The author of the shocking letter I published here yesterday continued his story, explaining the daily suffering he and his wife and children endure. He is unable to provide for himself and his family in a dilapidated tent that neither provides shelter from the cold nor the heat. Meanwhile, the burden of illness, fear, hunger, and extreme thirst afflicts them, in what is the most difficult and dangerous situation for people in the Gaza Strip.
The author of the letter says, “Hunger is spreading like an epidemic in every home, neighborhood, and street. The most painful and grievous is the hunger of infants and young children, who do not understand the severity of the siege, the greed of merchants, and the high prices.
My friend concluded his painful message with the pain of hunger gnawing at his intestines, his wife's, and his children's... "I have been hungry for 18 days... We are in hell, in the deepest pit of the Blazing Fire."
Another story was told by an eyewitness who was forced to stand for hours under the June sun, in lines of terror and humiliation, in front of centers set up like traps for rats. As soon as the hungry approached, they were hunted down by snipers who were full of delicious food.
The witness said that he saw a child no older than ten years old who was overcome by hunger and could no longer bear to wait in the long queue of hungry people. He went to the point where he could get something to satisfy his hunger and calm his nerves, but a sniper suddenly shot him with a bullet that was cheaper than the meal he was trying to get, and killed him... There is no power or strength except with God.

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his country will not allow Iran to enrich uranium under any circumstances. In a post on his Truth Social platform, he wrote, "Under our potential agreement with Tehran, we will not allow any form of enrichment."

In another post, Trump noted that Washington is "stockpiling weapons on an unprecedented scale," adding, "Hopefully, we won't have to use them."

Trump's statements came in the wake of US press reports revealing the contents of a proposal Washington had submitted to Iran regarding its nuclear program.

According to Axios, the proposal allows Tehran to enrich uranium to no more than 3%, without fully dismantling its nuclear facilities. Sanctions would be gradually lifted after Iran's compliance is proven and certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The proposal also included strict restrictions, including prohibiting Iran from building new enrichment facilities, dismantling its uranium processing and conversion infrastructure, and halting any research or development of advanced centrifuges.

However, Tehran rejected the proposal, with a senior Iranian diplomat deeming it "unworkable" and inconsistent with Iranian interests.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi explained that his country received the proposal via the Sultanate of Oman and that it is under consideration. However, Tehran maintains that enrichment within Iranian territory is a "red line."

In contrast, American sources indicated that the American plan may also include the establishment of a regional union for uranium enrichment, in exchange for Iran's commitment not to enrich domestically, a proposal the Iranian leadership has so far rejected.

It's worth noting that the sixth round of indirect nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran is expected soon, following the launch of the first round of negotiations on April 12, amid sharp differences in positions between the two sides.

After years as a prominent advocate for former US President Joe Biden's foreign policy, former State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated in an interview published this week that "there is no doubt that Israel committed war crimes," but he denied accusations that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.

This recognition comes as Israel's war on Gaza continues unabated in the name of defeating Hamas. At least 54,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, 2023, and two million Palestinians are on the brink of famine, having been almost entirely displaced from their homes. The administration of current President Donald Trump has followed Biden's lead with unconditional support for the Israeli war effort, despite international condemnation and the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on charges of "crimes against humanity and war crimes."

Biden and his administration have never accused Israel of committing war crimes. The administration has been unable to secure a lasting ceasefire and has failed to deliver vital food, water, and medicine to ailing Palestinians, despite repeated public promises from the then-president, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Miller himself. The internal Democratic Party debate over support for Israel hampered Biden's failed presidential campaign last year and that of Vice President Kamala Harris, and shows no signs of abating as Democrats look ahead to the 2026 midterm elections and the 2028 presidential primaries.

It is noteworthy that the Al-Quds correspondent and other journalists argued with Miller on a daily basis for more than 16 months, without success, to get him to admit that Israel is committing war crimes.

"I don't think it's genocide, but I do think... that Israel has committed war crimes," Miller told Britain's Sky News in a conversation published Monday and recorded last week. "When you're on the stage, you're not expressing your own personal opinion. You're expressing the conclusions of the United States government, and the United States government has not concluded that they committed war crimes, and they haven't concluded that yet."

Miller repeatedly rejected accusations of war crimes against Israel and defended Israel's actions during his regular briefings at the State Department following the October 7, 2023, attacks, and continued to maintain this position until his final briefing on January 15, 2025. He also sharply criticized the International Criminal Court and UN human rights officials, including leveling accusations of anti-Semitism at officials who accused Israel of war crimes and genocide from the State Department podium.

Miller avoided elaborating on his remarks, saying it was an “open question” whether Israel “has deliberately pursued a policy of committing war crimes, or is recklessly acting in a way that aids and abets war crimes.” But he said it was “almost certainly not an open question” whether members of the Israeli military had committed war crimes. “Ultimately, in almost every major conflict, including conflicts where democratic nations are prosecuted, you will see members of the military or militaries commit war crimes, and the way you judge a democratic nation is whether they hold those people accountable, and Israel hasn’t,” Miller said. “We haven’t seen them hold enough military personnel accountable yet, and I think the question is whether they will.”

Miller broadly described the internal debates surrounding the Biden administration's policy toward Israel, explaining that the administration's position was based on the principle of not cutting off US arms to Israel.

The Biden administration spent more than $17 billion (at least) on military aid to Israel during the first year of the Israeli war on Gaza, and only stopped a single bomb shipment throughout the war. Miller noted that “cutting off weapons” by any standard, coupled with domestic protests against the Biden administration over the war and international recognition of a Palestinian state, “would have led Hamas’s leadership to conclude that they didn’t need to agree to a ceasefire.” Instead, Miller explained, “everyone in the administration was united” in negotiating a permanent ceasefire proposed by Biden in May 2024, which was eventually agreed to in some form in January 2025. But that ceasefire was short-lived, and Israel’s bombardment of Gaza continued, with Trump’s chief envoy, Steve Witkoff, a billionaire real estate investor, having so far been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Netanyahu to secure another ceasefire.

“Now, the thing I keep coming back to, and I’ll always ask myself—and I think this applies to others in the (Biden administration) administration—is: In that period between the end of May 2024 and mid-January 2025, when thousands of Palestinians were killed, innocent civilians who didn’t want this war and had nothing to do with it, was there more we could have done to pressure the Israeli government to agree to this ceasefire?” Miller said. “I think sometimes maybe.”

An Israeli Army Radio correspondent reported on Tuesday that the Navy is preparing for the arrival of the ship "Madeleine," which set sail from Sicily bound for the Gaza Strip with the aim of "breaking the naval blockade imposed on the Strip."

The military stated that it is prepared and ready for a wide range of scenarios, which will be implemented based on instructions from the political level. The ship is expected to arrive in the region within the next few days.

For its part, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international non-profit organization, announced that one of its ships departed the Italian port of Catania on Sunday, bound for the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid, after a previous attempt failed due to a drone attack targeting another ship in the Mediterranean.

The Madeleine is carrying volunteers, including climate change activist Greta Thunberg and Irish actor Liam Cunningham, and is carrying a limited but symbolic amount of relief supplies.

Another coalition vessel, the Consciousness - Global Conscience, was attacked by two drones near Maltese territorial waters in early May. The organization held Israel responsible for the attack, but Israel did not respond to requests for comment.

"We are doing this because no matter how difficult it is, we must keep trying. To stop is to lose our humanity," Greta Thunberg said at a press conference before the ship's departure. "However dangerous this mission may be, it is nothing compared to the danger of the world's silence in the face of the genocide of humankind."

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition emphasized that this voyage is not merely a charitable act, but rather a direct and peaceful action to challenge Israel's illegal blockade and escalating war crimes.

In the same context, the United Nations said on Friday that the situation in the Gaza Strip has reached its worst level since the war between Israel and Hamas began 19 months ago, despite the resumption of limited aid operations.

Under increasing international pressure, Israel ended an 11-week blockade of the Gaza Strip, allowing limited UN-led operations to resume.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by the United States and Israel, began distributing aid on Monday, but the United Nations and international aid organizations have refused to work with it, deeming it impartial and using a distribution method that forces Palestinians to flee.

The Israeli army announced Tuesday morning that three soldiers, all with the rank of first sergeant, were killed during the fighting that took place Monday in the northern Gaza Strip.

Israeli media reported that a number of soldiers were killed or wounded in a well-planned ambush carried out by the resistance in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip. The attack was described as "very difficult," with the soldiers' injuries being described as minor to moderate.

Sources reported that an army force inside a building in northern Gaza was targeted by a "Yasin 105" missile, resulting in deaths and injuries.

The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades confirmed in a statement that violent clashes with Israeli occupation forces continued at point-blank range east of Jabalia camp. Its fighters inflicted heavy losses on the Israeli army, while the fighting continues.

Media outlets reported that the evacuation helicopters had difficulty landing due to the intensity of the clashes, and that attempts to evacuate the dead and wounded soldiers were hampered when the evacuation helicopter was hit by an anti-tank missile.

According to official data from the army spokesperson, the number of Israeli soldiers killed since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, has reached 861, whose names were officially permitted to be published. The number of soldiers killed in the ground maneuvers in the Gaza Strip, which took place on October 27, 2023, also reached 416.

Israeli soldiers have sustained 5,921 injuries since the start of the war, including 3,582 minor injuries, 1,456 moderate injuries, and 883 severe injuries. During the ground military exercise in the Gaza Strip, 2,687 injuries were recorded, including 1,369 minor injuries, 800 moderate injuries, and 518 severe injuries.

The data indicates that these numbers do not include cases that were routinely postponed and were not the result of operational incidents, or those whose injuries were not determined to be severe. Furthermore, the number of injured patients is variable and reflects the most serious injuries within the overall statistics.

These figures reflect the heavy losses incurred by the Israeli army during the ongoing military operations in the Gaza Strip and surrounding areas.

Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of raids and arrests in the West Bank at dawn on Tuesday morning.

In Nablus, an occupation force stormed Balata camp at dawn, raided a number of homes in the Maghdousha neighborhood, searched them, and wreaked havoc.

Meanwhile, military jeeps stormed the city from the Sarra checkpoint westward, heading towards Al-Akademia Street and Rafidia, without any arrests being reported.

In Jenin, occupation forces stormed the town of Ya'bad and arrested young man Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Fayed after raiding and searching his home.

The occupation has intensified its raids on towns and villages in Jenin Governorate since the start of its aggression on the city and refugee camp of Jenin on January 21, launching a massive campaign of house raids, detaining and arresting citizens.

In Hebron, occupation forces arrested brothers Abdel Salam and Nidal Al-Fasfous, and Raafat Shaher Al-Sharha, after raiding and searching their homes in the town of Dura.

The occupation forces also stormed a number of neighborhoods in the city of Hebron and the town of Beit Kahil.

In Bethlehem, occupation forces stormed the city and arrested the two brothers, Ramadan Nazzal Ramadan Raya (28 years old), and his brother Hamza (30 years old), after raiding and searching their home in Beit Sahour.

42 civilians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Tuesday.

In the latest developments: The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll from the occupation's massacre this morning, Tuesday, against citizens waiting for US aid in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, has risen to 27 dead, while more than 200 others were injured.

In turn, the Government Media Office in Gaza said in a statement, "The occupation is turning the distribution centers for 'American-Israeli aid' into mass death traps and bloodbaths," noting that the death toll from starvation has risen to 102 martyrs and 490 wounded in just eight days.

Three civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent for displaced people west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, freed prisoner Hamada al-Diraoui was martyred as a result of an Israeli bombardment targeting the tents of displaced people in the Swiss camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

According to local sources, the shelling targeted a gathering of displaced persons inside the camp, resulting in a number of casualties, including al-Diraoui, who had previously spent years in Israeli prisons.

The occupation artillery continues to shell the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

While the occupation forces continue to demolish citizens' homes west of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced Monday evening the implementation of a complex humanitarian evacuation operation from the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, in coordination with the World Health Organization.

The association said in a statement that its crews, in coordination with the World Health Organization, carried out a complex humanitarian evacuation from the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, which included three injured people, 34 medical personnel, and two companions, amid the dangerous security escalation and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the region.

She stated that "the operation was carried out after meticulous field coordination that lasted for hours, as part of the association's ongoing efforts to protect medical personnel and provide care for the injured in safer areas, amid the tragic health situation in northern Gaza due to the tightened blockade and repeated targeting of medical facilities."

The association affirmed that this mission falls within its deep-rooted humanitarian and national responsibility to protect lives and provide support to the community, emphasizing its "steadfast commitment to medical personnel and relief workers, despite the grave risks and escalating challenges on the ground."

Medical sources reported that 32 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since dawn on Monday, while the Ministry of Health in the Strip announced that the number of victims at aid centers had risen to 75 dead and 400 wounded.

Sources at Al-Ma'madani and Al-Shifa hospitals previously reported that 16 Palestinians, including six children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that two Palestinians were injured in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Aishiya School, which houses displaced persons in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

For his part, the Director-General of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir al-Barash, announced the deaths of 10 members of his sister's family as a result of an Israeli bombardment that targeted their home in the Gaza Strip.

Later, sources reported that the death toll from the Israeli massacre at the Al-Barsh family home in Jabalia had risen to 16.

This coincides with the Israeli occupation army's continued targeting of Palestinians for the second consecutive day near an aid distribution center near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll from attacks on aid sites had risen to 75, while 400 people were injured. The Ministry stated that 52 people were killed and 503 others were injured by Israeli fire in the past 24 hours.

The ministry explained that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 54,470 martyrs and 124,693 wounded since October 7, 2023.

For its part, Doctors Without Borders confirmed that dozens of Palestinians are being killed at aid distribution sites supported by the United States and Israel.

The organization said that dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured yesterday, Sunday, while waiting to receive food from distribution centers.

MSF noted that these events highlight the dangers of the new aid distribution system and its profound lack of humanity and effectiveness.

The Government Information Office in Gaza announced yesterday, Sunday, that 32 Palestinians were killed and 200 others injured in the massacre at the aid distribution center west of Rafah and near the American aid center on the Netzarim axis in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation army ordered the "immediate evacuation" of sites in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Monday evening, in preparation for targeting them.

The occupation army said: "The residents of four blocks in Khan Yunis must immediately evacuate to the western areas of the city."

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In turn, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that the situation in the Gaza Strip is "deteriorating by the day," and that it is important to ensure that the Palestinian enclave receives more humanitarian aid urgently.

"The situation in Gaza is unbearable and getting worse by the day," Starmer told reporters in Scotland when asked whether Britain would take any action on the issue.

"That's why we're working with our allies to be absolutely clear about the need for humanitarian aid to get in quickly and in quantities that aren't getting in right now, causing absolute devastation," he continued.

Since March 2, Israel has pursued a policy of systematic starvation against approximately 2.4 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, closing the crossings to aid supplies piling up at the border. This has plunged the Strip into famine and claimed the lives of many.

The occupation army called on residents of areas in Khan Yunis to immediately evacuate their homes and head west to the Al-Mawasi area.

The occupation army said that the evacuation order does not include Al-Amal Hospital, which will remain outside the scope of the military operation.

The Israeli occupation army published a tweet on Monday, showing its movements in Blocks 47, 106, 108, and 109 in Khan Yunis Governorate.

Following a series of assassinations of prominent Hamas leaders, and public threats by Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz to target two more—military commander Izz al-Din al-Haddad and political leader Khalil al-Hayya—Israeli security sources revealed that the targeted list also includes other names, such as Osama Hamdan and Sami Abu Zuhri.

Under the headline "These are Hamas's top leaders, and they are in the Israeli army's crosshairs," the Maariv newspaper said that after a series of assassinations that included the heads of the movement's political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, four leaders are "next in line": Hamdan, who is in Lebanon; Abu Zuhri, who is in Algeria; Haddad; and even al-Hayya, who is leading the negotiations.

The army and the Shin Bet security service issued a statement earlier this week threatening to assassinate Al-Hayya as well as Al-Haddad, a leader in the Al-Qassam Brigades, the movement's military wing.

"Izz al-Din al-Haddad is in Gaza, and Khalil al-Hayya is abroad... you're next in line," Katz said in a statement released by his office last Saturday, alluding to the fate of Hamas leaders assassinated by Israel: Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif, and Yahya and Mohammed Sinwar.

Maariv published a report stating that after it was confirmed that the operation carried out three weeks ago, in which eight tons of explosives were dropped on a tunnel under the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, had killed Mohammed Sinwar, who had taken over the leadership of the military wing in Gaza after the assassination of his brother Yahya, and his companion Mohammed Shabana, commander of the Rafah Brigade, and Mahdi Kaware, commander of the southern Khan Yunis battalion, the arrows were directed at Al-Haddad, who survived that attack.

Al-Haddad has been nicknamed "the Ghost" due to the failure of multiple assassination attempts, the last of which occurred last February. The army and Shin Bet published a photo of him with a death symbol over it, along with the words in Arabic: "Al-Haddad will meet his comrades Haniyeh, Deif, and Sinwar."

Maariv reported that the next target is Osama Hamdan, who is overseeing the negotiations and previously headed the organization in Lebanon. He has become Hamas's spokesman since the war and spends most of his time in Qatar. He will be followed by Sami Abu Zuhri, who currently resides in Algeria and frequently appears in the media. Then there is Khalil al-Hayya, who is effectively heading the organization until a new leader is elected after the war.

After the Israeli military and Shin Bet announced the deaths of Mohammed Sinwar, Mohammed Shabana, and Mahdi Kaware, Katz issued a threat on Saturday evening, writing: "Izz al-Din al-Haddad in Gaza, and Khalil al-Hayya abroad—you're next on the list." He said in a statement: "Israel's long hand will reach all those responsible for the murders and atrocities of October 7, wherever they may be, near or far."

Al-Haddad, nicknamed "Abu Suhaib," is the commander of the Gaza City Brigade of the military wing and a veteran of its combat operations. During the war, he was considered the de facto commander of the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military estimates that, following the assassination of senior military commanders, he has become Hamas's official commander in the Gaza Strip.

Remarkably, the threat included Al-Hayya (Abu Osama), head of Hamas's political bureau in Gaza, a member of the movement's leadership council, and its deputy chairman. He is a political leader currently residing in the Qatari capital, Doha, and the threat to assassinate him constitutes an assault on the sovereignty of the state mediating between Israel and Hamas.

Settlers stormed the Khalayel Al-Loz area, southeast of Bethlehem, on Monday evening.

According to local sources, a group of settlers stormed Khalayel Al-Loz and took up positions around the home of Ibrahim Abayat, sparking fear.

It is noteworthy that the Khalayel Al-Loz area has been subjected to repeated attacks by settlers and occupation forces, the most recent of which was the demolition of a house and a sheep barn.

Reuters reported on Monday that an Iranian diplomat stated that Iran is prepared to reject a US proposal to end the dispute over its nuclear program, describing the proposal as "unworkable" and not meeting Tehran's interests or softening Washington's position on uranium enrichment.

"Iran is preparing a negative response to the US proposal, which could be interpreted as a rejection of the US offer," a senior diplomat close to the Iranian negotiating team told Reuters.

Omani mediator, Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who was on a brief visit to Tehran, presented the US proposal for a new nuclear agreement to Iran on Saturday. After five rounds of discussions between Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, numerous obstacles remain, according to experts, including Iran's rejection of a US demand to halt uranium enrichment and its refusal to ship its entire current stockpile of highly enriched uranium abroad—a potential raw material for nuclear bombs.

The United States, Israel, and other Western countries claim that Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran has repeatedly denied, insisting that it needs uranium for civilian energy production. The United States and Israel accuse Iran of enriching uranium to 60%, a level that has no civilian uses and is just below weapons-grade, according to experts.

Iran has prevented international inspectors from examining its nuclear facilities and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities, while Western officials claim that Iran "may" be seeking to acquire the bomb.

Washington's proposal for an agreement came after leaked UN reports last week indicated that Iran had ramped up production of highly enriched uranium and carried out covert nuclear activities. The diplomat, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue, told the agency: "In this proposal, the US position on enrichment on Iranian soil remains unchanged, and there is no clear explanation for lifting sanctions (on Iran)."

In turn, Araghchi confirmed that Tehran would officially respond to the proposal soon.

Tehran is demanding the immediate lifting of all US-imposed restrictions that are hampering its oil-dependent economy. However, the United States says that nuclear-related sanctions must be lifted in stages.

The United States has blacklisted dozens of institutions vital to the Iranian economy, including the central bank and the national oil company, since 2018, when US President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement Tehran concluded with six world powers, including the United States, for what Washington called "support for terrorism or weapons proliferation."

Trump's revival of the "maximum pressure" policy against Tehran since returning to the White House last January has included tightening sanctions and threatening to bomb Iran if negotiations do not produce an agreement.

Under the agreement, Iran had limited its sensitive nuclear activities until 2018 in exchange for the easing of US, European, and UN economic sanctions.

The diplomat said that the assessment of the Iranian Nuclear Negotiations Commission, overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is that the US proposal is "completely biased" and cannot serve Tehran's interests. Therefore, the diplomat said, Tehran considers this proposal "unworkable" and believes it is an attempt to unilaterally impose a "bad deal" on Iran through exaggerated demands.

Iran says it is willing to accept some restrictions on enrichment, but needs firm guarantees that Washington will not back down from any future nuclear agreement.

Two Iranian officials told Reuters last week that Iran might halt uranium enrichment if the United States released frozen Iranian assets and recognized Tehran's right to refine uranium for civilian use under a "political agreement" that could lead to a broader nuclear deal.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee stated that no Palestinians were killed or injured at the aid distribution center by the Israeli military or American contractors on Saturday, June 1, accusing prominent US media outlets of colluding with Hamas in spreading malicious rumors about the killing of Palestinian civilians.

Huckabee, known for his blind and historical loyalty to the Israeli narrative and goals, said in a statement, a copy of which was received by Jerusalem, that: “The reckless and irresponsible reporting by major American media outlets contributes to the climate of anti-Semitism that led to the murder of two young men at an event at the Israeli embassy in Washington last month, and the attempted murder and terrorist attack on a group of pro-Israel protesters in Colorado on Sunday.”

“Without verification from any source other than Hamas and its agents, the New York Times, CNN, and the Associated Press reported that several people seeking humanitarian food boxes from the Gaza Humanitarian Fund were killed or shot by Israeli Defense Forces,” Huckabee protested. “These reports are false. Drone videos and firsthand accounts clearly show no injuries, deaths, gunfire, or chaos. It is Hamas that continues to terrorize and intimidate those seeking food aid.”

“The sole source of these misleading, exaggerated, and completely fabricated stories came from Hamas sources, whose purpose is to fan the flames of anti-Semitic hatred that allegedly contributes to violence against Jews in the United States,” Huckabee added. “Media outlets that voluntarily repeat these defamatory claims should voluntarily retract their false news, apologize, and pledge to accurately report the facts, rather than engage in dangerous propaganda that helps the terrorist organization Hamas continue to hold innocent hostages for more than 600 days after slaughtering more than 1,200 people on October 7, 2023.”

The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced on Sunday (June 1, 2025) that dozens were killed and more than 100 wounded by Israeli fire in the Al-Mawasi area of Rafah, targeting people who were heading to an American food distribution center.

The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Israel launched an attack near an aid distribution point run by the Humanitarian Gaza Foundation (HGF), killing at least 30 people in Rafah.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told AFP that "at least ten Palestinians were killed and more than 100 others were injured of various ages as a result of Israeli gunfire directed at thousands of citizens who headed to the US aid site west of Rafah at dawn on Sunday," in the far south of the Gaza Strip.

"People started gathering at 4 a.m. to wait in line in the Al-Mawasi area to receive food and humanitarian aid from the American company," a witness told the German Press Agency. "Suddenly, we heard explosions and gunfire, and then people started running in all directions. I saw people falling, covered in blood, and we had no idea where the fire was coming from."

Another witness added, "We tried to flee, but the situation was chaotic. There were children, women, and elderly people screaming. Some of the wounded were taken to hospitals on donkey carts because ambulances were delayed due to the continuous shelling." Witnesses described the scene as "horrific," with screams of pain mixed with the sounds of explosions, further panicking civilians.

Huckabee claims that the GHF, whose origins, funding, and management are unknown, has distributed more than 5 million meals to civilians without incident. He said, "For the New York Times, the Associated Press, and CNN to join a false narrative fueled by Hamas is reprehensible. This is more than just negligent journalism; it fuels and incites violence against innocent people in the United States."

"We demand an immediate retraction of these lies, and we call on all media outlets to be professional and objective in covering real events, rather than being partners to terrorism by blindly following Hamas news releases," concluded Huckabee, who has repeatedly stated that Israel has the right to starve Palestinians.

Reports indicated that the American contractors overseeing the distribution of aid lost control and asked the Israeli occupation forces to "help rescue them," which led to Israeli soldiers opening fire indiscriminately on unarmed civilians.

Israeli occupation forces injured a child and arrested him on Monday evening near the town of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah.

According to local sources, an Israeli army force shot and injured a child while he was in the northern part of the town.

The sources reported that the occupation forces raided the home of citizen Ayed Ghafri, near the area where the child was targeted, and erased the camera recordings.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Monday for accountability for the perpetrators of the killing and wounding of Palestinians seeking relief aid in the Gaza Strip.

Earlier today, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the death toll from the massacres perpetrated by the Israeli army near aid distribution centers in the Strip had risen to 75 dead and more than 400 wounded since May 27.

In a statement, Guterres expressed his alarm at reports of Palestinians being killed and injured while seeking food aid in Gaza on Sunday, according to the UN News website.

Guterres said it was "unacceptable that Palestinians risk their lives for food," and called for "an immediate and independent investigation into these events and for the perpetrators to be held accountable."

Far from the oversight of the United Nations and international relief organizations, on May 27, Israel began implementing a suspicious scheme to distribute "humanitarian aid" through the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," which is supported by Israel and the United States and rejected by the United Nations.

Israel only allows the complicit "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to distribute meager "aid" in "buffer zones" in the southern Gaza Strip, with the aim of emptying the north of Palestinians. The Israeli army also fires on the crowds of starving people, leaving dead and wounded.

The UN Secretary-General said, "Israel has clear obligations under international humanitarian law to authorize and facilitate humanitarian aid."

He stressed the "need to restore unhindered, widespread access to aid to meet the massive needs in Gaza immediately," and emphasized the need to allow the United Nations to operate "safely and securely, with full respect for humanitarian principles."

Earlier today, the government media office in Gaza said: "The Israeli occupation forces committed a new crime on Monday, killing three starving civilians and wounding 35 others."

He explained that the massacre occurred "near the so-called aid distribution centers in Rafah (south), and represents a continuation of the policy of starvation and systematic targeting of civilians for 93 days."

Guterres said he "continues to call for an immediate, permanent and sustainable ceasefire and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages."

He explained that "this is the only way to ensure security for all and that there is no military solution to the conflict."

Since October 7, 2023, Israel—with American support—has been waging genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.

The genocide left more than 178,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that killed many, including children.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday that humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip must be provided exclusively through organizations that have the capacity and will to deliver it safely and effectively. This comes after Gaza health authorities reported that dozens of Palestinians were killed on Sunday while waiting to receive food from aid distribution centers.

The organization added: "MSF teams joined the response to the mass casualty incidents at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Patients reported to our teams that they were shot at from all directions by drones, helicopters, boats, and tanks, as well as by Israeli soldiers on the ground."

Israel denied firing at Palestinians outside aid distribution centers run by the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the Netzarim crossing.

"Today's events (June 1) once again demonstrate the danger of the new aid distribution system and its profound lack of humanity and effectiveness," said Claire Manera, MSF's emergency coordinator. "They have resulted in avoidable civilian deaths and injuries."

The organization emphasized that "in light of displacement orders and bombing campaigns that are claiming civilian lives, using humanitarian aid as a weapon in this manner could constitute a crime against humanity."

She added, "This humanitarian catastrophe can only be alleviated with a permanent ceasefire and the immediate opening of the borders to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza."

Last week, Israeli authorities allowed a small amount of aid into Gaza after nearly three months of blockade.

The aid is being distributed through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private, US-backed organization, in four locations, three of which are in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and one in the Netzarim area in central Gaza.

The organization has been widely criticized by the international community, with claims that its methods only lead to the forced displacement of Palestinians. Its executive director resigned last month, citing its lack of independence and impartiality.

The left-wing Israeli organization Ir Amim said on Monday that May set a record for the number of buildings demolished by Israel in East Jerusalem in 2025.

The Jerusalem-based organization said in a statement on Monday that, according to data it collected, "May saw the highest number of demolitions in 2025 so far, with a total of 33 buildings demolished, including 16 residential units and 17 non-residential structures."

She continued: "This brings the total number of demolitions in East Jerusalem since the beginning of the year to 93, including 53 residential units and 40 non-residential buildings."

According to the organization's data, 23 buildings were demolished in January, 15 in February, 14 in March, 8 in April, and 33 in May.

Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations said that Israel issues a small number of building permits to Palestinians in East Jerusalem annually, compared to a surge in building permits granted to Israeli settlements built on East Jerusalem land.

Israel is accelerating its efforts to impose its control over the occupied West Bank through a policy of demolition, displacement, and expanding colonialism, which UN resolutions unanimously declare illegal in the occupied territories.

According to the left-wing Israeli anti-colonial movement Peace Now, there are 156 settlements and 224 outposts in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, inhabited by 736,000 Israelis.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that Iran has "not seen a change" in the US position on lifting sanctions, stressing that Tehran's red lines will be "the basis for responding to the US proposal." Baghaei added in a press conference: "The United States must be clear about how to lift sanctions to ensure that past experiences are not repeated while the two countries negotiate an agreement to resolve a decades-long dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions."

He continued, "Any text that includes extreme and exaggerated demands and ignores the legitimate rights and interests of the Iranian people will certainly not receive a positive response from Iran," explaining that Iran's red lines "will be the basis for responding to the American proposal," according to what was reported by the Iranian news agency, IRNA.

Baghaei noted that "Iran's position is clear from a legal and human rights perspective regarding its right to continue uranium enrichment, as well as its insistence on ending unjust sanctions," emphasizing that these two elements must be present in any potential agreement.

Regarding sanctions, Baghaei stressed that "Iran's most important demand in any negotiating process is the lifting of sanctions," explaining that "Iran's position on the nuclear program is clear. We are confident in its peaceful nature, and we have demonstrated this not only in words but also in actions. We are prepared to take confidence-building measures under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

"What matters to us is ensuring that the sanctions will actually be lifted, and so far the US has not shown any willingness to provide clarification or transparency. For us, it must be clear how and when the sanctions will be lifted, and we want to see the practical effects of this in our banking transactions," he added, according to Tasnim news agency.

The American proposal

White House spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt said Saturday that US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff had "sent a detailed and acceptable proposal" regarding the nuclear agreement to Iran, considering it "in Tehran's interest" to accept it.

"President Donald Trump has made it clear that Iran can never acquire a nuclear bomb," she added in a statement, while refusing to reveal details of the US proposal.

In turn, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that his Omani counterpart, Badr al-Busaidi, visited Tehran on Saturday to present the "terms of the American proposal" for the nuclear agreement. He affirmed in a post on Twitter that Iran would "respond" to the American proposal "appropriately, in line with the principles, national interests, and rights of the Iranian people."

The New York Times quoted informed officials as saying that the American document is "a series of basic points, not a complete draft of an agreement."

According to the sources, the document calls on Iran to halt all uranium enrichment activities and proposes the creation of a "regional alliance" to enrich uranium for civilian nuclear programs, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United States.

In recent weeks, Iranian officials have publicly rejected US demands to end all uranium enrichment activities, declaring that they will "never give up their right to produce nuclear fuel for civilian uses," calling it a "red line."

The written proposal came after the fifth round of negotiations between Iran and the United States, hosted in Rome a week ago. It is also the first written offer submitted by the US envoy to Iran since the negotiations began in early April.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Monday that the death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 54,470, the majority of whom are children and women, since the start of the Israeli occupation's aggression on October 7, 2023.

She added that the death toll has risen to 124,693 since the start of the aggression, while a number of victims remain under the rubble, unable to be reached by ambulances and civil defense teams.

She pointed out that 52 martyrs (one of whom was recovered) and 503 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours.

The Prisoners' Club said on Monday that the occupation prison system continues to escalate its targeting of female prisoners, by entrenching a series of crimes and policies of systematic deprivation and denial of their rights. Since the beginning of the war of extermination, this has taken an unprecedented turn, represented by an escalation in attacks, systematic abuse, and a policy of humiliation, in addition to the most prominent crimes: torture, starvation, medical crimes, strip searches, and their detention in cells that lack the minimum health conditions.

The Prisoners' Club added that, based on a series of visits conducted by the Prisoners' Club to a number of female prisoners during the second half of last May, their testimonies reflected the continuation of crimes in all their forms without any change in the detention reality imposed by the prison system since the beginning of the genocide, in addition to the continued recording of searches, repression, and repeated attacks against them. Their testimonies were overshadowed by the deterioration of the health conditions of a number of them, especially female prisoners who suffer from chronic health problems, and the need for a number of others for treatment and follow-up.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate warned on Sunday of the deteriorating health of journalist Ali al-Samoudi (58 years old), who has been detained in Israeli occupation prisons since April 29.

The union explained in a statement that "Al-Samoudi suffers from chronic illnesses and requires ongoing medical care, and that the continued medical neglect he faces in the occupation's prisons puts his life at grave risk."

She said that Al-Samoudi also suffers from bullet fragments in his head, which he sustained during his journalistic coverage years ago.

The union called on all international and human rights organizations to "take immediate action and apply pressure to save Samoudi's life."

It is worth noting that journalist Ali Al-Samoudi covers events and developments in Jenin and has been injured several times by Israeli occupation forces. The most serious incident occurred when occupation forces killed colleague Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11, 2022. He and other colleagues were with her while covering an Israeli military incursion into the Jenin refugee camp.

Since the beginning of the Israeli war of extermination on the Gaza Strip, Israel has arrested and detained 177 journalists, 49 of whom remain in its prisons, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club.

On May 16, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate reported that it had documented approximately 80 Israeli crimes, attacks, and violations against Palestinian journalists in Gaza and the West Bank during April alone.

On Wednesday, the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced in a statement that 221 journalists in the Strip had been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.

Since the beginning of the war, Palestinian journalists have faced harsh, life-threatening conditions on a daily basis. Dozens of them have been killed while covering the conflict, despite wearing press vests and stationing themselves in well-known locations.

The Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression on the city of Tulkarm and its camp for the 127th consecutive day, and on the Nour Shams camp for the 114th day, amid widespread field escalation and a stifling siege.

Local sources reported that occupation forces are constantly deployed in the city's streets and neighborhoods, particularly on Nablus Street and the central market. They set up surprise checkpoints, conduct searches, and interrogate citizens and vehicles, accompanied by provocative honking of their horns and driving in the opposite direction.

She added that the occupation forces are tightening their security measures at the military checkpoints erected near the city's entrances, particularly the Anab military checkpoint to the east, where they control its opening and closing at will, impeding the movement of citizens and creating long-lasting traffic jams.

From time to time, occupation forces also set up a military checkpoint at the Jabara Bridge gate south of the city, stopping vehicles, searching them thoroughly, and interrogating passengers. These arbitrary measures often amount to the complete closure of the checkpoint and a complete ban on passage.

The occupation continues to impose a tight siege on the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, with forces deployed in alleys and neighborhoods, preventing residents from reaching their homes to check on them or retrieve their belongings, and firing directly at anyone who attempts to approach.

Over the past two weeks, Nur Shams camp has witnessed a massive demolition campaign that has affected more than 20 residential buildings, damaging neighboring homes. This campaign is part of an Israeli plan to demolish 106 buildings in both camps (58 in Tulkarm camp and 48 in Nur Shams), with the aim of opening roads and changing the geographical features of the camps.

In this context, last week, the occupation forces delivered immediate demolition notices to 58 residential buildings in Tulkarm camp, comprising more than 250 housing units. Residents were given just three hours to evacuate, while military measures were intensified and civilians were subjected to attacks including harassment, detention, and threats.

Israeli occupation forces have seized a number of residential buildings on Nablus Street and the city's northern neighborhood, forcibly evicting their residents and converting them into military barracks. Some of these buildings have been under occupation control for more than three months.

Nablus Road, which connects the Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps, has also suffered extensive damage due to earth mounds placed by the occupation forces several months ago, impeding vehicle movement and increasing the suffering of residents.

This ongoing aggression has so far resulted in the deaths of 13 civilians, including a child and two women, one of whom was eight months pregnant. Dozens of people have been injured and arrested, and widespread destruction has affected infrastructure, homes, shops, and vehicles.

According to the latest data, the escalation has led to the displacement of more than 4,200 families from the two camps, representing more than 25,000 citizens, and the complete destruction of at least 400 homes, while 2,573 homes were partially damaged. Meanwhile, the entrances to the two camps remain closed with barriers, transforming them into almost lifeless areas.

A Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman said a delegation from Kyiv arrived in Istanbul on Monday for talks with Russian officials, adding that talks between the two sides were scheduled for this afternoon on possible ways to end the war.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said ahead of the talks that the start was scheduled for 12 p.m. (10:00 GMT) at the city's Ciragan Palace.

Moscow proposed this round of talks. In mid-May, the two warring parties met in direct talks for the first time since 2022, resulting in a prisoner exchange.

Ukraine's position for this round of talks, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, includes a complete and unconditional ceasefire, the release of prisoners, and the return of abducted children.

Zelensky said that to establish lasting peace, a meeting at the highest level must also be arranged.

Moscow has rejected an unconditional ceasefire, but has recently expressed its willingness to do so, subject to a number of preconditions.

"During the ceasefire period, it is essential, at a minimum, that Western countries stop supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime, and that Ukraine end its mobilization," Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said on Friday.

The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network and the Private Sector Coordination Council condemned the horrific crime committed by the occupation forces, who opened fire on crowds of citizens seeking aid in Rafah and southern Netzarim, resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens.

The network and the Private Sector Coordination Council emphasized the danger of this US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism, which serves the occupation's security and political objectives of forcibly displacing our people from the northern Gaza Strip toward the south, replacing the humanitarian system with a security one, and deepening the humanitarian crisis our people are experiencing.

It called on the international community, represented by UN member states and human rights and humanitarian organizations, to condemn this heinous crime and hold the occupying state and those in charge of the American company accountable, describing their massacre as a war crime and a crime against humanity, including bringing this crime before both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

It also called on the United Nations, international humanitarian organizations, and all countries of the world to take effective steps to compel the occupying state to abandon this abhorrent mechanism and return to the United Nations' humanitarian aid mechanism.

While calling on the countries of the world to assume their responsibilities, not only to thwart the humiliating US-Israeli aid mechanism, but also to halt the ongoing 20-month-old massacre of our people in the Gaza Strip, break the siege, and allow aid to flow in, in accordance with the UN mechanism.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed that with the expansion of the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip, less than 18% of the Strip's area remains an area where civilians are permitted to live. The rest of the area is either under direct Israeli control or is considered an evacuation zone and is subject to continuous bombardment.

According to the United Nations Information Center, on Monday, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicated that displacement continues throughout the Gaza Strip, with approximately 200,000 people displaced in the past two weeks alone.

The United Nations reported that the catastrophic situation in Gaza is the worst since the war began, with continued bombing throughout the Strip, particularly in the north, where the last partially functioning hospital was forced to evacuate.

OCHA stressed that humanitarian services in Gaza are among the most obstructed operations in the modern history of the global humanitarian response anywhere. Since last March, the Israeli authorities have imposed a tight siege on humanitarian aid and goods, allowing in the past two weeks what the United Nations described as "a drop in the ocean of needs" of specific supplies into the Gaza Strip.

The UN and its partners were unable to deliver most of this limited aid to the population due to Israeli restrictions and insecurity, and much of what entered the Strip was looted by desperate residents, often seeking to feed their families.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Monday that approximately 50,000 children have been killed or injured in the Gaza Strip over the past 20 months, a toll that reflects the scale of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

The agency explained that civilians, including children, humanitarian and medical workers, and journalists, continue to be killed and injured in the Gaza Strip, amid escalating military operations and an unprecedented deterioration in the humanitarian situation.

A settler, under the protection of the Israeli occupation army, attacked citizens and activists at dawn on Monday in the Abu Hamam estate, south of the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that a settler, accompanied by his livestock, raided the Abu Hammam farm in the Khalayel area of the town. He and the occupation forces assaulted the Rizq Abu Naim family and a number of activists, and stole two cell phones.

A few days ago, settlers burned an area of more than 200 square meters in the Marj Sa'i plain, between the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah, under the protection of the occupation forces.

Colonists continually attack the plain, burning and destroying citizens' lands and property, especially after they recently established a colonial outpost in the area.

During the month of April, settlers carried out 231 acts of vandalism and theft of citizens' property, affecting vast areas of land. Settler attacks also resulted in the uprooting of 1,168 olive trees, distributed across the governorates of Ramallah (530 trees), Nablus (300 trees), and Salfit (298 trees).

The ongoing Zionist genocide in Palestine is not about awareness and narrative, nor is it to gain sympathy and support for this or that narrative, nor is it to alter the balance of power. It is not a struggle between civilization and barbarism, nor even a struggle between earth and heaven as described in religious texts. It is a genocide directed at the Great Creator, who declares that those He created in Palestine, other than the Jews—the Gentiles, the barbarians, and the terrorists—were a divine error that must be corrected by the sword and artillery.

Genocide says: O people of Palestine, we are back. Samson has returned to kill the Palestinian Delilah. Get out and leave. Our missiles are roaring and our bombs are exploding. Get out of life, for your lives will not be negotiated except by death or a gun.

War is no longer an intensification of politics, nor a mere truce to achieve accomplishments, victories, or domination. It is no longer for the sake of achieving economic interests and accumulating wealth and gold. The struggle now is over life. Some must live and some must die. The strong must bombard the lives of the weak and waste them through bombing, erasure, and torture, rape, strangulation, flaying, and cleansing: body and memory, past, present, and future.

What is required is for the Palestinian to die, not a normal death, but rather by killing, revenge, retaliation, bombing, starvation and burning. Not by pressure, blackmail or siege, nor by oppression, despair, expulsion and imprisonment, but by concealment and fragmentation, purification and elimination from the political map and even from discussion and imagination. For the Palestinian to cease to exist. These are the teachings of the Jewish God and violent religious Zionism. There is no room for negotiation with this armed God who fights with the Torah, fire and iron.

The genocide erased all those moral concepts and legal questions about the supreme and highest value of life. It was transformed into the lowest value under the tracks of the tanks in the Gaza Strip. The value of life became equal to the erasure of life, and everything said about human dignity became meaningless. The genocide coming from the ages of hell is neither heard nor seen, and does not allow anyone to think about life and freedom, nor even about fate and destiny. Hell, then hell, until the last hell.

The bulldozer in Gaza, steel, flames, the smell of human flesh, and hunger. Genocide does not seek to defeat, weaken, or exhaust the Palestinians. It does not demand a white flag of surrender, but rather to hide and bury the Palestinians, to erase their presence through absence, and to eliminate the threat to all who lived under occupation, so that another generation does not emerge from the alleys of oblivion.

Genocide, hysteria and madness, from Deir Yassin to Gaza. Kill the women, for they still bear hope. Kill hope, for it still shines in the eyes of children. Kill the children, for they still carry stones. Kill the stones, for they still raise the pillars of the house in memory. Kill everything. Do not open a dialogue except with death and nothingness.

Genocide is the end, the end of hundreds of international resolutions, the end of human rights laws, the end of futile negotiation sessions, the end of all scenarios for political solutions to the conflict, the end of these conferences, sessions and diplomatic interventions, the end of the philosophy of justice from Aristotle to Mahmoud Darwish, the end of culture and democracy, the closing of the doors of reformist thinkers and peace prize winners. It is a new religion, the religion of death, the religion of organized crime, and all worshippers should go to Gaza, not to Mecca, to perform the rituals of death, killing or being killed.

There is no negotiation in the fever of extermination, no truce, and if there is one, it is a truce for the dead until the killer cleanses his face, a truce for the martyr searching for his grave, death is a mirror without wills, and everyone sees himself in Gaza, eternal isolation, the sky buried in dust and corpses, and everyone who speaks sees the victim in him who does not resemble the victims, everyone emerges from his death to his death as smoke or shrapnel.

Genocide says: It is not enough to plunder the land and build settlements. It is not enough to herd the Palestinians into enclaves and traps and humiliate them at military checkpoints. It is not enough to torture them and grind them down in prisons and camps. We need genocide, to send the Palestinians back into the past, to the depths of darkness and to the furthest reaches. There is no whisper, no silence, no ghosts, no echo.

Stop talking about a two-state solution or a one-state solution, stop installing artificial limbs for self-rule without sovereignty, stop talking about camps, refugees and the right of return, annoying nonsense, here is genocide, melt them in fire, until they become ashes, melt them so that the doves will no longer sing in the treetops, melt them so that they will find no one to pray for them and ask for mercy, here is genocide, we don't even want them as shadows, melt them until their smell fades from the soil and from the language and they become a mirage.

Genocide is a professor who came from Nazi Germany, and when Zionism imprisoned God in its Torah, everything became permissible. Life was subject to liquidation. There was no international legitimacy, no criminal court. Killing was free and open. Killing was not stopped by judgments, standards, or witnesses. Everyone was in the Holocaust. There was a new international order, distorted formations of humanity, land, and nature. There were bloody borders between the mythical homeland and the real homeland. There were borders with no separation between one massacre and another.

Genocide does not need a human conscience, it needs an illusion that can ride on a memory, identity and a fabricated myth, it needs the blind, demons and monsters who are unable to coexist with beauty and song, pure genocide that wipes out others, does not care about statistics and abstract numbers, or what you lose in this war morally and humanely, there is no absolute value for human life, genocide has no partner but genocide, the extermination of every newborn and child, and all those who were found exception and abnormal on this earth should disappear so that God may rest in his seventh heaven.

Exterminate them, do not sign any treaty with them, their rights besiege and isolate us, recognizing them tortures us, nullifies our legitimacy, peace is for us alone, there is no difference between the voice of a child and the sound of a bomb, our peace is filled with the emptiness of their souls and we must produce the literature of genocide, and teach our children how to climb hills over corpses, to create the art of shooting in writing.

Genocide is not about different visions and interpretations of historical rights, it is not about the right of self-determination for this or that party, it is not about political or academic theories. Genocide does not allow time to bear responsibility or learn from experiences. Genocide only wants one person to remain on this earth, the pure Jews, God’s successors, His roaring voice in the planes and missiles, the engineering of the destruction that we see and do not see.

Oh polluted genocidal ones, have you triumphed over us? Have we triumphed over you? Your journey in our bodies is complete and Tel Aviv smiled, but I think that in the Deheishe camp you didn't find a street to guard, and I think that we are a people who rise a thousand times from the resurrection, and I think that in Palestine every death has a spirit, a body and a reality, and believe us for the last time that our great death defeated your great state, our dream guides us, here we live and here we die, and in our life you die whenever the bells of the sea ring and on our shores we stretch out, our dead rise and time turns, the circle is broken, so if you have one mad god, then we are all gods.

After more than 600 days of Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, in an attempt by its army to defeat Hamas and free 58 Israeli prisoners from its grip, and after several rounds of American negotiations mediated by Doha and Cairo to reach a truce for a prisoner exchange, Hamas responded with a "no" to the proposal of the American envoy, Witkoff. The Israeli army opened the gates of hell in the Gaza Strip, and the sound of explosions was heard from locations more than 60 kilometers away from the Strip, amid scenes of a Somali-style famine.

Today, Hamas and Israel stand at a critical crossroads, facing a complex dilemma that goes beyond the confines of a military conflict to encompass political, humanitarian, and strategic dimensions, amid an increasingly complex regional and international reality. The conflict, which has been raging since October 7, 2023, and now entering its twentieth month, is no longer simply an armed confrontation between two parties. It has transformed into a geopolitical dilemma with dimensions that extend beyond the battlefield in Gaza.

European countries such as Germany, Britain, France, Spain, and others have begun pressuring Israel and publicly demanding that it halt the war. Some of these countries have already moved to impose sanctions on Israel, which continues to wear the American shield to protect it and continue its military operations. However, this shield may not last long, as Washington appears to be providing it to Tel Aviv for now to avoid obstructing the US-Iranian negotiations. Netanyahu may one day soon wake up to a change in Trump's position, and then the landscape could change completely.

It is true that large segments of Gazan civilians hold Hamas responsible for the killing, destruction, and hunger they have suffered, and they demand that it agree to any truce proposal, regardless of its content and dimensions, in order to stop the Israeli killing and destruction machine, even for a few days. However, Hamas may not respond (and most likely will not) because it believes that the worse the situation in Gaza becomes, the more pressure will be placed on Israel, which will lead to its rescue at the last moment before its complete collapse.

Hamas has no headquarters in the Gaza Strip to which Gazans, who have broken their fear barrier (because they have nothing to fear), could turn to express their discontent with Hamas's refusal to accept Witkoff's proposal or any other truce proposal. This fear barrier has also been broken regarding the Israeli army, which may find itself confronting hungry masses living in the middle of nowhere, knowing that the Israeli death machine will harvest them sooner or later.

In addition, the chaos and scenes of starvation, represented by children with sunken faces and protruding rib cages, could lead to increased international condemnation of Israel, which could find itself in a situation similar to that of apartheid South Africa, when the UN General Assembly imposed an economic and military boycott on it in 1962.

Despite Israel's violent military escalation in the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu's declared political goals, primarily "destroying Hamas" and "returning all hostages," remain out of reach. The military, economic, and humanitarian costs are rising daily, amid mounting pressure from the hostages' families, who have staged protests demanding a halt to the fighting and a prisoner exchange deal. The Israeli government, facing deepening internal divisions, is aware that a continuation of the war could lead to increased international isolation.

For its part, Hamas finds itself today in a very delicate position. On the one hand, it continues to insist on its conditions for accepting any ceasefire agreement, foremost among which are a comprehensive and permanent cessation of hostilities, a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, guaranteed freedom of entry for humanitarian aid, and the implementation of a prisoner exchange agreement that includes the release of large numbers of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.

However, these Hamas proposals were not accepted by the mediators. US envoy Steve Witkoff described the response as "completely unacceptable," noting that the latest Palestinian demands weaken the chances of reaching a final agreement. With this US rejection, the pressures of negotiation have turned into an internal impasse for Hamas, as the movement faces accusations within the Palestinian territories of stalling or setting unachievable conditions. Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is deteriorating at an unprecedented rate, and the suffering of the population trapped between the blockade and destruction is increasing.

Hamas faces pressure from the United States, Israel's strongest ally, demanding unbalanced solutions, such as the release of Israeli prisoners without similar guarantees for Palestinian prisoners, or a ceasefire without guarantees that the aggression on Gaza will end. The American role goes beyond diplomatic pressure to direct threats, as occurred when Washington threatened to veto any international resolution condemning Israel, or when it supplied it with weapons used in the massacres in Gaza. Thus, Hamas faces two choices: either surrender to the American-Israeli conditions, or bear the consequences of rejection, which often involves a fierce media, political, and military campaign.

In addition to pressure and threats from Washington, Hamas faces pressure from Arab "mediators," directly or indirectly, to accept Witkoff's truce proposal and other previous proposals, placing it in a difficult strategic dilemma. In every round of negotiations, Arab voices emerge that adopt the Israeli narrative, whether by demanding a cessation of hostilities without guarantees of ending the occupation, or by promoting unequal prisoner exchange deals. Arab parties even go so far as to justify Israeli aggression or remain silent about it, while placing Hamas in a position of blame if it rejects unfair conditions.

What is happening in Gaza today is not just another war, but a humanitarian and political tragedy that exposes the limitations of force in imposing stability and confirms that the path to security passes through justice and realistic compromises, not through insistence on humiliation or hegemony. Hamas's dilemma is that of those who have no choice but resistance in the face of a stifling blockade, and Israel's dilemma is that of those who believe that military superiority is sufficient to subdue a complex and intertwined reality. Between these two dilemmas, peace is lost, and with it, countless lives.