Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a massive arrest campaign in various parts of the West Bank, targeting 45 citizens, including freed detainees.

In Jenin, the Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn on Friday, six citizens from the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested: Talal Rajeh Assaf and Majdi Zakarneh, to pressure their two sons to surrender themselves to the occupation authorities. They also arrested: Ramadan Mahmoud Abu Mualla, Riyad Zakarneh and his son Fadi, to pressure his son to surrender himself under the pretext that he is wanted, and Ibrahim. Abu Mualla, after storming the town, raiding their homes, and tampering with their contents, which led to the outbreak of violent confrontations between young men and the occupation forces, without any injuries being reported.

In Hebron, a number of citizens were injured by occupation bullets and cases of suffocation, and 29 others were arrested in several areas of Hebron Governorate.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces raided the city of Hebron and arrested 24 citizens, namely: Bilal Salim Al-Muhtasib, Dirar Abu Manshar, Maher Burqan, Abdul Rahman Al-Jaabari, Amjad Al-Hamouri, Hashem Ali Abu Turki, Hatem Qafisha and his son Anas, Ubaida Abu Sneina, Ikrimah and Khuzaymah. Ghaith, Azzam Salhab, Mustafa Shawar, Amjad and his brother Bahaa Fadl Zahida, Firas Abu Sharkh, Fahd Al-Junaidi, Munther Al-Jubeh, Murad Shaheen, Youssef Talib Abu Sneineh, Abdel Khaleq, Nabil, Mazen Al-Natsheh, and Luqman Al-Hashlamoun, and searched their homes and tampered with their contents.

In the town of Halhul, confrontations broke out with the occupation forces, who fired live bullets, rubber-coated metal bullets, and toxic tear gas, causing three young men to be injured by live bullets in their lower extremities, and dozens of others suffered from suffocation. They were treated in the field, while the young man, Saleh Abu Rayyan, was arrested.

In Al-Fawwar camp, south of Hebron, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Youssef Osama Al-Anati.

In the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, the occupation forces arrested: Muhammad Youssef Abdel Fattah Awad (55 years old), Hamza Muhammad Youssef Awad (26 years old), and Muhammad Khaled Abdullah Awad (25 years old), after besieging two houses in the town.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the town and surrounded the homes of citizens Muhammad Khaled Abdullah Jarad and Muhammad Ibrahim Mustafa Awad, in the “Al-Habayel” and “Al-Musrara” areas, west of the town, amid gunfire, before arresting both: Muhammad Youssef Abdel Fattah Awad ( 55 years old), Hamza Muhammad Youssef Awad (26 years old), and Muhammad Khaled Abdullah Awad (25 years old).

In the same context, the occupation forces set up military checkpoints at all entrances to Hebron, its towns and camps.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested four citizens from Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the freed prisoner Ayman Abu Aram from the town of Birzeit in the north, Hilal Abdul Qadir Al-Khawaja, the freed prisoner Mutasim Al-Khawaja from Nilin in the west, and Abada Muhammad Qatusa from the town of Deir Qadis, after they raided and searched their homes.

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie discussed with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani the consequences of the crisis in Israel and Gaza.

The Canadian Foreign Ministry said that the two sides exchanged concerns about the humanitarian impacts, and agreed to protect civilians in Israel and Gaza.

During the call, the Canadian Foreign Minister expressed her thanks to Qatar for its mediation efforts and promoting stability.

This article aims to analyze the Israeli discourse towards the Palestinians during the “Al-Aqsa Flood” war, by monitoring statements made by Israeli politicians and officials. By using racist rhetoric towards the Palestinians, the Israeli establishment has targeted two categories of the public: an external group and an internal group. The racist discourse directed at the Western public differs, apparently, from the racist discourse directed at the Israeli public, but they meet in goal, which is to justify the killing of Palestinians and the practice of the harshest forms of violence and destruction against them.

The Israeli discourse directed at the European and American West is based on exploiting the “Islamophobia” syndrome (fear of Islam) that is rampant in the West. According to Edward Said, Islamophobia has been linked to Orientalist concepts based on portraying the Muslim as a violent, bloodthirsty person who hates others, especially Jews. In this context, we find the Israeli army spokesman Doron Spielman’s description of the situation in Israel, following Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood,” as “similar to the attacks of September 11, 2001,” which targeted the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in the United States of America. In conjunction with this, “Avichai Adraee” (the Israeli army’s spokesman for Arab media) wrote on his VX page (formerly Twitter), “Hamas and ISIS are two sides of the same coin.” He described the Palestinian resistance factions as ISIS and terrorists.

Israeli army spokesmen strike a sensitive chord in the Western collective consciousness, in which the scenes of September 11 and the practices of ISIS are linked to the growing phenomenon of Islamophobia. Comparing the “Al-Aqsa Flood” to the events of September, and the resistance factions to ISIS, is an extension of an Israeli media strategy adopted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, when he compared the former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to the leader of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, in order to justify getting rid of him, and the goal of this comparison. Insinuating to Western society that there is a common denominator with Israel, which is the fight against “terrorism,” and that Israel is facing “terrorists,” not freedom seekers or a national liberation movement. This goal is clearly demonstrated in a letter by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, addressed to the French ambassador, following the ISIS attacks in France in 2015, when he said: “We are proud of our values, our friendship, and our freedom... When the civilized powers diagnose the problem, they will have no choice but to unite for Eliminate these animals. These animals have a name, which is extremist Islam. We are obligated to stand together to fight extremist Islam.”

We see an echo of the racist, Orientalist Israeli discourse in the speech of US President Joe Biden, when he described the Al-Aqsa flood operation as “pure, pure evil,” and that “Hamas” is “a group whose declared goal is to kill Jews,” considering the Al-Aqsa flood a form of terrorism, declaring that “the brutality of 'Hamas' brings to mind the worst rampage of ISIS." Thus, we find a similarity between the Israeli discourse and the American discourse in describing the resistance of the Palestinian people as terrorism, and stripping it of the national liberation movement, while labeling it as ISIS, in order to justify violent Israeli practices towards the Palestinians.

internally; The Israeli discourse directed to the Israeli public was based on dehumanization of the Palestinians. This is embodied in the statement of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant when he spoke about launching an aggression against the Gaza Strip, saying: “We are fighting human animals.” This is his justification for cutting off electricity, water, and food from the Gaza Strip. Gallant's statement comes as an extension of a long series of Israeli statements that aim to dehumanize the Palestinians and liken them to animals and insects. Previously, Israeli Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan described the Palestinians as "cockroaches," while former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir compared them to "grasshoppers." Knesset member from the right-wing Likud Party, Yechael Hazan, described Arabs as “worms.”

The Israeli racist discourse aimed at dehumanizing the Palestinians and Arabs was fused into the racist Jewish jurisprudential heritage. This was demonstrated in the speech of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (the spiritual leader of the Shas movement, and the former chief rabbi of the Sephardic Jews in Israel), and his saying: “When a Jew kills a Muslim, it is as if he had killed A snake or a worm, and no one can deny that both the snake and the worm are dangerous to humans, so getting rid of Muslims, like getting rid of worms, is a natural thing to happen.”

The Israeli racist discourse aimed at dehumanizing the Palestinians intersects with the practices of European colonialism, which are based on a superior Orientalist view towards the colonized peoples. The European colonialists have always viewed the colonized peoples as being lower in status than them, and they have been stigmatized with inhuman characteristics that dehumanize them. Whether by likening them to insects or animals, in order to justify killing and getting rid of them.

Conclusion:

We can say that there is an integrated Israeli racist discourse towards the Palestinians. On the one hand, they are demonized and guerrillaized worldwide, and on the other hand, they are dehumanized, with the aim of removing any sympathy for them and justifying violent practices against them, whether by killing through bombing or siege. Starvation, or destroying buildings on the heads of their occupants, including civilians and defenseless children, women and the elderly.

When the Palestinians are demonized, dehumanized, and branded as terrorists and ISIS, it becomes easy for the Israeli military machine to continue its bloody practices, as if it is not committing a crime, or any moral transgression. Those targeted by this killing, destruction, siege, and starvation are not human, or belong to the human race. Rather, they are “human animals” and insects that must be eliminated, without any mercy, compassion, or being affected by the scenes of innocent children and their remains after their homes were bombed.

Source" Institute of Palestinian Studies

Reuters said that Britain sent two ships from the Royal Navy to patrol the eastern Mediterranean and three helicopters.

Reuters quoted a statement by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in which he said that his country would deploy additional military support to enhance security in the region and calm any attempts to escalate the conflict.

The statement indicated that Sunak assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - in a phone call - "his country's firm support for Israel in the wake of the Hamas attack."

Earlier, Germany announced the provision of two drones to Israel.

This comes after the US aircraft carrier Gerald Ford arrived in the eastern Mediterranean, ready to assist Israel in the war it launched against the Gaza Strip, after it was exposed to a sudden operation by the Palestinian resistance movement (Hamas).

On Thursday, the United Nations launched an urgent appeal to collect donations worth $294 million to help residents of the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said - in a statement - that this amount aims to help more than 1.2 million people in Gaza and the West Bank, warning that humanitarian organizations no longer have the necessary resources to “adequately respond to the needs of vulnerable Palestinians.”

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said that Israel is practicing collective punishment in Gaza and has no right to violate international law.

The British PA Media agency reported that the Irish Prime Minister also called for opening a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to reach the Palestinians.

"Israel has the right to defend itself, but Israel does not have the right to injustice," Varadkar told Radio and Television Ireland. He expressed his concern about what he sees happening in Gaza at the present time.

He explained that Israel is violating humanitarian law by punishing Palestinian civilians, and that Ireland will seek to open a humanitarian corridor to allow aid to reach Gaza.

Israel is waging a violent war on the Gaza Strip, which has left more than 1,537 martyrs and 6,612 injured, at a time when the number of Israeli deaths at the hands of the Palestinian resistance since the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has risen to 1,300.

Israel cut off food, water and electricity supplies to Gaza, while the United Nations rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, considered that starving the besieged population in Gaza and depriving them of necessities is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

The UN rapporteur said that a large portion of the population of the besieged Gaza Strip is being exterminated.

International humanitarian law prohibits collective punishment of a group of people for a crime committed by an individual.

Source: German News Agency

Seven Palestinians were killed on Thursday by Israeli occupation forces and settlers in the West Bank, bringing the number of martyrs to 36 martyrs and 650 injured since the Palestinian resistance launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle last Saturday.

Late Thursday evening, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that Farid Malasa (24 years old) died of serious injuries after being shot in the head by occupation forces in the town of Deir Bazi, west of Ramallah.

The Ministry also reported - on its Facebook page - that Samer Saeed Radwan (22 years old) was killed by occupation bullets near the town of Prophet Elias in Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.

Palestinian medical sources reported that the Israeli army was holding Radwan's body.

Near Tulkarm, the boy Muhtadi Majid Salim (17 years old) was killed by occupation bullets during confrontations in the town of Jayyus, according to what was reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Health also reported the murdering of Palestinian woman Randa Abdullah Abdul Aziz Ajaj (37 years old) by occupation bullets near the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah.

The official Palestinian News Agency said that the woman's son was injured by occupation bullets that targeted the car in which they were traveling.

On Thursday afternoon, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Wadi (62 years old) and his son Ahmed (25 years old) were killed by bullets fired by settlers at the funeral of 4 martyrs near the village of Al-Sawiya, south of Nablus.

In this context, the Palestinian Red Crescent stated: 4 Palestinians were injured late Thursday evening by occupation bullets in the town of Halhul, north of Hebron in the West Bank.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on its Facebook page that more than 650 Palestinians have been injured in the West Bank since last Saturday, noting that 210 of them were taken to hospitals.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported the martyrdom of 1,537 Palestinians and the injury of 6,612 others since the beginning of the brutal Israeli aggression on the besieged Strip.

On Friday, bloodthirsty Israeli occupation warplanes continued to bomb residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip, as rescue operations are underway to recover the bodies of a number of martyrs and those wounded in the aggression.

Sources reported at least 10 people, including a young girl, were martyred after Israeli warplanes targeted the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, occupation warplanes targeted a house belonging to the Saafin family in al-Zaitoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to our correspondent.

 They pointed out that Israeli forces have been concentrating their deadly airstrikes on residential neighborhoods in Gaza. Additionally, they have targeted refugee camps in the Strip in recent hours.

As Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” - launched by the Palestinian resistance - entered its seventh day, the United Nations said that the Israeli army informed it of the necessity of moving the entire population of northern Gaza (about 1.1 million) to the southern Strip within 24 hours.

The United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said it has moved its central operations center and international staff to southern Gaza to continue its humanitarian operations and support its staff and Palestinian refugees.

The agency added on the X platform, “We urge the Israeli authorities to protect all civilians in UNRWA shelters, including schools.”

United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said - in a statement - that the number of people requested by the Israeli army to move to the south of the Strip amounts to 1.1 million people.

Dujarric added, "The organization strongly appeals to cancel any deportation order for residents of the northern Gaza Strip to avoid a catastrophic situation," considering that it is impossible to implement such an order without devastating humanitarian consequences.

For its part, the government media office in Gaza said that warning residents of the Strip to move is false propaganda, and “we urge our citizens not to be led by it.”

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh received phone calls this Thursday evening from a number of senior international officials. During which he urged them to take urgent action to stop the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has claimed hundreds of martyrs and thousands of injuries, by bombing homes on the heads of their residents.

Shtayyeh received calls from the President of the Socialist International, Stefan Löfven, from the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Joseph Borrell, from the British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, from the Swedish Foreign Minister, Anneken Hütten, and from the Churches in Sweden.

Shtayyeh presented international officials with a picture of the dangerous situation unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Amidst the interruption of the lifeline that threatens the residents of the Gaza Strip with an imminent humanitarian catastrophe.

Shtayyeh called on international officials to work urgently to stop the aggression, restore electricity and water to the Strip, and allow the entry of fuel, food, and medical supplies.

He called for work to evacuate the wounded who were overwhelmed by hospitals while the cemeteries were overflowing with martyrs, and to work to urgently provide hospitals with medical supplies and personnel to save the injured.

The Israeli occupation forces continue to commit massacres against Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip for the sixth day in a row, while a spokesman for the Israeli occupation army confirmed that the military attack on the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” focuses on eliminating the movement’s senior leaders, including its president, Yahya Sinwar.

Salama Maarouf, head of the government media office in the Gaza Strip, said that Israel committed nearly 30 massacres against Palestinian families during its war on the Strip since last Saturday, causing the deaths of hundreds, most of them women and children, the most recent of which was against the Shihab family, which claimed the lives of 31 martyrs and dozens of wounded.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll from last Saturday until Thursday afternoon had risen to 1,417 martyrs, in addition to the injury of 6,268 others. It added that it recorded the death of 447 child martyrs and 248 female martyrs as a result of the occupation’s continued aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The Ministry warned that the delay in responding to the relief appeal makes the Gaza Strip a mass grave, while international relief organizations confirmed that the lifeline in Gaza has begun to fade, and the time has come to protect humanity there.

Marouf added that the occupation destroyed dozens of residential buildings and towers, in the Al-Karama area (north), Al-Shati camp (west), Al-Bureij (centre), and the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis (south) and Deir Al-Balah (centre), with 752 residential buildings, including 2,835 units (apartments) demolished. In total, 32 thousand units were severely damaged, of which 1,791 units were uninhabitable, while 42 government headquarters and dozens of public facilities and installations were destroyed. The Israeli bombing also destroyed 89 schools, 9 of which were no longer fit for work, and 11 mosques.

On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation forces demolished two houses in the village of Al-Janiya, west of Ramallah, and also bulldozed large areas of citizens’ lands.

According to local sources, an occupation army force accompanied by a bulldozer stormed the eastern side of the village and demolished two uninhabited houses belonging to citizens: Jadallah Nassar and Abdel Karim Fakhida, claiming that they were close to a road used by “Talmon” settlers established on the town’s lands.

The sources indicated that the demolition of the two houses, which were 400 meters apart, was accompanied by the bulldozing of dozens of olive and almond trees.

It explained that the occupation soldiers opened fire directly at anyone who tried to approach the place, which prevented the Council’s crews from going to survey the damage resulting from the demolition and bulldozing process.

On Thursday evening, the Israeli Knesset approved the emergency government formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to what the Israeli newspaper "Jerusalem Post" reported, the Knesset approved the "War Management Cabinet" by a majority of 66 votes.

The war cabinet includes Netanyahu, Gantz, and current Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and the former army commander from Gantz's party, Gdi Eisenkot, and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer will be observers.

Netanyahu's far-right allies will remain in the government.

Lapid did not join the government, but the statement referred to “reserving” a seat for him in the declared war government, but Lapid announced his refusal to join the cabinet, accusing Netanyahu of an unforgivable failure to prevent Hamas attacks on Israel.

Netanyahu agreed to freeze the controversial judicial reform, which caused division within the state and called for protests described as one of the largest in the Hebrew state.

A woman was killed and her son was injured by occupation bullets, Thursday evening, near the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah.

According to local sources, the citizen Randa Abdullah Abdul Aziz Ajaj (37 years old) from the town of Deir Jarir was killed by a bullet in the back, while her son was shot in the foot and shoulder, as they passed near the entrance to Yabrud.

The Washington Post reported, citing sources, that American and Qatari officials agreed to prevent Iran from accessing a $6 billion account in which the funds were placed following a prisoner exchange deal between Washington and Tehran.

US officials and the Qatari government agreed to block Iran's access to a $6 billion account for humanitarian aid in light of Hamas' attack on Israel, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told House Democrats on Thursday, according to two people who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The decision not to allow access to the funds comes a few weeks after the US and Iranian governments announced an agreement to provide humanitarian aid as part of a prisoner exchange deal aimed at easing hostilities in the region. US officials had to approve each transaction under the agreement, as the fund is financed from sales of... Iranian oil. US President Joe Biden faces increasing bipartisan pressure on Capitol Hill to prevent Iran from using funds, amid scrutiny of Tehran's relations with Hamas.

US officials say Hamas received weapons and training from Iran, but there is no evidence of Iran's direct role in the massacre, the Washington Post previously reported. Adeyemo told House Democrats that the money "is not going anywhere anytime soon," according to three Democratic aides. In the House, they spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal conversations.

Intelligence information

The United States has collected intelligence indicating that senior Iranian government officials were surprised by Saturday's Hamas attack on Israel, according to multiple sources familiar with the intelligence.

According to the American CNN network, the sources said that the presence of intelligence information cast doubt on the idea of Iran’s direct involvement in planning, providing resources for, or approving the operation.

The sources stressed that the US intelligence community is not ready to reach a complete conclusion about whether Tehran was directly involved in the period leading up to the attack, and they continue to search for evidence of Iranian involvement.

Since the attack, government officials have noted that Iran has provided significant and long-term support to Hamas, including weapons and financing, which undoubtedly contributed to Hamas' ability to carry out such a massive operation.

But the sources said that this intelligence information prompted American analysts to lean towards an initial assessment that the Iranian government did not play a direct role in the attack.

A young man was killed today, Thursday, during an armed clash with the Israeli occupation police in the city of Jerusalem, after he targeted its headquarters near Bab al-Sahira, one of the gates of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem, in a shooting operation, which resulted in the injury of two members of the occupation police, one of whom was seriously injured.

The Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for the Jerusalem operation, and mourned its perpetrator, Khaled Mohtaseb, and said that it came “in solidarity with our resistance in Gaza as they fight the battle of the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’, and in response to the heinous Zionist crimes against our people.” In the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem.”

According to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority (“Kan 11”), the perpetrator of the attack was martyred by the bullets of the occupation forces, indicating that he was a resident of the towns of occupied Jerusalem.

Israeli reports stated that the perpetrator was 21 years old and a resident of the town of Beit Hanina in occupied Jerusalem.

The military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida, spoke in audio and video, today, Thursday, about the events of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle, coinciding with the firing of massive batches of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards the settlements.

Abu Ubaida said, "The Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood began where the Battle of Saif Al-Quds ended in 2021, and we went to it for the sake of the prisoners."

Abu Ubaida confirmed that the Al-Qassam Brigades “achieved, in this battle, more than we thought and planned,” noting that “the pace of coordination with the axis of resistance increased and developed with regard to the future of the conflict with the enemy before the battle,” and stated that “the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood began, based on From analyzing the area of operations, such as the land and weather and their impact, the resistance leadership was working tirelessly, connecting day and night, and it saw this goal in front of it.”

The military spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that Operation Al-Aqsa Flood included the firing of 3,500 rockets and artillery shells, targeting the Gaza Division, “which we destroyed through 15 points, and we also attacked 10 additional military intervention points, during the attack on its centers.”

He said: "We were keen to hide our intentions, training, and movements before the Al-Aqsa Flood was implemented, and we made extensive plans to train the forces, so that they would be able to carry out missions efficiently. We also made a precise plan to summon 3,000 fighters to the battle, and 1,500 for support and support operations."

Abu Ubaida stressed that “the Al-Qassam Brigades practiced strategic deception against the enemy, which began in early 2022.” Despite "Israel's encroachment, we have partly gone through some battles."

He added, "The enemy is committing the most horrific crimes against innocent civilians, and it is better to hold its leadership accountable for that," stressing that "the Al-Aqsa flood battle continues on the ground in all areas of operations."

He stressed that "the Al-Qassam Brigades control the course of the battle on the ground, and we confirm our readiness in the defensive field, and our combat structure and armament enable us to effectively defend."

Addressing the steadfast Palestinians in Al-Aqsa, the West Bank and Gaza, he said, “Our battle is for the blessed Al-Aqsa,” warning the occupation army that “if it dares to enter Gaza by land, we will crush it,” explaining that “the enemy’s threat to expand the aggression on land will push us to activate options that will inflict pain on the enemy.” Huge loss of life and equipment."

He addressed the Palestinian prisoners by saying, “the trump cards that we possess will be the price of your freedom,” and called on “the resistance forces and the revolting youth of our people in the West Bank, the interior, and the nation to ignite the ground under the enemy’s feet.”

The information intoxication regarding the beheading of 40 Israeli babies by Hamas fighters has been denied by the Israeli army and a White House spokesperson.

Each war gives rise to its share of media lies which always burst onto the media scene, to justify an imminent invasion and legitimize subsequent crimes.

The Kuwait incubators affair to justify the first Gulf War and the supposed existence of weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq are blatant examples of disinformation in recent history.

Since the resurgence of tensions after the Hamas operation on Israeli territory, players in the media and political scene have been sharing false information, garnering millions of views on the internet.

“Beheaded Babies”

Through its correspondent Nicole Zedeck, the Israeli television channel i24News - founded by Frenchman Patrick Drahi - reported disinformation regarding the beheading of 40 Israeli babies by Hamas fighters during their intrusion into Israeli territory.

The information immediately aroused indignation on social networks, and was relayed by numerous news channels, so much so that even American President Joe Biden claimed to have seen these photos in which "terrorists decapitate children'', commenting that he never thought he would see such horror.

However, this false information was first denied by the Israeli army itself, which told Anadolu that it had no information confirming the Israeli journalist's allegations that Hamas had beheaded babies. The same allegation was contradicted by a White House spokesperson who told the Washington Post that President Joe Biden has never seen photos of decapitated children, but was simply relying on the claims of Israeli media.

“Children in cages”

Another disinformation, garnering millions of views and widely relayed by journalists in the Hebrew state, consisted of showing Israeli children taken hostage and put in cages by Hamas.

However, the situation is quite the opposite. As revealed by the fact-checking site fakereporter.net, the children presented as Israeli are in reality Palestinian children put in cages by the Israeli army in Hebron, in occupied Palestine, 6 years ago.

Justin Bieber

Canadian singer Justin Bieber shared a story on social media that read “Praying for Israel” with an image of the damage allegedly caused by Hamas in Israel. However, this background image on which the American singer included his wishful thinking actually showed the destruction caused by the bombings of the Israeli army in Gaza.

Source: TRTFrançais

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces installed an iron gate on the lands of the town of Silat Al-Dhahr, south of Jenin.

According to local sources, an occupation army force, accompanied by a military bulldozer, installed a military gate at the military checkpoint stationed on the town’s lands near the site of the evacuated “Homesh” settlement, linking Jenin and Nablus.

A march was launched in the city of Ramallah, Thursday evening, to denounce the occupation's continued aggression against the Gaza Strip for the sixth day in a row.

Dozens of citizens participated in the march, which was organized at the invitation of the national and Islamic forces, and roamed the streets of the city, chanting slogans denouncing the crimes of the occupation and its ongoing massacres against the people of the Gaza Strip, and others calling for achieving national unity, to confront these crimes.

On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested three citizens from the town of Al-Issawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested: Muhammad Ibrahim Darwish, Musa Ibrahim Darwish, and Mansour Darwish, after storming the town and raiding several homes there.

On Thursday evening, settlers launched attacks on citizens in the West Bank.

In Bethlehem, armed settlers, protected by Israeli occupation forces, attacked the village of Al-Jabaa, southwest of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, a group of settlers, protected by the occupation forces, attacked the village through the eastern entrance and the vicinity of the schools, amidst gunfire.

In Hebron, settlers attacked the village of Al-Tuwanah, south of the city, and assaulted citizens, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces.

According to local sources, the settlers destroyed a number of fruit-bearing grape trees and raised the occupation flag.

Settlers also destroyed a fence at the entrance to Khallet al-Dabaa, surrounding land owned by a citizen.

Egyptian Partisan leaders denounced the aggression launched by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, including the siege and cutting off of electricity, water, food, and fuel, and that this is a crime against humanity and in violation of international humanitarian law.

Secretary-General of the Protectors of the Nation Party, and First Undersecretary of the Defense and National Security Committee in the Senate, Tariq Nosair, said that the Palestinian issue is the issue of all Arabs, and that Egypt has not and will not hesitate for a moment in defending the issue, and it is one of the established principles of Egyptian policy throughout the past decades, and this is what the President confirmed. Al-Sisi in his statements to editors and media professionals on the sidelines of Egypt’s celebration of the graduation of a new batch of police officers.

He added that Egypt always emphasizes in all forums its support for the Palestinian cause and the right of the Palestinian people to determine their fate and establish their independent state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. He denounced the violations committed by the occupation army in the Gaza Strip, considering this a crime against humanity and a violation of international humanitarian law. .

He stressed that all attempts made by the Israeli occupation to liquidate the Palestinian cause and displace the Palestinian people from their land are unacceptable, and there is no tolerance or neglect of Egypt’s national security under any circumstances, denouncing the position of the international community in support of the Israeli aggression on Gaza and ignoring the rights of the Palestinian people.

The media spokesman for the Civil Movement, Khaled Dawoud, said that all of the movement’s parties categorically reject the suspicious plans pursued by the Israeli occupation for decades in order to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

Daoud called on the international community, which is biased towards the Israeli occupation, to realize that the occupation's plans will only lead to igniting the entire region.

He also called on the United States and the European Union to realize that acts of legitimate resistance against the occupation cannot justify the genocide carried out by the occupation army of Palestinians in Gaza, noting that the West has ignored the killing of hundreds of Palestinians in the continuous bombing operations against civilians in Gaza since October 7. October 1st is blatant and unacceptable racism.

The head of the Egypt October Party, Jehan Madih, also warned against the occupation authorities’ attempts to convince the Palestinians to move outside their lands, which are an inherent and historical right for them, noting that the Palestinian popular consensus must be at the heart of one man and adhere to its historical rights, which are rooted in the depths of ancient and modern history. .

Madih added that giving the landowners a choice between death under bombing and rubble or displacement from their lands is a failed attempt that the occupation authorities have repeated before and that Egypt and Palestine alike confronted, pointing out that displacement and leaving the land achieves the occupier’s goal of settling the issue in his favor.

For his part, the head of the Congress Party, Captain Omar Al-Mukhtar Samaida, affirmed that Egypt will not abandon its commitment to Arab issues, especially the Palestinian issue, and that Egypt is following with interest developments in the situation in the region as well as on the Palestinian arena, describing the current escalation as very dangerous and having repercussions that may affect the security and stability of the region. It serves as conclusive evidence of the continuation of the historical and pivotal role towards the issues of the Arab nation, most notably the Palestinian issue, and reflects the clear position of Egypt’s leadership and people towards the Palestinian issue and the rights of the Palestinian people.

The head of the Egyptian National Movement Party, Raouf Al-Sayyid, also said that the brutal Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip violates all international conventions in light of a suspicious global silence that reflects the magnitude of the real tragedy that strikes justice in the killing.

Al-Sayyed expressed his rejection of the bidding of many parties regarding Egypt’s position on the crisis, despite all the support and support that Egypt has provided to the Palestinian cause throughout its history, noting that if the world wants true justice, it must implement the international law and treaties that stipulate the right of the Palestinians to establish their state. Independent State, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

He added that the incitement of some people against Egypt and the attempts to force our people in Gaza to flee towards Sinai are all miserable and desperate attempts that do not represent a solution, but are merely pretexts that further inflame the situation and aggravate the situation without any basis for legitimacy.

The head of the Union Party, Reda Saqr, denounced the brutal aggression launched by the occupation against the Gaza Strip in brutal practices that contradict all rules of international law, as the occupation army launches a massive attack targeting civilians and the defenseless Palestinian people, imposing a complete siege on the Strip, which contradicts international norms.

He also denounced the international and human rights silence regarding the crimes committed by the occupation in Gaza, which is a revelation of double standards and double standards.

For its part, the New Independents Party praised the position of the Egyptian state on the Palestinian issue. The party welcomed President Sisi’s statements regarding the Palestinian issue and Egypt’s position rejecting the attack on Gaza, noting that President Sisi’s statements are clear of Egypt’s commitment to its role in this file and its commitment as one of the most important regional powers influencing this conflict. .

He also praised Egypt's emphasis on the refusal to liquidate the Palestinian issue at the expense of other countries, pointing out that President Sisi's statements confirm the strength of the Egyptian position, and that Egyptian national security is a red line.

Today, Thursday, the Special Repression Units of the Occupation Prisons Administration stormed the Negev Prison.

According to the Prisoners' Authority, the repression units stormed the room of detainee Muhammad Abu Al-Rub "Al-Taya" specifically, and took him to an unknown destination.

The Prisoners' Commission held the occupation government and its prison administration fully responsible for the life of prisoner Abu Al-Rub, stressing that the policy of revenge and abuse of prisoners will not work, and that increasing pressure will lead to the explosion of prisons and detention centers soon.

The Commission indicated that the prisoner, Abu Al-Rub (44 years old), from the town of Qabatiya, Jenin district, has been detained since 2002 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, said that the Al-Qassam Brigades’ attack on the Gaza Strip last Saturday “was an organized and disciplined operation, and the instructions were to attack the Israeli military division of Gaza.”

Al-Arouri added: “We knew that there were arrangements after the holidays to launch a large-scale attack on us,” noting that “we preempted an Israeli attack by surprising the leadership of the Israeli military division in the south, and it collapsed quickly.”

He added: "The Americans talk about morality, and they are the ones who exterminated an entire people, established a state on its land, and struck people with nuclear bombs."

The deputy head of the Hamas political bureau continued: “The West accuses us of committing crimes against humanity, but it ignores that the war against us was based on Israel’s targeting of civilians.”

A young man was seriously injured in clashes with Israeli occupation forces, today, Thursday, in the town of Harmala, east of Bethlehem.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that a young man (19 years old) was injured by bullets from the Israeli occupation forces that stormed a funeral home for the wife of Nasri al-Zeer and her son deported to Gaza, describing his wounds as serious.

According to local sources, an occupation army force stormed the town and raided a funeral home for the wife and son of the deported Nasri Al-Zeer, who were martyred as a result of the occupation bombing of the family home in Gaza.

It indicated that the occupation forces raided Al-Zeer’s house in Harmala and tampered with its contents.

The sources added that confrontations broke out near the funeral home, as the occupation forces fired live bullets and tear gas and sound bombs.

Today, Thursday, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, President Mahmoud Abbas discussed with Jordanian King Abdullah II ways to stop the comprehensive aggression against our Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

During his meeting with the Jordanian King, President Abbas called for an immediate halt to the comprehensive aggression against our people, the provision of medical and relief humanitarian aid, the provision of water and electricity, and the opening of urgent humanitarian corridors in the Gaza Strip.

The President warned of the danger of the only power plant in the Gaza Strip stopping working due to running out of fuel, which portends a real disaster for all health and humanitarian services.

President Abbas stressed the need to move to political action to end the occupation and achieve peace, stressing the rejection of practices related to killing civilians or abusing them on both sides, calling for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees, and emphasizing the need to stop settler terrorism against our people in Palestinian cities, villages and camps in the West Bank. Western countries, and to stop the extremists’ incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which are causing an escalation of the situation, reiterating the importance of obliging Israel to respect the historical and legal situation in Al-Quds Al-Sharif, while emphasizing the importance of the Hashemite custodianship of the holy places and providing what is necessary to prevent the continuation of attacks on them.

The President thanked and appreciated His Majesty King Abdullah II for his firm stances and support for Jordan and its standing by the Palestinian people and their just cause.

The President said: We affirm the policy of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, which rejects violence and adheres to international legitimacy, peaceful popular resistance, and political action as a path to achieving our national goals of freedom and independence, leading to ending the occupation and embodying the independence of our Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders.

President Abbas's meeting with the Jordanian King comes within the framework of the efforts made by the Palestinian leadership around the clock to stop the destructive "war", and within the framework of coordinating positions between Palestine and Jordan.

His Excellency is scheduled to meet tomorrow, Friday, in the Jordanian capital, Amman, with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

The meeting was attended by the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Head of the General Intelligence Service, Major General Majid Faraj, the President’s Diplomatic Advisor, Majdi Al-Khalidi, and the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Jordan, Atallah Khairi.

Today (Thursday), the Iranian “Tasnim” agency reported from what it described as “informed sources in the Palestinian resistance” in Gaza that “Hamas has studied, since planning the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the necessary preparations to confront the Zionist entity’s ground attack on Gaza... and has prepared measures.” necessary for that. Therefore, there is a plan for a major surprise coming to create a major nightmare for the Zionist soldiers if they launch a ground attack.”

The agency reported that “the resistance in the past had similar experiences in the field of preemptive measures to spoil the Zionist entity’s plan.” In this context, we can, for example, point to the 33-Day War, where the capture of soldiers from the Zionist enemy led to a change in Tel Aviv’s plan to occupy southern Lebanon. “Ultimately defeating the enemy during this process.”

The Iranian agency continued, “This time too, (Hamas) launched an operation to force (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu to respond, so that his army would be forced to launch an operation in Gaza without making all the necessary preparations... The second important point is that since (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu’s control Hamas) invaded Gaza in 2005. The Zionist entity resorted to launching large-scale operations four times, but it was never able to preserve even a single meter of the soil of this land during its occupation. This is while the military power of Hamas has doubled today (compared to the first years of its control over Gaza), and it seems impossible to seize Gaza.

It quoted “international observers, and even Zionist experts, that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was a major intelligence scandal for the Zionist entity.” It is natural, with these preparations, that its planners have taken sufficient measures for its next stages, especially the decision of the Tel Aviv authorities to launch ground operations in Gaza.

There is no surprise in the events in Gaza except in the timing and scale of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation. Gaza was living in a catastrophic situation under a continuous siege for 17 years, under the eyes of the world, and with great disregard for its plight. The situation in the Palestinian arena in general has been simmering ever since Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli extremists decided to implement the two-state solution, and the world helped them do that by removing the Palestinian issue from the agenda, while the policies of settlement expansion and land annihilation, intensifying pressure on the Palestinians, and escalating provocations in Jerusalem continued.

The Palestinians' sense of injustice must have increased as they see the double standards in the West's dealings with the Ukrainian crisis, and the raising of voices about legitimate rights, international laws, and resistance to the occupation, while this talk fades when it comes to them and their cause.

What did Israel and the world expect then?

Inside Israel, there were voices, albeit a few, warning that closing the path to peace, the policy of arrogance, and continuing to undermine the rights of the Palestinians and confiscate their lands, would lead to the detonation of the situation. But the world did not pay attention to those voices, which made the Netanyahu government persist in its escalatory policies and arrogance until it was surprised by the “flood of Al-Aqsa,” which will certainly have repercussions.

Israel is now mobilizing for a large-scale ground attack expected at any moment, and Hamas and the other Palestinian movements must have taken this into account when they launched this operation, and thus prepared for it. The expected battle will certainly be more difficult than all the previous ones, and the losses on both sides will be greater. Fighting in Gaza's narrow streets and densely populated neighborhoods will be a difficult process and may mean a longer fight than what happened in the 2014 summer war, which lasted 51 days. The scale of material and human losses, the number of rockets fired by Palestinian factions, and the tons of bombs and projectiles that Israel dropped on the Gaza Strip throughout the period of that war have been exceeded today, even before the expected ground invasion began.

Israeli thinking seems focused on a massive operation to cause the greatest possible destruction in Gaza, and to “discipline” Hamas and its allied factions. Admiral Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israeli army, confirmed in statements on Tuesday that hundreds of tons of bombs had already been dropped on Gaza, and acknowledged that “the focus is on damage, not accuracy.” Israel is now practicing a policy of collective punishment, whether through unprecedented bombing or by placing Gaza under a comprehensive siege.

If Israel thinks rationally, all of its previous operations in Gaza or the West Bank have only achieved intermittent truces at best, while true peace remains elusive. All the lethal force it uses, the Iron Dome, the costly wall, and continuous electronic and aerial surveillance, did not succeed in protecting it and it was exposed by very simple means, some of which were primitive, used by Hamas and the factions participating with it in the “Al-Aqsa Flood.” Bulldozers destroy the wall and open gaps in it for fighters to cross, crossing with cars, gliders, motorcycles, tuk-tuk buses, and waves of missiles that are incomparable with the latest military technology that Israel possesses.

The problem is that Israel will not see things from this perspective. Rather, Netanyahu, under current pressure and accusing his government of the greatest security failure, may also consider reoccupying the Gaza Strip, an option that will not only be extremely costly for Israel, but will lead the entire region to a catastrophic situation open to destruction. All possibilities, including expanding the scope of the war and its repercussions, and creating more factors of destabilization, especially with the rise of the Israeli right, which wants to completely erase the Palestinian issue, while many have begun to voice calls to expel the Palestinians, displace them, and empty the land from them.

Last May, Israeli analyst Gideon Levy wrote in the Haaretz newspaper, warning that after Netanyahu and the extreme right succeed in killing the two-state solution, there will be two plans or possibilities for the end of the apartheid system in which Israel is operating. “One of them is favored by the extreme right and almost all Israelis, which is a second Nakba. If the confrontation reaches its climax, and Israel finds itself faced with two options: either a system based on one democratic state for two peoples, or a collective expulsion of the Palestinians in order to preserve the Jewish state, then the most likely and clear choice for almost every Israeli Jew is to expel the Palestinians.

It is this second option that makes many countries in the region worry about Netanyahu’s policies and the blockage of the horizon for Palestinian peace. Therefore, it was not surprising that Cairo was quick to respond to what appeared to be Israeli attempts to encourage the residents of Gaza to head to Egypt in search of safety from the violent bombing that has been continuing for days.

Israel wants and hopes to wash its hands of the Palestinian issue and deport it to other Arab countries. You want normalization without real compensation, and peace without prices or concessions. This thinking will not achieve a solution or stability, but rather will further aggravate the situation.

The inescapable truth is that there is no solution or stability without a just peace, and this has a price that Israel does not want to pay. As long as the situation remains like this, and the agendas of Netanyahu and the extreme right continue to push towards more expansionist policies and attempts to erase the Palestinian issue, cycles of violence and wars will continue, Israel will not know peace, and the region will not enjoy the stability it longs for.

Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday said that his counterparts from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are in favor of a cease-fire and talks between Israel and Palestine.

“Today, we touched on this topic. We'll see before the (CIS) summit whether it will be possible to agree on some common position for its official presentation. But everyone has a common opinion … that it is necessary to immediately stop this conflict,” Lavrov said, following a CIS Foreign Ministers Council meeting in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek.

Lavrov further said that this common position also involves compliance with international humanitarian law, the prevention of any manifestations of “terrorist acts,” and indiscriminate use of force “from which civilians can and are already suffering” on both sides.

“We very much hope that once this conflict is over … everyone will take seriously the responsibility to implement the decision of the UN Security Council to create a Palestinian state based on the principles that have been approved by the UN,” Lavrov said.

In a dramatic escalation of Middle East tensions, Israeli forces have launched a sustained and forceful military campaign against the Gaza Strip in response to a military offensive by the Palestinian group Hamas in Israeli territories.

The conflict began when Hamas initiated Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against Israel, a multi-pronged surprise attack including a barrage of rocket launches and infiltrations into Israel via land, sea, and air, which Hamas said was in retaliation for the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and Israeli settlers’ growing violence against Palestinians.

In response to Hamas' actions, the Israeli military launched Operation Swords of Iron against Hamas targets within the Gaza Strip. Israel's response has extended into cutting water and electricity supplies to Gaza, further worsening the living conditions in an area that has reeled under a crippling siege since 2007.

Source: Anadolu