The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor described the visit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Gaza as nothing more than “a speck of dust in the eyes and aims to cover up Israel’s crimes.”

The Observatory for Human Rights sees the visit of Swiss Volker Türk expected on Tuesday as a cover-up for the crimes of the occupation, and stressed that he must bear his responsibilities, in an official statement published by the Observatory on Monday evening, concluding by calling on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to remove the Commissioner from his position.

At the end of its statement, the Euro-Mediterranean Monitor urged the Secretary-General of the United Nations to seriously consider what the High Commissioner for Human Rights has adopted, and to immediately remove Türk from his position in order to preserve the status and reputation of the international organization.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor believes in its statement that the scheduled visit of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, to the Rafah crossing is nothing more than a speck of dust in the eyes, and aims to cover up the crimes of the occupation, stressing that he must bear his responsibilities stemming from his role and call things by their proper names in accordance with the obligations of his position.

The Center noted that Austrian Commissioner Turk took positions in complicity with the occupation in its war on the Gaza Strip, and did not adopt anything that would provide justice to the Palestinian civilian victims, in light of the genocidal campaign they have been subjected to for a whole month.

The Human Rights Observatory considers that Turk, despite the importance of his position in protecting and defending human rights principles, regardless of any prior motives or positions, appeared to adopt the positions of his country, Austria, which is strongly supportive of the Israeli occupation, and tweets far from the United Nations.

The Observatory explains this by its failure to work seriously to expose the forced displacement that “Israel” has practiced and continues to practice against more than a million Palestinians, by pushing them to leave their areas of residence despite strong condemnations from the United Nations and its officials and agencies, as this constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law and may amount to War crime.

The Observatory notes that Turk disavowed the resignation letter sent by the director of the New York office, Craig Mokheiber, and considered it “personal opinions,” after his protest against the handling of the UN bodies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, with the situation in the Gaza Strip, and his demand that the international organization assume its responsibilities.

At the end of its statement, the Euro-Mediterranean Monitor urged the Secretary-General of the United Nations to seriously consider what the High Commissioner for Human Rights has adopted, and to immediately remove Türk from his position in order to preserve the status and reputation of the international organization.

The French newspaper “La Croix” said that between dropping humanitarian aid on Gaza, diplomatic activity and calling for a ceasefire, the Kingdom of Jordan has been seeking to make its voice heard since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas. But Amman, caught in the crossfire, is a prisoner of its helplessness. Its means of pressure are limited to avoid the continuation of the war and the influx of refugees into Jordanian territory. The Kingdom continues diplomatic activity in favor of the two-state solution.

The newspaper said that the message, which the Jordanian king delivered two weeks before the October 7 attack, contained within it something almost prescient. Abdullah II was attending a summit in New York when he expressed doubts about the normalization agreements that Israel recently signed with several Arab countries. “The belief of some actors in the region that we can parachute into Palestine and sign agreements with the Arabs does not work,” he said.

A month after the Hamas attack and the start of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, Jordan finds itself on the front line and in a state of balance. However, the Kingdom is accustomed to experiencing unrest in periods of crises between Israelis and Palestinians, even in the arena of mosques, where it is the guardian of the holy places in Jerusalem, Lacroix says.

But the Jordanian leadership is struggling to make its voice heard in this unprecedented explosion, which fears its internal and regional repercussions. The equation is complex, as summed up by geopolitician Mark LaVerne, director emeritus of research at the National Center for Scientific Research: “In Jordan, there is the palace, the king’s wife - Rania, an upper-middle-class Palestinian in Nablus, the cabinet and a people whose core is made up of Palestinians, which puts Abdullah II in an embarrassing situation.”

While Queen Rania makes her voice heard in her interviews to denounce the Israeli occupation, the Queen increases calls for a ceasefire and respect for humanitarian law.

La Croix newspaper indicated that the Palestinians and Jordanians are related by blood. With more than two million Palestinian refugees, Jordan is the Arab country that welcomes the largest number of refugees, most of whom are descendants of exiles from the “Nakba” and hold Jordanian citizenship. Since October 7, demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people have become daily, and some even attempted to storm the Israeli embassy in Amman.

Relations with Hamas are complex

Lacroix continued to say that the “weak” Kingdom of Jordan wants to avoid internal contagion at a time when the former leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, calls on Jordanians to mobilize to join the fight for Palestine. Links with the Islamic movement are complex and ancient, as Jordan hosted the political branch of Hamas until 1999 before expelling it. Geopolitical researcher Mark Laverne also points out that “Hamas belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, with which King Hussein concluded an agreement to integrate them into Parliament to neutralize them.”

After failing to achieve the ceasefire he called for, Abdullah II wants to remain a central player by making Amman a center for diplomacy, as evidenced by the visit of US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, to Amman on the fourth of this month, Lacroix adds, considering Jordan does not enjoy the influence of Egypt or Qatar, and this war on Gaza further complicates its strong relationship with the United States, as the Kingdom of Jordan is the second largest recipient of aid after Israel.

Ambiguity remains regarding Israel, to which Amman is linked through the Wadi Araba Agreement, a peace treaty signed in 1994, which the Jordanian street has denounced in recent days. The Kingdom fears the forced displacement of Palestinians, and views the extreme right-wing nationalist discourse in Israel, which sometimes presents Jordan as a “second homeland” for the Palestinians.

Last Wednesday, the Kingdom of Jordan decided to recall its ambassador to Israel “immediately” in protest against the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. Amman, with the support of public opinion, had taken clear positions, with its king stressing during a press conference on October 17 that “there are no refugees in Jordan, and no refugees in Egypt. This situation must be addressed with its humanitarian dimension inside Gaza and the West Bank,” denouncing the intention of “creating... a reality on the ground.”

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday expressed her concern about the independence of the judiciary in Israel, and plans to allow the death penalty against Palestinian prisoners.

“I will not deny that we abroad are concerned about some legislative plans in Israel,” Baerbock said in a press conference with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen after their meeting in Berlin.

The German minister added: "One of the values that unites us is the protection of constitutional principles such as the independence of the judiciary."

Baerbock warned that implementing the death penalty, which was approved by the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs after it was submitted by the Jewish Power Party headed by Itamar Ben Gvir, would be a “grave mistake.”

“We are particularly concerned about the plan to implement the death penalty,” Baerbock said.

The minister said: “We strongly oppose the death penalty and we talk about it all over the world, in the United States and Japan, as well as in Iran and Saudi Arabia.”

The Israeli government is seeking to approve a "judicial reform plan" that the opposition describes as a "coup" that would limit the authority of the Supreme Court and give the executive authority control over the committee for appointing judges.

Last Sunday, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation Affairs in the Israeli government approved a draft law implementing the death penalty against Palestinian perpetrators of operations.

The draft law is scheduled to be put before the Knesset for a vote on it in three readings, and the ruling coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu has a majority (64 seats out of 120) in the Knesset.

For his part, Cohen announced that the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will continue under the current government, as previous governments did.

The Israeli Foreign Minister said in the press conference with his German counterpart: “We will certainly continue building there as well.”

These statements are a repudiation of one of Israel's most prominent commitments in the final statement of the five-year Aqaba security meeting in Jordan on Sunday evening, which is to freeze settlement construction for several months in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The minister was also quoted by Haaretz as saying at the same conference: “Regarding Iran, there are two options on the table: we can return to sanctions, or we can have a reliable military option.”

Cohen arrived in Germany on Tuesday for an official visit that will last one day.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said today (Tuesday) that the statement of the Israeli Heritage Minister, who seemed to be open to the idea of Israel launching a nuclear strike on Gaza, raises many questions, including questions about Tel Aviv’s possession of nuclear weapons.

Russia's comment comes after the Minister of Heritage in the Israeli occupation government, Amichai Eliyahu, said earlier that "dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza is a possible solution." Regarding the Israeli prisoners in the Strip, the Israeli minister commented, saying: "War has costs."

The Israeli minister's statements were reported by the official Israeli Broadcasting Authority, during which he answered a question about whether a nuclear bomb should be dropped on the entire Gaza. He replied: "This is one of the options." He continued, saying: "We will not provide humanitarian aid to the Nazis. There is no such thing as non-interference in Gaza."

Eliyahu also referred to more than 240 Israeli prisoners held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and said: “I pray and hope for their return, but there are also costs to war.” He said: “The Gaza Strip must not remain on the face of the earth, and we must re-establish settlements there” As he put it.

The statements of the Israeli Minister of Heritage may not seem surprising, especially since the far-right minister in Netanyahu's government is known for his extremist views, as Amichai Eliyahu, from the "Otzma Yehudit" (Jewish Power) party, previously called for annexing the West Bank to Israel, and doing so with " As soon as possible".

Eliyahu added in an interview with Occupation Army Radio, last August, that “sovereignty must be extended within the borders of the West Bank as well, and we must do so in the most wise way, and start repeating that everywhere, to create international recognition that this place is ours.”

Dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza

Minister of Heritage in the Israeli occupation government, Amichai Eliyahu

Also, the Israeli Minister of Heritage was not the first Israeli official to call for dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza, as former Knesset member, Moshe Feiglin, called on his account on the “X” platform to strike the Gaza Strip with a nuclear weapon.

Also last October 11, Knesset member Tali Gottliff called on the Israeli army to “use nuclear weapons” in Gaza, in response to the Hamas attack.

This comes at a time when the Israeli occupation has been waging, for 31 days, a “devastating war” on Gaza, in which 10,22 Palestinians were killed, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women, and more than 25,000 others were injured. 160 Palestinians were killed and 2,150 were arrested in the West Bank, according to official Palestinian sources.

Source: Arabic Post

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday that the Hebrew state will assume “comprehensive security responsibility” in the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period after the war it is currently waging against the Hamas movement.

Netanyahu said in a television interview conducted with the American network ABC News that “Israel will assume, for an indefinite period, comprehensive security responsibility” in Gaza, considering that “when we do not assume this security responsibility, what we face is the outbreak of Hamas terrorism on a large scale.” We cannot imagine it,” according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.

The Israeli Prime Minister announced that there will be no ceasefire in the Gaza Strip unless Hamas releases the hostages it has been holding for a month.

Last night and at dawn on Tuesday, the Israeli forces launched an arrest campaign that targeted at least 55 citizens from the West Bank, including former prisoner Ruba Assi and two journalists, with the continuation of systematic arrests and the comprehensive aggression launched by the occupation against our people. The arrest operations were concentrated in My governorates: Hebron and Ramallah, and the rest of the arrests were distributed across the majority of the governorates of the West Bank.

Thus, the total number of arrest campaigns carried out by Israeli army after the seventh of last October amounted to more than (2,200) arrests, with the reaffirmation that this number does not include detainees from Gaza, including workers detained to this day, and those who were arrested from Later, the continuous arrest campaigns included all groups, including children, the elderly, women, and hundreds of former prisoners who spent years in Israeli occupation prisons.

The Prisoners' Commission and the Prisoners' Club confirmed that Israeli army carried out systematic assassinations against prisoners with premeditation, in light of the death of four detainees in the occupation's prisons, among those who were arrested after the seventh of last October, as a result of the torture and abuse operations that affected the prisoners and thousands of workers. Those who were arrested and killed are: Arafat Hamdan, Omar Daraghmeh, Majed Zaqoul, and a detainee from Gaza whose identity is not yet known.

It is noteworthy that the number of prisoners in Israeli prisons by the end of October reached about (7000) prisoners, including (62) female prisoners, and the number of administrative detainees reached (2070).

Geneva – In just a few hours of violent and intense air attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight, and amid a total blackout of communications and Internet services, Israel has committed its largest massacre since its establishment in 1948, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported today.

Euro-Med Monitor estimated that Israel's overnight attacks, the scale of which is unprecedented since the start of its war on the Gaza Strip on 7 October, left more than 1,500 people dead or wounded as well as hundreds of homes destroyed, many with their residents trapped inside.

The Euro-Med team received shocking testimonies from residents of Gaza City about the intense, bloody attacks, especially from the Al-Fawaydah Harat Al-Rayes area of Gaza where scores of people were reportedly killed by hours of ceaseless bombardment.

Similar testimonies were given by residents of the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, about a series of Israeli raids that destroyed entire residential blocks, burying dozens of inhabitants under the wreckage.

The collected accounts tell of hundreds of victims buried under the rubble, with corpses and dismembered body parts strewn throughout the streets by the morning hours.

Meanwhile, the work of ambulance and civil defence rescue teams was completely paralysed due to last night’s interruption of communications and Internet services, which lasted for more than 15 hours.

The Israeli army has declared it struck more than 450 targets last night, and continues its incitement against hospitals, with areas around several in Gaza City and its northern areas, including Al-Shifa Medical Complex, the Indonesian Hospital, the Eye Hospital, Al-Quds Hospital and the only psychiatric hospital in the Strip, targeted in an unprecedented and violent manner, according to Euro-Med Monitor. The Israeli army has claimed that hospitals are being used for military purposes without presenting any concrete proof.

Since the start of the ongoing Israeli war, 16 out of 35 hospitals and 51 primary care facilities (more than 75%) across the Gaza Strip have been unable to operate due to the intense Israeli raids or fuel shortages.

Three days ago, it was announced that the main electricity generators in both the Al-Shifa Complex in Gaza City and the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip had stopped working due to fuel shortages. Both hospitals now operate using smaller secondary generators, which can only provide a few hours of electricity per day and only for the most important services.

Euro-Med Monitor also confirmed that there are no safe corridors for displaced families or relief supplies amidst intense Israeli air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip.

While moving to the southern Gaza Valley region, displaced Palestinians were harassed and mistreated by Israeli forces, according to the human rights organisation. Some of those who had been displaced testified that they had been stripped of all belongings, while others told of having been held as human shields and forced to cross on foot through raids, shelling, and explosions to get to the south of the Gaza Valley.

Estimates indicate that there are still more than 1.5 million displaced people in the Gaza Strip, about half of whom reside in one of 149 severely overcrowded UNRWA-run facilities under inhumane conditions.

With no safe haven in the Strip due to the frequent air raids, thousands of internally displaced people are sleeping in the courtyards of hospitals and UN-run buildings.

From these accounts and others, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has concluded that Israel is comprehensively targeting civilian infrastructure, residential buildings, mosques, schools and hospitals, sparing nothing in its brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip as part of a genocidal war while demonstrating a total disregard of the international calls for a ceasefire as it continues to act in violation of its legal obligations to protect civilians and secure their humanitarian needs.

Hundreds of progressive American Jewish activists occupied the Statue of Liberty in New York to demand that Israel cease fire in Gaza and put an end to the genocide its bombing is causing against civilians in the Strip.

The activists, most of whom were young, wore black T-shirts with slogans printed on them, including “Jews demand a ceasefire now” and “Not in our name,” and they stood at the base of the monument that symbolizes New York.

The demonstrators held banners reading: “The whole world is watching,” “The Palestinians must be liberated,” and “Stop shooting now.”

A statement quoted Jay Saper - from the "Jewish Voice for Peace" organization - as saying, "The famous words of our Jewish grandmother (the nineteenth-century American poet) Emma Lazarus inscribed on this monument compel us to work to support the Palestinians of Gaza who aspire to live free."

The Jewish-led organization opposes the Israeli government's policies towards the Palestinians as a form of apartheid.

"We scream with Gaza"

“Just like the Palestinians, many of our ancestors yearned to breathe freely,” the group said on the X platform.

In turn, the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEO) issued a statement calling for “an end to Israel’s genocidal bombing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

For her part, American photographer Nancy Golden said, “As long as the people of Gaza are screaming, we must scream louder, no matter the attempts to silence us.”

Local elected officials, the majority of whom were from the left, participated in the demonstration.

Similar demonstrations were previously organized in the past few weeks at Grand Central Station in Manhattan and in the Cannon House administration building in Congress in Washington.

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies

After 16 days of war on Gaza, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, dared to say only what he saw and what the whole world saw. His statements came as Israel did not want, so it launched a brutal war against him. However, the United Nations organization had historically struggled with everything related to Israel and some major countries. Which she wants as her eyes to see the world's affairs and conflicts and determine its destinies.

The sight of Guterres in front of the Rafah crossing on October 20 was a humanitarian one, as he called for urgent aid for the besieged residents of Gaza who were being subjected to relentless Israeli bombing. But it was a scene that raised even more astonishment about the inability of the international organization to act against Israel, even in the minimum.

Guterres called for aid to be brought into Gaza because it is a lifeline for two million people who are being bombed and besieged (French)

To speak the truths that everyone knows and sees, the Secretary-General of the United Nations must have a lot of courage, especially with regard to Israel’s crimes and its denial of international law, UN resolutions, international norms, and the principles of international humanitarian law. In a way, the United Nations organization must forget the basis of its existence and look with the blink of an eye or A completely blind eye to what Israel is doing.

Red lines

The Portuguese diplomat (74 years old) is not classified as a critic of Israel, and there is nothing in his history that indicates this. In October 2020, the World Jewish Congress awarded him the Theodor Herzl Award (founder of modern Zionism), and the Congress’s president, Ronald Lauder, described him at the honoring ceremony by saying, “ Over many years, you have proven to be a true and loyal friend of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.”

Antonio Guterres struggled throughout the days of the Israeli aggression on Gaza to remain silent to avoid an Israeli storm, which he knew would confront him if he spoke about facts that Israel sees as red lines that require investment in them.

In his briefing to the Security Council, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, expressed his concern about “the clear violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza,” stressed that “no party to the armed conflict is not above this law,” and also explained that “the Palestinian people are subject to occupation.” suffocating for 56 years,” and that “Hamas’ attack did not come out of nowhere,” warning of “collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

Although he also said in his speech that “nothing justifies the horrific attacks by Hamas,” he had crossed the imaginary red lines that Israel has drawn for the United Nations and its employees throughout the decades of conflict. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen sharply denounced Guterres, while Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, called on him to resign, and wrote a post on his account on the "X" platform in which he said that the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who "has shown an understanding of terrorism and murder, is not fit to lead the United Nations." ".

Guterres came to the United Nations Secretariat, carrying with him a historical legacy of anti-colonial ideas and calling for the right of peoples to self-determination. The man was part of the “Carnation Revolution” that overthrew the authoritarian dictatorship of the Second Republic in Portugal (Estado Novo), founded by Antonio Salazar, in 1933. Since 1968, Marcelo Caetano succeeded him as Prime Minister, when he belonged to the Portuguese Socialist Party shortly after its inception in 1973, and remained active in it and held many governmental responsibilities in his country.

For many years, Guterres was active in International Socialism, an international organization that brings together social democratic parties. He served as vice-president of the organization from 1992 to 1999, and its president from 1999 until mid-2005. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002. Guterres was a member of the Portuguese Council of State from 1991 to 2002. Even dormant thoughts had to awaken to the horror of what is happening in Gaza.

From the perspective of ideas, humanitarian principles, and facts on the ground, Guterres should have spoken more than that about Israeli crimes. He has in the United Nations records of known and confidential reports what is shocking, terrifying, and also surprising about the United Nations’ historical inability, but he was too diplomatic. From the perspective of the interests and balances that he knew in the UN establishment, he chose to speak as little as possible, and yet he was not immune from Israeli accusations.

From the perspective of interests, it is likely that the Secretaries-General of the United Nations, before assuming their duties, are familiar with the past of their colleagues in the position. There is no doubt that Guterres knew about the late Swedish Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld (1953-1961) or the late Austrian Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981). It is assumed that he studied the file of the UN mediator, Count Bernadotte (May 20, 1948 - September 17, 1948), even though he was not Secretary-General, and there is no doubt that he knew that the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian issue were the starting point in the work of the international organization throughout its history and the career and reputation of its general secretaries.

On the edge of an Israeli knife

The former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Austrian Kurt Waldheim (1972-1981), who believes in the global role of the United Nations, clashed with Israel when UN resolutions were issued against the Israeli occupation policy, especially Resolutions: 35-122 of December 11, 1980, which condemned Israel for imposing the Legislation that entails changes in the character and status of the Golan, and Resolution 35-207 of December 16 of the same year, which renews the strong rejection of Israel’s decision to annex the Golan and Jerusalem, as well as Resolution 36-147 issued on the same day, which condemned Israel for its attempts to impose nationality Israeli forces forcibly imposed on Syrian citizens in the Golan.

The positions of Waldheim and the United Nations organization that were relatively supportive of Palestinian rights and his belief in the constructive work of the United Nations caused him to be subjected to severe Israeli and American accusations and pressure, which undermined his chances of running for a third term at the helm of the United Nations. He was accused of being an officer in the Nazi army, and was banned from entering the United States, despite his success in the Austrian elections to become Chancellor of Austria in 1986, the accusations and global campaign against him did not abate.

In turn, the Swede Dag Hammarskjöld (1953-1961) worked to ensure that the United Nations was neutral and effective, and his favorite slogan was:

"The United Nations was not founded to lead people to heaven, but to protect them from hell" By Dag Hammarskjöld

Israeli officials were not comfortable with Hammarskjöld, with his neutral personality, at the head of the international organization. The Swedish diplomat stood up to Israeli efforts and American pressure in 1958 to deploy international forces in the Bekaa Valley and between Syria and Lebanon, stressing that Lebanon had never requested such forces, and that even if that had happened, it would have been logistically impossible.

At the height of the Cold War, and the unification between Egypt and Syria under the name of the United Arab Republic (1958-1961), this was an Israeli, American and Atlantic demand whose rejection did not go unpunished and without a fierce diplomatic media campaign against Hammarskjöld, who was later killed when his plane crashed while he was heading to the Congo on the day September 18, 1961, in an incident that remains mysterious until now.

Peruvian Javier Perer de Cuellar (1982-1991) was subjected to a systematic Israeli and American campaign in light of his support for United Nations General Assembly Resolution 176/43 on November 15, 1988 regarding holding an international peace conference in the Middle East, under the auspices of the United Nations, and affirmed principles for achieving comprehensive peace, the sovereignty of the Palestinian people over their lands occupied by Israel in 1967.

At the same session, Resolution 43/177 was adopted, in which the declaration of the State of Palestine was recognized. Israel and the United States greatly resented De Cuellar for his encouragement of the two resolutions. Resolutions 43/176 and 43/177 were widely supported by states and non-governmental organizations around the world and opposed by the United States and Israel.

Although he was not known for making statements or positions against Israel, the former South Korean Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon (2007-2016), was not spared Israeli criticism during his term when Benjamin Netanyahu himself accused him of “encouraging terrorism and that there is no excuse for terrorism” after his statement that “thwarting The Palestinians are increasingly under the weight of half a century of occupation and the paralysis of the peace process. As oppressed peoples have proven for centuries, it is human nature to react to the occupation, which often serves as a powerful incubator for hatred and extremism.

The Ghanaian Kofi Annan (1997-2006) and the Egyptian Boutros Ghali (1992-1996) were also not spared from Israeli accusations and pressures during their reigns, and the United States had refused to take Ghali for a second term as the General Secretariat of the United Nations.

At the beginning of the work of the United Nations, the first UN Secretary-General, Norwegian Trygve Halfdan Lee (1946-1952), paid a price for the neutral and impartial activity of the UN mediator, the Swedish Count Falke Bernadotte.

Count Bernadotte, the international mediator for the United Nations in Palestine, had presented a plan on June 27, 1948, which included a set of proposals affirming that “the residents of Palestine, if they leave it due to the circumstances resulting from the existing conflict, have the right to return to their country without restriction, recover their property, and place Jewish immigration under international regulation” so as not to cause an increase in Arab fears, as well as keeping all of Jerusalem under Arab sovereignty while granting the Jewish community in Jerusalem autonomy in managing its religious affairs, in addition to some border adjustments between Arabs and Jews, including annexing the Negev to the Arab borders and the Galilee to the Israeli state.

The leaders of the Zionist movement revolted against the United Nations, its Secretary-General, and its mediator, Count Bernadotte, and the partition resolution that it approved (despite its unfairness to Palestinian and Arab interests). On November 30, 1947, Menachem Begin, who was then one of the leaders of the Zionist “Etzel” gang, declared that “the legitimacy of partition was invalid.” And that all of the “Promised Land,” which includes all of Mandatory Palestine (including Transjordan), belongs to the Jews and will remain so forever.”

It was later known that the "Stern" gang, led by later Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir (from 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1992), assassinated Count Bernadotte, after which liquidation and assassination operations became an Israeli security and policy doctrine.

Thus, since its founding, the work of the United Nations in Palestine began with a crime against one of its senior employees, Count Bernadotte, and it was registered against an unknown person in the files of the United Nations itself when the Zionist gangs assassinated Bernadotte on September 17, 1948 in Jerusalem, and since that date the Israeli pressures on the United Nations have continued on its general secretaries with campaigns of defamation, intimidation and moral assassination.

Source: Al Jazeera

On Monday, the Israeli representative to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, attacked its Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, after he criticized the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip, considering that he had lost his moral compass.

Erdan said in a post on the X platform “It has been more than 30 days since children in southern Israel were deliberately slaughtered by Hamas, but you, Guterres, did not say anything about the child graveyard that happened in southern Israel,” he said, without providing any evidence for his claims.

He pointed out that any representative of the United Nations who makes a false and immoral comparison proves that he suffers from “moral rot,” as he put it.

Earlier Monday, the Secretary-General of the United Nations announced that the United Nations and its partners had launched a humanitarian aid appeal worth $1.2 billion for 2.7 million Palestinians.

Guterres added that Gaza has become a cemetery for children, with hundreds of girls and boys killed or injured every day, and expressed his deep concern about the clear violations of international law in Gaza.

This is not the first time that Guterres has been subjected to Israeli attack and criticism due to his position on the Gaza war.

On October 24, Israel called on Guterres to resign immediately, while its Foreign Minister Eli Cohen refused to meet with him, after statements in which he said that the Hamas attack did not come out of nowhere.

For the 31st day in a row, the Israeli army is waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of more than 10,022 Palestinians, including 4,104 children and 2,641 women, and the injury of more than 25,000 others.

Source: Anadolu Agency

Early today, Tuesday, the Israeli forces carried out massive new incursions into the West Bank, including arrests and clashes with Palestinians.

In Jenin, the Israeli forces stormed the city of Jenin on Tuesday.

Al-Quds.com correspondent reported that several military vehicles accompanied by a bulldozer stormed the city and the Jenin camp, and confrontations took place with the occupation forces.

The occupation army deployed snipers on the roofs of a number of houses, sent new reinforcements from its forces, and deployed special units in a number of neighborhoods.

The Israeli bulldozers also bulldozed the roads and infrastructure on the outskirts of the Jenin camp, and targeted the house of citizen Abdul Salam Jamal Abu Al-Hayja in the camp, causing it to burn.

The Director of Jenin Education, Salam Al-Taher, said: It was decided that the school hours in the city of Jenin and its camp would be electronic.

In Ramallah, a young man was injured, and four citizens were arrested, at dawn on Tuesday, during Israeli forces’ storming of the town of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah.

Local sources said that confrontations broke out between the young men and Israeli soldiers during their storming of the town, during which the soldiers fired live bullets at the young men, which resulted in a live bullet wound to the waist, where he was taken to the hospital.

The sources pointed out that Israeli forces arrested four citizens from the town, namely: Humam Abda, Zahid Jubran, Talib Abda, and Hussein Abda, after raiding and searching their homes.

A young man was injured, and a citizen and a woman were arrested, at dawn today, during tIsraeli forces’ storming of the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that a young man was shot in the foot, fired by Israeli forces, which carried out raids and storming of a number of homes, and arrested the freed prisoner Ruba Assi and the freed prisoner Muhammad Al-Dahla, after raiding their homes and tampering with their contents.

In Jerusalem, a young man was injured, at dawn today, by Israeli bullets during confrontations that broke out in the town of Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that a young man was injured Israeli army bullets in the stomach and was taken to the medical center in the town, and then transferred for treatment to Ramallah Hospital.

In Hebron, two young men were injured by live bullets and dozens suffocated during clashes that broke out on Tuesday morning in the town of Al-Dhaheriya, south of Hebron.

Medical and local sources said that two young men were injured by live bullets in their lower extremities and were taken to receive treatment in the hospital, while dozens suffered from suffocation due to inhaling poisonous gas and were treated on the field, during confrontations that broke out in the town of Al-Dhaheriya.

In Tulkarm, 6 citizens, including a woman, were injured during the occupation forces’ storming of Tulkarm camp at dawn today.

Local sources reported that two young men were injured by fragments of a missile fired by an Israeli drone, and a woman was injured by a bullet in the shoulder, the mother of the martyr Izz al-Din Awad, who was assassinated by Israeli forces yesterday evening. The injured were transferred to the Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital.

At two o'clock in the morning, large forces of the occupation army, accompanied by two crawler bulldozers, stormed the neighborhoods of "Al-Balawneh, Al-Hadaydah, Al-Ghanem, Al-Shuhada, Al-Murabba'a, and Al-Muqata'a" in the camp, amid the flight of a reconnaissance plane, and tightened their siege on it from all sides, raided a number of citizens' homes, and conducted an extensive search operation inside them and subjected Its residents were interrogated, but no arrests were reported.

The young man Musab Mujahid Kamel Al-Matari (19 years old) was killed after midnight tonight, and another was injured by Israeli army near his town of Beit Anan, northwest of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that Israeli forces shot two young men near Jabal al-Jubaiya, on which the apartheid wall is located in the town, before arresting them. They were later informed of the death of one of them, as he was transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.

In a related context, Israeli forces stormed the town of Beit Daqo, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and destroyed a monument dedicated to the town’s martyrs.

In Hebron, at dawn on Tuesday, a young man was martyred and two others were injured, one of them critically, by Israeli forces’ bullets during their storming of the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron.

Medical sources at Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron and security sources reported that the young man, Saad Nimr Al-Faroukh (24 years old), was killed, and two others were injured, one of them critically injured in the abdomen, in addition to dozens suffering from suffocation, and they were treated on the field.

According to local sources, the killed Saad Al-Madhkour is the brother of the martyr Mujahid Nimr Al-Faroukh, who rose several days ago in the lands of 1948.

The Israeli forces stormed the town of Sa'ir at dawn, and as a result, confrontations broke out during which the forces fired bullets, stun grenades, and poisonous gas towards the young men.

Israeli perceptions of the day following the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation army on the Gaza Strip continue for 31 days.

On Monday, the Israeli website Yedioth Ahronoth indicated a new plan with several stages, ending with the government in Gaza being relied upon by local officials and individuals not linked to the Hamas movement, and transforming the Strip into an area similar to Area B in the occupied West Bank.

The website's journalist and military analyst, Ron Ben Yishai, wrote in his review of the plan that a week and a half after the ground incursion into the Gaza Strip by the occupation army, Israel will decide with the Americans and the United Nations the initial arrangement for controlling the Strip, after the fighting stops on all fronts and not In the north only.

Ben Yishai explained: “In Israel, it is clear that such an arrangement should include not only the northern Gaza Strip up to the Gaza Valley, but also the entire southern part, including the Rafah area and the Philadelphia axis, where there are many smuggling tunnels that will allow Hamas to replenish its strength.” 

He added: “Anyone who thinks that occupying, controlling and undermining Hamas’ rule and military power in the northern Gaza Strip will achieve the primary goal of Israel’s security is mistaken. The southern Gaza Strip represents a problem in itself, which the Israeli army must still take into account. There is not yet a clear plan for the next day, and even the plan that will be described here, may change dramatically depending on the situation on the ground.”

The writer said, “According to the indicators, the organization of governance in Gaza will depend primarily on local officials and individuals not linked to Hamas. In fact, there are entire governing bodies in the Gaza Strip that still receive their salaries from Abu Mazen and the Palestinian Authority, 16 years after Hamas took control of the Strip.” ".

He added: “Arab countries will pump money to stabilize the humanitarian situation, and in the first stage the Israeli army and Shin Bet will continue security control in the Gaza Strip, but Israel has no intention of controlling the Strip, and its ambition is to leave Gaza as quickly as possible, after ensuring the security of the residents.” The South (meaning southern Israel in the territories occupied in 1948) and preventing the launching of rockets.”

According to the emerging idea, Ben Yishai says: “There will be another phase or two of the permanent settlement in the Gaza Strip that will last for several months, during which the Palestinian Authority will have civilian control over the Gaza Strip, but the Shin Bet and the Israeli army will have freedom to work in the fields of intelligence and thwarting operations, as it is the case in Area B in the West Bank. The Americans suggest that at this stage there be an international, non-American force in the Strip."

On the outskirts of the Strip, under the aforementioned plan, there will be safe zones where Palestinians can be present for agricultural work, but they will not be able to spend a long time there and certainly will not be able to carry weapons or set up observation points.

The writer continued, “According to the American request, the final stage will be political negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, perhaps within the framework of an international conference. According to the American administration at least, the goal is to reach a solution that leads to two states for two peoples, with a corridor linking Gaza” and the West Bank."

The writer concluded, "In any case, it is not expected that the current government will work to encourage actual negotiations that would produce the results that the Americans are looking forward to."

On Monday/Tuesday night, Israeli warplanes continued their raids and violent bombardment of citizens’ homes and many buildings in different areas of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death and injury of dozens of citizens, including children and women.

Regarding the latest events, our correspondents said that at least five citizens, including a woman, were killed, and others were injured, after Israeli aircraft targeted, after midnight tonight, a house for the Al-Hamayda family in the Al-Shaboura camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources also reported that a citizen was killed and a number of injuries occurred in an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential building in the northern Gaza Strip.

Prior to that, bombing operations, with aircraft and artillery, were concentrated in the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital in the Tal Al-Hawa area, and in Al-Shati Camp, Al-Maghazi, the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, Beit Hanoun, areas north of Beit Lahia, and other areas of the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death and injury of a number of citizens. .

In this context, the Palestinian Red Crescent said that Israeli occupation aircraft targeted the vicinity of Al-Quds Hospital with two missiles, calling on organizations to quickly provide assistance and basic supplies to the Gaza Governorate and the northern region.

Medical sources expected that the fuel stock for the Al-Quds Hospital electricity generator would run out within the next 48 hours, while informed sources at Al-Awda Hospital confirmed that the fuel stock had begun to run out and would reach zero within 30 hours, while sources at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip said that there were 24 hours remaining. The entire hospital stopped as it ran out of fuel, and some vital hospital departments had already stopped.

In a later development, Israeli aircraft targeted a mosque in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Earlier on Monday, Israeli bombing and raids targeted many citizens’ homes west of Khan Yunis, in the Nuseirat camp, in Al-Qarara, Al-Shati camp, Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, Rafah, and Al-Shuja’iya.

The Ministry of Health had announced that the death toll and wounded among our people as a result of the ongoing aggression on the Gaza Strip and the West Bank had risen to 10,165 dead and about 27,000 wounded.

The Ministry stated, in its daily report on the aggression, yesterday, Monday, that 10,010 dead were killed in the Gaza Strip, and more than 25,000 were injured, and in the West Bank the number of dead rose to 155, and the wounded to about 2,250, since the seventh of last October. More than 70% of them are children, women and the elderly.

By Imtans shehadah

Security crises and war situations usually lead to the rearrangement of the political and party system in Israel. The 1967 war and its results were the beginning of the emergence of far-right parties in Israel, the strengthening of the discourse of the religious Zionist movement, and the increase of its strength and political and social presence. The 1973 war was the beginning of the end of the Labor Party in the 1977 elections, and the beginning of a change in the party system in Israel. The first and second intifadas also played important roles in partisan and political changes, and in changes in the political positions of Israeli society.

The war on Gaza...a political turning point

It is expected, according to all estimates, that the current war on Gaza will constitute a serious turning point in the political and partisan system in Israel, and push towards a change in the political positions and convictions of Israeli society. It can be said that it will be an impetus for rearranging the partisan and political scene in general in Israel, for many reasons. The most prominent of these reasons is that this war is unlike its predecessors in Israel in terms of military and security aspects, and reflects a major security failure of all security services and the government. The human losses so far are very large, especially the civilian losses on the home front, and the financial and material losses. This war fragmented the Israeli military doctrine and struck the security and political strategy that had been in place towards Gaza and the West Bank for two decades to the core.

This war is unlike its predecessors in Israel, and reflects a major security failure of all security services and the government

This war, existential in Israeli terms, came to make clear that no matter how much Israel ignores the natural rights of the Palestinian people, denies their right to self-determination, and prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state, it cannot abolish this right nor prevent the Palestinian people from struggling for that, no matter how much it uses tools for managing or reducing conflict. Thus, the Palestinian issue will return to being a main focus in the Israeli political scene after being almost completely ignored in the last two decades.

This war also came after nearly a year of internal rifts and protests in Israeli society over the government plan to restrict the judiciary, the erosion of the “Jewish democracy” equation from the perspective of liberal secular Zionist movements, and the attempt to weaken the judiciary, which demonstrated the depth and reality of the political and social rifts within Israeli society. It brought back to the forefront the rift between secular and religious trends, the rift between Jews of Western origins and Jews of Eastern origins, and class rifts. All of them came together in the government plan to restrict the judiciary, ostensibly, because it reflected a real struggle over the nature of the political, social, and economic system in Israeli society.

All of this means that there is a necessary need, from an Israeli perspective, to put forward political projects that are compatible with the re-evaluation of the military strategic situation and how to deal with the Palestinian issue, on the one hand, and to deal with the projections of the government plan to restrict the judiciary and the deep rifts within Israeli society, on the other hand. Nor can we ignore the need to deal with the economic crisis that will befall Israel after the end of the war. These factors together have defined the political rifts in Israel in recent decades.

Since 2009, the Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Likud Camp have become a dominant camp in the political system in Israel, after decades in which the Labor Party and the Likud Party shared control of the party system in Israel. In this sense, there was no possibility of forming a government in Israel that was not headed by Likud and Netanyahu, except for a very short period between 2021 and 2022.

This reflects the dominance of right-wing security, political, economic and social values and positions in Israeli society. Rather, these values and positions turned into the lowest ceiling for any political proposal, thus paving the way for the extreme right’s control of the political and party scene in Israel. The proposals of the traditional Zionist left were almost completely absent and the parties that represented it, such as the Labor Party and the Meretz Party, disappeared. Instead, center-right parties grew, whose political projects and proposals did not differ much from those of the traditional Likud Party, but they opposed Netanyahu personally and refused to join an alliance led by him, such as the “There is a Future” party led by Yair Lapid, and the “National Camp” party led by Benny Gantz, who finally joined the war government led by Netanyahu.

The failure and prolongation of the Gaza war, and the human and material losses, will have a significant impact on the standing of Likud and Netanyahu directly.

The great failure and the current war on Gaza, and the expectations that the war will be prolonged and the human and material losses will increase, not to mention the losses in the medium and long term, including the possibility of a decline in Israel’s international standing and perhaps strengthening the economic, academic and other boycott campaigns, will all have a major impact on the standing of the Likud Party and Netanyahu directly and immediately. 

Netanyahu was accused from the first moment of being responsible for the major failure and its consequences, and that he neglected the warnings of the military establishment and focused only on the plan to restrict the judiciary and worked to save himself from the criminal courts, fragmenting Israeli society and weakening security and military capabilities. There is almost consensus among political analysts and political leaders that the end of Netanyahu's political career will come directly with the end of the war. Rather, there are those who demand that this be done immediately by withholding personal confidence from Netanyahu and forming a new government, even if that was during the war and in an exceptional and unprecedented manner in the history of Israel.

The end of Netanyahu's political career means the end of Likud's control over legislative and executive power. But it also means great harm to the far-right parties that are partners in the current government, which are accused, along with Netanyahu, of contributing to the major military failure, of being unable to manage the civil and economic aspects of the war, and of being prepared to burn the region in order to achieve their political desires. In this sense, the war on Gaza will lead to a decline in the status and strength of the right-wing and extremist parties that are partners in the existing government coalition.

Rearranging the party scene

Netanyahu's political end will open the door to competition for the leadership of the right-wing camp, and may provide an opportunity for the return of right-wing figures who left the Likud Party due to Netanyahu's presence, or to build new alliances between right-wing parties, or to establish new right-wing parties, and for the return of right-wing political figures who have retired from politics, even temporarily, to the forefront. Like former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. It will also strengthen the position of the “General Camp” party headed by Gantz, and to a lesser extent the “There is a Future” party headed by Lapid.

Netanyahu's political demise will open the door to competition to lead the right-wing camp, and may provide an opportunity for the return of right-wing figures who left the Likud Party.

The decline in the status of Likud in particular and the far-right parties in general will not lead to the emergence of new left-wing Zionist parties or the strengthening of the presentation of left-wing projects. Rather, it may lead, despite what happened and the failure of the complete right-wing government, to an expansion of the spread of right-wing values in Israeli society.

The great failure and war on Gaza will lead, as previous military failures or successes have led, to rearranging the political scene and the party system in Israel. Despite the responsibility of the right-wing government for the great failure and war, and its results, it will lead to the strengthening of the values and positions of the right in Israeli society, to the emergence of new parties carrying the projects of the traditional right, and to the shift of the parties of the center right, and Israeli society in general, to the values and positions of the traditional right.

Despite the comprehensive war waged by the Israel on the Gaza Strip and its application of the “scorched earth” policy, the Hamas movement and the Palestinian resistance factions are still steadfast and confronting the attempts of Israeli forces to advance on the ground. Through the following report, Reuters monitors the extent of Hamas’ readiness for this battle and its vision for the end of the war. 

Reuters quotes two sources close to the leadership of Hamas that the movement is preparing for a long and protracted war in the Gaza Strip, and believes that it is capable of obstructing the advance of the Israeli forces for a sufficient period of time to force its arch enemy to agree to a ceasefire.

The two sources, who refused to reveal their identities due to the sensitivity of the situation, said that Hamas has been stockpiling weapons, missiles, food, and medical supplies.

Ending the siege on Gaza

They added that the movement is confident that thousands of its fighters can survive for several months in a city of tunnels dug deep into the Palestinian Strip, and that they have the ability to keep Israeli forces busy with guerrilla warfare tactics in urban areas.

The two sources said that Hamas believes that international pressure on Israel, in the end, to end the siege with increasing civilian casualties, could impose a ceasefire and reach a negotiated settlement that would provide a tangible concession such as the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of Israeli prisoners.

Four Hamas officials, a regional official, and a source familiar with the White House's thinking indicated that the movement made clear to the United States and Israel, during indirect negotiations regarding the prisoners mediated by Qatar, that it wanted to impose such a prisoner release.

In the longer term, Hamas said it wants to end the 17-year-old Israeli siege of Gaza, as well as halt Israeli settlement expansion and what Palestinians see as harsh actions by Israeli security forces at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

On Thursday, United Nations experts called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying that the Palestinians there face a “grave risk of genocide.” Many experts believe that there is an escalating crisis, with no clear end in sight for either side.

Marwan Muasher, who previously held the positions of Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan, and currently works at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: “The mission of destroying Hamas will not be easy to achieve,” and added: “There will be no military solution to this conflict. We are going through difficult times, and the war will not be short."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to eliminate Hamas and rejected calls for a ceasefire. Israeli officials say they have no idea what might await them, and accuse Hamas of hiding behind civilians.

Danny Danon, the former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and a former member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that his country had prepared for a “long and painful war,” and added to Reuters: “We know that we will win in the end and that we will defeat Hamas. The question will be what the price will be.” “We have to be very careful and realize that maneuvering in an urban area is very complicated.”

The United States said that now is not the time for a general ceasefire, but says that a cessation of hostilities is necessary to deliver humanitarian aid.

Hamas "fully prepared"

Adeeb Ziadeh, a Palestinian expert in international affairs at Qatar University who has participated in studies on Hamas, told Reuters that the movement must have a long-term plan: “Those who carried out the October 7 attack with this level of competence and this "The level of experience, precision and strength, they must be prepared for a long-term battle. Hamas cannot engage in such an attack without being fully prepared and mobilized to face the outcome."

The source familiar with the White House's thinking, who requested anonymity to speak freely, said that Washington expects Hamas to try to lure Israeli forces into a battle in the streets of Gaza and inflict on them military losses heavy enough to weaken Israeli public support for a long-term conflict.

He added that, however, Israeli officials have assured their American counterparts that they are prepared to confront Hamas' guerrilla tactics, as well as withstand international criticism of Israeli attacks. He also said that the question is whether Israel is able to eliminate Hamas, or merely severely weaken its power, remains standing.

Sources in Hamas say that the number of its fighters is about 40,000, and they can move throughout the Strip using a vast network of fortified tunnels, hundreds of kilometers long and up to 80 meters deep, that were built over many years.

Gunmen in Gaza were seen on Thursday emerging from tunnels to shoot at tanks, then disappearing back into the tunnel network, according to residents and videos.

The Israeli occupation army says that soldiers from the Yahalom unit, a special forces unit of the Israeli combat engineering corps, are working with other units to uncover, evacuate and destroy the tunnels, in what a spokesman described as a “complex battle” in Gaza.

Hamas has fought a series of wars against Israel in the past few decades, and Ali Baraka, head of the Hamas National Relations Department who resides in Beirut, told Reuters that the movement has developed and strengthened its military capabilities over the years.

Baraka said: “Our weapons are national security. No one knows what we have. In every war, we must surprise them with something new. We are working on making the missile accurate and lethal, and we are developing the missiles we have.” He added that in the 2008 Gaza war the maximum range of Hamas rockets was 40 kilometers, but that increased to 230 kilometers in 2021.

There is no peace without the Palestinians

Osama Hamdan, a Hamas leader residing in Lebanon, told Reuters that the October 7 attack and the war on Gaza will put the Palestinian issue on the map again. He added to Reuters: “This is an opportunity for us to tell them that we can fulfill our destiny.” With our own hands, we can arrange the region’s cards as we want, and as it protects our interests.”

An Arab peace initiative, with broad international support and Arab consensus, has been on the table since 2002. The plan offers Israel peace treaties with full diplomatic relations in exchange for the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state.

Instead, Netanyahu chose for Israel to create an alliance with Sunni Arab countries. The coalition consists of Egypt and Jordan, which signed peace treaties with Israel in 1979 and 1994, in addition to the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.

Before the Hamas attack on October 7, US-brokered talks were being held with Saudi Arabia to reach a historic diplomatic agreement that would form a united front against Iran, but this process has been suspended since then.

Muasher said that the Hamas attack destroyed any possibility of achieving stability in the Middle East without dealing with the Palestinians, and added: “It is clear today that without peace with the Palestinians there will be no peace in the region.”

Jordan said on Monday that it was leaving all options open in its response to what it described as Israel's failure to distinguish between military and civilian targets in its intense bombing and invasion of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Reuters news agency, Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh did not clarify the further steps that Jordan would take after it recalled its ambassador from Israel a few days ago in protest against the bombing launched by Israel on Gaza after the Hamas movement’s cross-border attack on it on October 7. Jordan announced last week that it would not allow the Israeli ambassador, who left Amman shortly after the Hamas attack, to return to resume his duties at the present time, and said that he is persona non grata.

Al-Khasawneh, whose country signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, told official media that all options are available to Jordan in dealing with what he described as the Israeli aggression against Gaza and its repercussions. He stated that the siege imposed by Israel on the densely populated Gaza Strip is not self-defense as it claims. He added that the Israeli attack does not distinguish between civilian and military targets and extends to safe areas and ambulances.

Israel denied intentionally bombing civilian targets in densely populated areas, and said that Hamas uses civilians as human shields, digs tunnels under hospitals, and uses ambulances to transport its fighters.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, “The country’s relations with Jordan are of strategic importance to both countries, and we regret the inflammatory statements issued by the Jordanian leadership.” Diplomats familiar with Jordanian politics said that the country is reviewing its economic, security and political relations with Israel, and is even considering suspending further steps in implementing the peace treaty if the bloodshed in Gaza worsens.

The war between Israel and Hamas has reawakened old fears in Jordan, which hosts a large number of Palestinian refugees, that Israel would seize the opportunity and expel Palestinians en masse from the West Bank, where attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians have increased since the Hamas attack on October 7. 

These fears have increased since the Israeli coalition government - which belongs to the religious nationalist movement and is considered the most right-wing government ever - took power last year, and some extremists adopted the principle that "Jordan is Palestine."

Officials said that King Abdullah expressed these concerns during his talks with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, warning of widespread violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem if Jewish settler attacks against Palestinian civilians were not curbed.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that any move to transfer Palestinians to Jordan, which shares a common border with the West Bank, is a “red line” that amounts to a declaration of war. Al-Safadi said last week that Jordan would confront any attempt by Israel to expel the Palestinians in an effort to change the geography and demographics. Security sources said that the Jordanian army has already strengthened its positions along the border.

Diplomats said that Jordan's concerns were at the top of the issues discussed in talks with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken since the outbreak of the Gaza war, and they are likely to be raised in a meeting with William Burns, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), during his stop in Jordan soon.

The American CNN network said on Tuesday that the UN Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution to stop the war between Israel on the one hand and the Hamas movement and Palestinian factions on the other hand in the Gaza Strip.

CNN quoted Deputy US Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood as saying, “There is no agreement at this stage.”

A group of ten non-permanent members of the Security Council had submitted the draft resolution, but the United States and Britain, the two permanent members of the Security Council that have veto power, rejected it.

Western powers, especially Washington and London, oppose the draft resolution including phrases calling for an immediate ceasefire, according to what the Arab World News Agency reported.

“There have been discussions about humanitarian truces and we are interested in continuing the conversation in this regard,” Wood said. “There were disagreements within the Security Council about whether this (immediate ceasefire) would be acceptable.”

Israel launches an air and ground attack on Hamas after the movement carried out a bloody armed attack in southern Israel last month, killing 1,400 and taking 240 others hostage. Health authorities in the Strip said that the Israeli bombing killed at least 10,000 people in Gaza.

The White House: “We want humanitarian truces as soon as possible and we continue to discuss this with the Israelis. Civilians should also be spared and more aid trucks should be sent to Gaza.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with US President Joe Biden on Monday evening, where they discussed the latest developments in the war in the Gaza Strip, and they also discussed the possibility of carrying out “humanitarian truces” during the war.

National Security Council spokesman at the White House, John Kirby, said, “Biden and Netanyahu discussed the possibility of carrying out humanitarian truces in the war. We believe that this is the beginning of the discussion, and other talks are scheduled to take place in the coming days.”

He pointed out that they also discussed the situation in the occupied West Bank.

Kirby explained, “The United States is tracking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, and that is not enough,” adding that “more Americans are scheduled to leave the Gaza Strip today.”

He added, "Changing the positioning of our forces in the Middle East is a message of deterrence to anyone who tries to escalate the conflict. We want the Israelis to reduce civilian casualties and be careful."

According to what was issued by the White House, Israel was informed that “its operations against Hamas must be swift, decisive, and lethal,” adding, “We do not specify for the Israelis their targets in Gaza and we continue to urge them to be careful regarding civilians.”

In this context, the US Department of Defense (the Pentagon) estimated the number of civilians killed in Gaza in the thousands, without providing a specific number.

For its part, the US State Department said that it does not question the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the huge loss of civilian lives.

It added, "We are discussing with Israel and Egypt the issue of bringing fuel into Gaza in a way that helps civilians and not Hamas," while it considered that "Israel has every right to defend itself, and it is important to differentiate between Hamas and civilians."

Source: Arab48

While the report stated that “Egypt has proven in the past to be an effective mediator in conflicts between Israel and Hamas,” it noted that “there are many disagreements and anger between Egypt and Israel over a variety of issues.”

An Israeli press report stated that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, had not spoken since the start of the war on Gaza, a month ago, but it indicated that a delegation from the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet) had visited Egypt during the war. .

This came according to what was reported by the Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority (“Kan 11”), citing unnamed foreign and Israeli sources.

According to an Israeli source, "direct contact between the heads of state would have helped in the ongoing talks today regarding the hostages."

The report pointed out that Cairo “maintains contacts with Israel through several other sources, including the head of the (Israeli General Security Service) Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, and other sources,” which it did not mention.

In the same regard, the report said that “senior Shin Bet officials visited Egypt during the war.”

While the report stated that “Egypt has proven in the past to be an effective mediator in conflicts between Israel and Hamas,” it noted that “there are many disagreements and anger between Egypt and Israel over a variety of issues.”

Among the issues are those “related to the proposal to receive Gaza refugees, and with regard to activities in Rafah (such as the entry of humanitarian aid from the crossing) and other issues.”

According to the same report, Israeli sources say, “There is an attempt to renew Egyptian activity on various issues, including talks between the Egyptian Foreign Minister and his ministerial counterparts in Israel.”

This comes as US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, failed to reach understandings with the Arab foreign ministers in Amman, the day before yesterday, Saturday, on “one agreed upon vision” regarding the management of the besieged Gaza Strip after the war that Israel has been waging for 31 days. on the Gaza Strip, while renewing Washington's attempts to pressure Cairo to agree to receive refugees from the Gaza Strip, which is met with "strict rejection from the Egyptian military establishment."

This came according to what Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper reported on Monday, citing Egyptian sources familiar with Cairo’s movements regarding the Israeli aggression, following the meeting that brought together Blinken with his Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi, Qatari and Emirati counterparts in the Jordanian capital, with the participation of the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

The sources pointed out that Blinken “failed to reach a single agreed-upon vision, due to the discrepancy in positions between Washington and some Arab parties attending the meeting,” while an Egyptian diplomat who spoke to the newspaper explained that Blinken’s visit to Amman was primarily aimed at discussing “scenarios for managing the Gaza Strip in Following the end of the Israeli aggression.”

It explained that Blinken’s efforts were rejected by 3 parties participating in the meeting, and the Egyptian diplomat indicated that “some participants assured Blinken that it is impossible to completely eradicate the Hamas movement from Gaza, which means that the war must end first, so that thinking can begin in light of Its results, and an estimate of the magnitude of the force of the movement at that time.”

The newspaper quoted another source as saying that Cairo had received “a new proposal regarding hosting numbers of residents of the Gaza Strip,” saying that “the new proposal came beyond Egyptian fears, announced through officials in Cairo, about the possibility of those who will move from the Gaza Strip to Sinai representing a subsequent threat to Egyptian security.” If they launch attacks on the Israeli occupation from within Egyptian territory.”

The source explained, "The new proposal included transferring the numbers that could be agreed upon to the west of the Suez Canal by distributing them to the canal governorates, represented by Port Said, Suez, and Ismailia, and not to the east of the canal as was proposed to settle them in Sinai."

The source added, "All of these scenarios are met with strict rejection by the Egyptian military establishment, which refuses to respond to any of the proposals to resettle the population of the Gaza Strip or part of them in Egypt, regardless of the temptations and facilities offered by the American administration and Western parties."

The Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club confirmed the martyrdom of prisoner Majed Ahmed Zaqul (32 years old), from Gaza, in Ofer Prison. He was one of the workers who were arrested after October 7, and the occupation had concealed the crime of his assassination during the recent period until it was announced. This was done through his media outlets, and we were not able to confirm his identity at the time.

The authority and the club pointed out that the martyr Zakul moved to the West Bank three years ago and was suffering from cancer. He went to work in the territories occupied in 1948 six months ago, as did thousands of our people. He is married with a child, and his family is in Gaza.

The authority and the club said in a joint statement that the occupation not only assassinated the detainee Zaqul, but rather concealed his death and did not announce it, except through its media two days ago, when the occupation announced the release of two workers, one in “Ofer” prison, and the other in “Antot” camp. Their identities were not revealed at the time, and until this moment we have not been able to know the identity of the second martyr announced by the occupation. The case is still under follow-up.

The authority and the club confirm that fears are mounting over their fate, especially in light of the horrific data recently reported by the workers.

With the death of the prisoner Zaqul, the number of martyrs of the prisoner movement has risen to (240) martyrs since 1967.

On Monday evening, settlers, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, attacked citizens’ homes in the villages of Al-Rakiz and Al-Mufaqara in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

According to local sources, the settlers of the “Afi Gal” settlement, established on citizens’ lands and property east of Yatta, attacked citizens’ homes in the villages of Al-Mufaqara and Al-Rakiz, destroyed drinking water tanks belonging to the family of the citizen Muhammad Hassan Muhammad, and destroyed a mobile home “caravan” belonging to the citizen Ahmed Okasha Makhamra. They cut water networks, destroyed solar cells, and punctured the tires of a vehicle belonging to the citizen Noaman Hamamda.

Two Palestinians were injured, Monday evening, during confrontations with the Israeli forces, in the town of Ya`bad, west of Jenin, and the Al-Arroub camp in Hebron.

According to local sources, Israeli forces stormed the town, deployed snipers on the roofs of buildings, and raided several homes, which led to the outbreak of confrontations, during which soldiers fired live bullets, stun grenades, and toxic tear gas, which led to a citizen being injured by a bullet in his foot.

According to other sources, Israeli soldiers detained the injured person, seized his cell phone, and prevented ambulance crews from reaching him.

The Israeli soldiers also destroyed the memorial to the martyrs of the town of Ya'bad.

In Hebron, citizens suffered from suffocation during confrontations that broke out between citizens and the occupation forces stationed at the entrance to the Arroub camp, during which soldiers fired live bullets, stun grenades, and toxic tear gas at citizens and their homes, causing dozens of suffocation cases.

Jordanian King Abdullah II stressed the need to stop settler attacks on Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, warning of the deterioration of the situation in the West Bank and in Holy Jerusalem.

During his meeting today, Monday in Brussels, the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, and members of the North Atlantic Council, the King of Jordan called for the necessity of working for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and protecting civilians.

He considered that today everyone is paying the price for the absence of a political solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, stressing that there must be a comprehensive vision for regional security based on a solution to the Palestinian issue, and a radical solution to the conflict on the basis of the two-state solution.

A report by the Secret Flights website, which tracks flights, showed on Monday that there has been a decline in flights to and from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, by an average of 80 percent since the outbreak of the war.

The website reported that an average of 100 flights per day landed at Ben Gurion Airport during the war, compared to the usual 500 flights during the pre-war period.

Most of the traffic relates to the three Israeli carriers: Al Al, Arkia, and Israel. At a time when most foreign airlines have canceled their flights due to the war on Gaza, and the sharp rise in insurance premiums for airlines.

Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi, Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, expressed the State of Qatar’s strong denunciation of the allegations of the Israeli occupation army spokesman that there are tunnels under the Sheikh Hamad Hospital for Artificial Limbs in Gaza without concrete evidence or an independent investigation, and considered it a blatant attempt to justify the occupation’s targeting of civilian objects, including this includes hospitals, schools, population centers, and shelters for displaced people.

Ambassador Al-Emadi confirmed, in a statement to Qatar News Agency, that Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza was established transparently in accordance with the highest international standards under the supervision of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, with Israeli approval, for medical purposes and that thousands of people in Gaza benefited from it, stressing that such allegations should not be made arbitrarily. He demanded that the Israeli narrative not be taken as a present reality without an independent investigation into the allegations it constitutes, warning at the same time against using it as a pretext to target civilian facilities.

He warned Israeli authorities that targeting Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza means depriving thousands of patients of its services, and will be added to the series of war crimes committed by Israel against civilians and their service facilities, especially the atrocities that recently affected a number of hospitals and ambulance convoys.

He explained that Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza, which was established with funding from the Qatar Fund for Development, and with the implementation of the committee, provides therapeutic services in the departments of prosthetics, motor and verbal rehabilitation, occupational therapy, nursing, speech and swallowing, audiology, and children, considering the hospital one of the most important medical facilities. In Gaza, which provides essential services to a wide segment of civilians.

Ambassador Al-Emadi called on the international community to line up firmly to condemn the targeting of health services in Gaza, and to oblige Israel to respect international laws, warning of the danger of giving Israel a green light to indiscriminately bomb Gaza’s population and infrastructure.

Despite a massive bombing campaign and ground invasion in Gaza, a senior Pentagon official believes Israel is no closer to eliminating Hamas' leadership, the New York Times reported Saturday.

According to the report: “A senior official in the US Department of Defense, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details, said that the operations so far have not come close to destroying the ranks of Hamas’ senior and middle leadership.”

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 10,100 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attack, including at least 4,008 children. The newspaper report said that the United States is presenting proposals to Israel to reduce civilian casualties, such as using smaller bombs, but the administration of US President Joe Biden has so far refused to use the huge amount of military and other aid to put pressure on Israel.

According to the Washington Post, the United States is not setting conditions on military aid or using any other leverage it has over Israel because it “would not be very politically popular in any administration, in part because, aides say, Biden himself has a personal connection to Israel.” .

According to several press sources in Washington, White House advisors believe that the ongoing “Israeli ground invasion” in Gaza, which appears to be stuck without the ability to achieve the declared Israeli goals up to this moment, will only lead to destabilization and escalation in the region. Regardless of US officials' view of the war, they are seeking an additional $14 billion from Congress to continue funding the offensive.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Israel on Friday and proposed a "short humanitarian truce," but the idea was rejected by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though the administration is working to get an additional $14.5 billion in support for Israel.

It is noteworthy that Blinken went to Amman and met with Arab leaders and foreign ministers on Saturday, who called for a true ceasefire, an idea rejected by the Biden administration. Blinken said: “From our point of view, a ceasefire now will leave Hamas in place and able to regroup and repeat what it did on November 7.”

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, described Gaza as a “cemetery for children,” launching a call for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, calling for the collection of $1.2 billion to help the 2.7 million Palestinians in Gaza, and half a million Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

“The nightmare in Gaza is more than just a humanitarian crisis,” Guterres told reporters at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York. It is a crisis for humanity,” he said, adding that “the raging conflict is shaking the world and the region.”

He stressed that “no one is safe” due to the ground operations of Israeli forces and the continuous bombing that “hit civilians, hospitals, refugee camps, mosques, churches, and United Nations facilities - including shelters.”

He also reiterated his criticism of “Hamas” and other militants who “use civilians as human shields and continue to fire rockets randomly toward Israel,” reiterating his “absolute condemnation of the hateful terrorist acts committed by (Hamas) on October 7, and calling for “the launch of Immediate, unconditional and safe release of the hostages held in Gaza.”

Guterres referred to reports that “hundreds of girls and boys are killed or injured every day,” noting also that “more journalists were killed during a period of four weeks than in any other conflict in at least three decades,” in addition to “the largest number killed.” of United Nations staff from any similar period in the history of our Organization.” He stressed that the unfolding catastrophe makes the need for a humanitarian ceasefire “more urgent by the hour,” stressing that “the parties to the conflict - and even the international community - face an immediate and fundamental responsibility to stop this inhuman mass suffering, and to significantly expand the scope of humanitarian aid to Gaza.” .

The UN chief announced that the United Nations and its partners had launched a “humanitarian appeal worth $1.2 billion to help 2.7 million people, the total population of the Gaza Strip, and half a million Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”

He explained that “the Rafah crossing alone does not have the capacity to handle aid trucks of the required size,” adding that “slightly more than 400 trucks crossed into Gaza during the past two weeks, compared to 500 trucks per day before the conflict.”

"Without fuel, newborns in incubators and patients who need life support will die," he warned. It is not possible to  “pump or purify water,” reiterating the demand for a “humanitarian ceasefire now.” He called on all parties to "respect all their obligations under international humanitarian law, now."

Guterres expressed "deep concern about the escalation of violence and the expansion of the conflict," adding that "the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has reached a boiling point."

He urged "not to forget the importance of addressing the risks of the conflict spreading to the broader region," pointing to the "spiral of escalation" that includes Lebanon and Syria in addition to Iraq and Yemen.

He also expressed "deep concern about the rise of anti-Semitism and intolerance against Muslims." He said: “We must act now to find a way out of the impasse of brutal, horrific and painful destruction,” calling for “help paving the way for peace, and a two-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live in peace and security.”

The Israeli army said in a statement that about 30 missiles were fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel this evening (Monday), which led to a response with artillery fire.

The Israeli army reported this evening that Lebanese armed groups fired 30 missiles at northern Israel during the past hour.

The statement added that the Israeli army then bombed the missile launch sites.

The Israeli army had announced in another statement earlier that during the night of last Sunday, with the help of the intelligence agency, Israeli fighter planes killed Wael Asfa, commander of the Deir al-Balah battalion in the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), accusing him of planning many Attacks against Israel.

The United Nations forces operating in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) called today (Monday) for a ceasefire on the Lebanese-Israeli border, warning that the escalation would spiral out of control.
UNIFIL spokesman Andrea Tenenti said in a statement today that “Yesterday, UNIFIL witnessed heavy gunfire across the Blue Line” on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Tenenti continued, "We heard tragic reports about the killing of 4 civilians, 3 girls and a woman, in the vicinity of Aitaroun in southern Lebanon," warning that "the possibility of the escalation getting out of control is clear and must be stopped."

He added, "We urge everyone to cease fire now to prevent more people from being harmed," adding, "The death of any civilian is a tragedy, and no one wants to see more people injured or killed."

Tenenti reminded all concerned parties that attacks against civilians constitute a violation of international law and may amount to war crimes.

A Lebanese woman and three of her grandchildren were killed and their mother was injured yesterday in a missile attack launched by an Israeli drone on a car carrying them in the Ghadmata area, located between the towns of Aitaroun and Ainata in western southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources.

Meanwhile, an Israeli citizen was killed on Sunday in a Lebanese Hezbollah missile attack on the border, according to official Israeli sources.

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced yesterday that his government would submit an “urgent complaint” against Israel to the UN Security Council in response to “the targeting of civilians and children.”

According to the official Lebanese National News Agency, Lebanon filed a complaint today.

The agency quoted caretaker Foreign Minister Abdullah Bouhabib as saying, "It is a war crime that clearly reflects Israel's policy of deliberately targeting families, children, medics, and journalists."

Yesterday, an Israeli drone targeted with a missile two ambulances belonging to the Islamic Message Scouts, a scouting association that carries out civil defense work, in the vicinity of the town of Tair Harfa in western southern Lebanon, wounding four paramedics, according to Lebanese military sources.

On October 14, Lebanon submitted a complaint to the UN Security Council against Israel against the backdrop of "the deliberate killing of Lebanese journalist Issam Abdullah, who worked for Reuters."

Abdullah was killed on October 13 in an Israeli bombing that targeted press crews on the outskirts of the town of Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, which also led to the injury of 5 journalists.

The border between Lebanon and Israel has witnessed daily bombing and shooting operations between Hezbollah and Palestinian movements on the one hand and the Israeli army on the other since the outbreak of fighting between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel in the Gaza Strip and its environs on October 7 last.