For the fourth day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression against the Gaza Strip, using a “scorched earth” policy by destroying various targets.

According to the latest statistics, the number of martyrs rose to 687 martyrs, and 3,726 citizens were injured with varying injuries.

According to the Ministry of Health, among the martyrs were 140 children and 105 women, while 10% of the casualties were children.

The occupation's crimes resulted in massacres against 13 families, and these massacres led to the martyrdom of 105 of their relatives, a large number of whom are still under the rubble.

Israeli warplanes bombed several homes and residential buildings in different areas of the Gaza Strip.

These attacks throughout the night left many martyrs and wounded, and caused great destruction.

While the resistance continued its bombardment of the occupation settlements and cities adjacent to the Gaza Strip with dozens of missiles.

Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that we’ll never pay the price and be punished for it. We’ll carry on undisturbed.

We’ll arrest, kill, harass, dispossess and protect the settlers busy with their pogroms. We'll visit Joseph’s Tomb, Othniel’s Tomb and Joshua’s Altar in the Palestinian territories, and of course the Temple Mount – over 5,000 Jews on Sukkot alone.

The Gaza Palestinians are willing to pay any price for a moment of freedom. Will Israel learn its lesson? No.

We thought we’d continue to go down to Gaza, scatter a few crumbs in the form of tens of thousands of Israeli work permits – always contingent on good behavior – and still keep them in prison. We’ll make peace with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinians will be forgotten until they’re erased, as quite a few Israelis would like.

We’ll keep holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners, sometimes without trial, most of them political prisoners. And we won’t agree to discuss their release even after they've been in prison for decades.

We’ll tell them that only by force will their prisoners see freedom. We thought we would arrogantly keep rejecting any attempt at a diplomatic solution, only because we don’t want to deal with all that, and everything would continue that way forever.

Just as the smoky old Palestinian bulldozer tore through the world’s smartest barrier Saturday, it tore away at Israel’s arrogance and complacency. And that’s also how it tore away at the idea that it’s enough to occasionally attack Gaza with suicide drones – and sell them to half the world – to maintain security.

On Saturday, Israel saw pictures it has never seen before. Palestinian vehicles patrolling its cities, bike riders entering through the Gaza gates. These pictures tear away at that arrogance. The Gaza Palestinians have decided they’re willing to pay any price for a moment of freedom. Is there any hope in that? No. Will Israel learn its lesson? No.

On Saturday they were already talking about wiping out entire neighborhoods in Gaza, about occupying the Strip and punishing Gaza “as it has never been punished before.” But Israel hasn’t stopped punishing Gaza since 1948, not for a moment.

After 75 years of abuse, the worse possible scenario awaits it once again. The threats of “flattening Gaza” prove only one thing: We haven’t learned a thing. The arrogance is here to stay, even though Israel is paying a high price once again.

Gaza, most of whose residents are refugees created by Israel. Gaza, which has never known a single day of freedom.

At least 91 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military launched an offensive over the weekend, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Defense Children International "DCIP" has confirmed the killing of at least 50 Palestinian children in direct Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip between October 7 and 9.  DCIP continues to document and confirm Palestinian child fatalities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip as hostilities continue as Israeli forces unleashed a massive military offensive on the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Palestinian armed groups fired rockets toward Israel and breached the Israeli perimeter fence surrounding Gaza early on October 7, launching attacks inside Israel. Israeli forces initiated a large-scale military operation dubbed Operation Iron Swords. 

Two Palestinian journalists were killed early Tuesday in an airstrike by Israeli warplanes on the Gaza Strip. 

Saeed Al-Taweel and Mohammad Sobh were killed while filming the targeting of a residential building by Israeli warplanes in Rimal district in western Gaza, according to information obtained by Anadolu from hospital sources.

Other journalists were reportedly injured in the same area during the bombing.

Israeli warplanes are bombing various areas of Gaza throughout the night.  In areas where the material damage is severe, there have been no official statements yet on the number of casualties and injuries.

*Writing by Alperen Aktas from Istanbul

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi discussed, with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the escalating developments and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip.

The Egyptian presidential spokesman said on Monday that the call between President Sisi and Guterres addressed the need to reach a halt to the escalation, protect civilians through immediate measures to prevent further deterioration in the humanitarian situation, and provide an opportunity for diplomatic efforts to contain the situation, restore calm, and revive the peace process.

He added that there was agreement between the President and the Secretary-General of the United Nations regarding the danger the crisis poses to peace and security in the region. President Sisi also stressed the need to work seriously to find a just solution to the Palestinian issue in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions issued in the same regard, while Egypt continues its efforts to provide support for any steps. Future prospects in this regard, in addition to the important role of the United Nations in coordination with active parties in the international community to contribute to this indispensable path, to achieve sustainable peace and security in the Middle East.

On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces closed the entrance leading to towns and villages west of Salfit.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces closed the iron gate at the entrance, near the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, while confrontations broke out at the place, but no casualties were reported.

In a related context, a number of settlers gathered near the entrance to the village of Haris, west of Salfit, and chanted racist slogans.

On Monday evening, settlers attempted to burn a house after storming the village of Deir Ibzi', west of the city of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that settlers stormed the village of Deir Ibzi', under the protection of the occupation forces, and attempted to burn the house of citizen Ahmed Abdel Quddus Ghannam by throwing Molotov cocktails at him, but citizens confronted them.

A telephone call took place on Monday evening between the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.

His Excellency called on the United Nations to intervene immediately to stop the ongoing Israeli aggression against our people, especially in the Gaza Strip, where the occupation threatens to cut off the humanitarian needs guaranteed by international law and international legitimacy, such as the provision of water, electricity, and food.

His Excellency stressed the importance of delivering relief and medical aid to our people in the Gaza Strip, stressing the need for the United Nations to intervene to prevent a humanitarian disaster in the Strip, and the need to carry out its duties approved by international legitimacy to provide international protection for the Palestinian people.

The President also reiterated that the only solution to all the escalation taking place in the region is the political solution by ending the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital.

In turn, Guterres stressed that the United Nations is making efforts to provide urgent humanitarian relief aid to the people of the Gaza Strip, and to conduct contacts with all concerned international parties in order to stop the ongoing escalation.

On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces arrested five Jerusalemite citizens.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested: Omar Muhaisen, from Shuafat Camp, Musa, Muhammad Abu Rumaila, and Tayseer Obaid, from Salah al-Din Street in Jerusalem, while they arrested Saeb Derbas from the town of Issawiya.

On Monday evening, settlers stormed the Ain Ayoub area near the village of Ras Karkar, west of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that a group of settlers, protected by the occupation forces, stormed the Ain Ayoub area and gathered in the place.

Several young men were injured by live bullets, and dozens suffocated with tear gas, Monday evening, during confrontations with the occupation forces, south and east of Nablus.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Nablus reported that three young men were injured by live bullets, two of them in the foot area, another in the chest and hand area, while another young man was injured by shrapnel in the head area, during confrontations at the Huwwara military checkpoint.

Local sources indicated that confrontations broke out between young men and the occupation forces at the checkpoint, during which the occupation fired live bullets and toxic tear gas bombs, causing dozens to suffocate.

In the town of Beit Furik to the east, confrontations broke out between the occupation forces and young men at the military checkpoint erected at the entrance to the town, during which soldiers fired sound and gas bombs, causing a number of citizens to suffocate.

Confrontations broke out between young men and the Israeli occupation forces, Monday evening, in the city of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported that confrontations broke out between young men and the occupation forces stationed at the eastern checkpoint in the city of Qalqilya, during which the occupation fired stun grenades and toxic tear gas, but no injuries were reported.

Today, Monday, at the Carthage Palace, the President of the Republic of Tunisia, Kais Saied, chaired a working session that included: Prime Minister Ahmed El Hachani, Minister of National Defense Imad Mamish, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Nabil Ammar, Minister of Social Affairs Malek Zahi, and Minister of Health Ali Murabit. The Minister Advisor to the President of the Republic, Mustafa Ferjani, and the President of the Tunisian Red Crescent, Abdel Latif Chabou.

During the meeting, ways to support the Palestinian people were discussed at the diplomatic level and in the health field, especially by providing the Palestinian people with the medicines, surgical tools, and blood donations, in addition to directing field electric generators, especially after the power was cut off in a large part of the Gaza Strip. .

Contacts took place between the Tunisian Red Crescent and its Palestinian counterpart to determine what the brothers need in their confrontation with the Israeli occupation.

In the same context, the possibility of transporting a number of wounded Palestinians to Tunisia was discussed.

On Monday evening, the northern border of occupied Palestine witnessed new security tension after an anti-tank missile was fired at an Israeli site, without causing any casualties.

This comes hours after the Israeli army announced the liquidation of an armed cell that infiltrated from Lebanon and managed to injure 7 Israeli soldiers with varying injuries before being neutralized, as reported by the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.

In response to the operation, the Israeli army bombed targets in southern Lebanon, including Hezbollah targets.

On Monday evening, Hebrew Channel 12 reported that the number of Israeli deaths following the attack by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, had risen to 900.

According to the Hebrew Channel, there are about 3,000 wounded, including serious and critical conditions.

It indicated that these numbers were recorded in the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip and Israeli cities, and that the majority of them were killed as a result of the armed attack, and a group of them were killed by rocket firing.

High-level Egyptian sources warned against pushing defenseless Palestinians towards the Egyptian border, and against some parties calling for mass exodus.

Egyptian sources said in statements on Monday evening that Egypt has intensified its contacts with all active parties of the international community to stop the escalation and stop the bloodshed of the Palestinian people.

It stressed the seriousness of the calls for displacement and that they are enough to empty the Gaza Strip of its population and liquidate the Palestinian cause itself, in addition to the fact that Egyptian sovereignty is not permissible.

The sources held the occupation authority responsible for creating humanitarian corridors, stressing the need to stop military operations immediately.

A settler tried to run over citizens, Monday evening, in the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem.

Youth activist Mustafa reported that a settler tried to run over a group of young men while they were passing on the main street in the Khirbet al-Deir area, and then fled, without anyone being injured.

It is noteworthy that settler attacks against the residents of Teqoua have escalated in the recent period, and were represented by trampling and shooting attacks.

A young man died on Monday evening, succumbing to critical injuries sustained during clashes in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

According to the Ministry of Health, the young man, Montaser Abdel Hamid Zaqeq (31 years old), died after being hit in the head by live ammunition.

On Monday evening, settlers set fire to two tents near the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem.

The head of the Kisan Village Council, Musa Abayat, reported that settlers set fire to two tents located in the “Al-Qanoub” area of the lands of the town of Sa’ir, north of Hebron, opposite Kisan, close to the “Ibi Hanahel” settlement, which is located on citizens’ lands. They belong to citizens of the Al-Shalalda family, and they were used For livestock.

It is noteworthy that the settlers escalated their violations against citizens in the eastern region of Bethlehem, especially against sheep herders.

Sudan announced Monday that it will resume diplomatic relations with Iran. This comes seven years after it was cut off and three months after a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries. Sudan severed its diplomatic relations with Iran in 2016 after storming the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran.

The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Monday that Sudan will resume its diplomatic relations with Iran.

The ministry added that the decision to resume relations came after a number of high-level contacts between the two countries and that it would serve the common interests of both countries.

This comes seven years after the severing of relations between the two countries and three months after a meeting between the foreign ministers of the two countries.

Saudi Arabia and Iran, mediated by China, agreed to resume relations last March, which raised expectations that Tehran and other Arab countries would fully resume diplomatic relations.

In addition, no statement has been issued yet from Iran, but its Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian said last July that the two countries are working to resume relations after his meeting with Acting Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Al-Sadiq in Baku.

It is noteworthy that Sudan, which is currently going through a devastating war, cut off its diplomatic relations with Iran in 2016 after the storming of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran.

The Israeli occupation forces continued their aggression against the Gaza Strip, leaving hundreds of martyrs and thousands wounded, amid the most violent air, sea and land attacks in 3 days.

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, the number of martyrs exceeded 560, and 2,900 other citizens were injured with varying injuries, including hundreds of children and women.

According to the Ministry, there are large numbers of people infected with critical and serious conditions.

The nursery department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex was damaged as a result of the occupation’s targeting of the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

Several ambulances were also directly targeted, while Beit Hanoun Hospital was completely out of service due to the violent Israeli bombing.

The occupation forces continued their violent attacks, destroying economic, civil, social and educational institutions in a series of violent raids that targeted Gaza City, in addition to targeting residential buildings and homes in various parts of the Gaza Strip.

The occupation forces committed major massacres against Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip, especially after bombing homes over the heads of their residents.

Thousands of citizens took refuge in UNRWA schools seeking displacement under difficult circumstances.

While the Palestinian resistance continued to fire missiles at the occupation cities and settlements, causing serious and varying injuries and causing massive damage.

The number of Israeli deaths has risen to 800 and about 3,000 have been injured since the beginning of the operation last Saturday.

On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces fired live bullets and rubber-coated metal bullets at anyone approaching the southern and western sides of the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces have been present for hours south and west of the village, shooting bullets at anyone who tries to approach the outskirts of the village.

Yesterday evening, the people of Qaryut responded to an attack by colonists south of the village, which led to the outbreak of confrontations and the injury of a citizen to the face as a result of the attack.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported, on Monday evening, that the Israeli occupation forces attacked one of its ambulances, near the village of Al-Mazraa Al-Gharbiyya, west of Ramallah, and assaulted its crew.

She explained, in a statement, that the occupation forces beat the vehicle crew, threatened them, searched the vehicle thoroughly, and detained them for a period of time before releasing them.

On Monday evening, a citizen was injured by live bullets following a settler attack on farmers in Duma, south of Nablus.

The head of the Duma Village Council, Suleiman Dawabsha, said that settlers attacked the olive pickers near the western entrance to the town, amidst gunfire and protection from the occupation army, which led to the injury of a citizen with live bullets.

He added that settlers burned four vehicles in the area, amid clashes.

Russia considered on Monday that the establishment of a Palestinian state is the “most reliable” solution to the conflict with Israel, warning of a “high” risk of other parties engaging in the ongoing escalation with Hamas after the lightning operation launched by the movement against the Hebrew state from the Gaza Strip.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed on Monday during a press conference on the occasion of the visit of Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit to Moscow that Russia and the League will work to "stop the bloodshed" in Israel and Gaza in cooperation with countries that want "permanent peace in the Middle East."

He said, "We do not agree with those who say that security can only be achieved by fighting terrorism."

He stressed that "eliminating terrorists" is a strategy that Israel has previously applied, but it has never allowed the "fundamental problem" to be resolved.

He saw the creation of “a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel... as the most reliable path to finding a solution to the” Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Supporting these statements, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit called for finding a “just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” and creating “political horizons.”

Aboul Gheit said that the Arab League rejects violence "from both sides."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that “the risk of third powers getting involved in this conflict is high,” calling for launching “a negotiation process as soon as possible,” according to what was reported by the Russian RIA Novosti and TASS agencies.

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On Monday, 9 citizens were injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets in Hebron and Al-Bireh.

According to the Red Crescent, 5 citizens were injured by live bullets in Beit Ummar, including one in serious condition.

In Al-Bireh, 4 citizens were injured by live bullets at the northern entrance to Al-Bireh, and they were transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex.

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces bombed, with artillery, the Al-Dahira border area in the western sector, reaching the Lebanese towns of Marwahin, Al-Bustan, and Al-Zalutiyah.

The Lebanese National News Agency said that intense gunshots were heard at the Dahaira border, and Lebanese citizens also heard explosions in various southern regions, from the Lebanese border.

The National News Agency announced that the Israeli occupation army deployed its forces to confront what it called a possible “infiltration” from Lebanon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday evening, “The war that began in Gaza will change the face of the Middle East.”

This came during a call he made with the heads of the local authorities of the Gaza envelope settlements, expressing his support for them and the settlers.

Netanyahu said: What Hamas will go through will be difficult and terrible. We are already in the midst of the campaign and have just begun it, and we must be strong in these difficult days. This matter will take time and there is a need for a strong position in these difficult days.

He stressed that his government would stand by the settlers and work to help them, calling on them to be steadfast.

On Monday evening, settlers attacked citizens’ homes in the town of Ainabus, southwest of Nablus.

According to local sources, a group of settlers, protected by occupation soldiers, attacked the town amid heavy gunfire, gas bombs, and sound bombs. They attempted to break into and attack homes, and burned land at the entrances to one of the homes.

Israel declared war Sunday as it bombarded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes in retaliation for a major surprise attack by Hamas. The declaration came a day after an unprecedented incursion by Hamas fighters who blew through a fortified border fence and gunned down civilians and soldiers in Israeli communities along the Gaza frontier during a major Jewish holiday.

As many as 1,000 Hamas fighters took part, U.S. Secretary of State Andrew Blinken said. The rampage included an assault on a crowded music festival where authorities had removed about 260 bodies by Sunday.

Israel struck back including with airstrikes that flattened a 14-story tower that held Hamas offices. More than 400 people were reported killed in Gaza and at least 700 in Israel.

What does the war declaration mean?

Israel has previously carried out major military campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza that it portrayed as wars, but without a formal declaration.

The declaration gives the green light for Israel to take “significant military steps” against Hamas. It came as the military continued efforts to stamp out the last groups of militants in southern Israel following the attack.

Israel hit more than 800 targets in Gaza by Sunday, its military said. That included airstrikes that leveled much of the town of Beit Hanoun in the enclave’s northeast corner.

Hamas had been using the town as a staging ground for attacks, Israeli Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters.

There was no immediate word on casualties, and most of the community’s population of tens of thousands likely fled before the bombardment.

The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which participated in Saturday’s attack, said it was holding more than 30 Israelis among dozens of captives in Gaza. He said they would not be released until all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are free