the “two-state solution,” which was accepted by the Palestine Liberation Organization and approved by the international community, while Israel rejects it. Hamas’s objection is based on the fact that the land of Palestine is an indivisible whole, and according to those who adhere most closely to the same approach, it is an “Islamic endowment,” and the Palestinians themselves do not have the right to dispose of it alone. Within this context, it can be concluded that the demand for an “independent Palestinian state” was not invented by Hamas. Rather, it rejected it in the past, even before its inception, when everyone preceded it. Was it necessary for what has happened so far to become this? What is the requirement to stop the war? Maybe the answer is yes. Regardless of agreement or disagreement with the Hamas leadership, it is clear that it has succeeded in reminding the world of the necessity of finding a solution to the Palestine issue, even if the return is to push it into a kind of liquidation, especially if the solution comes in the form of creating a “statelet” for what remains. From the rubble of the Gaza Strip, after the guns fell silent. How terrifying are the questions that seek convincing answers?

Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that he has recognized the State of Israel and its right to exist for 40 years, and asks Israel to recognize a Palestinian state and its right to exist as well. In a conference held with French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited him in Ramallah from Israel after a major solidarity visit following the attack launched by Hamas on the 7th of this month, Abbas demanded a complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the opening of permanent corridors. For humanitarian relief to introduce medical supplies and food, and provide water, electricity, fuel and other basic needs.

Abbas called on France to use its influence in the Security Council to immediately stop this aggression, provide urgent international protection for the Palestinians in Gaza, hold an international peace conference, and move to a political solution instead of military and security solutions, by implementing the two-state solution in accordance with international legitimacy.

Abbas accused Israel of choosing a destructive military machine instead of peace. He asked: “Who in this world would accept the annihilation of entire families, the bombing of hospitals, and the cutting off of water to an entire people?” Abbas held Israel and the countries of the world that encouraged it to continue deepening its aggressive practices responsible for what turned out. Abbas renewed his refusal to displace Palestinians from their homes and land outside Palestine, whether from Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem, stressing: “We will not accept more military or security solutions, which have brought us to where we are today, which may lead the region to a regional and global war.”

Abbas said: “The Gaza Strip is part of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, and we reject any partial or security solutions for the Strip, and we adhere to the comprehensive political solution.” Abbas stressed the commitment of the Palestinian side, “represented by the State of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Organization, to international legitimacy and signed agreements, policies of non-violence and peaceful popular resistance, and following political and legal methods to achieve our people’s national goals.” He added: “We also condemn the killing of civilians on both sides, and call for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees on both sides.”

But Macron focused on an international coalition against Hamas. Macron, while standing next to Abbas, said: “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people, and we think about the suffering of civilians in Gaza, and there is no justification for this suffering.”

Macron stressed that “civilian lives have the same value, regardless of nationality.” Macron described Hamas as terrorist, and told Abbas that there must be a security and peace initiative based on combating all terrorist groups, including Hamas. Macron arrived in Ramallah, at a time when Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrated against receiving him, as he was completely biased towards Israel. Macron pledged to support the Palestinians financially in the West Bank, and to accelerate the sending of aid to the Gaza Strip, on the basis that civilians should not be harmed.

Palestine TV said that four people were killed and 20 others were injured in an Israeli bombing on the vicinity of the Jenin camp in the West Bank on Wednesday. 

For its part, the Israeli army said that it carried out a drone strike on Palestinians who opened fire on its forces during a raid in the city of Jenin early on Wednesday morning. The Israeli army added that its forces arrested two people “suspected of involvement in terrorist activities” and shot others in Wadi Burqin.

Russia confirmed on Tuesday that the basis for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and compliance with Security Council resolutions in this regard.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during a press conference: “Russia stresses that it is necessary to ensure a ceasefire as soon as possible and to resolve the issue, which must be based on ensuring the establishment of an independent state for the Palestinians.”

The head of humanitarian affairs at the United Nations, Martin Griffiths, stressed on Tuesday the need for fuel to enter the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.

Griffiths said on his page on the “AX” website, “The aid delivered to Gaza so far is barely making an impact,” adding, “We need more, now.”

"We need the aid to go to civilians in need wherever they are," he added.

For her part, the Humanitarian Coordinator in Palestine, Lynn Hastings, said in her speech during the UN Security Council session on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian issue, that fuel is important for delivering aid to all areas of Gaza.

She added: "We will not limit humanitarian aid deliveries to one place, and we do not want humanitarian aid to be used as an attraction to transport people, and for this reason we need fuel to deliver aid to all parts of Gaza."

Today, Tuesday, Israeli occupation artillery bombed several villages in southern Lebanon, where an atmosphere of tension prevails over the villages of the western sector, after a number of its outskirts were subjected to violent enemy bombardment.

The occupation fired flares, while UNIFIL forces sounded sirens at their positions in Naqoura, Alma al-Shaab, and Labouneh. The artillery shelling also targeted Aita Al-Shaab Public School.

In his speech, Guterres considered that the attack launched by the Hamas movement on the settlements and towns surrounding the Gaza Strip on October 7 “did not happen in a vacuum,” noting that the Palestinian people have been subjected to continuous occupation for more than 75 years.

Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, called for the resignation of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Erdan said on the X platform (formerly Twitter): “The Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shows understanding of the campaign of mass killing of children, women and the elderly, is not qualified to lead the United Nations,” referring to Guterres’ earlier statements before the UN Security Council.

In his speech, Guterres considered that the attack launched by Hamas on settlements and towns around the Gaza Strip on October 7 “did not happen in a vacuum,” noting that the Palestinian people have been subjected to continuous occupation for more than 75 years.

But he stressed the need to release all those detained since the Hamas attack.

At the same time, Guterres said that there were serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Gaza, stressing the need to deliver aid to the Strip “without restrictions.”

On Tuesday evening, a group of armed settlers attacked a citizen and his son, threatening to demolish their home in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

Citizen Muhammad Jabareen said that a number of armed settlers assaulted his family, and his son Muhammad suffered bruises and bruises in his back. The ambulance crews that arrived at the scene took him to Yatta Governmental Hospital.

He added that settlers wearing military uniforms and carrying machine guns have been carrying out provocative rounds in Masafer Yatta since the beginning of the Israeli aggression, including chasing citizens and assaulting them and their property, demanding that they leave their homes and threatening them with death.

Written by: Rogel Elfer

The massacre in the Gaza Strip is a new founding ethos of Israeli society, and it perfectly and frighteningly links the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities to Hamas and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. According to the new spirit, those who are slaughtering are not only Hamas men, but the entire Palestinian community in Gaza and in the Authority. From now on, all Palestinians are Nazis who deserve to die. Occupation, expulsion and killing must be carried out.

Since the Israeli massacre, the sofa men have been gathering at home and waiting for the war in front of four channels that continuously broadcast testimonies of the massacre and the kidnapping of hostages. Israeli society destroys itself in a poignant film of bereavement, which is good for morale. The wait gets longer, the attack slows down, and the stories continue to flow.

These stories not only waste time, but they become time itself. It contains the fundamental, profound Israeli narrative: Jews are innocent victims of horrific Nazi killers. The amount of stories is large and they shape the collective consciousness. Citizens of Israel are now going through a process of intellectual change. They have become a conscripted society, a people forming an army, a people of heroes, a people united as one man, together. Once again, there is no distinct Israeli identity. Only there are Jews who are dragged like sheep to the slaughter and swear revenge. As if there had been no country for 75 years since the disaster. Orphaned Jews in the Land of Israel await the Messiah. They are waiting for salvation. Joe Biden, the paternal custodian, was not received here like a father. He was attached to him like a Savior.

  How many terrible stories can the average person consume every day? Israelis feel a moral duty through shared destiny to hear all the stories, all the time. Almost every moment they sit watching television late at night or early in the morning, throughout the day or evening, they hear about atrocities. When switching between channels, they can choose the terrible action they like.

The competition between TV channels is a market for horrors, they market the stories as content and try to attract viewers with them. They promise new horizons of excitement in all aspects: in the level of mourning, the power of anger it will arouse, the dimension of trauma and the recognition of the revealed miracle. Just before I sat down to write, I watched Shay Golden try to entice viewers with the promise of a story the likes of which they had not yet heard. This story hasn't happened yet, brag. As a deceitful person who wants to market his goods. Stories of atrocities blind and paralyze the public, robbing them of the ability to think logically. Israel is eager for battle. The war covers up the anger, and the protest against the kidnapped people who were betrayed by their state in an open and criminal way neutralizes the anger and protest against Benjamin Netanyahu.

As blind people, we are drawn into war behind a leader who only thinks about himself. A leader who has a personal interest in prolonging it. Its end, deliberately and mysteriously, will be far away until after winter. A war that could lead us to regional conflicts on multiple fronts and even conflicts between great powers. Thousands of Israelis could be killed on the Gaza battlefield and in the devastated streets of Gush Dan. The war could end with the occupation of the Gaza Strip, and at the same time with the strengthening of the occupation and apartheid in the West Bank.

At our head stands a person who, before the massacre, caused more harm to the state than he had done to it throughout its history. Architect of destruction. He is the person whom Israel follows, as usual, with distinctive submission and by sacrificing the kidnapped to the sounds of the drums of war. With a disastrous logic, Israel once again chose death. Israeli death is always a justified and very inevitable death.

source: Agencies 

The Minister of Health, Dr. May caused the collapse of the health system in the Gaza Strip, which threatens the imminent death of every wounded and sick person in the Strip.

During a press conference held at the ministry’s headquarters in the city of Ramallah on Tuesday, Kayla said: “The number of martyrs since October 7 in the Gaza Strip has reached about 5,700 martyrs, including 2,360 children, or 40%, and 1,292 women, or 30%, in addition to 295 elderly people.”

She continued: At dawn today, the number of hospitals completely stopped has become 15 out of 35, that is, a third of the number of hospitals. These hospitals have stopped as a result of the Israeli bombing and the exhaustion of fuel.

She added that various hospitals are being subjected to threats of evacuation by the occupation forces, in addition to the deliberate bombing of hospitals or their surroundings, where thousands of citizens are taking refuge, stressing that since this afternoon, hospitals have not been able to receive any sick or wounded person for treatment, as there is no possibility of treatment due to a complete shortage of beds and severe overcrowding in the hospital. Numbers of patients in the emergency department in addition to other departments where hospital floors and corridors are used for treatment.

As for medical personnel, Kayla indicated that they constitute 30-35% of the necessary need for sick and wounded people, adding: This sharp decline in the number of medical personnel is due to multiple reasons, the most important of which is the extreme difficulty for personnel to reach various areas as a result of the violent bombing that destroyed roads, and as a result of the situation. The psychological condition that a nurse or doctor suffers from as their families are exposed to bombing or displacement, and thus the medical staff becomes exposed to great pressure between providing service during the bombing and their concern for their family.

Kayla indicated that 65 martyrs of the medical staff died as a result of the bombing, adding: There are hundreds of wounded and 25 ambulances that were directly bombed.

She continued: Power outages and fuel consumption are all at risk of running out within hours, explaining that medical staff are performing operations in hospital corridors and on the lights of mobile phones, and this represents the worst condition that a human mind can bear as a health staff who wants to provide service.

She confirmed that cancer patients suffer from the lack of medications or chemotherapy sessions, and dialysis patients are deprived of sessions that have been reduced by half, and there are hundreds of premature babies and the elderly who are at the heart of danger.

Al-Kaila appealed to international and human rights organizations to intervene urgently in order to save our people in the Gaza Strip and to put pressure on the occupation government to bring in fuel, medicines, medical supplies, medical gases, food and potable water, and to take the wounded out for treatment in the Republic of Egypt or other countries and bring in medical teams to support health personnel working in Gaza.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Hamas' attacks "did not occur in a vacuum," as the Palestinians have been subjected to a "suffocating occupation" for 56 years.

He added that the suffering of the Palestinians does not justify the horrific Hamas attacks, and those attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinians.

Guterres warned before a Security Council session at Tor Wendland on Tuesday that the war in Gaza could spread throughout the region. He pointed out that at least 35 United Nations employees were killed as a result of the bombing of Gaza.

He said he was deeply concerned about "the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we are witnessing in Gaza."

He added: "At a crucial moment like this, we must be clear about the principles, starting with the basic principle of respect and protection of civilians."

He called for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, speaking of “clear violations of international humanitarian law,” at a UN Security Council session to discuss the war on the Gaza Strip.

He said: "In order to alleviate this enormous suffering, facilitate the guaranteed distribution of aid, and facilitate the release of hostages, I reiterate my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire."

Guterres expressed "deep concern about the clear violations of international humanitarian law that we see in Gaza," adding, "Let us be clear: every party to any armed conflict is not above international humanitarian law."

He stressed that "nothing justifies the mass killing taking place in Gaza." "We cannot lose sight of the realistic basis for peace and stability, which is the two-state solution."

Guterres urged the entry of more humanitarian aid into Gaza after three convoys entered during the past days through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. However, international organizations confirm that this amount does not compare to the growing needs of the Gaza Strip’s population of 2.4 million people.

Guterres said: The aid that has entered so far "is just a drop in the ocean of needs. In addition, the United Nations fuel stocks in Gaza will run out within days. This will be another disaster."

By Marwan Bishara

Already in its third week, Israel’s war on Gaza has so far killed more than 5,600 Palestinians, injured thousands more, and displaced more than one million. Despite calls from some quarters for a ceasefire, there seems to be no end in sight for the suffering of Gaza’s two million residents.

Having long embraced the dehumanization of the Palestinians, Israeli society is filled with rage and the primordial drive for revenge over the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters on October 7.

This blind fury is now channeled into a genocidal drive by the narcissism and extremism of one man: Benjamin Netanyahu, a doubled-faced, pathological liar, who has done everything and anything to stay in power.

Netanyahu’s arrogance, corruption and callousness are to blame for the country’s political and military failures that led to the October 7 attacks. He thought he could just transform all of historic Palestine into a Greater Land of Israel, by making the occupation of the Palestinian territories permanent and keeping millions of Palestinians in an open-air prison in Gaza and segregated Bantustans in the West Bank – all with no repercussions.

On October 7, his arrogance finally caught up with him, because arrogance breeds stupidity. Hubris turned into humiliation, and the fiasco into farce, or as Israelis say, using Arabic words, the fashla (failure) turned fadiha (scandal).

And while Israel’s military and intelligence heads have accepted responsibility for their failures to prevent the attacks, Netanyahu has refrained from taking any responsibility, even though most Israelis blame him for their national tragedy.

Instead of resigning, the shamed and shameless prime minister has gone on to wage a sadistic war with no clear strategy or endgame.

In his genocidal offensive, Netanyahu has been aided and abetted by his former Western detractors, who until recently were expressing “concern” about his plans to undermine Israel’s judiciary, through his coalition of fanatics and fascists, in order to stay out of jail.

First and foremost among them is US President Joe Biden, who went from snubbing Netanyahu for much of the year to embracing and shielding him from the wrath of Israelis and Arabs alike.

Biden has committed America to Netanyahu’s genocidal war on Gaza, offering American arms, tactical assistance in urban warfare, and diplomatic leverage. He has ordered the deployment of two aircraft carriers in the Eastern Mediterranean to protect Israel and deter the likes of Iran from intervening in the conflict.

Likewise, European leaders, who had also given Netanyahu the cold shoulder for much of the year, are now clamoring to show their support for his government and his war on Gaza. They have refused to call for a ceasefire and continued to justify the mounting Israeli war crimes as an exercise of “the right to self-defense”.

Israel’s Western stooges love to evoke international law in all the wrong ways. Israel, indeed, has the right to self-defense, but not to defend its decades-long brutal military occupation, long enabled by Western powers. It is rather the occupied and victimized Palestinian people living under the Israeli racist system of apartheid that have the right to resist their tormentor under international law.

The ongoing genocidal war – spearheaded by a failed prime minister and supported by his morally suspect Western allies – is not one of self-defense; rather, it is a war of self-deceit. Israel falsely believes that it could attain security by the sword.

But when has killing more Palestinians ever resulted in better security for Israeli society? It never has; it never will.

Imposing a hermetic blockade on Gaza and unleashing a bombing rampage to pave the way for a land invasion, Israel will face dangerous regional blowbacks. In its genocidal drive, it may, as some fear, drag the US into World War III.

Sensationally and falsely comparing Hamas’s attacks on Israel with those carried by al-Qaeda on the United States in 2001 will not help. The “war on terror” the US unleashed on the world killed even more Americans than the 9/11 attacks did, along with hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim victims. It sowed chaos that more war and more troops could not stop for the past two decades.

If anything, the “war on terror” proves that war crimes, collective punishment and other violations of international law do not mitigate extremism; they perpetuate it as they fuel the cycles of violence – something UN Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ni Aolain emphasized during a recent news conference focusing on the Israeli war on Gaza.

As the Israeli army commits more war crimes against the Palestinians of Gaza, Israelis need to have a good look at where colonialism and occupation have gotten them. Perpetual Israeli oppression, racism and killings of the Palestinians have created the conditions for greater instability, extremism and violence in Palestine and the region.

A genocidal war on Gaza will not bring peace and quiet to the Israeli society, nor to those in the West abetting it.

On Tuesday evening, settlers burned a house on the outskirts of the village of Talfit, south of Nablus.

The head of the Talfit Village Council, Imad Abu Aisha, said that four settlers from the “Aila” settlement, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, stormed the western area of the village and burned a house belonging to a citizen of the city of Jerusalem.

He pointed out that the house is approximately two hundred meters from the settlement fence.

The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced the "total collapse" of the health system in all hospitals in the Strip, while the World Health Organization and UNRWA called for the rapid delivery of fuel and medical supplies to Gaza.

The Undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Yousef Abu Al-Rish, said that the health system in the Strip has reached the stage of complete collapse, despite hospitals opening their doors.

He added in an interview with Al Jazeera that a large portion of medicines and medical supplies have run out, and the clinical capacity of hospitals has been closed.

For his part, the General Director of Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Muhammad Zaqout, said that 8 hospitals have stopped working since the start of the war.

Zaqout added, in an interview with Al Jazeera, that the occupation's punitive measures threaten to cut off service to some major hospitals, stressing that the lack of fuel reaching them heralds a major disaster.

For the 18th day, the Israeli occupation army continues to target the Gaza Strip with intense air strikes that destroyed entire neighborhoods and killed thousands of Palestinian civilians.

Power outage

With the gradual decline in the amount of fuel that operates hospital generators, the medical staff at the Indonesian hospital announced a power outage to the hospital located in the Beit Lahia area (north); Before returning again, which threatens to put him out of service at any time.

Pictures showed scenes of complete darkness, coinciding with the arrival of dozens of wounded people to the hospital during a period that witnessed a power outage.

The Electricity Distribution Company in the Gaza Strip called on all parties to work diligently and urgently to operate the electrical sources in the Strip quickly and continuously.

The company said, in a statement, that the lack of electricity directly threatens to stop all vital sectors from working, which will increase people’s suffering and put the lives of many at risk, especially the wounded, sick and displaced.

UN warnings

In a related context, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it is still unable to distribute fuel or basic life-saving health supplies to major hospitals in northern Gaza due to a lack of security guarantees.

The organization called for "an immediate ceasefire on humanitarian grounds so that health supplies and fuel can be safely delivered to all parts of the Gaza Strip."

For its part, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that if the necessary fuel does not enter the Strip, the process of delivering aid, desalinating water, and operating hospitals will stop tomorrow, Wednesday. Tamara Al-Rifai, the agency’s spokeswoman, said, “Fuel is a very urgent matter because without fuel, you will not be able to The trucks themselves cannot move.

UNRWA continued, "Without fuel, generators cannot generate electricity for hospitals, bakeries, and the water desalination plant." United Nations organizations have made increasingly desperate appeals since Israel imposed a complete siege on the coastal strip and began a violent campaign 18 days ago to bomb and destroy residential neighborhoods, leading to the deaths of 5,800 people. Palestinians, most of them children and women, in addition to more than 15,000 injured people. Aid trucks began moving to Gaza from Egypt on Saturday after intense diplomatic efforts, but agencies say they are completely insufficient.

Half of the Strip's population of 2.2 million people suffer from lack of shelter, and many have been injured, and there is a shortage of food and clean water. The spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Jeremy Lawrence, said, "The aid that resumed from Egypt at the weekend is... "Just a drop in the ocean of what is needed."

Brian Lander, Deputy Head of the Emergency Department at the World Food Program, said that supporting the people of Gaza required about 465 trucks of humanitarian aid per day before the outbreak of the conflict.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies

Prisoner Arafat Yasser Hamdan (25 years old) from the town of Beit Sira, Ramallah district, was dead today, Tuesday, in “Ofer” prison, according to what was confirmed by the Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, following the announcement by the occupation prisons service of the death of a prisoner in “ Ofer is the second  death in the Detainee's National Movement in two days, coinciding with the war launched by the occupation against the besieged Gaza Strip, following the October 7 operation carried out by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement.

The occupation did not specify the identity of the dead prisoner, but merely said that he is a resident of the northern occupied West Bank, born in 1998, and that he was recently arrested and handed over to the occupation prisons service. The occupation claimed, in a statement, that “as is the case with any event of this kind, the circumstances will be examined.”

The occupation claimed that the prisoner "felt unwell and was transferred to the prison clinic for examinations, where the prison doctor declared his death," in light of the fierce and retaliatory campaign launched by the occupation authorities against the captive national movement, since the start of the war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

Later, the Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Detainees reported the martyrdom of prisoner Arafat Yasser Hamdan (25 years old), from the town of Beit Sira, Ramallah District, in Ofer Prison. The occupation had arrested him the day before yesterday. The Commission confirmed that “the occupation began a systematic assassination operation.” against the prisoners, in light of the comprehensive aggression against our people and our prisoners.”

This comes the day after the martyrdom of the leader of the Hamas movement, Omar Daraghmeh (58 years old), in the Israeli occupation prisons after his arrest in the wake of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, as a result of the torture he was subjected to in the occupation detention centers. The Hamas movement described what happened against him as an “assassination operation.” .

The Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said that the occupation arrested Daraghmeh with his son Hamza on the second day of the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation launched by Al-Qassam fighters on the 7th of this October. He was transferred to administrative detention for a period of 6 months, as was his son Hamza. He is a former prisoner.

The authority and the club added, in a joint statement, that a court session was held for him yesterday, via video technology, while the prisoner was languishing in Megiddo prison, and in the presence of his lawyer, Ashraf Abu Sneineh, in the “Ofer” military court, who confirmed that he spoke with him and asked him about his health, He replied that he was in good health.

The Prisoners' Commission and the Prisoners' Club expressed doubt about the occupation's story, which said that Daraghmeh had suffered a heart attack. They described what happened with Daraghmeh as an "assassination" operation, and pointed out that "whoever kills thousands of our people in front of the world will not hesitate to assassinate the prisoners in his prisons."

The announcement of Daraghmeh's death came in an official statement issued by the Israeli Prison Service, identical to the statement issued following the death of the second prisoner, today, which stated that "one of the detainees in Megiddo Prison felt unwell, and went to the prison clinic to undergo examinations."

The Israeli government's judicial advisor, Gali Beharav Meara, approved today, Tuesday, that the government establish new emergency regulations, allowing the extension of the detention of Hamas detainees who prevented them from meeting with a lawyer for a period of 90 days, instead of 60 days, with the approval of a judge in a central court.

Bhairav Mayara considered that the prolongation of the detention extension stems from the fact that the investigation with Hamas detainees is complicated in the wake of the widespread and sudden attack on the seventh of this month, and that it entails “special and unusual” features.

He added that the detained Hamas detainees who are being investigated have a lot of information in their possession, and that "there is a real fear that the investigation will be distorted if they meet with lawyers now."

At least 44 citizens, including children, were killed, and dozens were injured, some of whose wounds were described as critical and serious, in Israeli raids by Israeli warplanes, which targeted, today, Tuesday, a number of citizens’ homes in the city of Khan Yunis, in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, in the Al-Mughraqa area, and the refugee camp. Al-Nuseirat and Deir Al-Balah in the middle of the Strip.

Tunisian President Kais Saied called for intensifying diplomatic work in the face of the daily occupation massacres against the Palestinian people.

President Saied asked his Foreign Minister, Nabil Ammar, to intensify diplomatic work to stand by the Palestinian people in the face of these massacres that are repeated every day in full view of the whole world, as a result of the brutal Zionist bombing, in addition to cutting off water, electricity, medical supplies, and the most basic necessities of life.

President Saied explained that the peoples of the entire world stand with the Palestinian people in confronting the Zionist crimes, despite all attempts at restrictions, and despite all the exposed fallacies of distorting the facts by the mouthpieces of Zionist propaganda.

Saied, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Immigration, and Tunisians Abroad, was assigned to invite a number of ambassadors accredited to Tunisia to demand the implementation of international humanitarian law, and that these countries must put an end to these crimes and fallacies.

“They are running out of water, and trying to take cover from the Israeli bombing,” is how Scotland's Prime Minister, Hamza Yousef, describes the situation of his wife's parents who are trapped in Gaza. The two were stuck in the Strip after the attack carried out by Hamas inside Israel and the start of the Israeli bombing of Gaza.

The Scottish National Party said the experience amounted to "torture" for two members of the Prime Minister's family, who live in Dundee.

The Scottish Prime Minister renewed, more than once, his call to the British government to seek to allow safe passage of civilians out of Gaza.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said that he is working with Israel and Egypt to open the Rafah crossing, which connects Egypt to the Gaza Strip, to help British citizens leave the region.

Elizabeth Al-Nakhla and her husband Majed, the parents of Nadia, wife of Scottish Prime Minister Hamza Yousef, arrived in Gaza to visit a sick relative.

As for Youssef, he was visiting the flood-hit town of Brechin in Angus, Scotland, when he moved away from his advisors to receive a phone call, only to later reveal that it was a call from his wife’s mother in Gaza.

Youssef told BBC Scotland News: "The situation is catastrophic; it is a nightmare for us, and torture for them. They cannot sleep, and of course they are worried that the house they are staying in might be bombed."

Youssef said that the couple only has six bottles of drinking water, and they live in a house where at least 100 people are sheltering, including a two-month-old child.

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The Scottish Prime Minister urged the British government to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing "to allow foreign nationals and other innocent men, women and children in Gaza - who have no connection to Hamas - to leave."

On Saturday, 20 aid trucks from Egypt crossed into Gaza for the first time in two weeks, and activists described these supplies as “a drop in the ocean” of what is needed to provide relief to the residents of the Strip, which Israel is imposing a siege on, and decided to completely cut off water, electricity, and fuel.

Youssef said: "We are seeing aid flowing, but it is far less than what is needed. The borders must be opened to allow people to leave because there are many innocent men, women and children, not just my wife's parents, as many, many innocent men, women and children are suffering greatly."

Last Friday, Youssef posted a video clip on his account on the “X” platform, of his mother-in-law saying: “This will be my last video. Everyone in Gaza is heading towards us, and there are a million people without food or water. And they are still bombing them during their displacement. Where are they?” "We'll put them in?"

She added: “My thoughts now are on those people in the hospital, who cannot be evacuated.

Where is the humanity? Where are the hearts of people in the world to allow things like this to happen in this day and age? Please God help us. Farewell".

Israel began air strikes on the Gaza Strip after about 1,400 people were killed in Israel in an attack carried out by Hamas.

On the other hand, more than 5,000 Palestinians were killed in the past two weeks in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli bombing, according to the Ministry of Health in the Strip.

United Nations agencies have warned that Gaza is experiencing a stifling humanitarian crisis, even before the recent hostilities, and it actually needs about 500 trucks per day to deliver vital supplies to the besieged population.

About 1.2 million people, out of a population of 2.2 million living in the Strip, were already relying on food aid provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, before October 7.

An Israeli army spokesman said on Saturday that Israel would increase “strikes” in order to “reduce the risks” to Israeli forces in the next stages of the war.

Massive pro-Palestinian demonstrations took place in various parts of the United Kingdom on Sunday, including a demonstration in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city.

Source: BBC

On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed expanding the scope of the current international coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria to also include the fight against the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” in the Gaza Strip.

“France is ready for the international coalition fighting ISIS (Islamic State), in which we participate in operations in Iraq and Syria, to also fight Hamas,” Macron told reporters as he stood next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in occupied Jerusalem.

While there was no comment from the Hamas movement on the French President's statements, Macron worked hard during his meeting with Netanyahu to express his support for the Israeli occupation in its ongoing aggression against Gaza, which caused the martyrdom of about 5,500 Palestinians, most of whom are children and women.

Macron said after his meeting with Netanyahu that France and Israel consider terrorism a “common enemy.” He added: “You are not alone.” Macron had previously told the Israeli president that France would not leave Israel alone in its war against Islamic extremists, but he warned of the dangers of a regional conflict.

On the other hand, Human Rights Watch International criticized the West's silence regarding the Israeli occupation's violation of international humanitarian law, considering that "its (the West's) hypocrisy and double standards are blatant."

The organization said, in a statement on its website, Monday, that the West “is silent regarding Israel’s violation of international humanitarian law, while it does not hesitate to denounce Russian violations in its war against Ukraine.” She added that "the demands of international humanitarian law to protect civilians apply to everyone."

Human Rights Watch also mentioned these demands: “Do not deliberately or indiscriminately attack civilians, do not take hostages, do not punish civilians for actions committed by other individuals, and do not prevent or withhold humanitarian aid.”

While the organization stressed that “the principle of non-reciprocity rooted in the laws of war applies to all conflicts,” and that “violation of these laws by one party does not justify violations by the other party.”

The American newspaper “The Wall Street Journal” said, Monday, October 23, 2023, that the negotiations held to release 50 prisoners held by the resistance in Gaza “failed,” and explained that the negotiations failed because of Tel Aviv’s refusal to allow fuel to enter the Strip, which is the condition. Which Hamas had set in exchange for completing the deal.

Earlier Monday, the American newspaper "The New York Times" quoted an Israeli military official as saying that talks between the United States and Qatar indicate that the Islamic Resistance Movement "Hamas" may release about 50 of its dual nationality prisoners.

While an Israeli army spokesman said, “A notification was delivered to the families of 222 kidnapped persons, a small number of whom are foreign nationals.” American sources told the New York Times, "The United States advised Israel to delay ground entry into Gaza to release the kidnapped people."

The newspaper also quoted an official familiar with the file of negotiations regarding Israeli prisoners with the Palestinian resistance, which are being mediated by Qatar, that Hamas warned that a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip would reduce the chances of releasing the prisoners.

While she indicated that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken did not answer a question directed to him, during a television interview conducted with him by CBS News on Sunday, whether the United States had asked Israel to postpone the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, in order to allow more... Time to negotiate about the prisoners, but Blinken confirmed that Washington provided advice to the Israelis regarding the invasion of the Gaza Strip.

While Israeli Army Radio reported on Monday that Tel Aviv agreed to Washington's request to postpone the ground invasion of Gaza until additional American forces arrive in the region.

The radio also said that the United States informed Israel that it intends to send additional forces to the Middle East in preparation for the ground maneuver, for fear of Iranian attacks against its forces in the region.

For its part, the New York Times reported, citing informed sources, that US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, conveyed to Israel Washington's advice to postpone its ground operation in the Strip.

The Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, confirmed on Sunday, October 22, that Qatar continues to coordinate with the United States and international partners to release prisoners and reduce the escalation in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of Hamas - released two American detainees, a mother and her daughter, last Friday for “humanitarian reasons,” in response to Qatari mediation efforts. It also released two Israeli female prisoners on Monday for humanitarian reasons.

The movement confirmed the presence of between 200 and 250 Israeli prisoners in Gaza. Of them, 200 are with Hamas, and the Israeli army said that it informed the families of 212 people that their children are detained in the Gaza Strip.

A document, which the Israeli newspaper Calcalist said it obtained, revealed that the Israeli Minister of Intelligence, Gila Gamliel, proposed transferring the residents of the Gaza Strip to Sinai in Egypt, at the end of the war, thus confirming Tel Aviv’s efforts to displace the residents of the Strip, which is met with widespread Palestinian and Arab rejection. .

The newspaper reported, Tuesday, October 24, 2023, that the document it obtained bears the logo of the Ministry of Intelligence and is used in internal discussions between government ministries.

The newspaper indicated that the document was not supposed to reach the general public, but it reached a group currently working to establish a movement called “Settlement Headquarters - Gaza Strip,” whose goal is to restore settlement to the Gaza Strip.

It is possible that this document, which probably will not influence government policy, was written to support the movement and its goals, and therefore reached them as well. In any case, this is a direct continuation of the extremist policy on which the government has relied since its formation.

The Gamliel document addresses three alternatives for the post-war period, but the one that “will lead to positive, long-term strategic results” is the transfer of Gaza’s population to Sinai.

The newspaper says that this step will come in three stages: “establishing tent cities in Sinai, southwest of the Gaza Strip, then establishing a humanitarian corridor to help the population, and finally building cities in northern Sinai.”

The newspaper added: “At the same time, a buffer zone several kilometers wide will be established inside Egypt, south of the border with Israel, so that the displaced residents will not be able to return.” In addition, the document calls for cooperation with the largest possible number of countries so that they can receive the displaced Palestinians from Gaza and providing them with aid.

The document also includes criticism of international oversight, and states that this step is better than other options, because fighting after the displacement of the population will reduce the number of casualties. The document also claimed that even before the war, “many Gazans expressed their desire to emigrate,” as it put it. .

Israel's efforts to displace the population of the Gaza Strip were met with official and popular Egyptian and Jordanian rejection, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said, "A step like this will turn Sinai into a base for launching attacks on Israel." However, according to the Gamliel document, “Egypt is obligated under international law to allow the entry of fleeing residents,” she said.

For his part, the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Al-Safadi, warned on Saturday, October 14, 2023, that any move by Israel to impose new displacement on the Palestinians will push the entire region towards the “abyss.”

The website of the Jordanian newspaper Al-Ghad quoted Al-Safadi as saying: “The displacement of Palestinians is a red line, and we will confront it, and the raging war on Gaza must stop.”

Saudi Arabia also announced, on Friday evening, October 13, 2023, its categorical rejection of calls for the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from Gaza.

Source: Arabic Post