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Blog title Olive picking season in Palestine:Escalating Israeli attacks and heavy losses Author Muhammad Alawi Date November 29, 2023 Every year, the occupation and settlers disturb the lives of olive farmers and pickers through practices aimed at displacing citizens, leaving their lands, and stealing olive fruits, but what the olive season witnessed this year was the worst in light of preventing access to agricultural lands and launching... Bullets on farmers by armed settlement groups since October 7, as a retaliation against the Palestinian people and within the displacement plan announced by the leaders of the settlement groups. The settlers have been brutal in committing their crimes in broad daylight, specifically against the farmers, their lands, and the olive tree, which is a source of livelihood for them, and they wait for it from year to year. A year of unprecedented attacks, and according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers have carried out about 333 attacks against olive pickers since the start of the season in the first week of last October. The Commission indicated, through Amir Daoud, Director General of Documentation and Publication at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, that the occupation forces and settlement groups prevented citizens from arriving. To 500,000 dunums of their lands, of which 200,000 dunums were besieged by the occupation and the settlements. 300,000 dunums were isolated behind the racist annexation and expansion wall. Perhaps this year was the bloodiest and most barbaric on the part of the settlers, who executed and executed in cold blood the farmer Bilal Muhammad Saleh of Al-Sawiya village in Salfit Governorate, while picking olives on October 28. 2023, in addition to carrying out 40 shooting operations and threats with weapons against farmers, 55 physical attacks, 38 displacement operations from fields, and 29 crop theft operations. This year, according to Amir Daoud, is the worst for farmers, as the decision to arm settlers means an explicit declaration to kill farmers, displace Palestinian communities, and force citizens to abandon their lands, especially in light of the approval of a number of Racist laws that provide protection and support for the settlers cause significant economic losses. In his speech, in the midst of monitoring the economic losses resulting from the attacks of the occupation forces and settlers on olive fields this year, Daoud stated that 8,814 fruitful trees were uprooted in the occupied West Bank, of which 7,904 were fruitful olive trees, meaning 90 of the total number. The Palestinian fruit trees that were uprooted are olive trees. It should be noted that the average production of each olive tree in the Palestinian territories amounts to 16 kilograms. When calculating the total output of the olive trees that were uprooted during the aforementioned period, we find that it amounted to 126,464 kilograms, and by calculating the cost of the price of one kilogram of fruit. Olives are 15 shekels per kilogram. We find that there is a total economic loss resulting from this, amounting to 1,896,960 shekels, or about 513,000 US dollars. Therefore, Palestinian citizens will resort to meeting their need for olive oil either by purchasing old season oil or by being satisfied with the quantities produced. This year, or through the Palestinian government banning the export of olive oil to foreign markets so as not to exploit the need of the local market, which in turn will be reflected in the current prices of oil and their rise due to the increased demand for it and the limited quantities available. The quantity of oil production will decline to more than half between Chairman of the Palestinian Olive Council, Fayyad Fayyad, said that the amount of oil produced this year declined by more than half compared to last year and previous years, reaching 10,000 tons, while last year recorded about 33,000 exceptional tons, while previous years recorded stability atThe 22,000 tons, Fayyad added, that the deficit for this year coincided with the increase in the pace of Israeli attacks represented by the occupation army forces and their protection of the herds of settlers, who combined with each other in restricting the farmers and preventing them from reaching their lands, stealing the olive crop, confiscating the lands, and preventing the farmers from harvesting the olive crop, and he stressed Also, this year’s deficit will be addressed by relying on last year’s surplus production to maintain the market’s need in light of the current season’s weakness in production. It should be noted that the numbers and statistics that accompanied this year’s olive harvest season are considered shocking in light of the occupation and its settlers’ continued targeting of people, stones and trees. Especially the olive tree, which is considered a source of livelihood for thousands of Palestinian families who found themselves in an unenviable situation, which requires working on local and international protection mechanisms to provide the appropriate environment for the olive harvest season in the coming seasons and save them. Sources and References A personal interview by phone with Amir Daoud Director General of Documentation and Publication at the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority 11 24 2023 Personal interview by phone with Fayyad Fayyad, Chairman of the Palestinian Olive Oil Council 11 24 2023 The suffering of the Palestinian olive tree due to occupation and settlement in the year 2023 ARIJ Applied Research Institute 11 21 2023
Blog title Palestinian refugees in Lebanon Our Minds in Gaza Author Ayham Al-Sahli Date November 28, 2023 Hardly a day goes by since the aggression in the Gaza Strip without a demonstration or stand in support and support in Lebanon in this or that camp. The people feel what has been happening in the Gaza Strip since last October 7 because of what They went through it in Lebanon during several stages, the last of which was the invasion and siege of Beirut in 1982, as well as the July 2006 war launched by the Israeli occupation against Lebanon. Demonstrations and boycotts. There is rarely a video of demonstrations in Beirut that does not show Cyrine Nabulsi, the Palestinian refugee in Lebanon, leading the demonstration by chanting, and she is one of the Activists in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon who work with young people to teach the history and geography of Palestine within the Palestinian Cultural Club in Mar Elias Camp and Burj Al-Barajneh Camp, Nabulsi says, because of the borders and the geographical distance from the actual battle, the first thing I thought about was telling young men and women, and even my family and friends, who are Palestinian and Lebanese, about Gaza, about its history and geography, and about the resistance in Gaza. I tried to bring the names and terminology that we hear with every piece of news to people’s minds, so that they would really know how the resistance men missed the settlements, and how heroic and historic the work was, and so that people would know where the tank was advancing and where it was being destroyed. Nabulsi added that she holds a degree in education. From one of the Lebanese universities and working today in the field of media with one of the Lebanese channels, in addition to of course working on the ground regarding the demonstrations in the camps and Lebanese regions, I am doing this thing to say that we are with the resistance and there is no way to liberation except through resistance and more resistance in all its forms. We are standing in front of the embassies of the countries that support the occupation and what is happening. You are contributing to our annihilation so that we can say that we are not afraid of you, great powers. We see your crimes and your lie of humanity. Cyrine coordinates with other members of the Palestinian Cultural Club in Beirut the activities supporting the boycott campaigns throughout Lebanon, especially in the camps, in cooperation with Palestinian institutions inside them and other Lebanese outside them. It is known that the Palestinian Cultural Club He has been active in the national educational and educational field since the mid-1990sThe past, and all volunteers in it are linked to unified principles, including belief in liberation and return, as well as boycott as one of the methods of Palestinian national refinement, and this confirms what Sirin, the activist and member of the popular committee in Mar Elias camp, Walid Al-Ahmad, confirmed that the Palestinians in the camps react to any event related to Palestine, let alone the killing and genocide of our people. In the Gaza Strip, he added, we developed a program and plans to support our people, including solidarity stops and demonstrations. We also implemented a boycott in the camps, so we formed a committee that would talk to the camp residents and provide them with awareness, as well as talk with shop owners to contribute to this boycott, considering that this does not constitute a financial loss, but rather a strong moral contribution to our people. Internally, there was actually a great response, so we were able to influence and hold public meetings and seminars, whether to raise awareness of the boycott and its importance or even to talk about what is going on. Al-Ahmad works in the medical sector as a laboratory, so he and some institutions in the camps organized a support and supportive event for the medical sector in the Gaza Strip, especially after the calls made by the Ministry of Health. Health is there to contribute to conveying her voice to the world. Likewise, Ghada Othman is active in organizing daily demonstrations at the gate of Mar Elias camp, or in calling for participation in the Beirut demonstrations. She is a woman who works with children with special needs. She is also the mother of three young men. She spends her time these days between calling for... Demonstrating and searching for accurate information for those who need it or ask for it from me, especially those who are not deeply involved in the Palestinian issue. I ask those who have an idea for articles or books and I send them. I consider this a simple contribution towards our people in the Gaza Strip. Students are at the forefront of drawing and educating. Tania Nabulsi is active in the north. Lebanon with her friends and friends in the Beddawi and Al-Bared camps and the residents of the city of Tripoli. She said, “We feel helpless due to the inability to provide direct aid to our people in Palestine, from the elderly to the small children. So we resort to solidarity stops and sit-ins that we hold at the Sarhan station and in front of the office of the Director of UNRWA Services in the Beddawi camp, and she participates in these The endowments are institutions and civil society organizations working in the camp and in other camps. Tania is a Palestinian artist, and almost no mural in the Lebanese camps is devoid of her touches, either by drawing them in their entirety or by putting touches on them. This is what makes her have extensive relationships in most of the camps, such as Al-Beddawi and others, so she contributes to the Palestinian Arab Cultural Club and the Forces. Students affiliated with the Palestinian factions called for student strikes and demonstrations and allocated national or half-time days followed by awareness-raising about what is happening now in Palestine. Among these activities was what the student circle in the Palestinian Arab Cultural Club carried out when they sprayed slogans on the walls of the camp in support of Gaza and published messages confirming adherence to the entire national territory. The Palestinians, the armed struggle, and revolutionary violence. These student activities that interacted with the main event in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank encouraged the restoration of an old call that several Palestinian student forces in the camps had called for, which was a return to teaching the history and geography of Palestine in UNRWA schools, which necessitated the issuance of several statements in During the past period, it should be noted that, as in Beirut, several Palestinian civil society organizations and voluntary student clubs are active in teaching this subject to students in order to avoid the large gap that UNRWA has produced since it stopped teaching Palestine in its schools in Lebanon. Among these institutions and clubs, as mentioned by the Palestinian Cultural Club, the Negev Center, and others, is the Yaan camp. It supports the camps in southern Lebanon, the same as the camps in Beirut or the northEveryone interacts with a high intensity, despite the fierce clashes that Ain al-Hilweh camp went through in the past months, which led to the displacement of a large number of its people outside, and despite the fact that there are several homes for refugees in it that have not yet been renovated, and many of the schools in the camp are out of service, which led to... Its people were exhausted, as they continued to demonstrate inside and outside the camp and participate in sit-ins in support of the Gaza Strip, in addition to the activities held by the Palestinian factions and some institutions and associations working in the camp, including support stops carried out by children, organized by some of the camp’s kindergartens, in order to make the young people feel their role and in order to introduce them to the Palestinian issue and the event. The major events taking place in Palestine, in addition to many movements carried out by the student forces affiliated with the factions there and seminars held in universities, especially after more than one young man from the camp in southern Lebanon was martyred during this month and last month. Emergency plans. Lebanon and the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon lived in conditions that perhaps It will be similar to what has been happening in the Gaza Strip since October 7, and with the escalation of threats against Lebanon as a result of the aggression launched against the Gaza Strip, the official authorities in the camps formed by Palestinian factions, in cooperation with the associations and institutions operating in them, decided to develop emergency plans in the event of an attack. The Israeli occupation is also an aggression against Lebanon. The institutions in the camps worked in cooperation with the popular committees to develop emergency plans in the event that something happens in Lebanon. They work through social media to spread news and establish campaigns, even at a local level, to contribute to this battle. Among those preparations, the civil defense sectors worked. The Palestinian Red Crescent also worked to ensure the readiness of its hospitals and medical staff in the camps and their surroundings. In addition, maneuvers took place in some camps in which local medical societies participated with the defense. Civil and Popular Committees to ensure the ability to respond and coordinate among themselves in preparation for a state of emergency read the original
Blog Title The Temporary Suspension Agreement and its Repercussions on the Aggressive War on Gaza Author Maher Al-Sharif Date November 27, 2023 It appears that the Hamas movement is still skillfully managing the talks on the truce file in the Strip. After forcing the Israeli war government to accept a four-day truce, it announced on Sunday evening, November 26, that it seeks to extend the truce beyond these four days, with the aim of increasing the number of prisoners released in Israeli prisons, noting that one of the terms of the agreement that... It was approved by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu at dawn on Wednesday, the 22nd of this month, allowing it to be extended through the release of ten detainees daily held by the Hamas movement in exchange for the release of thirty Palestinian prisoners. 1 Israel’s approval of the agreement after extreme obstinacy and procrastination by the Israeli war government, especially after it launched Through its ground war in the northern Gaza Strip, it is able, through military pressure in the field, to release detainees held by Hamas and other Palestinian factions. Hamas has announced since Saturday, October 28, that it is immediately ready to exchange prisoners in Israeli prisons with those detained by it. So that it releases all those it detains in exchange for emptying the prisons of all Palestinian prisoners, and expressed its willingness to hold talks on ending the file.Prisoners once or in a partial agreement. If Israel refused to end the file completely and in order to show good faith, the movement released four detainees on humanitarian grounds. They were two Americans and two Israelis. However, the Israeli government refused to respond to this position and its Minister of War, Yoav Galant, addressed the families of the detainees by saying: The more the military pressure intensifies, the more firepower increases, and the more harsh our strikes against Hamas become, the more likely it is that Hamas will be brought to a situation where it will accept solutions that allow you to reach your loved ones. As for the Israeli army spokesman, Daniel Hagari, he described the Hamas movement’s statement as involving psychological terrorism and said that the forces The Israeli government will do its utmost to free the hostages on its own terms, but as soon as it became clear that it was unable to free the detainees on its own terms, the Israeli government was forced to agree, after a meeting held on Tuesday evening, November 21, in the city of Tel Aviv, which lasted for six hours, to an agreement stipulating the release of... 50 detainees held by Hamas in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian male and female prisoners, a four-day truce in the Gaza Strip, and allowing hundreds of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and fuel to enter the Gaza Strip, provided that Israeli aircraft flights over the south of the Gaza Strip during the four days of the truce and over its north for a period Six hours during these days 2 What prompted the Israeli government to approve the agreement? At the beginning of the meeting held by the Israeli government on Tuesday evening, the 21st of this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged his ministers to approve the agreement that Qatar negotiated with the help of Egypt and the United States of America, saying that The right decision that must be taken, noting that US President Joe Biden helped improve the agreement to include more hostages and at a lower cost, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. In fact, a group of factors came together that prompted the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to the armistice and exchange agreement, the first of which is the inability of the Israeli army. After a devastating ground war waged over many weeks in the northern regions of the Gaza Strip to eliminate the Palestinian resistance, and secondly, the intense pressure exerted by the families of the Israeli detainees, who held the Prime Minister responsible for the entire situation and demanded his resignation. They called on the government to develop a clear strategy to rescue the hostages and accused it of not doing so. Sufficient efforts were made to liberate their relatives and to use kidnappings to justify its ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip. The culmination of these pressures was represented by the massive march of the detainees’ families and thousands of their supporters that arrived in the city of Jerusalem on Saturday, the 18th of this month, five days after it started from the city of Tel. Aviv 3. In addition to these two factors, the pressure exerted by US President Joe Biden on Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, especially after the popularity of the American president, who is preparing to run in a new presidential election round, declined within the United States of America, especially within his Democratic Party, as a result of the unlimited military and political support. And the diplomat that his administration presented to the Israeli government in its war on the Gaza Strip. In this context, an opinion poll conducted by Reuters and Ipsos in the second week of this month showed that 68 of the Americans surveyed called on the American administration to work on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and employ its diplomatic relations.document with Israel in order to prevent the continuation of acts of violence and the killing of civilians. An opinion poll conducted by NBC News in the same period revealed that Joe Biden’s support rate reached 40, its lowest level since the beginning of his presidency. 4 Popular and official international pressure was primarily undertaken in The second place also played a prominent role in forcing the Israeli war government to accept the armistice agreement, as the capitals of many countries in the world witnessed massive demonstrations, some of which were unprecedented, to demand an end to the aggressive war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip, which made some governments of European countries, such as France, which gave Israel The green light to continue its war on the Gaza Strip under the pretext of defending itself changed its positions to some extent and strengthened the positions of other governments such as Ireland, Spain and Belgium, which explicitly called for an end to this war and a commitment to a firm ceasefire. How will the armistice agreement be reflected in the war and its continuation? It seems at the time of writing these lines that There is a possibility of extending the truce for additional days, allowing the release of more detainees held by Hamas and the release of a new number of Palestinian male and female prisoners from Israeli prisons, which was confirmed yesterday evening, Sunday, by US President Joe Biden. However, regardless of whether this possibility is realized or not, the question that It presents itself and what follows. In the session held by the Israeli war government and approving the armistice agreement, Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear to his ministers that the Israeli campaign aimed at preventing Hamas from controlling any part of Gaza will continue after the ceasefire. He added, “We are in a state of war and we will continue this war until we achieve All of our goals are to dismantle Hamas, recover our hostages, and ensure that there is no one in Gaza who can threaten Israel. 5 Retired French army colonel and defense expert Roger Housin believes regarding the scenarios of events in the coming days and weeks that stopping the fighting will cause Israel to lose some of the momentum it gained in the northern Gaza Strip in In the last weeks, however, Israeli army commanders will know how to make the most of the truce days in order to provide rest and resupply for tens of thousands of soldiers participating in the fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. They will take advantage of the cessation of fighting to plan their next steps in Gaza and evaluate their advantages and feasibility, especially since nearly half of the northern Gaza Strip Gaza still needs combing to neutralize Hamas fighters. The days of the truce will also allow the Israeli army to update its intelligence situation and inform the ground forces of the situation in northern Gaza and the potential location of Hamas fighters and the tunnel network. However, on the other hand, the Hamas movement will take advantage of the truce period to evacuate the wounded and reorganize. And transporting more fighters and equipment to the north and recovering from military exhaustion after six weeks of overwhelming war, anticipating the outbreak of new fighting at the end of the truce. 6 As for the professor of regional security at the British University of Durham, Clive Jones, he estimates that the truce gives Hamas a military reprieve. There is no doubt that This gives it the opportunity to regroup, refocus, and rethink its strategy, while the ceasefire will not necessarily benefit the Israeli forces in the same way that it will benefit Hamas. The truce may lead to stopping the momentum of the Israeli attack in and around Gaza City, and it is likely that fighting will resume. But it is impossible to say at the present time whether its intensity will be the same as before, as this will depend on several factors, including the success of the hostage exchange and Israel's sensitivity to international pressure.Especially from the United States in light of the level of destruction in Gaza, which American public opinion does not accept, especially among young voters. 7 Meanwhile, Miloud Al-Shanofi, a professor at the Canadian Forces Institute in Toronto, believes that the war could resume severely after the end of the truce against the backdrop of the political crisis that broke out in Israel in recent months, such that Netanyahu's political future has become dependent on the continuation of the war, estimating that his political opponents who rallied behind him after the Hamas attacks are waiting for the first opportunity to remove him from power, which means that he will have to face the judicial system in corruption cases, but he stresses that even if Israel succeeds in... Eliminating Hamas will not be able to destroy the idea of Palestinian resistance. For his part, Professor of History at the University of Montreal, Yakov Rabkin, believes that once the truce ends, the Palestinians in Gaza will remain at risk of death every day, either due to bombing, hunger, or thirst. He estimates that there is no great desire in Israel to negotiate. On a permanent political solution with the Palestinians, and in reality they do not know what they want, adding that it is clear that there is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but only a political solution. 8 Conclusion: No matter how much it continues its destructive war on the Gaza Strip and its residents, Israel will not be able to eliminate the idea of Palestinian resistance, nor will it be. For this ongoing conflict on Palestinian land, there is only a political solution that responds to the national aspirations of the Palestinian people. These are two facts that have been confirmed by the long decades that have passed since the beginning of this conflict, and will undoubtedly be confirmed in the coming days, weeks, and months. Until that is done, the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the occupied city of Jerusalem are celebrating their prisoners and captives liberated from the occupation prisons. Israeli well-wishers gather in East Jerusalem in light of the presence of a large number of members of the Israeli security forces, especially in the home of Israa Jaabis, the most famous prisoner among the liberated female prisoners so far, located in the Jabal Mukaber neighborhood. She receives them while hugging her 13-year-old son, Moatasem, and says, “I am ashamed that... 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Blog Title: Pause and War Return to Their Homes and Homeland Author: Ahmed Ezz El-Din Announcement Date: November 27, 2023 With the entry into force of the first day of the truce on the morning of Friday, November 24, 2023, the people of northern Gaza began attempts to return to their homes and lands, places of memory, childhood, life, and steadfastness, but The enemy is competing with the Palestinian, the land, the sky, and everything in between. He is trying to appropriate and colonize the land, its story, its places, its homes, and its joy, despite the wounds. It is also working to amputate the actual and metaphorical return to the land, the home, and the ruins. What colonialism tried to create is relative calm in the south of the Gaza Strip and a fragile truce, a truce that can be considered exploratory or against it. As for the Palestinian, this war will bring back to him the first questions of liberation, homeland, and return, and the questions of revolutionary legitimacy, its historical continuity, and its eloquence, which sees Palestine as an issue of national and human liberation in the face of a fascist colonial Zionist movement. What is new in the war dictionary here is the Palestinian’s own vocabulary for a century of struggle, resistance, catastrophe, and displacement. Displacement, return, liberation, truce, prisoner exchange, and other vocabulary of war that goes back to the lexicon of steadfastness, liberation, resistance, and confrontation that has not changed in the Palestinian language. Return and Zionist aggression. Fighting the dream and practice. The accounts of the returnees and their testimonies indicate that the Israeli army responded with force of fire to the return of the displaced who were displaced during the war from the northern Gaza Strip. The people of the north who were displaced to the central and southern governorates of the Gaza Strip tried to take advantage of the truce time in order to return to their homes, cities, villages and camps to reassure themselves and explore, or perhaps to stand on the ruins, but some of them were forbidden from even crying over these ruins or even seeing them. Seeing and doing is an act. To narrate the place, time, and memories, a young man, a father of displaced children, says, “There is no truce. I am going to Gaza to see my home, my family, and my children. All of our situation is there. My children and I are displaced and we want to return. There is no way to return. People arrive and return again. There is shooting and tanks. Another man said, ‘I live in Gaza. I have been displaced.’” I am coming to Al-Wusta today. I go out and see my house, and the Israeli enemy, as usual, has violated the truce. Today we are in a truce. There is heavy shooting at the young man. All of the people are refusing and want to enter their homes as they were displaced from their homes. This truce is considered fragile, and a safe corridor must be opened from north to south, and vice versa. We give up our land. We will enter against their will. This is our land. We will not allow the 1948 migration to be repeated. We were displaced from one place to another and we will return in the near future. 1 The Palestinians return to the northern Gaza Strip because they are attached to the land and the home and they refuse to immigrate or leave to another place outside the Strip. What happened to them is an exit from In order to return and to protect their children and families, that is, to protect the Palestinian society and its members in order to survive and continue, and this is steadfastness and adaptation in the face of a brutal, barbaric war machine that does not leave or leave and fights memory, the first place, and return as an act, as a practice, and as a dream. Muhammad Shabir says, “I am displaced from the beach camp. They said there is a truce, and it turns out that it is.” It is not for the people of Gaza, it is for the people of the south. The Israelis threw leaflets at us and said, “No one is allowed to go to the north.” The youth went and there were people martyred on Salah al-Din Street. We thought that the truce was for us to return to our home and settle in our home, because here the living is where there is no mattress or pillow to sleep on or I can provide food for the children and I do not work. 2 This novel confirms the actual return to the camp land, and the camp here represents the spatial identity of the refugees until their actual return to their land.The colony in 1948, so return is a progressive process, an act of steadfastness and survival, and a community resistance strategy. The right does not lapse by statute of limitations, and the Palestinian rejects the Nakba twice, even though the Nakba continues and has not stopped, as Elias Khoury describes it. The warning leaflets delivered by the Israeli army stipulate the prevention of return to the northern Gaza Strip, and it was stated in Its text to the residents of the Gaza Strip: The war has not ended yet. The humanitarian pause is temporary, and the northern Gaza Strip area is a dangerous war zone and it is forbidden to move around it. For your safety, you must remain in the humanitarian zone located in the southern Gaza Strip and not head to the north of the Strip. You can only go from north to south via Salah al-Din's road to return to the north is forbidden and very dangerous. Your fate and the fate of your families are in your hands. I am more excused than the one who warned the IDF 3. The leaflet addresses the people of the northern Gaza Strip in threatening language and warns them against returning to their homes in the north. This is part of an attempt to continue the process of genocide in the Strip. The spokesman specified The Israeli army, Avichai Adraee, with a warning video for the people of Gaza. The nature of movement during the truce. Move to the south of the Gaza Valley and do not try to move to the north of the Gaza Strip. It is forbidden to enter the sea and it is forbidden to approach a kilometer from the border. 4 This colonial propaganda represents part of the strategy of continuing displacement and displacement and opening the path of the Nakba again and trying The people of northern Gaza put pressure on the south in order to complete the processes of displacement, pressure, and societal explosion to move towards the border with Egypt. This colonial rhetoric also does not hide the state of fear of returning to the northern Gaza Strip, which means the failure of the ground military operation in the north and the process of severing the relationship between the people of the Gaza Strip and their homes. Their homes and places, even if they turn into ruins, destruction, and rubble, remain part of memory, daily experience, and living. Return is not just a dream, imagination, and nostalgia, but it is also part of the practice of resistance and liberation, and an intensification of the meaning of being Palestinian. “Return is an act of stubbornness and a smile,” says a Palestinian woman who returned to her home in the north. The sector is total destruction, the destruction of every war that comes upon us, as you can see, the house is destroyed. Every war that comes upon the house is destroyed. Well, when do we want to remain like this? When do we want to continue to suffer from such destruction and from the calamities of a catastrophe? And God suffices me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. Almost 7 members of the family, thank God, are gone. Other than our neighbors, our loved ones, and many other loved ones, thank God, they were martyred under the rubble of this house. The feeling that we are experiencing now is an indescribable feeling. Of course, we are now thinking. I mean, we have prepared our soul. They said a truce. Where do they want to live? Where do we want to live? Where do we want to go? We are sitting and collecting how much firewood and how much stuff to make a tent like this. It is necessary for a person to hide under it, and by God, there is no trace of anything. He is covering up a family. Of course, this house is not the first time it has been demolished in the 2008 war. It was demolished, in 2014 it was demolished, and in 2023 it was sighed, and praise be to God. And, God willing, they will continue to sigh and we will build and build again, and we will be stubborn and build. We are stubbornness. This is all stubbornness in the Jews. Leave them. They destroy when we are 5 years old. This story is similar to one of the vital processes in the human body, which is called metabolism, catabolism, demolition and construction. On the rubble of her house, the woman regained memories of wars, steadfastness and survival, and she persevered in returning to her home despite the destruction. She gave us the promise of building the house, and the concept of survival stopped in her language and popular culture when The word stubbornness and obstinacy is an act of rebellion and disobedience against reality despite the great pain. This act brings us back to ingratitude and the culture of resistance, steadfastness and survival in Jerusalem. The Jerusalemites practiced their resistance rituals according to an understanding of their Jerusalemite reality and were ableVictory in more than one incident, whether by removing the electronic gates in 2017, opening the Bab al-Rahma prayer hall in 2019, or rejecting the Nakba in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in 2021. Visual media and social media pages published scenes of the return of Palestinians trapped from the Gaza Strip in Egypt, with the entry of the first days of the truce. The stranded returned to the Gaza Strip, and the cameras recorded smiles, signs of victory, and takbirs. These smiles, despite the pain, represent the warmth of returning to a homeland afflicted by a genocidal war. These smiles and signs also resemble the smiles of female and male prisoners liberated during the days of the truce. Return is an act of liberation, survival, and steadfastness in Palestinian jurisprudence, whether it is a return. To home, to colonized land, or to war. Here lies the question: Does a person return to a country ravaged by war and genocide? Usually, a person escapes from the blind, brutal machine of war and death. Perhaps the answer lies in drawing the calm smiles of the returnees and the signs of victory that they raised. Return is a victory, and the owner of the house and the people of the land and its owners rejoice in the return. To it, even if it is emerging from the furnace of war or even in its depths. The Palestinians have practiced return and will not abandon their land, and they have never done so. October 7, 2023 represented a return to hope, the return of the guerrillas to cross into the occupied territories, and the return of the people to their occupied territories in 1948, as They carried out this act at a moment in time that reshaped the awareness and meaning of return and liberation. This was nothing but an attempt to prove the relationship with the place and belonging to it. It resulted in the return of male and female prisoners and their liberation on October 7. They had returned to the warmth of their families. The cases of Palestinian return to the occupied land are many and numerous. Palestinian families have returned. After the Nakba, the Fedayeen returned to Palestine, fighting for the slogans of liberation, return, and self-determination. The act of return is the act of cleansing and erasing colonialism. 1 Despite the truce, the entity’s army targets the displaced. Vision of Palestine 11 24 2023 2 Return to the north is prohibited despite the truce. Al Sharq News 11 26 2023 3 Text The leaflet delivered by the Israeli army as a warning to the residents 4 Avichai Adraei An important message to the residents of Gaza during the period of the temporary truce 11 25 2023 5 Let them be destroyed while we live in the island 11 26 2023 read the original
Blog title about the appointment of Muhammad Mustafa We need unity, not division Author Maher Al Sharif Date 19 March 2024 Effects of the appointment of Dr. Muhammad Mustafa’s formation of a new Palestinian government led to a sharp dispute in the Palestinian arena, at a time when the head of the Israeli war government, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he had approved a plan to invade the Rafah Governorate and that his government was determined to continue its destructive war on the Gaza Strip until its goals were achieved. The American administration welcomed “reforms within the Authority.” Since late October 2023, and in the midst of the war of extermination waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip, the administration of President Joe Biden has begun to suggest, through its Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, the option of the return of an effective and renewed Palestinian authority to rule the Gaza Strip and the unification of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after the end of this war, restoring the record. It has become fractured regarding its intention to revive the two-state solution, and in this context, senior American officials indicated in mid-December of the same year that the American administration wants to carry out broad reforms in the Palestinian Authority, especially by pumping new blood into the political institution and introducing new, younger people. Those who have administrative skills enter decision-making circles and can win the support of Palestinian public opinionIn the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well, and with the trust of the international community, they can also obtain assistance from the Gulf states economically. 1 On January 10, 2024, after his meeting with the Palestinian President in the city of Ramallah, Anthony Blinken said that President Mahmoud Abbas is committed to reforming the Palestinian Authority in order to reunite the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. He added, “During this meeting, we discussed the importance of reforming the Palestinian Authority, its policies, and its administration so that it can effectively assume responsibility for Gaza and so that Gaza and the West Bank can be reunited under Palestinian leadership.” 2 And when President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to accept the resignation of the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh, who has headed the government since 2019. The administration of President Joe Biden praised the ongoing reform process within the Palestinian Authority. US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on February 26, “We welcome the steps that the Palestinian Authority is taking to reform and revitalize itself.” He noted that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had He encouraged the Palestinian Authority to take these steps during his recent meetings with President Mahmoud Abbas. He added, “We believe that these measures are positive and we see that they constitute an important step towards the reunification of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority.” 3 While the Palestinian Authority circles confirm that governmental change now is due My country responds to the requirements of the difficult stage that the Palestinian issue is going through in light of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the unprecedented escalation in the West Bank, including the occupied city of Jerusalem, as indicated by resigned Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, the researcher at the International Institute for Political and Strategic Studies, Mattia Serra, said. The resignation of Muhammad Shtayyeh’s government responds to American demands to revitalize the Palestinian Authority, especially since it occurred months after the United States insisted on renewing the institutional structure of the Palestinian Authority and its leadership. However, he explained that the matter will depend on the future of Gaza and the future of the ongoing Israeli military operations there, as there is a level of lack of The certainty about the political future of Gaza makes almost any prediction unrealistic. 4 While Al-Monitor reported that the decision to resign comes at a time when President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to form a non-partisan government made up of independent Palestinians with no political affiliations that will be responsible for managing the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after War and the rule of the Gaza Strip with the reform of the institutions of the Palestinian Authority led by the Fatah movement, which is increasingly unpopular with the Palestinians. 5 different positions regarding the nature of the next government. Resigned Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh indicated in the last meeting of his government that the next stage and its challenges require new governmental and political arrangements that take into account reality. What is new in Gaza, the national unity talks, and the urgent need for an inter-Palestinian consensus based on a national basis, broad participation, and unity of ranks, and to extend the Authority’s authority over the entire land of Palestine. 6 The Hamas movement had previously welcomed the announcement of the possibility of a governmental change in Ramallah with the formation of a new government for the Authority. The Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq quoted Hamas spokespersons as saying that they were ready to work alongside the Palestinian Authority to reconstruct Gaza, but they insisted on the importance of agreeing on the formation of the government and the party that will supervise the reconstruction. 7 After announcing the resignation of Muhammad Shtayyeh’s government, Sami Abu Zuhri, one of the movement’s officials, stated: Hamas agencyReuters said that the resignation of Muhammad Shtayyeh’s government would not be logical unless it came in the context of a national consensus on the arrangements for the next stage, while Hossam Badran, a member of the movement’s political bureau, said that Hamas welcomes the participation of all Palestinian parties in the next national consensus government, and pointed out that his movement called for the formation of an interim government with specific tasks. Including the unification of institutions between Gaza and the West Bank, reconstruction and holding elections. However, the advisor to the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, and although the return of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza will require the support of the Hamas movement, which enjoys great weight within the Strip, he stated the day after submitting the resignation of the government of Muhammad Shtayyeh to Al-Arabiya channel. The formation of the next government is the prerogative of the president only, and that the next government will be technocrats and there will be no factions in it, stressing that there is only one leadership, which is the PLO, and that the Hamas movement is not a government body, but rather a faction like any other faction, and it must hand over all the reins of power in Gaza. The Palestinian Authority 8 assigned the economic expert, Muhammad Mustafa, to form the new government. On March 14, President Mahmoud Abbas assigned the economic expert, Dr. Muhammad Mustafa, director of the Palestine Investment Fund, former Minister of Economy, and former senior employee at the World Bank, aged 69, to form a new Palestinian government, and in a letter of acceptance. The assignment Muhammad Mustafa said that he is aware of the seriousness of this stage that our national cause is going through and stressed adherence to the position of the Palestinian leadership that there is no state without Gaza and no state in Gaza far from the West Bank and Jerusalem. The White House welcomed the announcement of the assignment of Muhammad Mustafa and called for the formation of a cabinet as soon as possible. As soon as possible, Adrienne Watson, spokeswoman for the White House National Security Council, said invard law review gaza israel genocide read the original
Blog title In Gaza we returned using donkey carts Author Bahaa Shahira Raouf Date November The siege and stifling restrictions imposed by the occupation since the beginning of the war on Gaza have made the Gaza Strip continue to apply the saying of the poet Mahmoud Darwish: We love life if We could not achieve it in many ways. In addition to the images of death and destruction that emerge from the Gaza Strip, we see other images that reflect the will to live of the Gazans, noting that those we see in these images go out to the market, for example, to buy whatever they can in order to continue. They may be hit by a missile that ends their lives, but with This is why they continue, seeking help from God and their faith, because in doing so they challenge all the occupation’s harassment imposed on them in Gaza, thus developing new tools to confront the challenges that increase day by day in light of this war, which pile up on top of challenges that imposed themselves since the implementation of the siege on the Gaza Strip for many years, and among those challenges, perhaps the most prominent, is In this war, the lack of fuel and thus the almost complete paralysis of many life facilities due to the absence of this substance, which represented the cessation of traffic, which the Gazans directly touched. The lack of fuel led to the inability to operate large generators in hospitals. On the other hand, the people of the country were unable to Gaza about finding solutions to some issues. In Deir al-Balah, for example, Yahya Bashir says, “We are lucky because we have a water well. This is because we live in an agricultural area, and due to the power outage, we are forced to use a diesel generator to run the engine in order to extract water for our home and the homes of neighbors in our square of residence.” We ran out of diesel, so we sought help from our neighbor, who works in a garage, to change the engine operating system from diesel to gas. We brought the only gas can. We do not know how long it will last, but it is certain that when the gas runs out, we will not be able to extract water. The problem of transportation was The solution is much simpler, as some of us have returned to using donkeys, horses, mules, and animal-drawn transport vehicles, and the people of Gaza apply the term cart to these vehicles, which is a term that comes from the English word car. It has been famous among the Palestinians since the days of the British Mandate and has remained stuck in Gazan culture to this day, and the car has been linked to it. With the poor class, which was mostly farmers because of the ease of acquiring it due to its cheap price and because it is a useful tool in agricultural fields, and with the spread of cars, people became ashamed of using the car as a means of transportation, and there are many city dwellers who do not agree to use it in order to preserve their urban image among the people. Land Cruisers are like this. Ahmed said to me sarcastically when we were going on a car to search for drinking water in the areas of Deir al-Balah. Ahmed did not stop making fun of people who were traveling on foot because he had a car pulled by a donkey to make our journeys easier. While we were riding the car, we passed by a group of people. Ahmed called them to the camp of the one who had come to the Nafar camp with a shekel, meaning that he was ready to transport them. The people attacked him and crowded us into the already small space above the carriage, and when we arrived, the toll of his journey was nine shekels. Ahmed kept laughing because of his feeling of his importance in this war that did not differentiate between one person and another, regardless of the social class in which he was. He belongs to it, regardless of his cultural background, and despite the overwhelming feeling of the superiority of this donkey and his owner over those of the upper classes, there are some problems that cannot be overcome. For example, the donkey does not have horns that could draw people’s attention to it so that they make way for it. Today, it is the king of the road.So Ahmed uses his voice instead of the horn, and it seems as if he is shouting at people in an aggressive manner, as there is no polite way to shout. Also, there is a problem related to the cleanliness of the donkey and the cleanliness of the streets behind it, but who cares about the streets in a bloody war like this. Frankly, the experience of using these buggies must pass... All people with different backgrounds, because it refines the human soul from arrogance, especially in war. Perhaps this is one of the best lessons that a person can learn. In the end, we must mention the wisdom of Ahmed, who taught me the etiquette of dealing with donkeys, so I discovered that it is compatible with various levels in this world of ours. Read the original
Blog title If you do not like the message, shoot the messenger Author Ayham Al-Sahli Date November 24, 2023 Since last October 7, during the aggression launched by the occupying state on the Gaza Strip, about 68 journalists have been martyred, 3 of them in southern Lebanon, and dozens of journalists and workers have been injured. In the media field, as technical and administrative assistants, the occupation forces also targeted the families of some journalists, as happened with the family of Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh, who had a number of his family members martyred. The journalists who were martyred since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza on the seventh of last October are in the sequence: Name of the martyred journalist, date of martyrdom. The place of martyrdom was his work and the entity he worked for 1 Ibrahim Lafi 7 10 Beit Hanoun checkpoint Ain Media Media Foundation 2 Muhammad Al-Salhi 7 10 The border strip east of Bureij Fourth Authority Agency 3 Muhammad Jarghoun 7 10 East of Rafah city Smart Media 4 Asaad Abdel Nasser Shamlakh 8 10 Sheikh Ajlin Freelance journalist 5 Saeed Radwan Al-Taweel 10 10 Burj Hajji Editor-in-Chief of Al-Khamsa News website 6 Hisham Al-Nawajaha 10 10 Burj Hajji Photographer, Khabar Agency 7 Muhammad Subh Abu Rizq 10 10 Institutions Street Photographer, Khabar Agency 8 Ahmed Shehab 12 10 Programmer for Voice of Prisoners Radio 9 Salam Mima 12 10 Jabalia Camp Voice of Jerusalem Radio correspondent 10 Hossam Mubarak 13 10 Al-Aqsa TV presenter 11 Abdul Hadi Habib 16 10 Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, Gaza, journalist at UNRWA 12 Issam Muhammad Bahar 17 10 Al-Sabra neighborhood, Gaza, journalist at Al-Aqsa TV 13 Samih Al-Nadi 18 10 TV director at Al-Aqsa Channel 14 Khalil Abu Athra 19 10 Al-Nasr neighborhood Rafah Al-Aqsa channel cameraman 15 Muhammad Ali 20 10 North Gaza Programmer and presenter for Youth Radio 16 Muhammad Imad Saeed Labad 23 10 Sheikh Radwan neighborhood Gaza Al-Resala Media Foundation 17 Salma Mukhaymar 25 10 Rafah city Freelance journalist 18 Jamal Al-Faqawi 25 10 Khan Younis Mithaq Media Foundation 19 Sa’ed Al-Halabi 25 10 Al-Aqsa News Network 20 Ahmed Abu Mahdi 25 10 Gaza City Journalist Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel 21 Sa’ed Al-Halabi 25 10 Jabalia Camp Journalist at Al-Aqsa Channel 22 Doaa Sharaf 26 10 Gaza City Broadcaster on Voice of Al-Aqsa Radio 23 Yasser Subhi Abu Namous 26 10 Khan Yunis Al-Sahel Media Foundation 24 Muhammad Al-Bayari 2 11 Gaza City Journalist Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel 25 Muhammad Abu Hatab 2 11 Khan Yunis Official Palestine Channel 26 Majd Fadl Arandas 2 11 Nuseirat Camp Journalist on site Al-Jamahir News 27 Muhammad Al-Jajah 6 11 Al-Nasr District Gaza Journalist and consultant at the Press House 28 Ahmed Mahmoud Al-Qara 10 11 Khuza’a Photographer and multimedia lecturer at Al-Aqsa University 29 Ahmed Fatima 13 11 Surroundings of Al-Shifa Hospital Cairo News Channel 30 Yaqoub Al-Bursh 14 11 Gaza City Photographer for Nama Radio 31 Sari Mansour 18 11 Bureij Camp Director of Al-Quds News Agency 32 Mustafa Al-Sawaf 18 11 Gaza City Writer and journalist 33 Montaser Al-Sawaf 19 11 Gaza City Photographer for Anadolu Agency 34 Hassouna Aslim 19 11Bureij Camp Photographer and journalist at Al-Quds News Agency 35 Bilal Jadallah 19 11 Gaza City Director of the Press House Foundation in Gaza 36 Khamis Salem Khamis 20 11 Editor at Al-Quds Radio 37 Muhammad Nabil Al-Zaq 20 11 Social Media Director at Al-Quds Channel 38 Alaa Taher Al-Hasanat 20 11 Al-Daraj neighborhood, journalist and presenter at Al-Majdat Network 39 Ayat Khadour 20 11 Beit Lahia, journalist and podcast presenter 40 Assem Al-Barash 22 11 Journalist at Al-Rai Radio 41 Rushdi Al-Sarraj 22 11 Central Gaza Strip photojournalist at UNRWA 42 Muhammad Moin Ayyash 23 11 Al-Nuseirat Photojournalist Al-Shuhada’ Workers in media institutions 43 Rajab Al-Naqeeb 11 10 Central Gaza 44 Hani Al-Madhoun 45 Abdel-Rahman Shehab 46 Muhammad Baalousha 47 Mahmoud Abu Zarifa 48 Iman Al-Aqila 49 Ahmed Masoud 50 Muhammad Al-Husseini 51 Imad Al-Wahidi 52 Aed Al-Najjar 53 Muhammad Abu Hasira 54 Youssef Do S 14 10 Beit Lahia Writer at the Palestine Facts newspaper 55 Iman Jamal Al-Aqili 24 10 56 Majed Kashko 31 10 Gaza City Palestine TV 57 Imad Al-Wahidi 31 10 Gaza City Palestine TV 58 Nazmi Al-Nadim 31 10 Al-Zaytoun District Gaza Palestine TV 59 Yaqoub Al-Barash 12 11 Executive Director of Nama Radio 60 Amr Salah Abu Hayya 18 11 Broadcast technician at Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel 61 Musaab Ashour 18 11 Nuseirat Camp Media University College of Applied Sciences 62 Abdel Halim Awad 18 11 Administrator at Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel 63 Jamal Haniyeh 22 11 Worker at Amwaj Media Corporation 64 Mustafa Bakir 24 11 Photojournalist for Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel Martyrs Journalists in South Lebanon 65 Issam Al-Abdullah 13 10 South Lebanon Reuters Agency Photographer 66 Farah Omar 21 11 South Lebanon Al-Mayadeen Channel Correspondent 67 Rabie Memari 21 11 South Lebanon Al-Mayadeen Channel Photographer Martyrs Working in Media Institutions South Lebanon 68 Hussein Aqeel 21 11 South Lebanon Assistant to the Al-Mayadeen Channel team Missing. He had announced the news of the martyrdom of journalist Nidal Al-Wahidi on the first day of the aggression, but the next day he was announced missing, that is, he had been arrested by the occupation while performing his duties in press coverage for Al-Najah TV and others like him. Journalist Haitham Abdel Wahed from the Ain Media Foundation. Journalist Salam Mima was considered among the martyrs along with her husband and three children, but after they were found under the rubble after about 30 hours of searching, medical teams returned and announced her martyrdom along with two of her children on 10/13/2023. Arrest. Journalists in the West Bank. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club announced that there were 42 journalists arrested after the seventh of last October, and the occupation kept 30 journalists in detention, including journalist Mervat Al-Azza and journalist Sumaya Jawabra, who is subject to house arrest. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate published a list of journalists. Those detained since last October 7 are the name of the detained journalist, date of arrest, place of detention, work, and the entity for which he works. 1 Abdel Nasser Muhammad al-Lahham 15 10 Dheisheh Camp Ma’an TV 2 Sabri Jibril 15 10 Taqou’ Village G Media Agency 3 Mustafa al-Khawaja 16 10 Ni’lin Village Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel correspondent 4 Moaz Amarneh 16 10 Dheisheh Camp Photographer and reporter for G Media Agency 5 Alaa Al-Rimawi 19 10 He surrendered himself to Ofer Camp after his house was raided and members of his family were arrested to urge him to surrender himself. They were later released Director of G Media Agency 6 Imad Abu Awad 19 10 From his office, Director of You Smart Agency 7 Musaab Qafisha 20 10 Hebron City 8 Thaer Al Fakhouri 20 10 Hebron City Director of Space Media Foundation 9 Louay Amr 20 10Dora Al-Khalil, Al-Aqsa Satellite Channel correspondent 10 Muhammad Sabah 23 10 Al-Jalazoun Camp 11 Lama Khater 26 10 Hebron City 12 Radwan Qatnani 26 10 Askar Camp 13 Bilal Arman 27 10 Kharbatha Bani Harith Town 14 Nizar Al-Najjar 28 10 Al-Azza Camp Journalist Director at Mawal Radio 15 Muhammad Badr 28 10 16 Sujood Assi 28 10 Beit Liqya, journalist in Al-Hadath newspaper 17 Zakaria Abu Fanar 29 10 Yatta, broadcaster on Al-Karama Radio 18 Nawaf Al-Amer 29 10 Kafr Qalil, correspondent of Sanad News Agency 19 Ramez Al-Laham 29 10 Mass Communication student at Palestine University 20 Murad Shamroukh 30 10 He surrendered himself to the Ofer camp after his house was raided and members of his family were arrested to force him to surrender himself. They were later released. A journalist in the Youth and Sports Directorate 21 Sumaya Jawabra 5 11 Al-Far’a Camp 22 Abdel Mohsen Shalalda 7 11 Sa’ir Al-Quds News Network Reporter 23 Muhammad Ayad 7 11 Beit Emer Freelance photographer 24 Hudhayfah Jamous 7 11 Abu Dis, journalist at Quds News Network 25 Arif Abu Arafa 8 11 Hebron, correspondent for Quds Network 26 Muhammad Al-Atrash 8 11 Hebron, journalist at Elm Radio 27 Moamen Al-Halabi 13 11 Netzarim Gaza Junction, journalist at Sawt Al-Quds Radio 28 Bahaa Al-Ghoul 16 11 Salah al-Din Street, Gaza, journalist at Al-Aqsa TV channel 29 Mervat al-Azza 17 11 Beit Hanina 30 Abdel-Afo Al-Zaghir 18 11 Jerusalem Freelance photographer 31 Tariq al-Sharq 19 11 Al-Bireh City Journalist at Raya FM Radio International positions on targeting Palestinian journalists The Secretary-General of the Union said International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Anthony Jilani during his visit to the Journalists Syndicate in Ramallah. The Executive Committee of the International Federation of Journalists will hold a meeting next Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss submitting the third complaint related to crimes committed against Palestinian journalists to the International Criminal Court, given that the death toll of journalists in Gaza is large and very huge. The number of journalists killed by the occupation in the past six weeks exceeded the number of those killed in the past twenty years. Gilani pointed out that he represents 600,000 journalists around the world, and that many members of the union sent with him messages of solidarity with Palestinian journalists and expressed their rejection of what they are being subjected to, noting that Its mission is to stand by Palestinian journalists and express solidarity with them in light of the difficult conditions they are living in. The Committee to Protect Journalists also said that it has not documented the killing of journalists in this number since it began monitoring and recording the killings of journalists in 1992. The head of the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory, Dr. Rami Abdo, stated that the occupying state is working To cover up its crimes against journalists in Gaza by killing them and targeting their families inside their homes, through a counter-campaign led by “a machine that works around the clock and follows a policy of lie, then lie.” read the original
Blog title: The Second Nakba and Palestinian Freedom Author: Mahmoud Baraka Date: November 23, 2023 The events of the Nakba continue in occupied Palestine. By transforming them into sick names within the methodology of a settler state without a methodology, they appear through independence established over abandoned villages, detaining the bodies of martyrs, inventing prisons, and establishing new Nazi museums that are constantly trying to eradicate the Palestinian right to resistance in order to rise up and erase the truth, just like trying to erase Palestinians in various geographical areas, which is The areas that have multiplied as a result of the colonial machine that regulates the centralization of the occupation and its Western and reactionary support at the same time. The scene in Gaza is manifested in the image of the second Nakba of the Palestinian who is expelled by extermination, displacement, abandonment of homes, and movement from the north of Gaza to its south on a road mined with death and fascism.In it, people are dispersed, and one family becomes parts dispersed among several places, and the individual also becomes dispersed between land, time, and anxiety. So where does he go in these days that bring the Nakba to Gaza? The scene has lasted, language has been unable to express and describe it, and it has run out of eloquence, exquisite statement, and meaning, and all methods and ideas for depicting it have remained incomplete. Moreover, the human being there has become torn apart, without a city or an identity, not to mention his Palestinian existence, persecuted by Zionism. Elias Khoury arose from the midst of the Great Nakba of Palestine, the time of the open Nakba, with a glimmer of hope in restoring stability and possible hopes, which shines with every moment in which he invokes revolutionary action in the cultural and intellectual work of the Memory Trilogy. And steadfastness and awareness in light of our vision that the existence of the occupation in the first place depends on the identity of Zionism, the Zionist language in its one multiplicity, and a religion upon which interpretations follow in the process of colonial deception, its wandering from the truth, and its return from scratch to the declared theater of terrorism, in which the Zionist mind placed its crimes and actions within theories of control over Palestine and over the person. And his spirit is there in Gaza, distancing himself from the terminology of these crimes and the goals of the wars of other countries. You find him calling in a ridiculous manner, calling for summits to be held to reconcile the conflicting regimes and condemning wars and military actions in European and Arab domains. That is, he begins to think with the mentality of a politician, trying to enter into the systems of countries and their well-known culture to become The illegitimate state is the offspring of legitimacy, which is what nature, truth, and history reject. This is what appears when this strange body finds its structure separated from its existence and reality, realizing that the popular conscience rejects it and is persecuted by human law, as the occupation is carried out through its various means, launching virtual platforms that are excessive in hegemony and participation in the Arab identity within. Heritage and outside logic with its realistic effects in a time that has not ended despite its clear beginnings, as it began with the birth of British colonialism in Palestine and was completed by the Zionist colonialism handing over the land later, and time is one of the tools used in various contexts, including writing about the time of the multiple geographies of the Palestinian in his endless journey, as suggested. Abdul Rahim Al-Sheikh and the parallel time of the prisoner and the thinker Walid Daqqa, who put in his prison theory and practice until the birth of his daughter Milad and the march of the martyred prisoners and writing in the bad weather of the enemy. For the prisoner Bassem Khandakji, the time of the camp is the time of the prison whose name does not change until after the massacre occurs in addition to the tragedies in it. It is a time that is not talked about, but as for the time of suspended death, it was not possible for death to be natural for Kamal Abu Waar, and the same is true for Fares Baroud, who witnessed the sound of pipes and refrigerant gas before his death in his terrible prison, in addition to Daoud Al-Zubaidi, who returned as a martyr on the day of the Nakba and continued to be a prisoner in the Zionists’ refrigerators. Not to mention the colonial era, which begins with the unlimited use of tools of oppression, extermination, erasure, and demographic domestication, which made Palestine a gateway to Jewish settlement until it reaches Gaza, which is besieged under the cap of the Star of David and the Zionist guide. The place of this time is based on killing poetry and poetry and not allowing the Palestinian narrative to pass without persecution and assassination. We also find in the journey of Ghassan Kanafani, Majed Abu Sharar, and Kamal Nasser, all the way to the voice that was with you, which was the voice of Sherine Abu Aqla and Bilal Jadallah, who passed away as a martyr yesterday, and other martyrs of the word. As for Sherine’s coffin, he led his last march in a confrontation to which legends will one day return about the monster. Chasing the martyr’s body and her immortal voice with generations is as ifDeath between bullets is the title of the continuous Palestinian alphabet, and the time of the Nakba in Gaza returns to this stage without end, and perhaps the only end is in parentheses when the time of the enemy ends and it surrenders and stops the declared killing in the haunted camps and residential neighborhoods. Zakaria Al-Zubaidi described when he opened the eyes of freedom in the land The north of occupied Beisan, the occupation, that it does not want there to be an end because it does not originally recognize the beginning when it renews the beginnings of injustice and darkness for its project and its evolving justifications towards control and the destructive vital policies that control the inner spirit and movement. This is in his letter The Hunter and the Dragon as he writes his first manuscript and before his body goes to the courts. The poor plays described by Hannah Arendt in her well-known book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, a report on the banality of evil, and after it became present in the disastrous isolation in Rimonim, south of the occupied Negev, then the memory became lost for Ahmed Manasra, who grows up with his cry of not remembering, and it was only implemented in the face of the Palestinian spirit. When the guerrilla returns to his status and his path, despite the settlements of punishment and the enormity of the sorrow and its consequences. Therefore, despite the tragedy of history, the status of the Great Nakba, even the events of Gaza, is the intellectual return, the liberation of awareness, and the writing of facts within the humanitarian approach. Memory must be told and narrated from the capsules of loss, even if its owners are absent. They were present in the explanatory and critical novel. The question must remain alive, from which questions can be generated if memory is subjected to assassination at the time of speech in the era of difficult and bitter transformations seeking to annihilate its written, recorded, thought-about, artistically photographed and visual components in the Arab street and its libraries and its presence in the technical and visual means of uprising that It has never stopped. The eye enters the field of criticism first, and with it the history of evidence. When the mind and its eyes are assassinated, the bullet returns with scars on the memory. The questions of the end do not stop at a wounded movement that summarizes the eternal and unique title of the part of the Palestinian geography, and from it is born the upbringing that does not stop and is handed over from hand to hand. And the Palestinian tragedy as a topic and content, with the sound of her singing described as the father of the occupied land since the time of the first British mandate, followed by Zionist colonialism and the confrontation of the Palestinian and Arab revolutionaries, all the way to the poetic vanguard represented by Ibrahim Tuqan, Abu Salma, and Abdul Rahim Mahmoud, moving on to the generation of Ghassan Kanafani, Naji Al-Ali, Mahmoud Darwish, and Tawfiq Ziad. Emil Habibi, Samih Al-Qasim, Rashid Hussein, Salem Gibran, Hanna Abu Hanna, and the generation that came after that continued to renew writing and resistance, where the flame would not be extinguished without end, even if the subsequent times of collapse worsened, until we reached the time of liberated writing in the prisons of the occupation for the captive movement, and the writing of thought, political theory, the novel, poetry, theater, and letters. And diaries, and this is not a description and an exclusive as much as it is an introduction to the resistance and opposition that continues the journey. Months ago, Salma Al-Khadraa Al-Jayousi passed away, a critic who plowed the earth with her bare hands, according to the expression of the poet Zakaria Muhammad, who opened his article and testimony with it as a title. So we remember her active stature in the histories of the Nakba and her record that filled the library of memory and renewal in Criticism, poetry, study, translation, and her wall of steadfastness, steadfastness, and knowledge, which is pursued by the occupation, raising her production as an Arab banner that speaks the word and preserves it in writing. It monitors the Palestinian action in its land and searches for it in a systematic expression of the romanticism of the literary revolution and writes from there so that it is here from the Palestinian diaspora to the stolen homeland. This is the renewed Nakba era. Also surroundedWith the trends of culture, struggle and creativity, with which the forms of writing multiplied before the nationalist era and in the discourse of Arab nationalism and after it, to restore with every beginning from here and there the Palestinian narrative and its extended popular heritage, which is the heritage that the occupation steals, even the speech, the conscience and the diversities of Palestinian society. Journalistic writing is part of the consciences of truth that dealt with the Nakba. The Palestinian and the ongoing Israeli crime since the first massacre, the persecution of the people of the diaspora and the Palestinian guerrillas, the wars of extermination in the Gaza Strip, the bloody massacres and assassinations in the West Bank as in Jenin and Nablus, the settlers’ orgy in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the division of the West Bank into compounds for Zionist settlements. This catastrophe and injustice are no longer present through means of emotion, but rather when Liberating knowledge takes the path of origin in understanding the observatory of the colonial theory that entered Palestine with the promise of death and gangs of death and displacement to exit Palestine in the search for a lost legitimacy for a state that bears the commandment of the settlements and the law of the Zionist movement. Mahmoud Darwish described one of the ugly manifestations of the phenomenon of alienation of the mentality of the colonizer and his people, who were made up of hybrids. With multiple dualities of identity, nationality, and the cover of religion that raised the sword of death in the face of the living and life read the original
Blog title Nourhan Awad returns to life after arrest Writer Hind Al-Sharida Date November 23, 2023 By pure coincidence, prisoner Nourhan Awad today completed eight years in captivity completely. A female student entered the class. The tenth, her world is nothing more than a whisper of secrets that she whispered to her cousin and best friend Hadeel, and here she is today, a twenty-four-year-old girl, bearing the marks of three bullets that penetrated her back, leg, and abdomen, one of which lodged in her liver, staying with her until this moment, and some of the fragments that were tattooed on her forearm continue to sting her during her cold days. There are many secrets that six have piled up in her heart all these years, but she will not find Hadeel to tell her what happened to her. Perhaps Nourhan will go to the cemetery tomorrow first to recite Al-Fatihah for the soul of her martyr cousin, who was accompanying her on the day of her arrest. She will still remember this day, November 23, 2015, how a policeman shot him. An Israeli armed them in occupied Jerusalem, killing Hadeel and killing Nurhan, wounded and detained together. Nurhan was sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison and a fine of three thousand shekels. The sentence was reduced after appeal to 10 years, and the exchange deal comes today, expediting her release by two years, to be spent with another year. A prosperous daughter in the care of her family, Nourhan will return to her family arrangement, being number 2 in a large family consisting of nine brothers and sisters residing in the Qalandiya camp. The day has come when we will associate her name with “the liberated one.” The Jerusalemite girl has today become a girl. Nourhan is no longer the little girl, 15 years old. She has gained experience. Different from what her peers experienced, such as her knowledge of ether broadcasts, the scheduling of their programs, broadcast times, the prisoners’ preferences for programs that convey their families’ longings, and the most important thing is the timings of the paragraphs of the songs of the beautiful time by Umm Kulthum, Asmahan, and Abdel Halim. Our eldest child is a mixture of modernity and ancient precision. Nourhan has a very unique talent, as she is well-versed in decoding. Speaking through lip reading, an acumen she acquired from the distress of visits and excessive longing for news of family and friends, after the prison guard deliberately cut off the visitation phones with the intention of pleasure and confusion. She also had enough time to master the calligraphy of the rqa’ah and wa n f s ha t b when eating and preparing the morning cup of Nescafe with concentrated amounts of more than Its pleasure and its effectiveness in modifying the brain in the stable of non-human animals in which it residesThe female captives and cubs at the top of Carmel, called Damoun Prison, are skilled at handicrafts. She is the one who supervises the dressing of the female captives before the visitation date, so she combs their hair and styles it with the perfection of the hairdresser. She is also keen on coordinating the colors of their clothes and choosing the most suitable for each of them. Everyone is waiting for her approval and her confirmation of their appearance in advance so that they can go out to the visit in the most beautiful manner. On the other hand, she is known for preparing wish stories with chocolate pieces for female prisoners after the arduous journey to the courts and transporting them in the middle for days. Resistance in captivity is embodied in spreading hope as a revolutionary tide outside the confines of the prison and its oppression, as if penetrating the impossible and decoding the court’s code amidst all the challenges that keep revolving. In front of you, like a closed maze, Nourhan found her thread when she decided to free her hair and smuggle it outside the confines of the prison, so she cut off some of it as a memorial to her mother, gathered her thick braids together, and harvested enough of the strands to give them as a token of continuity and a pulse of life to cancer patients outside. One of the freed prisoners and those close to Nourhan says, “A strange and strange person. This Nourhan is close to my heart.” She enters like a butterfly, everyone loves her, and there is great consensus about her. She spreads an atmosphere of joy wherever she is, and she continues to give, and she continues when Nourhan finds out, she has one of the gifts she dreamed of, a full crystal ball that lands exactly like the movies. This is how Nourhan and her overpowering romance over her personality. Nourhan will leave tomorrow or a few hours after. Now she will complete her dream and perhaps she will register to complete another bachelor’s degree at Birzeit University after she had completed high school and finished her first bachelor’s degree in prison. Nourhan will be released and room number 11 will become a thing of the past. She will not forget it, of course, as it formed her awareness of resistance to the darkness of the prison and the jailer. Nourhan will never forget the kitchen corridor when she was sitting in the prison. On the ground, she discusses reading various books, analyzing texts from Arabic literature or excerpts from Firas Al-Sawah’s books, and diving into the Epic of Gilgamesh and myths of mythology. She will not forget the mathematics classes she gave to the female prisoners, nor her recitation of the Qur’an, and her acumen in the rules of Tajweed. Nourhan never rests, but she has just reached the end of an era that will bring her together in The closet of memories will continue to be repeated whenever she meets with Omar’s companions whom she acquired during the stage of burning in the fire, and perhaps she will go beyond the limits of secrecy to share with her family the secrets of her heart in captivity and everything that she wanted to reveal but could not through the cold visiting phones. Tomorrow, Nourhan will begin a new era full of promising hopes and ambitions, but she will still maintain a secret space. From the memory, she will not share it with anyone except with her cousin and her best friend, Hadeel M. N., who was martyred at the beginning of the road and for which she went through the journey. read the original
Blog title: Israel’s brutal Machiavellianism: From the Homeland to Al-Shifa Hospital Author: Anis Mohsen Date: November 22, 2023 It is not surprising that Israel has exploited what It took place in the colonies of the Gaza Strip, or what is called the Gaza envelope, on October 7, and Daousha sought to derive a name from ISIS, the Palestinian resistance, by accusing it of having committed massacres against Israeli civilians during Operation Al-Aqsa and burning them in cars and in their homes. These are accusations that the Israeli investigations themselves have begun to uncover. It places it in its true place by confirming that those killed at the concert near the Ra’im settlement were a number of them killed as a result of an Israeli helicopter bombing those fleeing the supposed concert site, which is what was stated in the report published by Haaretz newspaper on November 18, that the resistance fighters were not even aware of this concert 1 and it was Previous reports indicated that the bodies that were burned inside homes in those colonies were burned after an Israeli air strike.He targeted it with the aim of killing the Palestinian resistance members who destroyed the myth of the invincible Israeli army and its technological arrangements capable of preventing any breach of the borders, in addition to showing them through the success that exceeded all expectations of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the Israeli political, intelligence and military failure that the Israeli Prime Minister, its ministers and the Israeli army commanders seek to achieve. Obscuring it by committing mass massacres against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and later declaring victory may contribute to alleviating the severity of this multi-faceted failure. Machiavellianism in its ugliest form. From the first moment of the Al-Aqsa flood, Netanyahu appeared on the media, referring to massacres committed by Hamas in the Israeli settlements and the brutality demonstrated by During the burning of civilian bodies, the beheading of children, and the rape of women, these allegations were made by all Israeli analysts, journalists, and politicians. Rather, these allegations extended to the Wild West, most of whose leaders and media outlets promoted these lies before some of the major media outlets began to withdraw from their campaigns and even apologize for not scrutinizing the information. Which arrived from Israeli sources, but Western officials were supposed to retract those accusations after their falsehood was exposed, but they continued to use the Israeli allegations to justify the crime of genocide 2 committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, especially US President Joe Biden, his Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and the British Prime Minister. Immigrant of Indian origin Rishi Sunak and German Chancellor Olaf Schulz, while French President Emmanuel Macron retreated a little and no longer repeated the lie despite his continued support of the Israeli aggression and contented himself with talking about humanitarian truces. The lie of the leadership under Al-Shifa Hospital was exposed, one of the prominent evidence of bloody Machiavellianism. The lie of the existence of the Central Command. For the Hamas movement and the control base for the Al-Qassam Brigades in and under Al-Shifa Hospital. Israeli officials, from Netanyahu to Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari, repeated that lie around the clock before the tanks stormed the Al-Shifa complex and wreaked havoc in it, in implementation of the Nazi principle: Lie, then lie, until the people who established it believe you. Nazi propaganda leader Joseph Goebbels to justify his plans for the largest medical complex in Palestine, which serves a quarter of the medical needs of the Gaza Strip, an order that was carried out days after the complex was besieged with tanks by forcing the patients and civilians displaced to it on November 18 to leave on foot and after the army stormed. The Israeli Al-Shifa Complex organized a tour for some Western media in the hospital, but the result was not what the organizers sought. The American television network CNN revealed that it was likely that the Israeli army was the one who placed the weapons at the site to which the journalists were brought, by The network analyzed the footage taken by Fox News, which was granted access to the site in the following hours, and then the next day, the British BBC channel entered the site and broadcast footage on the stages of the Israeli army, and CNN came to the conclusion that the person who placed the weapons was the Israeli army. Same 3 As for the lie of the concert massacre, the Israeli newspapers Haaretz and Yedioth Ahronoth revealed it by publishing an initial report by the Israeli police in which it was stated that it was Israeli warplanes that bombed the concert, and the same applies to the burning houses in the Gaza Strip settlements, which were burned with their occupants through an Israeli air strike as well.A History of Bloody Machiavellianism The lies used from October 7 until the Shifa Complex campaign are not a unique Israeli use of implementing the principles of the end justifying the means and lie and then lie until people believe you - as the history of the Zionists, past and present, is full of examples, some of which this article presents. In brief: 1 The bombing of the ship SS Patria On November 25, 1940, the Zionist terrorist organization Haganah, which would become the main nucleus of the Israeli army after the year 1948, blew up the ship SS Patria in the port of Haifa, with 1,800 Jewish immigrants on board, with the aim of accusing the Palestinian resistance of the bombing and putting pressure on the British government. Which, in my opinion, the Zionist gangs were working to limit the flow of Jewish immigrants from Europe to Palestine 4 2 The assassination of Count Bernadotte on September 17, 1948 was carried out by the two terrorist organizations Irgun, which was headed by Menachem Begin, who later became prime minister of the Israeli government, and Stern, which was headed by Yitzhak Shamir, who He, in turn, became prime minister of the Israeli government. He later assassinated the Swedish international mediator, Count Falke Bernadotte, by shooting at his car in one of the streets of West Jerusalem, which the Zionist gangs had taken control of, following Bernadotte’s issuance of recommendations regarding the Palestinian issue, including that Jerusalem remain under Arab sovereignty5, which disturbed the Zionists. Who were planning to expand further into Palestine and even beyond the borders of the areas they seized 3 The displacement of the Jews of Morocco and Iraq as an example Just as the Zionist gangs behaved with the Jewish immigrant ship SS Patria and sacrificed these immigrants in order to pressure Britain against restricting, even slightly, Jewish immigration, the Israeli government Which arose in the year 1948 and worked to harm the Jews of Arab countries with the aim of pushing them to immigrate to Palestine. Regarding the Jews of Morocco, the Israeli historian Yigal Ben-Nun from Bar-Ilan University adjacent to Tel Aviv revealed that the Israeli Mossad, the foreign intelligence service, sent a cell in the early sixties of the last century. A large order was ordered by Commander Isser Harel to carry out terrorist acts against the Jews and accuse the Moroccan authorities of doing so in order to allow the Zionist movement to bring them to occupied Palestine. 6 In the same context, the Mossad worked to displace the Jews of Iraq, as the British Jewish historian Avi Shlaim concluded in his book 3 Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew after research. Intensely personal, while a hand grenade attack was carried out on the Masouda Shemtov synagogue in Baghdad, in which 4 Jews were killed, in January 1951, by an Arab, other bombings were the work of the Israeli Mossad, with the aim of accelerating the transfer of 110,000 Jews from Iraq to the State of Israel. Which was newly established at that time, which prompted the Jews of Iraq to immigrate, most of them to Palestine. Shlaim believes that this plan was implemented in other Arab countries and led to the transfer of Jews from all over the Arab countries from respectable citizens to a fifth column allied with the new Jewish state. 7 The rope of lies is cut short by the facts. In order to control the Gaza Strip after the exposure of the political and military failure following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, Israel resorted to using all the means of deception and falsification at its disposal by accusing Hamas of committing massacres in the Gaza Strip colonies, and the United States and the largest European countries went along with these allegations. Which was followed by collective punishment measures, cutting off water and electricity since October 8, and bombing food stores and hospitals, claiming that they were being used by the resistance.The Palestinian Authority closed operations centers, closed the crossings, and refused to bring in fuel except in small quantities later, in addition to the devastating bombing of civilian objects and residential buildings, and the commission of dozens of massacres that, as of writing this article, have caused the death of more than 15,000 Palestinians and the wounding of more than 40,000, but the rope of lies is short and is cut short by the facts. Israel has controlled All the hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, but were unable to prove any of their allegations, and turned the buildings of Al-Rantisi and Al-Shifa Hospital into military centers. The aim of the siege and emptying the hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip and targeting the hospitals located in the southern Gaza Strip, in addition to the destructive bombing that destroyed half of the buildings in the Gaza Strip, is to push the Palestinians to flee in A first stage from the north towards the south, and in a second stage from the south towards Egyptian territory. Israel failed again after its propaganda campaign in the West lost its momentum and a large number of Western public opinion shifted towards rejecting the crimes committed by Israel and holding demonstrations of hundreds of thousands in London and tens of thousands in France and the United States. The United Nations also failed to push the Palestinians to move from the north to the south, as estimates indicate that at least 700,000 residents of the northern Gaza Strip clung to remaining in this part of the Strip despite all the crimes and barbarism. It also failed to pressure Egypt to open its borders. And consistency with the plan to displace Gazans to Sinai, which also reflected itself in the position of the United States, which announced a public, but perhaps not real, rejection of the displacement process despite the marketing of the transfer plan at the beginning of its presentation. As for the resistance, which Israel and its supporters expected would end quickly, it proved its ability to continue its resistance and put down Heavy losses inflicted on the Israeli army after its incursion into the northern Gaza Strip. Not to be overly optimistic, the Israeli military capability is great and the unlimited support for it from Washington may ultimately enable it to destroy the Gaza Strip and turn it into a scorched earth, but Gaza has proven that this artificial military entity is breakable. 1 josh breiner israeli security establishment hamas likely didn t have advance knowledge of nova festival haaretz 18 11 2023 2 The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide stipulates that its perpetrators be tried before the International Criminal Court and their punishment is meted out, and the rulings issued by the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have also become part of From the Convention, especially with regard to punishing the participants and instigators of that crime, and here all the heads and officials of the Western countries that justified and continue to justify the crimes being committed in Gaza fall under the sword of the Convention’s punishment. For more see William Schabas, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, United Nations Audio-Visual Library of International Law in The electronic link and also see the provisions of the law on the crime of genocide in the Scientific Dictionary of Humanitarian Law, the Doctors Without Borders website, in the electronic link, and see the literal text of the agreement in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the International Committee of the Red Cross website, in the electronic link 3 Analysis by CNN indicates the possibility of the return of the Israeli army Arrangement of weapons before the media visit to Al-Shifa Hospital CNN Arabic in the electronic link 4 Hundreds of allies were killed to strengthen the Jewish presence in Palestine when the Haganah blew up a ship for immigrants Al-Dustour Jordanian in the electronic link 5 For more on Lord Bernadotte’s proposals, see Count Bernadotte Al-Jazeera Net 3 10 2004 in the electronic link 6 Zuhair Andraos Israeli research reveals Mossad killing JewsIn Morocco, he sank an immigrant ship to turn world public opinion against the kingdom and force the king to allow them to immigrate. Al-Quds Al-Arabi London 10/17/2013 in the electronic link 7 British-Israeli historian I have proof of an Israeli attack against the Jews of Iraq to expel them from there Al-Jazeera Net 6/19 2023 in the electronic link read the original
Blog title Living in besieged and destroyed Gaza Author Nour Sabah Date November 21, 2023 To another killer If you leave the fetus for thirty days, then you will change the possibilities The occupation may end and that infant will not remember the time of the siege The state of the siege Mahmoud Darwish The image of the identity of the trapped in the earth prison is formed for the Palestinians of Gaza in several Realistic representations, including their presence within the high-tech border fence and the censorship before the flood of Al-Aqsa, the drones that portend death, the prohibition of flight, and the incursion into the sea calculated by miles, which forced them to exploit the interior of the earth as an expression of resistance and the continuation of life, the closure of the crossings to the north and south, the power outages, Gaza being covered in blackness, the cutting off of the Internet, and isolation from... The outside world. As for the other representations of the body’s imprisonment for the Palestinians of Gaza, it is the presence of the body within a system of successive violations and repeated depravities that have almost become a normal state for those who are seventeen years old, equal to the age of the siege, for example, or less than that, because they grew up with this distorted memory of Gaza and the scene of its siege, but it will remain a permanent state of exception until it is broken. The war did not begin on the seventh of October, but rather seven decades ago. The cause of the Al-Aqsa flood was that misery overflowed in the streets and brewed with the accumulation of lean years. 1 You are in Gaza, so you are physically imprisoned simply for existing. In this geographical area, besieged like a Gazan, imprisoned by the mixing of bodies with rubble at the moment of the bombing, restricted by the feeling of fear, trembling, crying, and the skin color changing from wheat to gray after the bombing, being pulled out from under the rubble, receiving shock, and shackled from the philosophy of merit of grief at a stage in which you cannot count your losses and who you lost, since... There are some people who enjoy human value, while there are others who do not enjoy it. Today we have the right to ask the following question: Who are the people worthy of grief, and which party receives the merit of grief? 2 This is after the loss of people, homes, and places. Of course, the most powerful humanitarian organization will not be able to limit the number of violations that occur today in... The Gaza Strip towards the Gazan human being, whose identity has been classified and framed over the years according to the geography, which does not exceed 360 kilometers, to the point that this small area is reduced by cramming people into a smaller area and displacing them towards the south. Today’s occupation bombing violates the sanctity of the Gazan human being according to unfair classification considerations that give the Israeli The right to demand his rights and exile him from his Gazan counterpart, given that all of them, young and old, and we do not approve of any of them, consider them terrorists and saboteurs. Therefore, there is an identity crisis that continues to deepen, and it is the result of complex conflicts with multiple dimensions that began with the conflict of historical narratives and cultural, political, social, and identity conflicts that cannot be limited. In a unilateral approach, it in turn reinforces the declared hatred towards any Palestinian in general, and Gazans in particular, in this war, as is clear from the randomness of the bombing, which undoubtedly bears the character of public genocide, which is carried out on public display. The exclusionary vision of the countries supporting Israel continues to portray the Palestinians as invaders and the settlers as victims. And that the Jew is concerned with human rights, not the Palestinian3, through many of the theatrical scenes that we witnessed during this warIsrael justifies to itself what can be called “legal war” and the right to defend itself. Among these scenes was the lie about the beheading of 40 Israeli children, which was marketed in the Western media and transmitted by the American President as well, without evidence except for some fabricated pictures that were later refuted in addition to the scenes. The vulgarity presented by Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari about the presence of tunnels or some equipment belonging to the Hamas movement or a room purporting to be for holding prisoners, while showing a schedule for the days of the week allegedly for the shifts of Hamas members, all of which is inside hospitals, which justifies their continuous bombing of them, and what is worse than that is pasting The accusation of bombing the Baptist Hospital of the Islamic Jihad Movement and the claim that a missile belonging to it had lost its way. There is another representative scene of a girl working as a nurse in Al-Shifa Hospital in an atmosphere of complex sound effects and a state of artificial panic in which it was claimed that Hamas had stolen fuel and medical materials from the medical complex and the greatest deception that What the occupation is promoting is that the south is safe, knowing that we witness every day direct bombing of people during their displacement or on several areas. To add a siege on top of the siege and in an explicit call to commit what are called war crimes, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant imposed a double siege by saying, “We impose a complete siege on the city.” Gaza has no electricity, no food, no water, and no fuel. Everything is closed, adopting a principle for dealing with those he called “human animals,” subject to what is known within the policies of dehumanization towards the other in the form of the enemy, and transforming Gazans into objects through the objectification of the human being to enable control over him or his assimilation within policies. The occupying state went to the point of de-settlement of the Gazan Palestinian and his displacement to a geographical spot without his will. This explains the systematic violent dispossession by the occupation of the indigenous people of their lands, the acquisition of sovereignty, and the adoption of genocide as a solution, exactly as the so-called Minister of Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu, boastfully stated. By dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip and deliberately erasing the knowledge of peoples from the historical narrative, which is a process of a rooted and continuous nature and not an emergency. Salma Al-Dabbagh expressed this state of objectification as an emptying of being of its meaning and nature, which is specific to the Palestinian-Gazan situation, because the occupation, and through its policies of closure and siege, cut off our legs. Our limbs left us crawling in the mud. We are all in Gaza without legs. 4 Identity in Gaza in this war is no longer of a certain individual specificity, but has been generalized to men, women, children, and even fetuses, as the child is born at the very moment of death, and there is no longer any weight given to freedom or human dignity. Today, her well-being has become difficult to achieve. Even the identity of the places has been emptied of its meaning and purpose. The hospital is no longer safe. The courtyards of Al-Shifa Hospital have been violated, and the goal of hospitalization, security, and care has changed to a rampant and nihilistic desecration of life, an accumulation of corpses that have become available to animals, and the inability to save the body from which the soul has been stripped. With his burial, the Baptist Hospital became a battlefield in which more than 450 people were killed. Even the places of worship, including mosques and churches, lost their holiness and spirituality without the slightest regard for any principle, through the bombing of many mosques and the Church of St. Porphyrius. The same applies to the schools that people took refuge in, as they were no longer safe after overcrowding. The massive explosion in UNRWA schools and the dropping of a bomb in the middle of the school on the heads of its refugees. Giorgio Agamben argues, in one of the forms of the permissibility of life, that human life subject to death sometimes arises as a result of power.Political, even if it is the enemy’s authority, and here we mean the occupation authority and its arms extending towards the Palestinians and controlling their necks from birth, 5 so they are exposed to killing and the possibility of executing them and ending their lives for their Palestinian crime, which is the life that was snatched from place to nowhere by taking away the land and not recognizing humanity. In addition to Gaza, this perception is concentrated in the West Bank. The West's indiscriminate and unsystematic targeting of Palestinians by settlers, threatening their lives, shooting bullets, and systematic targeting by the Israeli army during raids, sabotage, arrests, and killings in Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarm, Hebron, and other areas. Thus, the Palestinian situation over the years has demonstrated the inability to normalize colonialism, that is, make it a natural form of colonialism. The relationship that governs human beings is like a social contract, as it will remain a system that has distorted the nature of the earth, space, and the nature of human beings, which moved from a state of peace to war by adopting the right to defend all their rights. 1 Suzanne Abu Al-Hawa Al-Azraq, Between Sky and Water, Doha, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, 2018, p. 279 2 Judith Butler, the Jewish Crossroads and Criticism of Zionism, Doha, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2017, p. 41. 3 Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, on the human right to domination, Doha, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2018, p. 57. 5 Giorgio Agamben The Untouchable Sovereign Authority and Bare Life Baghdad Al-Jamal Publications 2017 pp. 117 122 read the original
Blog title Statement by the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem on the recent events in the Armenian Quarter Author The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem Date November 21, 2023 The Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued a statement Regarding the recent events in the Armenian Quarter, which is the greatest existential threat facing the Church over the past sixteen centuries, the following statement came: We, as a Christian community in Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land, express our deep concern about the recent events taking place in the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem. In recent days, it has been announced that a contract has been canceled. A dispute over the development of a large portion of the Armenian Quarter, and instead of dealing through the proper legal channels, the alleged developers decided to employ a few armed rioters to block the parking lot entrances on the plot of land and carry out demolition work on the site. We are concerned that such events may jeopardize the Armenian presence in Jerusalem. It sets a disturbing precedent for similar events in the future. These unacceptable actions by the alleged developer against the Armenians and the Armenian Patriarchate are not compatible with the societal system built on the spirit of peace that the Armenians aspire to, as they are part of the Christian family in the Holy Land. Moreover, the provocations that It is carried out by the alleged developers by employing tactics that threaten the axis of the Armenian presence in the region, which exposes the Christian presence in the Holy Land to weakening and danger. As heads of churches, we extend our support to the Armenian Patriarchate and the Armenian community in their decision to take appropriate legal measures to cancel the relevant deal, and we appeal to all relevant governmental and non-governmental agencies to assist us. In restoring the former peace and harmony enjoyed by all who used this land in the Armenian Quarter, we are convinced that affairs of this nature must be dealt with through legal procedures and negotiations to avoid future escalation and violence Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem Jerusalem on November 18, 2023 Source PatriarchateLatin in Jerusalem read the original
Blog title Two days turned into five months Testimony from a displaced woman in Gaza Author Saba Tawfiq Wasfi Date March 15, 2024 In an attempt to maintain my psychological balance for today, I am now sitting on the wooden chair leaning against the trunk of the large olive tree in the middle of the courtyard. The front of the house is the house of displacement that my family and I are in. I am trying hard to write, but the sound of the cabin is almost penetrating my skull, not just my ears. I am disturbed by the pain in my shoulder and hand, which swell after every laundry binge of washing, rinsing, squeezing, and spreading the piles of laundry that accumulate for three days due to frequent water outages. I suffer from swelling in the morning and dryness at night, accompanied by annoying itching. I also remember my father’s advice on the first days of the war, when one of us had the opportunity to call the other, not to think about what will happen tomorrow and to try to live each day as it comes and not let myself be prey to ideas and analyses, and I try to do that with great effort. My life has become as follows: I wake up in the morning and ask about the news, or it comes to my ears and I try to busy myself with several things in my head, such as children, the sounds of bombing, washing, the news that the number of martyrs has increased, the issue of bread and the oven, the advance of tanks, news of evacuation in new areas, lunch, and preparing for the children to sleep, the issue of bread and the oven was this. The paragraph from today is more heavy than the others. My daughter, Laure, who will be seven years old next April, was sad this morning. She did not understand today that I do not have thyme to make her a manouchi to bake in the clay oven. She cried and became angry, and her voice rose, and she blamed me, saying bitterly, “We understand that the cheese is finished.” Also, thyme is thyme, Mama, no oil or thyme, but thyme. I asked for the manoucheh. What can I do today? Knead so that we can bake bread. We knead almost every day. So Laure accompanied me as usual after I convinced her not to miss the first loaf of hot, delicious, puffy bread in a desperate attempt on my part. I can't forget about the thyme manoucheh. We met at the bakery a young girl. It became clear to me from her mother's conversation with the women waiting for their turn that she was displaced with her family from Gaza, and her condition was the same as ours and the condition of most of those in the place. She deliberately spoke to Lynn, who was not more than five years old, to distract her from the sound of the bombing that frightened her so she could finish. Her mother was baking the last ten loaves of bread, so she asked, “Okay, a little bit, Lynn, what do you want to be when you grow up?” She quickly answered, “Strawberry,” and she repeated the answer in amazement. “Strawberry.” This is what you said is correct. I heard, so she confirmed her answer with great confidence, “Oh, Strawberry.” She raised an eyebrow at her and looked at her mother quickly after she put her right hand on her waist and said, “Why?” You didn't bring me strawberries. I didn't tell you I wanted strawberries. Her mother's voice came softly and presently, God willing. Her mother did not turn or look at her. She continued putting the last loaves of bread in the oven with one hand, and the little cardboard that she had complained about during her speech was difficult to obtain in the other hand while the fire was burning. She completed her work and then she got up. She carried the baking tray over her head and held her daughter’s hand, saying, “Come home.” What should Lynn’s mother answer her daughter? How do you explain to her that there is nothing more important than a loaf of bread? How do you tell her that this is the last bag of flour and that she must share her loaf with one of her brothers to provide the largest amount of bread? For the coming days, will she understand if she tells her that the strawberry season has come and the strawberry farms have disappeared? What should I tell my daughter Laure when she asks for man’ousheh next time? Should I tell her that there is no thyme in the land of thyme, my dear? And if thyme returns, will Laure remember its true taste after it has spread everywhere? The market is thyme without taste or smell. Nothing tastes good here, everything is dull, and the days are very slowAfter a hundred, all of them are similar to each other, and the dungeon still occupies the sky above my head. And here I am searching for fresh air to fill my chest, to prolong my soul and my patience with all of this, but in vain, as the sky is gray from the dust of bombing and destruction, and the air is polluted from burning nylon bags and plastic bottles to light fires and ovens after the firewood is cut off. I need a long breath so I can give my son Majd, who turned twelve years old last January, strength and patience. He has been repeating since the day, “Mama, I am ready to go a whole week without food, but I want to return home.” When we were displaced, Majd and Laure were very excited about the trip. Outside the house, it lasts for two days or a week maximum. On the same night, news came to us that our house was damaged as a result of the bombing of the house next to it and the house just behind it. Majd spent days crying, and we cannot, or he can, mention anything related to the house without his tears flowing in a way that burns the heart. Yesterday, I repeated it. Laure is her daily phrase that she repeats before going to sleep, adding a new phrase to it. I want to go home. Ramadan is near, Mama. Laure wants the annual Ramadan lantern and the decorative rope illuminated by the stars and moons that she loves. She wants to eat your samosa, but she did not say or ask for anything. Rather, she just flips through the pictures on my mobile device at night before going. To sleep, then she turns it off, puts it aside, closes her eyes, and sleeps. After 17 days, Nahawand, my youngest son, has passed five months without fruits or various nutritious foods necessary for his growth, with five types of diapers and various types of skin allergies, as well as far from his bed, his pillow, his toys, and his stroller, which he was in. He loves it, in addition to five types of milk. I ended up using one-year-old milk, which I had to use early due to the lack of milk suitable for his age. I am burdened this morning because of the deadly routine thaIntention, as Napoleon Bonaparte made it a headquarters for several days during his invasion of the city of Acre. Damage was caused to the Al-Daraj neighborhood, including those places in it, as both the mosques and the market were destroyed, and the Pasha’s Palace was severely damaged, and most of the heritage places in this neighborhood were destroyed. 1. Al-Rimal Neighborhood, which is located north of East of Gaza, along Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, which connects the east and west of the city and was established during the era of the British Mandate after World War I in 1920. Al-Rimal neighborhood is considered one of the oldest and most prosperous neighborhoods in Gaza City. It is also considered the commercial artery of the Strip, as various types of shops are spread along it. It received this name because it was a lifeless sand dune and gained its cultural importance because it contained cultural and heritage landmarks such as the Square of the Unknown Soldier. It also contained the most important universities in the sector, the Islamic University, which was founded in 1978 and was subjected to varying damages, and Al-Azhar University, which was completely destroyed. The repeated occupation bombing of universities is nothing but Confirming his desire to erase Palestinian culture and follow the policy of ignorance 2 Soldier Square or Unknown Soldier Square is located along Omar Al-Mukhtar Street in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza. It is a memorial to the unidentified soldiers who defended Palestine in the 1950s. It is a national landmark that was established in 1956. After the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from Gaza, it was transformed into a square for celebrations and national events, in addition to being a public park. It is a high concrete base, and on top of it is a statue of a soldier wearing his military uniform with full gear, carrying a weapon in his right hand while pointing with the index finger of his left hand in the direction of East Jerusalem, and it is engraved. On the marble base on the first side is a map of Palestine, and a Qur’anic verse is written below it, “And do not feel that you are the only one who has died.” It is drawn on the side. The second is the flag of Palestine with its four colors. The great significance of this monument is what prompted the Israeli occupation to destroy it, as it was completely bombed during the Israeli raids that launched on the entire region. 3. The Akkad Museum in Khan Yunis. The museums in the Gaza Strip are the result of the self-efforts of individuals who wanted to collect... Artifacts and keeping them in one place so that they are not exposed to loss, obliteration, and theft as a result of the siege, occupation, and looting of antiquities, says Walid Al-Aqqad, founder of the museum, which is originally his personal home. My mission as a Palestinian is to confront the occupation’s attempts to obliterate the history and heritage of Palestine and protect them from loss so that they remain witnesses to the heritage of our fathers and grandfathers, as it is a struggle and a patriotic act that includes The museum contains valuable artifacts, including 2,800 pieces dating back to prehistoric times until modern times. The museum was subjected to a very serious bombing that damaged several artifacts and led to some of them being broken. 4 Al-Sikka Street Al-Sikka Street, the popular Shujaiya market, is currently located in the center of the Gaza Strip in the city of Khan Yunis, south of The sector. The railway line was established in 1892 during the Ottoman era. It started from Damascus and branched into two lines, one heading to Jordan and the other to Palestine and Lebanon, reaching Acre, Haifa, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The train stopped operating in 1973 due to the occupation’s control. The railway contributed to the development of The country and revitalizing its economy also helped in the exchange of multiple cultures. This line is a cultural legacy that indicates the life of the Palestinians before the Zionist occupation. 5 Al-Omari Mosque The mosque is located in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in the Old City in the center of Gaza City. It was built 1,400 years ago and is called the Great Mosque due to its appearance. Its largest area is compared to the old mosques located inThe sector was nicknamed the Al-Omari Mosque in reference to Omar ibn Al-Khattab, and it is considered the third largest mosque in Palestine after Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Ahmed Pasha Al-Jazzar Mosque in Akka. It also acquires religious and historical value due to the six historical stages it went through. In the beginning, it was a temple bearing the name Marnas, and then later on. The people of Gaza, from paganism to Christianity, turned the temple into a Byzantine church known as Avdoxia. After the people of Gaza converted to Islam during the reign of Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab, the Al-Omari Mosque was built on the ruins of the church. During the Crusades that affected the Levant, the mosque was demolished and turned into a church known as St. John the Baptist. After that, during the Mamluk era, it returned to being a mosque, and finally in the Ottoman era, improvements and additions were made to the mosque, such as adding a northern courtyard, a pulpit, and a mihrab. The cultural importance of the mosque stems from the fact that it passes through several civilizations and historical eras, and Islamic architecture is considered an essential aspect of its cultural importance 6 Saint Porphyrius Church The Eastern Orthodox Church is located in the Olive neighborhood and is considered the third oldest church in the world. It was built in the fifth century AD, which gives it global religious importance. It is nominated to be on the World Heritage List. It was given this name in reference to its founder, Saint Porphyrius, who died. Art in which the church gains its cultural importance from its architectural culture, which focuses on Christian architecture, symbols and artistic paintings that express the story of Jesus Christ decorated on its walls in addition to the marble columns that support the roof of the church. The church was not completely destroyed, but it was partially destroyed, which led to his martyrdom. 20 people and the destruction of parts of its historical and archaeological landmarks 7 The Baptist Hospital is located in a residential area in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and is one of the oldest hospitals in Gaza. It was established in 1882 by the missionary mission that was affiliated with England. The importance of the Baptist Hospital stems from its important location located in the Al-Shamaa area and it is surrounded by a church. A monastery and a temple. The area also contains the most important Ottoman monuments in the Gaza Strip. It has continued to provide its services for 141 years despite the damage it sustained in previous wars and the dispute over assuming management of the hospital more than once. Israel committed one of the most horrific massacres in the Gaza Strip when it targeted its planes. The National Arab Baptist Hospital, which led to the martyrdom of more than 500 Palestinians, the majority of whom were women and children, took the hospital as a safe refuge from the Israeli raids. The raids led to the outbreak of a huge fire in parts of it and the destruction of a large part as well. 8 These are some of the destroyed and damaged places, which are difficult to enumerate due to their large number. As a result of this aggression, 8 neighborhoods passed through, such as the Al-Karama neighborhood and the Al-Nasr neighborhood, and 47 mosques were destroyed, such as the Al-Maghrabi Mosque, in which the righteous saint, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Maghribi, resided. A number of churches were also damaged. In addition to this, cemeteries were not spared, such as the Martyrs’ Cemetery and the Sheikh Radwan Cemetery, in which a woman was destroyed. The greatest Palestinian resistance figure is Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, founder of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. This is in addition to baths such as the Ottoman Samra Bath, which is the only one remaining until now in Gaza City, as well as paths such as the Sabil of Sultan Abdul Hamid, which was established in the Ottoman era and was renewed during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and many others. Among other archaeological sites, Gaza is not just a besieged city, but it is also a city with a rich and long history. The continued occupation targeting its archaeological sites is an attempt to erase Palestinian history and its representations 1 Old City neighborhoods in Gaza CityPalestinian News and Information Agency Wafa Ahmed Al-Tamimi Al-Naddaf Occupation aircraft destroy Gaza’s museums and bomb its historical monuments Al-Ghad 6 11 2023 2 Abaher Al-Saqqa Gaza Social History Under British Colonialism 1917 1948 Beirut Institute for Palestine Studies 2018 3 The Unknown Soldier in Gaza A memorial that has become a national square Palestine Online 19 1 2017 4 Khaled Azab Gaza’s heritage is destroyed by war and besieged by Israel Al-Jazeera 10 17 2023 Ahmed Fayyad, a Palestinian, establishes a museum in Khan Yunis Al-Jazeera 10 27 2009 5 Rasha Abu Jalal Gaza dreams of the return of its only train to exhale its smoke Nawa Network 2 18 2023 6 Al-Omari Mosque in Gaza Witness the conquest The Islamic Society of Palestine Al-Jazeera 4 14 2023 7 The Church of St. Porphyrius in Gaza has a history extending for centuries and a refuge in times of free crises Dubai 10 20 2023 8 The Baptist Hospital in Gaza was founded by the church and in it Israel committed the largest massacre in Al Jazeera 10 23 2023 read the original
Blog title Solidarity with the Palestinian people in distress Gaza Author Maher Al-Sharif Date November 17, 2023 While the American administration and most European Union governments support the criminal war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip and prevent the issuance of a Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, solidarity movements with the people are escalating in the United States of America and in the countries of the Union. The Palestinian demand to stop this war and deter the war government in Israel from continuing to commit its crimes. Solidarity with Palestine in the United States of America. Solidarity with Palestine in the United States of America is not expressed by an organized movement with its own fixed political structures as much as it is, according to researcher Lubna Qatami, a loose network. Decentralized, consisting of organizations and associations with diverse social and political philosophies. Palestinian and Arab young men and women who were born and raised in the United States, movements for the struggle for black rights, peace advocates, anti-war advocates, and supporters of the left and social justice contributed to its launch. Then the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement participated in formulating it. Its programs during the first decade of the third millennium. In an increasing number of universities, students began organizing campaigns to pressure their university administrations to demand an end to their complicity with Israeli practices that violate Palestinian rights and to stop criminalizing professors who criticize the policies of Israel’s rulers. In December 2013, the American Studies Association was the first to vote. On a historic decision to boycott Israeli academic institutions, it succeeded several years later in winning the lawsuit that was filed against it as a result of its decision. In 2014, the Union of Student Workers at the University of California, which includes about 14,000 members working in research and teaching, became the first union to support the boycott campaign, which began to attract more support. From the major national academic societies, hundreds of artists, writers, and cultural workers, as well as a number of athletes, pledged not to participate in the normalization of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. A campaign was launched in which about forty student and academic societies participated, demanding the withdrawal of university investments from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, and quickly This student movement did not build bridges with the Black Lives Matter movement, which was launched after the killing of Michael Brown in 2014 at the hands of the police, and with the movement for immigrant rights. In the summer of 2014, after a visit by a delegation of black journalists and artists to the occupied Palestinian territories, a new group was founded called Blacks for Palestine publishedIn 2015, a declaration of solidarity with Palestine was signed by more than 1,000 leading figures and 39 prominent organizations. Over time, it became the dominant form of solidarity activity with Palestine that not only challenges the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but also challenges Zionism as a racist and colonial ideology. 1 When the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip began Gaza A broad solidarity movement with Palestine emerged at American universities at Harvard, Columbia, New York, Stanford, California, Georgetown, Pennsylvania, Yale, and others. A war of positions and statements began between students who supported the struggle of the Palestinian people and students who supported Israel. Harvard University was one of the first universities to express its solidarity with the Palestinian people. Through a statement of solidarity signed by 31 student organizations and clubs, it was distributed on the 8th of last October and included a condemnation of the Israeli apartheid regime responsible for the acts of violence surrounding all aspects of Palestinian life for seventy-five years. It was then launched on the university campus on the 14th of the month. It was a pro-Palestinian demonstration, which prompted a former university director and three representatives from the Republican and Democratic parties to demand a firm response from its administration to the signatories of the statement and the participants in the demonstration. A number of professors and hundreds of students issued a statement describing the pro-Palestinian statement as completely wrong and extremely insulting. Then a paid minivan drove by. On campus, the names of the signatories to the pro-Palestinian statement are displayed on a screen, describing them as anti-Semites. At the same time, a number of donors and former alumni accused the Harvard administration of failing to take a clear and unambiguous stance against the barbaric murders that targeted innocent Israeli civilians and ended the billionaire Leslie Foundation. Wexner, who encourages the training of elites in the American Jewish community, has partnered with the Kennedy School at Harvard University, noting that the university administration was trying to find a compromise between protecting freedom of expression and the pressure exerted on it. For the same reasons, donors exerted great pressure on the administrations of other universities, especially on the administration of the University of Pennsylvania, which hosted A festival of Palestinian literature. The administrations of Stanford and Columbia universities were also criticized because they did not take firm stances against the pro-Palestinian students who, in their leaflets and marches, accuse Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip 2 and with the massive marches that took place in Washington, Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Portland, and especially San Francisco in solidarity. With the Palestinians, in which the movements for the rights of black Americans participated, especially the Black Lives Matter movement, and took place behind the slogans “We are all for Gaza,” “It is not a war, it is genocide,” those marches that were accompanied by courageous movements of anti-Zionist Jews under the slogans “Not in our name,” “Ceasefire,” and “Stop.” The occupation, let Gaza live. American universities stand on the front line to protest the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and the American administration’s complicity with it. On Wednesday, October 27, male and female students from five universities and colleges demonstrated in New York City and organized class strikes to protest the war on Gaza. We want To make it clear that innocent lives are lost. We are against violence, but we demand recognition of the value of civilian lives, as one of the students confirmed. In Florida, the demonstration called for by the National Students for Justice in Palestine organization, which was also organized on Action Day in New York, was banned. Although the solidarity movement with... This PalestineIn which a number of Democratic Party representatives participate, the movement that opposed the Vietnam War has not yet reached the size of the movement, but with time it has begun to take on new dimensions, paving the way for the emergence of a new anti-war movement that will confront the strong pro-Israeli war propaganda spread by many American media outlets, and in this context While students in New York and across the country were keeping the local police on alert, a number of activists and journalists stormed the headquarters of the New York Times in protest against its coverage of the war on Gaza, calling it the New York Crimes, demanding a ceasefire and condemning the genocide committed against Palestinian civilians. 3 Solidarity with Palestine in the European Union countries Since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, a widespread solidarity movement has spread in many European Union countries, especially those allied with Israel. In Spain, Palestine committees were formed at the universities of Madrid, Barcelona, and Zaragoza, which brought together a few hundred students to express their solidarity. With the Palestinian people and thinking about ways to express it, such as the demonstration that took place inside the Complutense University in Madrid and the one-day student strike throughout the country on October 26 last to denounce the European Union’s complicity with the massacre committed by Israel and the hypocrisy of the Spanish government, which supplies the Zionist state with weapons, and in France. After the Ministry of the Interior banned movements in solidarity with the Palestinians and organized a campaign against the Proud France Party and its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on charges of anti-Semitism, the French government was forced to allow the demonstration, so that on Saturday, massive demonstrations took place in Paris and other French cities calling for a ceasefire and condemning the policy of genocide. adopted by the Israeli war government in the Gaza Strip. On November 8, a unified call was issued by the National Gathering for a Just and Lasting Peace between Palestinians and Israelis, which includes dozens of social organizations, labor and student unions, left-wing political parties, and movements for peace and anti-racism, calling for participation in demonstrations on Saturday, the 11th of the same month, and calls on the French government to press for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the bombing, ground attacks, forced displacement of residents, and the immediate lifting of the siege. It pays tribute to all Palestinian and Israeli civilians who are victims of war crimes, as every human life is important, considering that a just and lasting peace will not It will only be possible within the framework of recognizing the rights of the Palestinian people, stopping settlement, ending the Israeli occupation, and adhering to all United Nations resolutions. Since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the British capital, London, has witnessed every Saturday massive demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinians, as it witnessed on Saturday, November 11 this year. One of the largest demonstrations in its history, it roamed its streets from Hyde Park in central London towards the American Embassy. It sparked widespread controversy, called for multiple meetings between its organizers and the police, and resulted in the overthrow of Interior Minister Suella Braverman, who was accused of inciting hatred after her strong opposition to the demonstration in an article published in The Times newspaper. Similar demonstrations took place in many other European countries, including Germany, which witnessed sporadic solidarity movements with the Palestinians despite the ban imposed by the German government on these movements and the positions of parties such as the Green Party, which abandoned it some time ago.He has long abandoned his peaceful past and has begun to adopt a blatantly warlike rhetoric since the Ukrainian war. He has covered his headquarters in Berlin with the Israeli flag. Solidarity initiatives of another kind have also taken place, such as the initiative of the Belgian transport unions, which announced a ban on loading ships with weapons sent to Israel, or the Greek unions’ call to promote a day of strike. A year in Europe in support of Palestine 4 Solidarity with Palestine in Latin America Contrary to the United States of America and most of the European Union countries that are complicit with the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the Global South in most of its countries expresses its solidarity with the Palestinian people in their Gaza plight. In many Latin American countries, party supporters came out Leftist politicians, trade unions and social movements took to the streets to demand a ceasefire and respect for international humanitarian law, accusing the Israeli government of committing genocide. In Buenos Aires, representatives of trade unions, human rights organizations and popular organizations in Argentina, as well as the Arab and Palestinian community, organized a march in the first week of this November. A parade in Congress Square in which Nora Cortinas, co-founder of the madres de plaza de mayo, Mothers of Mayo Square, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel participated. In a joint statement read out, 55 organizations described the number of children and infants killed every day due to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip as It was unheard of before, considering it incomprehensible that Israel was allowed to bomb the civilian population in Gaza indiscriminately under the watchful eyes of Europe, the United States, and the civilized Western powers. Argentine organizations also criticized the veto power enjoyed by the United States, Britain, and France in the United Nations Security Council, which It gives Israel a blank check to commit more atrocities. The demonstrators praised the position of members of the Jewish communities around the world, who also demonstrated and chanted the slogan “Not in our name,” because they understand that Zionism is also their enemy and that the State of Israel does not represent them in any way. Members of 100 organizations affiliated with the movement also demonstrated. Social groups in Mexico at the end of the same week called on President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to sever diplomatic relations with Israel, as Bolivia did. They demanded a ceasefire by the Israeli occupation forces and chanted slogans such as the fascist Netanyahu, you are a terrorist. Where are they? Where are the sanctions on Israel? It is not a war. It is annihilation. They pointed out that the presidents of Chile and Colombia summoned their ambassadors to Israel for consultations. In Chile, thousands of people demonstrated in the capital, including members of the Palestinian community. In Colombia, citizens gathered in front of a McDonald’s restaurant in one of the wealthy neighborhoods to show solidarity with the Palestinians. One of the participants said, “We are here to denounce the occupation. It is genocide.” Genocide and ethnic genocide lasted for more than 75 years. He denounced the fact that only yesterday the US government approved $14.5 billion to escalate the war against the Palestinian population in the Middle East. The demonstrators also criticized McDonald's, which provides free food to Israeli army soldiers. In Puerto Rico, the Feminist Caucus group painted in construction. A large mural bearing the symbols of the Caribbean state and Palestine. During one of the protests, prominent activist Tito Kayak climbed the American flagpole in front of the Capitol building in the capital, San Jose, and replaced it with the Palestinian flag, while the Brazilian Land Dispossessed Movement (MST) expressed itsIt expressed its solidarity with the victims in Gaza and sent, in cooperation with the Brazilian Air Force, one million tons of food supplies to Gaza, which included rice, corn products, milk and sugar produced by families in the Landless Movement, as explained by Cassia Bishara, an activist in the movement, who confirmed that the residents of Gaza who are not dying today as a result of Bombardment. They are threatened with starvation due to the lack of drinking water and food. 5 Conclusion. When Russian forces invaded the territory of Ukraine, the countries of the civilized West were quick to denounce this invasion and began imposing successive packages of sanctions on Russia and its leadership and supplying Ukraine with the latest combat means, while when it came to Palestine, these countries colluded. With the war waged by the Israeli colonial regime on the Gaza Strip, which provided it with the diplomatic cover that ensured and ensured its continuation, despite the killing, violence and destruction it entailed, and in the face of this scandal, it was natural for a broad solidarity movement to emerge in these countries with the Palestinian people, perhaps it would continue to develop and succeed. 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Blog title The Martyrdom of Omar Masoud Author Bassam Al-Kaabi Date November 17, 2023 The alphabet no longer accommodates pathos, the eloquence of literature, and the imagination of poets. Rather, it no longer accommodates a poor and humble narrative text. All this public, open and live genocide has once again continued to target the Gaza Strip since last October 7. The massacres have overflowed beyond all the letters of languages and awakened human consciences with protests and demonstrations in a number of capitals and cities of the world in light of this horrific and unprecedented destruction. Can language speak? It crawls through the alleys of the camps and the neighborhoods of the destroyed cities in a besieged sector of resistance that does not raise a white flag. Perhaps it painfully captures some of the exciting details and stories that are absent in the biography of the liberated prisoner Omar Issa Rajab Masoud. Omar Masoud saw the light in 1974 in the Beach Camp northwest of Gaza City for a family that had forcibly immigrated after the Great Nakba. Year 1948 fromThe village of Deir Sneid, northeast of Gaza, and the Yad Mordechai settlement was built on the lands of the destroyed town, and the settlements of Azer and Erez were expanded on its outskirts, and it became part of the settlements known as the Gaza envelope. Omar joined the UNRWA schools in the Beach camp, and the boy witnessed the outbreak of the first intifada in mid-December 1987, confronting the Israeli occupation forces. Which took control of the Gaza Strip after the June 1967 aggression. In his youth, he joined the Red Eagle groups, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the First Intifada. He and his comrades carried out a number of military operations targeting occupation soldiers, settlers, and agents. The occupation forces arrested him in mid-May 1993 on charges of armed resistance and issued a ruling against him. Omar Masoud followed from He was imprisoned by some of the facts of the Palestinian issue and its dramatic transformations: the elections for the first session of the Legislative Council, the gift of the tunnel in 1996, the Jerusalem Intifada in 2000, armed operations and bombings in Israeli cities, the invasion of West Bank cities during Operation Defensive Shield in late March 2002, and the continuing attacks on the Gaza Strip, and the more the confrontations intensified in the homeland’s squares. The prisoner Omar and his comrades were subjected to a fierce campaign of repression and abuse in the prisons, also targeting the prevention of visits by the families of the prisoners to their detained children. Omar and his fellow prisoners received new punishments of abuse when the resistance in Gaza, in late June 2006, detained the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and transferred him from the Gaza border to Within the Gaza Strip, Israel issued a racist law called Shalit, under which it prevented the people of Gaza from visiting their children in the occupation prisons, and included a wide range of harsh measures that targeted the people of the Gaza Strip under the pretext of recovering the kidnapped soldier. Omar witnessed in his prison the division between the Fatah and Hamas movements in the summer of 2007 following the victory of Hamas participated in the second session of the Legislative Council and formed the Palestinian government for a short period. The gap widened between the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip under the authority of Hamas, at a time when the occupation declared the Gaza Strip a hostile entity in early September 2007 and imposed a comprehensive siege on it. Omar watched from Nafha prison in the Negev the siege of the Strip. The warplane bombing that targeted Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009 during the Cast Lead aggression, which stopped on January 18, 2009 after 23 days of destruction, and continued the Pillar of Defense aggression that targeted the Gaza Strip for eight days since mid-November 2012. Nine of Omar’s comrades were freed in a deal. Shalit was exchanged prisoners in mid-October 2011, and they returned victorious to Gaza with a large group of prisoners from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The exchange deal did not succeed in freeing Omar, and he remained in prison alongside his companion Mahmoud Muhammad Salman from Beit Lahia, Gaza, in addition to 100 high-ranking prisoners held in prisons. The occupation before the signing of the Oslo Accords in mid-September 1993. It was agreed between the Palestinian Authority and the occupying state to liberate the pre-Oslo prisoners by distributing them into four batches. 15 prisoners from the Gaza Strip and 11 prisoners from the West Bank were liberated in the first batch in mid-August 2013, and Omar and his companion Mahmoud Salman were liberated along with 24 prisoners. In the second batch, on the morning of October 30, 2013, they returnedVictorious, they took three prisoners to the Gaza Strip, despite all attempts by the Ramon prison administration in the Negev desert to harass him to cut off his joy of freedom. Omar expressed his joy in seeing the lands of his village, Deir Sneid, while crossing the Erez crossing on his way to the beach camp. The editor, Omar, witnessed aggression in mid-July 2014. Israeli Protective Edge targeted the Gaza Strip over a period of 51 days, and he lived in the Beach Camp. Three new wars targeted Gaza: The Dawn Cry in mid-November 2019, the Sword of Jerusalem on May 10, 2021, and the True Dawn in early August 2022, mid-October 2017. Mahmoud Salman participated with sadness in the funeral of the fighter’s body to his final resting place in the Beit Lahia cemetery. His stubborn companion passed away in Cairo hospitals while being treated for the deadly cancer. Omar Masoud married and settled in the beach camp and had four children, the eldest of whom was no more than ten years old, but the bloody occupation did not The freedom fighter will be forgiven for his toughness, his fighting stances, and his national struggle for freedom and independence. He bombed his home in Al-Shati camp on the morning of October 30, 2023, and the steadfast editor was martyred alongside his wife and four children. From what sky does torment appear, from what land that captures the missing details, the boy lived for twenty years as a refugee. In the Beach camp, the activist spent more than twenty years in the occupation prisons, and the husband lived for ten years with his family members before the crimes of the usurping entity, his wife, and his four children added him, along with thousands of victims from the nation’s people, to the record of immortal martyrs in the context of horrific crimes and a new open war of extermination targeting the Gaza Strip. Since last October 7 read the original
Blog Title The United States Port Plan for Gaza Questions and Concerns Author Maher Al-Sharif Date March 13, 2024 The project proposed by US President Joe Biden on March 7 in his speech to Congress on the State of the Union, which stipulates the establishment of a floating port on The coast of Gaza City to facilitate the delivery of food, water, medicine, and temporary shelter to the residents of the Strip. There are many questions and reservations centered around the feasibility of this project, who are the parties that will bear responsibility for distributing aid on the ground, what are the goals behind it, etc. What is the feasibility of this port, leaving behind the criticism that has prolonged its feasibility? This project requires a long time to implement, its large cost, the logistical difficulties facing it, and the issue of distributing aid and ensuring its security. While the Gazans today, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, suffer from the dangers of a widespread famine that has so far claimed the lives of 21 infants in intensive care centers in some hospitals that are still operating. With difficulty and they need immediate aid. Estimates indicate that putting this port into service will take at least two months, and the cost of establishing its infrastructure, according to Western diplomats familiar with the project, could reach tens of millions of dollars. The shallow depth of the coastal waters in Gaza could pose a problem for For the large ships needed to transport aid, the issue of who will be responsible for managing and security of distribution operations in the port has not yet been resolved. However, most important of all is that the aid that will arrive at the Cypriot port of Larnaca will be subject to Israeli control before being transported to the Gaza Strip and will therefore be subjected to strict inspection by the Israelis. According to humanitarian organizations, they are accustomed to delaying the pace of delivery, not to mention that delivering aid by sea will not solve a major problem, which is the inability of trucks to deliver their goods and then distribute them.In light of the intensity of the ongoing Israeli bombing and ground fighting 1, it is a smoke screen and a futile project. Many experts have questioned the feasibility of this project, including Lucille Marbo, assistant responsible for communications at the International Committee of the Red Cross, who initially expressed her regret that the humanitarian aid subject to the green light from Israel is not... It is currently arriving only in small quantities in the Palestinian Strip. She then stressed that while waiting for the establishment of a temporary port in Gaza, it is necessary for aid to arrive on a large scale by land, and it is also necessary for organizations to be able to work to ensure its safe distribution. 2 As for Avril Benoit, Executive Director For Doctors Without Borders in the United States, he considered that the American project to establish a temporary dock in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is nothing but a smokescreen and obscures the real problem of the Israeli army’s indiscriminate and disproportionate bombing and punitive blockade imposed on the Strip, appreciating that food and water The medical supplies that the people of Gaza desperately need are located directly across the border, and Israel must facilitate these supplies rather than prevent them. This is not a logistical problem, but rather a political problem. The United States must insist on immediate access of humanitarian aid using the roads and entry points that already exist, and it must, he continued, It calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire because it is the only way to ensure a real increase in emergency aid3 while Michael Fakhri, a Lebanese-Canadian law professor and UN Human Rights Council expert on global food security, told the press in Geneva that Israel is destroying the food system in Gaza as part of a campaign widespread starvation and described the American aid policy as absurd as long as military aid to Israel continues. 4. Who will distribute the aid that will arrive through this port? The Israeli war government, which seeks to eliminate the Hamas movement’s civilian authority in the Gaza Strip and weaken its relations with its popular incubator, welcomed the floating port project, believing that it will prevent... The Hamas movement is able to control the distribution of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli analyst Ron Ben Yishai, the presence of a pier in front of the northern shores of the Gaza Strip, where Israel controls, will ensure that aid reaches direct access to international relief organizations inside the Gaza Strip without the mediation of Hamas. 5 While Pentagon spokesman General Patrick Ryder stated: To the media on Friday, March 8, that the United States is holding talks with non-governmental organizations, relief groups, and the United Nations regarding how to deliver aid. 6 However, these international relief organizations will continue to face the difficult problem they currently face regarding ensuring the safe distribution of aid, as long as Israel continued its brutal war on the Gaza Strip and its residents, as long as the American administration did not force its ally to accept an immediate and permanent ceasefire. What are the real goals behind this project? President Joe Biden’s position on the war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip and his unlimited support for it militarily and politically caused the He lost the support of a large portion of his voters and was on the cusp of an election campaign for a second presidential term. He proposed a project to establish a floating port in Gaza in order to respond above all to the approaching elections in the United States and the internal pressures exerted on him by a part of the American people, as legal expert Michael Fakhri estimated while Israeli analyst Ron Ben Yishai saw that the Joe Biden administration is in needIt is desperate to please Democratic Party voters, Muslims and supporters of the Palestinians, and wants to show them that the United States is entering aid into the Gaza Strip despite the opposition of the extreme nationalist movement in the Israeli government. In this way, Biden’s image will improve in the eyes of young voters from the progressive movement in his party who threaten not to vote. For the Democratic President 7 However, other analysts went further in their analysis of the objectives behind this port project, when some of them suggested that the Americans are coming to provide assistance to the people of Gaza, and in reality they are, but in reality, they are coming above all to provide Israel with the ability to close the borders. With Egypt completely, which is the goal aimed at by the Israelis who seek to isolate Gaza from its Egyptian borders so that Hamas loses its supply route. 8 In addition, closing the border with Egypt could allow the American administration to pressure the Israeli war government so that it does not expand the Israeli army’s ground campaign. To include the Rafah area before developing a clear plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians from it, while others pointed out that what is used to transport food, medicine, and emergency equipment could also be used in other cases to transport troops or armored vehicles. 9 Opinions also emerged warning that among the goals of building this port would be to facilitate Voluntary migration of the population of the Gaza Strip, which is the goal that a number of ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government aspire to achieve. The Joe Biden administration is evading confronting the main question. A number of officials from international relief organizations considered that President Joe Biden is focusing on the issue of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip, which he wants to deliver once again. By air and another by sea in order to distract attention and avoid facing the only important question today, which is how to stop this destructive war waged by Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Democratic voters who may eliminate his chances of re-election next November want Joe Biden in the first place. To stop his unconditional support for the continuation of this war, which was expressed by the anti-war demonstrators who intercepted his convoy on his way to deliver his speech before Congress and raised banners inside the Congress hall confirming that Biden’s legacy is genocide and calling for a permanent ceasefire and demanding to stop sending bombs to... Israel 10 The American administration, instead of spending money and effort to circumvent a blockade imposed by a country that is supposed to be its closest ally in the region, can simply restrain Israel and force it to stop this war, which has made the United States lose its credibility in the world and made it difficult to distinguish between it and countries that reject international law. 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Blog title The day after giving priority to the human being over who will rule Author Anis Mohsen Date November 16, 2023 The active forces jumped in The war on the Gaza Strip is about who will rule after the end of the war, which is not surprising since these actors are more than supportive of Israel, but rather they are partners in the war on Gaza 1 on people and quarantine through arming, financial, political and media support and insistence on rejecting the ceasefire despite the fact that a number The victims exceeded 11,000, about two-thirds of whom were children, women and the elderly, who are protected under international law and international humanitarian law. The number of wounded also exceeded 40,000, and they are distributed according to the same age group. The number of displaced persons from the main area of fighting, whether in the same area or This is in addition to the total or partial destruction of more than 45 buildings and civilian objects in the northern Gaza Strip, which are also protected objects under international law, especially hospitals and medical centers of all kinds. This also applies to the south of the Strip, where more than 47 civilians fell. Martyrs and wounded, in addition to the widespread destruction, and it is subjected to a complete siege, just like the northern Gaza Strip. What must be pointed out is that the systems and laws were established for the sake of humans first and their non-negotiable rights. Therefore, what matters in Gaza is if one accepts the mental exercise regarding who will rule the devastated Strip 2. Humans. The Palestinian in this land 3, whose needs must be provided for housing, food, water, and a stable, livable environment, and conditions that seek not to push him towards extremism, based on the human suffering he is experiencing. All experiences, old and modern, have proven that their outcome is extremism and more extremism, in addition to the decisions of the Assembly. The General Assembly of the United Nations stipulates the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination without any external interference. 4 Before the mental exercise regarding who will rule the Gaza Strip after the war, it is necessary to remember the following reality and the possibilities that amount to certainty. 1 The Gaza Strip, which has an area of 365 square kilometers, is 5 long. It is 41 kilometers long and ranges between 6 and 12 kilometers wide. Its territory includes a population estimated at approximately 2.23 million people. 6 It is the most densely populated area per square kilometer in the entire world, with a population density of 5,936 individuals per year.One square kilometer, according to estimates for the year 2022 7,2 The area of North Gaza Governorate is 61 square kilometers, inhabited by 444,412 people, and the area of Gaza Governorate is 75 square kilometers, inhabited by 167,767 people. These two governorates occupy 2,37% of the total area of the Gaza Strip, with a population of 1,211,579 people. That is, a percentage of 54 of the total population. 3 Currently proposed is the displacement of the population of the North and Gaza governorates to the center and south of the Gaza Strip, i.e. cramming 100 of the population into a percentage of 62.8 of the area of the Strip, which means increasing the population density per square kilometer in an area that is considered the highest density. population in the world, and thus the impossibility of securing adequate housing in the best of cases and housing that is most likely livable according to a scenario currently proposed by Israel and America at least. As for the first scenario that Israel called for with declared American approval, it is to transfer the entire population of the Gaza Strip to the Sinai desert, evacuate the Strip of its residents, and negotiate later. A political agreement to return them is reminiscent of the issue of the 1948 refugees who have been seeking refuge for 75 years, as well as decisions requiring their return and compensation for their losses. Of course, nothing has been achieved from this scenario to date, and it is rejected by the Palestinians and by Egypt and Jordan. 4 The various solutions proposed now, regardless of The possibility of creating an alternative ruling authority in the Gaza Strip, and the nature of this authority leads to one result, which is the intensification of the Palestinian refugee problem that has existed since 1948 without certainty of a real solution, and this is what experience shows. 5 The experiences of what happened to the Palestinian refugees in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon are still fresh in our minds. The American occupation of Iraq in 2003, the overthrow of the existing authority, and the occurrence of planned chaos. The vast majority of Iraqi Palestinians who were resettled in Brazil and Sweden were displaced. After the events of 2011 in Syria, tens of thousands of Syrian Palestinian refugees were displaced, who settled mainly in Lebanon and Jordan, and in other Arab countries in smaller numbers. In Europe and America, there are also tens of thousands, and at least 54,500 of the approximately 500,000 Palestinian refugees are now mostly in Europe. Therefore, the tragic conditions that will result for the residents of the Gaza Strip, based on the first or second scenarios, will mean a new migration of refugees, old and new, and of course towards Europe in Most of them, whose governments will bear the burden of supporting Israel in its war on the Gaza Strip. 6 As for the scenario that those who exercise intellectual thought do not talk about after the Gaza War, it is the resistance’s ability to withstand and thus not allow what is planned to empty the Strip of its Palestinians to pass, which will It forces the world to deal with two challenges: the first is the reconstruction of the devastated Gaza Strip, especially the governorates of Gaza and North Gaza, where the devastation caused by the Israeli destruction machine has exceeded every imagination of infrastructure and housing. The second is that its signs are present before the war ends, which is represented by the political crisis that will arise in Israel due to two failures. Failure 7. October and the failure to achieve the declared goals of the war on Gaza 7 Regardless of who will rule Gaza, without reconstruction, the fire of tension and the possibilities of war will remain present at any moment, and this is what the Palestinian experience has proven since the 1948 Nakba, through the 1982 War, and until the current Nakba that the Gaza Strip is experiencing, as The Palestinians have overcome all crises by keeping the flame of resistance burning, and it will remain burning unless the Palestinian issue is resolved with a just solution that includes the establishment of a fully sovereign, geographically and economically viable Palestinian state, and unless the issue of the Palestinian refugees finds a just solution, including the implementation of Resolution 194, whichConfirms the right of return and compensation 8. What the world ignores is that the Palestinians have always chosen of their own free will and democracy to represent them. Fatah was considered the first faction to launch the option of armed struggle. The people removed figures who emerged after the 1948 Nakba and rejected Arab hegemony over the independent national decision whose banner Fatah raised. Today the situation will not be different. Resistance in the face of liquidation plans is also an option, regardless of who carries their banner. 1 The decision of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the Sirumba case, March 12, 2008, paragraph 161, has become a legal norm regarding the punishment of instigators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide, which stipulates However, committing genocide is not limited to direct and physical proximity and that other acts can constitute direct participation in the criminal act of the crime, especially aiding and abetting, as well as direct and public inducement and incitement to commit genocide. See the Scientific Dictionary of Humanitarian Law published on the Doctors Without Borders website at the electronic link. 2 The Gaza Strip is likely to suffer greater destruction unless nations realize that danger and chaos will not remain captive in the geographical area of war, but rather their repercussions will spread far towards the northern Mediterranean and first to the nearest north. 3 As a reminder, 75 of them are refugees and the children and grandchildren of refugees since The 1948 war and no solution to their asylum issue was found despite the passage of 75 years and the issuance of dozens of UN resolutions regarding them and their case. 4 United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. 2326, which was approved on November 22, 1974, stipulates the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. For more, see the resolution on the website United Nations in the electronic link 5 Location and climate indicators Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in the electronic link 6 Estimated population in Palestine mid-year 2023 by governorate 1997 2026 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in the electronic link 7 Summary of statistical indicators in Palestine by region Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics 7 2 2022 in the electronic link
Blog Title Cracks in Israel’s Iron Walls Author Uday Al-Barghouti Date November 15, 2023 At the end of 2021, the occupation army announced the end of its 65-kilometre-long isolation wall project around the Gaza Strip after more than three years of continuous work and a financial cost estimated at billions of shekels. With high confidence for a country that believes that walls are better and more lasting, former Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced at the announcement party that accompanied the inauguration of the wall that the wall, which is a technological project, would deprive the Hamas movement of its ability to exploit its attack tunnels. 1 With great enthusiasm that accompanied that festive atmosphere, Gantz ended his speech by saying This wall will help this beautiful region, the settlements surrounding Gaza, to continue to grow and prosper. 2 The military assembly applauded with more warmth than the heat of occupied southern Palestine, due to the ability of this country to manufacture more surplus cement and control the industry of fortification with walls and antennae. In 2014, Israel launched its aggression against Gaza and marked The military operation at that time, Protective Edge, failed militarily and security-wise in confronting the resistance’s offensive tunnels, as the resistance was able to infiltrate and penetrate the so-called Gaza border area and kill Israeli soldiers. Serious thinking began about establishing a buffer zone between Gaza and its colonial south. A security wall above and below the ground equipped with horns. Sensing, sensitive sensors, a mixture of surveillance towers and hundreds of cameras beganWorking on the wall in 2017, and for this purpose Israel employed all its expertise in the field of military and security technology, based on the myth that it is a pioneer in the field of ghettos in the world. How could it not be, when it is the only settler-colonial state remaining from the experiences of the Western world that sells the goods of subjugating the population and isolating them in ghettos in Market the capitalist world as a tested commodity. Israeli arms companies promote that their weapons are constantly and continuously tested on a people whom Israel’s colonial machine has turned into a field for experiments. They also promote the effectiveness of those military and security systems. Israel derives its certainty from the series of walls that it has deployed on several hills of the separation and connection wall in the West Bank. The West Bank began exporting the wall industry to the Maghreb with the Moroccan Sahara, passing through Sinai, as Israeli security companies contributed to building a wall with Sinai and obtained concessions and commercial contracts in order to build security walls in both Somalia and Kenya, not the least of which is the wall that they began on the Lebanese border in 2018. Israel has become the largest exporter of cement and its private sector has become the largest promoter of wall manufacturing in the markets of modern nation-states. Taking advantage of the obsession of those countries that have become trapped in their national obsessions with designing national-ethnic homogeneity, Israel launched its favorite project in the mountains of central Palestine, the West Bank, which began work during the second intifada in 2002. Which extends over a length of 720 kilometers, based on strategic expansionist security and settlement policies. The wall, which was built more than twenty years ago, had many functions, including what was security and oversight, aimed at preventing the guerrilla operations that accompanied the second intifada inside occupied Palestine in 1948, and what was expansionist based on the idea of isolating The population of the West Bank, turning them into isolated communities separated from each other, preventing them from entering the territories occupied in 1948, in addition to controlling large areas of Palestinian land in the West Bank, while at the same time creating safe passages for settlers. In the end, the wall was doing a double job, reconnecting the settlements in the West Bank with The Great Colony in Palestine occupied in 1948, isolates the territories of the West Bank from each other, and controls and regulates traffic to Palestine occupied in 1948 through monitored crossings and equipped with the latest control and monitoring tools through a security file managed by the Israeli security services through what is known as population management and subjugation operations. The sea does not swallow its people. It was said. Once upon a time, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin wished, one stormy night during the first intifada, that the sea would swallow the Gaza Strip, with its coast extending from end to end, its wells, camps, alleys, and the dreams of his children. There is no harm in it swallowing his settlements as well. The sea did not fulfill Rabin’s wish, who left before seeing his state. It becomes more and more involved in the dilemma of Gaza and its sands, and before the symbol of the Israeli militarism, Ariel Sharon, decides to withdraw from Gaza and turn his back on it, after he decided that Gaza’s goods are lost in the Israeli calculations, or as they say, do not meet its concerns, after Gaza exhausted him in the 1970s, just as it exhausted him in the Intifada. The second, on the cusp of the new century, at that time, Sharon also departed, and Gaza remained, its people remained, and its sea was still stormy from the heart of the house. On the morning of October 7, 2023, hundreds of Hamas resistance fighters launched an organized attack from land and sea and via homemade gliders. The world woke up in shock before the horror of Israel’s shock. Palestinian resistance fighters overran the first Israeli defense line with the Gaza Strip, and the separation wall is a source of prideThe Israeli national industry. Nearly a thousand fighters and more arrived at the heart of the Gaza Division Command. They also reached 11 military sites and 20 settlements tens of kilometers from the Gaza Strip. A few days ago, Israel had celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the so-called Battle of Ghufran, and in that battle the Israeli forces failed to obstruct... The Egyptian forces crossed the first line of defense to secure the western bank of the Suez Canal, or what was called at the time the Bar Lev Line. These fortified defenses were promoted as an impenetrable fortress before Egyptian water cannons melted them and drowned the impregnable earthen berms. The Israeli security services’ assessment was that the Arabs were incapable of fighting. They are still under the impact of the shock of the 1967 war and are still living in an atmosphere of defeat and do not have the necessary tools to overcome these fortifications. Despite the Egyptian tactical surprise, the Israeli army was able to turn defeat into victory and obstruct construction on the day of the crossing, so Israel regained the initiative with the American airlift and besieged The Third Egyptian Army and the city of Suez. However, the Israeli Yom Kippur did not forgive the army establishment and its security arms for the existential anxiety caused by the crossing, which jumped from the subconscious in Zionist memory to the surface of memory and its awareness after complex camouflage operations adopted by the resistance after the Battle of Saif al-Quds in 2021. The Israeli oversight agencies were reassured of their certainty. Once again, Israel turned its back on the Gaza Strip and directed its gaze towards the West Bank, and was preoccupied with the alleys of Jenin Camp, Aqabat Jabr, Balata Camp, the Kasbah of the Old City in Nablus, and others. At this time, the resistance in the Gaza Strip was made from the inside of the house, as they say, and within what was available and possible under the control of The crossings and a long-term siege turned the Gaza Strip into an open-air prison, the air they breathe and the amount of calories in the food they eat being calculated by its people. October’s crossing was once again a sore in the heart of the Israeli security and military glut, and a collective shock to Israeli society and to the scattered walls in World markets, and Israel, as an advanced European-American colonial wall in the region, has been put to the test and questioned. Returning to the beginning, in a war in which thousands of victims fell and has not yet ended, the resistance is still performing its heroics on the field, and it is all in the form of hope with the scarce information that reaches us from the battlefield in the war. Existentialism supported by American battleships in the broadest sense to eliminate the remaining presence of the Palestinian issue, which regained its effectiveness after the great crossing saga. Israel was based on an eschatological vision of salvation based on the theories of the Zionist leader Zeev Gaptonsky, who inaugurated the idea of the iron wall in the mind of the Zionist project by creating an iron wall adopted by a state. The Zionist movement is Israel in its entirety, and the Palestinian cannot demolish it. As many times as he hits his head against this wall, his blood flows until the latter accepts, consciously and subconsciously, the impossibility of crossing this wall and accepting the strength and arsenal of these walls. Between Gaptonsky’s iron wall, the wall of donors, and the funds of European transnational capitalist organizations, the besieged Palestinian finds himself fighting for... More than a wall, a cement wall loaded with sensitive sensors and a transparent, invisible, soft-touch wall that is well-funded by donors and local agents working hard in favor of financial policies. To say the least, it makes the threads of the soft wall a rope that wraps around the neck of the Palestinian and surrenders to the will of the donors and the discourse of development on the floor of the globalized market. In which the World Bank's language and policies prevailNeoliberalism sees the occupation as a partner in development and not a fundamental obstacle to the development of liberation in its broad and comprehensive sense and centered on people. The Palestinian has been stuck in the train and tunnel of the state, and the resistance is now trying to get out of the tunnel of the state into the tunnels of liberation, and we are still drawing hope. A lesson in will, but in the south, do not push. Traveling except to him, his children have broken the eye of that state that has been on their necks for many years, that state that has always stared at them with a red, angry eye wide open, but the people of the South have gouged out the eye of the beast and broken it. Israel today is a state with a broken eye, after its idea was based on the excess of vision and that it You see behind the walls and know what the chests hide, and in this moment of blindness, the people of Gaza returned in their own way to their lands occupied in 1948. They opened many loopholes in Israel’s wall, which is equipped with all the surveillance techniques, and liberated those lands for long hours. They also liberated us from the defeat of consciousnessThis is due to the complicity of the Israeli judicial system, represented by the Israeli Investigation Service and the Israeli courts, led by the Supreme Court, which refused to provide justice to the Palestinian victims and provide them with protection. This is consistent with what was documented by the Israeli organization Yesh Din, that only 3 of the thousands of attacks carried out by the settlers ended with the conviction of the assailants, while the files were closed. The other, under the pretext of insufficient evidence. The Israeli Supreme Court also rejected most of the appeals submitted by Palestinians against the theft of Palestinian lands in Area C by settlers. Also, there were no serious attempts on the part of the Israeli army and security forces to prevent these attacks and provide protection for the defenseless Palestinians, and the greatest evidence of this is Accompanying settler soldiers during their attacks and the reluctance of the Civil Administration to grant permits to farmers to access the olive fields within the settlement security fence, which would deprive many families from picking olives and thus threaten this year’s olive picking season. This is added to the siege policy and the economic pressures being exerted. On the population in the West Bank after October 7, the most important of which is preventing more than 200,000 Palestinian workers from reaching their jobs behind the Green Line. This report was prepared at a time when the war had not yet stopped and at a time when the Israeli army was using excessive repressive force in the West Bank through easy killing and arrests. Which is expected to increase, bringing the number to more than 180 martyrs and 2,300 detainees during the war and the tight siege imposed on the Palestinians, and in exchange for the freedom of movement of settlers on the roads. Today, more than 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank live in an unprecedented situation, similar to a state of waiting for the unknown, concealing within its folds an open confrontation, most of which is open. Horrified by the armed settlers whose top agenda is to seize the opportunity of war to carry out and escalate attacks within the old and new displacement plan inherent in the mentality of the leaders of the Zionist movement and settler leaders, and with the transformation of Israeli society into an extreme right-wing society, which was evident in the arrival of the current Israeli government led by Netanyahu and the participation of Ben Gvir and Smotrich to power. And their racist and fascist policies towards the Palestinians, not only in Gaza, but also in all places of the Palestinian presence, whether inside, in Jerusalem, or in the West Bank. What raises concern is that the Palestinians are watching the scene without receiving any form of protection, despite all the repeated demands and at the highest level. The settlement project as a political project from its inception was the most dangerous project for the Palestinian issue and aimed from the first moment to prevent reaching any solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, given that the West Bank is Israeli territory and is called in Literature of the Israeli governments in Judea and Samaria. This project constituted an entry point for attempts to annex the West Bank and change the features of the city of East Jerusalem, whose area has increased tenfold due to settlement, and as part of the attempts of successive Israeli governments to bring about a demographic change that makes the Palestinian Jerusalemites a besieged minority and to develop a systematic plan to displace them through racist laws in building matters. Urban expansion, the demolition of homes, and the withdrawal of identities. With Israeli governments being aware of the importance of the settlement project, huge budgets were spent to develop it. These development processes have accelerated since 1974, after the demise of the Labor Party, when the number of settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem was only 30, reachingToday, there are 176 settlements and 186 settlement outposts, and the positions of the international community, including the United States and the European Union, have not succeeded in curbing the settlement acceleration or freezing it. Today, the Palestinians discover that it was a mistake to postpone the settlement issue and make it one of the issues of the final solution when signing the Oslo Accords, even though this matter is being talked about today. It may be too late, and there is no clearer indication of the future of settlement than Netanyahu’s statement a few days ago, which said that a return to settlement in Gush Katif in Gaza is possible as a recompense for what Sharon did in 2005, who withdrew from the Gaza settlements unilaterally for several reasons, the most important of which is security. The growing talk Regarding political solutions, such as the two-state solution after the end of the war, it does not agree with the logic of current events that aim not only to respond to the Hamas attack on October 7, but also to liquidate the Palestinian cause by displacing the population under the slogan of Gaza First. read the original
Blog Title: The War between the Arrogance of Power and International Law Author Muhannad Abdel Hamid Date November 14, 2023 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are exposed to a war of extermination accompanied by the erasure of the place with its cities and towns and making it unlivable. As for the West Bank, there is a war of liquidation through the killing of resistant young men and protesters and their arrest. It is a fierce war that threatens the fate of the Palestinian people. In the various places of its existence, it is not possible to separate what is happening in the Gaza Strip in terms of disasters and erasure from the fate of the Palestinian people’s cause and their legitimate rights. Now, more than ever before, the Palestinian people are united automatically, spontaneously and emotionally in the face of the imminent danger, but their political movement is still not united to repel the imminent danger and block the road. On genocide and displacement, overcoming this imbalance begins with thwarting the policy of turning a blind eye to the Israeli colonial apartheid system in favor of the war on alleged Palestinian terrorism, and by restoring belonging to the narrative of national liberation, legitimate and inalienable rights, and the right to self-determination, and by redefining the conflict in discourse, propaganda, and mobilization as a conflict between a movement Liberation and a people who possess a system of liberation values and defend a just cause that enjoys the support and support of the peoples of the world, and between a racist and exclusionary colonial occupation that practices plunder, persecution, repression and terrorism. The war of erasure, displacement and deletion of the Palestinian issue is accompanied by the bias of American and Western decision-making centers towards the Israeli narrative that has dominated the scene and influenced world public opinion. Negatively, especially after it exaggerated the description of Palestinian mistakes that occurred on October 7 and mixed them with artificial intelligence films that distorted and demonized the Palestinian, treated the Palestinians as human animals and villains, and described the war against them as a war of civilization against barbarism. Although the reports of human rights organizations revealed the exaggerations, the propaganda Israel and Western pro-Israel circles are still repeating fabricated allegations and films. The most dangerous thing is that they place responsibility for the death of hundreds of Israelis on October 7 on all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in order to justify targeting 2.3 million Palestinians with death, destruction and displacement. Demonizing all Palestinians to justify war crimes has become the task of the strongest supported regional army. The American military arsenal is to remove the resistance factions as an existential threat that is exaggerated to the point of madness. In this context, the people in the Gaza Strip, or most of them, are subjected to a terrible genocide represented by the destruction of their cities, camps, and civilization. The Israeli persistence in the brutal attack on the Gaza Strip puts the world before the most horrific war of genocide since the end of the war. The Second World War, to this day, does not exist in the language of balance of power and reasonAn existential threat threatening Israel. What happened on October 7 was a breach of Israeli security and stability, and it had an important symbolic value, represented in shaking the image of superiority, hegemony, and control over the peoples and countries of the region, especially when the breach demonstrated that Israeli superiority is neither absolute nor permanent, nor is it an inescapable destiny. Likewise, the danger lies. The breakthrough in shaking the image of Israel among the Jews of the world who supported it with immigrants came. The October 7 breakthrough came after the Israeli security and political establishment forgot the breakthrough of the Egyptian and Syrian armies on October 6, 1973. The absolute Israeli superiority and the penetration of the Palestinian guerrillas and the Jordanian army. The absolute Israeli superiority in the Battle of Karama in 1968. It transformed the propaganda machine. Israel and its Western extensions target civilians as a pretext to justify failure, take revenge, declare war, demonize all Palestinians, and mobilize world public opinion against the Palestinian people in preparation for a war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, noting that a portion of Israeli civilians and other nationalities were killed during the clash between Hamas fighters and members of the Israeli army and security. Those who launched a counterattack, that is, they were killed by Israeli fire, as testimonies of some Israeli survivors indicate. Ending the occupation or ending a people. It should have stopped at why the conflict exploded with this level of intensity and violence, as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says. It is also important to realize that the Hamas attacks did not happen. Out of the blue. For 56 years, the Palestinian people have been subjected to a stifling occupation in which settlements are steadily devouring their lands. They suffer from the violence directed against them, the stifling of their economy, the demolition of their citizens’ homes and their displacement. Their hopes for reaching a political solution to their plight have vanished. 1 Yes, the main reason for the 7/10 explosion and the protests and acts of resistance that preceded it. It is occupation, settlement, apartheid, domination, siege, plunder, humiliation, and closing all doors and windows to a political solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The path to ending the occupation and colonial control over the people and recognizing their legitimate rights leads to stability, security, and coexistence. On the contrary, Israel, as a colonial state, chooses the path of stabilizing and deepening the occupation and settlement by force and with more force. Instead of removing its occupation, the force leads a brutal attack to remove the resistance organizations and practically to remove 2.3 million Palestinians from their homes and homes. There is no doubt that the destruction of most of northern Gaza and the displacement of 1.5 million to the south as a first stage confirms the act of removal with the complicity of the United States and some Western countries, as they colluded with the continuation of the occupation and control. Racist colonialism against the Palestinian people is colluding today with the war of extermination. Writing off hospitals is the greatest war crime. The death of 1,000 Israeli civilians, including children and the elderly, and the detention of 250 in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, have been used to kill 10,900 Palestinians so far, half of whom are children and the overwhelming majority of whom are civilians, in addition to large numbers of victims. They are still under the rubble, and this toll is likely to be doubled with the continued killing, destruction, and forced displacement of more than a million and a half million citizens from northern Gaza to its south. What is happening in practice is turning Gaza into a mass grave, as actress Angelina Jolie said. The strangest thing is that the international system turns a blind eye to... The war crimes of genocide and their heavy losses, and highlighting the Israeli civilians who were killed in the October 7 attack, despite the huge and qualitative difference between the number of Israeli deaths and the Palestinian victims. Israel has refused to attribute what happened on October 7 to the occupation, settlement, and stifling siege.And the theft of resources and the war crimes it committed in its wars against the Gaza Strip, but it justifies the war of extermination and the displacement of a million and a half from the north of the Strip to its south due to what happened on October 7 and the right to defend itself, which contradicts international law expressed in the Fourth Geneva Conventions and their protocols, and the rights of the child and the human rights that it provides. Clear and unambiguous texts regarding the protection of civilians, especially children, and ensuring all their humanitarian and medical needs without any delay. Is there anything more heinous than responding to the killing of people by wasting the right to life of 2.3 million citizens and exterminating entire families? International humanitarian law considers the displacement of 1.5 million citizens and the destruction of their homes a crime. War, but Israel claims that the displacement is for their protection, and in this regard it obtains American cover instead of providing them with protection in their places of residence, the destruction of which is prohibited by international law. It justifies the comprehensive demolition by the presence of tunnels under all the buildings that Hamas uses in its fight against the occupying forces that are sweeping away. Gaza Strip. However, the pretext of demolition and displacement contradicts international law and must be stopped and prohibited. The same applies to depriving hospitals of fuel and claiming that Hamas uses fuel to launch attacks and launch rockets, even though there is no third party that supports the Israeli allegations, especially with regard to fuel and the presence of tunnels under hospitals. Why? The Red Cross, the United Nations, human rights institutions and organizations, and neutral countries do not verify the use of fuel in hospitals and its control, as well as the existence of tunnels and any use contrary to their humanitarian role, and preventing evacuation and stopping treating the injured in all cases. Unfortunately, the Israeli narrative is accepted in practice at the expense of international law and the international system. Human rights, the right to life and the protection of civilians. The law of the jungle and the arrogance of power are being dealt with in practice. On the other hand, it is the duty of international human rights organizations to intervene in defense of the law and not leave a defenseless people as fuel for the blind and hateful military machine and to say no to the war of extermination and collective punishment in its most brutal and brutal forms and to control all actions. By Law 1 Jerusalem Post editorial entitled Guterres’ speech justified the unjustifiable 10 26 2023 read the original
Blog title Hadeel Qazzaz The United Nations and the Security Council are responsible for the failure to stop the war Author Editorial Board Date November 13, 2023 Keeping up with the repercussions of the Israeli war of annihilation on the Gaza Strip, which Entering its second month, the Institute for Palestine Studies continues to organize seminars dealing with the various developments of this war. In this context, the Foundation hosted the Gender Justice Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa at Oxfam, Hadeel Qazzaz, in a dialogue moderated by the head of the Foundation’s Research Department and Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Majdi Al-Maliki. Under the title of the collapse of living conditions and the scarcity of international humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, in his presentation of the symposium, Maleki spoke about the deteriorating tragic conditions in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli aggression and the siege, especially on the humanitarian level. He discussed with his guest a number of points and questions, the most important of which is the urgent need for humanitarian aid, foremost of which is medicine, food, and fuel shortages. International organizations about bringing aid into the Gaza Strip and the role that these organizations can play in exposing Israeli practices. How long can this situation continue and will the war lead to the imposition of a new architecture for the lives of the people of Gaza? For her part, Al-Qazzaz began her speech by presenting some frightening numbers at all levels, the most important of which is displacement. To the areas south of the Strip, pointing toIsrael deliberately displaced the population and confined them to an area approximately 60% of the area of the Gaza Strip, which increased the suffering of the population who had already been besieged for 17 years, noting that a large percentage of the population of the Gaza Strip were originally refugees. She added that the situation in Gaza was not better 17 years ago, noting that Sarah Roy’s book on the Gaza Strip, which was published by the Institute for Palestine Studies, tells the story of the systematic policy of impoverishment since 1967, meaning that the new reality was built on deep-seated impoverishment and marginalization. She pointed out that the people of the Gaza Strip who were born during the years of the siege lived through nine wars in the years 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014. 2019 2021 2022 2023 Al-Qazzaz considered that the 2014 war was the most difficult of the previous wars, as it lasted 54 days, and the damage at that time was estimated at 5 billion dollars. Although the donor conference pledged to provide aid worth 5,5,4 billion dollars, what reached the sector was less than half the amount, and it was distributed Aid for development, humanitarian and reconstruction affairs, but this aid is in vain, as Israel intends in every war to destroy what was rebuilt, so things return to the point before zero. In a quick comparison between the 2014 war and the current war, Qazzaz pointed out the huge difference in the extent of the damage. For example, in the year In 2014, 16,000 housing units were destroyed, while the number in the current war reached 33,000 housing units after 33 days. Ironically, many buildings are still destroyed since the 2014 war, and the current war came to complete the tragedy. With regard to determining responsibility for the current reality in the Strip, Al-Qazzaz saw that The blame does not fall on UNRWA alone. The responsibility also falls on the United Nations and the Security Council for their failure to intervene to stop this war, which has been taking place in front of the entire world for 33 days. Never since the establishment of the United Nations has a region with this dense population been under continuous war without stopping or stopping. A humanitarian truce. Dr. Qazzaz spoke about the extent of the destruction, as 60 schools were damaged and 17 hospitals stopped serving, in addition to many facilities and institutions, in light of a state of complete helplessness among international institutions and organizations in exchange for a state of blind force used without deterrence. As for the aid that reaches... If it arrives in the Gaza Strip, Al-Qazzaz finds that it faces two problems. The first is its insufficiency. The income of the Gaza Strip so far is equivalent to or less than what was entering daily before the war. The second problem lies in the failure to meet the needs of the people. She added that the time has come for international institutions to realize that aid cannot be passed to The sector without commitment to the principle of advocacy for the rights of the Palestinian people. Without a solution, simply providing humanitarian aid will only delay the date of the explosion. It is like pouring drops of water on a hot tin. Qazzaz stressed that fighting international institutions is futile because these institutions are the weakest link, as they receive their funding from governments. European governments have become mostly right-wing, in addition to the spread of populism and the decline of human rights, or from individuals withdrawing their funding as soon as they do not notice any tangible change in this funding. She pointed out that a number of other organizations, including Oxfam, rely on private revenues, but they are declining, and as a result, the general atmosphere is not qualified to support the Palestinian people in the absence of advocacy and influencing. Qazzaz believed that the reason lies in the entities that fund these organizations, which is funding that is controlled in multiple ways, noting that 82 of the people of Gaza live on aid provided by international institutions currently funded by right-wing governments, which is funding. Conditional as submissions are subject to submissionto strict measures, which calls for the need to think about other means that allow freedom from this type of aid. In her answer to a question about the possibility of introducing aid in the coming period, she stressed the responsibility of the Israeli occupation to enter this aid based on international laws and said that it is the occupation’s duty to open All crossings, not just the Rafah crossing, to bring food and medical aid to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. She expected that after the war machine stops and they return to their areas, the population will be shocked by the extent of the complete destruction. She wondered about the role of donors, most of whom are European taxpayers, who contributed to the reconstruction of what was left behind by previous wars. She saw What is required is a political decision to cease fire, then comes the role of donors, but the problem is that these donations will not prevent the recurrence of war and destruction again. She concluded her speech by emphasizing the necessity of restructuring the United Nations system and the UN Security Council, which does not serve humanity in light of the veto power and as long as This regime is incapable of deterring a state that clearly violates the rules of international humanitarian law. Therefore, after the end of the battle, we must reconsider an important question: What has this council given us throughout the history of the Palestinian issue? In criticism of the failure of the United Nations and the Security Council to preserve human rights, Qazzaz said: We need to Mechanisms of application and implementation. Texts alone are not enough. In answering a question about any quick solution that can be taken currently in the midst of the crisis, she saw that the solution lies in signing and publishing the international campaign for an immediate ceasefire, as it is not possible to bring in aid under bombardment, open all crossings, and not be satisfied with the Rafah crossing. read the original
Blog title about women and children in Gaza Author Ayham Al-Sahli Date November 11, 2023 Statistics indicate that there are about 2.3 million Palestinians, about a million of whom are children under 18 years of age. Israel has so far killed more than 10,569 citizens by deliberate bombing. On the buildings they lived in, on the roads, in hospitals, or at their gates while they were crossing from the north of the Strip to its south, the place that was supposed to be safe, according to the claims of the occupation army, and among the citizens of the Gaza Strip, about 1.10 million females who lived in the Gaza Strip before the current aggression constitute what A percentage of 3.49 of the total population in the Strip, including 590 thousand females, reside in the northern governorates of the Gaza Strip, North Gaza Governorate and Gaza Governorate, with a percentage of 53.53 females in the Strip. There are about 1.05 million children under the age of eighteen who lived in the Gaza Strip before the aggression, constituting a percentage of 47 1 residents of the Gaza Strip, including about 32 under the age of five, 340 thousand children 1 of them. The number of martyrs - children, 4,324 and women - 2,823, as of midday on 9 11. When they are martyred, they are counted as numbers among the civilian losses, and with extreme accuracy, they are the losses of the war that Israel is waging on the Gaza Strip, and these They fall completely within the demographic battle of the Palestinian people that has been waged naturally since the Nakba in 1948. This battle was not planned by anyone, as claimed by the British magazine The Economist, which considered that the presence of a high percentage of children among the dead as a result of the escalation of the conflict in the Gaza Strip is due to Hamas’s policy of encouraging births. This is missed. The well-known magazine and others who talk about the population explosion in the Gaza Strip say that the problem is firstly the prison that Israel created in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of its siege in 2006. People were crammed there without any consideration, and usually some parties speak half the truth and do not complete it by mentioning the reason. This is not new, as it has rarely been addressed. Conditions of the Gaza Strip or the West BankThe West linked this to the presence of the occupation and its ongoing actions since its occupation in 1967. For example, the Western media and press talk about the occupied West Bank does not mention the settlements and settlers as one of the many forms of occupation in the place and as they constitute an obstacle to the Palestinian person practicing a normal and natural life like the rest of the human beings, children and women, in a report issued by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. It is reported that there are about 546,000 females of childbearing age in the Gaza Strip, of whom about 58 are married. 2 The United Nations Population Fund explains that among married women in the Gaza Strip there are currently 50,000 pregnant women trapped in the conflict, and about 5,500 women are scheduled to give birth within the next thirty days. That is, more than 160 births per day. 3 The United Nations Population Fund indicates that more than 840 women are expected to suffer from pregnancy complications or complications related to childbirth. 4 It explains that many of these women have been cut off from safe delivery services, as hospitals crowded with the wounded have... It has run out of fuel needed to operate generators, medicines, and basic supplies, including the supplies needed to manage emergency births. 5. More than one official Palestinian, Arab, and international body confirms that there is no longer any safe place in the Gaza Strip and that everyone is at risk of death or injury under the Israeli occupation strikes that have not stopped since. More than a month ago, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Palestine, Dominic Allen, said that pregnant women truly have nowhere to go. They face unimaginable challenges in the midst of chaos. Some of them are forced to give birth in shelters and in their homes, as well as in health care facilities that are already suffering. He adds that one of them managed to give birth. Women were unable to reach the hospital and had to leave three hours after giving birth to make room for other pregnant women and other wounded people. 6 The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics confirms what Allen said and adds that daily birth rates in the main Shifa Hospital in Gaza decreased to 21 births per day out of 30. 40 cases in normal circumstances 7 Some women give birth to their children before their due date for several reasons, including what is organic related to malnutrition and the lack or absence of medicines, and what is psychological due to fear and terror with the continued bombing and news of daily death. When women give birth to their fetuses before the due date, the newborns are placed in incubators. However, they remain threatened with death at any moment due to the lack of fuel and the possibility that more hospitals will stop working and go out of service, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the directors of those hospitals in the Water and Food Strip, and in this ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, this is not new information that says About two million Palestinians there do not have access to fresh drinking water or to meals. Children and pregnant women in particular need fresh water and good food rich in vitamins and calories, but this is not available due to the siege, which has become more stifling and the lack of sufficient aid entering from the Rafah crossing, says a representative of the Fund. United Nations Population Agency in Palestine We hear truly horrific stories about the challenges faced by pregnant women. Some of them receive only one or two small bottles of water a day, which is very salty water. 8 This is happening while three water desalination plants have completely stopped in the Gaza Strip and thus it is no longer possible to provide for the need. The population therefore resorts to salty sea water, whether for washing or drinking sometimes. A joint statement 4 11 issued by UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Fund indicatedUnited Population and UNRWA on women and newborns who bear the brunt of the conflict in Gaza, pointing out that bombing, damage to health facilities or their inability to perform their functions, massive levels of displacement, collapse of water and electricity supplies, in addition to restricted access to food and medicines, all lead to severe disruptions to services. Health care for mothers, newborns, and children 9 This joint statement warned of the possibility of the death of many mothers and newborns as a result of the lack of necessary health care and the lack of water and food. 1 The numbers and percentages mentioned are taken from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. 2 See the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics on the website. 3 See the United Nations Fund. United Nations Population Fund on the website 4 The same source 5 The same source 6 See the United Nations Population Fund on the website 7 The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, a previously mentioned source 8 The same source 9 See a joint statement issued by international organizations on the website read the original
Blog title Omar Nashaba We bear witness Genocide of an entire people Author Editorial Board Date November 11, 2023 The Institute for Palestine Studies hosted the university professor, researcher, and supervisor of the Al-Qaws supplement published weekly with the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, and who is concerned with issues of justice and law, Dr. Omar Nashaba, in a symposium entitled Where is international humanitarian law in the aggression against Gaza, and the researcher interviewed him in Founder Barla Issa, in the third episode of the weekly seminars held by the Institute for Palestine Studies to keep pace with the ongoing aggression against Gaza. Nashaba said, in the context of responding to a question regarding assessing the legal status of the war that Israel launched on the Gaza Strip a month ago, that crimes continue, including killing thousands of civilians, targeting hospitals, etc. This is one of the matters that goes beyond the law and the lack of capabilities to rescue people from under the rubble brings us back to basic issues related to the value of human beings and human relations. The world finds us at times unable to solve the problem and at other times not intervening to prevent a ceasefire and destruction. The countries that reject the ceasefire are the same countries that It is supposed to be a sponsor of a just system in the world. He added, “We are witnessing the genocide of an entire people clearly and frankly and without any hesitation.” He pointed out that the law is a consensus between the major powers on some basic matters and that the UN Security Council’s resolutions constitute an essential part of international law. The problem is that countries The sponsor of human rights objects to stopping this brutality, the killing of children, and the destruction of hospitals. In addition, it seeks to find justifications for it. He said that he and others seek to document these crimes daily. He also touched on the launch of the Rome Declaration in 1998, the result of which was the establishment of the International Criminal Court to organize a mechanism for accountability for crimes. Which the local courts are unable to do, and to separate the crimes according to the Rome Statute into crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, which are the three crimes that constitute the basis of the work of the International Criminal Court, as he put it, and all of them occurred in the attack on the Gaza Strip, which has an area of approximately 360 square kilometers and in which 2,275,000 civilians live. Most of them are under the age of 15. Here, the Criminal Court is supposed to intervene and its work is activated in accordance with Article 13 through one of two methods: that the UN Security Council refers the case to the International Criminal Court, which in turn initiates investigation and follow-up, or that the member state that signed the Rome Statute submits a complaint and requests the opening of an investigation into a specific crime when Palestine filed a complaint a year ago2008 The Attorney General at the time, Luis Moreno, said that he could not initiate anything because Palestine is not a state, but when Palestine was recognized as a state in 2014 and 2015 and a complaint was filed, Fatou Bensouda had replaced Moreno, and from 2015 until 2021, no tangible changes occurred, and the investigation was opened in 2008. 2021 This is what is called impunity and accountability. In response to the question: Why did this impunity happen during all these years? He answered that there are suspicions of racism, as Ukraine filed its complaint and opened an investigation in 2022, and in 2023 an arrest warrant was issued against Putin. This is in contrast to the Palestinian case, and in a comparison between the victims of Ukraine. In Palestine, we find more victims in Palestine. Also, when Karim Khan, the public prosecutor, arrived in Rafah and found that the soldiers were preventing the entry of aid, he said that this may constitute a war crime, but he is not a judge in order to remain neutral. Rather, his job as a public prosecutor is to investigate and bring charges, and despite his vision of the truth, he said that The Palestinians should be tried for crimes they committed that may also constitute war crimes. He tried to be balanced in his speech and opinion because he needs funding to complete the investigation, and this funding comes from the General Assembly of the International Criminal Court, of which these countries that refuse to stop excessive violence are members, and this type of balance is described as a crossbow. It is a malicious balance. In addition, Nashabe mentioned that in light of this clear genocide, the Director of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights wrote after his resignation that there is a systematic crime of genocide being carried out in Palestine. Nashabe defined genocide in accordance with Article 6 as the total or total destruction of a national, religious, or ethnic group. Partly, this is what is evident in the aerial photographs and Netanyahu’s emphasis on preventing the entry of fuel into Al-Shifa Hospital and his insistence that it is a military center, which was denied by Max Gillberg, the Norwegian doctor who worked there for 16 years. This is evident because there were no military traces in the hospital after the attack. He also deplored the denials of civilized countries. And the countries of freedom and justice, such as Germany, Canada, Britain, and others, because Israel was the one that bombed the Baptist Hospital, and even began to justify it as well. He also said that Biden did not say that he did not know the perpetrator, but rather directly denied that Israel had done so, which indicates his knowledge that it was the perpetrator, and he touched on the self-defense argument that he mentioned. The Western camp said that this is reasonable if the attack was carried out by a member state of the United Nations, but the Palestinians live in misery and a miserable living situation, and with a party of wealthy people who built their prosperity on the ruins of usurped ancient villages, in addition to the largest prison in the world, all of these things push the Palestinians to do something. It is obvious that anyone living in their situation can do it. In response to a question about future options for suing Israel, he said that they are waiting for some progress on the part of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, but that there is not much hope in this area. As for the other options, a complaint can be submitted to The Human Rights Committee, and there is an investigation in this area, but most important of all, before starting to work on prosecuting Israel in the long term, there must be a ceasefire or a humanitarian truce. He also said that it is supposed that when the Security Council, whose decisions are binding, intervenes, the conflict will stop even from On the side of the one acting in self-defense, but in light of a helpless Security Council, there is a threat to world peace. He concluded by saying that the entity has usurped and is still usurping many of the Security Council’s resolutions. Regarding the possibility of there being a glimmer of hope in holding Israel accountable after we have become accustomed to it from violating international laws and violating human rights, he answered that there is hope in The steadfastness of the Palestinian peopleAnd standing by his side, but from a legal standpoint, it is not completely read the original
Blog Title Continuing Gradual Extermination in the West Bank and Jerusalem Author Ahmed Ezz El-Din Date of Announcement November 10, 2023 Colonialism and Genocide Palestinian Diagnosis Awareness There was an early Palestinian debate regarding the nature of the Israeli colonial project in Palestine 1 and it developed Later, precise academic diagnoses of the Zionist project, its nature and essence, including, for example, Fayez Sayegh’s study entitled Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, which is considered a basic reference in the study of Israel as a replacement settler colonialism. The book diagnosed Israel as a colonial regime different from traditional colonialism, which is naturally preoccupied with making profits. He formulated the nature of Zionist colonialism and its characteristics as a colonialism that aims to appropriate land and deportation, in addition to being a colonialism based on racism, terrorism, violence, and territorial expansion. 2 The global and Palestinian diagnosis of Israel has developed as a settler-colonial system that aims to erase, domination, economic exploitation, and apartheid, after lengthy debates and discussions that have not stopped until today. International and Palestinian institutions and journals, including the Institute for Palestine Studies, the Madar Center, Mada al-Carmel, and others. Birzeit University also became involved in this effort through its studies of displaced villages and later through the launch of academic programs in the humanities and social sciences. It sees Israel as a settler-colonial system and studies its manifestations and intersections with other colonial systems in In the world, Palestinian university education has become incessant in describing Israel as a colonial regime. In statements to the Bethlehem University Student Council, concepts indicating the nature of colonialism such as ethnic cleansing, spatial cleansing, and extermination appear. It seems that there is new evidence during this war that reinforces this vision, which is that Israel is a A racist settler-colonial system that aims to erase and exterminate. Perhaps this evidence is evident from groups of researchers, politicians, and media professionals who believed that there was intellectual luxury in diagnosing Israel as a hybrid colonial system that combines apartheid with economic exploitation, axis, and ethnic cleansing. In addition, there is a cumulative diagnosis of the Israeli situation as being It works on collective cleansing, that is, the cleansing of the Palestinian group and people and their existence as a political, cultural and humanitarian group, or what can be described as the genocide of the Palestinians. This genocide is not limited to Gaza alone, but rather takes an uglier and more horrific form in the Gaza Strip. It is possible to build on the prophecy of the novelist Elias Khoury, known as the Continuing Nakba, and say that The genocide is continuing, and the extermination is like the Nakba, or more severe in its modernist version of the year 2023. It is also one of the forms of the Nakba, or part of its components. The Nakba, according to Khouri’s logic, is continuing. Likewise, the genocide is continuing as an escalating structure that establishes and domesticates violence, terrorism, brutality, and killing with a clear conscience. There is also a huge media machine that is yellow in reality, discourse and practice, and white in method, thought, and theory. The spirit is to legitimize the process of systematic genocide against the Palestinian, and genocide has not practically stopped in Palestine since before the Nakba in 1948, and it is still continuing, but what differs is its pace, form, places, and times. Genocide is the act of killing and social and collective destruction of the Palestinian people, and it is more dangerous and broader than ethnic cleansing that aims to kill people. And its removal, while genocide aims to kill the person, the place, and the identity, and to delegitimize the human, political, cultural, and geographical existence with the aim of permitting the process of annihilation and obliteration, extermination by piece.In the West Bank and Jerusalem, what is happening in the West Bank and Jerusalem since the seventh of October falls within the framework of the major genocide that Israel unleashed against the Palestinians as a people and an identity. What is happening in the West Bank is a form of static or silent genocide, genocide by evasion and by piecemeal, that is, a segmented genocide aimed at The land or parts of the lands, such as Area C or specific areas of Jerusalem, or the prisoners, or encroaching on certain political movements and changing specific institutions, the most recent of which was the raid on November 8, 2023 on Birzeit University and its student council and its student bloc. This genocide takes a silent or hidden form and also the form of the piece. A piece, or as is common in Palestinian popular culture, annihilation in the literal sense, which is an integrated and total annihilation when assembling the pieces of the puzzle. The scattered annihilation whose features are observed and become clear when they are counted and grouped within the larger picture. The sum of the parts in this case equals the whole and may overflow it. The cumulative process of these individual and fragmented forms of actions Genocide and its practices create the image of the larger process of extermination that aims to uproot the Palestinians by all means and methods aimed at erasing the Palestinian, uprooting him, displacing him, killing him, and shedding his blood financially, politically, and morally. The occupation practiced deportation during the first ten months of the year 2023 in a systematic manner. For example, the communities of Ain Samiya and Wadi Al-Siq were displaced, and there were attempts Repeated displacement in Umm Safa, Al-Mughir, and Musafer Yatta. The occupation army and settlers also launched repeated and successive attacks on Palestinians in Bedouin and agricultural communities in Area C. Palestinian farmers were prevented from grazing their livestock in their pastures, and their agricultural crops were destroyed, burned, or destroyed by the settlers. The Israeli occupation also demolished agricultural rooms. And homes for Palestinians in several areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem, but there was a clear focus on targeting Areas C, the Jordan Valley, and Masafer Yatta, as if there was an Israeli dream of reviving the Alon 3 plan. There was a case of systematic targeting of West Bank camps in order to dismantle resistance communities and their incubators, which became clear through the targeting. Directly targeting the camps of Jenin, Nour Shams, Aqabat Jabr, Balata and other Palestinian camps, villages and cities that constitute a popular incubator for resistance work and a lever for it. The targeting took the form of military operations that last for long hours and aim to kill Palestinian resistance fighters and leave behind great destruction and sabotage, as if there was a policy to raise awareness and create sabotage and terrorism until it was completed. Deterrence and Punishment What I would like to say is that the total or partial annihilation in the West Bank is a precedent for the war on Gaza and the October 7 operation. This is because it is an ongoing genocide that operates in an intermittent and cumulative manner and is still continuing and escalating in light of the war on Gaza and amid the media, political, local and international preoccupation with it, and the genocide has taken a turn. A threat in the north and south of the West Bank, where it began to escalate, increase, and spread by settler militias, with the army’s protection and care, and with Israeli political blessing. Today, it is under the roof of a racist military rule that targets the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Palestine occupied in 1948. Some intermittent and ongoing acts of genocide can be monitored through some indicators, and I rely here on information. The OCHA office reports that these reports are accurate from a methodological standpoint, as they are issued by a neutral international organization so that there is no doubt about the accuracy of its data. In the OCHA report, the number of displaced people in the West Bank since October 7 is indicated as follows: a minimum of 111 families, including 905 individuals, including 356The displaced families come from more than 15 herding or Bedouin communities. Another 120 Palestinians, including 55 children, were displaced following the demolitions that took place in Area C and East Jerusalem, under the pretext that their homes lacked permits. 27 others were displaced, including 13. children following the punitive demolitions since October 7, 4. This means, in the language of numbers, that within one month, 1,025 Palestinians were displaced from the West Bank and Jerusalem and became internally displaced, meaning an average of 35 people are displaced per day. This forced displacement is part of the process of partial genocide that It aims to accumulate and achieve continuous and ongoing genocide. Matters did not stop only with displacement, but Israel also intensified its killing operations in the West Bank, and according to OCHA information, from October 7 until the first week of November, Israeli forces killed 150 Palestinians, including 44 children, and Israeli settlers killed eight. Others, one of whom was also a child. The Israeli forces wounded 2,375 Palestinians, including at least 251 children. More than half of them were injured in the course of the demonstrations, and 64 Palestinians were injured at the hands of settlers. About 27 percent of these injuries were from live ammunition. 5 That is, the daily death rate in the West Bank during During the month of aggression, there are approximately 5 martyrs per day, and this number does not compare to the number of martyrs today in the Gaza Strip, but even this number is large and dangerous and indicates the intention of genocide also in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The OCHA office also recorded 218 attacks launched by settlers on the Palestinians, which resulted in 28 casualties or incidents. Causing damage to property, 157 incidents, or causing casualties, and causing damage to property together, 33 incidents. This reflects a daily average of seven incidents, compared to three incidents since the beginning of this year. More than a third of these incidents involved threats with firearms, including gunfire, and nearly half of the incidents were accompanied by The Israeli forces provided actual support for the Israeli settlers as they launched their attacks. 6 It is noteworthy here that the Palestinians fear the danger of extermination, killing, and displacement on the part of the settlers more than they fear on the part of the Israeli army, not because the army is more humane than the settlers, but because they are accustomed to regular violence on the part of the army, while it is brutal. The settlers, their barbarism, and their precedents in burning Huwwara, the Dawabsha family, and Muhammad Abu Khudair make the Palestinians fear them more and fear their terrorist practices, which opens the question of genocide wide open in light of the presence of nearly a million settlers in the West Bank. In the past few months, the Israeli government has been studying the plan for a million in Shomron, that is, an attempt to settle them. One million new settlers in the northern West Bank. Was this Israeli plan part of the context of an intermittent or continuous genocide plan? The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs reported that there were 24 incursions and violations into Al-Aqsa Mosque during October. The occupation also prevented the call to prayer 142 times in the Ibrahimi Mosque during October. 7 According to the Monitor’s report for October, it was noted that Palestinians, especially Jerusalemites, were prevented from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque over the course of four Fridays during October, and only approximately 5,500 worshipers were allowed, the majority of whom were women and elderly men. This is a dangerous indicator of the imposition of an order. A new reality regarding entry to Al-Aqsa Mosque, and it may be a prelude to implementing and announcing the temporal and spatial division of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israel took advantage of the state of war on...Gaza Strip. Confiscations and seizures of land intensified during October. A total of 5,382 dunams were confiscated under various names, including confiscation for military purposes, seizures, natural reserves, expansion of facilities, etc. 8. Arrests and raids multiplied in a horrific manner in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and there is a focus on the governorates of Jerusalem and Hebron. In the arrest operations, on Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nablus, in the raids, the end of the beginning, steadfastness and resistance to dismantle genocide and colonialism. The Israeli government and settler militias have been carrying out partial genocide operations over the years in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Last month, they intensified the partial genocide operations scattered from the north of the West Bank to its south, which aims to paralyze... The backbone of Palestinian identity and its expressions in the West Bank by targeting resistance communities and their incubators and intensifying arrests of activists or anyone who could form a consensus in the resistance in any way. The situation in the West Bank is in disarray due to the absence of collective and organized action that can form a fertile environment for the development of resistance. In the face of this genocide in its various forms, the opportunity still exists for the Palestinians to gather their political remains there to be able to confront, stand firm, and resist as the simplest option in the face of the intermittent, continuous, and cumulative genocide to which they are exposed, the pace of which has increased and will increase after the war ends in the Gaza Strip. In Jerusalem, there is no fear for its young and old when they rise up to confront the aggressor. This is because they have experienced the field and know how to manage the battle with wisdom, intelligence, fortitude, and patience. 1 We can return to the Palestinian newspapers during the mandate period, especially Al-Karmel newspaper and Najib Nassar’s articles about Zionism. 2 Fayez Sayegh, Colonialism The Zionist in Palestine Beirut Research Center Palestine Liberation Organization 1965 3 These observations and observations are based on the reports of the Monitor of Israeli Colonialism and Apartheid Policies, which the Institute for Palestine Studies will launch on its website soon 4 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territories Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel Report Summary of developments No. 32 November 7, 2023 5 Same source 6 Same source 7 Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs 8 Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority read the original
Blog title The camera as an emotional release during war Author Youssef Salehi Date November 9, 2023 Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip In the wake of the repercussions of October 7, we are exposed to a huge amount of pictures and video clips that are circulated on news channels and social networking sites, documenting crimes, massacres, and violations against civilians in the Gaza Strip. In the eyes of the world, homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, and churches were bombed relentlessly, and media professionals have become Within range of the targets of Israeli warplanes, because they alone convey the image that condemns Israel to the world. Thirty days after the war, the number of journalists who were martyred rose to approximately 47, and dozens of them lost members of their families in the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation, including Al-Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, who He lost his wife, his son, and his daughter. Despite this, his situation is like that of the residents of the Gaza Strip in light of the continuing air, sea, and land attack. They do not find an outlet to grieve and console for the loss of their loved ones, so they cling to the lifeline and continue their lives in the face of the continuous bombing, and alongside...The role played by satellite television channels that broadcast news and transmit images in the Gaza Strip. We find other layers and dimensions to the images that are taken on social networking sites, whether with professional cameras or by filming their mobile devices. Since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, activist accounts of young men and women from cities have spread and circulated. Many people in the Gaza Strip document daily Israeli violations, crimes, and massacres, which makes us, as Palestinians isolated from the Gaza Strip, closer to what we see on their audio and video platforms, to the scenes of bombing, killing, and destruction and all that it entails. On the one hand, the speed of access of photos and video clips via Instagram, for example, reaches millions. User accounts who in turn share the same content on their personal pages so that the real picture reaches users everywhere in the world and for them to see the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation, which did not hesitate to cut off communications and the Internet from the Strip to make it more isolated. On the other hand, the citizens of Gaza, including journalists, are exposed We all refer to the same risks and threats in bombing alike. If we are wondering about the hidden forces that make medical teams work non-stop under the threat of bombing hospitals, the collapse of the health system, and the interruption of fuel and electricity, then it must also be said that there is something that makes press crews and photographers continue to perform their duties. They work despite the frustrating, difficult, and emotionally and psychologically affecting experiences they go through in front of what their lenses capture of the horrific murder scenes, burned bodies, and torn body parts under the rubble, which makes them exposed all the time to these images directly while we see them through our phone screens in the form of stories that do not exceed 15 seconds and may be blocked by Instagram because it is sensitive content according to its standards and policies. How can the photographer, in light of his exposure to dangers and separation from his family for long periods, maintain his composure and continue documenting the war with a camera he carries around his neck as if it were heavier than it appears because of the photos he took? He takes pictures, stores them, and posts them on Instagram, perhaps because he feels his responsibility to convey the picture as it really is, even if that exposes him to injury or death, which makes him look like a fighter, just as Hani Jawhariya fell as a martyr, shot by the bullets of the Israeli occupation and the camera in His hand on April 11, 1976, while he was filming a film about the battles of the Northern Matn in the hills of Aintoura, as if history was repeating itself and writing in the history of our cause a new catastrophe, systematic ethnic cleansing, and direct targeting of everyone who conveys the truth. Therefore, the journalist and photographer alike may feel that doing their job in... Documenting the war gives him strength and meaning. He owns the truth, documents it, and conveys it to the world, even if it costs him a heavy price psychologically and physically. The same camera that captures pictures of war may be an emotional release machine through which the photographer can alleviate his psychological burdens and reduce his tension by expressing his feelings and experiences. To followers and share them on social networking sites. At some point in the war, the photographer tries to capture the most tragic moments in a creative way. He creates meaning in the picture. He chooses the best angle. He tries to capture the saddest moments. He spies on the children, trying to capture moments of happiness escaping from the war. This does not necessarily mean that photography is a Psychological treatment is an emotional release in which the photographer has the right to choose what he wants his camera to capture on this day, because those scenes do notThey can be accustomed to and taken for granted, even if they are of children playing football in front of the rubble. After the end of the war, those images that we saw have all become archives and will not be forgotten. Each image will be purely symbolic and will serve as raw material for visual artists, photographers and filmmakers to embody the works of... Artistic, just as the image of Muhammad al-Durra and the image of the child Faris Odeh, who throws stones in front of the Israeli tank, and many other images were able to form Palestinian symbols read the original
Blog title Testimonies of displaced children Author Bisan Ntil Date March 11, 2024 Habiba Abu Mu’iliq, 8 years old, displaced from Al-Maghazi camp Tadou Habiba tells her stories on her school notebook, so she draws and writes her letters to her friends. She, like the whole city, waits for the war to end so she can return to her life, her school, and her friends. Habiba draws her imaginary character and names her Fayrouz. Fayrouz opens her arm to embrace all of life and places the crown on her head, smiling as she runs to her mother’s arms, Habiba says, “I was... I'm running to my mother. When I came from school, I got a full mark on the exam, and my mother was very happy with me. This is the most beautiful day for me. I painted, sang, sat and played. I miss my teacher, my principal, and my friends, Siwar and Rahaf. Siwar Abu Ghazal. She is a friend of my beloved at school and her neighbor in the residence. She says, 'Habiba Siwar, my friend, I don't know where she is.' Their house was destroyed. I saw one of her toys and the school bag I had on it. I cried, but I saw them and regretted it because of my favorite friend, and she is the most precious thing in life. We used to study together in private, but the teacher said we shared among the friends. We played with each other. We went back to each other. We went back to our homes together and bought cheese chips. A while ago, she... Far from me, I miss school to see her, but if she died in the war, may God have mercy on her. Habiba does not know any news about her friend Siwar after October 7, but all she knows is the rubble of her house. Communication was cut off during the aggression, and Habiba continues to search under the rubble of her friend’s house, perhaps she will find Her friends or the remains of their memories, so she finds her friend Rahaf’s school uniform. In this regard, Habiba says, “I found her apron under the rubble, so she washed it and hung it in the closet, and Rahaf kept it.” Every time we played, I would reconcile her if everyone fought her. And every day we went down to play with her things, we would draw and play, me and her, and we did many things in her drawing. I have a drawing in it. We are holding our hands. Rahaf is in the second grade. I am in the third grade. I am older than her, but I love her very much. She loves me and I love her more than I love her. I still love her. I found her toys and I kept digging in the rubble until I found her apron and her book at school. I found the bride’s croissant, Rahaf’s toy, which her father had brought before. One day during the war, Habiba felt remorse, and when asked why she felt that way, she said she was remorseful for what had happened to her. Every time I did something, she went away. I made a notebook at home, so I drew and wrote in it the story of Habiba’s life, and she went away, and I came back to write the story of Habiba’s life. I hope she doesn’t leave, but in the end, the whole thing is in the spirit of a house being damaged. Habiba, who is located in the Al-Maghazi neighborhood, loses her favorite room, her toys, her clothes, and her friends at the age of eight. This child learns the meaning of loss at an age when the child makes his memories. She realizes another meaning of life, but in the end, in the spirit of Siwar Bassiouni, 13 years old, displaced from northern Gaza, on October 7, 2023, she wakes up. Siwar went to school in the morning, and before she finished preparing her school bag, she had to think about preparing the displacement bag. The concept of a bag does not mean carrying your class books and homework books. Siwar says, “The first day we spent at home, we were not able to go out, and the bombing was active everywhere, and the second day we left at Eight in the morning and we arrivedThe Zarqa area, so we rested for a while, and then we went to Jabalia, and then to the school Siwar, who was supposed to go to her school with a bag carrying books, notebooks, a sketchbook, and colors. She goes with her family to a school other than hers, and carries the displacement bag, which contains a piece of clothing and food, and Siwar supports her during the way, after six days. We arrived at the school in Sheikh Radwan. Sheikh Radwan was not safer than Jabalia, and even if you were displaced in the school, which is known as shelter centers during the occupation, knowing that the schools do not have the capabilities to accommodate displaced families and are not intended to be safe shelters, the insane bombing continued on the northern Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army sent messages to civilian citizens urging them to go to the south of the Gaza Strip valley and forced them to flee. Siwar says, “In the afternoon, we went to the south in a large convoy, and in front of us were three cars. They bombed the cars in front of us. We went to a street, so they bombed the street and next to us a building that they bombed. My father was shot at that time.” And my mother said, “Your father is dead,” so I told her that I wanted to die with him, so I ran to him and found him alive and breathing, so I pulled him from the sidewalk and took him into the area where we were fighting. After I pulled him out, they bombed again, so the person next to him died and we were displaced. I mean, if I had been a minute late, he would have died too. I left a thousand shawls and the blankets on the wounded. Willie. He died and I would cover him with anything. Siwar’s road was full of wounded and dead as a result of the continuous bombing on the Gaza Strip. Siwar, who is thirteen years old, becomes the savior, helping her father aBecause he stores weapons in homes and mosques and uses civilians to protect missiles, unlike the Israeli, who embodies goodness because he warns the residents of the building before attacking and destroying it, and because he uses missiles to protect civilians. The Crisis of the Palestinian National Movement. The fourth chapter of the book by Ghassan Abu Sitta and Michel Nofal attempts to analyze the crisis of the Palestinian political system, which is A polemical topic par excellence, as the current political crisis in Palestine ranges between impotence in the face of the brutality of Zionist settlement that is engulfing the occupied land and the consecration of the apartheid state amid the division and divergence between the two authorities in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. This chapter shows how the ruling political elite determines value. The political value of war injuries is based on the degree to which the political narrative of the wound agrees with its political project or departs from it, which makes the political value of the wound vary throughout the life of the wounded person according to the change in the fate of political projects and the elite that leads those projects. Thus, this political value turns into the main criterion that determines D. Availability of health care to the patient or its withholding. In conclusion, this book and the courageous field contribution made by Ghassan Abu Sitta in healing the wounds of the victims of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip provide living evidence of the role of Palestinian intellectuals in keeping the flame of resistance burning among their sons and daughters and protecting the Palestinian national identity from Dissipation and preventing the marginalization of the historical narrative of the Palestinian people, especially its chapter on the refugees who constitute the bulk of the Palestinian people and their legitimate right to return to their homeland 1 https www palestine studies org ar node 235728 2 http www artistsespourlapaix org the tribunal russell for la palestine aborde the question of sociocide
Blog title: When There Will Be No Death An interview with the Gazan artist Basil Al-Maqousi Author Basil Al-Maqousi Date November 7, 2023 on 4/10 We and the artist Basil Al-Maqousi from the Gaza Strip had agreed to conduct an interview with him for the blog of the Institute for Palestine Studies, and we set the date to be on 9/10, but The war launched by the occupation on the Gaza Strip prevented that, and I continued to communicate with Basil whenever he had an Internet connection, and I saw the green light on Messenger. Two days ago, I asked him to write a testimony about his displacement, his family, and the fate of his studio and his paintings, but he preferred to conduct a dialogue, so I sent him a few questions, and he answered them in the meantime. The sound of the bombing and amidst the voices of children who feel terror, fear and pain, as he told me, with every war we are displaced. The experience of displacement is not new for the artist Basil Al-Maqousi and his family. With every aggression launched by the occupation against the Gaza Strip, they are displaced. He lived in Al-Isra neighborhood, which is located in an area very close to the strip separating the lands. Occupied in 1948, Basil says that every time an aggression occurs, we flee from our home to the homes of relatives and family that are somewhat safe, but he explains that this time, that is, in this aggression, and we all see, and we who are outside the Gaza Strip watch on screens, what he says, this time is more difficult, more bloody, and more Massacres I left the house, displaced towards the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, with my wife’s family, but terror surrounded us. The place was close to the Al-Maqousi and intelligence towers, and it was one of the most exposed to bombing by Israeli warplane missiles. So we all went out, and we were 40 people. My mother, my wife, my children, my sisters, my brothers and their children, my daughter and her children, and some relatives, the artist Basil tells me. Al-Maqousi said that they went out this time to the Windows Contemporary Art Studio, which is the place he helped found and spends most of his time in and maintains.Many of his paintings and the paintings of other artists are in this studio, from which many artists in the Gaza Strip graduated. As for him, he was born in 1971. He learned fine art. In 1995, he completed the fine arts course at the Young Men’s Christian Association in Gaza. Between the years 2000 and 2003, he participated in artistic residencies at the Darat al-Funun in Amman is under the supervision of the international Syrian artist Marwan Qassab Bashi. He also received many awards, grants and artistic residencies. Children and War. His various experiences in art, including composition and photography, enabled him to find a way to deal with the displaced children in the studio, including his grandchildren. The sounds of the shells falling on the Gaza Strip and almost all regions Close together, as Al-Maqousi explains, giving a feeling that the next one is approaching and the next will be closer, and all of this seemed to be a reaction to the children who were fleeing from one place to another to escape death, Basil said in the same studio, so that I could control the children and relieve them of the sounds of the violent bombing that surrounded us. From everywhere I gave them papers and colors and sat with them to draw. I encouraged them to play with colors and draw whatever they wanted. I had no other trick in my hand except this. The fear they were feeling was not easy to describe and talk about. I benefited from rewards for them for the one who had the most beautiful drawing, so I encouraged them by giving them chocolate and candy and we remained in this state. Until they get tired and sleep in the hope that they were dreaming beautiful dreams of his martyr paintings. It was not safe to stay in the windows workshop for a long time, so Basil was forced to flee again with his family in search of a safe place. This time he was going to Khan Yunis, but as he says, he was not able to carry all the people. His family is with him. They are my paintings. The first part of this family was destroyed under the rubble of my house, which I learned was bombed, and this is not the first time. In 2008, the house was also bombed, and my studio was in the house at that time. I took out some paintings, and after the war, I treated them as a wounded person is treated in war. I repaired them with plaster and gauze and placed It had iodine for wounds on it and displayed it in an exhibition on the ruins of the Al-Quds Hospital building affiliated with the Red Crescent in Gaza. During the 2008-2009 Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, this hospital was subjected to an Israeli bombing that affected Al-Nour Medical Complex, which includes the administration buildings of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip and Al-Quds Hospital. The hospital was then evacuated and the sick and injured were transferred to Al-Shifa Medical Complex. Basil continues his story with his second family. His paintings are my works in Windows. Until the moment I write the answers to your questions, I do not know if she is alive or if the place was bombed or if places around it were bombed. I do not know what will happen. He adds, “I cannot live in a life where every year, two years, or three years a war is waged against us, in which I lose loved ones and relatives.” Paintings of “The Smell of the Martyrs” caught me on Basil’s Facebook page. A phrase he wrote repeatedly: “I try to draw the smell of the martyrs,” and I stopped at it for a long time and asked him about it. Being a visual artist and photographer, I consider myself one. From the soft hands of the resistance, everything can be expressed with drawing, colors, and pictures, except for the smell, and the most beautiful smells are the smell of the martyrs. I try to draw it in their personalities, their faces, and the paintings of Al-Aqsa, whose sanctity we defend in the land of Rabat and the Promised. I try to smell their scent in my colors. In this war, I lost more than 15 people. Even now, from friends and close ones in my family to my heart, I will keep smelling their scent in every breath and with every brush I put on my paintings. The scent of martyrs is present in the smile of children, in my colors, in a mother’s embrace, in the colors of joy, freedom, and peace in almond blossoms. Their scent, the scent of martyrs, is indescribable, so I try to draw it. He explains.The artist Basil Al-Maqousi said that in the period between and during the repeated wars, I was trying to draw the difficult time, the sound of bombing, the smell of the martyrs in the streets, the smell of gunpowder, and the explosions. I try to draw these things because they create a revolution within me and within all of us, a revolution that cannot be described in words. Hope for freedom. While we were exchanging letters, he said to me. Basil, if my country was martyred, this sentence that afflicts a person with a death other than the one we see and live has prompted me to review many things and images. This death flying over Gaza in the form of warplanes is actually killing the people of Gaza. The number of martyrs has reached 10,000, and the world even announces this number. Declaring a ceasefire and being satisfied with some deadpan statements in its platform. This reality is what prompted the artist Basil Al-Maqousi to say that. It is not hope for life that revives the people of Gaza today, but rather hope for freedom. I hope this war will end. Death is enough for loved ones, and I do not know if I will be one of them, me and my family. Or not? After the war, I will search for my home in the rubble. After my home, I will inspect my paintings and works of art and collect them. There is no hope for me and for us except freedom.
Blog title: Gaza’s hopes will be fulfilled. Dash Biden for a second term. Author: Rami Al-Rayes Date: November 6, 2023 The relationship between the United States of America and Israel is not similar to its relations with any other. Another country. It is not an exaggeration to say that in the era after World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, there was rarely a close and intertwined relationship between two countries, as is the relationship between America and Israel, as the latter received and still receives more annual financial and military support than any other country receives. It also enjoys political support and legal cover in all international forums for everything it commits in the occupied Palestinian territories, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international laws and conventions. This American behavior over the decades has contributed to providing cover for the Zionist entity to bypass all prohibitions, which is what Israel has exploited in unlawful retaliation operations. It is unprecedented in its size and brutality against Gaza and its people in retaliation for the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation. However, these historical and deep relations between the United States and Israel do not necessarily mean that their leaders always agree, as this relationship is sometimes marred by positions that express differences or differences in viewpoints. Despite the clear political positions of US President Joe Biden regarding Israel and Zionism and his long-standing support for them even before he assumed the presidency, as he is considered one of the most staunch American presidents in support of Israel and Zionism, and he said 37 years ago that if there had been no Israel, America would have had to create Israel to protect its interests. 1 His relationship with the current Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has become difficult. Public apathy. Biden did not even extend an invitation to Netanyahu to visit the White House, as is traditionally the case after the formation of a new Israeli government, but in return he received Israeli President Isaac Herzog in a protocol meeting that had no major political repercussions, given that the President of Israel does not have significant executive powers. The Al-Aqsa flood changed the course of the lukewarm relations between the two men, and US President Joe Biden flew to Israel in a rare visit by an American president to another country during the war, in a clear effort to confirm that the United States stands by Israel in times of crises and supports it regardless of other considerations. Biden expressed his support for Israel during this visit when he said, “I do not think you have to be Jewish to be a Zionist. I am a Zionist.” 2 Biden’s positions received support from Congress.The American approved the provision of military and material support to Israel, but with the unprecedented escalation witnessed by the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip and the huge losses among Palestinian civilians, voices began to be raised inside and outside Congress demanding a change in the United States’ policy towards what is happening in Gaza. The voices that also began to be raised may be from Within the presidential house, any of the Democratic Party’s opposition to Biden’s position is a worrying indicator of a change in the percentage of votes supporting the president in the upcoming elections. In a tour of the reactions opposing Biden’s positions on the Israeli war on Gaza, we can stop at the most important of them. More than 400 employees in Congress sent a letter in which they demanded Their bosses worked to support a ceasefire resolution in Gaza, but the document signed by the employees did not contain names for security considerations and fear for the future of the employees’ work at Capitol 3. More than 250 former employees of progressive US Senator Bernie Sanders’ previous presidential campaigns sent a letter in which they called on Sanders to put forward a resolution. An immediate ceasefire in Gaza to the US Senate. From what was stated in the letter, we ask you to use your influence and the respect you enjoy throughout the United States and the world to stand boldly against war, against occupation, and for the dignity of human life. 4 A group of Jewish supporters of peace organized massive sit-ins in halls Congress protested against the war and the group called for an immediate halt to the war. A group of dozens of demonstrators stormed the Capitol, raising slogans rejecting the aggression against the Gaza Strip and denouncing Biden’s policies in support of Israel. Congressional police arrested dozens of them. Alexandra Rojas, executive director of the Progressive Justice Democrats group, appealed to President Biden to act immediately to prevent a ground invasion of Gaza. Which would lead to thousands of civilian casualties and threaten the outbreak of a comprehensive regional conflict in the Middle East. However, within the American administration, opposition positions began to emerge expressing dissatisfaction with the unlimited support for Israel, and among these positions was the resignation of Josh Paul, an official in the US State Department in the Arms Transfer Office. He went abroad in protest against the Biden administration’s decision to continue supplying weapons to Israel. In his resignation letter, Paul criticized the blind support for one party, which leads to a reckless and unfair policy that contradicts the values we embrace. He considered that American support for Israel would lead to more suffering for the Israelis and Palestinians, expressing his fear of repeating the mistakes. The same actions committed by the administration in previous decades, which he refuses to be a part of. 5 The progressive independent representative from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, called more than once in interventions within Congress for a humanitarian truce in Gaza, and since the beginning of the war, Sanders has accused Israel of violating the rules of international law by targeting civilians and imposing a siege. And preventing the arrival of water, food, and medical aid supplies. 6 opposition members from the Democratic House. President Biden will not feel reassured when voices from his party rise in opposition to his positions in support of Israel in the war on Gaza, especially with the approaching presidential elections next year. Among these voices, Senator Chris Murphy, the senior member of the Senate, called In the Middle East Subcommittee, Israel calls for allowing fuel to reach hospitals and desalination plants in Gaza. Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress, accused Biden of inciting a deadly war, she wrote in a post on social media, with a reference to the president.And until the next elections, we will remember where you stood. It should be noted here that the US Congress dropped an attempt to convict Tlaib when it rejected the proposal presented by the extreme right-wing congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, by a majority of 222 votes against 186 votes. It was noteworthy that 23 Republican members joined in opposing the conviction proposal 7 Democratic Party Congresswoman Ilhan Omar also expressed on social media her support for the message of congressional staff demanding a halt to the war. Omar is considered among a group of progressive Democrats who contradicted the party’s directions by calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. On the American street, Arabs, Muslims, and Jews oppose Biden versus the opposition: At the political level, opposition emerged from groups of Arabs, Muslims, and American Jews who considered that Biden had failed them through his position on the war on Gaza. Biden’s statement questioning the validity of the Palestinian casualty figures in Gaza ignited angry reactions among these groups, which considered Biden’s statement as... Accusing the Palestinians of lying while confirming the Israeli story. The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ demand that President Biden apologize for this statement and condemn the Israeli crimes against civilians in Gaza showed the extent of frustration with his positions. The Council’s CEO called on the American President to watch video clips that show images of crushed Palestinian children being pulled from Under the rubble to confirm whether it was fabricated or in his view just an acceptable price for war. 8 In a move that reflects a disregard for the positions of these groups, Biden met with representatives of Arabs and Muslims in the United States, but he refused to receive individuals who criticized his policy, and a number of them expressed their feeling of isolation. And the lack of confidence in a party that they considered a refuge in the face of the hostility of the Republicans, led by Donald Trump. So, does the coalition led by Biden face the risk of splitting due to the war on Gaza? It is clear that, despite the agreement of the Democrats on internal issues, the unlimited support that Biden provides to Israel would... Feelings of frustration deepen among Democratic voters, especially among progressive youth, and analysts believe that Biden risks dismantling the coalition that supports him and which he relies on in the upcoming elections. Although the majority of Democrats support Israel’s right to carry out retaliatory strikes in Gaza, the increasingly high death toll leads to... An increase in opposition voices demanding an immediate ceasefire, and observers of electoral affairs believe that the age factor is very important. Young voters under the age of thirty strongly support the ceasefire, while those over forty support Israel, and if we take into account that a percentage of 60 voters between the ages of 19 and 29 years They voted for Biden in the 2020 elections, and these are the votes that gave Biden points of advantage over his rival Trump, according to Pew Research Center 9. The decline in support for Biden from this group of younger voters who reject his policies will constitute a factor of concern in his re-election process if they decide not to vote for him, and in fact it indicates Expectations that a change in the pattern of voting in the 2024 elections may constitute an obstacle for the Democrats, which Republicans may exploit. This change also reflects the difference in views between the traditional leadership of the Democratic Party and younger liberal voters. This young group of voters may not constitute an effective pressure tool in parallel with groups. Influential Jewish pressure, but it undoubtedly indicatesA change in the way of thinking among American youth. Will the war in Gaza destroy Biden’s electoral dreams, like his temporary ally Benjamin Netanyahu? This is what the coming days will inevitably reveal. 1 After 37 years, Biden repeats his saying: If Israel did not exist, we would have created it. The New Gulf, October 18, 2023 2 ʾI Zionistʿ Biden contains Netanyahu and flirts with independent voters Al-Ain News 22 10 2023 3 more than 400 capitol staffers call for ceasefire in gaza huffpost 19 10 2023 4 state department official resigns over arms transfers to Israel new york times 19 10 2023 5 ibid 6 sanders calls Israel s siege on gaza a serious violation of international law politico 10 10 2023 7 israel gaza war us house rejects effort to censure rashida tlaib aljazeera 2 11 2023 8 cair calls on president biden to apologize for ʿshocking and dehumanizingʾ remarks on palestinian civilians casual cair 25 10 2023 9 the biden coalition risks a damaging break over the us role in israel s response in gaza cnn politics 26 10 2023
blog title War as a video game, a dirty screen and an elegant battlefield Author Rana Anani Date November 06, 2023 The Israeli occupation army provided its snipers in an uprising Al-Aqsa wears special glasses that enable them to see the Palestinians as if they were part of video game scenes, so that their human feelings do not affect their performance during sniper operations. One of these snipers explains, in response to a researcher’s questions, how his mission became easier. He says that looking through sniper glasses has become like looking at something on the television screen. Almost the scene has become less humane. The physical and emotional distance through the creation of a virtual world between the sniper and his victim prompted another sniper to brag about his ability to revive and kill. He says, “Often the role of the weapon is like the role of God. You look through the scope and see the man and know that these will be his last moments.” Without him knowing that you even exist 1 Soldiers usually die in battles to save civilians, but in new battles where electronic weapons are used, the opposite is true, as technology is used to reduce the number of soldiers killed without taking into account the death of unarmed civilians, specifically in Battles with a colonial context. We see the Israeli occupation using the most advanced technology to develop weapons for killing from a distance to avoid risking the lives of soldiers. The majority of weapons deployed in Gaza today operate with artificial intelligence and robots, starting from drones to drones of various types, tanks, automatic boats, quadrocopters, etc., and many of these weapons. It was tried for the first time in the field, as indicated by a report recently published in the British newspaper The Daily Mail 2, which reviews Israeli killing machines, describing them as terrifying and including information about suicide drones carrying explosive warheads that can strike 1,000 km away, and small drones that can be kept in The Jeep and others, on the right, is the Arma 3 game, and on the left, a picture published by the Israeli army, which is on the media, not on the battlefield. Not only are the Zionist occupation pilots the ones who see the Gaza Strip virtually, but also the foreign media that blindly adopts the Zionist narrative and transmits news of virtual battles, so we see them showing snapshots. Provided by the Israeli army, they are coordinates from the sky as they appear from a pilot’s screen, or abstract scenes of rooftops in dull gray colors, as if there is no life in them. They all appear as icons on the screen.Sudden bombing from the air, and because media reporters are ignorant of the geography of Gaza and do not have the courage to cover news from it or investigate and publish what is actually happening on the ground, they are content with transmitting what they receive from the occupation army, including showing this footage that looks very much like a computer game. Explore Iraqi artist Haroun Faruqi, in his films, depicts the relationship between virtual reality, the army, and the media since the start of the First Gulf War in 1991. He focused on the United States’ use of imaginary computer game scenarios to train American forces before deploying them in war zones. The Machine Eye film series presented war and presented it to the press as pure, more like With video games, completely far from the filth of reality, where the bloody killing that is visible to the eye and the smell of which irritates the nose and chills the body, Farouki says that the introduction of computing in wars dates back to the 1980s, when the United States began to match real images from the air with coordinate images derived from maps and used them in its battles. Then... The attacks were portrayed in the Western media as precise and sweeping, and missile strikes were shown on the screens, lighting up the night in the skies of Iraq, without the viewer seeing their results on the ground or their consequences of killing, destruction, and injuries. N. Farooqi shows in a film entitled War at a Distance that these short, quick shots Those that are far away and those that are filmed from the screens of pilots flying in killing machines are provided to news reporters as a form of media fraud and for purely political purposes. Although the eye captures these quick images that the army provides to the media and their duration is usually only ten seconds, this does not constitute enough time. So that consciousness picks it up and thus quickly disappears from the viewer’s mind as if it had never happened. The abstract images, completely isolated from the dirty battlefield, aim for the viewer to see the pure land of the battle, so war in the electronic age appears as if it were an event devoid of humans. Although people may be directly affected by this event, they do not take Their presence in mind 3 An example of a clip from videos distributed to the press. The United States, which exchanges war and killing technology with Israel, adopted video games in training its army in the two Gulf wars 4 based on the principle of transformation in the management of battles and the use of remote technology in order to preserve the lives of soldiers first and then to establish distance. Physical and emotional between the attackers and their targets 5, especially in the unequal battles led in the world, and since the first and second Gulf wars, weapons have developed and battles have become conducted remotely via computer screens, aircraft, and binoculars, which have become largely compatible with computer games, and thus soldiers no longer distinguish clearly in many cases. Sometimes between the real and virtual battlefields, wars became devoid of ethics, and soldiers began to turn into killers and death squads that controlled the fate of thousands of civilians from the air and from a safe place hundreds of kilometers away from the battlefield. The Palestinian civilians who were martyred in the Gaza massacres were easy targets and they did not have The slightest idea that they are about to be killed and thus they are deprived of the right to take cover, defend themselves, or even surrender, which is supported by military protocols in the traditions of classic battles, at a time when the killing soldier does not face an immediate danger. An image from a video of the bombing of “targets” in Gaza. We see, for example For example, the role of the Israeli pilots who control the Hermez 450 unmanned combat aircraft equipped with monitoring and sensing technologies that launch guided missiles.They are currently contributing to the Gaza massacres only technically, as they operate today from a quiet base located on the seashore south of Tel Aviv. Flying planes is no longer part of their missions, as their role has shifted to moving drones carrying bombs and directing them towards Gaza from a distance 6 without exposing their lives to any danger. From this site, the soldier feels that he can, with the push of a button, decide the fate of the lives of entire families, as is happening in Gaza, without batting an eye. Laurie Calhoun says in her article entitled The End of Military Virtue 7 that the ability of modern soldiers to kill without risking death contradicts the history of wars. Humanity as a whole requires a re-evaluation, as training young people to kill is always a problematic project, but training them to kill in the manner of sociopaths who have no feelings at all towards their victims other than that they are icons on computer screens is a truly frightening prospect. Moreover, the killer does not discriminate. Between what he does when his targets are erased and what he does when playing a video game, killing from a distance with the push of a button is a very trivial and ordinary act, similar to sending an email or pressing a button to shop online, and it cannot help but completely isolate the killers from the reality of what they are doing. 8 Killing from the sky, and here it becomes The scenes that the pilot sees on his screen from the sky, targeting civilians on the ground, are as if they were scenes from familiar computer games, the goal of which is to hit the target accurately. From afar, the targets appear to be mere graphs without life, devoid of fear, human pain, the sounds of bombing and victims, and the smell of blood and smoke that we see on television screens. We see it on social media sites and hear it in the voices of the people of Gaza on the phones. The pilot who bombs a target, even if he wants to, does not see the body parts, bodies, and wounded. He does not know and will not know how a mother loses her son and her father’s daughter, and how an injured child finds himself alone without a family. He also does not hear the voices of the victims or their calls for help. In the meantime, he can even put on a headset in which he can listen to his favorite songs and continue with his life after completing the mission. In the Zionist case, it is possible for him to then go to celebrate. The same applies to the press, which is isolated from the battlefield and can only see and hear through the eyes of the virtual soldiers. From their mouths, away from the battlefield, they become devoid of feelings or sensations regarding acts of killing and violence, and thus contribute to the legitimization of the killing of civilians. The distance between the killer and the consequences of pressing his fingers on the buttons in complete indifference makes the act of killing vague and dirty, as if it were a violent computer game surrounded by feelings of satisfaction from shooting skills and wounding through... An electronic screen, and the purity of the land from the loss of life becomes meaningless to the players, and an official spokesman comes out to us and classifies it as collateral damage, especially when it comes to the lives of colonized Eastern peoples with dark skin. Then praise is heaped on the ability of technology to avoid exorbitant costs and huge losses in the lives of soldiers. 1 bar and ben ari israeli snipers in the al aqsa intifada killing humanity and lived experience p 142 2 wiliam hunter israel's terrifying arsenal of robot weaponry how ai powered turrets remote control boats and unmanned attack bots will be used as the idf prepares for a full scale ground invasion of gaza daily mail 28 10 2023 3 harun farocki war at a distance 4 Majd Kayal game ʾcall of dutyʿ over the Gaza sky barricade August 4 2018 5 joseph l campo from a distance the psychology of killing with remotely piloted aircraft 2015 6 seth j frantzman in the warAgainst hamas israeli drones are key here is why analysis the jerusalem post 20 10 2023 7 laurie calhoun the end of military virtue peace review july 2011 8 ibid
Blog title Women are the first victims of the Israeli war on Gaza Author Maher Al-Sharif Date March 08, 2024 While countries salute The world today, on the eighth of March this year, is International Women’s Day and defending their rights. As a result of the genocidal war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip, Gazan women are facing severe suffering that is almost unprecedented in the world, according to a report issued by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics on the eve of International Women’s Day and reviewed by the head of the agency. Dr. Ola Awad The number of women in the Gaza Strip is 1,13 million females, and since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Strip until the date of issuing this report, there have been more than 9,000 martyrs out of a total number of martyrs of 30,717 martyrs, and 75% of the total number of wounded, which is 72. 156 wounded are female, in addition to the fact that women and children make up 70 percent of the 7,000 people missing in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli aggression. Reports from the Gaza Strip also indicate that nearly 2 million people were forced to flee their places of residence, half of whom are female. The report adds The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics says that there are currently about 60,000 pregnant women in the Gaza Strip, at a rate of 180 births per day, and that about 15 of these women are likely to suffer from complications in pregnancy and childbirth that are difficult to treat due to the lack of medical care, which increases the incidence of miscarriage and death during childbirth. Pregnant women also suffer from malnutrition and dehydration, as they face severe food poverty. Many of their children are born underweight and suffer from health problems, in addition to suffering from a lack of hygiene supplies and resorting to primitive options, which exposes them to gynecological infections due to the lack of medicines and the absence of many products. Feminine hygiene 1 How can I give birth here? Shorouk is seven months pregnant with her first child. She lives in a shelter in Khan Yunis and wonders how can I give birth here. There is no access to health care or hygiene, and giving birth in this shelter would be disastrous for me. Shorouk is a translator with a degree. Master's degree in translation from English to Arabic She has not been able to see a doctor since fleeing northern Gaza. Israeli air strikes have destroyed two buildings near her home, and she cannot return home to see if the clothes and toys she chose for her unborn daughter are in good condition. She admits, "I bought them." One after another, and I was very selective in choosing her. She only took one toy with her when she ran away with her husband. A toy I made myself. I made it for my princess. Shorouk and her husband were planning to try their luck in seeing one of the few doctors or midwives at the health center near their shelter, but while they were on their way... There, a car exploded in front of their eyes. We were very close. It was terrifying. We started running towards our shelter, abandoning our plan to visit the health center. She says, “If I had not been pregnant, perhaps I would have been able to handle the matter, but I am very afraid for my unborn child. Their shelter in Khan Yunis is not designed.” To accommodate the 50,000 displaced people currently present, it is a school run by UNRWA. It adds that you have to wait in a long line to go to the toilet, and while you are waiting in line, you begin to think that you are being exposed to many diseases that thousands of other people may be infected with.Who I share the toilet with and we almost never find soap. It's stressful for me to think that I could have one of these diseases and that it could affect my baby. Since I've been here I've started to feel dizzy and I'm coughing a lot and my back hurts because I'm sleeping on the floor and she's constantly thirsty and hungry and she says when I'm lucky. I get a small bottle of water a day and two pieces of bread with melted cheese and sometimes dried thyme. And since there is no source of protein, fresh vegetables or fruit at the shelter, she warns, "Most of us are starting to suffer from malnutrition. Shorouk is one of about 50,000 pregnant women living in... The Gaza Strip, where more than 150 births take place daily, according to the United Nations Population Fund. Even before October 7, the health system in Gaza was facing major challenges due to the 16-year blockade, says Dominic Allen of the United Nations Population Fund, as Israel restricted the entry of goods and fuel into the country. The sector since Hamas took control of it by force in 2007 after its victory in the legislative elections a year ago. He continues, but today the health system is on the verge of collapse, and in some institutions it has already collapsed. Pregnant women cannot obtain basic maternal health services and face unimaginable challenges. According to him, the human standard for consuming Water is at least three liters per day per person. He explains: Pregnant women need at least an additional third of a liter, and breastfeeding women need at least two-thirds. A woman who gave birth seven months ago tells us that her milk has dried up because she did not drink enough water and also because of the stress caused. About moving from one shelter to another. Heba Tibi from the non-governmental organization Care International explains that some women who cannot breastfeed are forced to use contaminated water to make formula milk because they do not have access to clean water. 2 Multiple forms of violence against Gazan women The night of the city is dark except for those who The glow of missiles is silent except for the sound of bombing. Afraid except for the solace of prayers. Dark except for the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza. The Palestinian writer and poet Heba Abu Nada wrote for the last time before she was martyred in a random Israeli raid on October 20 last year. The 32-year-old Heba read: Only a year ago in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, after the Israeli authorities forced the residents of Gaza to flee. As for Haya Abdul Hadi, an Oxfam employee who is displaced inside Gaza, she wrote: “Every day when I go to sleep, I do not know whether I will wake up tomorrow or whether I will have a family.” Psychological Violence is Everywhere With every bombing of a residential building, hospital, ambulance, school or UN facility the message is clear there is no safe place for you and your family and mothers should hide this note from their children so they can get some sleep and relieve their anxiety through... Adding this already heavy burden to themselves, which is difficult to imagine. 3 The violence practiced against Gazan women took the form of torture, rape, and execution, as UN-authorized experts called on Monday, February 19, to conduct an investigation after accusations of executing and raping Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank. At the hands of Israeli forces, the seven independent experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed concern about the blatant violations of human rights based on credible allegations. Reem Al-Salem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, explained that this team was approved to collect this information.Testimonies of victims and eyewitnesses, as well as information from civil or international organizations working with civilians. We then compared this information with other sources to evaluate its credibility. 4 Among the testimonies received, experts reported that women and girls were executed in Gaza, often with members of their families, including That is their children. The statement said that some of them were carrying pieces of white cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army. A video clip published by the Middle East Eye website and verified last January showed a woman named Hala Rashid Abdel Ati being shot dead while her grandson was being lifted. The white flag as they attempted to escape the city from Gaza. In addition to the executions, since October 7, the Israeli army has carried out arbitrary arrests of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists, and humanitarian workers. Reem Al-Salem pointed out that some of the female detainees were considered illegal combatants, which They were placed outside the framework of the law, and she pointed out that most of them were never brought before a military court, and that some women were arrested in their homes or on the streets of Gaza only on the basis of allegations of their association with Hamas, without any evidence, so that it can be said that the Israeli authorities kidnapped them, and testimonies indicate inhumane treatment. And humiliating conditions in detention centers included beatings and deprivation of food, medicine, and feminine hygiene products. A case was also reported of women being held in a cage in Gaza, exposed to the rain and the cold, without food. Among other accusations against the Israeli army are multiple forms of sexual assault. United Nations rapporteurs talk about rapes, two of which were alleged. At least of the female detainees were subjected to it, and other female detainees described being subjected to humiliation and degrading treatment as they were stripped of their clothes and searched by male Israeli army officers. The experts called for an independent investigation into these allegations, which they said constitute serious crimes under international criminal law that can be prosecuted under the Rome Statute. Those responsible for these blatant crimes must be held accountable, and the victims and their families have the right to receive full compensation and justice, while lawyer Johan Sofi, who specializes in international criminal law, stressed that it is Israel’s duty to open an investigation into these allegations. This United Nations report reinforces the commitment of the Israeli courts to take the necessary measures and confirms Conclusion: National courts in countries such as France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, whose citizens have joined the Israeli army, have a duty to investigate allegations of crimes committed by their citizens, regardless of the location of the crimes mentioned. Conclusion Despite the resolution issued by the United Nations on October 31, 2000 regarding Women, peace and security, in order to protect women from armed conflicts and involve them in peace processes, as women are still the first victims of wars and are deliberately targeted by sexual and gender-based violence. 5 However, the targeting of Gazan women has taken unprecedented forms of violence in the war of extermination they are waging. Israel's current control over the Gaza Strip has had an impact not only on its physical and mental well-being, but also on its reproductive health and its role in care, which will have serious repercussions in the future. Comment for my accoucher ici c3 a0 gaza the dramatic situation of women enceintes 3https www ledevoir com opinion ideas 803364 ideas guerre gasa est aussi guerre contre les femmes enfants 4 https www france24 com fr moyen orient 20240222 ex c3 a9cutions viols des expertes de l onu s alarment des violences against les femmes c3 a0 gaza https www middleeasteye net fr u and enquetes detenues by Israel of women and their families who are victims of violence 5 https www geo fr geopolitique les premieres of women’s victims of guerres mais sous representees dans les efforts of the paix 213796 read the original
Blog title We are rooted in this land Author Rasha Al-Jundi Date: November 4, 2023 They are erasing our presence from the map. This was the first thought that came to my mind when the renewed and ongoing genocidal campaign carried out by the Zionist entity began against our people in occupied Palestine since October 7, who has been following our struggle against colonialism for more than 100 years. Realizes that erasing the Palestinian entity, its identity and its existence in whatever sense this term includes has been the essence of the existence of the colonial Zionist state since its establishment 75 years ago at that time. Although they expelled nearly a million Palestinians from their original lands and killed thousands en masse in addition to those who were not counted, they They were not able to annihilate us at that time. What is happening today is a quick attempt to do that and finish the mission they began in 1948. As a Palestinian woman in exile from birth and upbringing, the homeland for me was present in books, music, stories of family members, and on television. It was also present in paintings, photographs, and other works of art. It was also present in the embroidery that my mother, aunts, and grandmother on my side of the family spent time sewing while I was growing up. Palestinian embroidery, specifically the peasant stitch, was present everywhere and almost every minute of the day. It was and is still present on the walls, sofas, clothes, and even pillows. I touched it and admired it. With it, I wore it, and finally, when I was about ten years old, I reached out and took a needle, a piece of cloth, and a thread, and embroidered. When one reads and examines the development of Palestinian embroidery, it becomes clear that its ancient existence for nearly 4,000 years is in fact the resistance to the embroidery that emerged from the Canaanite era. In us as grandchildren, his decorations are not just beautiful designs. They reflect our deep connection to the land, its trees, grasses, sea, birds, and animals. They reflect our politics through missiles, barbed wire, and officers’ belts. They also reflect our rich social fabric through symbols of brides, the elderly, and the mother-in-law’s classic struggle with her daughter-in-law. In short, Palestinian embroidery is a reflection of your being, oh In the past two years, as I reshaped myself as a visual artist, it was not an impulse that I felt, but rather an inner voice telling me that Palestinian embroidery should form an essential part of any long-term project, and I actually applied it in my work as I was researching how other photographers were mixing different forms of art. Hand needlework in the production of images found beauty, color and creativity. However, with the exception of the Egyptian photographer Rehab Al-Dalil, whose works beautifully demonstrated the continuing culture of Sinai communities, many of which are of Palestinian origin, I did not find anyone else using embroidery in the practice of photography to convey a deeper meaning beyond aesthetics. I saw that through... Her work, titled The Longing of the Stranger Whose Way Was Broken, reinforced Rihab’s Palestinian roots, and that is exactly whatIt unites us as a society despite our dispersion across the world map. Our roots are once Palestinian. Half or quarter Palestinian. You are always Palestinian. As I write this article, I find it difficult to continue. I stop for long minutes to check my phone and find out how many of my people have perished under the piles of heavy rubble left behind by the cowardly Zionist bombs. I verify. From the number of people who received a bullet, who were wrapped in a white shroud, handcuffed and blindfolded. I read the names, hear the screams, and count the numbers. My heart is heavy, my mind is foggy, and my fingers are frozen. Seeing the homeland for the first time ever just two months ago has made what I lost in Palestine so tangible. It is not an abstract idea anymore. I have finally visited, touched and breathed a place on this planet that smells like me. With every waking hour, with every breath I take, I ask myself how I can go on without Palestine in my life. Then I remind myself of our resistance, our steadfastness, and our stubbornness. I remind myself of our freedom fighters in every inch of our land. These young men who deserve a full life and who chose to take up arms and push our existence beyond the siege, the tank and the wall. I remind myself of all our women who lost their fathers, their brothers, their loved ones and their children, these same women who ululate at funerals and rise the next day and carry what is left of their families on their shoulders. In order to push our struggle forward, I remind myself of the motherly figures in my life and their constant patience while moving the needle steadily and rhythmically across the canvas. They planted the seeds of love for Palestine in my heart. My love for Palestine is a choice I make every day despite all the difficulties and I express it by all means available, including That needle and thread and that is why I will continue to teach our embroidery to other Palestinians Together we sew our roots, resist erasure, and insist on existence read the original
Blog title Gaza is more than just committing war crimes, it is genocide Author Anis Mohsen Date November 4, 2023 The United Nations General Assembly approved it on December 9 December 1948 under the symbol 260 A D 3 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 1 which entered into force in 1951 and until June 2015, 146 countries have ratified the Convention. However, the provisions of the Convention apply even to countries that have not ratified it, according to a ruling issued by a court. International Justice considered the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide to be a legal advisory opinion on May 28, 1951, which codified customary international law, which is binding on all states. This was reinforced by the report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in which he stated that the Convention formed part of customary law, Report No. s 25704 of May 3, 1993. This was reaffirmed by the Security Council when it adopted the report in its Resolution No. 827 of May 5, 1993. 2 This article seeks to contribute to proving that Israel committed the crime of genocide and is still committing it in the Gaza Strip even before the events that erupted after The specific operation of the Izz al-Din al-Qassim Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, on October 7, 2023, and the chapters of the crime of genocide carried out by Israel are still continuing under the cover of the American-European regimes that established the Israeli entity in an act that makes the countries that cover that crime complicit in it and requires International law allows it to be tried with Israel, the direct perpetrator of the crime of genocide, noting that genocide is prohibited in times of peace as well as in times of war under the 1948 Convention for the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide.And its punishment 3 Definition of genocide Genocide is clearly defined in articles of the Convention, such as Article 2, which stipulates that acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such are genocide, including the killing of members of the group. Serious physical or moral harm to members of the group. Intentionally subjecting the group to living conditions intended for its physical destruction, in whole or in part. Imposing measures aimed at preventing the birth of children within the group. Forcibly transferring children from the group to another group. 4 There is a definition in Article 3, which stipulates the punishment for The following acts: Conspiracy to commit genocide Direct and public incitement to commit genocide Attempt to commit genocide Complicity in genocide 5 The definition of genocide is also contained in Article 6 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted in Rome in July 1998. The Court’s jurisdiction includes crimes against Humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The crime of genocide is considered different from the concepts of mass massacres, acts of persecution, and deliberate attacks against civilians, which are described as crimes against humanity. 6 While the official definitions of the Convention did not clarify some of the elements of committing the crime of genocide, the decisions issued by the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda It allowed clarification of some of them if these problems were not solved. 7 The crime of genocide differs from crimes against humanity or war crimes. Among the elements that prove the occurrence of genocide according to the decisions of the two aforementioned courts is immediate or subsequent biological destruction and practices that may not lead to direct death but It ultimately eliminates the group with the aim of partial or total destruction of the group, which is subjected to difficult living conditions that lead to its disappearance from existence, in addition to other actions such as preventing births within the group, transporting children, and inflicting physical and mental harm, including rape. Total or partial destruction and can This part is presented with quantitative criteria, the ratio of the number of victims compared to the number of the group, or with qualitative criteria, the status of the victims within the group. An assessment must also be made regarding what happened to the rest of the group. In fact, some acts of genocide do not lead to the immediate death of individuals, but rather will make it impossible for the group to survive in the long term. Short or medium proof of clear intent to destroy, as the criminal must have wanted not only the criminal act but also the final results of this act, which focus on the destruction of all or part of a specific group. 8 The genocide of Gaza is an ongoing crime. The recent events taking place in the Gaza Strip are not the only ones that It is considered a crime of genocide. Indeed, what was practiced for many years in the Gaza Strip was also tantamount to genocide. Surgeon Doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta says that during his volunteer work in hospitals in the Gaza Strip and when he and his colleagues conducted analyzes on wounded children, he found that the bodies of the injured suffered from a lack of growth, as These bodies carried a pathological map of the political event, and they also carried the effects of the long siege on the Gaza Strip. You see a boy whose weight is much less than what a child of his age should weigh, because malnutrition over the years of the siege led to a lack of growth. 9 If genocide applies to what happened and is happening. In the Gaza Strip, a person in Gaza is deliberately subjected to living conditions intended to destroy him physically, in whole or in part, as stated in Article 2 of the Crime of Genocide Convention.genocide through the blockade and the imposition of limited entry of food supplies, so the entire population is affected by this, especially the children who survive and who will suffer from a lack of growth, which means the future killing of an entire group of people, as the Yugoslavia and Rwanda genocide tribunals 10 have confirmed. The director of the Office of the Commissioner has confirmed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York Craig Mokheiber in a letter on October 28 to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk: We are witnessing genocide unfolding before our eyes and the organization we serve has not been able to stop it. He added that he lived in Gaza and worked in the field of human rights. To the United Nations in the 1990s, and he witnessed the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Israel there. He accused the United States, Britain, and European countries of providing political and diplomatic cover for the atrocities committed by Israel. Moukheiber wrote that after he witnessed what happened in Rwanda and Bosnia and to the Rohingya civilians in Myanmar, the United Nations failed repeatedly. Repeatedly, in stopping genocide, the High Commissioner continued, “We are failing again in Gaza 11.” Mukhaiber’s message comes at a time when the victims of Israeli crime were in the thousands. By the 25th day of the war on Gaza, the number of martyrs had risen to 8,525, including 3,542 children, 2,187 women, and more. 2,000 missing people are still under the rubble, in addition to about 22,000 injured. Among the most horrific massacres was the massacre at Al-Baptist Hospital in central Gaza on October 17, in which more than 500 Palestinians were martyred, the majority of whom were women and children, who took the hospital as a safe refuge from Israeli raids, and the Jabalia camp massacre in October 31, which claimed the lives of more than 400 Palestinians, including martyrs and wounded, and the majority of them were children and women. What is noteworthy is that in all the massacres that Israel committed against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, they used new types of bombs, some of which cause burns that affect 80 of the bodies of the martyrs and wounded. These are bombs. The massacres committed by Israel in Gaza since October 7 were not separated from a long history of massacres in the Strip, as they committed massacres in the years 2008, 2012, 2014, and 2021. Rather, Israel’s history is a witness to genocidal crimes throughout Palestine. Since the end of the 1940s, in addition to the expulsion of residents from their lands to neighboring countries and from their villages and cities inside Palestine to other villages and cities, the fact that forcibly transferring residents is a crime of genocide, in addition to the dozens of mass massacres that were committed in the year 1948. 12 To prosecute Israel and its supporters, the Crime Prevention Convention stipulates Genocide and its punishment require not only the prosecution of the perpetrator, but also those who support the perpetrator and cover up his crime, and it is applicable in times of peace and war alike. Article Three of the Convention, while stipulating the punishment of the perpetrator, punishes the conspirator and the direct and public instigator of the attempt to commit or participate in the commission. Genocide. According to Article 4, all persons who commit such acts must be punished, whether they are constitutional rulers, public officials, or individuals. Regardless of the person’s official position, he cannot benefit from any form of immunity. Articles 5 and 7 stipulate that the necessary legislative measures be taken to punish the perpetrators of crimes and meet Requesting unconditional extradition to the requesting countries, and in accordance with Article 8, any of the contracting parties may request that the competent United Nations organs take action in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.The United Nations shall take whatever measures it deems appropriate to prevent and suppress these acts, and while Article 6 of the Convention stipulates that perpetrators may be tried before the competent local courts, it permits trial before the International Criminal Court. Israel and its courts have long proven their failure to pursue any case involving Palestinian citizens, which necessarily refers to To the International Criminal Court, and because the crime of genocide is one of the worst crimes, it can also be tried before any national court on the basis of the principle of universal jurisdiction, provided that the country’s national criminal system includes a jurisdiction clause regarding crimes committed by non-nationals outside the national territory. 13 As for conspirators to commit genocide They are also being prosecuted according to the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in the case of Nahimana et al., November 28, 2007, paragraphs 344, 894, and 896, which concluded that conspiracy to commit genocide is defined as an agreement between two or more persons to commit the crime of genocide, as was stated in the case Seromba March 12, 2008, Paragraph 161, that committing genocide is not limited to direct and physical proximity and that other acts may constitute direct participation in the criminal act of the crime, especially aiding and abetting, as well as direct and public inducement and incitement to commit genocide. 14 Israel and its supporters will not be immune one day. On accountability, as the crime of genocide, whether committed in time of war or in time of peace, is not subject to a statute of limitations, as stipulated in the Convention on the Non-Prescription of Statute for War Crimes and Crimes Committed against Humanity of 1968. Therefore, judicial procedures can be initiated regardless of the period of time that has passed since the commission of the crime. 15 Western countries have demonstrated At the forefront of which is the United States, as they are instigators, if not directly involved in the crimes of genocide in Gaza, by considering everything Israel does as self-defense, even though it is an occupying state to which the principle of self-defense does not apply. US President Joe Biden has shed blood. The people of Gaza and gave Israel the green light to commit genocide. He even agreed to Israel’s effort to expel the Gazans from their land to the Sinai desert, which Egypt has rejected so far. The direct American role in the genocide was demonstrated through the visits of Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the confirmation of all officials and employees. The American administration supports what Israel is doing and provides it with types of internationally prohibited munitions and those that should not be used against residents and their homes. The leaders of Britain, France and Italy cannot be excluded from responsibility through their direct support for the crime or through their silence about it. It is true that all agreements, treaties and decisions issued by various United Nations bodies, especially the UN Security Council, have been ignored by Israel with the support of its allies in the West. However, it is necessary to use all available mechanisms to prosecute the perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, all of which are crimes that do not go away with time, along with all other struggle tools. According to the circumstances arising at each time. 1 The full text of the Convention can be found on the International Red Cross website at the electronic link. 2 The explanation of the concept of genocide and the citations to its law in this article is based on the Practical Dictionary of Humanitarian Law published on the Doctors Without Borders website at the electronic link as well as on the United Nations website. United Nations, which published an explanation of the agreement written by Professor of International Law VNational University of Ireland and Director of the Irish Center for Human Rights, William Schabas, in the electronic link 3 The Scientific Dictionary of Humanitarian Law Previously mentioned source 4 Same source 5 Same source 6 Same source 7 Same source 8 Same source 9 Elias Khoury and Anis Mohsen Gaza in the Scalpel Interview with Ghassan Abu Sitta Journal of Palestine Studies, Issue 100, Spring 2021, pp. 146 159 10 Scientific Dictionary of Humanitarian Law Source previously mentioned 11 See the resignation of a senior United Nations official in protest against the position of the UN bodies on the situation in Gaza Sputnik Arabic in the electronic link and also see the resignation of a United Nations official because of what he described B Genocide in Gaza CNN in Arabic in the electronic link 12 For details of the massacres in the year 1948 see Nour Abu Aisha The most prominent massacres of Zionist gangs in Palestine in 1948 Turkish Anatolia Agency 8 2 2022 in the electronic link 13 Scientific Dictionary of Humanitarian Law A previously mentioned source 14 Same source 15 Same source read the original
Blog title Palestinian prisoners facing the brutality of Israeli jailers Author Thaer Abu Ayyash Date November 3, 2023 Since October 7, the occupation continues to launch massive arrest campaigns in the West Bank, the total of which has reached 1,680 detainees as of the writing of these lines. According to a statement by a group of institutions that care for Palestinian prisoners1, this statement indicated that 80 of the detainees were transferred to administrative detention. In a related context, the lion’s share of the arrest operations was concentrated in the Hebron Governorate and affected 500 detainees, in addition to the martyrdom of two detainees in the occupation prisons, namely Omar. Daraghmeh, 58 years old, and Arafat Hamdan, 25 years old, are among those who were arrested after October 7. The martyrdom of Daraghmeh and Hamdan exposes the fear of the existence of a systematic plan on the part of the occupation to assassinate prisoners, in light of the comprehensive aggression against the Palestinian pCisjordanian palestines 20231031 8 https www revolutionpermanente fr 90 morts of villages videos cisjordanian palestine victims of Israeli colonizations and de 9 https mukhtaraat palestine studies org ar node 32728 https mukhtaraat palestine studies org ar node 32836 10 https mukhtaraat palestine studies org ar node 32854 read the original
Blog title A ten-minute call that brought me back to life Author Sarah Sobeih Date November 1, 2023 I talked to my family Yes, I have found a way to talk to them. It may seem to many that this news is ordinary, but to me it is like a miracle, and it happened 11 10 ago. I could not communicate With my family, because of the difficulty of communicating with the Gaza Strip, I did not hear the voice of any of them, and I was checking on them in some way, as my father would connect to the Internet for a few minutes, usually early in the morning, to send us a message telling us that they were alive and had lived to see another day, and we would remain for the rest of the day waiting for him to call again. We learned that they are still alive, and as I mentioned previously, I had not previously been able to contact them internationally for technical reasons that I do not fully know, but after some difficulty, and thank God, I was able to contact them and listen to the sound of their breathing. In this message, I will suffice with explaining the details of the call, which did not exceed ten minutes and was returned. Life to those who seemed to have lost it. I was talking to my sister-in-law about the difficulty of contacting my family and checking on them. I explained to her that every time I tried to call them internationally, I received a voice message that said, “You cannot complete this call.” She said, “Why don’t you try from my phone? Her phone number is also Lebanese, but from a different company than mine.” The one I deal with, so I tried and actually started dialing my mother’s number from her phone, and my fingers were trembling as if they were fragile tree leaves being manipulated by the strong winter air. As soon as I finished dialing the number, that voice that I had been waiting for for weeks came. Tintintin This ringtone means that the call was successful. Let’s stop here for a moment. My heart stops just hearing the sound of the reindeer, literally. I had not heard my mother's voice yet, but only the voice of Tintin Tin. This means that within seconds I will hear the voice of this woman, under whose feet paradise lies, and whose voice contains all tenderness and security. As soon as the reindeer stopped and my mother answered, saying, "Hello." My tears began to respond to her voice. Yes, she is my mother, my dear. My heart beat, and as soon as I said, “Hello Mama,” with my voice trembling with joy, I heard her voice crying, but soon we linked our hearts together and I began to check on them. Are you okay? Do you have enough water? What about food? How are my brother’s children? Are they okay? I'm fine, what about my aunts and uncles, the whole family, and she said, "We're all fine, don't worry about us. How are you? Are you fine? Are you okay?" She started, as usual, to check on me, my life, and my husband, asking me about my eating and sleeping. This is my mother. She forgets that she is the one who lives and suffers as a result of the horrors of war, and gives birth. Her life and her worries are in balance, and she worries about me, who lives far away from her outside Gaza and in relative safety, not suffering as a result of a war that takes away everything dear and dear. I reassured her that we were fine, and my little brother came and eagerly took the phone and began the conversation by asking about my condition, and he did not care at all that he could hear the sounds of bombing and missiles, and we talked. For a few seconds, then it was the turn of the superhero, and he is the first hero in my life, the man from whom I derive my strength from his strength and my determination from his determination. He said, “Daddy, my love, you are all good and well. We miss seeing you and talking with you a lot, but don’t worry about us. We are in high spirits. No one can help us. If you are good, take care.” How are you? These words, I think, were like artificial respirationWhat the doctor does as first aid when he treats a patient who is almost suffocating. My father’s breath brought me back to life again. This is the breath that the people of Gaza live with. We are fine and nothing will shake us. I saw not only my father but also my older brother, who also spoke to me for a few seconds and gave me determination. Strength is something that cannot be derived from anyone unless he is a Palestinian from Gaza. I apologize to everyone, but the Gazan who was left alone in this war of extermination is the only one who has this determination and strength. Then the voice of my brother’s wife, who is like an older sister to me, comes to reassure me that they are all and the children are fine. And also to ask me about my condition. After that, it was the turn of my little sister, Maryam, the last of the group, the one who was spoiled and loved by everyone, and who was only three months old during the 2008 war. I was worried about her, as she is a fragile person and her heart is very tender, unable to face all this devastation and destruction, but when I heard her voice, she was strong and healthy. I felt as if my heart was warmed by this, my little family. I checked on them in a call that did not exceed ten minutes. Not only that, but I also drew strength from people who were helpless, but in a way that the mind cannot understand, they still possess that ability to be steadfast and patient and count what they are going through as redemption. For Palestine, you know that I have been writing a lot about what I am going through and about the thoughts, feelings, and opinions that I have during this war on my Gaza. At the same time, I delete a lot of what I write when I feel weak, and it is not permissible for me, as a girl from Gaza, to be weak. You are the only one, Gaza, who gives us strength and no We, your children, may be broken, but seeing them erase your features, my love, breaks the heart and squeezes it, and yet I still keep the promise and I will remain strong for you, and that is why I chose this message that carries signs of joy and reassurance for my family, which you still hold in your arms. read the original
Blog title A conversation with Qaddoura Fares The Israeli Retaliatory Policy Against Palestinian Prisoners Since October 7 Author Editorial Board Date October 31, 2023 The Institute for Palestine Studies held a symposium entitled The Israeli Retaliatory Policy against Palestinian Prisoners after October 7, in which it hosted the head of the Commission for Prisoners’ and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Qaddoura Fares, who was interviewed by the head of the Institute’s Research Department, Magdi. Al-Maliki discussed the issue of prisoners in Israeli prisons, the conditions surrounding them, and the policy pursued by the occupation towards them, especially in light of the ongoing war on Gaza, and how to resolve this crisis. First, Al-Maliki explained that this symposium deals with an issue that concerns all components of Palestinian society, which is the issue of prisoners, which has always been a human rights issue. Struggle and Freedom will try as much as possible to address this issue in light of the new reality and the fierce attack on detainees and mass detention campaigns in all regions, in addition to shedding light on the detained Gazan workers inside the Green Line. Qaddoura Fares explained that the issue of prisoners emerged clearly in 2018 and worried the Israeli side until it became The parties in Israel are fighting over who will control them. He pointed out that what is happening today against the captive movement was planned and they wanted to implement it with war and without war. He said, “Now war has come and the Israelis have this existential anxiety, and the Al-Aqsa Flood operation came to reinforce the state of distrust, according to the Institute for Security Research.” The nationalist who identifies three dangers that affect the future of Israel. Danger No. 2 is the rifts that Israeli society is experiencing. Israel, as well as the army and security intelligence institutions, are all in crisis and fear a state of turmoil, and this is unprecedented. They have decided to close the prisons and all the measures they can take.Over the course of a week, they took it in an hour, every day a new procedure, and the most dangerous thing was that they started with physical attacks and insults. Fares pointed out that they exerted great efforts to put pressure on Israel, especially through international and human rights institutions such as the Red Cross, to find out the number of prisoners whose number increased after the war, especially from Gaza workers. He spoke Regarding the Israeli refusal and stubbornness towards declaring matters such as this, to maintain the occupation’s ability to hold citizens captive in detention centers that do not comply with international health standards, which means that the goal may be to kill these prisoners. Regarding the issue of prisoner exchange, he said that he has hope in liberating female prisoners and children, but the matter needs to stop. He also touched on the division in the Israeli arena between one current that sees the necessity of working to win the war, even at the expense of the death of the Israeli prisoners held by Hamas, and another that sees the necessity of working on the prisoner exchange issue first and then addressing the fight against Hamas. In response to a question about what the legal cover is that Surrounding these Israeli practices, Fares responded that Israel manages its affairs by enacting laws unilaterally, and this is what pushes Palestinian specialists to “play” with them on their terms to confront them with their laws. He pointed out that they asked the Red Cross to ask Israel to disclose the names of the detained prisoners to reassure the families that lost their members, but the entity He rejected this, and asked whether the prisoner system actually constitutes a burden on the Israeli government, especially since the prisoner in the occupation prisons is less harmed than the person outside the prison by virtue of freedom. Fares said that Israel believes in symbolism, which is what prompted it to stop death sentences so that the struggling prisoner does not turn into a situation. Symbolism for others to emulate. The danger is not from the prisoner himself, but from his impressionistic image. Therefore, the war is over the symbolic image and psychological state, and the success of Palestinian figures around the world raises morale by making other Palestinians feel proud and thus motivated. Fares saw that the humanitarian deal that is being talked about is not like other deals. The Palestinian revolution never had this number of Israeli soldiers and officers. Asking whether the deal would be limited to negotiations regarding prisoners, he answered, “This issue is related to the tactics of the negotiations. I was hoping that one of the captured soldiers would be alive so that the terms of the deal would improve, and now I find 200 prisoners with the resistance. This is related to How will the war end and when will this deal be completed? Then the humanitarian deal must be completed, first through a ceasefire for a sufficient period. There is another matter, which is that the Israelis and others will not be able to control the mouths of those who will go out and who will tell what they saw. Among the important matters that must be taken into consideration is the issue Female prisoners are more vulnerable to disease and injury, in addition to children. If they come out unharmed, this is good for our benefit, especially in confronting the issue of the Palestinian children they detain, the eldest of whom was born in 2006. This is what the media should see. In my opinion, the deal will happen before the end of the war. Perhaps there is a fear of Making mistakes, as happened in the “Loyalty of the Free” deal, and the matter requires caution and benefiting from past experiences in order not to be exposed to tricks. Regarding the number of prisoners who have been imprisoned since October 7, the place of their imprisonment, and their conditions, he answered, the number is increasing. Today morning, their number reached 1,400 prisoners, and from now until the evening we will find that they have reached 1,500. Prisoners, they were divided into one section in the interrogation centers, another in the Huwara camp in Nablus, another in Etzion near Bethlehem, and another in Ofer, and from there they were transferred.To Nafha and Raymond, but as for where they are located exactly, we cannot imagine since there are no spaces. The state pledged to improve conditions by reducing the number of detainees and creating new spaces, so the area increased to 3 square meters and the number of beds began to be reduced, but they returned to the old situation after the war under the pretext of the situation. Emergency and exceptional, and of course we do not forget the issue of the bad situation with regard to water and electricity. In response to a question that Israel is not interested in its prisoners and therefore is not interested in the deal because it is bombing all places and there are prisoners who died in the bombing, Fares replied that if they are not interested it is because they know that the resistance cares about them very much and I cannot imagine. To attack a place where they know there are prisoners so as not to expose their matter, but Israel is in a position where it wants to regain its prestige, and it seems that it has a decision to re-extend its control over the areas controlled by the resistance at any cost. Read the original
Blog title: Has Israel become a hostage of the United States, which it defends? Author Maher Al-Sharif Date: October 31, 2023 The United States of America has never been directly involved in a war fought by Israel in the past, as it is doing these days in the war that Israel is waging against the Gaza Strip. In the October 1973 war, for example, the United States of America was content with establishing an air bridge. To supply Israel with weapons when the latter was facing difficult situations in the first phase of that war facing the Egyptian and Syrian armies. In 1991, the United States of America sending Patriot batteries to defend Israel against attacks with Iraqi Scud missiles was seen as a rare exception, questioning the feasibility of a defensive alliance. With the United States, since the era of David Ben-Gurion, Israel has adopted a military doctrine, one of the foundations of which was the commitment to rely on its own capabilities to defend itself. Based on this doctrine, Israel has always refrained from establishing military alliances or treaties, even with its closest ally, which is the United States of America. Years ago, in the era of Former US President Donald Trump raised the idea of establishing a defensive alliance between Israel and the United States, then this idea emerged again when talking about establishing a defensive alliance between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States as one of three conditions put forward by the Saudi leadership to normalize its relations with Israel, but this alliance did not see the light due to... The opposition that emerged against it is true that the ruling circles in Israel remain convinced that one of the main elements of Israel’s strength is the alliance with the United States of America, and that questioning this alliance may threaten the essence of Israel’s existence as an independent and sovereign state in the violent world in which we live, as analyst Yoram wrote. Dori on July 16, 2023 in the Maariv newspaper stated that the confrontation with the United States is not only foolish but constitutes an existential threat to Israel. 1 However, despite this conviction, these circles generally remained cautious about making Israeli foreign and defense policies dependent on American policies through the establishment of an alliance. Military between the two countries On June 12, 2023, Israeli analyst Omer Dostri published in the Makor Rishon newspaper an article entitled It is forbidden to rely on the Americans. Israel must prepare to attack Iran alone, in which he assumed that the administration of President Joe Biden would refrain from taking certain steps against Iran and would try to thwart every attack. Israeli against Iran. It can even be assumed that Biden wants to reach the US presidential election period in NovemberNovember 2024, and he has a political achievement in the field of foreign relations in the form of an agreement with Iran to conclude, based on this assumption, that Israel must prepare itself for the possibility of acting alone regarding everything related to dealing with the Iranian nuclear weapon, and more than that, it must be ready in the event that it refuses. The Biden administration granted legitimacy to an Israeli strike and also prevented American assistance in the strategic military field, supplying weapons, refusing to sell weapons intended for attack, and in the operational military field, intelligence and political cooperation, persuading the countries of the region to cooperate with Israel, and in the diplomatic field, not using the veto in the United Nations Security Council, and lack of support for The International Community 2 On the first of this October, that is, a few days before the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, analyst Yitzhak Klein from Channel 7 Arotz Sheva published an article entitled “We must say no to an Israeli-American defense alliance,” in which he pointed out that within the framework of the tripartite negotiations between Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. As one of the Saudi demands is a defensive alliance with the United States, I also put forward the idea of building a defensive alliance between Israel and the United States, calling for the rejection of this idea, because an alliance between Israel and the United States would harm the security of the two countries, and in particular the security of Israel, because it would mean that the latter would not have It has an open balance to do whatever it deems appropriate to defend its security. Rather, the United States will guarantee its defense from bad consequences. Israel will not be able to take any action that the United States believes is unnecessary and exaggerated. On the other hand, such an alliance could push the United States to doubt. In Israel's demands to obtain advanced weapons at the expense of the American taxpayer, on the basis that Israel will not need this advanced weapon as long as the United States is the one that guarantees its security, the same analyst concluded by saying that the existence of common interests between these two countries does not necessarily mean that each The interests of the two countries are the same, stressing that the most important guarantee for Israel's security is the independence of decision-making on what it must do to defend itself and act based on that, and that Israel must remember the year 1975, because in that year the United States abandoned its ally, South Vietnam, and accepted its fall into the hands of the enemies. Also in the same year, Prime Minister Golda Meir warned her people against relying on American promises, a warning that is valid today as well. 3 The United States has strengthened its military presence in the region. Since the eighth of this month, the United States of America has sent to Israel reinforcements for the Iron Dome anti-missile system, a ship full of ammunition, and a number of It also increased the number of its soldiers stationed in its bases spread across a number of countries in the region, sent its latest anti-missile defense systems, and moved aircraft carriers and several destroyers and battleships from its naval fleet towards the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. It even went as far as the participation of President Joe Biden and the Minister of Defense. His Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, personally during their visit to Israel in the meetings of the Israeli Mini-Ministerial Council for War Affairs, and while the US President asked Congress to approve funding worth $14 billion for Israel’s war fund, his Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, announced on the 21st of this month that these measures will strengthen regional deterrence efforts and increase protection. American forces are in the region and are helping to defend Israel. 4 An American destroyer was shot down in the Red Sea on the 19th of the month.Currently, three missiles and a number of drones launched by the Houthis from Yemen were likely directed at targets in Israel. American aircraft also responded on the 26th of this month to a bombing that targeted American military bases in Iraq and Syria by attacking two facilities stationed in eastern Syria used by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and groups. According to a statement issued by the Pentagon, it was stated that these attacks came after a warning sent by US President Joe Biden to the Iranian leadership that any attack targeting US forces and threatening to provoke an expansion of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas would prompt an immediate military response by US forces. 5 Israel and the United States go to war together for the first time. This is what was stated in the title of an article written by analyst Ron Ben Yishan on the 23rd of this month in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, in which he stated that Israel and its security system must take the American position into consideration when they plan action, whether the matter is related to steps. taken to liberate the kidnapped, or regarding other steps that would affect their fate, because the Americans are in the midst of a regional battle in which they are protecting both their forces and Israel from attacks by organizations orbiting Iran, citing the need for the Americans to get involved to this extent in the ongoing war to the erosion of the line. The Israeli deterrence capacity vis-à-vis the countries of the region in the wake of the ongoing internal political crisis and in the wake of the success of the attack carried out by Hamas in the towns surrounding Gaza. This analyst concludes that this partnership, which is taking place largely at the Israeli request, requires the Israeli government and security system to listen to the requests. And American advice and response to Washington’s demands, while it grits its teeth and clearly knows that without this operational partnership and logistical assistance, it will face difficulties in withstanding in a multi-front war, especially if Iran and Hezbollah decide to escalate matters to the point where they reach an all-out war. 6 The analyst, Eitan Gilboa, was more It was clear when he mentioned in an article published on the 17th of this month by Maariv newspaper that the United States is currently acting as if it had signed a defense agreement with Israel, considering that this way of working has advantages and disadvantages and that the primary strategic goal of President Joe Biden is to deter Iran and Hezbollah from opening a second front in the north of On their part, but also on Israel's part, because he does not want a regional war in addition to the one taking place in Ukraine, so he warns and sends two aircraft carriers, one off the Lebanese coast and the second to the Persian Gulf, in addition to 2,000 paratroopers. He also sent in order to improve Israel's ability to continue militarily, through an air bridge. Full of advanced weapons and equipment to conclude that the war against Hamas and Jihad represents a good defensive alliance between the United States and Israel, and if these two organizations are dismantled without a second front in the north, this will strengthen this alliance without being official. 7 In fact, the prevailing feeling in Israel is The nature of American-Israeli relations has witnessed a change as a result of the current war, which analyst Joab Brommer expressed in an article published on the 27th of this month in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, when he pointed out that historical American support for Israel was based in the past on the assumption that Israel does not need To support in the sense that it is sufficient for the United States to provide Israel with the means of combat, but the latter will achieve victory with its own capabilities, and this is what made Israel unlike Japan and South Korea.Taiwan and the NATO countries have never relied on a nuclear umbrella or on the presence of American forces to defend their lands, but Israel is now living, as he continued, in a vicious circle. If it is viewed for the first time in its life as needing the United States to save it, or at least to provide If it has help to protect itself from Hezbollah, its strategic effectiveness will be undermined in the eyes of many Americans. On the other hand, it is not certain that Israel will be able to emerge victorious from the multi-front confrontation without this military intervention. 8 Will American involvement in this war be to the benefit of Beijing and Moscow? The fear of Israel's inability to wage a multi-front war and fear for its future are what prompted President Joe Biden, who sometimes defines himself as a convinced Zionist, to employ all this American military power to defend Israel and engage in a war in the Middle East, knowing that his country's vital strategic interests assume Keeping the conflicts that have been going on for decades in the Near and Middle East frozen and focusing all its diplomatic and military resources on its conflict with its main adversary, China, which it sees as the main threat to its global hegemony. Although some analysts estimate that it is difficult to predict the long-term consequences of the conflict in the Middle East, which It depends above all on the potential success of Israel in its desire to eliminate Hamas. There are those who believe that Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip could affect the global balance of power, drain American resources, and shake the world order in favor of Moscow and Beijing, so that Washington’s current focus is on the Middle East. 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Blog title Israeli attacks on refugee camps in the West Bank The case of Tulkarm Author Taqa Hanoun Date March 7, 2024 The Israeli occupation policies created a vicious circle of killing and destruction with every incursion into West Bank cities, villages, and camps, especially the northern ones, such as the camp in Tulkarm and Nour Shams in the city of Tulkarm. They witness a series of violent raidsSince the beginning of last year, the severity of the destruction has intensified after the events of October 7, 2023, during which the Palestinians suffer as a result of harm and human and material losses, which is difficult for them to recover despite their well-known efforts to reclaim what is possible and cling to their presence in them, and given the nature of the occupation’s attacks on the camps in parallel with the comprehensive aggression. What is being waged on the Gaza Strip, their approach, despite the difference in severity, is natural, but also spontaneous, expressed by even the children of the camp when talking about what is going on around them, such as the phrases “We are bombing Gaza 1,” especially since the rate of killing and destruction has increased significantly within the collective punishment policy pursued by the occupation to crush the incubator. Popularity of fighters 2 Random killing Increasing the number of victims in less than a week after the events of October 7 The occupation in Tulkarm killed 8 children, 6 of them together, between the ages of 11 and 16 years 3 By detonating a drone in one of the alleys of Nour Shams, and they were among 59 martyrs who rose in the last quarter. Only from the year 2023 4, knowing that the overwhelming majority of them were unarmed and unarmed. Since the beginning of the year 2024 until the moment this article was issued, the occupation killed 21 Palestinians, including two children, in Tulkarm and its two camps, and the severity of the severe injuries inflicted by the occupation on October 7 also increased and were concentrated in areas Fatal to the upper part of the body, such as the head, neck, and chest, according to the testimony of the medical director of the government hospital in Tulkarm, Dr. Iyad Akkad, causing permanent disabilities or amputation of their limbs. The people used to mourn the martyrs for several days after the end of the storming, as a result of the injuries that killed them after a period of staying in intensive care 5 and did not The occupation not only wounded them, but also pursued them by kidnapping them from ambulances or assaulting them by severely beating their wounds after handcuffing them, as Raed Yassin, director of the Red Crescent Ambulance in Tulkarm, pointed out, and causing additional injuries to them, as one of the occupation soldiers stabbed a wounded man in the neck inside an ambulance6 and the army used The occupation prevented or delayed providing aid to the martyrs and left them to bleed until they died, even though it was possible to save a number of them secretly after examining their injuries, according to what Dr. Akkad mentioned, but the occupation prevented that, in addition to abusing the bodies of some of them, such as the martyr Abdul Rahman Othman, whom they abused. They tied his leg with a rope and dragged him through the alleys of the camp7 while they kidnapped the bodies of a number of the city’s martyrs. It obstructs the transfer of patients and pregnant women to it 10 and rains gas bombs on the hospital, coinciding with the targeting of hospitals in the Gaza Strip, which has deepened the citizens’ feeling that the occupation’s tendency to take revenge and hatred prevails in its dealings with them wherever they are and without justification. Ambulances have become subject to the occupation’s searches in all parts of the city or elsewhere. Those heading to treat the injured were intercepted by the soldiers, who repeatedly targeted them with fire, and put some of them out of service despite their coordination with the Red Cross and the liaison for their passage. They also attacked the paramedics, arresting them, searching them, confiscating their phones, and wounding them. They wounded two Red Crescent paramedics with 11 shrapnel, and opened fire in the direction of other paramedics. Despite being informed by the Israeli military liaison to come to evacuate the body of a young man they killed, they then surprised them with bullets and also attacked the volunteer paramedics in the field ambulance centers.In the two camps, they attacked the centers, wounded and arrested some of them. 12 The violations also affected journalists by targeting them with live bullets, assaulting them, and threatening them while they were working. 13 As the occupation killed journalist Ibrahim Mahameed while he was trying to retrieve his child, the martyr Taha, 16 years old, from in front of his house in Nour Shams after they shot him. 14 They also opened fire on the car of Palestine Channel cameraman Fadi Yassin while he was there. 15 They arrested some of the city’s journalists, such as photographer Hamza Safi and journalist Sami Al-Sa’i. They distorted the place and tortured the movers, causing the Palestinians to restrain their fighters. Destroying the camp’s public landscape and targeting all aspects of life there, starting with the infrastructure and ending with it. The stone tombstones bearing images of martyrs are an inherent feature of incursions, as the occupation bulldozers erased many of their above-ground features and destroyed what was beneath them, disrupting the water and sewage networks and damaging the electricity and internet communications lines, the restoration of which requires huge costs, according to the Sha’biyin camp committees and the municipality crews, who are exhausted. Its capacity for continuous rehabilitation is 16 days or hours of incursions, as the time difference between them does not exceed days or hours. Moreover, targeting public facilities such as kindergartens, clubs, facilities for people with disabilities, stores, and vehicles has paralyzed the lives of residents who have lost vital centers and their sources of livelihood. However, bombing homes, burning them, or completely demolishing them Partially, in addition to storming almost all of the camp’s homes and destroying their contents, including furniture, appliances, and clothing, it was a turning point in the course of the raids, the goal of which seemed clear to be to create a shocking suffering for every family and to generate a state of collective condemnation through which the camp residents expelled the two battalions from their place or produced a general state of dissatisfaction. What turned out to be their conditions, and the battalion being held responsible for these losses: seizing their homes throughout the storm, stealing or destroying their contents, humiliating their people, terrorizing them, detaining them in one of the rooms, or forcibly removing them from the camp, 17 and arresting hundreds of citizens, some of them young children, abusing them, numbering them, and detaining them in local facilities for investigation before transferring some of them to a camp. The occupation and the release of those who remain in a condition that sometimes requires medical intervention are all practices that take place, as in Gaza, under the justification of fighting terrorism, and are applied to all Palestinians, demanding that they hand over fighters, within a clear direction of making the camps uninhabitable, intimidating the refugees, demanding that they leave them, and dissolving the state of resistance that the Phalange represented at the beginning. It is formed by the isolation of cities, stopping the wheel of life and separating the Palestinians from their reality. Despite the concentration of the expanded raids in the camps, they cast a shadow on their surrounding cities and villages, as a state similar to a curfew prevails during the raids, during which citizens suffer as their basic needs of food and medicine run out, and it is difficult to go out to provide them for fear of being targeted. Random shooting, arrest, and torture, and with the occupation closing the checkpoints surrounding the cities for days or weeks, the commercial activity of these cities declined, and the arrivals to and from them decreased, and what looked like an emotional barrier was strengthened, combined with the spatial, so that the impact of the incursions was concentrated in the geographical space in which they occurred, without its surroundings, as a mechanism to fragment the Palestinian collective feeling, and what remains. It appears that the occupation is using the same mechanism inside the cities after its failure to undermine the brigades by intensifying pressure cooker operations 18, which rely on special forces of the occupation suddenly surrounding a building in a specific area and assassinating one of the wanted persons in it without penetrating the area or the camp in which the operation is taking place. So that it preserves the rest of the cityOr the camp has at least its minimum normal movement. The occupation policy at the present time ranges between lightning operations and expanded incursions to serve the same goal. 1 An interview I conducted with children from Nour Shams camp shortly after one of the occupation’s incursions into the camp. YouTube https www youtube com shorts 7ih5qumdmkq 2 Khalil Musa Israel strikes The popular incubator for resistance in the West Bank Independent Arabia 1 20 2024 3 The children are Youssef Omar Ibrahim Zughdad, 11 years old, Uday Mamoun Khaled Abu Al-Hayja, 15 years old, Mujahid Muhammad Yusuf Sa’ida, 15 years old, Ali Abdullah Abu Khazna, 14 years old, Sari Uday Taha Sadda, 15 years old, and Taha Ibrahim Muhammad Ali. Mahameed, 16 years old, all from Nour Shams, in addition to the two children, Muhammad Adwan, 16 years old, from Pharaoh, and Omar Asmar, 15 years old, from Zeta. 4 73 Palestinians were martyred in Tulkarm during the past year, including 13 children. 5 The last of them was the martyr Ibrahim Mahameed, who was martyred on February 29, 2024, as a result of wounds sustained as a result. The occupation bullets that he fired at him while he was trying to help his son Taha, who was martyred on 10/19/2023 6 The head of the Tulkarm Doctors Syndicate tells Watan the attacks the wounded were subjected to. A soldier from the occupation army stabbed Grega in the neck inside the ambulance and said to him, “I will kill you.” Watan 12/27 2023 7 According to testimony Wafa Abu Hamish from Tulkarm camp. The occupation soldiers killed Abdul Rahman at the door of her house after he threw a homemade elbow in their direction. The occupation army threatened to kill her and everyone in the house if they tried to approach it and prevented the ambulance from reaching it until the number of Tulkarm martyrs whose bodies were confiscated by the occupation rose to 8. Since the beginning of 2024, three bodies have been confiscated, while four bodies were confiscated last year. 9 Statement: The Palestinian Red Crescent Society warns of the seriousness of the attacks that its crews were exposed to today in Nablus and Tulkarm. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society 7/24/2023 10 Continuous targeting of Tulkarm Hospital and ambulance crews by searching them and obstructing their work. Al-Fajr via YouTube Dr. Radwan Balibla pointed out that the occupation obstructed the entry of patients and a pregnant woman to the hospital 7 12 2023 11 Ambulance officer Safia Belbeisi was injured by shrapnel in the hand, and ambulance officer Abdullah Nairat was injured by shrapnel in his foot, causing fractures. They are both Red Crescent crews, and two paramedics from Al-Shifa Ambulance, private ambulance Fathi Nasr, were injured. God sustained shrapnel in the ear and Ali Safarini in the hand while they were working, and their condition was described as moderate. 12 Like the paramedic in Tulkarm camp, Iman Salem, who was injured in the back, and the volunteer Hani Soun, who is still detained until now. 13 The occupation forces attacked the journalists while they were covering them and detained the journalist Ihab Al-Damiri and assaulted them. On him while performing his message on the air, journalist Fayhaa Khanfar was detained with him, their phones were confiscated, and what they documented about the siege of the camp was deleted before they were released. 14 Scenes documenting the occupation’s execution of the child Taha Mahameed and his father’s attempt to save him and his being shot. Instagram 15 The occupation forces shoot Palestinian journalist Fadi Yassin inside his car. In Tulkarm Al Jazeera Live via YouTube 1 19 2024 16 The destruction of the infrastructure in Tulkarm camp exacerbates the suffering of refugees Watan 2 10 2024 17 The occupation forces citizens to evacuate Tulkarm camp Wafa 1 17 2024 18 The pressure cooker The occupation’s strategy in targeting resistance fighters in the West Bank Vision Center for Political Development 7 9 2022 read the original
Blog title The Gaza War and its repercussions on Egyptian politics Author Sameh Ismail Date October 31, 2023 With the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, all data indicated that Cairo was in a severe situationComplexity: Egypt, which is facing a severe economic crisis, has a peace treaty with Israel, and there is security and economic cooperation between them. It is also a controversial ally. Sometimes it is an ally of the United States, and at the same time it has strong relations with Russia, in addition to having the only crossing capable of providing the Gaza Strip with life through the delivery of aid. It has security relations with Hamas, especially since 2017, and there is an understanding between the two parties that Hamas will cooperate with Egypt in combating terrorism in Sinai in exchange for the latter helping it ease the siege on the Gaza Strip. Everything on the morning of October 7 portended confusion in Cairo, which received news of the attack. The major attack by Hamas on the Israeli settlements in the Gaza envelope was a shock. The movement, which has historical strategic relations with the Egyptian intelligence services in accordance with the security cooperation protocol, had to notify Cairo of the date and size of the attack, which is something that it is unlikely that Hamas ignored given its strong need for Egyptian intervention. It is usual for a ceasefire in addition to supplying the Strip with humanitarian aid in anticipation of Israeli retaliation. Overlapping positions, according to informed sources. Cairo was aware of Hamas’ intention to launch a major attack and that the movement has been coordinating with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to support its military arsenal for years. Cairo tried to intervene to defuse the explosion through two axes. The first is pressure on Hamas to restrain the military wing and postpone the confrontation as much as possible in light of Cairo’s awareness of the nature of the extreme right-wing government in Israel and Netanyahu’s desire to export his internal crisis to the second neighboring countries. Open a direct dialogue with Tel Aviv, which Cairo has been doing for months in order to persuade it to stop provocations and threats. That the Palestinian response will be desperate and violent, and that it has the information to confirm this. At the same time, the Egyptian street was witnessing a state of relief mixed with restlessness and tension in light of rising prices and the arrival of inflation rates to record levels. Presidential candidate Ahmed Tantawi caused a state of momentum among the opposition. It has become clear that the head of the regime is facing, for the first time in nearly a decade, a more widespread wave of protest, and the mechanisms of national dialogue or procedures for releasing political detainees have not succeeded in alleviating its intensity. In conjunction with the events, the international rating agency Standard & Poor’s lowered Egypt’s long-term sovereign credit rating by one notch to Pointing to the increasing financing pressures on the country, the agency expected that the country’s economy would be affected by the ongoing war in Gaza since October 7, and because of the war, the closure of the Israeli Tamar gas platform led to a reduction in Egypt’s gas imports to 650 million cubic feet per day instead of 800 million cubic feet per day. This reduced Egypt's ability to meet domestic demand and export liquefied natural gas. Slow progress on major monetary and structural reforms also led to a delay in the disbursement of bilateral and multilateral funds that are considered necessary to cover Egypt's high needs for external financing. Egyptian tourism also faced a strong blow following the Alexandria accident. When an Egyptian police officer opened fire with his personal weapon on a group of Israeli tourists during their visit to the Amud al-Sawari area on October 8, which led to the death of an Israeli tourist, in addition to the killing of an Egyptian tour guide and the injury of another, all roads lead to disaster. All roads were... It leads to disaster in light of the Israeli reaction, which turned into brutal and planned revengeThe Israeli military leadership announced it unequivocally, which is to transfer the conflict to the Egyptian interior by liquidating the Gaza Strip of its residents and forcibly displacing them to Sinai. This coincided with the bombing of the Rafah crossing three times in order to cause a kind of chaos on the border and push the Palestinians to flee to Egypt under the weight of brutal strikes on civilians and during the Holocaust. Zionism is at its most intense in the Gaza Strip. There was a number of American and European pressures on Egypt in order to open the borders with the Strip and receive the fleeing Palestinians. Here, the Egyptian leadership realized that the old plan was being activated through a series of suspicious moves that coincided, according to Palestinian sources, with an American offer to zero Egypt’s debts. Cairo looked forward well. The future of the crisis if Israel succeeds in liquidating the Gaza Strip and transferring its residents to Sinai. This is because removing the resistance from its land necessarily pushes it to try to subject the new land to its conditions, which will subsequently lead to a replication of the events of Black September and give Israel a pretext to invade Sinai again, which is to confront the Palestinian resistance in doing so. At that time, Egyptian public opinion was about to explode, and the urgent internal issues gave way in favor of the more important issue. The citizen, who was groaning under the weight of the economic crisis, became burdened with a new burden as he saw what was happening to his first national cause. Frustration mixed with anger, and the volcano was about to explode due to the cauldrons of revolution sparked by the crimes of the occupation in the Gaza Strip. Gaza turned the tables. Here, Cairo decided to turn the tables and bring its own crisis down to the conflict, as decision makers settled on the need to identify with angry public opinion to confront the Israeli plan. Cairo’s internal and external moves were very deliberate. At home, the Ministry of Interior allowed for the first time in a decade to hold demonstrations from... Without licenses in order to denounce the brutal Zionist aggression against the Gaza Strip, Cairo and the governorates witnessed the exit of tens of thousands of demonstrators, so that no one paid attention to the failure of candidate Ahmed Tantawi to collect the necessary agencies to run for the presidential elections, amid reports that pointed to the occurrence of violations in the real estate registration offices in order to restrict his supporters. And preventing them from making the necessary agencies, the regime quietly and without problems got rid of the most troublesome candidates, and all the conditions were prepared for calm presidential elections that President Sisi could easily decide in his favor. President Sisi identified with public opinion and responded to the widespread pro-Palestinian sentiment among the Egyptian public and rejected all pressures that were exerted on Egypt. In order to displace the Palestinians to Sinai, he also refused to allow stranded foreigners to cross the border to escape the violent Israeli bombardment and the expected ground attack before the entry of aid into the Strip. While dozens of trucks gathered in front of the crossing gate carrying tons of aid, and some demonstrations took place in support of the president, and thousands delegated him to confront Zionist ambitions, it seems that the regime benefited. Good from past experience, as the various Egyptian leftist groups, as well as the organizations that participated in the events of January 25, 2011, all arose in an incubator of solidarity with the second Palestinian Intifada. On October 15, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that the Israeli army’s operations went beyond any proportionate response. With the October 7 attacks, which took the form of unacceptable collective punishment, his popularity rose for the first time in years. He showed firmness in rejecting displacement and refusing to allow the passage of foreigners, stipulating that aid should enter first. Cairo succeeded in utilizing the visit of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres toThe crossing. The media also launched massive propaganda to denounce the collective punishment practiced by Israel before Cairo hosted an expanded regional summit in order to get out of the current impasse. The contradictions of the regional situation. On the other hand, Cairo expressed in more than one place its rejection of the attack carried out by Hamas on the settlements around Gaza. According to informed sources, Cairo conveyed to Hamas leaders its clear anger on October 7. According to the same sources, a number of members of the movement’s political bureau were not aware of the size and timing of the attack. Moreover, the movement’s leadership itself did not expect the results of the attack to come in this way, and it appears that the political bureau Perhaps he lost the ability to adequately control the military wing. Cairo's efforts succeeded in bringing in part of the aid that began to flow into the Gaza Strip daily. It seems that Israel was disturbed by the solid challenge expressed by Cairo, so it decided to send a message, as nine Egyptian army soldiers were injured as a result of a bombing carried out by a tank. of the occupation army on an Egyptian position east of Rafah, and the spokesman for the occupation army claimed that the tank fired by mistake. Cairo’s position up to this moment appears to be very balanced. Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are still taking place on an almost daily basis, and the media has devoted constant paragraphs to denouncing the Zionist aggression, and Egyptians continue to donate blood, money, and materials. The army is trying to organize the crossing of trucks into the besieged Gaza Strip, with the continued angry insinuations from Hamas and the constant appeals to the international community to intervene to stop the Zionist massacre in Gaza, as well as to re-emerge as an influential regional force that holds the papers on the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis through the movement of diplomacy. The Egyptian government is witnessing unprecedented activity at this time, and Cairo is well aware of the danger of the Gaza Strip issue being out of its hands and the danger of any regional power adopting the terms of conflict and expansion at the expense of Egypt in this strategic context. Therefore, Cairo may exert new pressure on Hamas by activating channels of dialogue with the Palestinian President. Mahmoud Abbas to make the movement aware of the danger of keeping Egypt away from its thorny movements. Cairo is also trying, through cooperation with the UAE in this file, to encircle the growing Iranian role in light of reports confirming the arrival of Iranian crowds to southern Syria from the Pakistani Zainabiyoun Corps militia and the Afghan Fatemiyoun Corps, which are militias loyal to Iran, in addition to abnormal activity. To the elements of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, Al-Warithun, Al-Nujaba, Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas, and others, and their movement westward. Add to that the activities of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and other factions, and Cairo must be aware of a very dangerous variable, which is the emergence of military activities by the Al-Fajr militia affiliated with the Lebanese Islamic Group, which is the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, and which has become more inclined to... Towards Tehran, especially after the election of Sheikh Muhammad Taqoush as Secretary-General of the group, as the fact that an arm of my brothers takes up arms in the region carries dangerous repercussions on the Egyptian interior, according to the theory of cross-cutting vessels. Accordingly, Cairo’s position can be anticipated by confirming that it will continue its pursuit of a ceasefire at any cost and pressure for the introduction of more... Of aid and playing a greater role in the conflict in order to confront the Israeli plan to displace the population of Gaza, as Cairo proposed, according to informed sources, the establishment of shelter camps in the Palestinian Rafah under Egyptian supervision, but it is unlikely that Israel will respond to that, at least at the present time, or respond to a Saudi proposal to form peacekeeping forces. Arabic is spread throughout the sector and separates betweenBoth sides, on the other hand, Cairo is seeking in various ways to dissuade Israel from attacking ground and being satisfied with what has been achieved on the ground, but it realizes that Netanyahu cannot stop his campaign without achieving an overwhelming victory in which he will save his face and escape from an ambiguous fate that awaits him in light of the catastrophic security failure on October 7. On October 1, Cairo prepared other scenarios to try to contain the repercussions of the ground attack by convincing the American administration of the necessity of opening a safe corridor for aid, transporting the wounded to Egypt, and establishing safe areas inside the Gaza Strip and in the Negev, amid reports of a sharp deterioration in relations between Cairo and Hamas, but in return, it did not. It can allow the movement to be destroyed because the objective opposite is the occurrence of massive chaos on its borders. Cairo seeks to work to encircle all existing plans after everyone threw their crises into the crucible of the conflict in Gaza, starting with Israel itself, as Netanyahu finally found a lifeline to ease internal pressure on his government following the demonstrations. And Iran has finally found a new arena for expansion in the Middle East and a way out of the internal crisis that followed the killing of Mahsa Amini, as well as all the regional parties involved in the conflict, including the regime in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the authorities. The Palestinians in the West Bank while the Palestinians alone pay the price of Zionist madness and limited Arab support read the original
Blog title Israeli military intelligence paper The ideal solution is to evacuate the residents of Gaza to Sinai Author Editorial board Date October 31, 2023 The Israeli Ministry of Military Intelligence issued a paper in which it addressed how to deal with the population Civilians in Gaza and the options proposed to resolve this issue in a way that ensures a deep and radical change in the Strip and achieves the goals of the war against Gaza at the same time. The importance of the paper lies in the seriousness of the ideal solution it proposes, which is evacuating the civilian population from the Gaza Strip to Sinai, which is echoed in a number of statements. Israeli officials, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the following is the full literal translation is an administrative summary. The State of Israel is now required to bring about a tangible change in the civil reality in the Gaza Strip in light of the crimes of the Hamas movement that led to the outbreak of the Iron Sword War. For this purpose, the State of Israel must decide the political goal. Regarding the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, which it must seek to achieve in parallel with overthrowing the authority of the Hamas movement. The goal that the government will set requires carrying out intensive work in order to attract the United States and other countries to support this goal. The basic assumptions for working in any option: A. Eliminating the authority of the movement. Hamas B Evacuation of the population outside the combat zone is in the interest of the civilian population of the Gaza Strip C What is required is to plan and activate international assistance so that it reaches the area in accordance with the option that is adopted D It is necessary in any option to carry out a profound measure to accommodate the desired ideological change in the Strip, similar to a dismantling procedure. The direction chosen must support the political goal regarding the future of the Gaza Strip and the final image of the war. Through this document, we will present three possible options that could be adopted as guidance by the political level in Israel regarding the future of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. The directions have been studied. In light of the following factors, from a practical standpoint, the ability to apply them practically, from a legal standpoint, from an international, internal legal standpoint, on the one handThe ability to bring about ideological and cognitive change among the population with regard to Jews and Israel. The broad strategic ramifications. The three options that were studied are: The first option: the population remaining in the Gaza Strip and assigning rule to the Palestinian Authority. The second option: the population remaining in the Gaza Strip and creating a local Arab authority from among them. The third option: evacuation. The civilian population from the Gaza Strip to Sinai. Through an in-depth examination of the mentioned options, we can draw the following insights: A. The third option is the option that will achieve positive and long-term strategic results for Israel, and it is an implementable option. There is a need for the political level to be firm in the face of international pressure, with emphasis. To attract the United States and the countries supporting Israel to support this step, the first and second options suffer from major shortcomings, especially with regard to their strategic repercussions and their lack of feasibility in the long term. The two will not provide the necessary deterrence, and neither will allow for a change in awareness, and they will lead within a few years. To the emergence of the same problems and threats that the State of Israel has faced since 2007 until today. C. The first option is the option that entails the most risks. The division between the Palestinian population in the West Bank and those in the Gaza Strip is one of the main factors that make it difficult to establish a Palestinian state. Adopting this The option means an unprecedented victory for the Palestinian national movement, a victory that will cost Israel a price in the form of the lives of thousands of civilians and soldiers. It is also an option that does not guarantee Israeli security. The first option is for the population to remain in the Gaza Strip and rule is assigned to the Palestinian Authority. In terms of location and authority, the majority of the population remains in the Gaza Strip. It is imposed. Israeli military rule in the first phase and later established the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip as the sovereign ruling body in the Gaza Strip. In terms of operational implications, it requires fighting in a densely populated area and entails great risks for our soldiers. It also requires a lot of time as long as intense hostilities continue. The danger of opening a second front in the north will increase. The population in the Gaza Strip will oppose the control of the Palestinian Authority, which in the past has led to humanitarian responsibility. This responsibility will be fully imposed on Israel at the end of the war, with all the implications that this carries in terms of international legal legitimacy. At first glance, it seems This option is less dangerous from a humanitarian perspective, and therefore it will be easier to obtain widespread support, but the option related to the practical survival of the population would represent the worst option, as it is expected that many Arab deaths will occur in the operational phase as long as the population remains in the cities and intervenes in hostilities for a period of time. Implementation will be very long, and with it will extend the period of time during which photos of civilians affected by the fighting are published. The military rule that will be imposed on the Arab population will make it difficult for Israel to maintain broad international support and will lead to pressure on it to form an administration affiliated with the Palestinian Authority in terms of creating change. Ideological: It is necessary to formulate a general narrative that accommodates the failure of the Hamas movement and its moral injustice, and to replace the old perception with a moderate Islamic ideology. This is a process similar to the process of de-Nazification that Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan underwent. In this context, it will also be necessary to impose the materials in the educational curricula in schools and impose their use on An entire generation, the introduction of the Palestinian AuthorityTo the Gaza Strip will make it very difficult to impose educational curricula that educate students to believe in the legitimacy of Israel, as the educational curricula that are now taught in areas of the Palestinian Authority that are similar to those that are taught in areas governed by the Hamas movement teach students to hate and oppose Israel. It is true that it is It is possible that the Authority's replacement of government in the Gaza Strip will be conditional on Israel imposing educational curricula, but it is not possible to ensure that the Authority will actually implement this. The Palestinian Authority itself is fundamentally hostile to Israel. It must be appreciated that the Palestinian Authority will not work consistently and resolutely to formulate a general narrative to understand the failure and moral error that occurred. It is represented by the Hamas movement, and it must be appreciated that this authority will not work to promote moderate Islamic thought. To this day, the Hamas movement enjoys widespread popular support in the areas of the West Bank, and the leadership of the Palestinian Authority throughout Judea and Samaria is viewed as incapable and corrupt, and it is retreating before the Hamas movement on the The level of popular support in terms of strategic implications. The Palestinian Authority is an entity hostile to Israel and is an entity on the verge of collapse, as if it were standing on chicken-like feet. Strengthening the authority would represent a strategic loss for Israel. The existing division between the Palestinian population in the areas of the West Bank and the population of the Gaza Strip is one of the The main obstacles today that obstruct the establishment of a Palestinian state. It is unbelievable that the outcome of this war will become an unprecedented victory for the Palestinian national movement and pave the way towards the establishment of a Palestinian state. The current model exists in the regions of Judea and Samaria, which is represented by the presence of an Israeli military administration alongside a civil administration in the hands of the Palestinian Authority. It is a non-independent model and its future is uncertain. It was possible to tolerate the establishment of this model in Judea and Samaria only thanks to the large-scale Jewish settlement that spread throughout the entire region. This is because there is no possibility of Israeli military control without the presence of Jewish settlement, and we should not expect the settlement movements to adhere to it. By joining the project to return to the Gaza Strip after returning the Palestinian Authority to it, there is no way to maintain an effective military occupation in the Gaza Strip except on the basis of a military presence without settlement, and shortly thereafter voices will rise within Israel and in the world to demand that Israel withdraw, meaning that the military occupation is... A temporary situation will not enjoy long-term international legitimacy, as is the case in the regions of Judea and Samaria today, but the situation in the Gaza Strip will be worse, as the State of Israel will be viewed as a colonial power with an occupying army, military bases and points will be attacked, and the Palestinian Authority will deny any role in this matter. This option was tried and proved to be a failure. It should be noted that the plan to hand over the land to the Palestinian Authority and end Israeli military control was tried in 2006. Hamas won the elections and then forcefully took over the Gaza Strip. There is no justification that requires an Israeli national military effort to reoccupy the Gaza Strip. If in the end we return to committing the same mistake that led to the formation of the current sitInternational Agency Together 10 15 2023 9 Interview with Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France read the original
Blog title The International Criminal Court after liberation Author Saada Haj Date 29 October 2023 Several days ago, it was published that researchers on the subject of genocide, in addition to a hundred human rights organizations The Palestinian and International Human Rights Council sent a letter to the International Criminal Court, demanding that the Public Prosecutor issue arrest warrants for war criminals against humanity and the perpetrators of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians since the beginning of the Israeli aggression after October 7, 2023. Perhaps when reading news like this, we hear clear disbelief in everything. Beliefs of international law. Why do we have to arrange the alphabet and enumerate crimes and violations into numbered items and tabulate clear sources for what the fascist It must, in a social contract, before excluding the Palestinians from it, but also go to stop every incitement to kill the Palestinian soul, and all here indicates the totalitarianism of the occupation by killing us as a collective punishment for our identity, to display our pain in the morgue of life in public, as proof bearing issued numbers, perhaps and perhaps the engineered feelings will move gently like a system. The fork and the knife in cutting the food, the pomp of a lavish aristocratic dinner for a peasant who came from the depths of the uncivilized Third World and modeled a meticulous obedience and extreme care to the manual of etiquette and its rules when dining in the white man’s city. Perhaps the international scene appears to the vast majority of Palestinians to be conniving and hypocritical to the point of obscenity because The world hears us and knows exactly our Palestinian suffering since the Nakba, but it decided, with premeditation and premeditation, to ignore us and line up against us. However, we had to collect signatures from specialists in genocide affairs to classify the genocidal act as having achieved the conditions that it truly fulfills, so we had to monitor the body parts that the lenses documented. Children and the wailing of parents, families that were completely wiped out from the civil registry, stories of living children, and more than 3,000 female martyrs, other than those who were buried in free fall due to spontaneous demolition under the rubble, and we still do not find them, and more than 2,000 women other than fathers, whose rights we do not fulfill in wars that deceive us with their betrayals. Classification as gendered, as the latter have more blood permissible than others due to the masculinity of war, not to mention the fetuses who have not yet seen the light of day, those who died in their mothers’ wombs, and whose wombs were an incubator, a shroud, and a grave, other than those displaced in shelter centers who exceeded one million and four hundred thousand displaced persons, other than press crews, paramedics, civil defense, doctors, and the siege of Gaza. From any humanitarian aid, such as electricity, water, and fuel, and our collective disappointment, and the mass graves of families wrapped in white, their bodies still dripping with blood. We had to reduce the above data to a checklist, not a checklist full of digital reinforcements, in order to get this urgent message from researchers specialized in the field of genocide and indigenous rights. Human rights organizations subsequently summoned Karim Khan, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, demanding that he intervene immediately and put an end to the violations that went beyond what was stipulated in the guide to what is permitted and what is not permitted in wars, calling on the court to issue urgent arrest orders, visit Palestine, and investigate the crimes that occurred in All over the occupied Palestinian territory for more than two weeksFor the justice of our cause, we have an overwhelming certainty, believing in the values of justice and liberation, similar to the coup of history that one day called Nelson Mandela a terrorist. The time he spent in solitary confinement had eaten away at him, but today we have begun to cite his positions, celebrating his life’s struggle that led us to erect a statue of him in the heart of... The city of Ramallah, or Gandhi, whom the British labeled a dangerous man, and the world returned to imitating him as a man of peace, or even Malcolm An honorable achievement for these examples and other historical evidence of war crimes trials, such as the Nuremberg trials in Germany of German and Japanese leaders in the courts established by the victorious Allied powers shortly after World War II, in which defendants were tried for violating the laws and customs of war as stipulated in the Hague Conventions and for committing crimes. Against humanity, such as the extermination of racial, ethnic, and religious groups, and other atrocities against civilians, such as murder and ill-treatment of prisoners of war, and the deportation of hundreds of thousands of residents of the countries occupied by Germany during the war. Following this, the International Criminal Court found conclusive evidence of the existence of a systematic rule of violence, brutality, and terrorism on the part of the German government in the territories that Its forces occupied it at the time, and millions of people were killed in Nazi concentration camps. Many of them were equipped with gas chambers to exterminate Jews, Roma, and members of other ethnic or religious groups, as well as the forced deportation of millions of people from their homes to Germany. These are not only trials, but also trials of war criminals by Bosnian and Serb forces of the former Yugoslavia in 1993, where the crimes attributed to the accused included serious violations of the Geneva Conventions, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, as a result of which the Croatian Serb officials, the Bosnian Serbs, the Bosnian Serbs and the Bosnian Croatian Serbs, and the Bosnian Serb leaders were convicted of committing genocide. It remains with The horror of the status quo and the crimes of the occupation that have lasted for more than 75 years on the ground means that there is a glimmer of hope that it is necessary to exhaust all the legal papers for international litigation one day. Perhaps the request will truly resume after months or years, or perhaps in the legal recovery phase after liberation, so to speak, but adhering to this step is extremely important. A new generation lives in this world as devout believers in the importance of self-defense, holding the aggressor accountable, reparation for damage, and legal recovery after physical and psychological recovery, in the hope that one of our grandchildren, decades from now, will conduct research or write an academic thesis or book on the reasons for holding Israel accountable and tried, and how to extinguish Zionist colonialism using What was stated in the content of the aforementioned letter, which was sent to Attorney General Karim Khan, as documentary reinforcements to help them draw up their theoretical framework seeking to formulate a preface in the introduction to a book that may be titled The Demise of Israel, and at that time there will be no quotation marks on it. Read the original
Blog Title: The Flood Belies Invincible Israel And the Democratic West Author Anis Mohsen Date October 28, 2023 Perhaps and without a doubt, when the Al-Qassam Brigades thought, then planned and carried out the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, they did not think that they would reveal two big lies, thus exposing the extraordinary Israel and the democratic West that calls for human rights and equality, in particular.The rights of children and women, which are concepts that they sought to impose on the societies of the East, which they labeled as backward, and the democratic West woke up on October 7 to the collapse of the ZAR, represented by Israel, which was labeled as the only democracy in the Middle East and the superpower that broke all the Arab armies and imposed normalization on many Arab regimes. It was discovered that it was on the verge of collapse after a qualitative military operation. All its planners and implementers wanted were to capture a sufficient number of Israeli soldiers with the aim of zeroing out the Israeli detention centers in which more than five thousand male and female prisoners and administrative detainees are held for periods exceeding the possibility of a judicial ruling if they were tried, even if under the occupier’s dysfunctional laws. In fact, the West and Israel lived until October 7, 2023, intending to control the Arab East with the tools of military force and technological superiority, and exporting the principles of democracy, human rights, peace agreements, and the rules of war, since this East, in the view and theory of the West and its Orientalists, is nothing but barbaric societies whose members wear Western fashions and use Its advanced products are like robots, and they are incapable of producing such culture and such technology. No sooner had the sun set on October 7 than the West discovered that the towering poplar tree that it had planted over the olive and oak trees with the aim of destroying the natural environment of Palestine had stripped its branches, its roots had become visible, its stem had withered, and it was now in chains. The collapse began, starting with the largest in the American continent and not ending with the European countries, even the marginal ones, to surround a tree that they planted in the year 1948 and through which they thought that they had eliminated a Palestinian environment rooted in a land that had not calmed down, despite all the successive and continuing massacres. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades operation proved what is known and widely circulated. Since the Balfour Declaration through the Nakba of 1948, the establishment of Israel carried with it two goals: not allowing Arab unity, since the colonization of Palestine and planting Israel on its soil separates the Arabs of Africa from the Arabs of Asia, and the Arabs remain in a state of instability that does not allow them to build a prosperous self, get rid of the Jewish issue, and export a guilt complex. The Nazi Holocaust outside the European continent in collaboration with the Zionist movement. The Arabs in general and the Palestinians in particular appear as if they were the ones who committed the Holocaust. As for the United States, which controlled Europe economically and politically after World War II, it intended to build a security base for itself in the region in order to remain in control of what it stores. Energy sources in the Arabian Peninsula and the fact that Palestine is located in a strategic geographic area. Unlimited Western financial support. The amount of Western financial support in general and American support in particular for Israel reveals the extent of the early bet on this imperialist base consisting of an army that is the entire entity’s society with a cover in the form of political leadership. The most important of them were military leaders who practiced politics after retiring from fighting and killing. They are the modern model of a Spartan state, but the West missed the fact that Sparta itself in the historical narrative collapsed, and nothing remains of it except a novel for an American film about that historical myth. Let us take a look at the extent of American support for Israel, even before the announcement of its founding. From the year 1946 until the year 2023, without the unprecedented emergency aid announced by US President Joe Biden after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, that early aid amounted to $665,158 billion, according to a report issued by the Congressional Research Service in April 2023, as shown in the table below in billions of dollars. Fiscal year Military aid Economic aid Missile systems Total 1946 2020 104 506 34 347 7 411 146265 2021 3 300 0 500 3 800 2022 3 300 1 500 4 800 2023 until April 3 300 0 500 3 800 Total 114 406 34 347 9 911 158 665 Source congressional research service us aid to israel While numbers appear For the non-governmental organization USA Facts American aid to Israel during the period 1946-2022 amounted to 9,317 billion dollars, which is the largest among all the countries allied with Washington that receive American aid, as the following table shows Country Israel Vietnam C Egypt Afghanistan Korea U Britain India Iraq Turkey France Amount 317 9 148 5 182 3 160 9 119 9 107 5 102 9 100 6 98 3 300 Source USA Facts Organization In addition to routine aid, US President Joe Biden announced during his visit to occupied Palestine and his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would ask Congress for additional aid to Israel worth $100 billion, while he announced Grants to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and $100 million in aid to the Gaza Strip Reuters 10/19/2023 According to estimates by the non-governmental organization cited in this article, the largest volume of American aid 7,99 went to items related to military aid, and this in itself is sufficient to prove that the establishment of Israel Rather, it was intended to build a Western imperialist security base more than to establish a normal, normal state. In addition to American aid, France donated to Israel the building of its nuclear arsenal by funding France’s construction of the Dimona nuclear reactor and granting Israel, since the beginning of the 1950s, military aid, especially fighter planes, as well as the blackmail that Germany did not receive compensation for the Nazi Holocaust. According to the German DW agency, these compensations and aid previously amounted to 3 billion German marks, equivalent to 1.5 million euros, divided over 12 years. Jewish organizations defending victims of the Nazi Holocaust also received 450 million marks, and Germany was Federalism in the period between 1960 and 1970 was the second largest arms exporter to the Hebrew state, and this aid helped Israel maintain its presence in a sensitive period during the first and second wars in the region. Israeli publisher and historian Tom Segev looks back and says, “We have since that time considered Germany as a source of strength for Israel.” 10 9 2912 Thus, Israel is considered the largest recipient of Western aid, remembering that it has not finally drawn its borders with neighboring countries. Rather, the border lines are inherited from British and French colonialism, with the amendments that Israel introduced after it occupied parts of the lands of all the Arab encirclement countries in the June War. June 1967: The October shock and the lie of the West’s democracy. Israel used the largest amount of aid to develop its multiple defense systems, building the Hatz 2 and 3 systems, which are responsible for confronting long-range ballistic missiles. The Israeli Aerospace Company, in cooperation with the American company Boeing, is developing the Hatz system within the framework of an American anti-ballistic missile program. Israel had developed the Iron Dome system with the aim of confronting rockets launched from Gaza, while the threats of Iran and its allies were in Israel’s calculations when it worked on developing the systems in David’s Sling and Hatez. David’s Sling is distinguished by its ability to use guided missiles with a dual system, one using active radar and the other using Infrared imaging technology, according to a report published by the military magazine Military Watch, BBC 13 May 2023, as well as anti-target missile systems.Israel acquired the latest and most powerful American aircraft, the F-35, and also worked to strengthen the armor of the Merkava tank, which failed during the Israeli aggression against Lebanon in 2006. Israel was not satisfied with all that, but rather built cement walls and a barbed wire system on the borders with Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, equipped with the latest The technology produced surveillance devices and machine gun systems that operate on sensors and without being operated directly by the soldiers. However, these systems all fell on October 7, and the resistance fighters of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades were able to disable them using tools, some with primitive technology and others traditional, but through clever use. For the available tools that disabled watchtowers and electronic heavy machine guns, and destroyed the legend of the Merkava tank again, by bombing it with anti-armor shells from above using commercial drones that were developed locally, and within less than 3 hours, Al-Qassam fighters were able to invade the Gaza perimeter, control dozens of settlements, and eliminate the Israeli Gaza Division. And occupying and destroying its leadership centers, according to the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Saleh Al-Arouri, in an interview with Al Jazeera, 10/12/2023. Scarcely had the sun set on October 7, and the next morning had dawned, when Israel appeared as a defeated state, almost collapsing as a result of a qualitative military operation. The authorities of the Western countries responded with all their might. The West financially supports an Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip through the United States directly sending destructive weapons that fell on buildings in Gaza, destroying more than 40 of its buildings and causing the death of more than 7,000 Palestinians as of the writing of this article, most of them children and women, in a campaign of revenge and a desperate attempt to rebuild the concept of Deterrence that collapsed again In the context of dealing with what happened, a question was raised about how the Israeli deterrence system fell so easily, and one of the convincing answers was that Israel, fighting and ferocious as the first generation built it, weakened with the second generation and sagged with the third generation of political and military leaders who were unable to build The Ideal Soldier As for the West, which founded Israel, it was appalled by the resounding fall of Israel during a specific operation and not in a brutal war, so it rose completely in support of its massacres in the Gaza Strip, which exceeded all description and rose not only to war crimes, but to crimes against humanity and the crime of ethnic cleansing, and in the United States it spread The demonstrations took place in many states, and American Jewish demonstrators entered the Congress building in rejection of the Israeli aggression, but the American administration, with its Republicans and Democrats, insisted on supporting the Israeli massacre against the children and women of Gaza, as well as in Britain, whose capital, London, witnessed a demonstration in which the number of participants exceeded one hundred thousand, and its Prime Minister, Sunak, insisted on following the United States. In support of the massacre, in France, the land of light, demonstrations rejecting the barbaric Israeli aggression on Gaza were banned, and despite demonstrations taking place in Paris that defied the ban, President Macron insisted on unlimited support for Israel. Thus, the leaders of the West who flocked to Israel overthrew the lie of its democracy and its enrichment of international law. Human rights and its emphasis in other places on the Geneva Convention and its four protocols appeared as an oligarchy, and dropped its devotion to human rights by treating Palestinian human rights as inferior. This lying West had spent billions of dollars to export human rights principles to what it considered underdeveloped countries, so it became deprivation. The Palestinian’s right to self-determination is terrorism, not a democratic process, and is consistent with international law and public logic. Rights have becomeWomen and children, the Geneva Convention and its protocols are ink on paper, with these people considering that Israel has the right to defend itself by killing thousands of children and women and destroying civilian objects. The invincible lie of Israel has fallen, and the lie of the West’s democracy and its devotion to human rights has fallen all at once with the blessed Al-Aqsa Flood operation. read the original
Blog Title: My Testimony to Pain Author: Thabet Al-Amour Date: October 27, 2023 My Family Saturday 10/7/2023 The time is approximately 6:25 AM. The phone rang and my mother was crying and asking me what was happening. While I was talking to her, I heard the sound of rockets being fired from Gaza, so I told her: “Either this is a resistance maneuver or... The occupation assassinated a senior figure in the resistance. I tried to calm her down by saying that the matter was not worrisome and that I would find out what was happening and call her. I sat in the living room in the middle of the house. My wife came and asked me what was happening. I could not answer, as I did not have the answer, but I was certain that it was war, and here we have been living it for more than 17 years. One day I wrote the testimony, dated 10/23, continuously. We woke up and slept to the impact of bombing, death, and destruction. It may have been a coincidence that when I began writing the first line of this testimony, or to be precise, I heard the sound of something like a heavy mass falling from the sky, with a noise that I knew well, so I subconsciously jumped at once from the sky. The office room is in the middle of the hall, and I stood and looked around, not knowing what to do. It is 10:30 at night and the electricity is cut off. The house is lit with battery LEDs. My children go to bed early. The crazy bombing begins and reaches its peak at dawn. Everyone must be awake, present, and dressed, ready to go out immediately in case the bombing is close. All letters. Languages and brainstorming do not describe the fear and oppression I felt, and I am not ashamed to say that I was trembling and my heart was beating against the time needed to avoid the possibility that my house was the target. The bomb fell in a nearby place, so I gathered what was left of me and said, “We have passed death this time in the house. We are following a distribution tactic.” The family I have six children, three boys and three girls, the eldest of whom is Muhammad, who is 15 years old, and the youngest, Yahya, is 5 years old. He has become an expert in interpreting and analyzing the types of bombing, whether it was from a reconnaissance plane or a military plane. Each of the two boys sleeps in a room, their mother in a room, and I am in the office room, so most of the time. Palestinian families in Gaza adopt this tactic so that if they are exposed to bombing, there is a survival rate for some family members, while what happens is that the type of bombs that are dropped leave no trace of the home or family, to the point that the body parts arrive at the hospital to be written on as unknown. Some Gazan families have become It resorts to another tactic, which is to gather all the family members in one place, so that if they survive, they will survive together, and if they die as martyrs, they will also be martyred together. If we escape the night bombing, new tactics begin in the morning, the first of which is for my son Muhammad to take his turn in the bakery line to buy bread, and this means standing for two hours. Until three hours, the bakery only sells enough for the family for one day. As for my middle daughter, her mission is to lurk in the water selling carts, so she stands in the street waiting for any cart to pass by to fill a twenty-litre drinking water jug. We try to move on and coexist. My two young children, Youssef, 6 years old, and Yahya, 5 years old, are urinating. The involuntary involuntary stay with them is Youssef, who talks to himself at night and calls out to us, and sometimes he stands in the hall screaming and shaking when there is bombing in the neighborhood, so I embrace him and try to calm him down, but I am unable to do anything. In fact, I give him some water to hope he will calm down. I left my house when my fellow journalists, their homes, and their families began being targeted by bombing, and some of them died. Martyrs decided to leave the house and remainedMy family is at home, hoping to escape from any possible attack. So I went to Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, to a tent prepared by the Palestine Today channel. It was crowded with journalists. Even my colleague, director Muhammad Abu Qouta, photographer Muhammad Al-Sumairi, and journalist Alaa Salama, were all sleeping in the broadcast vehicle. They coexisted. With the situation, they adapted to eating, drinking, and sleeping inside a medium-sized car. In the tent, we distribute sleeping times. Some of us sleep on the mat, spread out on the ground and cover ourselves with the sky during the hours of dawn and the cold weather. Some colleagues sleep wearing a journalist’s jacket, or what is known as a shield. Some sleep sitting on a chair, and others lean their backs to... The wall and sleeping with his shoes on, because they must remain ready to rush to the reception and emergency hall with the arrival of any casualties or martyrs following any bombing, in order to photograph, document, and record the names of the martyrs, the location of the bombing, the number of casualties, and to provide direct messages on the screen, all in a few minutes and with unprecedented emotional stability because The targeted area may be the area where the family of this or that colleague resides. News came of the assassination of the fellow journalist on the Palestine Today channel, Muhammad Abdel Jalil, and his family, his father, mother, and sister. The day before that, he had visited us from Al-Shifa Hospital, where some colleagues also reside. He greeted us quickly and asked us if we were missing. Something and he promised us that he would visit us day after day. This crime raised our level of anxiety, so colleagues who were visiting their families from time to time to check on them stopped visiting them, and the psychological pressure increased on everyone. Communications were down and no one was able to communicate with his family or move from the place. Something resembling voluntary isolation occurred among the people. Journalists and their families Saleh Al-Masry The next day, fellow journalist Qasim Al-Agha woke me up at 6:15 AM and told me to join the president and editor-in-chief of Palestine Today News Agency, Mr. Saleh Al-Masry, who went to the morgue after confirming the news of his older brother’s family being targeted. Saleh was asleep. He woke up to perform the dawn prayer and said: He was on his phone to read the latest news, and he read the news of the bombing of the Al-Masry family. He made some calls according to the availability of the signal, and the news confirmed that his brother’s house had been targeted. I followed him to the morgue, accompanied by a group of colleagues. We tried to enter, and they told us that there were some bodies that were dismembered and could not be identified. We pressured the official to allow only Saleh to enter. After he entered, we called out all the prayers that the bombing had missed his brother’s family, and when he came out, the shock was that he recognized the body of his brother’s wife. I saw Saleh crying, a journalist who was serious in his speech and in his appearance, but he cried and sobbed, and I saw his tears, and I saw Saleh other than the one I knew and knew. We tried and worked hard to calm him down and gathered what was left in us. With the strength to comfort him, the hope that we had been secretly stealing for his brother had returned. He had survived the bombing, so we returned to the emergency room, where the wounded who had been brought by ambulances in the last hours were as if tragedies only came together. It became clear that his brother, his children, and his daughter, who had arrived a few days ago from Egypt with her child, had recovered. All of them, and no one survived. It was a massacre in which 31 martyrs, Abdullah Al-Aqqad, were killed. Another day and a bloody night added to the memory. All the memories here in the hospital are recorded by the memory. At dawn, there was a bombing in the center of the city of Khan Yunis. The initial news talks about targeting the home of the journalist writer Abdullah Al-Aqqad and his family. As usual, we raced to the hall. Emergency and the ambulance arrived, and Abdullah and his family were all recovered. Moments later, his mother came, but she was unable to walk to the morgue and collapsed in the middle of the road. We brought her a chair to sit on, so she mourned him and cried.Until everyone who was there cried, women martyrs. We passed the moment, lying. We claimed that. It was a bloody night. Hundreds of dismembered and burned bodies arrived at the hospital, including children and women. I stop here at a stop that is stuck in my memory. When ambulances were bringing women from under the rubble, the paramedics and doctors were making sure to cover them before They were taken out of the ambulance. They brought a sheet and covered it. Covered it. The word was resounding. Even those who had arrived in pieces, martyrs and witnesses, had to be covered. Death had overtaken them while they were sleeping, safe in their homes. Regrets and lessons. I returned to the tent. I retreated and cried forcibly. I said to myself, I will never go to the emergency room again. I will never see anyone again. Now I began to feel a mental headache that began to crumble, conjuring up the scenario of my family being next. I could no longer bear the sight of charred children. All language dictionaries and vocabulary are insufficient and do not help to describe the scenes. Death is hovering around the place in the hospital courtyard. Families spread out on the ground, distributed here and there. Some took shelter in a tree and others chose. In the middle of the square, and some of them sat in the inner corridors, children, women, men, the sick, and the elderly. You could hardly find a single meter empty. The Holocaust that devoured the martyrs led to a strange state of sympathy, solidarity, and sharing what was available. A young man came carrying a carton of dates that he was distributing to the people. I asked him why, and he said to me, “Have mercy on the soul of my martyr brother.” He loved fresh dates, so I swore to distribute fresh dates to all those in the hospital before burying him. At noon, a woman who was over sixty years old came and was going around to people and distributing meals. I investigated her news and learned that her only son had died a martyr. Despite that, she did not leave and did her duty as much as possible and possible Musab. Al-Buraim: The scenes and witnesses are so numerous that one almost forgets them or decides to forget them, as the new ones replace the old ones. I remember here what happened with the media spokesman for the Islamic Jihad Movement, Musab Al-Buraim, a liberated prisoner who spent more than ten years in the occupation prison in the first days of the war. His wife was martyred and his four children were wounded. He thought that his house might be targeted, so he sent his family to their families. There, the house was bombed, and the first to be martyred was his wife, with her four children next to her, who miraculously survived, but were injured. The next day, the bombing was repeated, and his father-in-law was martyred. I saw him on the Al-Mayadeen screen, holding himself together, speaking, diagnosing the situation and reading its circumstances and consequences. I could not believe it. What I see, and when I met him, I saw in his features contentment and acceptance of God’s will and destiny. He was moving from one channel to another, and he did not give in to sadness. I also saw him going around the displaced asking them about their needs. During one of his trips, they brought him his youngest son, who had an injured hand. He kissed him and embraced him, and the little one asked him when we wanted to go. When my mother did not answer him, he went back to kiss him again and started to caress him, so I watched with the phone camera this scene of Arafat Abu Zayed, a new dawn, and before the break of dawn came the news of the targeting of a residential apartment in Hamad Town, southwest of Khan Yunis. We followed the details and learned that the targeted tower resided in our colleague, the journalist writer, Arafat Abu. Zayed was sleeping in the tent. How do we wake him up and what will we tell him? We gathered all the stability of the ground and woke him up and told him there was news about renewed bombing in Hamad Town. He opened his phone and checked the news and suddenly he jumped up and said: The bombing is in the tower in which I live on the same floor. He tried to call his wife. The communication network did not help him. He tried several times. Sometimes suddenly ambulances arrived and we ran to the emergency hall. There were several injured people, including a number of male and female martyrs. We followed the doctors to the recovery room. There were women among the injured and children. Arafat suspected one of the child martyrs and could not identify him. He said, “This is my eldest son.”Musab, and the doctors were calling, “Brothers, does anyone recognize the unidentified martyr child, number one or two?” So we told them, based on Arafat’s statement, that the unidentified child, number one, is named Musab Arafat Abu Zayed. Minutes later, Arafat succeeded in calling his wife, who told him that Apartment D had completely passed, so he asked her, “You?” Fine, the children are all with you. She answered him, “Yes, we survived.” He prostrated in the entrance of the hospital, thanking God. We returned to tell the doctors that the unidentified martyr, child number one, was not Musab Arafat Abu Zayed. Musab survived. The Al-Suwairki family. On the fourteenth day of the war, we learned that the bombing targeted the Al-Suwairki family, which is the family of the wife of our colleague on the channel. Palestine Today: Nidal Hameed. We tried to contact him, but we could not wait for the news coming from there. Colleagues told me that Nidal answered the phone, but he had moved his wife and children, Bilal and Mayar, to his wife’s family, thinking that they might be safe there, and that his absence from home would cause them anxiety, and that his wife was with her family. You will be more reassured when it becomes clear that the house was completely lined up over the heads of those in it, and that his wife and children were martyred in the bombing. I did not know what I should do. Should I call him to console him, console him, or congratulate him on this selection? I did not know and could not do anything. In the afternoon, I browsed the social networking sites and saw someone. Friends are mourning Nidal's wife and children. I attach a picture of Nidal, and next to him is our friend and colleague, photographer Shadi Abu Sidou. Nidal was sitting and in front of him were the bodies of four martyrs. His wife and children, Bilal and Mayar, were lying on the hospital sidewalk. I looked at the picture and the world narrowed down on me as it welcomed me, and I went away crying. Days before the war, Nidal had brought his children, Bilal and Mayar. To the channel headquarters, we caressed them and played with them. They were angels, and God gave them divine beauty. They were calm. Their eyes were green and their hair was blond. They inherited their whiteness from their father, who dreamed of a better future. I have not met Nidal until the moment of writing these lines, and I do not know when I meet him what I will say to him. Muhammad Al-Hassani Muhammad Fayez Al-Hassani is a displaced journalist and youth activist. He and his family from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south, like a million displaced people, came to Khan Yunis, specifically to the Al-Qarara area, thinking that he and about a million displaced people thought that the south might be safer. At dawn on the seventeenth day of the war, Al-Qarara was subjected to a holocaust in which more than seventy martyrs died, and Muhammad and his family were among them. Among them, the house he was sheltering in was bombed and it became rubble. Ibrahim Marzouk, our colleague on the Palestine Today channel. Ibrahim Marzouk has a large family, and displacement was an impossible and unavailable option for him. He decided to stay in his home in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City. His estimation was that he would be safe, and he surrendered his affairs to fate, so he died a martyr. He and his family members after the occupation planes bombed his house on 10/23, and he remained under the rubble until noon after the ambulance teams were able to extract him. The channel mourned him and his colleagues cried. The occupation depends on intensifying the bombing of cities every night and focuses on a city. After it finished from the north, its planes headed to the south, where it is supposed to be, according to the Israeli claim. It is a safe area, and about two million people are in it, in a geographical area of no more than 100 square kilometers. Its width from the sea to the eastern fence is no more than 12 kilometers, and reconnaissance planes and warplanes do not leave it. At dawn on 10/23/2017, the bombardment was concentrated in the city of Khan Yunis, in Al-Qarara, Ma’an, and Bani. Suhaila and Qaizan Al-Najjar. A coffee shop was bombed, where some families took refuge, leaving 11 martyrs. A gas station was bombed, and some families took refuge in its yard. It was a bloody night at noon. The planes returned to bomb the city center. I saw the bombing of a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood, not more than eight meters away from the Red Crescent city. There is a crowded barbershopWith the young men under the house, while trying to remove the rubble, the planes returned to bomb a nearby place, not more than 100 meters away. The people were confused as to whether they would stay to remove the rubble of the house, or should they flee to the house that had just been bombed. It was decided to distribute the effort and ambulances between the two houses. I stood in amazement when one of the rescuers brought out a girl who was no more than a year and a half old. The year from under the rubble carried her in his hands and started running while the people were behind him and the oppression was accompanying them. The scene was transient to all meanings of humanity, beyond language, and beyond the text. This child martyr was and will remain a witness to this world read the original
Blog title: Silencing the Palestinians inside Israel Author Sarah Hassan The date is October 27, 2023 It is not hidden Nobody has to say that we, the Palestinian Arabs inside the Green Line, or the so-called Arabs of 48, have been robbed of our right to speech and expression, especially in light of the recent conditions that the country is witnessing. I do not know honestly why this brutal war that is taking place abroad, only 40 kilometers from our consciences, was called. Single situations, and I know with certainty, and everyone knows, and the warring parties know that it is a war that leaves behind nothing but blood, rubble, and the remains of children from one side. Living within the Green Line, which gets redder every time our blood is shed under the pretext of violence, crime, and other flimsy pretexts, has become tragic, oppressive, and without an outlet. In it, there is no rest. The freedom of expression guaranteed to us as Arab citizens in this country, based on a basic law, human freedom and dignity, is no longer freedom. Rather, it has become heavy iron chains that bind our tongues before our hands. In war, laws and freedoms fall, formal and substantive democracy falls, and the values of pluralism fall, just as bodies fall with them. Humanity, and with the fall of humanity, everything falls after that. Whoever spoke perished, and whoever remained silent was saved. This is the phrase with which I describe the reality of our situation in the midst of this war, in which even its name has become a source of doubts and suspicions. Is the name of the war the Al-Aqsa Flood, as the first party claims, or its name is the Iron Swords, as the other party claims. If one of us in the occupied interior wants to write something about the war, he thinks carefully and asks himself for a moment: Will I see the light again if I use in my speech the first name for war? In war, nothing is fixed, everything is variable, because there is nothing that is taken for granted and implicitly understood, so everything is understood. It becomes confused in a moment, and everything that is reasonable turns into madness between oneself and the other. The essentially narrow space of freedom of expression that is granted to us in peace before the war becomes like the hole of a needle and even smaller during the war and continues to shrink until it is gradually erased from the book of laws and from within the Green Line permanently. It is not surprising that if this war lasted a long time, a new, explicit clause would be added that is consistent with the ruling policy and stipulates that in the event of conflicting freedoms, the freedom of opinion of the Jew is superior to the freedom of opinion of the Arab. In a report by the Israeli Police 1 published by the Maariv newspaper, it said that it had arrested in the first days of the war A resident of Umm Rashrash, not Eilat, on several charges, including expressing joy over the events of October 7. It is not surprising that joy is a reason for arrest. We are accustomed to this. It is also not strange that the justification for this arrest and the restriction of freedom of expression is to harm the security of the state and the security of millions who live within the state. We are familiar with this as well, but what is suspicious about the matter is the other new accusation that was invented in light of the ongoing war, which is the accusation of sympathizing with the people of Gaza, and if this madness indicates anything, it indicates the desire of this Zionist entity to create new Palestinian Arabs who have no loyalty or relationship with them. With everything that happens outside the green line, the issue comes firstThe process of emptying and erasing the collective consciousness calling for national unity and solidarity among the people of one people is practiced by the Israeli authorities on us, the people of the interior, and the second stage that comes after the process of emptying is the process of pouring into our heads a new, different consciousness that is basically and completely based on the severing of the connection between the Palestinians inside and outside. Everyone is talking. About the huge events taking place around us and near us. Television channels do not stop broadcasting breaking news and military and political analyzes about the unprecedented transformations taking place in the Middle East and the people of Gaza. Social networking sites are no longer the same as they were before the war. Even life is no longer the life we were accustomed to before. War has changed many things outside, and within us there are also conflicting feelings that change between rage and anger, sadness and distress, between hope and hope, and fear and dread, and they rush through our heads like soldiers stampeding near the border line to confront the enemy. These feelings have occupied us since the seventh of October. How can we escape from them or how can they escape? From us and where do we go with it if it crowds in our chests, mouths are gagged, and lips are tied. Even these lines that are in your hands, I do not know whether it is permissible to write them or not, and I do not know what will await me in terms of arrest, repression, or torture after I publish these words, not because of my ignorance of the law, as I am a college graduate. Rights, but because Israeli law becomes worthless if the security of the state is on the other side of the scale. Even praying for the people of Gaza, as we have seen, has become a crime overnight, for which whoever is caught red-handed will be held accountable for the crime of saying, “God suffices us, and He is the best disposer of affairs,” or “There is no prevailing but God,” or “If we prevail.” God is near, in addition to many religious phrases, the mere repetition of which is considered prohibited and tantamount to identification with terrorist organizations, according to what they say. In conclusion, our situation is at home, as Muhammad Al-Maghout said. There is no perfect crime in this era except for a person to be born an Arab. 1 https www maariv co il news law Article 1044673
Blog title: Stripping Palestinians of their humanity:A racist position and political determinism Author Maher Al-Sharif Date: October 26, 2023 In order to justify the destructive war that his army was waging on the Gaza Strip, which, at the time of writing this article, had caused the martyrdom of about 6,500 Palestinian men and women, more than a third of whom were children, this was stated by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant on October 9. On the first of this October, Israel will impose a complete siege on the Gaza Strip, such that there will be no electricity, food, water, or fuel. Rather, everything will be closed. This is because we are fighting human animals and we act on this basis. In fact, this statement by Gallant is not isolated from a discourse that became widespread with the emergence of the movement. Zionism fell within the scope of the discourse of European colonial racial superiority, which was clearly expressed by Theodor Herzl since 1896 in the book he published entitled The State of the Jews, in which he addressed the European colonial countries aspiring to obtain their assistance in establishing this state, saying, “There we will form a component of a barrier in Asia is an advanced site of civilization against barbarism. Palestine, in the eyes of the founder of the Zionist movement, is a land inhabited by backward people who did not possess the components of civilization or did not possess cultural or national ties linking them to the land on which they live, which makes it easy for them to leave it voluntarily or to be deported from it by force, which is what the writer pointed out. An English Jew close to Theodor Herzl is Israel Zangwill, who visited Palestine in 1897, learned about its demographic facts, and published an article in 1901 in the New Liberal Review magazine in which he mentioned his famous phrase: “Palestine is a country without a people, and the Jews are a people without a country.” He proposed, after the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, in a book: His book, entitled The Voice of Jerusalem, enticing Palestinian Arabs to leave their lands by offering them compensation if they agree to settle in neighboring countries, considering that these culturally and economically backward people cannot be allowed to obstruct the precious rebuilding process carried out by the Zionists. 1 Racial superiority in Zionist discourse is an example of abstraction. The humanity of peoples or ethnic groups is one of the constants of the discourse of racial superiority that spread in Europe and included discrimination against others and considering them inferior on the level of civilization. It also included, in some cases, genocidal projects resorted to by those who claimed their racial superiority over others, as was the case a year ago. 1492 during the European colonization of the Americas and other places in the world, and as was the case in Nazi Germany, where a discourse spread claiming the superiority of the Aryan race over other races, and sought in particular to strip the Jews of their humanity and describe them as insects and mice in preparation for their physical liquidation. 2 The aforementioned statement by Yoav Galant is an expression of This speech of racial superiority was preceded by many statements by security, political and religious officials in the same direction, as former Israeli Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan likened the Palestinians to poisoned cockroaches in a bottle, while the Israeli Walla website on October 29, 2010 quoted Lieutenant General Ami Shohat from the Central Command in the army. The Israeli said during his lecture that his unit confiscated, during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, a water tanker for Palestinian scum in Jenin so that they would die of thirst. He also quoted an Israeli reserve conscript who was present at the lecture as saying that Shohat’s lecture included phrases full of contempt for Arabs, including that Arabs are vile trash and scum. 40 recruits, including a colonel, listened to the lecture. The reaction of the recruits, according to what the reservist himself reported to the Israeli website, was laughter, and none of them objected.On his statements 3 As for Likud Party Member of Knesset Oron Hazan, he attacked the Arab-Israeli news anchor Lucy Harish because of her wedding to the Jewish actor Tzachi Halevy and wrote on his Twitter account: I do not blame Lucy Harish for seducing a Jewish spirit. She aims to harm our country and prevent more Jewish offspring and the continuation of the dynasty. The Jews 4. A large number of rabbis in Israel take positions that dehumanize the Palestinians and issue extremist racist fatwas against them. In the year 2000, Ovadia Yosef, the chief rabbi and spiritual father of the Shas party, issued a fatwa that the Arabs and Palestinians are absolute evil and that they harm and do not benefit. Rather, they are like poisonous snakes, killing, treacherous, harming and not beneficial. And that the Jews should put the Palestinians in a closed bottle to prevent their evil and repel their danger, and then to die by suffocation in it, while Rabbi Dov Lior, the rabbi of the Kiryat Arba settlement established on the lands of Hebron, issued a fatwa that whoever negotiates with the monsters, that is, with the Arabs, is a traitor, a scoundrel, and a coward. He also issued a fatwa that Gaza must be completely destroyed to achieve Peace for Israel. In 2014, the rabbi of the yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, Yitzhak Ginzburg, issued a fatwa that every Palestinian, young or old, poses a threat to the future of Israel and should all be killed without mercy. Meanwhile, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who works as rabbi of the city of Safed, issued a fatwa in August 2017 in his weekly broadcast program. On Israel Waves Radio, which broadcasts from its studios in the Givat Zeev settlement in occupied Jerusalem, it was forbidden for Jews to sit with Arabs at the same table, adding that the Palestinians are monsters, and killing them and taking revenge on them is a religious duty. Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, head of the Bnei David Academy in the Eli settlement, in 2019 went so far as to photograph Arabs. With slaves and portraying the Jews as masters, considering that it is better for the Arabs to be slaves to the Jews and that the Arabs must be under occupation, as they cannot manage countries and are unable to do anything. We believe in the theory of racial superiority 5 Stripping the Palestinians of their humanity in Zionist practice on the fourth of September 2022, activist in the Israeli B’Tselem organization, Sarit Michaeli, published a report entitled Explosives planted in the village of Kafr Qaddum are dehumanization, in which she indicated that Israeli soldiers planted improvised explosive devices at the entrance to the village of Kafr Qaddum, located east of the city of Qalqilya, and that the village residents who continued to protest Weekly since 2011, against the closure of the main entrance to their village, they published pictures of camouflaged improvised explosive devices planted by Israel in places where demonstrators gather, especially after the first device exploded on September 1 after a 7-year-old child discovered it and fortunately did not touch it. Wassim Shteiwi was injured. He is a relative of his who was called to the scene of the incident and examined the device with minor injuries as a result of the explosion. In response to the investigation conducted by Haaretz newspaper journalists Hagar Shezaf and Yaniv Kubovic, the army admitted that it had planted these devices. The human rights activist saw this incident as an expression of the extent of the dispossession of the residents of Kafr Qaddum and all Palestinians in the West Bank. “The belief in Israel is that we can do whatever we want to the Palestinians and that an entire people fighting against an occupying force much stronger than themselves will be deterred from doing so in one way or another if we only allow them to be harmed and intimidated,” she said, adding that this constitutes an abstraction. It is humane not only because many people believe that these actions are reasonable, but also because we assume that the Palestinian response to collective punishment will beDifferent from our reactions because their humanity is somewhat different from our humanity to conclude that the prevailing logic in Israel says that inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinians will ultimately force them to stop demanding the same basic rights that we consider to be intrinsic rights. We have the right to freedom, the right to a livelihood, the right to Dignity 6 Denial of the Palestinian Civil Personality On October 20, while Israeli planes were pouring lava on the Gaza Strip, Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Samera Ismir, published an article in which she criticized the colonial system that besieges the Palestinian being and deprives him of his humanity, basing it on political thinking. Philosophical focus on the character of the civilian and the concept of normal civilian life. I wrote that the land is tightening its grip on the Palestinians in Gaza, and while I am writing this article, Israel continues to bomb more than two million Palestinian refugees and the descendants of refugees trapped in the besieged Gaza Strip, whose area is barely 365 square kilometers, adding that: Normal civilian life in Palestine has faced many difficulties since the Nakba. Palestinian society was destroyed in 1948, the occupied territories were divided in 1967 and separated from each other by settlements, and many refugee camps and deprived families were established, so that everything that could enhance normal civilian life became a target. Indeed, by the Israeli occupation, whether in homes, schools, non-governmental organizations, cultural centers, or universities, and after noting that the civil spirit as understood by the civilized, liberal West requires innocence, political passivity, and the absence of movement and stability, and imposes on civilians to be peaceful, passive, and innocent, and not to rebel, it decided that Palestinians, as refugees, as resistant and politically engaged people who look to the land from which they were expelled and aspire to move to it and do not wish to settle in a fenced-off area, fail the test of this liberal spirit, such that their dreams and aspirations make them erasable in the eyes of those who value normal civilian life. The same professor concluded that the speech that... Stripping the Palestinians of their humanity does not aim to criminalize Hamas for its actions, because there are legal terms that can be used in this case, such as committing war crimes. Rather, it aims to condemn the Palestinians and their very existence within the framework of the discourse that the West has spread about other colonized and enslaved peoples, which It limits human suffering to the peoples of the colonial countries and does not care about the suffering of the peoples subject to colonialism. On the one hand, we have a country that possesses one of the most advanced armies on the planet, a country that, by protesting against violations of its normal civilian life, can mobilize devastating military forces with the support of most members of the international community and be The pain of civilians in this country is clear and capable of causing panic. On the other hand, we have an occupied Palestinian people, colonized, without citizenship, uprooted from their land, without a permanent army, with little room for maneuver, and because they dare to resist colonial destruction, they do not enjoy any normal civil life and their struggle is not born. Only a little international support 7. The West’s official complicity with the Zionist narrative. It was not surprising that the official Western position fully adopted the Israeli colonial narrative. What is striking is that the Western media and leaders who are quick to accuse Russia of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity consistently refrain from doing so. When it comes to IsraelWhile they support the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against the Russian President, they are actively working to obstruct the International Criminal Court’s investigation into Israeli crimes in order to deprive the Palestinian victims of a shred of justice. This is what Emil Badarine, a researcher in politics, colonialism and international relations in the Middle East, noted in an article he published. On October 23 of this year on the Middle East Eye website, with the title “Gaza causes the collapse of the colonial mentality in the West.” 8 The victims of colonialism, as he writes, will never be able to convince their European colonizers of their suffering and their deep desire for freedom. This is because the official West, even after a century of the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom He remains unaffected by the suffering of the Palestinians in the face of Zionist colonialism, which Europe supported and continues to support. On the contrary, Western leaders and the Western media demand that the Palestinians condemn themselves and their quest for liberation, and they act as if this conflict had only begun last week. Rather, they also ignore, as he noted. Edward Said for nearly 40 years their right to tell their story. They insist on portraying Palestinians as perpetrators, lawbreakers and absolute terrorists despite abundant evidence to the contrary and despite their suffering under apartheid being documented by numerous UN investigations. The United Nations, its resolutions, reports, committees, statistics, and graphs, in addition to archival research work based on evidence from famous historians. Today, we witness the moral collapse of the official West reaching the point where even waving the Palestinian flag or wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh is considered, in some cases, an act of violence, whether or not the Palestinian struggle takes the form Violent or non-violent, both of which are legitimate under international law, it is inevitably described as violent because it challenges the European-Israeli colonial framework of justice and its violent, unjust and immoral foundations. The researcher ends his article by emphasizing that the Palestinians, like other colonized and oppressed peoples throughout history, will continue their struggle for a future. Free from colonial oppression, and as Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), one of the famous abolitionists and a former black slave to America’s masters and settlers, pointed out more than a century and a half ago, progress is never achieved without struggle. This is because authority does not give up anything unless someone demands it, and it did not. It will never do that and it will never do that. Conclusion Since July 8, 2014, the Spanish writer and philosopher Santiago Albar Rico, in his article entitled Israel’s stripping of the Palestinians of their humanity, is a political necessity, commenting on the settlers’ kidnapping of the child Muhammad Abu Khudair, 16 years old, from the Shuafat camp and burning him alive, that Israel’s denial The humanity of the Palestinians is not only an expression of a racist position, but it is also a political necessity. Recognizing the humanity of the Palestinians will force the Israelis to question their humanity and the foundation and history of their state, appreciating that one of the basic conditions for the liberation of Palestine is to re-humanize the Palestinians through the media that is responsible for stripping them of their humanity. This is something that will not happen until the Palestinian has a name and a face and the death of a Palestinian child becomes as unbearable for us as the death of an Israeli child. 9 As for Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, they saw in the dialogue conducted with them by the activist Frank Barra on April 11, 2016 that the dispossession of the Palestinians Their dehumanization through the media is something that must be foughtDay after day, not taking sides in a situation of injustice is like taking sides with the oppressor. We wondered when we face an occupying force and an occupied people fighting for their freedom, how can we remain neutral? 10 1 Sharif Maher, 75 years after the ongoing Nakba 5 15 2023 2 https milgram ulb be 100g episodes 100g deshumaniser autrui for justifier linjustifiable 3 https www arab48 com Israeli News 2010 10 31 Senior occupying officer Arabs are trash Let the people of Jenin die of thirst for me 4 https www skynewsarabia com varieties 1190219 A member of the Knesset attacks an Israeli representative for marrying an Arab broadcaster 5 The Palestinian National Information Center The success of the rabbis in Israel 6 https charleroi pour lapalestine be index php 2020 09 06 des engins explosifs places in the village of Kufr qaddum la deshumanisation voila limportant 7 https www contretemps eu palestine gaza colonialism peuplement philosophie 8 https www middleeasteye net fr guerre israel palestine occ ident colonialisme Liberte fanon 9 https www pressegauche org the humanisation of palestines in israel and an imperatif political 10 https www sensemaking in palestine the conversations of noam chomsky and d ilan pappe rapportees by frank barat_a248 html read the original
blog title A new dimension in racism and hatred against the Palestinians Author Musa B. Bashir Date: October 26, 2023 The indigenous Palestinian people are still paying the bill for what the dominant class in Europe produced in terms of imperialist colonialism and attitudes and perceptions steeped in racism and superiority over everyone who is not white and belongs to a Western church. European Jews were among the first victims of those perceptions that justified Violence was incited in the midst of the process of socio-economic change from feudalism to capitalism on that continent since the first industrial revolution. In the face of this, the reaction of European Jews was on two levels: the first was the reaction of the toilers who found their purpose in the communist labor movement and the second was the reaction of the bourgeoisie who found their purpose in The Zionist idea However, the bourgeois Zionist camp, whose political spearhead was Theodor Herzl, was able to network with the imperialist powers that had been gnawing away at the Arab world since the middle of the nineteenth century, especially with Britain, which gained control of Palestine after World War I, in addition to networking with the Ottoman Sultanate. Which allowed the Zionist movement to direct the first three waves of immigration and establish its first settlements and kibbutzim on the land of Palestine starting in the year 1882. Zionism not only shared the same class interests with the masters of Europe, but also nourished and benefited from the vocabulary and perceptions of its racist discourse. In his memoirs, Herzl says that one of the most important ideas on which he relied In his attempts to convince the Kaiser of Germany, they can be summarized as follows: The immigration of Jews to Palestine will reduce the immigration of Germans to America, and thus the pure German citizens will be preserved. The conclusion will be cut off, and the path to a revolution that may be difficult to contain will be blocked, and it will lead to the weakening of the socialist movement that inevitably trickles down to the persecuted Jews. Likewise, because they are ostracized by other parties. This will also give you time to solve social problems. 1 Just as the emergence of the Zionist idea shared the same cradle with Nazism, it reflected its racism on the indigenous Palestinian people before ethnically cleansing the country and establishing its system called the State of Israel. Perhaps the most important indications of this are what Herzl wrote in The State. JudaismHe indirectly acknowledged that Palestine is inhabited by its own people and that those people will resist the Zionist project like any people that might be exposed to it. He also explained, using metaphor, that Zionism would be more advanced and effective in eliminating the barbaric indigenous population. He said that if we wanted to establish a state today, we would have to not We evaluate it using the methods that were available a thousand yearWe faced very great difficulty, and in the afternoon of that day, it became a time of anxiety, as our entire region was being bombarded by gunboats and planes, so we decided to reduce the pressure on the number of people in the house, especially those with children, as the house was crowded after relatives from the Beit Hanoun area fled to us, so they left and we stayed. At home, I am with my father, 3 of my brothers, and 6 members of the displaced family, considering that the ability to move consciously among adults is easier than without children, and precisely with the Maghrib call to prayer, an explosion sounded, closing the view at the beginning of the street. While observing the site of the bombing and the panic that struck us, direct communications began from The occupation army, which is known as an identification call, that is, it is not a warning tape, in which the officer identifies himself by name, tells you your name, and asks you by name to vacate the area within half an hour, and you must also inform the nearby neighbors of this. Whenever you delay or try not to deal with the threat, he calls others from the neighborhood to put more pressure on you. That evening, as night began, we and those who stayed with us in the neighborhood were forced to leave it. That night, my family and I were able to sleep in my uncles’ house in the Beach camp, west of the city, on Monday morning, 9/10, until Saturday evening, 14/10. We settled in the uncles’ house with my brothers and father. The place was not safe. Danger is everywhere, the bombing is near, and the atmosphere is full of tension and anticipation. A war was breaking out in order to obtain water suitable for daily use, and everyone was forced to form a relationship with the employees of the shelter centers to ensure the share of filling gallons of water and transporting it through the floors of the building between the third and fifth floors in particular, and the situation continued on. This was the case for more than four days until waves of communications began asking the residents of northern Gaza to evacuate towards the southern Gaza Valley and continued until Friday. The pressure on everyone increased until the shelter centers near us called out over loudspeakers: Your survival is your responsibility. We cannot guarantee your protection, and things began to escalate further. More and more, in addition to the fear of bombing, with the shelter center employees withdrawing from their responsibilities and moving their work centers towards the south, where UNRWA is the only force that represents the straw for the people. By the afternoon of Friday the 13th of 10, we knew through pictures the condition of our house, which had become rubble and leveled to the ground. We tried the next morning to overcome the threats and survive. In the house in which we took refuge, the occupation bombed a house adjacent to it, causing a massacre that claimed the lives of 50 martyrs. It also caused damage to the house in which we are located, so the decision was made to evacuate the house, which is a residential building with 17 apartments, and each apartment is inhabited by at least twenty people among the owners of a house. As displaced people, we went out and spent that night in a shelter center, which is the UNRWA Beach A Boys’ School in the Beach camp, west of Gaza, on Sunday morning, 10/15. Staying in a shelter center after it was overcrowded does not guarantee you sleep, a bathroom, or even a place to sit. The saying “I am going to Hajj” and the people used to apply to us. The decision was for my father and I to seek refuge in my sister’s house east of Khan Yunis, one of my brothers and his family towards west Khan Yunis, another towards Deir al-Balah, and a third towards Rafah, but one of my brothers chose to stay in a shelter center in Gaza City and his excuse was that most of his children are male and therefore relieving themselves will not be possible. Hardly, the same suffering moved with us to the east of Khan Yunis, the war of water and the queue for the market and bread, and we stayed until the morning of Tuesday 17 10. The station east of Khan Yunis ended after a very close bombing that caused damage and danger on the evening of Tuesday 17 10 until the day of writing this text in the morning of 24 10. Now my father and I reside. My sister and her daughter are in Khan Yunis, specifically in the camp of this city, after we evacuated her home east of the city, and my brother’s family, consisting of 6 individuals, was displaced toA friend’s house until this moment, and in this place as well, there is a reality similar to all the previous stations of bombing, danger, searching for water, bread lines, and monitoring the situation from behind the phone screen and the window read the original
Blog title The Palestinians in Israel are victims of incitement and intimidation The shock of military rule Author Abeer Al-Bashtawi Date October 25 2023 Is it reasonable that the Palestinians of the occupied interior do not care about what is happening in Gaza? Is it reasonable that we watch the slaughter of our people on television screens and not care? The answer is of course not, and I am talking about the overwhelming majority who wake up and fall asleep in front of the television screen following the news and are unable to carry out their daily tasks and feel helpless. Murderer This article, which I wrote based on my personal analysis, aims to analyze the current situation and its causes, not justify it, as things can change overnight. I began writing this article on the sixteenth of October, before the greatest war crime, without marginalizing what preceded it, which resulted in the martyrdom of about 500 Palestinians in the National Baptist Hospital in Gaza. I mention this information because something has changed in the readiness and necessity of taking to the street and confronting the occupied interior, as happened on the eighteenth of October in Haifa and Taybeh and in Umm al-Fahm on the nineteenth of October, for example. I will try to answer The following questions: Why do people not go out to demonstrate in the occupied interior? Why are they silent? Why do they not share what is happening via social networking sites? At least in most cases, people go out to demonstrate in the occupied interior in response to calls to demonstrate and participate in protest stops in response to calls from well-known parties, such as parties, for example, or community associations. In recent years, demonstrations have begun to be organized by student, demand, and national or local movements in cities or villages of the occupied interior, whether in Arab towns or mixed cities. It is no secret what happened in the Uprising of Dignity in 2021. Some of what happened in this uprising was the call for demonstrations from Known and clear parties at the beginning or through gatherings of people with prior planning, but now, that is, from the seventh to the sixteenth of October, no call was issued by a known party except in Umm al-Fahm, while a call to demonstrate was transmitted and published from an unknown party and in a difficult time like this. With the declaration of a state of war, the source, intention, and goal of the call were questioned, and no one took to the streets in response to this call. As for other stops, we witnessed a stand in Baqa al-Gharbiya, then calls for a demonstration in the city of Umm al-Fahm. The difference between this call and the ones that preceded it is that the demonstration in Umm al-Fahm Charcoal has a clear identity, and everyone knows who stands behind it. During the Gift of Dignity 2021, after which the Israeli Public Prosecution sentenced a large number of young men who participated in the demonstrations to sentences ranging from 20 months to 9 to 10 years, on charges such as throwing a stone, some received an administrative ruling, which is a new matter for me. The Palestinians of 1948, who had been imprisoned for more than 70 years, at least knew why they were imprisoned and what their charges were. Most of the detainees and prisoners during the Gift of Dignity were from the generation of 2000 and after, and all of those high sentences that were issued were against young men who joined the event because they believed in it or because they happened to pass by by chance. Somewhere at some time, and not because they are well-known activists. I am almost certain, despite my lack of complete certainty, that at this particular time, it is not possible to bet on the ability of any movement or any independent body, whether an association, a movement, or an activist, to take upon itself a call to demonstrate. Because he simply will not be able to bear its consequences, that is, he will not be able to bear any responsibilityConfrontation, arrest, injury, or imprisonment, especially after what happened in the year 2021 and the harsh sentences that some young men received, which made their families feel that they were alone and did not find anyone to support them, as no official or community bodies supported them, with the exception of commendable initiatives to establish a support fund for the families of the Gift of Dignity prisoners. On October 17 of this year, the Haifa movement called for a demonstration the next day after the Baptist Hospital massacre, the Arab Street explosion, and even the outbreak of solidarity demonstrations in the West. The slogan of the call was “One Blood, One Destiny.” However, the next day, the Israeli police suppressed the demonstration even before it gathered and arrested five activists from the place. The demonstration, in addition to the arrest of one of the activists on her way to participate in it, and one of the participants was injured. Several cameras documented beating attacks on the demonstrators, and many activists were arrested, but the demonstrators gathered again after the demonstration was dispersed, and they were also subjected to repression until the demonstration completely dispersed, or the Israeli police I declared that demonstrations were forbidden, and the Commissioner-General of the Police declared, “Whoever wants to show solidarity with Gaza, I will send him on buses there.” 1 On the nineteenth of this October, an activist wrote on Instagram commenting on the demonstration that took place in Umm al-Fahm. The army is surrounding homes, and so far it has arrested 32 people, other than the five who He arrested them during the demonstration, even though the demonstration did not reach the beginning of the city or the police station, but rather remained inside the neighborhoods of Umm al-Fahm, to such a degree that the oppression inside has reached such a degree. The people inside are suffocated and cannot find anything in their hands and are unable to move. To this extent, the occupation is afraid of a new attack and they are afraid that Umm al-Fahm will be a flame. There was no new data inside, so they arrested everyone who opened his mouth and everyone raised his voice. No data was received regarding the total number of detainees in Umm al-Fahm, but relatives of one of the detainees stated that there were 11 detainees, including journalist Anas Musa. However, in the Adalah Center, they acknowledged the presence of 12 detainees who were arrested. During the demonstration, journalist Anas Moussa was released and the rest were transferred to court, as the Adalah Press Center stated on October 20. For the first time, the detention of detainees was extended without their clients being given the right to plead on their behalf under the pretext of the court being closed as of Saturday 2nd. As for the second reason for abstention Regarding speech or action, it is represented by declaring a state of emergency and war, knowing that there is no clear law and there is no longer anything familiar. For example, the right to demonstrate is considered guaranteed according to Israeli law, but now this is not clear, and declaring a state of war means putting Israel, its residents, and its civilian facilities under control. The emergency law and the assignment of the Home Front Command in the Israeli army to act in accordance with the requirements of the war, which means in practice bypassing the approval of the political leadership for every military operation. 3 The other reason, which is no less important than the previous one, is the proposals for laws restricting freedom of expression presented by members of the Knesset and Israeli ministers, such as the proposal Amending a law that condemns Palestinians for watching videos related to Hamas. Finally, we began to notice arrests of people with high following numbers on social media who share what is happening through their social platforms, such as Abdul Rahim Haj Yahya, Muhannad Taha, Samar Rashid, the artist Dalal Abu Amna, and others. Most of them were released on the condition that they do not The use of social media, in addition to random arrests in Jaffa, but in Jerusalem, the situation is completely different, it is more dangerous and has begun to worsen, as there are so far more than 70 prisoners, most of whom have been transferred to administrative detention, and this number does not include detainees who have been detained.Releasing them and transferring them to home detention shows what results from these arrests, from the declaration of a state of war, from the trauma of our families and ancestors from the period of military rule, and the fear they have, part of which they pass on to us daily through alerts in every place and time. Be careful, talk about it, you are afraid, you will lose your education, you will lose your job, and there is also a lack of feeling of security, as Incitements are spreading to personally attack activists and the Al-Aqsa station, with the publication of their personal details, such as ID numbers, phone numbers, residential addresses, work addresses, and every possible private piece of information. For example, there are more than three thousand subscribers to the Telegram channel in the name of Nazi hunters, among the extreme Israeli extremists. Actions like this threaten entire families, not individual individuals. Only, and most importantly of all, is the call to arm the settlers, as Itamar Ben Gvir, the Israeli Minister of National Security, called for arming the Israelis and providing facilities for obtaining a license to carry weapons. Any Israeli can request arming over the phone, and the distribution of more than 4,000 weapons has already begun so far. 4 In addition to all of this, the measures that universities and employers have begun to take, such as dismissing students and workers or suspending their work hours in light of the bad economic situation inside the occupied territories. Most Palestinians are no longer able to pay their debts at the end of each month. The incitement and threats do not only affect the Palestinians, but also extend to every Israeli who sympathizes. With the Palestinians, religious Israeli journalist Yisrael Fry, for example, was subjected to death threats and his home was raided. There is also a demand for the dismissal of 25 lecturers in Israeli universities. They signed a petition against the dismissal of Palestinian students accused of supporting terrorism simply for pressing a like on one of Eye on Palestine’s publications or sharing a verse. Qur’an 1 Statement by the Police Commissioner against the demonstration Israeli newspaper Haaretz See the link 2 Adalah’s full statement October 20 2023 Adalah for the first time extended the detention of detainees without giving their clients the right to plead on their behalf under the pretext of closing the court on Saturday. The Haifa Magistrate’s Court today extended the detention of 11 detainees from Umm al-Fahm demonstration, including 4 minors, without there being any serious deliberations in this court session. The police violently arrested the demonstrators yesterday evening from a demonstration in Umm al-Fahm denouncing the war on Gaza. Despite the presence of the defense team and the people in the court since ten o’clock in the morning, the police did not show up. The detainees were held until 15:15, via video technology. The judge justified her decision to extend the detention until Saturday night on the pretext that the court closes its doors two hours before the start of Saturday, i.e. 3:30 and a quarter of an hour after the start of the session, and there is no room for the session to continue. The Adalah Center and the defense lawyer’s team submitted an appeal to the Central Court with a request. To hold a session and consider the appeal tonight, as added by the Director General of the Adalah Center, Dr. Hassan Jabareen. We have never witnessed an order of this kind in which the court decides to extend a detention without legal deliberations. 3 What does declaring a state of war in Israel mean? See the link. 4 Arming settlers. See the link. Read the original
blog title It aims to displace the population of the Gaza Strip to Sinai Return to the Alon Plan Author Shadi Al-Shurafa Date October 24, 2023 The idea of exploiting the circumstance and opportunity to implement strategic plans is at the heart of the Israeli security doctrine and one of its pillars. Therefore, fabricating pretexts and security justifications provides the Israeli settler-colonial system an opportunity to justify control and expansion. In front of international legitimacy 1 The sudden attack on Israel and the security and intelligence failure it revealedThe military and political situation in Israel and Israel’s declaration of a state of war allowed the creation of what can be described as a sticky situation, which is a favorable situation for Israel to rehabilitate strategic colonial plans that are viewed as outdated. One of the most dangerous plans related to the Gaza Strip is the famous Allon Plan. The strategic circles in the entity have reached a conviction. Completely due to the failure of the ghetto system that was imposed on Gaza since 2002 during the Sharon government in the wake of the second Palestinian intifada, it was transformed into a military system with strong foundations that threaten the depth and demonstrated military and intelligence capabilities that surprised everyone. The blockade policy and meager economic facilities were no longer effective, and the doctrine of the Chief of Staff failed. The former Israeli war, Gadi Eisenkot, the former army chief of staff, which was called the battle between wars 2. The theory was based on the basis of carrying out intelligence, cyber and military operations everywhere, especially in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. If necessary, the army launches military campaigns without doing so. To a large-scale war, and the intended purpose of this new security doctrine is to keep the enemy’s capabilities weak so that they do not pose an existential threat to the entity. Aviv Kochavi, the former chief of staff of the army, Eizenkot, Netanyahu, and the military clique, bragged about the effectiveness of this doctrine, but now it shows its resounding failure in the face of the will of an indigenous people. Egypt ended the apartheid regime on its soil. The political and military system emerged relatively from the state of confusion and chaos that emerged in the first days after October 7 and began to formulate methods of military response, the features of which appeared confused. The army, which claims to be the strongest in the region, lacked tactics. The military quality of the surprise and the readiness of the other party is that its goals focus on civilians, as in almost every round of war on Gaza. However, the Israeli settler-colonial system has received absolute support from Western regimes, led by the United States of America, and this has opened its appetite to implement one of its most dangerous colonial plans, which is the Allon Plan. Famous as a colonial alternative to the failed ghetto system, Yigal Allon served as Minister of Immigration and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Levi Eshkol, in the June 1967 War. He was one of the most prominent founders of the Palmach gang in 1941. He headed it when he was twenty-seven years old. He presented his project to the Council of Ministers in July 1967, i.e. after Approximately a month into the occupation of 1967. 3 Israel did not announce its official approval of the plan, which was published in the Maariv newspaper at the time under the title Lessons Learned from the June 1967 War, and was also published in the American weekly Time. See Picture No. 1. The project can be summarized in three headings: 1 Limits Amna 2 Controlling the largest possible area of land and annexing it with the least possible number of Palestinian residents to preserve the Jewish character of the state 3 Achieving the so-called historical right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel Picture No. 1 A brief explanation of the Alon Plan as published by Maariv newspaper in July 1967, despite The Israeli government did not ratify the project at that time. The overall policies of successive governments, especially during the last two decades, indicate that Israeli behavior is moving forward in achieving the Alon Project. This also appears clear in the period after the Oslo Accords and the collapse of the two-state solution. It can be said that Israel’s practices in the occupied territories, which... It is very consistent with the features of the Alon Plan, it enjoys consensus from various right-wing and Israeli-centre groups, and it intersects to some extent with the deal.Century drafted by the Trump administration, and before delving into what the project includes regarding the Gaza Strip, we point out the most prominent points that have almost become the reality of the situation in the West Bank and Jerusalem, as the project stipulates the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley up to the eastern slopes of the mountains of Nablus and Jenin, and the annexation of Jerusalem and its suburbs, Hebron, and the Gush Etzion bloc in the south of the West Bank. As for the rest The populated lands of the West Bank are returned to Jordan, or they are given an autonomous administration and a crossing is established between these lands and Jordan through the outskirts of the city of Jericho. See Photo No. 2. Photo No. 2. The Alon Plan as it was published in 1970, which shows the areas of the sector that the plan wants to annex to Israel 4. It is noted that the creeping settlement and systematic Israeli practices in the West Bank are an actual application of the Alon colonial project, with minor modifications to suit the changes that have taken place in recent decades. As for Gaza, the project stipulates the annexation of the Gaza Strip to Israel in its entirety, keeping the original Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, and settling refugees outside. The Strip is either in Sinai or in the West Bank, while Alon called them model villages. The project also stipulated that Israel would retain eastern Sinai from Eilat to Sharm El-Sheikh. It is worth mentioning that King Hussein rejected the project and presented his well-known vision regarding the United Kingdom. Alon’s plan, in essence, does not differ much from The Nazi Madagascar Plan was drawn up by Eichmann in 1940 to evacuate Jews in World War II in the context of what was called the Final Solution, which aimed to deport the Jews of Nazi Germany to the island of Madagascar near the eastern coast of the African continent. 5 It seems that the Allon Plan is now surfacing, especially since the Israeli war. The frenzy is taking shape under European and American international cover. The Israeli colonial system seeks to exploit the sticky situation created by the war and unprecedented Western support to implement mass transfer against the residents of Gaza under the pretext of eliminating the armed resistance. Israel appears before the international community as concerned for the lives of the Gazans despite the genocide crimes taking place in plain sight. The whole world and imposes a new and accelerating ethnic cleansing under international sponsorship and an orientalist international community that does not care about the fate of the indigenous Palestinian population, who have produced dark groups similar to ISIS, as Western discourse puts it. The intention to expel the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip intersects with the Israeli security doctrine in several aspects. 1 Israeli national security, which requires Decisive security measures to protect Israeli civilians 2 Self-defense and restoring Israel’s security and intelligence dominance by confronting Hamas attacks through a broad military offensive 3 Regional security related to bringing peace to the Middle East There are those who describe this policy in terms of deterrence through punishment, and this is what a member expressed The new cabinet, Gideon Sa’ar, who declared that lands must be taken from Gaza at the end of the battle as the price of a security belt and to make the other party understand that whoever starts loses the land. 6 The UN rapporteur in the Palestinian territories stated that we warn of mass ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and call for an immediate ceasefire. The greatest danger we are witnessing may be a repeat of the 1948 Nakba and the 1967 Nakba on a large scale. 7 National Security Council Chairman Tzachi Hanegbi also stated that the current operation is greater than the elimination of Hamas. 8 What was most clear was the statement of Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in an interview with the English-language Al Jazeera channel. On October 15, 2023, the Palestinians in Gaza should go to the vast Sinai, and there they will build10 cities equipped with infrastructure to accommodate refugees, guided by Turkey’s absorption of one million Syrian refugees. The next day, Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich stated in a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee that the revival will take place in Gaza in a Messianic settlement vision that is consistent with the Allon Plan, and in doing so he expresses the position of religious Zionism that She looks forward with longing to return to Gush Katif. The Egyptian and Jordanian sides have shown great awareness of the dangers of displacement and resettlement, especially after the resounding statement of the Egyptian President in which he expressed the dangers of liquidating the Palestinian cause through deportation, but Israeli behavior is moving in this direction while the war is still raging and the dangers of ethnic cleansing are present. Naturalization exists and is recognized by the concerned parties from the cordon countries, but the nature and scope of the October 7 attack confirms that the course of the battle is not determined only by the colonial system, but rather that the determinants of the field are the ones who decide in this context. 1 norman g finkelstein image and reality of the israel palestine conflict london verso books 1995 2 gadi eisenkot and gabi siboni the campaign between wars how israel rethought its strategy to counter iran's malign regional influence in the washington institute for near east policy 2019 see https t lybqlud 3 Madar Pedia Encyclopedia of Terminology Alon Project Palestinian Center For Israeli Studies Madar 4 salem thawaba building and planning regulations under israeli colonial power a critical study from palestine planning perspectives 2018 doi 10 1080 02665433 2018 1543611 5 Madagascar Plan 1940 See Hannah Arendt Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil Rare Translation Al-Senussi Algeria Ibn al-Nadim for Publishing and Distribution 2014 6 https rotter net mobile viewmobile php forum scoops 1 thread 816866 7 Al Jazeera Net UN official warns of mass ethnic cleansing in Gaza 8 https www aljazeera nett read the original
Blog title Israeli military engineering to reshape the face of Gaza Author Sujoud Owais Date March 29, 2024 Slowly Extremely, the Israeli war machine is moving toward what it announced as a final stage in the war on Gaza. Throats and hearts are shaking in the face of an imminent, almost inevitable attack on Rafah, while the dust of battles in the middle and north settles regarding a new geography that the people of the place are not familiar with and did not expect. After six months of ground battles in the Gaza Strip and Labor It has become clear that the army, whose leaders claim in the media the absence of a clear strategy for action in the field, has entrenched itself behind at least one strategy, which is drawing a new face for the geography of Gaza along with the demographics of the population and establishing a geographical space available from During which the depth of resistance to the Gaza Strip is flattened and everything that obstructs Israeli control or disrupts its military superiority is leveled. This strategy is what the following paper attempts to shed light on and explore its effects on what is intended to be the new face of Gaza and on its steps drawn by the gears of Israeli tanks on the sands of Gaza to draw another geographical shape. For the sector to be a pillar of solid security for the occupying state and at least a geographical guarantee that the sector and its residents will be invaded, and that the 7th of October will not be destined to become other versions, and out of prediction, caution and caution, this article comes in a hesitant attempt to anticipate the worst that may not happen and anticipate what might happen. Therefore, in the coming days, the choices of the Palestinians will be more conscious than the choices for which they previously paid in advance, regardless of the shape of the Strip.What is new: This is not new for the Palestinians nor for the Israeli policy that has worked since Oslo to establish a Palestinian archipelago, the features of which are becoming clear today in the West Bank in light of the unanimous Israeli rejection of any true Palestinian entity of identity and belonging, which indicates a near end in the form of Bantustans governed by separate civilian administrations within a government. A technocracy that is connected only by Israeli control 1, in which it maintains complete security and enjoys freedom of military action and control over the lives of citizens. The north comes first, and the rest comes since the start of the ground invasion of Gaza on October 27, 2023. The Israeli army issued a number of maps indicating the areas of its control, the areas of its ongoing operations, and the areas Evacuation and displacement. At the end of November and the beginning of December 2023, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee had issued a number of blog posts calling on the people of the Gaza Strip who are in certain areas on the maps to displace to other areas that he identified for them as safer2 and according to the maps that were drawn up. After it was shot down by planes, it was spread among the population. The Israeli army divided the Gaza Strip into two parts: the northern part, which includes Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia, Jabalia, Beach Camp, Al-Rimal, Sheikh Ajlin, Al-Sabra, and Al-Zaytoun, and the southern part, which includes Al-Bureij, Al-Maghazi, Al-Nasr, Deir Al-Balah, Al-Qarara, Nazareth, Al-Jalaa, Al-Katiba, Al-Amal, Bani Suhaila, Al-Mawasi, Al-Muharrat, and Khan. Yunus and the army considered that the Haifa and Khalil al-Wazir axis are safe areas and corridors that it allocated for the residents to save their lives. The army also updated its maps frequently by publishing the areas under its control, indicating that its military movements in the Gaza Strip, even if they were not linked to a political dimension according to what he said, were undoubtedly an institution of reality. Military security is almost difficult to change politically, and the first days of the ground invasion and the maps that coincided with it showed that the north will have the largest share of engineering operations, which include demolition, leveling facilities, removing residents, opening roads, and targeting any future institutional features, through the publications he delivered. The army attacked the Palestinian citizens, and the north designated its starting point without excluding any part of the Gaza Strip from its air war. Its warplanes worked to level the ground in front of its tanks and forces and prepare in advance the demolition lines that would establish Israeli military and security barricades in the heart of the Gaza Strip. During the first sixty days of the war, Israeli warplanes carried out a demolition and leveling operation in the border areas overlooking occupied Palestine, including all high-rise buildings and houses in the Gaza Strip, which are located opposite Nahal Oz and Kibbutz Be’eri 3, in what was considered an operational target. The nature of the demolition work was not revealed until January 25, 2024, when soldiers were attacked. The occupation carried out an attack that led to the death of 24 soldiers 4 during their planting of mines in residential buildings in the Maghazi camp with the aim of establishing a buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip, cut off from the territory of the Strip for the benefit of the security of the occupation. Engineering operations for the benefit of the buffer zone include areas 595 meters wide from the border fence and 58 meters long. kilometers around the fence, and in some areas it will extend for a distance of more than 1.6 kilometers, which is more than double the area of the buffer zone established by the occupation army before the seventh of October, which, according to the Israeli media, means the destruction of more than 2,850 buildings, 5 meters of which passed by the end of January, more than 1,072. A building, which is equivalent to 20% of the area of the Gaza Strip, in which nearly half a million Palestinians reside. They will be prevented from returning to it and residing there.This is what international organizations considered systematic geographical terrorism. 6 The buffer zone includes, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Philadelphia axis or the Salah al-Din axis, which extends 14.5 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea to the Kerem Shalom crossing, which he considered controlling it as part of his victory after his next attack on the city of Rafah. This is due to his role in smuggling weapons from Egypt to Gaza, which the Egyptian side has repeatedly denied. By these standards, the buffer zone includes the annulment of 150 square kilometers of the total area available to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which is approximately 365 kilometers, to become a closed military land forbidden to its residents and empty of them, who have no right to return. To it, or to live in it, or to reclaim what is left of it and cultivate it, which also means stealing 35 of the agricultural lands in Sector 7. Satellite images documented the demolition of all the buildings of the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Yunis, located opposite Kibbutz Nir Oz, including the houses, a mosque, and agricultural greenhouses, and the lands were swept away. The agricultural sector that surrounded it, and Beit Hanoun witnessed the destruction of an entire neighborhood that included more than 150 residential buildings, schools, and two hospitals. The total destruction also included the Al-Nasr neighborhood, the Rimal neighborhood, the Sudaniya neighborhood, and more than 450 sites in the Al-Furqan neighborhood 8 of the Gaza archipelago on the last day of October 2023. The Israeli army announced its separation of the Gaza Strip from the north and south by taking control of a number of main streets and intersections, including Al-Rashid Al-Sahel Street, 10th Street, the Kuwait Junction on Salah Al-Din Street, and the extension of Al-Nasr Street. It established a military point for itself on Salah Al-Din Street, through which it targeted the displaced Palestinians with sniping, robbery, and torture, so that this It is the first division in the modern geography of the Gaza Strip, with a width of 3 kilometers separating the north of the Gaza Strip from its south. On February 19, 2024, Israel announced that it had finished separating the Gaza Strip to the east and west, simultaneously with its separation to the north and south, through Route 749, or crossing Section 9, which extends in the middle of the Gaza Strip and along its length, starting From the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, adjacent to the Nahal Oz settlement, in the envelope, from the Al-Mintar crossing to the seashore west of the former Gaza port, penetrating the strip and separating everything in it from it. The implementation operations launched by the 106th Battalion of the Army Engineering Brigade in cooperation with Unit 99 continued for weeks using tractors, trucks and military vehicles. It included building factories on the side of the border to crush and break up stones for use in paving the road, which it paved with gravel and pavers. The operations also included burning farms in the village of Juhr al-Dik and the village of al-Mughraqa along the street, and organized demolition operations of all the buildings on both sides of it, and this is what the military correspondent for Channel 14 expressed by saying: Along the road, right and left, there is not a single house standing. There is no doubt that the army is preparing for a long stay. 10 This is what divided the residents of the Gaza Strip and deprived their families of returning to their homes in the north of the Strip, in what the occupation considered to be its foothold and fulcrum in the Strip, especially since it It will guarantee the protection of its security, a platform for a quick and sudden attack north and south whenever it wants, and a control gate for traffic to and from the north, which is what the occupation calls a crossing, while the Palestinian sees nothing but a barrier between him and life. The Gaza Sea. On November 17, 2023, the Israeli army announced its control of the Gaza port, destroying all the buildings. located in the marina and launched a series of engineering and structural works, the features of which became clear only recently. This came several weeks after Netanyahu launched one of his ideas when he proposed on October 22, 2023 the idea of establishing a sea line to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip starting fromThe port of Larnaca in Cyprus, where Israeli goods are inspected and then depart for Gaza, which is 320 kilometers away, justifying this by his lack of confidence in the Rafah land crossing and his intention to disrupt its use. 11 Netanyahu’s ideas did not stop with him, but rather he exchanged them with both the Cypriot president, who approved them, and the American president, who brought them out to The world as an innovative solution was his brainchild during his speech on March 7, 2024, covering it with humanitarian reasons and driven by urgent electoral needs. Before Biden announced the port, the 7th Transport Brigade in the US Army had sailed across the oceans via the ship General Frank S. Beeson towards Gaza to establish within 60 One day, a naval pier off the shores of Gaza, with the presence of more than a thousand American soldiers from the Nahal al-Bahar military forces, with logistical support from the American base in Sardinia, with Arab and international support, and with steel sheets extending over a length of 550 meters, comes as paving and structuring operations continue at the old site of the former Gaza port and at another site. Southwest of Gaza City, called Al-Baydar, is under Israeli control, as local sources confirmed 12 that trucks and bulldozers are transporting cement cubes on its shore and in a third location south of Khan Yunis, while the sea landing line for aid is still unknown to the Palestinians, despite the experiment with the idea of a sea landing of aid. On March 15, 2024, there is speculation about the end of Salah al-Din Street in the center of the Gaza Strip, close to the Nabulsi roundabout, where aid was previously distributed, as the Israeli army completely controls the area, while the soft side of the open areas allows it greater control, even if the point is not appropriate. Al-Zahraa Beach, which is adjacent to Salah al-Din Street, serves the goals of the Israeli army by supervising the distribution of aid and preventing members of Hamas or the civil police from organizing the crowds, despite the fact that the American administration confirmed that its forces will not be present on the ground and that its initiative is in support of a sea corridor that the European Commission, the Emirates, and Britain are working on. Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece and the United States, the Palestinians are skeptical about this, especially with data confirming that the project will be implemented in two sea areas on the coast of the Gaza Strip, at an initial cost of up to 35 million dollars, and the depth of the draft will not be less than 17 meters, sufficient to accommodate all sizes of ships, as well as its estimated area. It may reach 6 square kilometers because it will include floating hospitals, huge restaurants, and shelter homes designated for medical staff, soldiers, and security agencies. 13 This suspicion reinforces the American administration’s perception of transferring the port to commercial companies to manage it at a later stage, considering that it is another type of Israeli geographical control over Gaza’s ports and that this is an argument Aid can be chewed in the mouths of the Americans until their interests and Israel’s interests are secured. For example, but not limited to, its interests in seizing control of the Marine gas field, whose reserves are estimated at 1.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas14, and its interests in securing and protecting the economic corridor between Europe and the Middle East in the face of The Chinese path and its interests also in using the port as a corridor for Palestinian migration to Europe and changing Gaza demographically, which is what Netanyahu announced in his last speech, encouraging the residents of the Gaza Strip to immigrate through the port, not to mention the complete security and economic control over the Gaza Strip, its outlets and its residents. The new face of Gaza that calls for all of the above indicates that What has been happening on the ground for six months and more is establishing a new face for the Gaza Strip that serves its occupiers and is constantly establishing in the Palestinian consciousness a new distortion that affects his memory, place, and soul with the divisions of the north.And the south, and the buffer zone, and the possible Rafah attack and what comes after it, and control of the Philadelphia crossing, and the military points, and the temporary port, and aid distribution points, and others. While the rounds of negotiations and exchange deals during the next six months at the latest were not able to turn back the wheel of time and push the Israeli army to withdraw beyond the borders of the 7th of October, apart from the Gaza Sea, its beaches, and the Philadelphia axis, and the reconnection of the Strip’s joints to each other and its reconstruction in accordance with its previous geography and the return of its residents to their homes, what is possible today will become a reality tomorrow, and then we will stop to ask when the Gaza Strip was a single geographical plate, and is the new face of Gaza part of a new Middle East that we have heard about? Once upon a time 1 Will Israel turn the West Bank into administrative entities under its control Al Jazeera 12 25 2023 2 israel divides gaza strip into 2 375 blocks in 2nd phase of israel palestine war new straits times 3 12 2023 3 Massive destruction An Israeli organization describes the buffer zone in Gaza With a war crime Al-Arabi 23 2 2024 4 what to know about Israel’s controversial buffer zone in gaza washington post 25 1 2024 5 These numbers do not include buildings and facilities that were targeted by bombing and destruction outside the framework of control over the place, as statistics from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics indicate more destruction. Of 79 thousand housing units and 25 thousand buildings completely, while the BBC documents that between 144 thousand and 175 thousand buildings in the Gaza Strip were damaged or destroyed, which is equivalent to between 50 and 61 percent of Gaza’s buildings 6 humanitarian violence israel s abuse of preventative measures in its 2023 2024 genocidal military campaign in the occupied gaza strip 7 3 2024 7 ibid 8 gaza strip in maps how life has changed bbc 25 2 2024 9 israel demolishing buildings to construct road in gaza to cut the strip into two scheer post 21 2 2024 10 Dismembering Gaza The Israeli Road 749 separates the North from the Arab South 20 2 2024 11 Analysis of Biden Port for forced displacement The world and the Arabs in the service of Israel Arabic 21 20 3 2024 12 Work on the coast of Gaza City to pave a sea pier to receive aid Yeni Şafak 12 3 2024 13 what s the real purpose of biden s gaza port electronic intifada 14 3 2024 14 What is the Gaza Marine gas field and what is its fate in light of the continuation of the war between Hamas and Israel France 24 9 3 2024 read the original
Blog title Intellectuals in the West about the Hamas attack and Israel’s war on Gaza The author Maher Al-Sharif Date 01 March 2024 The attack launched by the Hamas movement on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip and Israel’s response to it, which was represented by it launching a massive destructive war on the Gaza Strip and its residents, sparked heated debates among intellectuals in the West that revolved around a number of questions, including whether it is possible to compare the victims of an attack Hamas movement with the victims of the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews were killed at the hands of the Nazis. Did the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict begin on October 7, 2023? How do we explain the phenomenon of violence that accompanied the Hamas movement’s attack? What is the nature of the war that Israel is waging on the Gaza Strip? How can we explain absolute Western support? For Israel in its war, will the war succeed in eliminating Hamas, and how is the way to overcome the cycle of violence? Can the victims of the Hamas attack be compared to the victims of the Holocaust? Historian Serge Klarsfeld compared it in an interview conducted with the French television channel bfmtv on October 22, 2023, to the civilian victims who fell during the Hamas attack. On the settlements surrounding the Gaza StripWith the Jewish victims during World War II, he added, “As a historian, I return to the Jewish past and realize that all generations of Jews faced the Bogroms, during which they were killed randomly, as did Hamas, which only wants one thing, which is to destroy the State of Israel and expel or liquidate the Jews living in Israel.” For his part, he pointed out Historian Rafael Medoff, who specializes in the history of the Holocaust, said that until now he has always avoided making comparisons with the genocide to which the Jews were subjected, appreciating that the reason why comparisons with the Holocaust are usually inappropriate is that they blatantly exaggerate the behavior of one party or another, but he saw that there are times when there are The similarities between contemporary atrocities and the Holocaust are so great that comparisons are inevitable to conclude that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was right when he said that the Hamas massacre was a heartbreaking echo of the Holocaust, specifically referring to the dehumanization of Jews that permeates throughout Palestinian Society 2 In a completely opposite direction to this type of approach, the Italian philosopher Enzo Traverso considered that the genocidal war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip in the name of the memory of the Holocaust does nothing but insult that memory and distort its reputation, so that many end up believing that the Holocaust is a myth that was created. Its invention to defend the interests of Israel and the West, so that its memory as a civil religion for human rights, anti-racism, and democracy is reduced to nothing, and words have no value. It is true that October 7 was a terrible massacre, but describing it as the greatest pogrom in history after the Holocaust suggests that there is continuity between Monday and leads to a simplified explanation that what happened that day is not an expression of hatred generated by decades of systematic violence and dispossession that the Palestinians have suffered, concluding that the war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip confirms that narrow, xenophobic, and racist nationalism is controlling the Israeli government. Day 3 Did the history of the conflict begin on the 7th of October, contrary to many intellectuals in the West who dealt with the Hamas attack as if the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict began on the 7th of October 2023? The American-Palestinian academic, Sri Maqdisi, Professor of English at the University of California, was exposed. An article he published last October 31 entitled In Gaza, a genocidal war with the complicity of the West. 4 mechanisms of the colonial war of genocide that Israel is waging against the Palestinians. He criticized the Western media’s coverage of it, which implicitly justifies the annihilation of Gaza, that is, the suffocation, killing, and displacement of more than two million people, and contains a racist tendency. Clearly anti-Arab, considering that this sudden media attention is due to the fact that on October 7, 2023, there were Israeli civilians among the victims of the attack launched by Hamas, while the siege of Gaza dates back more than sixteen years and Israel has been operating outside the scope of international law for five years. Seventy years ago, Sari Makdisi began his article by directing sharp criticism of the prevailing positions in the West in general regarding the suffering of the Palestinians, noting that in the face of the indignation expressed by journalists, politicians and governments regarding the massacre committed by the Palestinians against Israeli civilians, the almost general silence regarding the fate of Palestinian civilians at the hands of Israel is deafening. A shameful silence, then he stopped at how the Western media deals with the Palestinians it hosts on its platforms and the focus of the questionsWhat you are presenting to them is on one subject: Hamas’s targeting of Israeli civilians and its condoning of the movement’s attack on Israeli military targets, the Israeli fortification belt, watchtowers and prison gates surrounding Gaza, as well as the intentionality of these means to circumvent any attempt made by the Palestinians who speak to the Western media to put this attack in the spotlight. The broader historical context of colonialism and anti-colonial resistance and within the framework of ethnic cleansing that originally led to the emergence of the Gaza Strip and her asking the Palestinians she is interviewing such questions as: How can you justify the Hamas attack? Why are you trying to explain it instead of condemning it? Why can’t you just condemn the attack? In other words, what is not What we are allowed to say is that if we want the violence to stop, we must end the conditions that led to its emergence, that is, we must end the hideous system of apartheid, dispossession, and occupation that has distorted Palestine and protected it since 1948. After making these criticisms, the Palestinian American academic himself asked how We can move beyond seven decades of deliberate distortion and distortion. Occupation and apartheid overwhelm the daily life of every Palestinian, causing literally deadly results even in cases of no shooting. Cancer patients in Gaza are deprived of life-saving treatments and children whose mothers are denied passage by Israeli forces. They are born on both sides of the roads at Israeli military checkpoints. Sixty-one Palestinian women gave birth to their children between the years 2000 and 2004, at the height of the imposition of the system of barriers and checkpoints in the West Bank. Thirty-six of these children died as a result of this birth, which is news that never spreads in the Western world, and this was not the case. The Palestinian losses are worthy of regret. Since 2018, the United Nations has warned that Gaza, whose basic infrastructure, electricity, water and sewage networks were destroyed due to years of Israeli incursions and bombings, will soon be uninhabitable, while we witness today in the year 2023 that the entire Strip has become isolated from the outside world and deprived. Of food, water, medicine, fuel and electricity, while being subjected to continuous bombardment from land, sea and air. How do we explain the phenomenon of violence that accompanied the Hamas attack? Siri Maqdisi concluded in his aforementioned article that the horrific violence practiced by the Palestinians is a product of domination, suffocation and control, and that confirming this fact cannot Justifying violence, or even understanding it, means that the peoples who were subjected to colonial domination committed egregious acts of violence that were the result of decades or centuries of colonial violence and oppression and fell into the structure of violence that Frantz Fanon explained decades ago in his book The Wretched of the Earth. Referring to Frantz Fanon himself, the American intellectual Adam Schatz, the specialist author of the book The Wretched of the Earth, explained this phenomenon of violence in an article originally published in the London Review of Books on October 19, 2023, and republished by the French electronic magazine Orient 21 on the 31st of the same month. Adam Schatz initially stopped at the causes of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. He saw that these reasons are clear, and they include reaffirming the priority of the Palestinian struggle at a time when it seemed that it was no longer on the agenda of the international community, achieving the release of Palestinian political prisoners, thwarting the Israeli-Saudi rapprochement, mobilizing the helpless Palestinian Authority, protesting the wave of settler violence in the West Bank. As well as the provocative incursions carried out by religious Jews and officialsThe Israelis inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. In the first place, it is important to make the Israelis understand that they are not immune from defeat and that there is a price they must pay in exchange for maintaining the status quo in Gaza 5. After he pointed out that the Hamas attack achieved a resounding success, as it was the first time in a year 1948 Palestinian fighters occupied border towns and terrorized their residents. Israel never appeared as an inviolable refuge for the Jewish people. Arrogance and racial contempt, fueled by years of occupation and apartheid, were at the root of Israel’s intelligence failure. On October 7, he noted that the first phase of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was It was a classic and legitimate guerrilla war against an occupying force, as the fighters crossed the border and the fence surrounding Gaza and attacked military sites, but the second phase of the attack was completely different, as Hamas fighters were joined by residents of Gaza, many of whom were leaving their city for the first time in their lives, and they carried out targeted operations. By arriving at this point, the American writer asked how to explain what happened, before answering that the anger expressed by the Palestinians had much deeper roots than the policies pursued by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu, and that revenge was one of the motives of Hamas leaders, as Muhammad Deif, the leader of the wing. The movement’s soldier lost his wife and two children during an air raid in 2014, then he saw that Frantz Fanon’s ideas might help in understanding what happened, as the latter, who advocated resorting to armed struggle against colonialism, believed that the colonizer is an oppressed person who constantly dreams of becoming an oppressor and that A people who are constantly told that they only understand the language of force decide to express themselves through force. But Fanon, Schatz continued, believed that the heroes of the anti-colonial struggle must overcome the temptation of primitive revenge and develop what Martin Luther King, citing theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, called discipline. Spiritual opposition to resentment, which made it not only give space to Muslims who are struggling to liberate themselves from colonial rule, but also to members of the European minority and Algerian Jews who support the struggle for liberation. What is the nature of the war that Israel is waging on the Gaza Strip? Answered by British writer and journalist Jonathan Cook, in an article entitled The War Between Israel and Palestine, the West’s hands are stained like Israel’s hands with the blood of Gaza,6 in which he saw that over the past sixteen years, Israel has turned the coastal Gaza Strip into the largest open-air prison in the world and a horrific torture chamber in which experiments are conducted on Palestinians, and that it is difficult Its ongoing war on the Gaza Strip showed its brutal treatment of its residents, after its government decided to deepen the siege on Gaza, considering that leaving civilians starving without electricity, depriving them of clean water, and preventing hospitals from treating the sick and wounded and from treating those who were bombed by Israel constitutes a policy of genocide. Cook added that: This policy of genocide is justified by dehumanizing the Palestinians. Defense Minister Yoav Galant described the Palestinian population of men, women and children detained in the Gaza Strip as human animals. Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai claimed fifteen years ago that Israel was ready to carry out a Holocaust in Gaza and that if it wanted The Palestinians avoid this fate, as they must remain silent during their arrest. Six years after that statement, Ayelet Shaked, who was soon appointed to an important Israeli ministry, announced that all PalestiniansIn Gaza, they are enemies and called for the killing of the mothers of Palestinian fighters who resist the occupation so that they cannot give birth to more small snakes, Palestinian children. During the legislative elections in 2019, Benny Gantz, the then opposition leader and future Minister of Defense, campaigned for the elections through a video in which he showed his achievements while he was a leader. The Israeli army succeeded in returning some parts of Gaza to the Stone Age. The British writer concluded that the people of Gaza are taking the slow and silent path towards erasure, and that those who finance and make this possible are the United States and its European allies, and the blood of Gaza is stained on their hands. How can the absolute Western support for Israel in its war be explained? Joseph Massad, Professor of Modern Arab Political and Intellectual History at Columbia University in New York, said in an article published on November 1, 2023, that Israel’s war on Gaza revealed the West’s hatred for the Palestinians, considering that European and American racist contempt for the Palestinians dating back to the nineteenth century was imbued with traditional white colonial attitudes towards Non-white peoples before World War II, and that after that war and in the wake of the European genocide of European Jews, these European Christians and their Zionist Jewish allies wanted the Palestinians to pay the price for the crimes of Christian Europe by forcing them to give up their homeland to the Zionist invaders and after the majority of the Palestinian population was expelled from their homeland by In 1948, the Zionists once again considered the Palestinians to be redundant and were no longer seen as anything more than a problem of Arab refugees. They were forgotten and thrown into the dustbin of history. This view did not change, as the same academic continues, except in light of the anti-colonial guerrilla operations carried out by the Palestinians. Between 1968 and 1981, the Palestinians who had failed to appear on the moral radar of the West for two decades became condemned and classified as brutal terrorists. It is true that the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Sabra and Shatila massacre in September 1982, and the first Palestinian intifada were all of this. It brought about some change in the situation of Palestinians in the West, but it continued to view Palestinian resistance, whether peaceful or violent, which was and continues to be an act of self-defense against invading foreign settlers, as part of an anti-Semitic campaign. Joseph Massad concludes that the recent earthquake caused by The Palestinian resistance process, the Al-Aqsa Flood, prompted Westerners of all political persuasions to return to their default position, which is explicit condemnation of the resistance of the indigenous Palestinians and support for their European colonizers who are presented as victims. Expressions of Western sympathy with the Palestinians did not go beyond calling for an easing of the oppression that the Palestinians are asked to nobly endure. As victims of ongoing Israeli colonial violence without threatening Israel with any form of retaliatory violence, while the violence practiced by Israel, no matter how regrettable, is sometimes considered an act of self-defense. 7 Osama Makdisi, a Palestinian-American academic and professor of history at the University of Berkeley in California, agrees with this analysis. In an article he published on November 5, 2023, entitled Between Israel and the West, Genocide Denial 8, he stated that Zionism is a manifestation of racism rooted in the history of European colonialism, and he saw that the idea of establishing an exclusive Jewish national state in Palestine, which was built from the beginning on erasingThe history and humanity of the indigenous Palestinians was reinforced in the West in the wake of the German Holocaust of European Jews due to feelings of guilt, such that identification with Jews and Judaism after the Holocaust became completely intertwined with love of Zionism, resulting in Israel not being held accountable as a Jewish state, whatever fate that state reserves for the Palestinian Muslim and Christian survivors. From the Nakba and considering Israel, unlike the Arabs, as an extension of the ideal West. Osama Maqdisi concludes that love for Zionism in the West has reached the point today of supporting the idea of genocide in Gaza in the name of defending this Jewish state, and that this latest episode in the history of the Zionist movement is revealed more clearly than ever before. It has been a long time since the double standards that underlie the history and life of Israeli Jews are respected while the history and life of Palestinian Muslims and Christians are essentially devalued, who face an additional burden as they are persecuted by the victim model in modern Western European consciousness, and that they are victims of victims, as he said. Edward Said makes their struggle against colonialism almost absurd. Will the war succeed in eliminating Hamas and how is the way to overcome the spiral of violence? This question was answered by the American writer mentioned above, Adam Schatz, who, after describing the war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip as a genocidal war, saw that eliminating Hamas What Benjamin Netanyahu put at the forefront of the goals of his war on Gaza is simply impossible. This movement is part of the Palestinian political scene and it feeds on the despair resulting from the occupation. Then Schatz asked the following question: Does Benjamin Netanyahu believe that he is able to force the Palestinians to surrender their weapons or give up their weapons? Their ambition to establish a state by bombing and subjugating them, before answering that this had been tried before and more than once, and the consistent result was the emergence of a new generation of the most rebellious Palestinian activists, concluding that the inescapable truth is that Israel cannot stifle the Palestinian resistance with violence just as it cannot The Palestinians can defeat it in an Algerian-style liberation war. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs are stuck in an inextricable relationship, and the only thing that can save the peoples of Israel and Palestine and prevent a new catastrophe, which has become a real possibility, while the new Holocaust is nothing but a hallucination with a painful origin, is a political solution. Which grants the two peoples equal citizenship and rights and allows them to live in peace and freedom, whether in one democratic state, in two states, or in a federal union. israel and the hamas_av 202310220124 html 2 https fr timesofisrael com the sex specialists on comparaisons between the hamas and the Nazis 3 https www mediapart fr journal international 051123 on the go to the guerre gaza brouille the holocaust memoThen, in the case of the settler-colonial state, the rule of indigenous people is considered the permanent and renewable function of the state. This is a major contradiction with the established image of Zionism as an embodiment of European modernity and rationality. From here we can conclude that modernization may expand the scope of control plans and increase the effectiveness of their tools. 3 This is what happened with Israel, which It was revealed by the mechanisms of its dealings with the Palestinians. Hillel Cohen’s book, entitled The Good Arabs, has a subtitle: The Israeli Security Services 1948-1967, which indicates that his main focus is on the way the security services interact with the Palestinian minority and how to govern it. Through Cohen’s presentation, the reader remains unable to determine whether These security services implement a government policy or act within the limits of the law or outside its limits, or in a gray area between legal legality or legal illegality. Sabri Jiryis explained how the law can be misused to become a tool of hegemony, by removing ambiguity from the law and placing it within a framework. The system of power relations in the state, neither outside the system nor above it. 4 This explains the method of governance adopted today by the Israeli government in both Jerusalem and the occupied interior, as it resorts mainly to using the emergency law as a legal cover that justifies all its violent and inhuman repressive measures. We can understand the provisions of the state of emergency as a state The distinction between the various executive, legislative and judicial powers is blurred, as the executive branch of government dominates and controls the work of the other two branches. Moreover, in this case, the normative rule of law is limited in favor of the declarative tendency, which is represented by the exercise of authority by state employees and army officers arbitrarily, and despite the fact that The state of emergency is usually lifted when wars occur. A system of government of this type often becomes the norm. In fact, the state of emergency in Israel has never been lifted since 1948 until the present day, but variation occurs in the amount of its laws that are applied. For example The emergency regulations that limit the rule of law remained in effect exclusively over the Palestinians in the period 1948-1966, through the military rule that was imposed on the areas inhabited by the Palestinians. 5 The number of these regulations has changed over the years, as Israel added to the mandatory emergency regulations. New systems and other systems were deleted. In the first two decades of the state’s life, the number of these systems was 150, but Michel Shoham, who was at the head of the military government, stated in 1958, saying that this government relied almost completely, although not exclusively, on six of those systems 108 And 109, 110 and 111, which are used against individuals and allow them to be placed under police supervision, and 124 and 125, which are related to areas and gatherings. 6 These regulations involve severe restrictions. According to the system bearing No. 110, it is possible to oblige an individual to live in a specific place and not to leave the area or town without Permission to appear at the police station at specified times and to remain in his home until one hour after sunrise. Regulation No. 124 also grants the army the power to detain people in their homes or offices for an indefinite period, and the military governor may request, by issuing an order, every person within any area specified by him to lieutenant. His home during the hours he specifies, except for those who have written permission issued by the military governor himself. 7 This is what is known today as house arrest or house arrest, which is widely used as a soft punishment tool that the occupation government exploits to control it.On Palestinian individuals in Jerusalem and the occupied interior, imposing strict control over them, and turning their family members into their prisoners. As for Order No. 111, the military ruler grants the military ruler the possibility of imprisoning a person for a period of up to six months without trial and without bringing an official accusation, and the period of detention may be renewed after an official review 8 This is what is known today as administrative detention. Before October 7, there were 1,300 cases of administrative detention out of 5,250 male and female prisoners in the occupation prisons, according to statistics by the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, but today the number has risen to 10,000 female prisoners, an unprecedented number since the years of the Second Intifada in 2002. This is because the majority of those who are arrested are transferred to administrative detention. 9 Palestinian lawyers who represent Palestinian detainees before the military courts since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle have been informed of the occupation’s activation of Article 33 of Military Order No. 1651, which stipulates arrest procedures in a military campaign to confront terrorism, which It allows the detention of a person for a period of 8 days before bringing him to court instead of 96 hours. 10 As for Regulation No. 125, the military governor is authorized to issue an order to close any area located within his jurisdiction, and when the closure decision is issued, no person outside it may enter it without a permit. This is granted Other systems The military ruler has the authority to punish or prevent any person from possessing certain devices, such as typewriters, for example, in order to prevent him from communicating with certain people or to criminalize any association or organization. 11 The above was developed through the Knesset’s approval in 2016 of the Anti-Terrorism Law, which It contains hundreds of clauses and provisions that provide new tools for the Israeli authorities aimed at suppressing the struggle of the Palestinians in Jerusalem and the occupied interior and pursuing their activities in support of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip 12. This is what emerged recently through the occupation authorities’ arrest of more than 200 people from Jerusalem and the occupied interior on charges of incitement to violent means. Social networking, the most important of which is Facebook 13, which led to a state of extreme panic and fear among the Palestinians, as silence prevailed on their accounts. The occupation worked to arrest well-known people in the vicinity of their cities and took away the privileges they possess by preventing many of them from completing their education in Israeli universities or expelling them from Their work and the withdrawal of their licenses to practice the profession. We stop at the lawyer Asala Abu Khudair from the occupied city of Jerusalem, who was arrested by the occupation authorities on October 17 and released two days later, following the Israeli Bar Association filing a complaint against her after she wrote a post related to the Al-Aqsa flood battle on her private page on Facebook and threatened to withdraw her law practice license. The freed prisoner, Nasser Abu Khudair, Asala’s father, said during our conversation with him, “We witnessed this situation during the October War of 1973, when Israel at that time enacted a set of martial laws that allowed the Israeli army to confiscate all vehicles and trucks from their Arab owners in order to serve the effort.” The war also abolished the right to individual property, and what we are witnessing today in terms of the enactment of laws that stifle personal rights, prevent freedom of expression, and persecute the individual is a martial law that directs all state affairs to the benefit of the war effort. 14 He added, “What we are witnessing today is similar to military rule, during which martial law prevails over Ordinary civil laws that cover all aspects of citizens’ lives, especially those related to civil and personal rights. 15 Palestinians in Jerusalem and the occupied interior feel that their throats are tied and their chests are suffocating as they are trapped inside.The echo of the voices of Gaza’s children crying, the tears of its grieving mothers, and the screams of its oppressed men. Many of them expressed the specificity of the situation they are experiencing through the term oppression 1 Ahmed Saadi Comprehensive censorship The emergence of Israeli policies in managing and monitoring the population and political control towards the Palestinians Beirut Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies 2020 p. 11 2 Same source, p. 17 3 Same source, p. 21 4 Same source, p. 25 27 5 Same source, p. 102 6 Same source, p. 103 7 Same source 8 Same source 9 This information was obtained through an interview conducted with Amani Farhana, the media official in The Prisoner’s Club on October 19, 2023, in the context of talking about the escalation in the number of detainees after the events of October 7, 10. The most prominent measures that imposed difficulties on the legal teams. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Club Association. 11 Al-Saadi, a previously mentioned source, p. 103. 12. The Anti-Terrorism Law, dt. The Legal Center for Minority Rights. Arabic in Israel 13 This information was obtained through an interview conducted with Amjad Abu Assab, spokesman for the Prisoners’ Families Committee in Jerusalem, on October 19, 2023, in the context of talking about the escalation in the number of detainees after the events of October 7. 14 Interview conducted with Nasser Abu Khudair, a prisoner liberated from occupied Jerusalem, Shuafat, on October 19, 2023. He was asked about the return of the period of military rule 15. The same source read the original
Blog title Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben A painful departure Author Ayham Al-Sahli Date February 29, 2024 The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben was born in the year 1947 He witnessed his first cry in Herbia and during the Nakba, his family migrated to the Gaza Strip, where he grew up in the Jabalia camp. From the Gaza Strip, Ghabn al-Hayat left on Saturday, February 24, after all attempts to remove him from the Gaza Strip to complete his treatment failed, as he was suffering from severe problems in the chest and lungs. His name is The real Fathi Ismail Abu Ghaben, but he was better known as Fathi Ghaben. His last and only request was for his breath, as he appeared on Al-Arabi TV next to his daughter as she explained his health condition and how it had deteriorated as a result of his inhaling dust and phosphorus emitted from internationally banned bombs dropped by the occupation, while she was demanding that all concerned parties... It seems that he was taking him out for treatment. He interrupted her, saying, “I am asking for a breath.” He repeated it, adding, “I need something to breathe, but I am suffocating. I want to breathe.” This was the only wish of the Palestinian artist, and perhaps it is the wish of many Gazans today, and to it is added the wish of obtaining food in light of the genocide and collective punishment practiced on the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip: A woman carrying an ax and a jug of water by the artist Fathi Ghaben in 1982. Publisher: Ibn Rushd Publishing Foundation. From the website of the interactive encyclopedia of the Palestinian issue. In this war on the Gaza Strip, Ghaben lost his son and grandson. The bombing also destroyed his home and his artwork. In order for him to leave the Gaza Strip, a number of Palestinian artists With a campaign at the Palestinian, Arab and international levels to put pressure on the occupation in order to secure his exit from the Gaza Strip to Qatar for treatment, these efforts did not take place, and the following was stated in the appeal they launched, signed by the Palestinian artist Issa Debi: We, the Palestinian artists inside Palestine and the diaspora, urgently call for intervention. In order to save the life of Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben, Fathi Ghaben, revered as Van Gogh in Gaza, dedicated his life to art that reflects the resilience and spirit of the Palestinian people. Today he faces a terrible health crisis exacerbated by insufficient medical resources and the profound loss of his son and other family members in this moment of urgent need. We striveTo get your support, our collective work is essential to secure emergency medical evacuation and potentially life-saving care for Fathi Ghaben. The international artistic community represents a tremendous network of compassion and solidarity. Fathi Ghaben’s contributions have not only enriched our cultural fabric but also highlighted the enduring quest for dignity and peace. It is time to rally in support. An artist who gave a lot through his life’s work. At the beginning of the asylum in 1948, he lived in the Al-Awamid area, now Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, and studied elementary school in the Jabalia camp. He did not complete his studies, so he reached the sixth grade and had to leave school to help his father with family expenses. Later, he joined Al-Azhar Institute and studied there for two years and left again. Without completing his education in order to contribute to supporting the refugee family in the Gaza Strip, he noticed his talent in the camp. The poverty of the situation that was controlling people’s conditions at that time made them cook on fires lit with wood. He was confused about what to do with this charcoal after his role in preparing food was over, so he used it to draw. On the walls, his drawings received interest from the refugees at that time, and they began asking him to draw on their walls to decorate them. In an interview with him, he said that the people in the camp accepted and loved art. He also added in another interview that at another stage, he painted on trays that were rusting as he used to take them, paint them, and return them to the people. As a painting, in the year 1956, with the occupation of the Gaza Strip for a short period, he painted the International Emergency Forces, as he said, so he took the painting to the school and it was admired by the teachers and the director, and thus he gained a lot of their attention. It is known that the artist Fathi was a natural artist, so to speak. He did not learn to draw in schools and universities, but rather discovered and developed his talent. In his beginnings, he did not know the experiences of other artists, as he says, but his passion for cinema helped him a lot in understanding compositions. He loved watching the movie Tarzan, which he used to return and draw. He said about this movie and the scenes in it that they helped him develop his experience and technical capabilities. He also refined his ability to create movement through cinema. In the painting, after the occupation of the Gaza Strip in 1967, specifically in 1968, the situation calmed down a little, but the economic conditions were not good either, so he began painting on pottery to make a living and secure a home for himself, as the family home was crowded with its residents and there was no room for him to draw and devote his talent, so he succeeded by working in commercial painting in Buying the house, and in the year 1978, he painted his first painting, as he said in an interview with him in the film “Identity” by director Nisreen Hammad. He called this painting “The Tragedy of Palestine,” which he said dates back to the year 1967, to a scene that he said still feels like a nest in my chest, while he was hearing the call of the occupation forces to gather. People in a place heard a faint scream, and when they followed the sound until it reached him, it turned out that it was a small child. In this regard, he said, “I removed the piles of Zinko, and I saw this little child who was breastfeeding from his mother, and she was a dead body.” After this painting, he was summoned more than once for investigation, and the harassment of him began, and during The investigations took place between Ghaben and the military ruler. The following dialogue is the military governor. Why are you inciting against us? Fathi Ghaben. This painting is the tragedy of the people. The military ruler. No, this is the tragedy of Palestine. Fathi Ghaben. What do you know? You are an artist. I mean, the military governor. No, wearing the uniform indicates that he means Palestine. Fathi Ghaben. What do you expect from me? This painting is a tragedy for peoples, and all the peoples of the world suffered from the events of the First and Second World War. I gave the painting the Palestinian uniform because I am not deeply into the fashions of other peoples. The military ruler got away from him and danced in front of him. He said to him, “You are stupid, you will not be happy. Israel will be in a shameful situation. You will not advance any further and you will see.” His arrest was repeated several timesOnce in the mid-eighties, 1983 and 1984, for the same charge, specifically because of an identity plate. This arrest also met with great reactions in the Palestinian artistic community. More than one sit-in was held for him and days of solidarity with him, such as what happened on June 1, 1984, organized by Palestinian plastic artists in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Al-Hakawati Theater in occupied Jerusalem exhibited paintings by Ghabin, and the artists also painted several paintings on that day that were sold to the public, with the proceeds going back to the family of the arrested artist. R. M. Ghabin was elected during his lifetime from the Palestinian presidency by granting him the Medal of Culture, Science and Arts, the level of creativity, but what aroused the ire of critics and the press in That honor is the video clip that the Presidency published through official channels, which showed the honored artist’s paintings on the ground, propped up on the walls of one of the district’s corridors instead of hanging them on the walls. Ghaben also worked as an advisor in the Ministry of Culture and received the Hiroshima Medal, the World Federation of Associations Medal in Tokyo, and the title Palestine Artist in 1993 and the Saif Kanaan Medal from the Palestinian National and Political Guidance Department. He was also honored by the representative of the European Union after receiving the Palestinian Press House Appreciation Award for the year 2023. He is one of the founders of the Plastic Artists Association in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Plastic Artists Association in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He was mourned by the Palestinian Ministry of Culture. In a statement, she said that Ghaben’s departure constitutes a loss to Palestinian art, which through him witnessed important transitions towards the embodiment of Palestinian life, Palestinian asylum, the camp, and the traditions of life in the country, which he dedicated his life to immortalizing in his art. In turn, the Palestinian Minister of Culture, Dr. Atef Abu Saif, said that Ghaben, who is considered one of Pioneers in Palestinian plastic art after the Nakba, he lived the life of the camp in all its details and drew it with infinite precision. He immortalized the life of the Palestinian village that the Nakba wanted to erase. He added that Palestine was always present in all its details in the works of Ghaben, who carried with him the life of the Palestinian village and the camp and refuge in the world through his brilliant brush and Fathi, who He lived his first year after breathing life in a tent on the sands of northern Gaza in the Jabalia camp. He was destined to leave because the occupation prevented him from traveling to Egypt. Fathi lived his life in a tent and died in a tent. The tent is not the fate of the Palestinian, but it means that the occupation will also disappear, just as the tent will disappear. At the end of this article, which quickly addresses the life and passing of the Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben, I quote what the late poet Ahmed Dahbour said about him. He possesses more than one brush and more than one brush, meaning that he is a multi-tested wanderer between artistic schools. The painting leads him, with its momentum and interaction, to its spaces and the rhythm of its colors, and to that, there is an umbilical cord that connects He shows his works and declares his personality even if he does not imbue the painting with his signature. He is a maker without spontaneous fabrication, without the naivety of the subject, but he has the last word for the body of the painting in its final position. He is an artist who does not know endings. In front of his works, you are engaged with a continuous dramatic moment, and that is his password for it. To publish its secrets in public, increasing the mystery and magic as much as it becomes closer and more revealing. read the original The same Palestinian resistance in Gaza until the leaders of the first rank came out with a speech directed towards the Western world, especially the civilized world, according to what the head of the Israeli emergency government, Netanyahu, contained a lot of crying, complaining and lamenting.Using a lot of incorrect information and data, and immoral and inhumane accusations against the resistance fighters who entered the occupied settlements of the so-called Gaza envelope and its cities in the occupied territories, such as accusing them of beheading children, raping women, and kidnapping families. What happened, they claim, is not similar to what ISIS did in the Arab countries. What the leaders of the first ranks of the occupation did by fabricating such lies falls within the framework of an introduction and preparation to obtain a license, justification and blessing from the major powers and the West in particular to carry out the bloody massacres that they planned to commit in the Gaza Strip by demonizing the Palestinian resistance and manufacturing There is a distorted awareness about it so that what happens to it and to the citizens in its places of activity is acceptable despite its deviance from human values and international human rights law in war, which is a method that the United States of America has used more than once in Iraq and Afghanistan. I am almost certain that media minds specialized in directing public opinion have They came together quickly and within 24 hours to build an imaginary aura around these lies, represented by foreign journalists and Israeli soldiers portraying it on social media. It is as if it were a state of pleasure in killing experienced by the Palestinians who were in these rapes. This media strategy succeeded in directing public opinion and creating an initial reaction. Immediately, it quickly began to decline with the passage of days and the spread of images of slaughter and destruction resulting from the heinous Zionist practices of bombing from the sky, land and sea. A question arises in this context, which is why did the Israeli entity resort to employing ISIS and using words that express the practices of its members in the Arab countries that oppressed them? Did This employment was arbitrary or the result of coincidence. We all know that Europe, the United States, and others suffered and are still suffering to this day as a result of Islamophobia, the fear of Islam or the Islamic personality, which was promoted by the media of the colonial countries when producing ISIS and used to control Arab resources and destroy the countries there by kidnapping. Its revolutions and wealth. This experience created in the minds of the whole world horrific images of killing, destruction, cutting off limbs, slaughter, beheadings, and other behaviors that the human mind cannot accept or reconcile with. It was linked to a certain charisma of the person who can carry out these actions, the most important of which is that he is framed in an organization that practices... Terrorist military action without belonging to a political system, and with the media machine and the builders of local and international public opinion in the occupying state knowing this state of mind of the West in particular, they employed a set of phrases containing countless lies in order to provoke the preconceptions dormant in the Western mind and bring them to the surface once again. Another way to tell them that what you saw over previous years of events in Syria and Iraq in particular is happening to us now from people who resemble these terrorists, and just as you, the colonial countries, eliminated these terrorists, you must help us eliminate a group that is exactly like them and will attack you after you have finished. Attacking us and eliminating us, and this is similar to what Ariel Sharon did after the September 11 attacks when he held a press conference in which he said that what is happening in America now is similar to what we are experiencing here in Israel. Building this approach between demonizing the honorable resisting Palestinian and the satanic actions that are universally agreed upon is a method that has not been The occupation leadership is absent, but it took a more extensive path in their war on Gaza during the Al-Aqsa flood. The success of the entityThe Israeli media discourse, which was directed at the West in various languages and in an intense manner, in addition to the high media efficiency of its media machine, refers to what happens to the recipient when what is told comes into contact with the imagination and the prior mental image, which is what I can call it in the field of building and creating public opinion from the perspective of Sociolinguistics is the production of new awareness through the interaction between the old truth and the new illusion, that is, using a group of lies or false facts and mixing them with a group of old facts that are supposed to have been left in the distant memory. Specific images and perceptions loaded with negative psychological and emotional charges, usually provided that the motor elements overlap. The vocal and modern combination of lies with these ancient truths results in a new awareness that is more provocative to emotions than it was before, ensuring the success of the influence and achieving the goal of the message. Despite this, this success cannot be completely linked to what I mentioned, as there is a specificity to some experiences specific to Western countries, and For example, the state of Germany, which is considered one of the countries most supportive of the occupying entity and the closest to the United States of America, lives on a guilt complex as a result of what Hitler did to the Jews in the Holocaust. In this regard, Israel used the term Holocaust and described the resistance as Nazism in the media directed to the German media and in interviews that It was conducted by the leaders of the first ranks with some German satellite channels such as zdf and dw, which provided the appropriate opportunity for the Israelis to address the public in Germany in the Arabic and German languages. These two words, Holocaust and Nazism, have a role in directly directing German public opinion and German politics, prompting them not to think about anything other than... Standing alongside Israel in defending itself in order to compensate for the guilt complex and get rid of the stigma of Nazism being a purely German product, as the Israeli discourse constituted a permanent and historical accusation against the Germans of being the perpetrators of massacres. This obligated the Germans to defend themselves constantly and throughout time and in the future, and this time it was lifted. Germany placed Israeli flags on party headquarters and in government buildings, banned demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza, and gave Israel two military marches for the war in Gaza. This is a habit that cannot be abandoned by the Germans. In 2013, they placed the Israeli flag on the players’ shirts alongside the German flag in the European Under-age Championship. Over the past 21 years, how has Israel judged the Germans’ reaction to the connection between what the Germans have of the Jewish Holocaust and the feeling of guilt towards the Jews in the world on the one hand, which Israel has maintained by commemorating the Holocaust annually to ensure that this event is not forgotten and what the Germans think of the Jews? They were exposed to it at the hands of the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip, so that the receiving mind in Germany produced broad fantasies that balanced the images of burning and beheading on the other hand. I focused on the German case because, in addition to what I mentioned, it contains within it what it shares with the West in terms of Islamophobia and in a way Especially after its suffering as a result of the kidnapping of Germans more than once at the hands of ISIS, the execution of some of them, and the display of related recordings. The days after the beginning of the aggression against civilian citizens in the Gaza Strip revealed that the occupation realizes the real period in which this discourse can succeed in convincing the world that it is a victim, which is a period. Very short, after which this image quickly disappears on the popular level after the spread of images of destruction, martyrs, including children and women, and the remains of people.It is good that he will not win popular public opinion, but he is committed to the solidarity of the political level with him, and to compensate for this vacuum that will appear after the emotional aura of Israeli crying lies disappears, he is quick to invite European and American leaders to visit and come to Israel to confirm support and solidarity, and here I may be wrong. Israel is taking advantage of the sirens that are sounding. In the skies of occupied Palestine, when the resistance missiles pass, to put the political leaders in a state of fear and panic over themselves, so that they can experience for themselves what Israel, its leaders and its people, are suffering from, in terms of panic, panic, and difficulty in living, so that the feeling of solidarity and belief in the necessity of eliminating the Gaza Strip, stone by stone and human by human, so that Israel can live in peace. We saw the intensity in the speech of the German Chancellor in his speech that he delivered in the press conference after landing on the grounds of Lod Airport at the moment when the sirens sounded before he left to complete his tour in support of the perpetrator over the oppressed. With reference to the occupation’s rhetoric exploiting Western fear of the manifestations of the terrorist personality that the media has created for people, it is not In our analysis of the Israeli crying discourse in the beginning, we forget that the role of the media discourse is to exploit human nature in shaping behavior towards a specific issue or situation, and what the media most seeks to exploit in shaping the behavior of public opinion is fear. Fear is a very powerful engine for humanity because of it, civilizations and inventions were built, and because of it. Man produced the myth, believed it, and then formed social behavior because of it. The myth that Israel recited to the ears of the world about the Palestinian resistance stirred the movement of fear in the unconscious society towards the issue and reality, which pushed it to uncalculated behaviors at times, such as the speech of US President Biden at the beginning of the events and then a decline. He quickly abandoned this speech after he made statements that were not based on deliberation and fact-finding, which is what many foreign journalists were concerned about at the beginning of covering the events. Finally, my message, which I address based on the above, is that the Arabs and the Palestinians in particular are living in a battle of awareness with the world in which whoever succeeds It is able to form self-, regional, and global awareness through intelligent media, official, political, and field discourse that is able to touch the mental structure of societies, which is what the Israeli entity’s media machine excelled at from decades past until today, which weakens our ability to reap the fruits of our ongoing struggle for freedom and to obtain our rights. The basic and simple in determining our fate and our lives read the original
Blog title Israel’s options in the wake of its aggression against Gaza Author Maher Al-Sharif Date October 21, 2023 While the brutal bombing of the Gaza Strip continues, which has so far claimed the lives of about 4,200 Palestinian men and women, including a large number of children, and caused the death of about 16,000 wounded and approximately 5,500 buildings destroyed. While the Israeli army prepares to move to the second phase of its aggression, which may witness a ground incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, the question of what comes next, i.e. what are Israel’s options after stopping this aggression, occupies the minds of many foreign and Israeli analysts who are almost unanimously agreed on The options of the Israeli war government are not clear and may be bad or very bad. A return to the previous Israeli position. Since the Hamas movement took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, successive Israeli governments have been willing to perpetuate the separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and prevent the availability of an objective basis for the establishment of a Palestinian state. It believes that the Hamas movement is the most appropriate option to rule the Gaza Strip, which has been classified as a hostile entity and a stifling siege has been imposedTherefore, in this context, about ten months after the aggression launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2014, which lasted for 51 days, the commander of the southern region of the Israeli army, General Shlomo Sami Turgeman, said on May 12, 2015, that Hamas remains practically the only option to govern the Gaza Strip, and that Israel has committed itself to After its withdrawal from within the Gaza Strip in 2005, the strategy of prevention and deterrence regarding the Gaza Strip, refuting the claim made by a number of senior Israeli ministers during the war, that the Israeli army had to overthrow Hamas and restore control over the coastal Strip, appreciating that at the present time there is no alternative to Hamas, and The only alternative is the Israeli army or chaos, as most citizens of the Gaza Strip view Hamas as the only address for their problems. He added that the Palestinian Authority that governs the West Bank is not a viable alternative to Hamas in Gaza, but without explaining the reason. 1 What are the chances of a ground incursion succeeding yet? The start of its aggression against the Gaza Strip on the ninth of October of this year. The approach of the war government in Israel to the future of governance in the Gaza Strip differed, as Israeli leaders announced that the Hamas movement would be erased from the face of the earth and that Gaza would never return to what it was, and Benjamin Netanyahu went to So far as to say that every member of Hamas is a dead man, and currently the Israeli army is preparing to carry out a ground incursion called a maneuver into the northern Gaza Strip as soon as the air force finishes preparing the ground through the intense bombing it is carrying out and has deployed thousands of soldiers and military equipment on the borders of the Strip. It involves The ground attack poses great risks, as it is likely that Hamas fighters have prepared to confront such an attack and have planted explosive devices, planned ambushes, and used the tunnel network to attack Israeli forces. It is not unlikely that house-to-house fighting will take place in urban areas, which will lead to the loss of a number of people. A large number of casualties were among the civilian population. In 2014, Israeli infantry brigades suffered heavy losses due to anti-tank mines, snipers, and ambushes, while hundreds of Palestinian civilians were killed in fighting in one of the northern neighborhoods of Gaza City. It seems that the possibility of such a thing happening is what prompted the war government in Israel to Demanding the evacuation of 1.1 million Palestinians from the northern half of the Gaza Strip. On the other hand, the presence of a large number of Israeli hostages and dual nationals in the hands of the Hamas movement, distributed in unknown places throughout the Strip, will create a problem for the invading ground units, especially since many governments, including the United States, The United States, France and the United Kingdom have an interest in their safe release. 2 Will Israel reoccupy the Gaza Strip? The current war government in Israel wants to inflict a decisive defeat on the Hamas movement without having clear alternatives for the future of this sector, which has a population of about 2.2 million people. Israel reoccupying the entire Gaza Strip is unlikely, especially after the warning issued by US President Joe Biden during his visit a few days ago to Israel, considering that such an option is a bad idea. According to Jacob Erickson, a specialist in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at York University in England, the idea of reoccupying the Strip Gaza may be on the agenda of some of the more extreme elements in the current government who envision Gaza as part of the Greater Land of Israel in the biblical sense, but more rational voices in Tel Aviv will want to get out as quickly as possible.From the Gaza Strip, as confirmed by Aaron Bregman, professor of political science and specialist in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at King’s College London, especially since the Israeli occupation of Gaza will mean that Israel will have to manage everything from ensuring the proper functioning of schools and hospitals to the sewage system, and since the population Gaza will never accept such an administration. Clashes with the local population will soon become inevitable. It will be necessary to provide soldiers to secure Gaza, and this will cost a fortune, not to mention the diplomatic ramifications of reoccupying Gaza and the damage it will cause to Israel’s relations with other Arab countries. Such The decision will conflict with the American desire for a two-state solution, as Jacob Erickson believes, while Ahron Bregman concludes by saying that the Israelis need to think about the next day, but at the moment they seem to be so angry, and this is understandable, that they cannot think rationally. 3 options are all unclear. D is a newspaper correspondent. les echos Parisian in Tel Aviv Pascal Brunel, in an article published on October 19 of this year, the other options before Israel. He believes that it is possible for control of Gaza to be transferred again to the Palestinian Authority, an option adopted by opposition leader Yair Lapid, but he believes that this authority It is very weak and unpopular, and it should also accept the entry of the Israeli army into the Gaza Strip to carry out counter-terrorism operations, as it regularly does in areas of the West Bank that are supposed to be under the full control of the Palestinian Authority. The other option, in his opinion, is the deployment of an international peace force under the auspices of the United Nations. United Nations, but Israeli officials are very hesitant about this option. They confirm that the United Nations forces deployed in southern Lebanon did not prevent Hezbollah, Iran’s ally and the Jewish state’s primary enemy, from the constant threat to Israel’s northern borders. The same journalist concludes that Israel does not have any serious scenario before it, as it is estimated that The Israeli army will in all probability remain a few months in the Gaza Strip to finish the mission by effectively eliminating as many Hamas political and military executives as possible and closing all ministries and other public institutions controlled by the Islamists. 4 On the other hand, some Israeli analysts and military experts estimate that Israel will not be able to dismantle all Hamas members, but it can weaken the movement as much as possible so that it no longer has operational capabilities, which is a more realistic goal, especially since Israel has fought four wars against Hamas, and all attempts to stop its missile attacks have failed. The question is how long Israel can continue. In its military campaign without being exposed to international pressure to withdraw, Yossi Melman, one of the most prominent Israeli journalists specializing in the conflict, points out that the Israeli government and army believe that they have the support of the international community, at least from Western leaders, but he believes that Israel’s allies will intervene sooner or later if they see pictures of starving people. It is also possible that the reaction of Israel's neighbors will also affect the duration and outcome of the ground attack, while Ofir Winter of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies believes that the more the people of Gaza suffer from the Israeli military campaign, the greater the pressure on Egypt to give the impression that it has not turned its back on the Palestinians. Estimating that a change in governance in Gaza could pave the way for a gradual return to the Palestinian Authority, and while the President believesFormer Shin Bet security service Yoram Cohen said that a two-kilometre buffer zone would be needed to replace the current zone in order to protect the settlements in the Gaza envelope. Alon Leal, former director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former ambassador to South Africa, expects that the current war will completely change the situation in Israel and end The period in which the Palestinians were ignored by Israel and the international community, stressing that in the event of Hamas’s defeat, negotiations on a two-state solution would resume after the current war. 5 The Israeli press had devoted many articles centered around the question “What’s next?” Some of them were transferred to Arabic, the daily bulletin of the Hebrew press. The Institute for Palestine Studies included an article by analyst Amos Gilad published in Maariv newspaper on the 17th of this month, entitled Who will be in charge after the war? Who will rule the Gaza Strip after the dismantling of Hamas, in which he saw that we have no choice but to strike Hamas, which should not exist, and that nothing is more important. Here we return the women, children, male and female soldiers, in short, all the hostages, with the intention that regarding the day after the elimination of Hamas, a vacuum will take its place, and there are many alternatives, but it seems that the Egyptians will not enter there, and the Israeli army and international forces will not be able to do so while The entry of the Palestinians into power is linked to a political settlement, which is consistent with the signing of a peace treaty with Saudi Arabia and the creation of a strategic alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia, which will provide momentum for Abu Mazen to be able to impose some sovereignty there, but the matter will not happen without the presence of a political horizon that guarantees He has the right to do so. 6 As for analyst Yagil Levy, in an article published in Haaretz newspaper on the 17th of this month, he also called for not falling into the illusion of overthrowing Hamas, because in his estimation the Gaza Strip is a state in every sense of the word, even if it is not recognized and its independence is limited. This state controls it. The Hamas movement has existed for 15 years and is based on an advanced political structure and a military arm, and it operates as the leadership of the state in every sense of the word, considering that attempts to change the regime from the outside, as happened in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, have failed miserably and have even contributed to civil wars. He added that it is true that Israel, unlike other cases, The former does not intend to build democracy in Gaza, but only to create an alternative regime that refrains from attacking Israel. However, this is still considered a regime change and will fail in the absence of an alternative center of power. The Fatah movement was politically defeated in the Gaza Strip 15 years ago, and its attempts to restore its position through reconciliation steps with Hamas have failed. Israel to conclude that the point is not only to think about the next day, but rather to set more modest goals for the ground operation from today, which it is preferable to refrain from carrying out at all. 7 On the same day, analyst Michael Milstein published in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth an article entitled Who will rule Gaza? This is it. The options are all bad. He believed that directing a fatal blow to the Hamas movement would mean neutralizing all of its leadership frameworks, a large-scale liquidation of its senior officials, the physical destruction of its institutions, especially its civil advocacy institutions, which constitute its means of communication with the public, depriving it of its economic sources, and carrying out mass arrests of tens of thousands of its activists. Contrary to what happened to ISIS, which was defeated by the international coalition, the war will not be able to end the idea of Hamas, which is deeply rooted in the Palestinian collective consciousness. Then he moved on to present the proposed alternatives and considered them to be few and weak. Some of these alternatives are bad, while others are worse. This is the option of returningOccupying the Gaza Strip and imposing continuous Israeli control over it will inflict a heavy security, economic and political price on Israel that may cause it to sink into a local model similar to the models of Iraq and Afghanistan. As for the option of undermining Hamas’ rule and quickly exiting the Gaza Strip, it may create an authority vacuum that attracts chaos and jihadi elements from all parts of the Middle East and the world. They will try to turn Gaza into an arena of confrontation with Israel, and when he stopped at the two less bad options, he believed that the option of re-establishing the Palestinian Authority’s control over the Gaza Strip requires Israel to abandon its ridiculous perception that the Authority is an enemy worse than Hamas, but it is not clear at all that the Authority will be Which barely controls the West Bank, is concerned with undertaking a task so complex to this extent, while the plausibility of the other alternative, which is to create a political governance system that relies on local parties in the Strip, mayors, clans, and prominent public figures, with the participation of Palestinian Authority officials and with widespread external support, especially From the Egyptian side, it is not clear after many years of Hamas suppressing any public or political force that posed a threat to it. The same analyst concluded that the discussion regarding the day after the overthrow of Hamas, including the settlement and the system that will be applied on the Egyptian-Gaza border, requires in-depth discussion and organized plans until Before conducting the ground maneuver and embarking on an attempt to undermine the rule of Hamas 8, the articles of Israeli analysts and experts thus reflect the confusion of the war government, which apparently knows that in its ongoing aggression it must cause the largest number of martyrs and wounded among the ranks of the population of the Gaza Strip and destroy the largest amount of buildings, infrastructure, and facilities. 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Blog Title: Between Brutality and Resilience Challenges of Displacement in Gaza Author Madeleine Al-Halabi Date October 20, 2023 Over the course of days, my phone almost exploded due to the number of calls from relatives, acquaintances, and friends asking me for the names of the martyrs who were killed by the sound of the explosion that occurred near them due to the Internet outage in the Gaza Strip. Gaza and the continuity of communication as the only means of accessing narrow or private information. Due to the inability to leave homes in light of the indiscriminate and intense bombing, the previously mentioned are trying to find out what happened to their acquaintances and relatives through those who still enjoy the blessing of the Internet in the second part of the homeland. It is a strange paradox that carries It contains many feelings and emotional and human connections for those besieged by heavy missiles, and is loaded with a huge amount of solidarity with those who were hit by the missile, which was not hit this time.Callers: On the seventh of October, the world woke up to an unprecedented strike on the occupation. At least that is how the occupation leaders describe what happened. Hundreds of Palestinian fighters crossed the separation fence equipped with the latest Israeli military and espionage technological equipment and within hours took control of camps and settlements in what is known as the Gaza envelope, which is the area. Located 7 km from the eastern border of the Gaza Strip, this sudden, rapid control constituted a blow to the prestige of the Israeli military, security technology, and the Israeli security narrative, which has been trying since the beginning of the occupation to create an image of the components of the security establishment that feeds deterrence among the enemy and security among the public. This was the first direct result. The shock to the occupying state, its society, and its security institution, and in conjunction with its attempts to regain the occupation of the Gaza envelope area, began with a new aggression that mainly targeted civilians, represented by the random bombing of entire neighborhoods in the cities and towns of the Gaza Strip. In an attempt to legitimize what it was doing, taking advantage of sympathy and international bias, the occupying state claimed that civilians in Gaza were... Part of the event, Israeli spokesmen, including Defense Minister Yoav Galant, described them as “human animals,” but they adopted this hypothesis that what is taking place is an operation of revenge may be sufficient to explain this widespread aggression, because those who follow the Israeli statements over the past years, including the statement of the former chief of staff of the occupation army, Aviv Kochavi, find that The widespread targeting of civilians and infrastructure is an important part of the Israeli strategy in confronting the resistance in Palestine and even in Lebanon. As usual, the occupying state deals with population displacement as one of the tools of coercion, repression and control. It has intended to activate it on a large scale in this aggression. The occupation army announced the time, place and map of the displacement through... The leaflets and publications on its websites and platforms are a process of controlling the place and time of the Palestinian through the Israeli war machine, apart from being a complex control, where the Palestinian is displaced in a process that appears to be of his own volition or to protect him, while in reality it is a crime committed by the occupation against him, but it wants him to carry it out himself, just as in demolition. In Jerusalem, it is forced in its reality, subjective in its superficial definition. In addition to that, the occupying state is trying to benefit from this crime in the propaganda that it leads, and its goal is to humanize the displacement. The spokesman for the occupation army appeared explaining to foreign correspondents the line of displacement and its map, overwhelming them with engineering details, while ignoring the humanitarian details. The general principle is that the displacement operations have so far targeted approximately 1.1 million Palestinians, who were asked to leave their homes and areas in less than 24 hours to areas south of the Gaza Strip. In the real details of the scene, testimonies indicate that terror is the master of the situation, especially in the late hours of the night as residents are forced to Gaza to displacement and movement from one area to another under cloudy skies with military aircraft bombing everything that moves due to false reports of evacuating the areas in preparation for the bombing, as well as the violent and ferocious bombing that left horrific scenes of children, women and the elderly scattered in body parts, which made entire families flee to centers. The shelters were also bombed, and some did not have the option of fleeing or leaving the house due to the heavy, intense bombing that was also targeting public roads and streets. These night experiences created a state of shock and terror that began to appear on the faces of the Gazans who were displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip. This war did not It will not be the first to be imposed on the residents of Gaza, and it may not be the lastBut this context of intense violence practiced against them with the same tools and with different tempos made them share enough experiences that strengthened their awareness and psychological structure, giving them a new privilege for their Palestinianness that enabled them to reshape themselves as social actors exercising their role and natural right to confront the colonizer in the midst of war and siege. The majority of them refused to submit to the colonialist’s directives and tools and chose to remain in their homes and not migrate to areas south of Gaza, even though it is a choice that carries a lot of death. The majority of those who were displaced were those whose homes were destroyed by the bombing. In this atmosphere that is summed up by one meaning, which is death, narratives of steadfastness began to emerge from New from every neighborhood and spot in Gaza City in multiple forms, but the most prominent of which was the spread of calls to open citizens’ homes to displaced relatives and friends. The irony here is that these citizens were present in areas that were subjected to ferocious and violent bombing and not to continuous fire belts and explosive barrels, which created a situation that may seem contradictory. In its details, but these contradictions frame the meaning of social solidarity and steadfastness in the specificity of Gaza City. Despite the difficult economic conditions that the Palestinians in Gaza are going through due to reckoning, they share what they have in the homes in which they have taken refuge. The cost of welcoming a new person into the poor and dilapidated homes is a challenge. It is large, but some homes in Gaza now contain large numbers of more than 100 people. Sometimes, in contact with a friend of mine in Gaza, she told me that she and her family were forced to flee to the Deir al-Balah area in the middle, to live with one of her mother’s relatives, to be with more than 150 people in a space. My place is no more than 120 metres. In the details of the conversation, she said that more than ten people shared one bed, taking turns sleeping on it at the same time, horizontally and vertically, as well as alternating on one toilet throughout the day, and rationalizing the consumption of the already cut off water to the extent that is beyond what is absolutely necessary, but the stressful details of the situations were not devoid of pressure. The funny moments and moments of sharing between everyone that bear the burden of the harsh scenes and the smell of white phosphorus. In another conversation with a colleague who was displaced to the central areas of Gaza, she indicated that the majority of the displaced are waiting for the appropriate opportunity, which may turn into inappropriate at times, as they may endure death to return to their homes to bring some of what they need. There was leftover food, bread and water and sharing it with everyone. The narratives of resilience were not limited to what was between the walls of homes, but rather took to the streets with social and youth initiatives that sought to provide meals cooked in the street collectively among the people of the neighborhood and provide them to the displaced in schools, as well as providing clothes and everything that could be provided. Of health and personal supplies for the displaced in every home and family, great pain and suffering is enough for generations to come, but they carried within them these ordeals and made of them a new story of resistance for this stubborn city throughout history to confront a colonial system that the whole world agreed to shed the blood of the people of Gaza, and to stand in the position of supporter and supporter in the face of these tragic scenes. Which represented the most horrific face of the conflict with colonialism and reminded us of its face and its true intentions to keep the land empty and completely remove the other by annihilating and erasing him and erasing everything that indicates his existence, culture and identity. read the original
The colonizer is in the midst of war and siege, as the majority of them refused to submit to the colonizer’s directives and tools and chose to remain in their homes and not migrate to the areas south of Gaza, even though it is an option that carries a lot of death. The majority of those whose homes were destroyed by the bombing were displaced in this atmosphere, which is summed up by one meaning. It is death. Narratives of steadfastness began to emerge again from every neighborhood and spot in Gaza City in multiple forms, but the most prominent of them was the spread of calls to open citizens’ homes to displaced relatives and friends. The irony here is that these citizens were present in areas that were exposed to ferocious and violent bombardment and not to continuous fire belts and explosive barrels. Which created a situation that may seem contradictory in its details, but these contradictions frame the meaning of social solidarity and steadfastness in the specificity of Gaza City. Despite the difficult economic conditions that the Palestinians in Gaza are going through due to reckoning, they share what they have in the homes in which they have taken refuge, so the cost of welcoming a new person Inside the poor and dilapidated homes is a great challenge, but some homes in Gaza now contain large numbers of more than 100 people. Many times, in contact with a friend of mine in Gaza, she told me that she and her family were forced to flee to the Deir al-Balah area in the middle, to one of her mother’s relatives, to be with them. More than 150 people in a space of no more than 120 metres. In the details of the conversation, she said that more than ten people shared one bed, taking turns sleeping on it at the same time, horizontally and vertically, as well as alternating on one toilet throughout the day, and rationalizing the consumption of water that was already cut off to the extent beyond what was absolutely necessary. However, the stressful details were not devoid of funny situations and moments of sharing between everyone who experienced the burden of the harsh scenes and the smell of white phosphorus. In another conversation with a colleague who was displaced to the central areas of Gaza, she indicated that the majority of the displaced are waiting for the appropriate opportunity, which may turn into inappropriate at times, as it may be tolerable. Dying to return to their homes to bring some of the remaining food, bread, and water and share it with everyone. Also, narratives of resilience were not limited to what was between the walls of homes, but rather took to the streets with social and youth initiatives that sought to provide meals cooked in the street collectively among the people of the neighborhood and provide them to the displaced in schools. As well as providing clothing and all the health and personal supplies that can be provided to the displaced, in every home and family there is great pain and suffering that is enough for generations to come, but they carried within them these ordeals and made of them a new story of resistance for this stubborn city throughout history to confront a colonial system that the whole world agreed to shed the blood of the people of Gaza and to stop. Read the original
The colonizer is in the midst of war and siege, as the majority of them refused to submit to the colonizer’s directives and tools and chose to remain in their homes and not migrate to the areas south of Gaza, even though it is an option that carries a lot of death. The majority of those whose homes were destroyed by the bombing were displaced in this atmosphere, which is summed up by one meaning. It is death. Narratives of steadfastness began to emerge again from every neighborhood and spot in Gaza City in multiple forms, but the most prominent of them was the spread of calls to open citizens’ homes to displaced relatives and friends. The irony here is that these citizens were present in areas that were exposed to ferocious and violent bombardment and not to continuous fire belts and explosive barrels. Which created a situation that may seem contradictory in its details, but these contradictions frame the meaning of social solidarity and steadfastness in the specificity of Gaza City. Despite the difficult economic conditions that the Palestinians in Gaza are going through due to reckoning, they share what they have in the homes in which they have taken refuge, so the cost of welcoming a new person Inside the poor and dilapidated homes is a great challenge, but some homes in Gaza now contain large numbers of more than 100 people. Many times, in contact with a friend of mine in Gaza, she told me that she and her family were forced to flee to the Deir al-Balah area in the middle, to one of her mother’s relatives, to be with them. More than 150 people in a space of no more than 120 metres. In the details of the conversation, she said that more than ten people shared one bed, taking turns sleeping on it at the same time, horizontally and vertically, as well as alternating on one toilet throughout the day, and rationalizing the consumption of water that was already cut off to the extent beyond what was absolutely necessary. However, the stressful details were not devoid of funny situations and moments of sharing between everyone who experienced the burden of the harsh scenes and the smell of white phosphorus. In another conversation with a colleague who was displaced to the central areas of Gaza, she indicated that the majority of the displaced are waiting for the appropriate opportunity, which may turn into inappropriate at times, as it may be tolerable. Dying to return to their homes to bring some of the remaining food, bread, and water and share it with everyone. Also, narratives of resilience were not limited to what was between the walls of homes, but rather took to the streets with social and youth initiatives that sought to provide meals cooked in the street collectively among the people of the neighborhood and provide them to the displaced in schools. As well as providing clothing and all the health and personal supplies that can be provided to the displaced, in every home and family there is great pain and suffering that is enough for generations to come, but they carried within them these ordeals and made of them a new story of resistance for this stubborn city throughout history to confront a colonial system that the whole world agreed to shed the blood of the people of Gaza and to stop. Read the original
And violence, and not the continuous belts of fire and explosive barrels, which created a situation that may seem contradictory in its details, but these contradictions frame the meaning of social solidarity and steadfastness in the specificity of Gaza City. Despite the difficult economic conditions that the Palestinians in Gaza are going through due to the reckoning, they share what they have in their homes. Which they resorted to, as the cost of welcoming a new person into poor and dilapidated homes is a great challenge, but some homes in Gaza now contain large numbers of more than 100 people. In many cases, I contacted a friend of mine in Gaza who told me that she and her family were forced to flee to the Deir al-Balah area in Al-Wusta was with one of her mother’s relatives to be with more than 150 people in a space of no more than 120 met
Blog Title: In the Name of Your International Laws, You Are All Responsible Author Sanaa Hamoudi Date: October 20, 2023 Since the start of the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, followers have become accustomed to hearing expressions calling for respect for the principles of public international law and international humanitarian law, and in return, accusations of Israel committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide rise daily. But all these calls and accusations go unheeded due to the intransigence of the Israeli war machine, whose voice is louder than all international laws. Why stress the importance of international laws in protecting civilians and what can these laws achieve within the framework of the principles of international justice that the international community is supposed to achieve this? The society that considered that the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948 amounted to atonement for many horrors and crimes committed against humanity during two world wars. In a reading of the principles that fall under the framework of international humanitarian law and branch from it, it is clear that they cover the violations committed Against all humanity, it also lays down the foundations for punishing perpetrators, which would constitute a deterrent and prevent subsequent crimes, but the texts and what is contained in them are one thing, and what happens on the ground is something completely different, as for decades these legal rules have not been able to prevent war crimes, massacres, displacement, and murder. Humanity is affected by individuals from the same international community that established these laws. At the forefront of these violations are the crimes currently committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, exposing the failure of the international legal deterrence mechanism to prevent violations or punish their perpetrators. These crimes culminated in a horrific massacre in the hospital. Baptist Church in Gaza, which includes sick, wounded, and medical staff, in addition to displaced persons who sought safety in a non-military medical facility, which resulted in the death of more than 500 martyrs and hundreds of wounded. At the moment of the massacre, analysts recalled the terms of international humanitarian law to demand that Israel be punished based on the principles of this law. So what is the law? International humanitarian law is based on a set of basic principles that are established to protect groups that are not participating in the fighting or are no longer able to do so. This protection includes the category of civilian persons, civilian objects, and civilian objects that do not directly contribute to the conduct of military operations. Therefore, the protection of civilian objects is based on On the principle of distinguishing between military objectives and non-military civilian objects. This principle requires parties to a conflict at all times to distinguish during the course of hostilities, as well as in the event of occupation, between military objectives that assist in the war effort and civilian objects such as places of worship, hospitals, and buildings that shelter civilians on the condition that they are not used. For military purposes, this is what was stipulated in Article 48 of the First Additional Protocol of 1977, which states that the parties to the conflict shall work to distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives, and then direct their operations exclusively against military objectives, in order to ensure respect and protection of the civilian population and objects. These are unambiguous principles that affirm the necessity of protecting civilians and neutralizing civilian facilities during armed conflicts. The articles of the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, dated August 12, 1949, enshrine the principle of protecting civilians and the parties’ commitment to this principle, especially Articles 18 and 19, and what is stated therein is not permissible. In any case, attack civilian hospitalsOrganization to provide care for the wounded, sick, infirm, and postpartum women, and the parties to the conflict must respect and protect them at all times. The protection due to civilian hospitals may not be suspended unless they are used, in derogation from their humanitarian duties, to carry out actions that harm the enemy. However, protection for them may not be suspended except after giving them a warning specified in In all appropriate cases, a reasonable time limit. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted by the United Nations on July 17, 1998, clearly defines the acts that fall within the jurisdiction of this court and the punishment for them. It is stated in the preamble of the statute that member states take into account that millions of children, women and men have occurred during The current century are victims of unimaginable atrocities that have strongly shaken the conscience of humanity, and that these crimes threaten peace and security in the world and must not go unpunished for their perpetrators, and that these countries are determined to put an end to the impunity of the perpetrators of these crimes and to contribute to their prevention, as for the crimes that fall within their jurisdiction. It is the crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, the crime of aggression. The crime of genocide, according to the Rome Statute, includes acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. As for crimes against humanity, they are acts committed within the framework of a widespread attack. or systematically directed against any civilian population, including willful killing, extermination, slavery, deportation or forcible transfer of population, enforced disappearance of persons, the crime of apartheid, other inhuman acts of a similar nature intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury to the body, mental or physical health. War crimes do not differ from the previous two crimes, as they constitute, according to the Rome Statute, grave violations of the Geneva Conventions, which are acts committed against persons or property, including premeditated murder, torture, intentionally causing great suffering or serious harm to body or health, causing widespread destruction of property, unlawful deportation or transfer, and we stop. When the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was approved by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948, which recognized in its preamble that genocide has in all eras of history inflicted grave losses on humanity and recognized that this crime is contrary to the spirit and objectives of the United Nations under international law and included articles The Convention pledges to prevent and punish this crime. Among the acts that fall under the crime of genocide mentioned in Article Three, I emphasize here the terms conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide, participation in genocide, and in accordance with Article 25 3 of the Statute Rome Statute: Anyone who assists, incites, incites, or assists a person in committing the crime of genocide or attempts to commit it in any way is guilty of committing the crime of genocide after examining this long list of crimes that fall within international humanitarian law and international conventions and treaties. Related: The reader can determine the type of crimes that Israel has been committing for 75 years now and thus conclude that Israel would not have committed all of these crimes without the assistance, participation and approval of representatives of the international community, and therefore it has not been punished since its establishment for any of these crimes that embody... The current war is a genocide that affects more than two million people in one placeA geographic area not exceeding 365 km2. Collective punishment that includes cutting off water, electricity, food, and means of communication with the outside world. Deliberately targeting civilian and medical facilities and places of worship. Transfer and forced displacement plans similar to the 1948 Nakba. Who is responsible, then, for not holding Israel accountable or punishing it for violating legal rules it approved? United Nations bodies representing the international community. The answer is the international community itself, the international community that provides absolute support to Israel at all levels: military, material, political, diplomatic, or media. There is nothing wrong with it. Perhaps it is the first time in Israel’s history that it has received this amount of media support by harnessing the means The major media in the process of incitement and falsification of facts. The recent war has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that this international community looks with one eye and markets the ongoing war as a clash of civilizations between a civilized world and barbaric groups according to the theory promoted by Israel. This is of course a declared reason, but the real reasons lie. In regional and international interests that go beyond this narrow interpretation, here the principles of international laws and international justice are put aside and turned into mere slogans repeated by tongues. The priority now is to achieve goals. As for crimes, there is no harm in being documented. Justice will visit us one day when the principles of international justice are established and subject to The principles of the law of force are devoid of the qualities of law and justice. Blessed are the children of Gaza who do not grow up. Blessed are those who are steadfast and clutching the embers of their suffering. Sources: The Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949. United Nations Human Rights. Office of the High Commissioner. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner Protection of Civilian Objects in International Humanitarian Law International Humanitarian Law Series No. 9 Libra 2008 International Criminal Court Fact Sheet 3 Prosecution of Perpetrators of Genocide August 1, 2000 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Human Rights Library University of Minnesota read the original
Blog title The Palestinians are guilty until their humanity is achieved Author Muayyad Tanina Date October 20, 2023 If wars begin with lies, peace can begin with the truth. This is what journalist Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, said in his talk about the importance of telling the truth and not remaining silent. Perhaps this is what we need as Palestinians in our battle for freedom and confronting the misleading media narrative that dehumanizes us and sides with the occupation in its narrative. With the continuation of the open battle over Gaza, it is clear that things will not return to what they were before October 7, 2023. At all levels, in view of the unprecedented resistance action caused by the battle, with the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassim Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, breaching the separation fence and carrying out a qualitative operation that can be considered the most severe and extensive since the establishment of the occupying state in the year 1948, and with the accompanying narratives and media news, it attempted Distorting the image of the Palestinian and calling him a Palestinian terrorist. It is important to realize that this battle came as a natural response to the continuation of the Zionist attacks on everything that is Palestinian, land and people, with the continued expansion of settlement on the land, even if Al-Aqsa Mosque was the cause of its direct spark, according to what the Commander-in-Chief of the Martyr Ezz Brigades stated. Religion Pastor Umm Muhammad Al-Deif in a speech announcing the battle in response to the occupation’s orgy in Al-Aqsa Mosque in the first momentsFor the battle, a torrent of visual content invaded social media sites in conjunction with the Palestinian resistance’s invasion of the occupation army’s camps and settlements in the Gaza envelope, which was followed by the entry of dozens of Gazans into these colonies in a majestic scene in which the Palestinian saw the scenario of complete liberation of the occupied land, a dreamy freedom that was reflected in the digital space that had always been Suppression, silence, and prevention of telling the story. It was clear that the feelings of freedom that seeped into the conscience of the Palestinian who owned the world, both real and virtual, were evident. It was striking in the first hours of this battle that the algorithms of Meta Company, which owns the Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram applications, imposed restrictions and restrictions on Palestinian and advocacy content. As it is sensitive content, it did not comprehend the huge volume of content that was published and broadcast, and therefore the torrent of visual content continued to flow and arouse enthusiasm and interaction among followers regarding what is happening in the vicinity of the Gaza Strip. Gradually, the dust of the battle cleared and the sun of defeat that the occupying state suffered in the first hours rose, and when the devices woke up The occupation and its intelligence emerged from their slumber. The Gazans were still ecstatic because of their well-known charges, waiting for what would bring them back to the reality that was harsh on them and still is. The moment colonialism and its tools woke up from sleep, a round of revenge against Gaza and its people began. Fighter planes launched raids on the safe people, and Meta Company led its war on the novel. The Palestinian Authority began restricting, blocking and deleting hundreds of publications and accounts to complete the unjust and biased role against Palestine and its people. It silenced the narrative of the vanquished rebel and opened the door wide to the narrative of the aggressor occupier. The Western media was present as an effective tool in this battle, biased towards the colonizer as usual, and therefore misleading reports and coverage began to spread, based on the demonization of the Palestinian. He described it as terrorism, humanized the Zionist, and described him as a victim, which means global solidarity with the occupying state and granting it the right to eliminate Hamas forcefully under the pretext of self-defense. The first reports that were biased toward the occupation and that were broadcast by the media were carefully directed and referred to a set of information directed at the Western public to gain its sympathy. And this is why expressions appeared such as the return of ISIS, killing children, raping women, killing civilians, kidnapping the elderly, attacking a celebration on the occasion of Eid. In the wake of this news, American and Western statements of condemnation of the Hamas movement came out, which at the same time gives the occupation the green light to respond and defend itself according to their point of view when it refutes the threat. The same story in his speech in support of the occupying state. US President Joe Biden said, “I really did not think I would see this. I confirmed the pictures of terrorists beheading children. It was clear that the American President based what he said on the story of the occupation and the media biased towards him. Only a few hours passed until the White House announced it.” He retracted President Joe Biden's statements because they had not seen any pictures and the authenticity of the reports had not been independently verified. The reports intended by the White House were started by the Israeli channel i24 and international channels such as CNN and quoted officers in the occupation army seeing children and women killed by elements. From Hamas without these channels themselves confirming what happened, which is considered one of the ABCs of journalistic work, with the media confirming that this news was baseless, especially with the issuance of a statement by the occupation army in which it said that there is no information confirming that Hamas beheaded children. Media personnel offered their apologies. They retracted what was previously published, including CNN correspondent Sarah Sidner, who apologized to her followers onThe X platform said, “I must be more careful in my words. I am sorry, and I am continuing the path of lamentation and pleading to justify and feed the American and Western green light to the occupying state in order to take revenge on the Palestinians. In response to this operation, the account of the occupation prime minister was published on the X platform.” Netanyahu briefed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. On pictures of three children who were killed and burned by the Hamas movement, and at the bottom of the tweet, he described the Hamas movement as ISIS and terrorist. The American journalist, Gascon Hinkle, verified these pictures himself, and it later became clear that they were created by artificial intelligence, so that the narrative that Netanyahu wanted to promote to demonize the Palestinian and attract more international support and sympathy turned on... His head was used against him, and in the face of the wave of criticism of the White House and the major media institutions that published false and misleading narratives, the White House returned to clarify that its mission is not to verify the truth of these images, as if it were placing responsibility on its ally who had misled it. However, the American administration remained committed to its ally and supported him on the other side. In denial of the ongoing occupation narrative that the Hamas movement and its fighters killed children, the Qasr M Brigades published a video on its Telegram platform on October 14, showing resistance members playing and laughing with children. One of the members helped an infant to stop crying and was rocking him to sleep, and one of them was carrying two children and saying To the camera, look at the mercy in our hearts. Here are the children. We did not kill them as you do. It is as if this is awareness and anticipation of events and a clear message prepared in advance for the biased world that real terrorism is practiced by the colonialists who have a profession of killing and torturing children and that nothing has happened that might be promoted later. It is as if the resistance knows that this The speech that will be promoted to justify terrorism and the killing of civilians and children in Gaza by occupation aircraft. Al-Aqsa Channel, affiliated with the Hamas movement, broadcast a video showing the release of a woman accompanied by her two children. The Israeli media at that time was quick to interview the woman, thinking that the time had come to expose Hamas’s terrorist practices according to the colonial mentality, which... They were shocked by her talk about the fact that the resistance fighters carried the child and that she did not harm or harm her. The strangeness was evident in international media circles regarding what one of the female settlers narrated in an interview about the Qasm members who were in her house, where one of them asked her permission to eat a banana, and that they did not cause her any harm. Not at all. One female settler provided another testimony about the resistance’s gentle treatment and the dialogue that took place between her and them. Then she mentioned that the army bombed a house in which these armed men were present, along with the settlers’ hostages from the party. They all died, and during the first days the Zionist media continued to search for what actions were on their mind. He wants to attribute it to the Qassam Brigades and Hamas fighters, but the narratives presented by the settlements did not serve him. Rather, they provided content that supports the narrative of the Palestinian resistance. Based on the above, it is clear beyond any doubt that the Palestinian is always accused of his humanity, and it is easy to label him as a terrorist because his enemy is the child of colonialism and his white ally. The Palestinian is forced all the time to prove to the world how human he is, which is confirmed by the biased media coverage in this battle read the original
Blog Title Ilan Pappé My Israeli friends, that's why I support the Palestinians Author Editorial Board Date October 19, 2023 It is difficult for a person to maintain his moral sense When the society to which it belongs, its leaders and its media alike, take charge and are expected to share the same legitimate anger that...His reaction to the events of last Saturday, October 7. There is only one way to resist the temptation to join them if one has at some point in his life, even as a Jewish citizen of Israel, understood the colonial nature of Zionism and if he feels horrified by its policies against the indigenous people of Palestine, if he is aware of this. He will not hesitate, even if the poisonous messages describe the Palestinians as animals or human animals, and their authors themselves insist on describing what happened last Saturday as the Holocaust, exploiting the memory of a great tragedy. These feelings are expressed day and night by the Israeli media and politicians, and this moral sense is what prompted me. With other members of our community to support the Palestinian people in every possible way, which allows us at the same time to express admiration for the courage of the Palestinian fighters who seized dozens of military bases, defeating the strongest army in the Middle East. On the other hand, people like me can only ask themselves Questions about the moral or strategic value of some of the actions that accompanied this process, and because we always supported ending colonialism in Palestine, we knew that the longer the Israeli oppression lasted, the less the chances of making the liberation struggle purified, as happened with all the just liberation struggles that the world had witnessed in the past, however. This does not mean that we do not have to look at the bigger picture, even for a minute. This picture is the picture of a colonized people struggling for survival at a time when their oppressors have elected a government determined to accelerate the destruction of the Palestinian people, and even to eliminate them, or their demand to be recognized as a people and as such. Hamas had to move quickly. It is difficult to express these counter-arguments because the Western media and politicians rallied behind the Israeli discourse and its narrative, regardless of their problematic nature. I wonder how many of those who decided to dress the facade of the Parliament in London and the Eiffel Tower in Paris were in the colors of the Israeli flag. They truly understand how this apparently symbolic gesture is received in Israel. The same liberal Zionists with little tact interpreted this act as a complete forgiveness for all the crimes committed by the Israelis against the Palestinian people since 1948 and thus as carte blanche to continue the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian population. Gaza Fortunately, the events of recent days have provoked different reactions, and as was the case in the past, large segments of Western civil societies cannot be easily deceived by this hypocrisy, which has already been demonstrated in the case of Ukraine. Many people know that since June 1967, a million Palestinians have been imprisoned once. At least one in their lives, and with imprisonment comes violations, torture, and permanent detention without trial. These same people also know the horrific reality that Israel created in the Gaza Strip when it closed the area and imposed a tight siege starting in 2007, accompanied by the continuous killing of children in the occupied West Bank, and this violence is not a phenomenon. New because it has been the permanent face of Zionism since the establishment of Israel in 1948, and thanks to this same civil society, dear Israeli friends, your government and your media will be wrong in the end because they will not be able to claim the role of the victim or receive unconditional support and get away with their crimes. The broader picture will appear in Ultimately, despite the bias inherent in Western media, the big question, friendsIsraelis, will you be able to see this big picture clearly despite years of widespread indoctrination and manipulation? And just as importantly, will you be able to learn the other important lesson from recent events: that force alone is incapable of balancing a just system? On the one hand, and an immoral political project on the other hand. However, there is an alternative in reality, and this alternative has always existed. It is represented by a de-Zionized, liberated and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea. Palestine receives refugees and builds a society that does not discriminate between its members on the basis of culture, religion, or race. This new state will seek, as much as possible, to correct the evils of the past in terms of economic inequality, theft of property, and the denial of rights. This could herald a new era for the entire Middle East. It is not always easy for one to hold on to one’s moral compass, but if this compass points north toward decolonization and liberation. It is likely to point one's way through the fog of toxic propaganda, hypocritical policies, and inhumanity that are often committed in the name of our shared Western values. October 10, 2023 Source: https www chroniquepalestine com voici pourquoi je soutiens les palestiniens https www palestinechronicle com my israeli friends this is why i support palestinians ilan pappe Ilan Pappe is a professor at the University of Exeter and one of Israel's most consistent new historians. He was previously a lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa, academic director of the Givat Habiba Institute for Peace Studies, and head of the Emil Thoma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa. He is the author of numerous Of the books, including the book Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine, which was published by the Institute for Palestine Studies in the year 2007 after it was transferred from English by the late researcher on Israeli affairs, Ahmed Khalifa, and republished in the year 2022. Summary of the book Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine. This book reveals how the operations of ethnic cleansing took place in Palestine in the year 1948 and how deportation and ethnic cleansing were an essential part of the Zionist movement’s strategy. The author contradicts the Israeli narrative about the 1948 war to confirm that the expulsion of the Palestinians was not just a collective and voluntary flight of the population, but rather a detailed plan that was finalized in a meeting held by David Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv on 10 3 1948, in the presence of ten Zionist leaders, and included explicit orders for Haganah units to use various methods to implement this plan, including inciting terror, bombing villages and residential centers, burning homes, demolishing houses, and planting mines in the rubble to prevent the expelled from returning to their homes. The implementation of this plan took six months, and when implementation was completed, it was about 800 thousand Palestinians were forced to emigrate to neighboring countries, 531 villages were destroyed, and eleven civilian neighborhoods were evacuated of their residents. This plan, according to what Ilan Pappe describes, is considered, from the point of view of international law, a crime against humanity. read the original
Blog title: Plans to resettle Gazans in Sinai between Yesterday and Today Author Maher Al-Sharif Date October 19, 2023 On Friday, October 13, the United Nations indicated that the Israeli army, which is waging its widespread aggression against the Gaza Strip, informed it on Thursday evening that approximately 1.1 million Palestinians reside in the northern Gaza Strip. They will have to head to the south of the Strip within 24 hours, and in a tweet published in Arabic a few minutes later, Avichay Adraee called on Lt. Col.The Israeli army told residents of the Gaza Strip to go south to the Gaza Valley and urged them to stay away from Hamas terrorists who are using them as human shields, adding that they would not be allowed to return to Gaza City unless a permit was issued to do so, and it would prevent them from approaching the fence area with the State of Israel. This statement raised fears that The Israeli goal is to force a large portion of Gaza’s population to head towards the Egyptian border and revive their resettlement projects in the Sinai Desert, especially in light of the statements made by former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon to Al Jazeera, in which he stated that there are almost endless spaces in the Sinai Desert on The other side of Gaza and the Palestinians can leave the Gaza Strip to those open spaces where we and the international community will prepare infrastructure and tent cities and provide them with water and food. 2 Settlement projects in Sinai Since the Nakba of Palestine, the Zionist movement, which wanted land without its people, saw in the Sinai desert a wide area in which it could The displacement of Palestinians there and their resettlement there. The Egyptian government that emerged from the revolution of July 22, 1952, was still searching for its way in terms of foreign policy and was attached to its local issues when, in 1953, after months of negotiations it conducted with UNRWA, it agreed to a project to settle about 12 thousand families. of refugees from the Gaza Strip on lands in the northwest of the Sinai Desert after making them suitable for agriculture by delivering a percentage of the Nile River’s water to it annually. 30 million dollars were allocated for the implementation of this project, which received the support of the American administration at the time. Popular movements in the Gaza Strip began against this project since its establishment. Egyptian newspapers alluded to it in May 1953. Then these movements took on new dimensions following the widespread Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on February 28, 1955. On March 1, a massive demonstration was launched from the Palestine Public School in Gaza City with the participation of school teachers, students, and car and bus drivers. And the shop owners who started chanting, “No settlement, no housing, oh American agents, wrote the Sinai project in ink and we will erase the Sinai project in blood.” The Egyptian police forces confronted them with live bullets, and the first martyr fell, who was Hosni Bilal, a textile worker in the city of Majdal and a refugee to Gaza City. The demonstration was not limited to Gaza City, but the demonstrations spread. In the rest of the Gaza Strip’s cities, villages, and camps, extending from Beit Hanoun in the north to Rafah in the south, the Supreme National Committee was formed from representatives of communists, Islamists, nationalists, and independents to supervise and supervise the popular movement. Its representatives were chosen in each of the Gaza Strip’s camps, and committees were formed to guard the demonstrations, which forced The Egyptian authorities authorized the director of investigations in the Strip, Saad Hamza, to negotiate with two representatives of the Supreme National Committee, who were the Secretary-General of the Palestinian Communist Party in the Gaza Strip, the poet Muin Bseiso, and a member of the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, Fathi al-Balaawi. Following those negotiations, the Egyptian authorities decided to cancel the project to settle Palestinians in Sinai and took A decision to train and arm Palestinians in camps 3 after Israel occupied the Gaza Strip during the aggression of June 5, 1967. Minister Yigal Allon proposed a project to transfer numbers of refugees from the Gaza Strip to three areas in the Egyptian Al-Arish region, with Israeli funding, with the first phase starting with 50,000 of them. However, this project was completely rejected by Egypt, so the commander of the southern region in the Israeli army, Ariel Sharon, who was waging a campaign in 1971, returned.Bloody bloodshed to liquidate the Palestinian armed resistance in the Gaza Strip, and he proposed a project to uproot 12,000 refugees from the Strip’s camps and place them in other asylum stations in the Sinai desert, but Egypt strongly rejected this project as well, and the rejection of resettlement in Sinai became an established part of the security and political doctrine of the Egyptian state 4 on the eve of the Israeli aggression. On the Gaza Strip in the fall of 2012, fears emerged that Israel would implement a plan aimed at transferring Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai as an alternative homeland and shifting the Palestinian crisis towards its Egyptian neighbor in the face of the worsening security failure in Sinai. Reports stated that the Israeli plan calls for the deportation of about 1.5 million. A Palestinian from Gaza to Sinai and Al-Arish. Commenting on that plan, the head of the Sinai Development Foundation, Muhammad Shawqi Rashwan, told reporters that the Sinai project as an alternative homeland for the Palestinians could be achieved if we do not move forward in developing the region, while H. Adel Suleiman, director of the International Center for Forward-looking and Strategic Studies, stated that the alternative homeland project It encourages us to review the long-term development plan for Sinai and choose an urgent plan aimed at developing the roads leading to Sinai and facilitating the movement of its residents to other regions of Egypt. 5 The Egyptian leadership firmly rejects the idea of resettlement in Sinai. The positions of Western analysts varied regarding the project to resettle a portion of the population of the Gaza Strip in Sinai following the return of It was raised these days, as some of them saw that there are reasons that encourage Egypt to accept this project, which may mean an increase in American military aid, Western support to it, and funding from United Nations agencies, while others believed that the price that Egypt will pay in exchange for accepting this project will be Egypt’s reputation in the Arab world. And Islam, in addition to the challenge from the Egyptian street, not to mention that Egypt is a densely populated country with a fragile economy, and it does not, in fact, want to see a new bloc of poor people entering its lands. 6 While the residents of the Gaza Strip, despite their severe suffering as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression, expressed their fear that They face a new catastrophe. If their deportation to Sinai succeeds, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was firm when he called on them to remain on their lands. He announced on Thursday, October 12, that the residents of Gaza must remain present on their lands, expressing Egypt’s fears that Israel seeks to empty Gaza has 7 residents, and during his reception of German Chancellor Olaf Schulz in Cairo, yesterday, the 18th of this month, the Egyptian President delivered his most comprehensive and violent speech on this issue, as he believed that pushing the Palestinians to leave their lands is a way to end the Palestinian issue at the expense of neighboring countries, and he said that the idea of forcing The residents of Gaza to move to Egypt will lead to a similar displacement of Palestinians from the West Bank, the territories occupied by Israel, and this will make the establishment of the State of Palestine impossible and would drag Egypt into a war with Israel. In addition, by transferring the Palestinians to Sinai, we will transfer the resistance and fighting to Egypt, and if it starts Attacks from its lands, then Israel will have the right to defend itself and will attack Egyptian lands, concluding that the peace signed between Israel and Egypt in 1979 will dissolve in our hands, and that if the idea is forced displacement, then there is the Negev, and Israel can then return them to Gaza if it wants to. 8 And from For his part, Jordanian King Abdullah II warned on Friday, the 13th of this month, against any attempt to displace Palestinians from all Palestinian territories or incite their displacement, adding that the crisis must not extend to neighboring countries and lead to aggravation of the refugee issue.He returned and announced that evacuating the residents of Gaza is unacceptable and will push the region towards another disaster and a new cycle of violence and destruction, stressing that there will be no refugees in Jordan and no refugees in Egypt and that it is necessary to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank, as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, warned. The American who met him in Amman said that the displacement and expulsion of more Palestinians from Gaza would be tantamount to a second Nakba 9 1 https www bfmtv com international moyen orient israel bande de gaza pourquoi l ordre d evacuation lance par israel semble difficult a suivre_av 202310130094 html 2 https www alhurra com egypt 2023 10 15 Gaza Sinai The controversy of settling Palestinians in exchange for incentives returns to the forefront 3 https www palquest org ar highlight 21229 The March 1955 uprising in the Gaza Strip 4 https www youm7 com story 2023 10 19 The Jordanian Constitution Archive exposes the old plan to displace Palestinians Mansheet story 6344303 5 https News from the archives of international press in Israel that Sinai has a substitution patrie for the gas market ID menu 957 html 6 https www lefigaro fr international conflit israel Hamas for egypt refuse to access gas refuges 20231017 7 https www courrierinternational com article Maximum evacuation of the gas bande redoutent a new exil force 8 https www rfi fr moyen orient 20231018 for it is impossible to access the gazaouis for c3 a9 tablissement d un c3 a9 tat de palestine 9 https www i24news tv fr actu srael in guerre 1697 622496 Transferring gas refugies in the sinai to reviendrait a traininger in Egypt in one country with Israel read the original
Blog title Will Hezbollah be dragged into the Gaza war How, when and where Author Anis Mohsen Date October 18, 2023 Since the media began reporting details The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation, carried out by fighters of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, on October 7, and the subsequent bloody and devastating aggression on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Operation Iron Swords, began to raise questions about the possibility of Hezbollah’s participation in this war on the principle that The party and the movement are together in the axis of resistance, and the fact that the Hamas operation revealed an unexpected weakness in the Israeli ground forces, especially since 1,200 Hamas fighters were able, in less than 3 hours, to eliminate the Israeli military force charged with attacking the Gaza Strip and protecting the cover settlements, according to a statement by the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas Saleh Al-Arouri told Al Jazeera trying to assess the situation. This is to explore what Hezbollah could do in the context of the Gaza battle, from where and how if the decision was to enter the battle and why if the decision was not to get involved in it, through private information published in the media and seeking to analyze it. And coming up with specific scenarios A. Hezbollah’s field movements since the first day of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood have recorded 5 types of Hezbollah’s security movements and military activities, which carry within them the following implications: 1. Alerting Hezbollah members in the south and asking them to remain on alert and readiness. 2. Mobilizing combat forces from The elite in Syria, in addition to movements similar to the Fatemiyoun Brigade, a militia whose members are Afghans trained and funded by Iran. 3 Hezbollah withdrew its trained security personnel.And emptying out of its known bases on the Lebanese border line with occupied Palestine in anticipation of the possibility of being targeted by Israel. 4 Hezbollah engaged in deliberate skirmishes in accordance with the applicable rules of engagement, according to the understanding established by former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri after the Grapes of Wrath aggression in 1996, which was confirmed and implemented after The July War, as the Lebanese call it, or the Second Lebanon War, as Israel calls it in 2006, under which action and reaction are parallel, shell for shell, victim for victim, without being drawn into a new war or a major battle. Observers pointed out that the skirmishes that Hezbollah waged until writing This article focused on two areas: Al-Dhahira, Marwahin, and Yarin in the western sector, and the Shebaa, Shebaa Farms, and Kafar Shuba Hills area in the eastern sector. The first area is located at the Blue Line drawn by the United Nations as an unmarked border line after the 2006 war, and the second is outside the borders of the Blue Line. 5 attempts at incursion into Palestine. The occupied territories, starting from the western sector, have been claimed by the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements. These are security activities that are unlikely to occur without facilitation and logistical support from Hezbollah, with influential international and regional movements at the regional and international level. Field movements, diplomatic movements, and significant statements can be recorded that suggest what could happen. This will be the situation if the Israeli army decides to enter Gaza by land or if it maintains the destructive bombing and starvation siege of Strip 1. Immediately upon being informed of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the United States initiated a multi-faceted diplomatic move represented by the arrival of Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to Israel and his tour of the country. The region in support of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and the abort of a Russian draft resolution in the UN Security Council calling for a halt to the fighting and the introduction of humanitarian aid into the political sector through the United States’ support for the Israeli position, starting with President Joe Biden, who decided to reach Israel via Jordan for security reasons in an explicit support visit. But his campaign also directed its campaign to reach the youngest employee in his administration and threaten Iran and Hezbollah with the consequences of taking any action to open a new military front against Israel by directly sending military equipment to Israel from the American army’s warehouses in the region and from its warehouses outside the region, which were supposedly intended for it. For the war in Ukraine and sending two aircraft carriers, one of which is the largest in the United States, propaganda and media by adopting misleading Israeli propaganda to the point that President Biden slid towards confirming a vision of massacres claimed by Israel that took place in the colonies surrounding Gaza, including beheadings and burning of living children, women and the elderly, without... He bothered to verify such allegations, which the White House retracted after Biden’s statement, but Secretary of State Blinken, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications in the White House, John Kirby, and other officials continued to repeat the Israeli lie, which was adopted by most of the American media and also without scrutiny. 2 The authorities of European countries did not deviate from the American-Israeli path by fully adopting the Israeli claims and imitating the United States in all of the above, diplomatically, militarily, politically and in the media, to the point of the French police suppressing a demonstration in the capital, Paris, denouncing the massacres committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and Britain’s movement of its ships into the sea. The Mediterranean expressed its support for Israel and repeated warnings to Iran and Hezbollah of the consequencesSupporting Gaza by opening a new front from Lebanon or from Syria 3 The Israeli public statements, supported by the American administration, to displace the population of the Gaza Strip to the Sinai Desert, called for a public position of rejection from Egypt, which sensed the danger of receiving more than two million Palestinians on its lands and rejected the material temptations offered to it by Washington as well. It called for a similar position from Jordan, which fears that if the Gazans are displaced to Sinai, the Palestinians of the 1948 and the West Bank will be displaced to Jordan according to the transfer plans that the extremists of the right want to implement, especially the extreme religious Zionist right that holds the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, which undermines the ruling authorities in the two Arab countries. In addition to the Egyptian and Jordanian positions, the Saudi position also emerged, rejecting and in solidarity with Amman and Cairo and with them the Palestinian Authority, to form a temporary axis, most likely, to brake the American push to demand Arab support for the Tel Aviv-Washington displacement plan under the pretext of eliminating Hamas, which was silent on the part of both parties regarding ISIS. 4 Turkey also moved. As a regional power with quiet diplomacy, which made it closer to the temporary Cairo-Amman-Riyadh-Ramallah axis, knowing that direct and important communications took place between the Turkish presidency and all the countries of this temporary axis, making Ankara part of this temporary axis 5 in parallel with the American-European diplomatic attack that absolutely supports Israel and adopts all of its positions. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian toured some Arab countries from Beirut, which he arrived after he was unable to reach Damascus due to Israel’s bombing of the Damascus and Aleppo airports and putting them out of service. While his statements at the beginning were quietly calling for an end to the destruction of Gaza, his statement on October 16, 2023, which... Reported by the official Iranian news agency, he appeared firm as he announced that the axis of resistance would move within hours in accordance with developments in the Gaza Strip. 6 The Russian position also emerged calling for an end to the killing in Gaza, which is closest to the Palestinian position and critical of the American moves, knowing that Moscow has benefited from what is happening in the region in Its war in Ukraine. Likewise, the calm Chinese position was not far from demanding that the region not be dragged into a fierce war. Implications and Conclusions What can be concluded from all of these indicators is that Hezbollah is working, as of writing this text, on a defensive strategy that is demonstrated by its field movements by calling on its reserves to go... To their villages and remain ready to withdraw its full-time security personnel from confrontational border bases or by choosing two specific geographical spots for its military activities. Hezbollah feels psychological and moral pressure due to not taking advantage of the opportunity of the collapse that befell Israel at the beginning of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, but the local circumstances related to the Lebanese environment do not favor the party’s entry. In an offensive operation and preferring to remain defensively prepared, not to mention the international military buildup in the Mediterranean in support of Israel and the old American presence in the Gulf region that threatens Iran and Lebanon with direct intervention, in addition to the violent Israeli response, all of these things will mean the destruction of Lebanon and causing great harm to Iran. Therefore, Hezbollah is forced to It bends a little in the face of the storm, but Hezbollah and Iran have set two red lines to prevent the expansion of the Gaza battle geographically, which are the ground incursion into Gaza, the displacement of its people, and breaking the resistance, especially the Hamas movement, which is something a Hamas source says the movement understands and is in full coordination with the party regarding all developments. But if If the two red lines referred to are crossed, Hezbollah will enter the battle, and thus you will enterIran is in the war because a crushing defeat for Hamas in Gaza will mean the collapse of the resistance axis system that Iran worked for years to build. According to this scenario, it is expected that the geography of the battle will expand from Lebanon to Syria as two spots for direct attack on occupied Palestine and the occupied Golan, with support, of course, from Iran and the Iranian-funded Iraqi militias. Which has long-range missiles, as well as from the Houthis in Yemen, and if the geographical scope of the Israeli-Western war against the Palestinians expands, Hezbollah, according to its field movements, may intend to open the battle with Israel from the Shebaa Farms and from the Syrian front opposite the occupied Golan, so that the two fronts can be connected without ruling out an attempt to storm it. The Blue Line from the western sector in southern Lebanon, in parallel with the activation of massive missile capabilities. A scenario like this would be devastating to Iran, Hezbollah, and the entire region. Even Israel will not be immune from this devastation, as will the American and Western military presence in the region and the countries where this presence is located, which may push everyone to Work to avoid reaching this point and thus stop the aggression against Gaza based on the principle of a win for Hamas and those behind it and for Israel and those who support it, or at least a loss for Hamas and Israel. Biden’s visit to Israel, in addition to carrying within it explicit support for Tel Aviv, is also a campaign. I also point out that, as previously indicated, this article may be an American effort to bring Israel down from the tree after it has climbed to the maximum possible extent. In any case, the coming hours will be sufficient to show the path, whether it is towards destruction or towards calm, according to the equation proposed in this assessment of the situation. read the original
Blog title: An overview of freedom of opinion and expression in the Western media. Gaza reveals bias. Writer: Sanaa Hamoudi. Date: October 18, 2023. The media in the West have always praised their democracy and embraced the principles of freedom of opinion and expression. They have always claimed to convey facts and truths transparently and without bias, but these means exceed their standards. The claim: When it comes to Israel, here freedom of expression, transparency, and neutrality are not accepted standards, as they are immediately replaced by anti-Semitic slogans and support for terrorism. Perhaps the recent Israeli war on Gaza showed unequivocally the bias of the Western media in favor of the massacres that Israel is committing against the people. The Palestinian Authority in Gaza and its blindness to war crimes committed in front of the world. Since the start of the war, Western media outlets have taken a series of punitive measures against their employees. Reporters were dismissed while others were temporarily suspended from work. In a quick tour of some examples of freedom of expression in the West, we present three of these. Unfair punitive measures BBC in Arabic The British Broadcasting Corporation temporarily suspended 6 journalists in its Arabic service until the completion of its investigation into their publications and tweets about the Israeli aggression on Gaza. According to what was reported in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper, this investigation comes at a time when Israelis and supporters of the occupation are launching a campaign against... The Commission, due to its refusal to classify Hamas as a terrorist movement, and the Arab journalists whose names appeared in the investigation list are the Lebanese religious affairs correspondent, Sanaa Al-Khoury, the Lebanese programs director, Nada Abdel Samad, the Egyptian correspondent, Sally Nabil, the Egyptian journalist and producer, Mahmoud Shalib, the journalist in the Egyptian Cairo office, Salma Khattab, the collaborator, Aya Hossam, the sports correspondent. Amr Fikri is holding these people accountable for tweets they posted that appear to be biased from the BBC’s point of viewOn the side of Hamas, Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed points out that the main instigator against Arab journalists is the Camera website, which monitors the tweets and publications of Arab journalists working in Western institutions and files a complaint with their institutions if it detects what it considers anti-Semitic publications. The American network msnbc, and the American network msnbc took a similar measure, expelling three of the most prominent figures. Its broadcasters are Muslims and are among the most prominent specialists in the Palestinian issue from the screen, coinciding with Israeli and American criticism of the network. The expelled are Mahdi Hassan, Ayman Mohieddin, and Ali Velshi. Although the network’s sources denied the rumors about its removal of the three broadcasters, followers confirmed the news of the exclusion and the failure of the broadcasters to appear as usual. The network's move comes after it was subjected to a sharp Israeli and American attack, the most notable of which was what was stated by Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), concerned with combating anti-Semitism and racism, during his hosting of the Morning Joe program, when he asked who writes the texts on the network. Is it the Hamas movement, as the National newspaper criticized? review, accusing the aforementioned network of having worked over the past week to justify the violence committed by Hamas as a result of Israeli aggression, pointing out what was stated in Mohieddin’s analysis of the attack that it was an inevitable result of the policies of the administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while John Levin from New York stated post that the three correspondents previously worked for the Qatari Al Jazeera station, in reference to their political leanings. The British Guardian newspaper. In another piece of news related to freedom of expression in the British press, the Guardian newspaper dismissed cartoonist Steve Bell over the publication of one of his cartoons related to the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, which the newspaper considered A form of anti-Semitism, and this is considered the most prominent punitive measure in the newspaper since the beginning of the war. The Telegraph newspaper reported that the cartoon of Bell sparked violent reactions, and Bell stated that he was fired from his job after being accused that his drawing was anti-Semitic. The painter, who worked in the newspaper for over a year, added For more than four decades, the newspaper refused to publish more of his cartoons, considering that the decision to fire him was a great shock to him. The drawing depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wearing boxing gloves as he prepares to undergo surgery on his torso, which bears a drawing of the Gaza Strip. The comment on the drawing said: Oh Gaza residents get out now. The cartoon sparked widespread criticism, with a member of Parliament from the Conservative Party describing the image as very offensive. Bell, for his part, defended his cartoon, considering it impossible to present the topic of war in The Guardian newspaper without being falsely accused of anti-Semitism. He explained that: What he drew refers to the character of David Levin from the sixties of the last century, which shows then-US President Lyndon Johnson with a scar on his torso in the shape of a map of Vietnam, denying that he intended a reference to Shakespeare’s novel. In another statement to the Morning Star newspaper, Bell considered that the Guardian appears to be... It has new procedures for examining content, and it has become impossible to preserve the freedom enjoyed by the cartoonist. These are three examples. They are not the first and will not be the last. Rather, they are the beginning of punitive and retaliatory measures that will affect the media and their workers. Social networking sites are the policy of criminalizing the victim and acquitting the executioner that is sweeping the Western media. 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Blog Title: The Israeli Army from Defense to Offense Author: Qasim Al-Hajj Date: October 18, 2023 The Zionist colonial discourse and its twin, the white European civilizational discourse, deprive the Gazans of the right to defend themselves and their desire to live, while the focus is on describing the Zionist army as a defense army, which basically refers to... Its imaginary colonial mission, which it tries to establish in its speeches, is about its image today, tomorrow, and yesterday, of being an army defending itself and the myth that has transcended reality. The Zionist army has many ministers and representatives to the point of forming an emergency government specifically for the war, a war government in an attempt to deal with the resounding scandal that befell it. Among these are Chorus: Zionist Defense Minister Yoav Galant comes out, stressing with much tension and confusion the army’s ability to protect itself and that his army has just moved from defense to attack, showcasing the heroism of his generals who rushed to the Gaza Strip to contain the defeat, boasting that one of them alone killed 14 Palestinians, threatening to wipe out the Hamas movement, and stating firmly at the end. His speech with the decisiveness of victory 1. Gallant’s assertion and insistence on recalling the biography of the generals in his speech can be read as being aware of the fact that the resistance took a group of captured Zionist generals into the Gaza Strip. This only reminds me of another incident of generals recorded in the history of the Palestinian resistance in Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon in the year 1982 This was accompanied, after the army attempted to absorb the shock of the event, with a massive military mobilization that could be described as collective military madness. 2 Whether this was on the part of the Zionist army in its brutal attack on Gaza or on the part of settler gangs in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Since October 7, the Zionist enemy has been fighting A brutal air war on Gaza through Apache bombing, thousands of bombs dropped on the population, dozens of indiscriminate guided missile attacks, in addition to the use of internationally banned white phosphorus, etc. This air war was waged with intense American support for the Zionist Air Force, represented by a squadron of American Warthog A 10 fighters prepared to breach fortifications. Underground, according to researcher Khaled Odeh Allah, the American Gerald Ford aircraft carriers, and F-15E 3 aircraft. All of this is accompanied by severe psychological warfare, represented by the constant intimation of the inevitability of ground entry into the Gaza Strip, despite the many warnings about this matter in the corridors of the Zionist military establishment and the maximum large call-ups for reserve soldiers to participate. In the war, in addition to this are added the thousands of weapons provided by Itamar Ben Gvir to arm the settlers and give them more freedom in the West Bank, and the calls that are being raised today in the Zionist military corridors regarding concentrating support for the 4 warning teams and strengthening them in the settlements located on the borders and in the Arab and mixed cities in the occupied interior. This is with the announcement of America’s participation in this attack on Gaza to ensure that Israel has what it needs to keep itself safe 5 and coincides with an arrogant and warning American deterrence speech to any other parties, especially Iran and Hezbollah, that may stand in the face of the Zionist gorilla to repel the attack on Gaza or participate. With it, the American President threatened any other parties intending to intervene in the warOn Gaza by saying, using the imperative form, “Don’t do that, don t.” 6 The issue of American support for Israel does not need discussion now, just as there is no need to prove the extent of the fragility, racism, and bias of the concepts of civilization and humanity on a European scale, despite the failure of this humanization that modern history has witnessed, but Three points can be pointed out in the American-Israeli speeches as follows: First, a sovereign, commanding and decisive speech with all that America’s image carries of colonial violence and a history of which it boasts in its wars against others, especially in the Middle East region, such as the war on Afghanistan and on Iraq, and it contains a crude authoritarian definition of who can He does or does not do it by order of America. Secondly, a speech that exonerates the colonialist, whitewashes the page of his actions, and legitimizes all methods of confronting Gaza, while emphasizing the fatalism and necessity of his use of force because Israel must defend itself. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken used the phrase that Israel is forced to defend itself with everything he refers to. This is an acknowledgment of the ferocity of the methods that the threatened person may use to protect himself and to dress them in the garb of legitimacy. This is also what is read on the lips of representatives of the Zionist military arsenal, including war ministers and military spokesmen, that the Zionist army has moved from defense to attack. All of this is matched by an implicit speech that Gaza deserves what is happening to it. Because it brought the Zionist monster out of its den. Third, America’s speeches and its public participation in the Zionist war on Gaza are the result of a pragmatic strategic decision to protect its interests, its imperialist project, and its major military bases in the Arab region, which forces it to protect its partners by flooding them with the latest types of military arsenals for air, land, and sea warfare, and by embalming The values of freedom, human rights, humanity, and children's rights that the Zionist army seems to be talking about, and this situation is like a huge gorilla, which as its physical structure became larger and its frame became stronger, it began to drum on its chest to display its strength and draw attention to its prestige, but in return, its speed became slow, its performance became low, and the size of its body began to diminish. Due to the effectiveness of its ability to move intelligently without causing noise or destroying everything around it, the Zionist army is trying today to destroy everything around it, everything related to life in Gaza and outside it, as a victory for what the resistance exposed it to. Mahmoud Darwish says in his article, Liberating the South, that Israel has become a bigger military brain. From her body, she became a prisoner of a surplus of greedy power, without taking into consideration the ability of the popular resistance to neutralize this power. 7 And today, after the Palestinian resistance blew up this military brain at dawn on October 7, it stripped the Zionist military uniform of its pins in front of the whole world, showing the sharp difference between the picture. In reality, the brutal state revealed its fangs after hiding them for a long time behind expressions of self-purification and speeches of self-defense, and it announced its true image, which can only be expressed by what we see of destruction in Gaza today through sound, image, and smell, and the Palestinian forgets that he dies. 1 https www youtube com watch v il4_mttdcqo 2 For more, see Abdel Jawad Omar The Madness of the Colonizer R Is it possible to eliminate the Gaza front Carmel 10 14 2023 3 Khaled Odeh Allah’s channel, academic and researcher, on Telegram 4 It consists of elements of armed and well-trained settlers to carry out the task of guarding the settlements and dealing with any security incident until it arrives. The Israeli police or army. For more, see Walid Habas, Alert Teams, Preparedness, Popular Armed Committees of Settlers, managed by the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies, 10 16 2023 5 httpswww youtube com watch v yjpes4wph3y 6 https www youtube com watch v zrxj9yut7pu 7 Mahmoud Darwish The Confusion of the Return Beirut Riad Al-Rayes Publishing 2007 p. 52 53 For more see Abdul Rahim Al-Sheikh Darwish Syndrome 1 Victory Nein, and until now there is no logical picture to explain what happened in the Canadian media, and again, it would have been easier to adopt the Israeli and American narratives regarding the attack. As for Hamas, they are just human animals, and they are different from the rest of the Palestinian people and more extreme, as the movement rejects the existence of Israel at all, and Hamas is also ISIS. It is known that portraying someone as ISIS in the Western media means that he is outside the global human presence, and it is the easiest to justify all the bombing and killing operations carried out by Israel. Therefore, this media believes that all Palestinians must condemn Hamas and stop supporting it, but also help Israel get rid of it, and there is a picture Another common and used to justify killing in Gaza is that Hamas oppresses women and kills queer people by throwing them from high buildings. The media treats this type of violence against women and queer people as the essence and nature of this movement and its supporters, instead of talking about the responsibility of colonialism and occupation for creating all kinds of violence. This violence and its continuation also do not differ from the positions of the Canadian media from the positions of the American media, although they are more severe after the Canadian government issued a decision this year forcing social media companies and search engines to pay in exchange for publishing local media content. Following that, Meta announced that it would close Access to news on the Facebook and Instagram platforms in Canada after the federal government in the country passed the Online News Law, but the news ban did not only include local media agencies in Canada, such as the Toronto Star, CBC, Radio-Canada, and ABC, but also included all platforms. International news cannot be accessed to the news of Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Al Ghad, and other local agencies in the world using Facebook and Instagram. At the same time, Google announced that it will finish removing Canadian news links from its browser by the end of this year, and if it is possible to access different news reports using this Platforms were previously possible, but this is no longer the case now, and this increases the severity of the danger of official media discourse read the original
Blog title about negative responses to the genocide in Gaza Author Anis Mohsen Date February 26, 2024 Never before in modern history after World War II has a country undertaken Committing the crime of genocide against another people, as Israel does against the Palestinian people. The crimes committed in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina were crimes within one state, even if their perpetrators were other tribes or nationalities in this state, as is found in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina, or even from the same nationality. This is the case with Cambodia and the ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people since 1948 until its crimes today in Gaza, where all those it kills are civilians, especially children and women, as well as the destruction of infrastructure and life with bombs, starvation and thirst are components of the crime of genocide. Genocide in accordance with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide 1 However, this article is not to explain the elements of the aforementioned agreement and its consistency with the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Rather, it is to attempt to read the negative response to this described crime that does not expire due to the passage of time, whether on the part of the majority of governments. Primarily Arab, or the partial positive response among some Arab peoples and the negative response among the majority of them, or on the part of the United States and most Western governments, some of which reduced the response?The negative response is due to the pressure of public opinion, whose positive response has increased, especially the various ongoing demonstrations and protests several weeks after the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, until the falsehood of the Israeli narrative of what happened during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, 2023, and the daily bloody crimes against the Palestinian people began to become clear. It was published on social media as soon as it occurred, especially the deliberate killing of children and women. Firstly, the position of the United States since the early hours of October 7, 2023. The United States proceeded to declare an impeccable position in support of Israel and practically implement this position politically and militarily. Politically, the American administration rushed, starting from... Its head is Joe Biden, up to its Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and its defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, towards Israel, as well as its special envoys. Biden visited Israel on October 18 and spent 7 hours there, during which he participated in a meeting of the Israeli war cabinet, part of which was broadcast live, and during that time Israel committed a massacre. The Baptist Hospital in downtown Gaza City, which was the reason for canceling his scheduled meeting with the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine the next day. As for Blinken’s visits, they are almost innumerable, in addition to his repetition in every visit of absolute support for Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. Likewise, Austin’s visits, which were the least in number, bore The content is the same as the visits of his colleague, the Secretary of State. National Security Council spokesman in the White House, John Kirby, expressed remarkable positions in support of Israel in his daily press appearances, in addition to the appearances of US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and, of course, the US delegate to the UN Security Council, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who It declared the American veto the three times it presented the resolution calling for a ceasefire, most recently on February 20, when it used its veto power against the Algerian draft resolution in the Security Council, which called for a ceasefire. As for the parliamentary level, the House of Representatives and the Senate One of them outdid the other in the absolute support of the American administration for Israel through anti-Palestinian decisions and in support of the occupation’s massacres, demanding more financial aid to Tel Aviv. Militarily, it placed under arms depots to support the Israeli army in Europe and the Middle East region, including, of course, some depots located in Arab countries. Air bridges were operated that transported all types of smart and stupid bombs of various weights and calibres, as well as military vehicles, required spare parts, and other things they needed. Israel’s criminal war on Gaza is still ongoing. Washington also sent 2,000 soldiers and generals to assist the Israeli army, at least in the operating rooms and perhaps also. On the ground, in addition to sending reconnaissance planes over the Gaza Strip and deploying aircraft carriers and their accompanying fleets to the Mediterranean Sea, amid official statements that threatened any other country or party to expand the scope of the war outside Gaza. Therefore, the official American position can be described as being very negative about... Preventing the continuation of the genocide committed by Israel in Gaza. There is no difference here between Democrats and Republicans, as one of them exceeds the other in absolute support for Israel. On the other hand, the demonstrations in many cities in the United States indicate that the position of the American public is different from the position of politicians in terms of rejecting Israeli crimes. And support Palestinian demands, especially those who are fromArab and Islamic origins, and from youth groups belonging to the Democratic Party, African American organizations, and other American ethnic minorities, including the indigenous American Indian population. Secondly, the Western European position was noteworthy that the leaders of the old colonial countries, especially Britain and France, took the initiative to visit Israel, similar to the United States, to declare solidarity with Israel. And support for its actions in the Gaza Strip, with the exception of a small number of countries that took a sidelines at first. Then, after the exposure of Israel’s genocidal intentions, they publicly rejected what the occupying state was doing, especially Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and Luxembourg. After the American president, there was a visit by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who accompanied an arms shipment to Israel on October 19, 2023, bragged about taking a picture in front of the British plane carrying these weapons. Britain also sent reconnaissance planes over Gaza to assist the Israeli army, while continuing political and diplomatic support for Israel internally, with the participation of the Labor Party as well, and externally by rejecting several resolutions in the United Nations, at least in the first stage. From the aggression on Gaza, the French President also arrived in Israel on October 24, announcing his government’s support for it, and met with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and centrist opposition leaders Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid. He also reiterated his support for Israel after moving to Ramallah and meeting with President The Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas and among the countries that are strongly supportive of Israel and that did not change their position despite the shift in European public opinion against Israeli crimes are Germany, Czechia, Austria and Hungary. Among the Western countries, Canada completely identified with the United States in all steps supporting the Israeli aggression, as did Australia, but the majority of Western countries did not It changed its positions in support of Israel and began calling for an end to the war on Gaza after the change in public opinion and the emergence of mass demonstrations in the capitals of those countries and major cities in rejection of Israeli crimes and support for the Palestinians. The European and Western dragging behind the United States’ position of identification with Israel and its crimes of multiple descriptions and specifications has shown extreme weakness and dependency. It is characterized, helpless, and marginal in influencing developments. Third, the Arab position. If the American position and behind it the European and Western positions are consistent with a colonial past and a present that is hostile to the rights of peoples outside Europe and the geography of the West, then what is shocking is the position of the Arab governments, but also some of the weak and negative Arab street towards the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people. 1 The position of governments: Some Arab governments have shown slightly hidden support for what they consider to be an Israeli war against the Hamas movement and not against the Palestinians, with their past, present and future. In contrast, other countries have been vocal in calling for relief for the people of Gaza, a humanitarian cessation of the war, and at most a final cessation of the war, but these positions have not been translated into In practice, it led to pressure measures on the United States and Western countries that support Israel’s crimes, and at the forefront of the practical translation is the use of oil weapons. Some Arab countries even worked to break the naval blockade that the Houthis tried to impose on Israel by targeting ships heading to Israel through convoys of goods transported by land, while Until the moment of writing these lines, all Arab countries have failed to implement the decision of the joint Arab-Islamic summit that was held in Riyadh on November 11, 2023 and decided to break the siege by imposing the entry of aid through the Rafah crossing. The response can thus be describedThe official Arab response to the genocide in Gaza ranged between negativity and abandonment and between weakness and inability or will to take positive measures to support Gaza and its people. 2 Levels of people’s response. The response of the Arab peoples to the genocide in Gaza does not differ much from the response of governments. With the exception of the weekly demonstrations in Sana’a, the demonstrations came Intermittently in Amman, Baghdad, Beirut, Rabat, and Tunisia, it was completely absent from the other capitals, with the recording of the opening of fronts in support of the resistance in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen. What next is the situation in the Gaza Strip, which is racing against time towards a genocide described by fire through the insane bombing of everything that is built and everything that is living, until it has become... Gaza is as if it were a site destroyed by an earthquake, but also by genocide through starvation, after food and water were completely prevented from the north of the Strip and it was rationed to the weakest extent in the center and south. In separate statements on January 23, 2024, UNRWA and the World Food Program warned of a famine that would particularly strike the north. Gaza 2 On February 12, the heads of United Nations agencies issued a warning that diseases were rampant, famine was looming, water was scarce, and the health system had collapsed. They called for an immediate ceasefire so that international agencies and organizations could provide relief, which had become difficult in light of the continuing shooting. 3 The continuation of the situation as it is will not stop only at eliminating everything living in the Gaza Strip and achieving the vision of the religious and extremist Zionist right in reoccupying and settling the Strip, and by extension, creating a transfer process in the West Bank so that all of historic Palestine west of the Jordan River is under Israeli control. Direct security, as Netanyahu has been repeating recently, and thus the goal of preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state will also be achieved. Moreover, achieving these goals means the possibility of moving on to other goals, towards the primary goal of Zionism, establishing a Greater Israel from the Euphrates to the Nile, while the bet is on the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their allies, whether through their resistance in The Gaza Strip or through the resistance activities in the West Bank and the support fronts in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen, and with the increasing global rejection of Israel’s aggression, it is necessary to raise the level of Arab awareness of what Israel’s achievement of its goals entails in terms of the risks expected for all Arab countries, but also global awareness of what a virtual reality like this could produce. From the spread of violence outside the area of direct conflict 1 Article 2 and Article 3 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide International Red Cross website icrc William A. Schabas Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide United Nations website 2 UNRWA and the World Food Program warn of famine in Gaza Al Jazeera 23 1 2024 3 Statement by the Chairs of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Civilians in Gaza are in grave danger as the world watches Ten requirements in order to avoid a worse disaster World Food Program website 21 2 2024 read the original
Blog title Gaza workers in Israel First discrimination now under threat My presence Author Muhannad Abdel Hamid Date October 16, 2023 The Ramallah Company turned into a cell of activity and movement in all directions. As soon as you enter the outer gate, you quickly find workers spread out inside the basketball hall, crowded with dozens of mattresses distributed on the floor regularly, and next to them are small bags in which the workers placed their supplies. Workers with bleary faces and psychological fatigue arrive one after the other after being expelled from their work and forced into a path fraught with threats, dangers, terror, and heinous crimes. I see some of them carrying out reception procedures.The administration and others answer the questions of the press, and young women and men come to volunteer and work to serve the afflicted workers, such as providing meals and drinks, purchasing necessities, and other things. I also see companies, institutions, and individuals providing support, and committees from the municipality and secretariat are looking into transferring the workers to hotels, apartments, and hostels on the fourth day, and the transfer has taken place. 200 workers to hotels, according to what a secret official said. On the second day of the resistance attack on the kibbutzim and barracks of the occupation army besieging the Gaza Strip, the occupation authorities canceled at once and without warning all the permits of the 17,000 Gazan workers and removed them from the Internet, transforming their presence inside Israel into an unauthorized presence. They became vulnerable to assault, punishment, and threats. Four workers were killed during their return to the Gaza Strip under the pretext that they were fighters. Dozens of them were subjected to attacks such as expulsion coupled with insults, beatings, arrest, and deportation to crossing points with West Bank cities. Some of them lost their identification papers and bags. This happened despite the absence of any A security threat on their part, because the conditions for obtaining permits, as the workers said in their conversations, are that the worker must have no national records against the occupation, or as they said, a white record, be married with children, and not be less than 35 years old. It is noted that the percentage of workers who are adults is less than forty. Very few years, while their number is increasing in the age groups between 35 and 60 years. One of the workers obtained a permit when he was 64 years old. Some of them support 15 people, and the least support 7 people. Suddenly the dream of 17,000 families from the Gaza Strip turned into a frightening nightmare, those families who began to catch their breath from... Within a chronic and merciless siege, the siege that exacerbated the unemployment rate to reach 65% within the Strip over the course of seventeen years. This sample of Gaza workers was able to provide a scrap of bread and some of the necessities of life from their conditional work restricted by the heaviest restrictions, but after the qualitative cross-border resistance attack, it announced The occupation authorities cancel all workers’ permits, causing them to suffer more horrific than the previous one resulting from unemployment. All the workers I met in Ramallah Sareyyet confirmed that there are no employment contracts with Israeli employers, which helps in exploiting them. Osama, a construction worker, says that he is accustomed to getting paid at the end of the year. Every month, a month has passed and he has not received a single shekel, and he does not know after he was fired from his job whether he lost his wages permanently or not, while Muhammad, the construction worker, also owes his employer two weeks’ wages. The workers work under the heading of economic needs, and this exempts the employers. Of paying workers’ benefits in the event of illness and work-related injuries in accordance with the Israeli Labor Law, which applies to Israeli workers and foreign workers, but does not apply to Palestinian workers. Conversely, the lack of employment contracts allows workers to be denied the right to receive wages for their work. Aoun, a worker from the West Bank who agreed, said The Israeli employer employed him in an agricultural workshop, knowing that he was without a permit. A month later, when the police arrested him, beat him and insulted him, he was deported behind a military checkpoint, and he risked returning again to receive his wages from work. The employer refused to pay anything and threatened to report it to the police. The same thing is repeated with the workers of Gaza after the flood of Al-Aqsa, which indicates intentional oppression practiced by the Israeli colonial apartheid system, which works to transform the relationship between the Palestinian and the Israeli into a master-slave relationship. This oppression appears in the psychology of alienation that the Palestinian workers experience while they areThey endure all forms of harassment, including working outside the labor law without the ability to object. It is persecution covered under the pretext that it gives workers wages that are twice what they receive in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank if they are given the opportunity to work inside the Gaza Strip. This regime sees no objection to insulting and humiliating the workers who It takes more than 4 hours on average daily for them to go to their workplaces and be subjected to inspection and scrutiny, although the distance takes less than half an hour and at most an hour by car. Another manifestation of persecution is that workers are forced to live in numbers exceeding the capacity of the place in order to save on transportation costs and live a very austere life due to the high prices. The outrageous housing and goods inside Israel are compared to the prices of the Gaza Strip, as one worker pays $170 a month in exchange for a small space in which to sleep, and 15 workers share economic meals that they make with their own hands, all in order to provide a living for their families, so that the simile is true, which says that it is a meal soaked in sweat and fatigue as well. The construction worker, Muhammad, fell from the scaffold while working in the workshop and treated his injuries for bruises in his hand and shoulder at his own expense, after the Israeli employer refused to treat him or even compensate him for the days he was absent from work. Another employer also repeatedly refused to treat Osama when he was injured while working. In the construction workshop, the latter was forced to continue working despite the pain of the injury. The two workers were afraid of losing the job opportunity and did not care about the pain of the injury and its complications. In addition to these cases, we mention Abu Mahmoud and Khalil, who worked in a supermarket. They spent longer working hours than scheduled and were unable to protest for fear of losing the job and the opportunity. Supporting their family, which consists of 10 members and 9 members, most of whom are children, and they suffer due to scarcity of resources. Kamal, a worker on a poultry farm, suffers from an allergy caused by the smell that he inhales for long hours, and he is unable to simply ask for a mask to alleviate the effect of the allergy, which sometimes leads to coughing attacks. He is afraid This causes him to be expelled, and he returns laden with purchases to his family on the weekend and says that all his fatigue, suffering, and stomach pain go away as he sees his children happy at his return, rich and laden with gifts. Also among these cases is Abdullah, a paint worker who has grandchildren from his two married daughters. He is 49 years old and supports 15. A person with a wife, children, mother, and father. Before the siege, he worked in Israel and was able to build on top of the family home, fulfilling his urgent need for independent housing. When he returned to work in Israel months ago, he thought about a housing solution for his son of marriageable age and began the first steps, but today, after the destructive aggression, he is being exposed. In the Gaza Strip, everything turned into gloom, says Abdullah, with sadness evident in his eyes and in the crackle of his voice. All the workers I spoke to and others sitting and moving inside the company were following the news, calling their families, and receiving unpleasant news of death, injuries, destruction, displacement, and waiting for the unknown, and their goals and dreams had changed. By overcoming the severe economic crisis to the goal of saving their families from the destruction caused by Israeli warplanes every hour and every minute, their problems and suffering have turned into a drop in the hurricane of war and its horrors 1 See the Al Jazeera website read the original
Blog title Palestinian journalists are also assassinated Author Ayham Al-Sahli Date October 16 2023 In every aggression launched by Israel against the Palestinians, whether in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, or in the rest of occupied Palestine, journalists are attacked, either by beating, by preventing, or by killing.The current aggression launched by the occupying state against the Gaza Strip has so far martyred 12 journalists, one of them in southern Lebanon, and dozens have been injured. The martyrdom of the journalists came during their coverage of the aggression launched by the occupying state against the Gaza Strip since the seventh of this month. They are journalist Ahmed Shehab, program preparer for Voice of Prisoners Radio. Journalist Muhammad Al-Salhi, Fourth Authority Agency photographer, Freelance journalist Muhammad Fayez Abu Matar, Journalist Hisham Al-Nawajha, Khabar Agency photographer, Journalist Ibrahim Lafi from Ain Media Media Foundation, Journalist Saeed Al-Taweel, Editor-in-Chief of the Fifth News Agency, Journalist Muhammad Jarghoun from Smart Media Agency, Freelance journalist Asaad Shamal, Journalist Muhammad Abu Rizq, Khabar Agency photographer, Journalist Issam al-Abdullah, Reuters Agency photographer, South Lebanon, Journalist Hossam Mubarak, broadcaster on Al-Aqsa Channel, Freelance journalist Salam Mima, martyred with her two children. The martyrdom of journalist Nidal al-Wahidi had been announced on the first day of the aggression, but the next day he was declared missing. He was arrested by the occupation while performing his duties in press coverage for Al-Najah TV, as was journalist Haitham Abdel Wahed from the Ain Media Foundation. Journalist Salam Mima was considered among the martyrs along with her husband and three children, but after they were found under the rubble about 30 hours after Research: Medical teams returned and announced her martyrdom with two of her children on 10/13/2023 in the West Bank. In light of the accelerating events, there were many violations in the West Bank against journalists covering the protests and confrontations at various points of clashes in the West Bank, where press crews were beaten, detained, and prevented from covering. And shooting in its direction, according to the statement of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, which was issued on Saturday, October 14, 2023. Among the violations in the West Bank were the injury of 3 journalists by bullets, 21 cases of detention, prevention of crews from working, 8 beatings, 7 cases of confiscation and destruction of journalists’ equipment, and some other violations in southern Lebanon on the other side of The border with occupied Palestine in southern Lebanon. On Friday, October 13, 2023, an Israeli bombing targeted a press car with the words press written on it in the Alma al-Shaab area in southern Lebanon. Reuters photographer Issam al-Abdullah was martyred and 6 other journalists were injured. They were all wearing jackets and helmets indicating their journalistic identity, while they took international and professional measures. All applicable measures around the world, yet they were targeted by an Apache helicopter belonging to the Israeli army, according to a Lebanese security source who stated this to Al Jazeera. Reuters said in a statement that it felt deep sadness when it learned of the killing of one of its photographers, Issam Al-Abdullah, in the incident. The International News Agency explained, “We We are urgently seeking more information and are working with the authorities in the region and supporting Essam’s family and colleagues. Reuters reported that two of its journalists were also injured, Thaer Al-Sudani and Maher Nazih. Al-Jazeera Network confirmed that its correspondent, Carmen Joukhadar, was seriously injured, and its cameraman, Eli Brakhia, was also confirmed by the French Press Agency. Two of its journalists were injured, and Al Jazeera published a statement in which it held Israel fully legally and morally responsible for this brutal attack. It also called on the international community to take action to ensure the safety of journalists and hold accountable everyone behind this criminal act who will not succeed in terrorizing its crews. The Lebanese Journalists Syndicate also condemned this attack. Against journalists, stressing that this crime amounts to war crimes and condemned the Journalists SyndicatePalestinian journalist Issam Al-Abdullah considered that this crime was part of the policy of systematic killing of witnesses to the truth, journalists, so that the crimes of the occupation would not reach the world and so that the occupying state and its media would remain alone in telling lies and deception and portraying the facts to international public opinion. Wounded and other targets. On the same level, while the names of the martyrs were documented. of journalists up to the present moment and the names of the missing. However, no one has been able to document the names and numbers of the wounded among the press crews working in the Gaza Strip. The numbers are likely to be large due to their spread in different locations in the Strip with the aim of accessing information and covering the event, and the agencies working in documenting violations against Journalists only documented 20 injuries, some of which were critical. According to a statement by the Palestinian Press Syndicate, the injured documented so far are Al-Ghad TV correspondent Ibrahim Qanan, freelance photographer Ali Hamad, journalist Saleh Al-Masry from the Palestine Today Agency, and photojournalist Mahmoud Al-Hams from the French Press Agency. Other violations were also documented, including the destruction of... The offices and homes of journalists in the Gaza Strip, and the destruction of 50 headquarters and centers of media institutions, some of which were in the Palestine Tower, which was targeted by the Israeli air force, which included the offices of the Shehab News Agency, the Event Media Services Company, Gaza FM, the Holy Qur’an, Al-Ayyam newspaper, the Media Group for Television Production, and the Youth Media Center. Human rights reports indicate that Israeli aircraft destroyed the home of the director of Zaman FM radio, Rami Al-Sharafi, and the home of Al-Quds Al-Youm satellite broadcaster Basil Khair Al-Din, while the home of the office director of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper, Diaa Al-Kahlawat, was severely damaged. Some journalists in the Gaza Strip are being threatened with their lives and their families, the journalist Muthanna. Al-Najjar received many threats, and one of the Israeli academics wrote inciting him. They identified Muthana Al-Najjar, a journalist with the rank of a terrorist, who was with Hamas criminals on the death trip. On Saturday, we began searching for him, and he will not escape punishment. The head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Nasser Abu Bakr, said on Wednesday, 10/11/2023, that dozens The journalists were forced to leave their homes. He added, “We face water, electricity, and Internet outages. We also face difficulty in communicating with our colleagues. Closure and threat of closure.” Al-Aqsa satellite channel, which broadcasts from the Gaza Strip, said on Saturday, 10/15/2023, that in light of the massacres committed against our people in the Gaza Strip, the French company The responsible for the Eutelsat satellite issued a decision to block the channel’s logo from the satellite and stop broadcasting the channel. The channel considered that the company’s decision came in response to pressure from the French government and in submission to the Israeli occupation government. It also confirmed that stopping the channel’s broadcast constitutes a clear and shocking violation of all standards of freedom and contradicts international laws that guarantee freedom of expression. And the right to convey the voice of our oppressed people to the world. Israeli statements also revealed that the Israeli Minister of Communications, Shlomo Qar’i, sought on Sunday 10/15 to obtain the approval of the Occupation Council of Ministers for a proposal to close the Al Jazeera channel office, accusing the channel of pro-Hamas incitement and exposing Israeli soldiers to the danger of possible attacks from Gaza. Qar’i said to radio. The Israeli occupation army said that the proposal to close Al Jazeera channel was studied by Israeli security officials and added: This is a station that incites. This is a station that depicts forces in assembly areas and incites against Israeli citizens. Words of some martyred journalists before their martyrdom. We monitored on the page of journalist Hisham al-Nawajha, photographer of Khabar Agency, what he said, commenting on what is happening in the Gaza Strip. There is no higher morale than thisYou are great, our people, with your men. As for Saeed Al-Taweel, the editor-in-chief of the Fifth News Agency, he wrote on his Facebook page, “Rest assured, we are in God’s care in all circumstances.” He also wrote, “Your image before the international community is rising, this is a time of strength.” The martyr Al-Taweel is a doctoral researcher and lecturer in the field of digital media, as well as the martyr journalist Ali. Nisman wrote hours before his martyrdom. My friends, trust in God and His mercy. If we are cut off from you, we will meet either in Jerusalem or Paradise. read the original
Blog title: The Gaza Strip, the inexhaustible spring of resistance. Author: Maher Al-Sharif. Date: October 16, 2023. It is a Palestinian enclave on the Mediterranean coast with an area of about 361 square kilometers and extends from the Beit Hanoun crossing point in the north to the Rafah crossing in the south, with a length of about 41 kilometers and a width of 6 to 10 kilometers. During the first Palestinian intifada, it was a nightmare for General Yitzhak Rabin, who wished that he would drown in the sea with everyone in it, while the general pushed During the second Palestinian intifada, Ariel Sharon decided to get rid of him and impose a comprehensive siege on him. The population of the Strip is mostly refugees. If the city of Gaza has a long history, as it is believed to have been founded around the year 1500 BC and was a transit corridor between Egypt and the Levant, then the Gaza Strip is a modern formation. It arose following the signing of the Rhodes Agreement in February 1949 between Egypt and Israel. It became subject to Egyptian administration and was divided into five regions: the north, Gaza City, the middle, Khan Yunis, and Rafah. In the period from April to December 1948, about 200,000 refugees from about 49 towns and villages took refuge there. It was destroyed by the Israeli occupation forces and its population was displaced, while the number of people who lived in the Gaza area at that time did not exceed eighty thousand. These refugees were spread in eight camps run by UNRWA: Jabalia in the north of Gaza, which is the largest of them, Al-Shati in Gaza, Al-Nuseirat in Al-Wusta, Al-Bureij in Al-Wusta, Al-Maghazi in Al-Wusta, and Deir. Al-Balah in Al-Wusta, Khan Yunis in Khan Yunis, and Rafah in Rafah. The population of the Gaza Strip today is estimated at more than two million people living in an area with one of the highest population densities in the world, as the population density in the camps reaches 55 thousand people km2, which is almost double the density in the Gaza Strip in general. Note that about half of the refugees are still living inside camps that suffer from problems of poverty and unemployment. Resisting the Gaza Strip after the Nakba Since the Nakba of Palestine and until today, the Gaza Strip has represented a base for Palestinian nationalism and a source of inexhaustible resistance to the Israeli occupation and its repeated attacks. In late September 1948, Gaza City witnessed an attempt to revive the entity. The Palestinian political process was carried out by the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine, led by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, when it formed on the 22nd of that month the All-Palestinian Government headed by Ahmed Hilmi Abdel Baqi, which gained the confidence of a Palestinian national conference held in Gaza City on the 30th of the same month, with the participation of 83 delegates. He called for guaranteeing the independence of Palestine within its mandatory borders, but this attempt to revive the Palestinian entity was doomed to failure in advance, given that the Palestinian land over which the All-Palestine government should have exercised its authority had fallen outside the scope of any Palestinian control since the year 1953. Palestinian refugees began in the Gaza Strip. Gazans organized into small guerrilla groups and carried out infiltration operations into their lands along the border. The Israeli army responded with brutal reprisals. On August 28, 1953, an Israeli unit led by Ariel Sharon attacked the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and killed 50 Palestinians.At least in response to that attack, which was seen as aiming to dismantle the camps and pave the way for refugee settlement projects, a large popular demonstration was launched from the Bureij Secondary School for Refugees, during which the demonstrators demanded that the Egyptian administration form a Palestinian national guard to protect the borders and spread public freedoms. On February 28, 1955, under the pretext An Israeli was killed in the Rehovot Diran settlement as a result of the activity of Palestinian infiltrators. An Israeli army paratrooper unit attacked an Egyptian military camp near the railway station in Gaza City, killing seventeen soldiers while they were sleeping. Then it set up an ambush for an Egyptian force that rushed to the aid of the camp’s soldiers, resulting in the death of seventeen soldiers. Another number of Egyptian soldiers, bringing the number of Egyptian army casualties to 38 dead and about 33 wounded. The Israeli raid on Egyptian army positions and then the massive popular demonstrations that the Gaza Strip witnessed in the first week of March 1955 foiled the project to settle 12,000 refugee families in the Gaza Strip. The lands located northwest of the Sinai Desert were a turning point in the path of the Egyptian July 22 Revolution, as they pushed President Gamal Abdel Nasser to conclude an arms deal with Czechoslovakia and break the West’s monopoly on supplying weapons to the countries of the region and to take the decision to organize the guerrilla action emanating from the Gaza Strip through the formation of Palestinian guerrilla units. Its leadership was entrusted to the commander of the Egyptian military intelligence in the Gaza Strip, Al-Bakbashi, Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Hafez. It bore the name of the 141st Battalion, and its operations, which began in September 1955, inflicted heavy human losses on the Israeli forces within a few months. The operations of this battalion did not stop until after the Israeli intelligence assassinated its commander in July 1956. In order to stop the infiltration of Palestinian guerrillas behind its borders, Israel began planning to launch a large-scale attack on Egypt, which took place within the framework of the tripartite aggression that followed President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s nationalization of the Suez Canal on July 26, 1956. Within the scope of that attack, Israeli forces occupied the Gaza Strip for approximately four months between October 29, 1956 and March 14, 1957, when its leadership submitted to American pressure and Soviet warnings and decided to withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip. On the first day of their occupation of the Sinai Desert and the Gaza Strip, these forces committed a massacre in the village of Kafr Qasim in the Triangle area, which claimed the lives of 49 Palestinians, including a number of Women and children. On November 3, it killed about 275 Palestinians in the town of Khan Yunis, and on the eve of the cessation of fighting, it killed about 110 other Palestinians in Rafah on the border between Gaza and Egypt. The resistance of the Gaza Strip after 1967, following the armed resistance waged against the invading Israeli forces, began to brew among a number of Among the youth of the Gaza Strip, professionals and teachers working in Gaza or in the Gulf states, was the idea of forming an armed Palestinian national organization. Its first nucleus emerged in Kuwait in the fall of 1957, and in 1959 it was known as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, Fatah, and it authorized the launch of the armed struggle on January 1, 1965. In the wake of the June 1967 aggression and Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Armed Resistance Movement was formed after many leftist and nationalist organizations joined the Fatah movement. The Gaza Strip camps embraced armed guerrilla action, which exposed them to harsh operations of repression in response to the escalating acts of armed resistance from the Gaza Strip. Ariel Sharon Regulated The commander of the southern region of the occupation army at the time carried out a broad military campaign aimed at restructuring the camps by expanding the roads inside them to allow...Tanks passed through it, hundreds of homes were blown up, and thousands of refugees were displaced. That campaign succeeded in 1971 in reducing the momentum of armed resistance in the Gaza Strip. In August 1973, the Palestinian nationalists in the Gaza Strip participated with the patriots in the West Bank and Jerusalem in forming the Palestinian National Front in the occupied territories as an arm of the PLO. They foiled the economic peace conspiracy that was based on the Israeli authorities granting Palestinians in the occupied territories permits to work in Israel, so that the number of Gazans working in Israeli territory as workers, waiters, drivers, cooks, or agricultural workers jumped to 61,000 in 1973, compared to 5,000. In the year 1968, just as the patriots of the Gaza Strip participated years later in foiling the self-administration plot after the widespread Israeli aggression against Lebanon in the summer of 1982 and its success in expelling the Palestine Liberation Organization forces from this country. The occupied territories, with the Gaza Strip at its heart, were transformed into a base for a multi-form national struggle that culminated in With the outbreak of the first Palestinian intifada, the first spark of which took place in the Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip, where a massive demonstration took place on the streets of the camp on December 9, 1987, in protest against the killing of four Palestinian workers from Gaza when an Israeli military truck hit their car, crushing its body. During that demonstration, Hatem al-Sisi, who was seventeen years old, was martyred. After he was hit by a bullet in his heart fired by an Israeli soldier, the demonstrations and strikes spread to all parts of the Gaza Strip and from there to the cities, camps, and villages of the West Bank, as well as to the occupied city of Jerusalem. Days after the start of that intifada, the Hamas movement was formed in Gaza, which had been formed years earlier in The Strip itself, the Islamic Jihad Movement, the Strip. After Oslo, according to the Declaration of Principles agreement on September 13, 1993, then the Cairo Agreement regarding the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area on May 4, 1994, the Gaza Strip was subject to Palestinian self-government, and it was the first location that the late President Yasser Arafat reached at the beginning of July. July of that year, after 27 years of forced absence, and his arrival and the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority were accompanied by the return of a number of Palestinian businessmen wishing to revive the economy and transform the sector, as it was said, into a Middle Eastern Singapore. However, the bet on the transformation of the self-governing authority into an independent Palestinian state failed as a result of The continuation of the occupation in its new structure, the expansion of settlement, and the worsening living conditions of the Palestinian population, especially in the Gaza Strip. All of this caused the outbreak of the second intifada in late September 2000, which witnessed the Israeli forces reoccupying West Bank cities under autonomous authority within the framework of Operation Defensive Shield and organizing assassinations of leaders. The resistance and its cadres, especially in the Gaza Strip, also witnessed, on the other hand, the escalation of the Palestinian resistance and its resort to new methods of struggle, such as launching rockets and mortar shells from the Strip towards the Israeli settlements, a stifling siege and repeated Israeli wars. On February 2, 2004, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced for the first time his plan to To disengage from the Gaza Strip, after the International Quartet had adopted the road map calling for reaching a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in stages on the basis of a two-state solution. Sharon’s plan was based on the withdrawal of Israeli forces from inside the Gaza Strip and the dismantling of the 21 settlements that had been established there. As well as 4 small settlements in the northern West Bank, eliminating the burden of ensuring securityAbout 8,000 settlers in the Strip, with Israel supervising the outer cover of the Gaza Strip from land, sea and air within the framework of a new form of occupation, which is the siege. The political goal of that plan was to block the path to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and to perpetuate the occupation of the West Bank and Jerusalem and expand settlement therein. Despite the strong opposition this plan faced from settlers and a number of politicians, including then Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned from the government in protest, Israeli forces carried out the forced evacuation of Gaza settlers between August 17 and 22, 2005, and the last of its soldiers left on September 11. From that year on behalf of the Gaza Strip after the Hamas movement won the legislative elections that took place in January 2006 and then took control of the Gaza Strip by armed force in June 2007. On September 19 of the same year, Israel declared the Gaza Strip a hostile entity, and after about a year and three months had passed, specifically On December 27, 2008, it began its first large-scale war on the Gaza Strip, in which the Palestinian resistance withstood a heroic steadfastness that prevented it from achieving its political goals, despite the martyrdom of tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children and women, and the destruction of a large number of vital facilities in the Gaza Strip, including roads, homes, and schools. And hospitals, mosques, and UNRWA centers. See Maher Al-Sharif. Israel’s wars on the Gaza Strip are killing and destruction without achieving political goals. Institute for Palestine Studies website. And here we are today, witnesses to a new destructive war on the Strip whose brutality exceeds all previous wars, but it will certainly fail, like its predecessors, to achieve its political goals. 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Blog title Committed language Naming the weapons of the Palestinian resistance Author Hamza Al-Aqrabawi Date: October 15, 2023 The glorious October 7 war that the resistance began The Palestinian resistance against the occupying state opened the door to talk about the Palestinian heroism and the sacrifices of the fighters who wrote the greatest epic in the history of the conflict since the occupation of Palestine. The Palestinian resistance, despite its limited weapons and capabilities, and despite the siege imposed on Gaza for nearly 20 years, was able to rearrange the region’s cards and shake the image of The occupation army and to end forever the saying of the invincible army. In this article, we will not talk about the heroics of the resistance in this war. Rather, we will try to trace the process of military industrialization through the designations of weapons and their connotations for the Palestinian resistance, focusing on the experience of the Qassam Brigades in the first place, while noting that creativity Development and the symbolic dimension in the designations are all matters present in the majority of the military action factions in Gaza. High language and extreme symbolism. We are not only talking about pride in the resistance industries, their importance and their role in changing the course of engagement with the enemy in the resistance wars since the first intifada. We are also talking about the high language and clever symbolism in the designations. These weapons, equipment, and even battles so that you realize their function and missionBy hearing its name, you realize that the resistance here is intensive in action, in terms of production, engagement, and name. This combative language that is applied to locally made weapons leads us to read the doctrine of combat resistance and its background among these heroes who stormed the camps and colonies. This is because the clever dimension in the nomenclature intensifies the presence of engagement in the military school and armed struggle. Perhaps there is more to this combative language than that, as the resistance seeks to carry the history of its leaders and fighters who were assassinated by the occupying state to the point of permanent engagement, so that their names are present in all battles, because of the high symbolism of the matter and an eternal message of loyalty, which is a recall of the legacy of struggle and blood that its symbolism represents. The sacrificial martyr, the founder and the actor in the confrontation and battles until after martyrdom. In my reading of the language of resistance in the nomenclature that is circulated for the types of weapons in this war and previous wars, I noticed that the naming of weapons and what is related to wars in the Palestinian resistance is influenced by the religious and intellectual dimension of these Islamic factions, so we find them quoting from the text. Religious and takes inspiration from the Holy Qur’an with high symbolisms that indicate the nature of the battle and the character of the fighters in it, and that there is a religious doctrine that motivates them, guides them, and inspires them. We see this in the designations of wars, for example, the Furqan War of 2008 and 2009, the Stones of Jail War of 2012, and the War of the Devouring Storms of 2014. The distance is also not lost on the resistance. The heritage and the accumulated impact of the history of Islamic and Arab heroism and the symbolism of wars among the Arabs, such as the significance of the sword, for example, as in the Saif al-Quds War 2021. The designations also include the resistance’s awareness of the nature of the battle and its motive, as in the battles of the Unity of Battlegrounds 2022 and the Al-Aqsa Flood 2023. These designations undoubtedly have an important impact in reading the scene. And its implications, and through it, we understand the nature of who is leading the resistance action in Gaza, the level of his education and education, and how he is preoccupied with the national issue and its arenas, influenced by a profound national and Islamic legacy. The combative martyrs. In Islamic literature, it is said that the martyrs are alive, not dead, and in the Holy Qur’an, God Almighty says, “And do not consider those who fight in the cause of God to be dead.” Rather, they are alive with their Lord, provided for. The Islamic resistance factions have intensified the presence of martyrs in their ongoing battles by calling out their names in battles by launching them on bombs, bombs, and missiles. This is a broad section in which all the resistance factions have excelled, and the article is unable to cover the whole matter. The naming associated with the martyrs has intensified the symbolism of the Arabic language with A legacy of blood and sacrifice, so the names were formulated with a meaning that gives life and hope to the fighters and spreads terror in the souls of the occupying enemies. Perhaps the most prominent of these industries with high significance is the 1 Al-Qassam M missile, the name of the first home-made missile produced by the Martyr Izz al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades. The experiment has undergone several developments since the first missile, which was launched. It contains the martyrs Nidal Farhat, Tito Masoud, and Adnan Al-Ghoul, and the name came after the military wing that bears the name of the Syrian mujahid sheikh Izz al-Din al-Qassam, who led the Palestinian resistance movement in the year 1935 AD and sacrificed his blood as a martyr for the freedom of Palestine. The resistance produced three copies of this primitive missile, the Qassam. 1 Section M 2 Section M 3 and the military experience of Section MB Net and it developed as a result of the manufacture of these missiles 2 The Al-Yassin shell is a locally made anti-armor shell produced by the Palestinian resistance to target the occupation mechanisms in invasions. It is a launcher carried on the shoulder, such as an RPG launcher, and the name is named after the sheikh. Ahmed Yassin, may God have mercy on him, founder of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, who was assassinated by the occupying state on March 22, 2004.There are other launchers similar to this launcher that bear the name of Sheikh Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. They are the Al-Banna 1, Al-Banna 2 and 3 missiles. The Ghoul rifle is a locally made Palestinian rifle of 14.5 mm caliber and has a range of up to 2 kilometers. It was put into service by the Qassam Brigades in the storming war. Al-Makoul 2014, and according to the resistance declaration, it carries high-precision standard specifications, and its name was named after the engineer, Reverend Umi Adnan Al-Ghoul, who was assassinated by the occupying state in the year 2004. The ogre also has a high symbolism in popular mythology in terms of being a source of terror and intimidation, which is what is meant by such industries 4 Al-Zouari’s march is an unmanned aircraft that was used for the first time in the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle. It bears the name of the martyr Tunisian engineer Muhammad Al-Zouari, who was assassinated in the Tunisian city of Sfax in 2016. He was the engineer behind the manufacturing of these drones for the benefit of the Palestinian resistance. It is as if the march in his name is a living creature taking revenge on its assassins with 5 missiles. The leaders of the martyrs during the military industrialization process of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassim Brigades produced several missiles bearing the names of martyrs, thereby condensing the symbolism between language and redemption, including the M75, named after the martyr Dr. Ibrahim al-Maqadma, who was assassinated in the year 2003 AD. The range of this missile is 75 kilometers, and the J80, named after the martyr. Ahmed Al-Jaabari, one of the most important commanders of military action in the Qasr M Brigades, was assassinated in the year 2012. The range of this missile is 80 kilometers, D-Sh 160, named after the martyr Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Rantisi, who was assassinated in the year 2004. The range of this missile is 160 kilometers, D-Sh 85, named after the martyr. Muhammad Abu Shamala is one of the commanders of the Reverend M. The range of this missile is 85 kilometers. The Ayyash 250 missile is named after the engineer in the Reverend M. Brigades, the martyr Yahya Ayyash, who was assassinated in 1996. The range of this missile is 250 kilometers and was used to strike the Zionist Ramon Airport. A quote from the light of the Qur’an. Naming the resistance weapons is a conscious choice and choice of words with clear language and influence from the Holy Qur’an, because it intensifies the meaning of its name and increases the symbolism of the struggle and the significance of the background of the battle, including 1 Shawaz, an anti-tank and anti-military vehicle explosive device, which is a homemade device for the Palestinian resistance and entered service in the Al-Aqsa Intifada, according to The communications of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades went through advanced stages and produced several models, the latest of which is Shawaz 7, and Shawaz is the flame or fire that has no smoke. In the Holy Qur’an, the Almighty says, “Y R S L A L Y K M A S H W A Z M N N.” R O N H S F L A T NET S R N 2 Rajoum system The Rajoum system is a short-range, 114 mm caliber homemade rocket whose goal is to provide fire cover for the resistance. This system was used by the Palestinian resistance at the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle to secure the passage of fighters to the Gaza envelope settlements and sites. The Israeli military, and the name has a religious significance, and in the Holy Qur’an, God Almighty says, “And L Q D Z Y N A, the Sama, M, D, N, E, A, B, M, SAAB, H, J, A, L, N, A, R, J, M, L, for the two devils, and A.” T D N A L E M A D Eb Al Sair 3 M TBR A home-made anti-aircraft missile system, which is a new weapon introduced by the Palestinian resistance to the battle, and the word has a religious connotation from the Almighty’s saying about the promise of the afterlife and the demise of the occupying state, and “L Y D Khal Wa.” L M S G D K M A D K L W H A W L M R E W L Y T B R W M A L W A T T B B R A Walt Tabir Here is destruction and destruction, and in the Noble Verse, “These are these.” M T B R M A E M F EH 4 Ababil is a locally made drone, symbolized by A1. The first attempts of the Palestinian resistance to design it began in the second intifada, but it entered intoService in the Battle of the Eaten Asif 2014. It was manufactured locally in Gaza under the supervision of the Tunisian engineer, the martyr Muhammad Al-Zawari. This name came from the inspiration of the Qur’an, as in the Almighty’s saying, “And He sent to me, to me, to me, to me, to, to, to, to, to,, to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, The Arabic language and our heritage have had an impact. The creator of industrialization and its pioneer in resistance work did not fail to improve the nomenclature based on the significance of the language and heritage. We find him searching for symbols that suggest heroism and fighting so that his industry is actually a fighter and the name, including the nomenclature of 1 Al-Bitar, a home-made anti-armor missile launcher that I developed. The Brigades of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Second Intifada, under the supervision of engineer Adnan al-Ghoul, may God have mercy on him. The name came from the Arabic symbolism for the cutting sword, which is called “Bit Ara.” It does not require the presence of a human element in the place of its launch. It is launched in the form of surface-to-surface missiles, but at a height that is parallel to the mechanisms and is focused on The ground and is fired using a remote control device when the target approaches. 2 Ibrar Ibrar is a land landing, that is, the landing of combat forces on land through the sea, behind enemy lines, in gunboats. The word was used for the first time in battle in the fifth statement of the resistance in the Battle of Flood. Al-Aqsa, and it came in the context of talking about the Palestinian commandos carrying out a landing operation for fighters on the beaches of Ashkelon, and it is one of the Arabic words that was reborn in the war and was not commonly used. 3 Saqr Squadron, a military unit affiliated with the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassim Brigades. They appeared for the first time in the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood, and they are aircraft. A parachute, each of which carried fighters, helped in air infiltration into the settlements in the Gaza envelope area. The flock in language is a group of birds that fly together. As for the falcon, it is one of the raptors whose meat is not eaten and is skilled at hunting and raiding. This is an intensification of meaning accompanied by an action on the ground that befits this. Some of the names of weapons and the significance of their meanings, and more may be said about them. Perhaps tracking all the names of locally made weapons among the various fighting factions will be of benefit, just as there is something useful in the military statements and communications issued in battle by the resistance factions that enriches the research for those interested in the language of combat and combat. Arabic, the significance of its words, the richness of its terminology, and the symbolism of the names in it are a tributary to the resistance and a helper that we should pay attention to and care for. read the original
Blog Title The Israeli War on Palestine United Kingdom Leaders Paves the Way for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza Author Peter Oburn Date October 14, 2023 Translated by Sanaa Hamoudi During crises, it is important The statesman solves problems, not inflames them, by showing wisdom, ignoring popular clamor, reminding all parties of their obligations under international law, affirming our common humanity, and seeking long-term solutions to avoid returning to the horrors of the past, but British officials have demonstrated their lack of statesmanship since Hamas crossed the Gaza border last week. Let's take a look at Labor leader Keir Starmer's shocking performance on LBC Radio on Wednesday when he said that Israel has the right to defend itself against a Hamas attack. He then went further when asked about Defense Minister Yoav Galant's announcement of a complete blockade of the Gaza Strip, which... He said there will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything will be closed, adding that Israel is fighting human animals. His answer was whether cutting off water and electricity supplies is an appropriate response to Hamas attacks. I think Israel has this right. It is an ongoing situation and it is clear that everything He shouldIt must be done within the framework of international law, but Starmer in particular, with his distinguished legal background, must realize that depriving the population of food, energy and electricity amounts to collective punishment and is illegal under international law. This is very risky, as these statements are coming from a man who is seen as However, as the next British Prime Minister gives the green light to commit war crimes in the future, unconditional support, and to be fair to Starmer, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was not better off. After the attack by Palestinian fighters, he appeared on screen to express his support for Israel, stressing that it is unconditional support. It is like a blank check from Britain to Israel to act in the way it chooses during the coming terrifying weeks. On the other hand, we heard humanitarian and responsible words from the leaders of international organizations, as stated in a statement by Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, in a statement on Tuesday. My message to all parties is clear: no. The laws of war must be respected, prisoners must be treated humanely, and hostages must be released without delay. During hostilities, civilians and civilian infrastructure must be protected, and civilians must be allowed to leave for safer areas, and humanitarian relief, services and vital supplies must not be prevented for the entire Gaza region at a turning point. The violence must not stop. In Britain, except for the call for proportionality made by Irish leader Leo Varadkar, who warned that current solidarity might collapse if Israel goes too far with its actions in Gaza, no one, starting from Sunak, has made any mention of human rights. At the same time, British Home Secretary Suella Braverman is doing her utmost to inflame reactions internally by proposing that merely waving the Palestinian flag become a criminal offense. A horrific statement. There is no doubt that the responses of Starmer, Sunak, Braverman and others were reckless because of their use of the same terrifying language used by senior leaders. Israeli officials: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli response will change the Middle East, while Gallant said that Gaza will never return to what it was. A former Israeli general stated that Israel must create an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe iThe population in the Gaza Strip was encouraged to immigrate and assistance was provided to accommodate them in other countries to which they would immigrate. It was also keen to keep this plan secret in order to avoid international reactions. Dayan said that he would deny any existence of the plan if its matter was revealed and an investigation committee was held regarding it. Those advocating the idea Voluntary immigration these days are members of the Knesset and populist ministers specialized in the sections of the tuk-tuk, in contrast to the generation of ministers in the year 1967 in the occupation government, who were practical men belonging to the generation that established the occupying state and took upon themselves the implementation of huge projects, starting with the establishment of the occupying state itself and passing through absorbing waves of The massive Jewish immigration to it, the settlement and construction of the country, the establishment of the occupation army, the educational system, etc., and in line with the background of the authors of the voluntary immigration plan in 1967, the above-mentioned plan was taken seriously. In the first year after the 1967 war, the plan became the central policy of the occupation government towards the Gaza Strip and the Prime Minister was appointed. Levi Eshkol A Dah Serni was responsible for the immigration project. Serni was the widow of the mythological paratrooper Anzo Serni, who was trapped and killed in World War II by the Nazis. She had relations with European countries and worked after the Holocaust to search for Jewish refugees and establish camps to accommodate them. She defined her mission at the time as encouraging immigration. The silent plan for the residents of the Gaza Strip by finding countries ready to receive refugees and providing incentives to the Palestinians who are ready to immigrate to those countries. The countries targeted according to this plan to receive them were Jordan, the kingdoms of the Arabian Gulf, and every other country ready to receive them. The idea was that immigration would be carried out naturally as It was assumed that no Israeli fingerprints would be noticed in its implementation in order to avoid any international backlash against Israel. Prime Minister Eshkol was personally involved in the plan and received a weekly update on its developments and on the number of Gazans who were interested in immigrating, and given that the idea was It revolves around creating a state of silent migration. It established a secret unit of Israeli figures with a security background who have deep knowledge of Arab society and mentality. The job of its members was to work among the residents of the Gaza Strip and persuade them to migrate voluntarily. In return, in-depth research and opinion polls were conducted in Palestinian society with the aim of examining the possibilities of Response to immigration offers. The incentives to encourage voluntary migration that were offered to Gazans under the migration basket included a financial grant, logistical assistance during the migration process, and one-time assistance during the migration itself. Travel costs. All activities related to the implementation of the plan remained out of sight because Israel feared international repercussions in the event of It turned out that it was carrying out such an operation, and despite the resources that the occupation government allocated to the plan, it failed miserably, as SRN was able to find a number of European countries willing to receive Palestinian refugees on their lands, but the biggest problem was convincing the Palestinian refugees themselves of the feasibility of immigration, as the majority refused. The majority of them were categorically presented with the offer presented to them. They were not enchanted by the comfortable life in other countries at all, and also the financial incentive did not overcome their aspiration to hold on to their lands. As a result, instead of the migration of 350,000 refugees as was planned in the goal set by the occupation government, the operation ultimately resulted in About the migration of only 20,000 refugees, and the simple successes that the occupation government was able to achieve were mainly represented by the travel of Gazans holding Jordanian passports whoThey took advantage of the opportunity provided by the implementation of the voluntary migration plan and moved to Jordan, and also for Gazan women whose husbands worked in the Gulf countries to travel to reunite their families, as women married to men working in the Gulf were given the opportunity to join their husbands within the plan, and it became clear that family reunification was one of the means The most successful persuasion to push the Gazans to emigrate from their lands. However, this relative success itself was one of the factors in stopping the voluntary migration plan because it led to the plan being exposed, as Egypt and Jordan went to the United Nations with a complaint against the occupying state, accusing it of carrying out the displacement of the Palestinians and forcing the refugees to sign pledges. Not to return to the Gaza Strip or all of the Palestinian territories. Aya also noted in the complaint that in this way the occupying state forced 35,000 Palestinians to emigrate, but the number circulated by the occupying government was much less than that, and it considered that inflating the number was aimed at tarnishing its international reputation. The complaint was discussed in the United Nations. The occupying state found itself facing international pressure to allow reverse migration of Palestinians as well, that is, family reunification in the Gaza Strip by allowing Palestinians to return from Jordan and other countries to reunite with their families. It was forced to agree in order for the countries of the world to allow it to continue its hidden project under the guise of family reunification, and the permission resulted. The Israeli reunification of families in the Gaza Strip led to the return of thousands of Palestinians, who in fact compensated, in numerical terms, part of those who left the Strip during the year 1968. Shortly after the discussion in the United Nations regarding the Egyptian-Jordanian complaint, Israel decided to end its ambitious project to displace the population of the Strip. After a year had passed since the start of implementing the plan and the huge investments that were pumped into it, no practical results had been achieved. 97 residents of the Gaza Strip remained in their lands, and the occupying state was subjected to international condemnation and pressure as a result of the implementation of the voluntary migration plan. At this stage, the occupying state began establishing an administration. Civil control of the Gaza Strip and began to fully manage the lives of the Palestinians, although it did not intend to control the entire population of the crowded Gaza Strip and was forced to do so because it did not succeed in displacing them. This promising idea on paper that aims to reduce the number of Palestinians in Gaza to produce a situation that enables the occupying state to annex The Strip with the smallest possible number of its population was contrary to reality, which was very far from the ambition of the occupying state. After the failure of the displacement plan, the era of the occupying state’s control over the Gaza Strip began, a situation that remained the same until the Oslo Accords in 1993. During those years that preceded this agreement, the occupying state proposed Egypt was to assume the administration of the Gaza Strip as part of the peace agreement between them, which was signed in 1978, but the Egyptians rejected the idea categorically. The voluntary immigration project after the 1967 war ended in failure, and the occupying state remained in effect, and against its will, in complete control over the population of the Strip. At that time, he was living in The Gaza Strip has 450,000 Gazans, while in 1993, on the eve of the Oslo Accords, their number was more than one million Palestinians, but today its population is more than one million. Bezalel Smotrich said that the Gaza Strip will be emptied of its population, and between 100,000 and 150,000 people will remain in it. To achieve this, we must Israel must find a way to convince more than a million people to leave the Gaza Strip. The talk here is about a fantasy that has no practical content. Therefore, it is better to pay attention to ideas that are less populist and have the potential for implementation. First and foremost, an Arab, Palestinian, or international body must be found to take on this responsibility. Civilian control of the Gaza Strip and prevents the return of Hamas toRuling or placing the burden on the occupying state, as happened after the year 1967 read the original
Blog title The Barrier Diaries Writer Uday Al-Barghouti Date February 20, 2024 If you want to move between the maze of geographies in the West Bank, you must subscribe to the applications to follow the roads up to date and be careful. By heart, the verbal expressions used to describe road conditions, Atara, Passable on the inside, Closed on the outside, Stifling traffic crisis at Deir Sharaf checkpoint, Awarta checkpoint, Closed in both directions. The container is passable with difficulty, etc. The West Bank is no longer made up of cantons, as some people like to describe them during their frantic search for the game of measurements. Between the experience of Zionist colonialism and other colonial models, and the Israeli colonial machine that transformed the Palestinian geography and place into multiple impossibilities can intersect with it. These punitive policies, which are commonly referred to as racial discrimination against Palestinians, go beyond these policies that aim to kill the body in its relationship with the place and destroy it. His spatial memory and divisions multiply until they become infinitely small, to the point that movement on bypass roads planted with watchtowers and follow-up, hundreds of scattered gates, dirt barriers at the entrances to villages and cities, and settlement colonies spread over the hills, all of them stopped Palestinian life on the brink between death and life, suspended between an earthen berm, an iron gate, and a barrier. Fast and sudden, flying, according to the famous Palestinian dictionary, meaning that it is not fixed, and moving in this maze of geography has become like a game of Russian roulette, as passing through checkpoints and surviving them has become a deadly game of chance that can cost you your life in the worst cases, and in the best cases, it can cost you arrest, humiliation, and humiliation for long hours. There are groups on Telegram. It does a tremendous job of monitoring the moving occupation barriers, hour by hour, minute by minute, and moment by moment. Whoever lives in occupied Palestine and its geographical divisions that never stop multiplying realizes that geography is an act of fission that never ends, to the point that the entire West Bank turns into a moving checkpoint that grows after the second intifada like fungi. Aiming to shatter geography and prevent its continuity. It goes without saying that the Israeli barriers were not the result of October 7, but rather are an extension of the structure of Israel’s management of space and time, controlling and controlling them within policies of subjugating and atomizing the Palestinian body and shattering Palestinian social and economic relations by cutting off roads and preventing movement so that life becomes It is not possible with the invention of punitive tools that turn the Palestinian’s moment and place into an unbearable hell and turn them into an infinitely small prison. These barriers are hatched in the greenhouse of Israel, which has mastered blocking the road and turned the West Bank into a large checkpoint. Cars with wings. I belong to a generation that stood in waiting lines during the Intifada. The second and beyond, and he witnessed it with his skin, hearing, and sight until his impossible dream became to walk on open roads for long hours without obstacles and barriers, which is similar to what Frantz Fanon argued in his book The Wretched of the Earth when he explained the dreams of the oppressed that the first thing that the indigenous people learn at the hands of the colonizer is that they are people. They are detained in the place and forbidden from crossing the borders. Therefore, their dreams were muscular and dreams of action and attack. You then dream that you are running, climbing, flipping, and laughing, and the inspection and suppression police are not present, so the original person is freed and moves in all directions with long legs, just as you dream while you are at the checkpoint that cars have wings that go beyond that overwhelming chaos to a point. Inspection and in the second intifada, anyone living at a checkpointSurda and Deir Bazi' on the borders of Ramallah at that time, when the city was separated from its countryside, in addition to being separated from its interior by barriers such as the mobile phone, for example. We see how the colonizer transforms time into disjointed fragments, starting with the time of the barrier and ending with getting rid of it, until the Palestinian invented alternative routes and other geography, so turn around. So to speak, on bypass roads, checkpoints, and all forms of surveillance of a state overflowing with its sensors, cameras, and all forms of spy and monitoring planes. In those days, we saw public transport vehicles moving among the rocks and on the hills, and between the gardens and the hanging gardens, to the point that you would voluntarily surrender yourself to the small bus drivers and know that you will arrive in The end of the day came to that lumpen proletariat. These Palestinian groups, with their experienced experience in violating the colonizer’s laws, formed a network of protection and safety by establishing a network of auxiliary roads that would restore the fragmented social and economic relations, after all roads no longer led to Ramallah at that time. The repeated question on the lips of the passengers was, “What do you think?” We will deliver so that the taxi driver, who is confident in his acumen, will deliver. We will deliver as long as the car is moving, and Israel redistributes the checkpoints from time to time for change. Perhaps it fears that its iron fist will rust, so it redeploys its checkpoints time after time over the years extending at the entrances to villages and cities, as if we were in a circular time in that country. It is haunted by the distribution of the economy of oppression, which came to be called after the Oslo Accords and the Authority’s undertaking of redeployment, to euphemize the word occupation, through policies of redistribution of networks of control, power relations, and colonial hegemony for the benefit of Israel. Circular Time. The Israeli colonial machine has practiced dismembering the land and place until the Palestinians begin to suffer as a result of a misery syndrome. Geography This machine would not end until it started again and always takes the Palestinian back to the beginning of the road and to his critical moments in his tragic history, from the major geographical divisions between colonized Palestine in 1948 and colonized Palestine in 1967, and to the diaspora camps and the infinitely small divisions between them, and these things have been printed. The Palestinian Authority, with its cultural, social, political and legal character, up to its war on Gaza, which is more than genocidal and its division of the Strip into safe and unsafe squares, is the last thing that the genocidal colonial mind has invented, which deals with the Palestinian as an arithmetic problem that tries to always return him to zero existence in a time of repeated and circular return and restoration of Israel’s ability. The destructiveness of the barriers, checkpoints, and its tools, as well as the tools of surveillance, multiplied after October 7, 2023, returning every Palestinian generation to what it experienced from those policies of division that transformed the Palestinian memory that was marked by the misery of the place and the daily lived transformation of intense moments of suffering into black holes, as the Palestinian remembers. There is always a ghost perched on his chest, affecting his relationship with the place. At the Tal military checkpoint, which has become an alternative route to the afflicted town of Huwwara, which was closed after the events of the Al-Aqsa flood, which connected Nablus to the center and the south. Lines of cars stand as far as the eye can see, as an annoyed soldier stands amusing the passers-by. In this machine of torment, he decides To remind Rana that he is the master here, so he closes the checkpoint and queues of cars pile up in all the lanes, so complete chaos begins to sweep the place. One of the first tasks of the checkpoint is also to turn the familiarity of the place into a multi-level chaos in which cars begin to overtake in the opposite direction of traffic until the roads are closed in all directions and the soldier disappears. Behind columns of cars, the sounds of horns, screams, and a torrent of insults from above and beyondUnder it, everyone suffers from muscle tension and spasms in the lower stomach, and each one prepares to jump on his role so that no one infringes on his role. He advances toward the checkpoint slowly and tediously. This soldier, whom we are talking about after the aforementioned scenario, closed the checkpoint once after ordering passers-by to respect the order, so some of those whose words caught my attention were released. Al-Sag, as they say, spoke the truth, so he started returning the cars and shouting at people, so I said to myself, “Oh my love, there is someone who is always preparing to play the role of the agent.” An old woman said, “I lost her soul sitting next to me, and I did not appear to be doing anything without feeling guilty.” She covered her mouth with the edge of her handkerchief and began casting her spells on the dead woman’s children. So I said to myself, “These are chicken paws. This state has turned our places into paws.” Someone’s screams interrupted my train of thought, and the screaming turned into a fight and a fight. The muscles tensed and jumped. Everything here contradicts logic at first glance. The soldier closes the checkpoint as a collective punishment, and then some of the detainees kick each other because one of them wanted to cross. Another car, and I thought of Fanon again in his dissection of the behavior of the persecuted woman, when he talked about the escaping behavior that blinds us from seeing the real enemy when the stimulated muscles empty against each other. What surrealism this is. The soldier decided to open the barrier after he had entertained his viewers with that slingshot party. So he picked up his mobile device, along with the soldiers standing next to him, and they began taking pictures, laughing, and winking at the stream of cars stuck and rushing from all directions. The old woman woke up from her long nap and asked me, “What did we make of our broth?” I told her, “That’s right.” Then she raised her hand to the sky and muttered a call to the soldiers. She laughed at the horror of the call and thought about our lives. Stuck in a suffocating crisis, Israel is called when you stand at the Tel military checkpoint and the Sarda checkpoint comes back to your memory, meaning this life in which you always return to square one with a machine that always starts from the beginning. Perhaps we too will start from the beginning in resisting this state.
Blog title: Testimony of Ahmed Al-Halabi One of the survivors of the war on Gaza Author Ahmed Al-Halabi Date February 19, 2024 One of my goals for this year was to join the organizing team for the Hult Prize among universities around the world. I impatiently waited for the registration forms to be issued and I filled them out. Fortunately, I was accepted in the first stage of this competition. I moved to the interview stage, and the interviews with the organizational team of the Hult Prize took place on the seventh of October at the Ayan Hotel on the shore of the Gaza Sea. That day, I woke up early and began preparing the official uniform for the interview and preparing myself for its questions. One of the goals of the year will have its fate in the hands of an interview whose duration does not exceed A quarter of an hour, but it collided with a bitter reality that destroyed it and ended it, as a suffocating siege for 17 years crystallized into an explosion and a conflict that expanded, ending dreams and goals. The war began and explosions began around us, but it was not the worst part, as we were surprised on its second day by leaflets being dropped on our area, Al-Nasr neighborhood, demanding that we displace and evacuate the place to other areas. Others claimed to be safe, so we were displaced for the first time with the family under the weight of severe bombing. We went to my uncle’s house in the Saftawi area and stayed with them for a period not exceeding a week. We were surprised on the afternoon of the sixth day of this displacement by calls from the occupation officers asking us to evacuate the area because they were going to bomb it. Perhaps it was not. These feelings are as painful as the pain of the first displacement from home, but they remain painful, so we were displaced for the second time, going to my middle sister’s house in the Yazigi area, and we stayed there for a period not exceeding four days, and that was the beginning of the disaster, famine, and water and electricity cuts, as the electricity did not come for more than an hour and a half a day, and we wereWe search for it to charge our phones and see the latest news, all of this under the weight of severe bombardment. On the fourth night of the second displacement, shortly after midnight, we were surprised by loud voices in the street and the screams of citizens demanding that all residents of the neighborhood evacuate because the officers called them demanding that they evacuate the area and move to another area. It was safe and the scene was harsh. Mothers were screaming and running with their children in the street, and fathers were trying to send their children with their mothers to other areas and return to their homes in an attempt to collect their belongings and join their families. But where did my family and I find any shelter or house that we could go to, so we were forced to go? Going to Al-Nasr Hospital for Children because, according to international law, it is forbidden to bomb hospitals or surrounding areas. This was on the 13th day of the war, and it was our third displacement in less than a week. Here we must point out that the word “displacement” is not a word that is said and is not a word that is said. With this expression, you are forced every time to pack your bags and move to an unknown fate, not knowing what you might face. In our case, at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital, we suffered as a result of power outages and water scarcity. I sat in the hospital with my family and the families of my uncles, who were also forced to flee their area due to threats. There was very little food and much more bombing, in addition to the heavy overcrowding in the hospital. More than one house adjacent to the hospital was bombed. What is strange here is that there was a civilian tower opposite the hospital and an adjacent mosque as well. This mosque, although it was a source of reassurance for us, was also an obsession that troubled us. It could be bombed at any moment, as mosques were a primary target for the occupation, and going to pray there was a risk. While I was sitting in the hospital, I tried to read books to escape from this reality. With difficulty, between reading a word and the sound of bombing, I was able to read a novel by the writer Agatha Christie, entitled There Were None. I remember once that I was sitting with my sister on the stairs of the hospital, reminiscing about our days before the war, and nostalgia took hold of me, so I took out my diary and began writing my memoirs on the 25th day of the war, corresponding to 10/31, 2023, at exactly 8:10 p.m. I remember that I wrote that on that night, while I was sitting with some friends under the tree, there was a loud noise. An explosion near us dropped some shrapnel on us and we sustained minor injuries. Days passed and the bombing intensified around us. One day we were surprised by a voice from inside the hospital saying there are snipers near the hospital who are sniping everyone who comes out of the door. Things developed after that to include sniping everyone who moves inside the hospital yard, and at one time We were all forced to enter the internal departments due to the intensification of the bombing around us, and we slept that night in the corridors. Due to the intensity of the bombing, we were surprised the next morning that there was a room overlooking the square that had been lined up. Two girls were martyred and a third girl had her hand amputated, but even though the bombing was inside the hospital, we could not. I could distinguish which sound was targeting the hospital, due to the severity of the beatings that night. I remember that it was the 30th day of the war, and the sounds of clashes and bombing continued around the hospital, and no one could enter or leave. I remember that I woke up one day to the news of the martyrdom of 3 people who had been targeted at the gate, and it was the 35th day of the war. A turning point when my cousin came that morning to tell me the tanks were at the hospital door. I did not believe the news at first until there was an explosion in the building. I remember that I was lying under the door and could not stand, so the doctors closed all the curtains and turned off all the lights, and none of us dared to move or move. He made no sound and the place instantly became a ghost townWe heard the sound of another strong explosion, and it became clear to us that the tank standing at the door of the hospital had targeted the upper floor. After that, we all gathered in the square and headed out. While we were standing, the provocations began from the occupation, which threw smoke bombs around us, but we did not care. I went looking for my family, met them, and confirmed. We had the important things with us, such as house papers and documents, and in one line we started to leave, and the first thing I saw was a bombing that hit the street along its entire length, so we went and moved towards the Al-Oyoun intersection, and I began to see tanks from afar and hear the sound of their engines roaring, and while I was busy examining the details of those tanks and the soldiers occupying the buildings. Around the hospital, my foot tripped on something, and here was the tragedy, as I saw the bodies of a young man and his mother who had been killed by sniper bullets, and the white flag was next to them, smeared with their blood. We continued the walk and turned right in the direction of Al-Jalaa Street, and here I separated from my family to meet the martyr Dr. Refaat Al-Arair, who I was teaching the poetry course. With him at the university, he asked me in the middle of the crowd: Do you need anything or help? I am ready for anything. So I stammered and said to him, “No, Professor, thank you.” I realized myself and said, “I mean, Doctor.” He went on his way and I did not know that it was the last meeting. I went back and met my mother and sister first, then my brother and father. We all gathered together and moved to reach Al-Jalaa Street. Here the decision was the most difficult for us, with a lot of hesitation. Should we head south or remain in the north at the mercy of the destructive killing machine? I remember that the time was approximately 12:00 noon, and after hesitation due to the late hour, we all agreed to head south. This was the beginning of a new chapter of suffering and war, which I will continue. Later, we continued making our way towards the aviation junction in the middle of Gaza, on foot, with large crowds of people, with great fatigue, but we must arrive, so we carried what we were able to carry and continued our march. When we arrived at the junction, I realized A taxi, and I ran towards it and stopped it. Our road was heading from the aviation junction to the Kuwaiti roundabout. When we arrived, we had to ride on horse-drawn carts to reach the distance before the checkpoint between the north and the south. It took us approximately an hour to get there, and at a certain point the owner of the car had to That he should stop and not move forward, and here we also continued our journey on foot towards the checkpoint and joined the crowds of people, and I saw what I will never forget for the rest of my life. In the beginning, I saw the traces of people before me who were forced to leave their luggage and papers on the ground because they were unable to carry them, as Rana warned the owner of the cart, “If your mother falls next to you, do not turn around.” And I just continue moving forward. What kind of arrogance, destruction, and injustice can a human being suffer in the middle of a world that claimed to be in the twenty-first century? I continued on my path and began to see the soldiers hidden behind the mountains of dirt, as well as their tanks, vehicles, and bulldozers. We were previously asked to upload our ID cards, but my sister, the doctor, lost them. She had her card previously and was forced to identify herself with her medical card. Suddenly the occupation officer shouted at us to stop and asked the holder of the blue card to move forward in his direction. My sister was the holder of that card, so she refused to come forward and threw away her card and stood there. He shouted again at us to continue walking, so we continued and crossed that checkpoint on the street. Salah al-Din, and here I began another journey of long walking. While I was walking, I noticed an old woman falling unconscious due to fatigue. I remember that a doctor rushed to her to help and treat her. When we arrived at the Wadi Gaza Bridge, we heard some sounds of explosions, and some shells were falling around us in a provocative attempt against us.But it went beyond that to reach the stage of direct targeting of the displaced on Salah al-Din Street, which they claimed was safe, only to fall in front of the eyes of two martyrs from that crowd that we joined. That was the 35th day of the war, and the time was approximately 3:30 in the afternoon, and we continued our journey on a horse-drawn cart in the direction of We left Deir al-Balah, then we rode a bus with another displaced family to make our way towards the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, to the south. Upon our arrival to the outskirts of Khan Yunis, citizens began arriving to us and they brought us water, food, and juice. They were all saying, “If you do not have shelter, our homes are open.” Here, the feelings of deep sadness about leaving Gaza were mixed with some happiness because, despite all this destruction, the people are still of one heart, sharing their food and what little provision they have, and perhaps what remains of their happiness with other afflicted people, even if they were poor. Verse 9 of Surat Al-Hashr And I have We heard the Maghrib call to prayer and we realized the desired house, which was the house of relatives of my sister’s friend, so we entered the room and the people of the house prepared for us all the comforts available in that period of war. They also prepared for us lunch, sleeping places and everything. We all threw the bags on the floor and sat on the bed, and without exception, we all shed tears. At that moment, and I bear witness, that day was one of the most difficult days in life that any human being could experience. My sister’s friend came and consoled her and my mother, and I consoled my father. In an attempt to change the general atmosphere, I asked them all with insistence that we start eating, so we ate and we did not know what happened after that, and the hour was approaching. 7:00 in the evening, but suddenly it became 1:00 in the afternoon, and that was the first time we fell asleep without terror or fear from the sound of continuous bombing. That day fell on November 10 of last year, corresponding to the fourth displacement, and we tried to restore normal life and heal ourselves from the psychological distortion on Over the past month, the days passed normally, with a certain amount of sounds of shelling and explosions, but the suffering of electricity, water, and cooking gas interruptions continued. We were forced to light wood to cook food on, and this is in addition to the scarcity of basic resources, but it is necessary to adapt and live. The days passed quickly in Beni. Suhaila and I met some old friends, and we would sit and try to remember our normal days, university life, etc., and we would laugh, and that would lighten the burden on us, even if just a little. Some nights would pass by without us being able to sleep, as the town of Bani Suhaila was close to the eastern border, and the sounds of clashes would be audible. Clearly, but what should we do? After 20 days of staying in the city of Khan Yunis, I was surprised one day by the owner of the house knocking on our room door forcefully in the morning and saying evacuate, evacuate, the army officers called us and we must evacuate the entire eastern area of Khan Yunis. Are you kidding me? These are the same officers who asked us to go south. They said it was a safe place. How could they ask us to evacuate the place? At the same moment and pace as in Al-Nasr Hospital, the artillery shelling intensified around us, so we were forced to evacuate Bani Suhaila and head towards the central region to the town of Deir Al-Balah. Here we separated from my sister, so she went with her husband to his relatives’ house, and I went with my father and brother in The direction of the UNRWA shelter centers, where two of my uncles and my father’s aunt lived, who was approximately 80 years old. This was the fifth displacement on the 55th day of the war, after 20 days in Beni Suhaila. We sat for a few days in the shelter center, which was a middle school, and here was the peak. Suffering from the lack of cleanliness of the center and the lack of food for youImagine that you had to stand for an hour waiting for your turn in front of the bathrooms. The center in which we lived was located on Salah al-Din Street, which was classified more than once as a red zone. One day the bombing and clashes intensified around us, and suddenly we heard the sound of an explosion inside the school and some smoke rose from the school. One of the rooms, so we left the school quickly under the bombardment and headed towards the town of Al-Zawaida, near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, to a land where two of my uncles were staying. Here we reach the sixth displacement in 60 days of war. read the original
Blog Title: Targeting Journalists in Palestine: Between Suffering and Opportunity The Author Life of Hariri Date February 16, 2024 It is the bloodiest war on journalists in Gaza, a description agreed upon for the first time by perhaps all institutions concerned with protecting Arab and Western journalists. Despite the Western bias towards the Israeli narrative, or at a minimum, the attempts of most Western institutions to reduce the severity of their accusations against the occupation. The Israelis committed war crimes and the crime of genocide. There is a fact that cannot be beautified, which is that since the beginning of its aggression against Gaza until the date of writing this article, February 9, 2024, Israel has killed 124 journalists, including those who were martyred with his family, according to what was announced by the government media office in Gaza, which constitutes 8 5 Of those working in the Gaza Strip 1, in addition to wounding and arresting dozens, the Israeli targeting of journalists in this war was not limited to Gaza only, but also to southern Lebanon, as 3 Lebanese journalists were killed and a number of them were injured in a deliberate targeting of them and others more than once while they were covering the Israeli attacks. In southern Lebanon, of course, Israel has not been held accountable for its crimes so far, in which it targeted not only journalists but also civilian citizens in their homes and displacement centers, in addition to targeting schools, hospitals, ambulance teams, their vehicles, and everything that could support the Palestinian people in Gaza, such as food aid trucks that enter intermittently and in large quantities. Insignificant due to the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. This article deals with the targeting of journalists in Gaza and discusses the act of intentional killing of them and the reasons that contribute to Israel not being held accountable for these crimes due to pressure from Western countries or the international system allied with it, first and foremost the United States of America and a number of European countries. A reading of the names of journalists. Those targeted: Israel has a long history of targeting journalists in Palestine. However, reports and complaints submitted by various Palestinian and international human rights and journalistic institutions indicate that the pace of their targeting has increased in an unprecedented way since the year 2021, exceeding all limits during the current aggression against Gaza, as it continues in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem and is increasing. Israeli attacks and violations range from direct killing, arrests, detention, and obstruction to the freedom to practice journalistic work. In the current aggression against Gaza, Israel has stated more than once that it does not intentionally target Palestinian journalists. Here, of course, Israel evades its responsibility for direct and deliberate killing in statements like this, and that is not just by accusing them of itself, but also by re-invoking the image of the victim that she gave herself with all the pretexts and arguments to seek the sympathy of the world, despite all the crimes it has committed since the establishment of the entity until this day. Ironically, when the occupation forces assassinated the martyr journalist Sherine Abu Aqla on May 11, 2022, Itamar Ben Gvir said, Currently serving as the Israeli Minister of National Security, he tweeted that he supports the launchShooting every journalist who obstructs the work of the soldiers. In reading the nature of targeting journalists in the aggression on Gaza and how it was done, it becomes clear to the reader clearly the act of intentional killing practiced by the occupation, which according to international law is considered a war crime and according to the detailed list of the names of martyred journalists published by the Committee to Protect Journalists 2 and the Center for the Protection of Journalists. Palestinian National Information Wafa Between October 7, 2023, that is, since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza, and January 29, 2024, the Israeli targeting of journalists can be divided as follows. The number of journalists martyred by direct targeting: 8 during press coverage, 1 in a civil defense vehicle, and 3 in a bombing on the vehicle. Number of journalists. Martyrs by sniper bullets 3 Number of martyred journalists who were martyred in an Israeli raid 42 Number of journalists who were martyred by direct targeting of their homes 22 Number of journalists who were martyred with members of their families by direct targeting of their homes 42 In southern Lebanon, photojournalist Issam Abdullah from Reuters and journalist Farah Omar were martyred. And photojournalist Rabih Al-Maamari on November 21 from Al-Mayadeen TV was directly targeted while covering the Israeli attacks in the south, and according to its annual report for the year 20233, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate indicated that there were a very large number of injuries to journalists, which the medical teams described as very serious, causing fatal or Clear disabilities are left behind. The report indicated the presence of a large number of injured journalists who need treatment that is not available in the Gaza Strip. 4 The occupation’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists is not limited only to the Gaza Strip, but also affects those working in the West Bank. According to the report of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, the occupation authorities arrested about 58 journalists. She has been a journalist since October 7 in the West Bank and Gaza, which included storming homes, destroying furniture, confiscating journalists’ equipment and cellular communication devices, and assaulting them and their family members 5 in addition to settler attacks on journalists in the presence of the occupation forces and their protection of them. The report also indicated that 80 press and media organizations were targeted. By bombing, total and partial destruction, as well as by raids and confiscation of equipment, as happened in the West Bank. We must also not ignore the detention of press crews, preventing them from practicing their work, and subjecting them to the threats referred to in the report, as 314 incidents were documented in this area, 6 pending judicial proceedings, and in the context of their permanent provision of Responsibility and Accountability The occupation government has stated more than once that it cannot guarantee the safety of journalists working in the Gaza Strip, which is a clear violation of international law, which stipulates the necessity of respecting and protecting journalists from all forms of deliberate attack, which provides them with the same protection guaranteed to civilians as long as they do not They participate directly in hostilities, and Article No. 79 of the First Protocol annexed to the Geneva Convention of 1949 stipulates the following: 1 Journalists who carry out dangerous professional missions in areas of armed conflict are considered civilians 2 They must be protected in this capacity in accordance with the provisions of the conventions. Since the beginning of the aggression against Gaza, The International Federation of Journalists, in cooperation with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and a number of human rights institutions, has proven that Israel has committed deliberate targeting of journalists working in Gaza and initiated complaints filed against it at the International Criminal Court since 2022. A number of international institutions are also working to pressure and push for accountability of the Israeli occupation.And hold him accountable for his crimes. For example, on October 31, Reporters Without Borders filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice against Israel on charges of committing war crimes. It should be noted that this is the third time that the organization has filed a complaint against Israel in the last 6 years, and the first was She died in 2018 during the Right of Return march and the second in 2021 after Israel bombed the headquarters of more than 20 media organizations in the Gaza Strip during its aggression. Reporters Without Borders also supported the lawsuit filed in the case of the assassination of journalist Sherine Abu Aqla7, for which Israel has not been tried to date. Despite all the proven evidence of deliberate and direct targeting, and despite the fact that Israel is trying, by targeting journalists, to prevent the arrival of news and the truth, journalists and activists in Gaza succeed in documenting repeated and deliberate attacks against them, especially on social media and the media, which allows pressure on the Criminal Court. The International Committee to raise complaints against Israel due to the permissibility of adopting videos as evidence, especially with the difficulty of collecting evidence in Gaza due to the occupation preventing foreign and international press crews from entering Gaza. Why is the West colluding with Israel to escape punishment? Some believe that Israel’s impunity when targeting journalists is not weak. Not only the credibility of the United States of America in the Middle East, but also freedom of the press and the safety of journalists in Region 8. It is no secret to anyone that the organic and very strong alliance between Israel and the United States of America dates back to before 1948, when America became the first incubator and defender of the Israeli entity and its main supporter in All diplomatic, military, political and financial fields, for many reasons that this article does not discuss, including but not limited to the executive role played by Israel as a colonial tool that secures the interests of the United States of America in destroying and plundering the Arab countries. Hence, America has never held Israel accountable and has not allowed any country or One side is threatening to hold it accountable for all the crimes for which international law is accountable, which the United States itself participated in establishing. Therefore, it is not surprising that it does not allow Israel to be held accountable for its crimes in the current aggression against Gaza, nor does it make excuses to justify these crimes, including the deliberate targeting of journalists, as the United States of America itself is involved. Regarding the crimes of targeting journalists in the wars it fought, such as Iraq, for example, but not limited to, after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, British BBC correspondent John Simpson said that targeting journalists had become the new feature of American military operations in the world, and he himself had been injured by what he called American friendly fire. In northern Iraq while covering it prior to the American ground invasion9, writer and university professor Chris Patterson explains that events like this have become part of the American military strategy since the September 11 attacks, and they aim, above all, to ensure a media response consistent with American military operations10 and in a policy review. The Israeli occupation against journalists in general and Palestinians in particular makes it easy and permissible to project this strategy onto the Palestinian situation. The goal of their continued targeting in Palestine does not only reflect the criminal doctrine on which the Israeli presence as an occupying entity in Palestine was based, but also is a systematic message to intimidate journalists and their families, whether by targeting. Direct orThrough threats and intimidation, which contributes to preventing the truth from reaching the truth. The above two testimonies do not only show a direct accusation of the United States of deliberately targeting journalists, but also open a window for discussion regarding the hypothesis that the American administration, by preventing Israel from being held accountable for its crimes in the international courts of justice and criminal justice, is protecting itself and a number of its allies. In a conference against the war held in 2010, former American soldier Ethan McCord stated that the American administration was informing them that if we shot people and were investigated, the officials would take care of us. The number of press martyrs in Palestine during the Israeli occupation war on the Gaza Strip exceeded 11. Gaza in less than a month The number of journalists killed during World War II 1939 1945 in which 69 journalists lost their lives and the Vietnam War 1955 1975 in which 63 journalists lost their lives The American occupation of Vietnam and the Korean War 1950 1953 in which 17 journalists lost their lives 12 Israel continues to target journalists In Palestine and southern Lebanon, with international protection and complicity, and Western media bias towards the Israeli narrative. This article aims not only to present Israel’s policy against journalists in Palestine, but also to open a debate on the reasons for the international immunity enjoyed by the occupation and raises the possibility of benefiting from the change in international public opinion in favor of The Palestinian narrative in order to form a media pressure front to raise complaints against Israel at the International Criminal Court. Despite the catastrophic situation and the tragic reality that the Palestinians are living in Gaza due to Israel committing a war crime and the crime of genocide, Palestinian journalists are still resisting all forms of threats, intimidation and danger to which they are exposed. This is done by continuing to convey the direct picture of Israel’s crimes, which allows for effective media and popular pressure to be exerted on the institutions of international law to hold Israel accountable, even after a while References Al-Khalidi Walid The partition of Palestine from the Great Revolt of 1937 1939 to the Nakba 1947 1949 Beirut Institute for Palestine Studies 2021 p. 338 Freedoms Report for 2023 Ramallah Palestinian Journalists Syndicate 1/4 2024 Israel breaks a record in the killing of journalists that was not recorded in World War II Al-Quds Al-Arabi 4/12/2023 al talei rafiah Israel’s war on journalists Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 11/28 2023 mclaughlin greg the war correspondent london pluto press 2016 2nd edition p 288 journalist casualties in the israel gaza war cpj 13 2 2024 Sources 1 Freedoms Report for 2023 Ramallah Palestinian Journalists Syndicate 4 1 2024 2 journalist casualties in the israel gaza war cpj 13 2 2024 3 Report of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate A previously mentioned source 4 Same source 5 Same source 6 Same source 7 rafiah al talei israel s war on journalists carnegie endowment for international peace 11 28 2023 8 ibid 9 greg mclaughlin the war correspondent london pluto press 2016 2nd edition p 288 10 ibid 11 ibid 12 Israel takes down A record in the killing of journalists that was not recorded by World War II Al-Quds Al-Arabi 4 12 2023 read the original
Blog Title: Silencing Palestinian Voices in France Author Salim Al-Bik Date February 14, 2024 Four months have passed since the beginning of the war of extermination against the Gaza Strip and its people, who are being subjected to what they were not exposed to. Another people in contemporary history with such intensity and based on this situation and after international public opinion, movements and protestsDemonstrations and boycotts have never been of such momentum and continuity, and after international and human rights reports, pleadings to the International Court of Justice, pictures and facts coming mainly from the Gaza Strip, and other things that indicate the scale of the catastrophe committed by the Israeli occupation army there, it is possible for one of us to suggest that the Western agitation and intimidation is in everything related to Solidarity with the Palestinians as a people who live under occupation and who have the right, like others, to resist their occupier by all means, will be deterred, or at least reduced. Media and governmental threats and stalking during the month of October overflowed upon everyone who tried rationally and objectively to understand what happened on the seventh of that month, saying that the history of the issue The Palestinian day would not have begun, even if the speaker began the conversation with a condemnation that has become the norm in any Western public speech, trying to balance himself at the same distance from the colonizer and the colonizer, the oppressor and the oppressed, as the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek did at the Frankfurt Exhibition 1. He received his share of shouting, and this was followed by the cancellation of a press conference that was to follow. He spoke just as the threats poured out and the flood of cancellation spread throughout everything that is Palestinian, or everyone who supports it, or even everyone who understands its rights. There are many examples of this McCarthyism, and this article is devoted to talking about 3 events that took place in recent days. Perhaps one of us might think that this is a white, emotional Western frenzy over what happened in... October 7, and that it will ease with time and things will return to normal, and that the restrictions and cancellations of what is Palestinian will be less extreme and compatible with the unjust force that is friendly to the decision-makers in Europe and North America due to the catastrophic perpetration of the Gazans. The genocidal war and the international solidarity that followed have increased. My rights are with the victims in the Gaza Strip. One of us believes that expressions of solidarity with these people will gain more space than what was allowed before October, given that no one will be able to condemn the demands to stop a war, whatever it may be, and to help the victims, regardless of their identity, even if they are not white Europeans of class. Average or higher. Finally, it became clear that the position towards the Palestinians is the same, whether they are resistance fighters, combat victims, or civilians. The intimidation of anyone in solidarity with the Palestinian victims or anyone trying to understand why Hamas did what it did did not exist at the beginning of the war only, as its time was relative and Contextuality is an accusation that means identification with the Islamic movement and justification for its explosion. It has also extended to the present day and has become widespread in France, a country that does not stop theorizing about freedom of expression. The accusation of justifying terrorism in any conversation that is not as it should be regarding the Palestinian issue, and this is why the entire moral decline continues after 4 months in which it was suspected. One of us is wrong that the old colonizer’s sympathy with the new colonizer is a matter of emotional agitation or nostalgia. Perhaps it will soon subside with the disastrous images and facts arriving from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. There are 3 quick and simultaneous examples that indicate that the assumption was actually wrong and that the cases of cancellation that extended until Elan Pappé, whose book Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine was withdrawn from the market by the French publishing house Viard 2, despite the increased volume of demand for it, is not an exception or merely temporary extremism, but rather a systematic practice that found a context for extremism in the early stages of the war, and which has remained, albeit with less crudeness and less intimidation, continuing. Firstly, the human rights activist. The French-Palestinian Rima Hassan was chosen by Forbes magazine as one of 40 French women who had a radiant impact for France in the world. Organized and random campaigns were launched in France that spread a few days ago in protest against this because of her loud voice in exposing the genocide to which the Gazans were being subjected, and then she rose up after that.The magazine canceled the ceremony honoring the 40th women. Secondly, the Senegalese-French athlete Emily Gomez 4 lost her position as ambassador for the Olympic Games in France. She was summoned a few days ago and investigated in parallel with a populist smear campaign as well because of her publication in October of a picture of a map of France with the flag of Israel in which Calorom is spreading in stages. Historical figures such as those that indicate the stages of Israel’s colonization of Palestine on maps from the year 1948 until today, with a comment asking what you would do in France. Third, the Zedek Association, the Jewish Anti-Colonial Gathering 5, which is present in demonstrations and events in solidarity with the Palestinians, was forced to cancel the showing of the film Zone of Interest. Which tells about a Nazi officer building a house and a garden near the Auschwitz camp. The reason for the cancellation was the refusal of one of the invitees, a Nazi researcher, to attend after discovering that the association had positions in support of the Palestinians’ right to resistance. Then the cinema hall canceled the entire event after it refused to host the other researcher specializing in the Holocaust and the Nakba. In solidarity with the Palestinians, these three events have taken place since the first of February until today, and a statement was added to them from the philosopher Judith Butler6 in which she spoke about the symposium that was supposed to be held in Paris on anti-Semitism and Zionism, then the city municipality canceled it. Butler said, mocking the municipality and its decision. It is a cancellation for her personally, and she was naive because she did not imagine that the mayor of Paris could cancel an event like this. The abolitionist and repressive practice, as a continuation of a state of intellectual intimidation to which every supporter of Palestinian rights or even solidarity with the victims of Gaza is exposed, primarily targets the Palestinian right to existence, life, and freedom. It also targeted any humanitarian and moral motives that prevented any Frenchman from remaining silent in the face of the horrific injustice and the French government’s complicity in this genocidal war. The French demonstrations also chanted their most frequent slogans. The irony of the hypocrisy of the ruling class in France, which controls the media, academic and other institutions, lies in the direct victims of its silence. 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blog title comment funding UNRWA and suspected complicity in the genocidal war Author Muhannad Abdel Hamid Date February 12, 2024 UNRWA announced that it may have to stop its operations in the Middle East, including in the Gaza Strip, by the end of this February if funding is not resumed following the decision of 16 donor countries. Stop financial support for the agency, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said if UNRWA funding remains suspendedIt is likely that we will have to end our operations by the end of February, not only in Gaza but throughout the region. He pointed out that the time when the war in Gaza continues unabated and when the International Court of Justice calls for more humanitarian aid is the time to strengthen UNRWA, not weaken it. 1 She says The latest information is that 18 countries and institutions have suspended their support for UNRWA, and by next March the agency will not be able to pay the salaries of about 30,000 employees, including 13,000 employees working in the Gaza Strip. 2 UNRWA is the largest relief organization in one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world, as about 80 of the Strip’s population before the war depended on international aid, and after months of war the needs became more urgent after nearly 9 out of every 10 people were displaced and at least half of the buildings in Gaza were damaged or destroyed. 3 This step of suspending aid will exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe. He said United Nations humanitarian aid official Martin Griffiths, in his speech before the Security Council on January 31, said that efforts in Gaza depend entirely on UNRWA obtaining adequate funding and operation, and this is what prompted the organization to launch its appeal to donor countries, calling on them to rescind its decision to suspend what is not. Less than $440 million in funding for the organization, saying that nearly one million people depend on it for their survival. 4 On January 31, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as the backbone of all humanitarian efforts in Gaza. During his speech at the Security Council session, he appealed to all countries to continue support and funding to ensure the continuity of UNRWA’s life-saving work in the Gaza Strip in light of the ongoing war. In this context, 800 American and European officials warned in a statement addressed to their governments that support Israel of a real danger regarding their governments’ policies contributing to violations. grave international law, war crimes, and even ethnic cleansing or genocide. 5 The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory said in a statement regarding the UNRWA crisis that suspending funding in light of an imminent famine in Gaza amounts to conspiracy and participation in the crime of genocide, describing the decision as a dangerous violation of international obligations to this States, especially with regard to protecting the Palestinian people from the crime of genocide, accusing the countries that suspended support of contributing to the stripping of refugees and the Palestinian people of their rights guaranteed under international law and relevant UN resolutions. 6 UNRWA’s accusation. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs even canceled the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, of the participation of 12 of its employees in The attack of October 7, after which a spokesman for Netanyahu’s office said that about 10 of the agency’s employees in the Gaza Strip are members of the Hamas movement or other armed groups. This charge was floated and exaggerated by saying that 55 UNRWA employees have relatives belonging to armed factions, and the charge was Before that, 12 employees could be resolved, whether by refuting the charge by the United Nations Investigation Committee or by confirming it and punishing the accused, but the agency hastened to dismiss the accused before the decision of the Investigation Committee, thinking that it would stop the suspension of support funds, and for fear of dismissing the charge and resolving it. The case was pumped up by the Netanyahu government, claiming that there was 10 of the employees were members of the resistance, and 55 of them had relatives in the organizations. The aim of circulating the accusation was to block the way to investigation, solution, and correct errors, if any, and to challenge the legitimacy of the agency and put its role in doubt.All the way to Shatt Baha and replacing it. The Israeli opposition agrees with the government regarding disabling UNRWA and replacing it. Benny Gantz says, according to Haaretz newspaper, “Now and quickly, a plan must be advanced to transport food supplies to Gaza through international organizations that are not affiliated with Hamas, such as UNRWA, even if that requires stopping the amounts of aid that are allowed to enter.” Gaza or reducing it, even if that is by allowing trucks to enter from the north of the Gaza Strip and not from the south, considering that the only red line in this issue is ensuring that aid does not reach Hamas. In turn, Eisenkov, an ally of Gantz, said in a conference at Reichmann University that there are 2,2 million people who we do not want to They are dying of hunger, and the minimum required amount of aid must be allowed. Now that we know that Hamas has controlled the distribution, we have asked for aid to be halted for a few days to transfer responsibility to other entities not affiliated with the movement. A week ago, Netanyahu called for transferring responsibilities for humanitarian treatment for the residents of Gaza from UNRWA to the UNRWA. Khari said during a meeting with a delegation of visiting United Nations ambassadors that it is time for the international community and the United Nations itself to understand that UNRWA’s mission must end. He continued that UNRWA perpetuates itself and seeks to preserve the Palestinian refugee issue. Haaretz says that the possible alternative is the World Food Program, but it lacks the The necessary infrastructure in Gaza 7. The Israeli incitement against UNRWA currently aims to separate Hamas from humanitarian aid in order to prevent it from rebuilding its control over society with aid. The Israeli incitement is based on 3 allegations that UNRWA allows the movement to use its infrastructure in the war. UNRWA allows Hamas to control the distribution of aid. Humanitarian and other forms of support. 10 of the agency’s employees belong to the Hamas movement and the resistance factions. The Israeli accusations and media campaign against UNRWA currently aim to get rid of the agency, which is the most important field witness to Israeli crimes, and its reports are approved by other UniteHe was dismissed on the 7th of October 2023 so that the Commissioner-General, without any verification of the accuracy of the accusations and allegations, hastened to take measures to expel these employees in accordance with the exceptional powers he possesses if the matter threatens the supreme interest of UNRWA. This is strange administrative behavior that none of the institutions, associations and organizations have witnessed in their administrative systems and structures. That the accused be held accountable before any results of the investigation process. The UN-Watch website, which is hostile to UNRWA, published on its website pictures and names of eight employees who were accused. 1 It became clear that the posts related to expressions they published on their accounts on social networking sites. One of them put a picture of Abu Ubaida on his account and another praised them. During the operation, a teacher in an UNRWA school in the Gaza Strip martyred all members of her family. She was dismissed and called for resistance to victory, as if it was intended to strip the employee of his national affiliation and national identity under the pretext of neutrality. The international snowball rolled, and in a move that represents collective punishment for more than 6 million Palestinian refugees registered in the agency’s records and a violation. Explicit in all the humanitarian values and standards that you speak about, major countries have taken positions and decisions to temporarily cut off their financial contributions until the end of the investigation, and in practice, adopting the same methodology that the Commissioner General adopted in expelling employees, in that those countries took their decisions before the investigation process ended, and even more than that, that an institution be held accountable. Instead of individuals, the American administration began by suspending funding, then a number of other countries followed, bringing the number to 16 countries in addition to the European Union: America, Britain, Canada, France, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Germany, Austria, Estonia, New Zealand, Finland, the Netherlands, Romania, Iceland, and Sweden. In practice, the contribution of these countries amounts to two-thirds of the UNRWA budget for the year. 2023, or about 870 million, as the agency’s budget was estimated at 1.63 billion dollars. The decision to suspend financial contributions is primarily a political decision, the aim of which is to pave the way for targeting UNRWA as an institution that has a status, role, symbolism, and legal weight linked to refugees and their right to return. This important file has been worrying and frightening the entity for decades, so the agency It strengthens the refugee’s connection to his cause and his motherland, preserves refugee records, and preserves their archives and personal and historical records. The agency also always reminds decision-makers of the suffering of Palestinian refugees, especially for example in the International Court of Justice. It also reminds that there is a humanitarian, legal and political issue centered around the right of return, so the preamble to the decision to establish the agency No. 302 issued by the United Nations General Assembly on December 8, 1949, in addition to the fifth paragraph and paragraph 20 of the resolution, indicates that UNRWA’s work must not prejudice the implementation of Paragraph 11 of Resolution 194 issued by the General Assembly on December 11, 1948, which affirmed the right of return, compensation, and restoration of property. The decision to suspend came after the International Court of Justice relied on reports published by UNRWA and the World Health Organization’s talk about the humanitarian situation that is gradually deteriorating in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Zionist aggression, which represents, in one of its aspects, retaliation against the United Nations organization and exploitation of the event to take it as an excuse to continue the strategic attack on the agency on the one hand and on the other hand. Another is to divert international and popular interest in the historical event by having the occupying state in the dock. The occupation and its aides succeeded in the first, but they were not successful in the second. The echoes of the occupation’s trial did not cease at the interested popular and official level. At the end of December 2023, the Hebrew Channel 12 spoke about a three-stage plan. Netanyahu is working on itTo end UNRWA’s work in Gaza after the end of the war. The plan is based on a top-secret report issued by the occupation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but this secrecy was later disclosed by either Minister Smotrich or Occupation’s Foreign Minister Katz. The first stage is to demonize the occupation to UNRWA by having Tel Aviv reveal alleged cooperation between the agency. The Hamas movement, which is what is currently happening, was started by the occupation by claiming that one of the agency’s teachers was holding an Israeli hostage in the attic of his house in the Gaza Strip for 43 days, followed by allegations that there was permanent coordination between the Hamas movement and the agency and that UNRWA turned a blind eye to the construction of tunnels under its facilities and other things. Allegations and fabrications, the second stage, reducing UNRWA operations in the Gaza Strip and searching for different organizations to provide education and social care services for refugees in Gaza. One of the indicators of this step is that the Government of Canada provided financial aid to Gaza worth $30 million on January 31, 2024, which was distributed to UN agencies working in the Strip. Gaza, with the exception of UNRWA, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The third phase is the transfer of UNRWA’s missions to the body that will govern Gaza after the end of the war, and this is what is being talked about at the present time. Here it must be noted that No one, whether at the level of countries or international organizations, has the right to tamper with the mandate of UNRWA or to make any changes or amendments, with the exception of the United Nations General Assembly, which was established by the suspension resolutions that do not only include UNRWA’s work in the Gaza Strip, but also all the regions in which the agency operates in the West Bank. Including occupied East Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, the repercussions include more than 6 million Palestinian refugees registered in its records in the five regions. UNRWA said that its financial sums will only be sufficient until the end of February 2024. If the process of suspending contributions continues, this will directly reflect on All the services the agency provides to refugees threaten a humanitarian catastrophe at the health, educational, and relief levels, protection programs, loans, and infrastructure work in the camps. First, 715 schools run by the agency will be closed, between primary, middle, and secondary, and receive more than 550,000 male and female students. Second, 140 health clinics operating in 58 camps and dozens will be closed. The gatherings will practically stop more than 7 million sick visits annually, and hundreds of patients who need to be admitted to hospitals will be sentenced to death. The prenatal care program will stop for about 60,000 pregnant women. Thirdly, the financial support that the agency provides to about 300,000 refugees from the social safety net category will stop. Fourthly, it will stop. The loan program that facilitates refugees to carry out small projects, which includes about 30,000 loans worth $25.5 million annually. Fifth, the program that provides social protection services to a total of 400,000 refugees who are most vulnerable to risks will stop. Sixth, it will cause unemployment for about 29,000 employees working in the agency. Seventh, all Infrastructure work, including sewage, sanitary ditches, road construction and repair, and environmental health through waste collection in the camps. Eighth: The legal protection program, which provides advice to refugees and some services for hiring lawyers. Ninth: All projects related to the emergency program in Syria and Gaza and the completion of the reconstruction of Nahr al-Bared camp will depend on the importance of the issue. Palestinian refugees and their right to return, which is being targeted by the entityBy targeting UNRWA, it must be pointed out that the strategic goal of undermining the agency is not only that, but the eye is on establishing the legitimacy of the occupying state in the United Nations General Assembly, as this legitimacy is still suspended in the United Nations to this day until the occupation is implemented. The first two General Assembly resolutions: Partition Resolution No. 181 of Palestine, issued on November 29, 1947, which gives the Palestinians the right to establish a state on 45 percent of the land of Palestine, and the second, Resolution No. 194, dated December 11, 1948. The first resolution expired after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, and unfortunately 78 of the Palestinian territories were abandoned. The land of Palestine, and the second resolution remains, and the way to delete it is through ending the work of UNRWA and ending the term refugee through assimilation projects in the host countries, so that there will not be a refugee title in the future to which the application of the resolution applies. Thus, the entity obtains its international legitimacy, which it is trying to maintain day and night, one of its aspects. Targeting the agency, besieging it, suffocating it, and paralyzing its capabilities and capabilities to work is the gradual drying up of the sources of financial support that donor countries voluntarily pay, which is taking place through the suspension of contributions. This comes in the context of domesticating the agency and looking forward to working on amending the school curricula and extracting positions that serve the vision of the occupation from the agency in exchange for funding. Here lies the big mistake in the mandate of UNRWA, which has remained the same since the agency was established, as the voluntary financial donation was justified when the agency was established in 1949, given that the establishment of the agency was temporary, and it still holds this status until now and for only one year, working to provide services. Health and relief for the masses of refugees, including those displaced inside Palestine occupied in 1948. After that, the agency closed its doors after the return of the refugees. Indeed, a committee emerged from Resolution 194, which is the International Conciliation Committee on Palestine. It was formed from America, France, and Turkey, and its mission was to prepare mechanisms for the return of refugees, but the work of the committee was suspended at the beginning. In the 1950s, and now, more than 74 years after the founding of the agency and the increase in the numbers of refugees and their needs, it has become necessary, even obligatory, for an amendment to be made to UNRWA’s mandate so that funding from the United Nations becomes constant so that the agency does not remain vulnerable to exploitation and the extraction of political positions because of the money that these countries pay towards it. What is happening is required action on more than one level. Firstly, at the level of the Palestinian people, the peoples of our Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world, not to stop demanding either an end to the suspension of unfair and unjust decisions, or demanding an increase in financial contributions and taking unconventional means to achieve this. They are now called upon to visit the embassies of those countries and carry out vigils and sit-ins. Solidarity in front of those embassies under the law permitted by their countries. Social media experts are also required to take creative steps in both Arabic and English. Secondly, at the diplomatic level, there is a major role that falls on the ambassadors of the State of Palestine in the countries that suspended contributions, as well as a double role for the Palestine delegate to the United Nations. In forming pressure lobbies with friendly countries within the international political kitchen. Thirdly, studies and research centers are also required to allocate large areas of their centers to refute the narrative and falsity of the occupation and present the truth with arguments and evidence. Fourthly, the countries hosting refugees must have their say in this context. On the humanitarian level, these countries have no capacity to bear The burdens and provision of services are the ones that suffer, and on the political level, it will be the biggest scandal if there is a partnership inResettlement and assimilation of refugees in the host countries and ending their case in exchange for improving their internal economic conditions will create a humanitarian and security crisis in those countries 1 The same website published again a report in January 2024 about UNRWA employees in which it claimed that they supported what it called Hamas violence on the Telegram platform read the original
Blog Title: The Nakba in a New Version Author: Wissam Al-Maqousi Date: February 6, 2024 The stories of the newly displaced people in Gaza deserve to be told, as they are chapters that came unexpectedly in a Palestinian era that is being repeated again, more than 75 years after the Nakba of 1948. Palestinian alienation said Salah Othman, 45 years old, from the Gaza Strip. Asylum is a bitter and harsh experience that my grandfather dissuaded me from when he was talking about the Nakba. How much he talked and talked about what befell them in the year of bad luck. Whenever my grandfather spoke, I felt some exaggeration in his words. I know that a tragedy befell them and we and R. Ha, but I did not imagine that everything he said was accurate, as there are exaggerations in the tragedy and memory. However, what is happening today among us in the Gaza Strip brings me back to my grandfather’s words, how truthful he was and how much his description was less than the truth. With his testimony, he recalled these events of the series Al-Taghribah, written by Walid Saif and directed by Hatem Ali. Inspired by the Palestinian Nakba, which was also considered to have not described a 100% real reality. Othman’s description of the situation came as a difficult and terrifying refugee journey. He had left with his family from the Bureij camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip after the Israeli war machine expanded its bombing and targeting of homes and citizens, and they were lost. As he describes the attack on the camp, he describes his current situation, saying, “My heart burns with regret for what happened to my family in terms of dire humanitarian and living conditions that I had never taken into account, even in nightmares. We are in a new catastrophe and ethnic cleansing, and my situation is like thousands of Gazans who were displaced from their homes towards the new camps that were established.” The southern Gaza Strip, which has turned into a primitive society that lacks all the tools of life, as if we are living in the time of the Nakba. Scenes of tents, clay ovens, and wood fires have returned, as well as queues in which children stand carrying rickety utensils, waiting for a meal and food parcels, despite what Israel claims that the south is safe. The areas of displacement there are safe, as the displaced people are exposed to bombardment on an almost daily basis, as happened in the Mawasi tents in Khan Yunis a few days ago. Othman, whose written testimony I obtained, said, “We are still vulnerable to being targeted, as the danger of death looms around us. My children, my wife, and my mother live in a crowded tent, without sufficient covers or heating, and they can barely sleep.” People are forced to sleep at night due to the extreme cold and the sounds of explosions and continuous bombing. Othman draws attention to the fact that what appears on television screens does not fully reflect the real reality and does not completely convey what we are experiencing in terms of a war of genocide, displacement and destruction. He adds that what is gaining importance and priority for us is how to find a living for my children, as they are barely We are able to provide food, as searching for it has become a hardship that we cannot always afford, in addition to the scarcity of potable water or that which we are supposed to use for bathing or washing clothes. This is in addition to the lack of medicines and medicine, and if we find the supplies you mentioned, their prices are very high, beyond our ability and potential. He also goes on to say that everything in the displacement camps has a story, and he explains that with the sunrise of each new day, I begin searching with my children for wood, tree sticks, and leaves to light a fire and cook whatever food is available. This situation is like a daily journey of torment. I feel that I have become the hero of the true Palestinian series of alienation, as all its chapters have fallen. We have to, but in a new time that is no less cruel than the past, we are not fine, not the case of Shadi JabrHe is 38 years old, as he was displaced with his family from the Al-Nasr neighborhood in Gaza City towards Rafah, and he considers that there is nothing more difficult for a person than living outside his home, and he adds, “The heart is torn with pain. We are not fine. We loved life, and we still have dreams, and the occupation missiles still wanted to eliminate everything.” Something I did in the face of the silence of the world and inside it was a turmoil, as he and other residents of the Gaza Strip said. He considers that living and staying as a displaced person is the last thing he imagined, in addition to his family tasting the bitterness of living, which increases psychological pressure and the feeling of oppression with every new day. Jabr believes that war The diaries of displacement did not differentiate between anyone, whether rich or poor, young or old. He also expressed his fear that the period of their displacement would be prolonged, indicating that he, like others, was waiting for the end of the war to return to our homes, even if they were destroyed. A daily struggle. As for Muhammad Ibrahim, 35 years old from Rafah Governorate, he was received in His home is seven families of his relatives who were displaced from the northern regions after they were forced to leave their homes forcefully due to the war. He told us about his daily struggle to secure food and living necessities with his relatives in the midst of the lack of any necessities of life. He says, “We live each day at a time, lining up at dawn to be able to take a place so that we can have a little food.” Bread, and what is troubling us is the lack of water and baby milk, the scarcity of cooking gas, and the high prices of basic foodstuffs in the markets to a degree that the displaced, who are barely able to secure their daily livelihood after leaving their homes, leaving their possessions and supplies, Ibrahim describes the conditions that people have reached in Rafah Governorate as being closer to A famine struck the population as a result of the continued aggression at a time when the current and future conditions seem ambiguous. He also explains and exploits the dialogue to call on international institutions and decision makers to deliver humanitarian aid to the displaced as quickly as possible. The Forum for the Displaced. As for the citizen Abu Omar Mustafa, who is displaced from Gaza City to Rafah, he says: He is sitting in that humble popular café located in the center of the city of Rafah, which has come to be called the Displaced People’s Forum, and he says, “I feel unable to carry out normal or normal reactions that are appropriate to what is happening around us. What is happening is beyond description or imagination, and exceeds and even exceeds our ability to endure.” Or understanding that it is completely new, completely strange, and completely unfamiliar, and it is normal for our reactions to it to not be normal. Mustafa wonders, can one really get used to the harsh, hideous things that we experience in the tent every day? Our highest wish has become to have a comfortable death. He talks about a comfortable death, and his father was martyred in a bombing. An Israeli added, the important thing is that we find someone to bury us and that our bodies do not remain on the side of the road to be eaten by stray dogs. One of our worst nightmares is to see these massacres that are happening now. Our parents and grandparents did not speak to us this time, but rather we lived all its chapters ourselves with its atrocities, tragedies, alienation and disappointment. How can our people forget or forgive? Or forgive. Rafah Governorate, in the far south of the Gaza Strip, is witnessing an unprecedented humanitarian and health crisis after it became a large camp, where government agencies estimate that about 1.9 million displaced people are mostly in Rafah. Public facilities, government schools, and those affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) have turned into shelter centers. 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Blog title UNRWA in the eyes of the storm again Author Maher Al-Sharif Date 06 February 2024 On 26 January 2024 the Israeli war government accused UNRWA allowed Hamas to use its infrastructure to carry out its activitiesThe military spokesman for this government, Elon Levy, said that the agency employed terrorists on a large scale among its 13,000 employees in the Gaza Strip, and that twelve of them were involved in the attack launched by the Hamas movement on October 7, 2023. The next day, the Minister of Defense published The Israeli Foreign Ministry, Yisrael Katz, tweeted on the UNRWA is an agency that dedicates its work to peace and development. 1 The reaction of the UNRWA administration to the Israeli accusations. Although the employment of Gazans in UNRWA is a normal matter, this is what its administration usually does when it employs local employees in the sites in which it is active in addition to the Gaza Strip, that is, in the occupied West Bank. In Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, although it is normal for its employees to have political affiliations, the Israeli war government did not in fact provide conclusive evidence of the participation of twelve UNRWA employees in the Hamas attack, which was noted by some international media such as Agence France-Presse and Sky News. However, the administration of President Joe Biden and the governments of Britain, Canada, Japan, Australia, and a number of European Union countries were quick to suspend their financial contributions to the UNRWA budget, while the governments of Norway, Spain, Ireland, and Luxembourg announced the continuation of their financial contributions to its budget. The Agency’s Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, issued a statement in which he declared that in order to protect The agency's ability to provide humanitarian aid decided to immediately terminate the contracts of these accused employees and open an investigation until the truth is proven without delay. He continued that every employee involved in terrorist acts must be held accountable, including through judicial prosecutions, considering it shocking to see the agency's funding suspended. In reaction to the allegations against a small group of employees, especially in light of the measures taken by the UN agency, on which more than two million people in Gaza depend for their survival, on February 1st, Philippe Lazzarini stated that if funding remains suspended, we will be forced to... It is likely that we will stop our operations by the end of February, not only in the Gaza Strip but also throughout Area 2. Tamara Al-Rifai, spokeswoman for UNRWA, told Agence France-Presse: “We have 33,000 employees and it is very important for us to conduct an independent investigation into the individual cases that I raised.” Israel added, “We received allegations from the Israeli government about 12 names in Gaza. We examined those names based on our own records, which include 13,000 employees, and we were able to match eight of those names.” The UNRWA spokeswoman warned that the insistence of some donor countries on stopping their funding would have a disastrous impact on the population. Gaza because the humanitarian situation is truly catastrophic in Gaza, where the war continues, where displacement continues, where people are mainly in UNRWA shelters, where they get flour from UNRWA to make bread, and where they receive medical care from UNRWA 3. In an interview conducted with him in Geneva, Hala Kodmani, senior correspondent for Liberation newspaper On January 30, Philippe Lazzarini indicated that he did not expect this collective punishment, represented by the suspension of aid to the agency from the United States, followed by about ten Western countries. He added that Donald Trump suspendedAll financial aid to the agency was withdrawn shortly after his election in 2016. UNRWA has come under severe criticism from various critics who believe it perpetuates the refugee situation, but since October 7, those critics have described the agency as part of the problem and not necessarily part of the solution. Hala Kodmani comments on Speaking by the UNRWA Commissioner General, you write that continuing the work and vital assistance provided by UNRWA in Gaza is the concern of the agency’s commissioner, who was the first international official to visit the field at the end of October. He returned four times to Gaza and described the continuous deterioration in the living conditions of the population. He said the first time I stayed A few hours ago, this was in the midst of a fuel crisis, and the fuel ban in Gaza meant that water pumps, bakeries and a desalination plant were no longer working. I remember visiting a school where a little girl looked into my eyes and begged for a drop of water and a piece of bread. It was in the schoolyard where she surely used to go. To the classroom and the correspondence continues. The second time he entered Gaza was the eve of the ten-day truce at the end of November, where the people who fled Gaza City left their entire lives behind. They lost everything, he says. I met a family whose breadwinner explained to me that they were all sleeping on the floor without... Mattresses and blankets, and they used shoes as pillows. They had been wearing the same clothes for fifty days, and their daily work was to find water and something to eat. During his last visit to the square before Christmas, he was struck by the state of mind of the people who had completely resigned. After the first few weeks of active survival, they had Something is broken, and there is no longer light in their eyes. Finally, he compares his mission in Gaza to the mission of Sisyphus, who climbs his rock to the top of the hill and before he reaches the top, he sees it falling every time. 4. Liquidating UNRWA is a new, old Israeli goal on June 12, 2023, on the 75th anniversary of The Palestinian Nakba I published an article on the Palestine Al-Midan blog entitled The dismantling of UNRWA paves the way for the liquidation of the Palestinian refugee issue. In it, I pointed out that Israeli officials never miss an opportunity and return from time to time to demanding the dismantling of UNRWA in preparation for liquidating the Palestinian refugee issue and their right to return to their homeland in accordance with International Resolution 194. Appreciating that the Israeli campaign against UNRWA took dangerous dimensions after the arrival of Donald Trump to the White House in early 2017, especially in light of the positions adopted by his administration, which after its recognition of the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and the transfer of the American embassy to it, came to explicitly call for the end of UNRWA’s work, and this was taken Context: A decision to stop the financial support that was allocated to it. On January 7, 2018, Dr. Benjamin Netanyahu renewed his demand, as I wrote, to dissolve UNRWA, which he accuses of being hostile to Israel and that its continued presence perpetuates the problem of Palestinian refugees and the so-called right of return, whose real goal is to destroy the State of Israel and that The time has come to dismantle UNRWA and merge its activities with those of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 5 It was natural for the campaign against UNRWA to escalate after the current government of Benjamin Netanyahu launched its destructive war on the Gaza Strip, because this UN humanitarian agency exposed the atrocities committed by the occupation army. The Commissioner-General of UNRWA warned, a few days after the occupation army’s incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, that Gaza has become a living hell and is on the verge of collapse, reiterating the United Nations’ call to protect civilians.The Palestinians: Regarding the call by the Zionist forces to displace more than a million Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours, UNRWA saw this call as horrific and will only lead to unprecedented levels of misery and push the population of Gaza to further deterioration. UNRWA was forced to transfer its operations center and employees. International organizations went to the southern Palestinian Strip to continue their humanitarian operations and support for Palestinian refugees. It received nearly two-thirds of these displaced people in 102 of its institutions. Nearly 27,000 displaced people also found shelter in 29 Palestinian schools under its supervision. 6 On November 9, 2023, and before the start of the humanitarian conference on... Gaza in Paris Philippe Lazzarini, who hosted the France Inter morning program, called for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and demanded the application of international humanitarian law, the entry of aid into Gaza, and the provision of more funding, as UNRWA requested $500 million for the next three months, and this is part of a general appeal from The United Nations will launch at the Paris conference to raise $12 billion. 7 Suspension of funding for UNRWA will exacerbate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. On January 30 last, the World Health Organization expressed, through its spokesman, Christian Lindmeier, its regret over the suspension of funding for UNRWA, and saw that the current controversy surrounding this The agency diverts attention from the nearly 27,000 deaths, 70 of them women and children, in Gaza. It also distracts attention from the fact that the entire population is denied access to clean water, food and shelter, and from the fact that electricity has been blocked from reaching Gaza for more than 100 days. The fact that the entire population is being subjected to constant bombardment even in areas that were considered safe moments ago. The same spokesman added that criminal activities must never go unpunished, but let us not forget the real problems on the ground. He stated that the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on donors to Not to suspend its funding to UNRWA at this very critical time because this will only harm the population of Gaza who are in dire need of assistance. 8 In the same vein, about twenty international non-governmental organizations said in a statement that they were disgusted by the desire announced by 12 countries, including The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, and Japan suspended their aid to UNRWA while Gaza is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe. 9 As for the national office of the France-Palestine Solidarity Association, on January 29 of last year, it issued a statement in which it confirmed that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has never hidden its desire to see UNRWA disappear. Just as it would like to see the disappearance of the right of return of refugees, and even of the refugees themselves, noting that six million Palestinian refugees benefit from the services provided by UNRWA, food aid, schools, and primary health care, they are the ones who are directly affected by the suspension of funding. The statement added that it is not possible to consider Israel accusing UNRWA employees. Gazans only considered it a shameless counterattack and a vile response to the decision of the International Court of Justice issued on January 26, and that the decision of the countries that suspended their funding for UNRWA, on which two million people depend for their daily survival, expresses the political and moral bankruptcy of these countries that generally tend to give Lessons for the world 10 Is it just a coincidence? On Friday, January 26, the International Court of Justice issued its interim measures in the face of the threat of genocide in the Gaza Strip.On the same day, Israeli accusations were issued against some UNRWA employees and calls to stop its activities in the Gaza Strip after the war and for the resignation of its Commissioner-General. Is this coincidence just a coincidence, in the opinion of Johan Sophie, former director of the UNRWA Judicial Office in the Gaza Strip, that the fact that the International Court of Justice in its decision UNRWA used this extensive amount of statements and its Commissioner-General may be decisive in this matter, appreciating that this campaign must also be understood as a form of collective punishment for the agency and an attempt to deter it, and that what happened is part of a broader political project, which is to displace as much as possible. Of the residents of the Gaza Strip or even the deportation of all of them, and as many Israeli officials said, this project necessarily entails the neutralization or disappearance of UNRWA, adding that this is part of a strategy aimed at discrediting an institution that has until now been the main source of information for the international media, as there is no news agency. She is authorized to return to Gaza, and there are no international investigators authorized to work there. 11 The telex carried an expressive address: UNRWA, Unwanted Witness. The French newspaper Le Monde Diplomatique noted on February 2 that this coincidence is striking, not to say it is worrying, since it is on the 26th. In January, when the International Court of Justice indicated that there was a reasonable risk of genocide in Gaza and Israel ordered five precautionary measures, the United States announced the suspension of its aid to the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, and approximately fifteen other contributors immediately followed suit, in line with the serious accusations contained in the document. It was prepared by Israeli intelligence against twelve UNRWA employees suspected of participating in the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, noting that even before leaks of the Tel Aviv report were issued in the American press, UNRWA had anticipated the matter by publicly revealing allegations condemning its employees and announcing... They were demobilized and an investigation was opened, but that attempt was not sufficient to defuse the crisis. The newspaper concluded that Israel has never stopped criticizing UNRWA, which it considers an organization working to perpetuate the refugee situation forever, but the new criticism it directs at it is characterized by unprecedented ferocity. 12 In conclusion, in order to remove UNRWA from the eyes of On February 5, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, announced the formation of an independent committee charged with evaluating the neutrality of UNRWA and how it operates, headed by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and assisting three research centers in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark to submit an initial report to the Secretary-General in late March. The next and final report at the end of next April could include recommendations to improve and strengthen UNRWA’s work mechanisms and clarify the truth of the accusations against it, which come, as António Guterres noted, while UNRWA, the most important United Nations organization in the region, is working under very difficult conditions to help two million people in the Gaza Strip. 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Blog title Artist Maysara Baroud When the war ends, I will not stop crying Author Ayham Al-Sahli Date February 05, 2024 I was one of the followers of Maysara Baroud’s art and I watched his paintings that he published on his Facebook page almost daily, so this artist used to draw his diary under the titles Specific to each period, and during the current aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, he would publish a painting almost every day if the Internet was available. Today, he is in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, after he was displaced with his family from Gaza City. I tried communicating with him to document what is happening to him as an artist living a war of extermination. In the Gaza Strip, I started talking to him months ago, and only a few days ago I was able to get answers to a few questions I had about his daily life as a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip while under fire, and about Maysara, the artist who draws to endure longer until he becomes sad later, as he says. On October 8, the Israeli occupation forces bombed a tower. The nation collapsed, including Maysara Baroud’s office, inside it. On October 10, his house and his family’s five-storey house collapsed completely. They also died by a postponed decision. Maysara, born in Gaza in 1976, holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from An-Najah National University, Nablus, in 1998, and a master’s degree. In the same field from Helwan University in Cairo in 2011, he was living in the center of Gaza City in a house he described as a warm house full of memories, but this warmth no longer existed. He expressed this by saying, “On the evening of the third day of the war, I lost this warmth when the occupation planes decided to To remove my house from existence and overnight it became trace after trace. My house was like our small world that shelters me and my family of 25 members, me, my wife, my children, my brothers, and their wives and children. He wrote on his Facebook page: “I am not sad about what I lost as much as I am sad about losing my studio, and in it I lost all My paintings. This house was not a house. Rather, it was a small home. Do not say rubble. Rather, say life, soul, and memories. And that life, soul, and memories are a large part of my works and artworks by artist friends. I have lost my home.It has my own studio, in which I keep all my experiences, archives, and works over the past 30 years. I lost my tools, dozens of paintings, thousands of manuscripts, sketches, and an art library containing more than 3,000 books. I lost my private little world and all my memories and possessions. It was not the first time that Maysara faced a difficult experience like this, as he was in a bad situation. Like the residents of the Strip, his office and studio were also partially damaged in 2021 after the Al-Jalaa Tower adjacent to the Watan Tower was destroyed. He says here that the first experience prepared me for what would happen in the year 2023, but what happened exceeded all expectations and imagination and exceeded all the nightmares that I could have expected, perhaps. Thinking about the challenge and will of those who lived through painful experiences like these leads one to think that the artist or creator will reproduce what was destroyed, but Maysara has his opinion: Is it possible to go back in time behind safety? After Maysara lost his home, he moved from one place to another until he reached a number of people. There are 10 of these places that he travels between, between Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, and Khan Yunis. Today, he is in Rafah in a stop that he hopes will be the last in the journey of searching for a safe place and trying to survive. He adds that you can imagine moving every time in search of a place that will shelter everyone in the absence of... The presence of a means of transportation and transportation and the lack of appropriate options. These movements brought him and other people of the Gaza Strip a lot of bitterness and pain. He explained this by saying: We have lived through painful chapters of the general tragedy that befell all the residents of Gaza, including killing, destruction, cold, long nights, high prices, and scarcity of food and water. Drinking, cutting off electricity, cooking gas, and fuel. It was a life full of misery and painful details. We lived a death in which we were dead with a suspended execution or a postponed decision. It is not just a disaster that is going through the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and it is not an easy matter for any human being there. The word genocide is almost insufficient to describe the machine. Death, which sheds its death on the Gaza Strip, says Maysara: We were shocked and lived for long days in a wilderness. The catastrophe threw us into a deep abyss and enveloped us in complete darkness with no horizon of escape or an end to the nightmare. I am still alive. Anyone who follows this artist on social media notices that he publishes a painting or Daily or almost daily sketches. This was before the war and continued during the war. He says in this regard, over the past years, I used to draw a diary every night and publish it in a series bearing a specific topic. But today the topic is completely different, as I draw a diary to tell friends and followers that I am still alive. Perhaps this series will bear this name later, and Fan We Are Here explains that his goal was not to record daily events, saying, “I was not looking to express a tragedy that passes through us at every moment, and I did not plan for that. Rather, I was carrying out a task that I used to do before the war, and trying to preserve The only thing that remains for me from my daily practices before the disaster is that Maisara’s daily drawings carry a visual structure that is accurately perceived by those who follow the course of the aggression on the Gaza Strip, and the same applies to those who do not follow it. For the first, it is easy to capture that relationship between the city, the war machine, and the human being who seems to identify with the city, and this is for the former. To us is the place in Palestine called Gaza, but in the eyes of the other, these drawings simulate any destruction and destruction that could befall a people or human group against which a devastating war is waged. Maysarah explains his vision of the war diaries that he draws, saying, “I draw what I see with my eyes and translate it with my own artistic vision into scenes.” From an imagined destroyed city and masses of human beings intertwined with warplanes and military vehicles, I draw the lives of the displaced inThe tents and the shelter in the ground. I also draw a narrow space full of bodies surrounding it, defining it, and pierced by arrows that point to a path to anything. The time of displacement. This tragedy did not stop Maysara from trying to take a role in this genocide, which takes the form of war, and its name is today in the year 2023, after it took The name of the Nakba, 75 years ago from now, says: I tried to search for a role for myself in these difficult situations, so I volunteered in the relief teams and their various committees and worked in the crews of civil society organizations and distributed aid to the displaced as much as possible. Perhaps this activity carried out by Maysarah is a coincidence in abnormal situations. What the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip are experiencing is that they meet friends and relatives, and he expresses this by saying that communication is very difficult, especially with the continuous interruption of the mobile phone networks, the Internet, and communications. However, due to the mass displacement and the presence of almost all the residents of Gaza in the south of the Strip, chance has become better than a thousand dates, so you can Without a prior appointment or planning, you will collide with friends and relatives who are still alive, and if you are lucky, you can get some minutes to communicate through blue space with others, and often with those who do not live in Gaza. Sadness comes later. The pain is many and intense in wars, but it has multiplied. In this war, and here the artist says, everything that we went through in this war is painful, and every passing moment carries many unforgettable events, but I believe that the pain and sadness will come after the end of the war. I have convinced myself that sadness is postponed until after the deaths of the war, its impact and its reality, but what After the war, he also has his words, and he says: “When the war ends, I will cry a lot for what we have lost and what we have lost.” When the war ends, we will receive condolences, exchange insults, and move forward as we are accustomed to. However, hope remains, as he explains in his dialogue. For him, what is constant is that we are a people who love life and seek Because he receives it generously, and despite the tragedies that we have experienced and are going through now, we will rebuild ourselves again, and this is the task of those of us who remain alive, but with the extent of the devastation that befell us, this will require a lot of time, faith, and collective action. He adds, “I will dream and search for a life and a future for my children away from War, pain, and suffering, and I will try to forget with them the chapters of the tragedy, and we will try to collect beautiful memories of places, friends, relatives, and memories of people and things that no longer exist due to the war machine and the steel bird loaded with killing. read the original
Blog title: Israel resettles Gaza and deports its people:An achievable project Author Maher Al-Sharif Date February 2, 2024 It seems that a broad political current in Israel not only dreams of re-settlement of the Gaza Strip and deporting its residents, but has begun to develop, taking advantage of the war waged by the Israeli army on the Strip, practical plans to implement this, as appeared in the conference held by supporters of this movement. In the city of Jerusalem on the twenty-eighth of last January, Ariel Sharon’s plan to dismantle the settlements in the Gaza Strip. In April 2003, the international Quartet, the United Nations, the United States of America, the European Union, and Russia, adopted the road map for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that had been developed by the administration of US President George W. Bush. On the eve of its invasion of Iraq, which consisted of three stages, the third stage ended in the year 2005 with the establishment of a Palestinian state. However, the Israeli Prime Minister at the time, Ariel Sharon, had reservations about that plan and in 2004, in order to circumvent the idea of establishing a Palestinian state and continuing settlement in the West Bank, he proposed a project aimed at Disengagement from the Gaza Strip is based on the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the dismantling of the 21 existing Jewish settlements there, in addition to four settlements established in the northern West Bank, provided that Israel maintains control over the Strip’s borders, crossings, air and sea space, and remains dependent on Israel for the supply of water and electricity, and so on. During the month of August 2005, the Israeli army organized Operation Extended Hands of Brotherhood aimed at evacuating the settlements in the Gaza Strip. Despite the tensions expressed in the months preceding the withdrawal and the opposition of a number of settlers and their standing in the face of army units, the evacuation operation was completed without incident. Major clashes. On the 17th of that month, the largest settlement, Neve Dekalim, was evacuated in an atmosphere of intense tension. Then, the next day, Israeli soldiers evacuated one of the most resistant settlements, the Kfar Darom settlement, as well as the oldest settlement, the Netzer Hazani settlement, and after the departure of the last Jewish settlers on August 22. The last Israeli soldier left the Gaza Strip on September 12, 2005 1 on the road to the settlement and deportation conference on March 21, 2023, that is, about seven months before the Hamas movement launched its military operation against the Gaza envelope settlements. The Minister of National Missions in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, Orit Struck, praised the The Religious Zionism Party passed the law that repeals the legislation that in 2005 ordered the evacuation of four settlements in the northern West Bank, paving the way for the return of settlers to it. She saw it as a step towards regaining control over the Gaza Strip and restoring settlement there. She added in an interview with the right-wing Arotz 7 channel, “I believe that in the end.” The sin of disengagement will be corrected, and I do not know how long it will take, but unfortunately returning to the Gaza Strip will lead to many casualties, just as exiting the Gaza Strip led to many casualties, but in the end it is part of the Land of Israel, and a day will come when we return to it. 2 For his part, Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance and Minister in the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with Channel 14 on May 12, 2023: “Maybe the time will come to return to Gaza, dismantle Hamas, and demilitarize Gaza. I think the time will come when there will be no other option but to reoccupy Gaza, considering that The only solution to the repeated clashes with Palestinian organizations in Strip 3. Days after the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Education Minister Yoav Kisch delivered a speech.Transport Minister Miri Regev in Benjamin Netanyahu's government blamed the politicians who were behind the dismantling of settlements in the Gaza Strip, while Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, a member of the Jewish Power party, announced that Israel must completely reoccupy the Gaza Strip after the war, saying that the Palestinians are unable to control the area from Without making it a stronghold of terrorism, this same minister had made headlines in November 2023 when he raised the possibility of dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip to put an end to the Hamas movement. At the beginning of last December, an opinion poll conducted by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem showed that 33 of the respondents supported Reoccupying the Gaza Strip and restoring the settlements that were dismantled in 2005. On the 11th of the same month, a coalition of settler movements held a conference to discuss a practical plan to re-establish Jewish settlements in the Strip. It attracted about 200 people, and its organizers prepared a list of families who pledged to settle in a possible settlement project in Gaza, and two days later, an Israeli construction contractor published on the account of his real estate company specializing in building housing in settlements in the West Bank. A number of our employees have begun work on reclamation work, removing rubble and evacuating the squatters. We hope that all the kidnapped people will return to their homes safely in the near future, that our soldiers will return to their homes, and that we can begin construction throughout the Gush Katif area, which refers to the former settlement bloc that was established in the Gaza Strip. For 38 years between 1967 and 2005, this advertising campaign, which was later deleted, reflected a common position among many politicians. 4 Positions of settlement advocates On the eve of the conference, on the eve of the conference on resettlement in the Gaza Strip and the deportation of its residents, one of its organizers, Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Settlements Council, said: We have to restore this area and establish settlements in Gaza. We have to start with the northern Gaza Strip, the area where the settlements of Eli Sinai, Nissanit, and Dogit were located, near Sderot. There the first settlements will be built. He added, “Sixteen years ago we struggled to return to Homesh after Disengagement In the end, the disengagement law was canceled and we returned to Homesh and northern Samaria, and we will also return to Gush Katif, speaking about the settlement outpost in the West Bank that was evacuated in 2005, while the other organizer of the conference, Daniela Weiss, leader of the Nahlah movement, active in establishing settlement outposts in the West Bank, confirmed that Western that Gaza City will be Jewish. There are no legal problems in the northern Gaza Strip. We inquired and found that the area was never under Egyptian sovereignty. She added, “We have formed serious teams and collected donations. We will more or less follow the same strategy that we used in Judea and Samaria. First, we will establish our presence in the military camps.” Then we will proceed step by step, and each settlement will bear the name of a soldier who died in combat, or the initials of a number of soldiers who fell in Gaza. In the city of Khan Yunis, a Jewish city will be built, and we will call it Hanot Yona. As for Likud Party representative Tali Gottlieb, who is expected to attend the conference, she said, “Only the settlements.” In the northern Gaza Strip, it will bring security and defeat the enemy. Unfortunately, Likud leaders are afraid to talk about settlements and control over the northern Gaza Strip 5Two ministers from the Likud Party, Haim Katz, who moved from the Ministry of Tourism to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Miki Zohar, Minister of Sports and Culture, launched a campaign to promote the conference and encourage participation in it. In a statement praising the conference, Haim Katz said that rebuilding the settlements in the Gaza Strip will be a firm message to our enemies that we will not allow... Start destroying ourselves, while Miki Zohar said in a promotional video that the conference will be an opportunity to explain the importance of settlements and the importance of preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state, adding that what happened on October 7 showed that the only way to achieve victory for Israel is to apply the values and principles that are expressed through... The settlement project, and when the terrorists understand that in response to what they are doing, we will settle on these lands, they will quickly reach a different result from the one that resulted from October 7. 6. Settlement brings security and victory. On the twenty-eighth of last January, the meeting took place in the International Conference Hall in the city of Jerusalem. The settlement conference achieved security and victory, which included about five thousand Israeli men and women who are supporters of the settlement, and eleven ministers from Benjamin Netanyahu’s government participated in it, including Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Finance, a minister in the Ministry of War, Orit Strok, Minister of National Missions, both from the Religious Zionism Party, and Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of Security. Nationalist, Amihai Eliyahu, Minister of Heritage, Yitzhak Waserloff, Minister of Development of the Negev and Galilee, who are from the Jewish Power Party, Haim Katz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amichai Shekli, Minister of Diaspora and Social Equality, Shlomo Karai, Minister of Communications, Miki Zohar, Minister of Culture and Sports, who are from the Likud Party, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, who is from the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party. On behalf of 15 members of the Knesset, rabbis who support settlement, and some families of soldiers involved in the war on the Gaza Strip. Banners with the words “Settlements bring security” were spread in many places in the hall. Some activists carried a banner that read, “Only transfer will bring peace,” while a map appeared on the central screen. The Gaza Strip with the location of the old settlements and the six new settlements that the settler leaders want to establish in the north of the Strip, including a new settlement that the organizers envision instead of Gaza City, which passed today to a large extent in the hall. Yossi Dagan’s voice resounds, and those present chant behind him. The land of Israel is all ours and it is dead. The Oslo Accords and the people of Israel are alive. Then the ministerial speakers take turns on the conference platform. Itamar Ben Gvir says in his speech: It is time to return to Gush Katif and encourage voluntary immigration. He adds that withdrawal brings war, and if we want not to repeat the October 7th attack, we must return to our homes and control the land. In Gaza, we must find a legal way to guarantee the voluntary migration of Palestinians and enact a law to execute terrorists. During Ben Gvir’s speech, the attendees chanted, “Only transfer achieves peace.” He replied to them, saying, “You are right. Voluntary migration must be encouraged.” As for his colleague, Bezalel Smotrich, he took the opportunity to remember his previous battles against the Oslo Accords. He said, “I was in the fifth grade and I was beaten because of my stances. I stood against the evacuation of the Gaza settlements in 2005, and I paid the price in prison.” He added that the people of Israel stand at an important crossroads and we must decide whether we will escape from terrorism again or whether we will learn the lesson and settle. In our country, across its length and breadth, we control it and fight terrorism. Without settlement there is no security, and without security in the Gaza Strip, there will be no security in all of Israel. It will be up to us.Returning to the Gaza Strip and its occupation. In the context of his speech, Miki Zohar said that settlement alone brings security, and what is clear after the massacre on October 7 is that the foolishness of uprooting settlements from Gush Katif and the northern West Bank must be corrected. Shlomo Karai explained that transfer is the only real way to make Hamas pay the price. While Yitzhak Goldknopf saw that abandoning parts of the Land of Israel not only leads to a lack of security, but also sheds the blood of Jews, and he called on the government to reconstruct the Gush Katif settlements and return to the Gaza Strip. For his part, Eliyahu Libman, head of the Kiryat Arba settlement council in the Hebron region, considered this The conference is a conference of those who choose the words of God as a policy of action. At the conclusion of the conference, it was announced that the first 500 families had registered their names to return to stability in the Gaza Strip. 7 As for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he refrained from participating in the conference, but he declared that he allowed representatives and ministers to express their opinions and insisted on That Israel's policy regarding the Gaza Strip after the war is determined by the entire security cabinet and that no decision has been made regarding a return to Gaza 8 The implications of this conference should not be underestimated. The conference faced opposition inside and outside Israel, as the American website Axios quoted 4 American and Israeli officials. Defense Minister Yoav Galant promised the United States that he would not allow any re-settlement or establishment of new settlements in the Gaza Strip during his term. A minister allied with the official camp led by Benny Gantz described the conference as divisive and harmful to Israel’s war effort in the Gaza Strip. As for opposition leader Yair Lapid, he said: He expressed his regret that the Council of Ministers had reached rock bottom once again, describing the conference as a disgrace to the Prime Minister and his party, which was once at the heart of the national camp and was now being dragged aimlessly by extremists. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs also condemned the conference, as did the German Foreign Ministry. 9 However, this Verbal condemnations should not push the Palestinians to underestimate the implications of this conference, because the forces that organized it are determined to achieve their project, and they will resort to the classic method that the settlement movement in the West Bank has followed for years, that is, concentrating on the lands or in army positions in settlement outposts and small groups that may be In the lands where the army intends to establish a security belt, it then exerts political pressure on the government and the Knesset to legislate its existence without paying attention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, as it does not believe in the existence of international laws, but rather one law, which is the law of the Lord, who owns the entire land of Israel. https logging in the media 00000000768 Evacuation of colons juifs from the bande de gaza from the troupes of Israel html https perspective usherbrooke ca bilan servlet bmanalyse 2 https ar timesofisrael com A hard-line minister praises the repeal of the decoding law 3 https www i24news tv ar middle east news 168389985 5 Bezalel Smotrich Israel will have no choice but to reoccupy Gaza in the future 5 https fr timesofisrael com The mills of activities of entering the place will return to the market after the meeting 6 https fr timesofisrael com the ministres of the book will be presented at the conference on theretablissement of implantations in Gaza 7 https www lemonde fr international article 2024 01 29 the recolonization of the Gaza project messenger with one part of the gouvernement israelien_6213651_3210 html Nir Hassoun Settlement in Gaza is just a slogan The main topic in the right-wing conference is transfer Haaretz January 29, 2024 Anshel Baber, for the participants in the Transfer Conference, October 7 is still proof that salvation still exists. 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Blog Title Overcoming the Siege in the West Bank Creativity in Daily Life Author Mashhour Al-Batran Date March 28, 2024 Introduction This is not the first siege that people have experienced, but it is the longest and most severe. In the siege, life is harsh on people, but it gives the besieged two virtues There are many things, the first of which is an exceptional ability to create new things and ideas or to reconsider usual practices in an unusual way. This is the case as creativity is born from pain and suffering. When society is pushed into the abyss of siege, its existence is deteriorated, so creativity becomes the secret of suThe resistance would have been able to reject the principle of one Israeli prisoner in exchange for three Palestinian prisoners and demand the liberation of a larger number of Palestinians. It is no wonder that the resistance has turned to this formula in the deal after it became despairing of the Arab and Islamic position, especially after the Arab-Islamic summit that was held in Riyadh on November 11. November, whose final statement, in its third paragraph, called for breaking the siege on Gaza and imposing the immediate entry of Arab, Islamic, and international humanitarian aid convoys, including food, medicine, and fuel, into the Strip. 4 Although the fourth paragraph of the statement implicitly nullified the effect of its predecessor by entrusting the matter to Egypt and its efforts in this context, any continuation. The situation is as it is. Perhaps the Palestinian resistance waited days until the implementation of breaking the siege and imposing the entry of aid, which has not been achieved at the date of writing these lines, so it was forced to use the prisoners’ paper to enter some relief aid into Gaza. The aid story returned to its former era after the end of the truce, but the pressure continues. The international community prompted the United States to put pressure on the occupying state to increase the amount of aid. Since December 12, the occupying state accepted the opening of the Kerem Shalom crossing to inspect aid, in addition to the Al-Auja Nitsana crossing, before returning to the Rafah crossing again. Since December 17, the occupying state announced that the trucks You will enter directly from the Kerem Shalom crossing. This retreat in the occupation’s position in preventing the entry of aid through the Israeli crossings came as a result of escalating international and popular pressure calling for stopping the aggression and providing relief to the Gaza Strip, especially in the United States itself, but the office of the occupation Prime Minister, in a comment on this retreat, claimed This step came to enable the occupying state to commit to bringing in 200 aid trucks daily in accordance with what was stipulated in the Armistice Agreement. International pressure appeared to be mounting against the occupying state, especially after the Security Council’s adoption on December 22 of Resolution 2720 calling for increasing and facilitating the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip. Gaza 5 However, the reality, by tracking the number of trucks entering the Strip daily, indicates that the number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip has not reached 200 per day, and at best the daily average is 150 trucks. Of course, the continuation and worsening of the aggression, the increase in the number of displaced persons, and the systematic destruction of infrastructure, medicine, and homes. Citizens will make the need for urgent aid multiply so greatly that 150, 200, or even 500 trucks will not be enough, as was the case before the aggression, to meet the needs of the Strip and its besieged people, taking into account that the vast majority of this aid ends up in the south and center of the Gaza Strip without That is, nothing reaches except a small amount to the north of the Gaza Strip, as the people there came to the point of eating animal food due to extreme hunger and siege, before their situation worsened and they ate the same animals in the past days, and the occupation is still working to this moment with all its effort to obstruct the entry of aid in an effort accompanied by destruction. All necessities of life in the Gaza Strip, as Action Aid International issued a statement in which it explained that the confusing and arbitrary procedures regarding the type of aid allowed to enter Gaza caused thousands of basic materials to be stopped at the border crossings and prevented them from reaching those who most need them. These include materials that The occupation still prevents the entry, according to the organization’s statement, of oxygen cylinders, anesthesia medications for hospitals, and stone fruits, under the pretext that the seeds can be used as bullets or to grow trees and poles.Tents, which are essential to provide shelter for 1.9 million displaced people in Gaza. 6 wounded are martyred before the crossing opens. The other side of the tragedy of closing the Rafah crossing is obstructing the exit of the wounded from the Strip for treatment in hospitals abroad. The urgent need to open the crossing for the exit of the wounded increases with the escalation of aggression and the war of extermination that It has left more than 65 thousand wounded so far, and the number is constantly increasing as long as the aggression continues. The increasing number of wounded is accompanied by the occupation forces’ continuous and direct targeting of hospitals and medical facilities in the Strip, and according to statements by Christian Lindmeier, spokesman for the World Health Organization, to Anadolu Agency, 22 hospitals in the Gaza Strip have been out of capacity. service out of 36, while 14 hospitals continued to provide partial services. 7 In a statement by the Euro-Mediterranean Center for Human Rights in mid-December, the Center explained that only 1% of more than 8,000 wounded people in urgent need of travel were able to go out for treatment abroad, as The exit of the wounded is subject to arbitrary occupation restrictions, which require security approval from the occupation army for every name of a person trying to travel for treatment. The Ministry of Health in Gaza sends a daily list containing 300 wounded names to the Egyptian side, but what the occupation approves is only 20 to 50 names, and after a delay of 24 to 72. This often leads to the martyrdom of some of the wounded who obtain the necessary security approvals before they can leave for treatment. 8 As for those who wanted to save their lives from the hell raging behind them in the Gaza Strip, they had to pay huge sums of money in bribes estimated at thousands of dollars per departure to officials on the Egyptian side of the crossing. To include their names in the lists of departures, the required amount has constantly increased with the escalation of the aggression, from 3,000 US dollars to 10,000 dollars per person. News of these unfair facts have been circulating since the beginning of the aggression, but they did not gain widespread momentum until after important newspapers began to talk about them, including those Newspapers: The British newspaper The Guardian, which published a report on the issue on January 8, 9. Following the uproar that arose over the issue, the Egyptian authorities announced that they had made changes in the crews supervising the crossing to avoid a recurrence of these incidents and called on the Palestinians to report any financial blackmail attempt to the Egyptian security services present at the crossing. Who closes the crossing? Occupation lawyer Christopher Stucker claimed before the International Court of Justice during the hearing to consider the genocide case brought by South Africa against the occupying state that access to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing is controlled by Egypt and Israel has no obligation to do so under international law. This was in an attempt to absolve the occupation of the charge of genocide and imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip. Naturally, Egypt denied this claim and explained that the measures taken by the occupation are what obstructs the entry of aid and the removal of the wounded. It has repeatedly confirmed that the crossing, for its part, is open 24 hours a day. In fact, it is not important. When someone is about to die of hunger, thirst, cold, bombardment, or from the pain of his wounds for which he cannot find a cure, who should close the crossing, especially since the occupying state has no direct control over it and that it connects two Arab countries without an intermediary? Egypt had an opportunity after that. The Israeli claim, which is contrary to the truth, should give a practical response by opening the crossing to its west and allowing the entry of aid and the removal of the wounded without waiting for permission from the occupying state, but this did not happen, and in the face of this situation, Dr. Munir Al-Barsh, Director General of the Ministry of Health, said inGaza Strip, in an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher on December 12. If the decision was up to me, I would have closed this crossing so that it would not be thought that there is an open crossing to bring in aid or take out the wounded. Let us die in silence and come together to be judged by God. 1. Hostilities in the Gaza Strip and Israel. Summary report. Updates No. 48 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 11 23 2023 2 This process was explained by Hisham Adwan, spokesman for the Palestinian Crossings and Borders Authority, in an interview on the Palestinian Al-Ghad channel, from Rafah to Al-Awja, an aid inspection trip until it reaches inside the Gaza Strip 3 The temporary humanitarian truce in Gaza. 2023 Its terms and details Al-Jazeera 1 12 2023 4 Text of the final statement of the Arab-Islamic Summit in Riyadh Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed 11 11-2023 5 The Security Council adopts a resolution regarding expanding the entry of aid into Gaza Al-Jazeera 12 22 2023 6 Obstructing the entry of aid trucks hinders the arrival of food and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip in 2 3 million people continue to face the risk of the spread of famine and disease Action Aid International 12 24 2024 7 World Health The situation in Gaza is catastrophic and hunger is killing the population Anatolia Agency Interview 1 26 2024 8 Only 1 percent of them were transferred for treatment Restricting the travel of the sick and wounded to Gaza A prior death sentence Euro-Mediterranean Center for Human Rights Human 12 12 2023 9 palestinians desperate to flee gaza pay thousands in bribes to brokers the guardian 8 12 2024
Blog title Rifaat Al-Arir is incomplete Honoring the author Muhammad Al-Kurd Date January 31, 2024 Rifaat I told my editor in the American newspaper I work for that I wanted to eulogize you, but I was unable I stuttered and did not write anything. The news of your martyrdom came to me, as did all your lovers, heavy, crushing and cruel. Your commandment to all of us is to turn your execution into a story and a legend. Paper planes roam the spaces of the world without a passport, also heavy and cruel, like handcuffs. The more we try to turn you into a story, the more you chain us to an inescapable truth. You are dead, but my negligence. In lamentation, it is not only the result of sadness. The language in which you wanted us to mourn you is an arrogant language that does not accommodate us or our forms of life. To mourn a Palestinian man in English means to torture yourself. This language written on the missiles that killed you commands us to qualify you for condolences before the condolences, to absolve you of your sins. Your geography. And by your religion, color, gender, and affiliations, we exclude you from the ranks of our fighters, and we fight to show your exceptionalism, and we sew the wings of angels and saints on your back, so that then and only then will you become worthy of pity by virtue of your noble profession, your high education, and your bullet-free poems. We simply do not exist in the colonizer’s language. Declaring your death requires extracting recognition of your existence at all, and extracting confessions is... Self-flagellation also turns the funeral of the Palestinian into an arena for mobilization, persuasion, and education in which there are no postulates and objective facts in this equation. I cannot know the world about Rifaat without knowing them, and they will not know the Shujaiya neighborhood, and they will not know Shujaiya without knowing the Gaza Strip, and they will not understand the latter. They did not understand Palestine, colonialism, Zionism, and the Nakba. Thus, when mourning, we wear the uniform of a historian, activist, and political analyst, and we make international conventions, laws, and statistics a reference that spreads in the lines of lamentation. It may compete with and surpass your achievements, the memories of your loved ones, your funny situations, and our letters to your wife and children. I know, or at least guess, that your opinion is different, while I see a burden in these data. You see a feasibility. You see an opportunity to transform the tragedy of an individual into a tool with which to support an entire people. For you, Palestine is not only a conviction but also a material practice that you give to the tourist.The spectator and the idiot diplomat seriously discuss it with the taxi driver in all the countries you visit, and he goes home loaded with stories that change his own world. Yasser, one of your former students, told me that you canceled the university exams for your students when the settlement fires raged in our neighborhood in Jerusalem and the bombing intensified on Gaza, and you told them that their grades were that. The class will get louder as their voices get louder by talking about Gaza in English on social media sites, and if it were not for their voice and many voices, not a single brick would remain of the neighborhood. Therefore, I will not mock the word, even if my words appear bare, without claws or fangs, and I will not refrain from conversations with strangers at airports and on the bus, because you believe in the word, and we do. We believe in you read the original
Blog title Dear winter, have mercy on us Testimonies of Gaza detainees Author Nabih Odeh Date January 30, 2024 The roads of Gaza are covered with bombardment and covered with rubble of bombed buildings. There are entire neighborhoods that have become a paste of steel, cement, furniture, children’s toys, their clothes, and the rest of their bodies, as well as cooking utensils and sofas. And sleeping beds, so there is no way to trace those who passed at the beginning of December last year. A line of prisoners passed through the rubble, almost naked, with their heads blindfolded and bent forward, and their hands tied and tied behind their backs. Military cargo vehicles were at the last neighborhood in the city, where they quickly set off from there, and the bodies collided with each other, swaying and flying over the iron sheet amidst the screams of the prisoners and the laughter of the soldiers. “Hello, cold.” I said to myself in the midst of the shock of my arrest. “It is upon us, cold.” He made a hole in the back wall of the pharmacy that I opened years ago on Shuhada Street in Jabalia Camp, and a large number of displaced people fleeing death gathered there. I used to travel to it through Abu Hussein Preparatory School for Boys to bring whatever medicine I had for children, women, and patients, and sometimes I would return among the rubble of the buildings. Under bombardment, one time, while trying to reach medicine, while I was passing the stairs of a demolished building, one of the soldiers surprised me, pointing his rifle at me. It seemed that a group of soldiers had hidden in a demolished building, so they came out and said, “Raise your hands and turn your face to the wall.” I raised my hand in fear and panic and turned my face to the opposite of the soldier. Because there was no longer a wall for me to face, and I began muttering the two testimonies in a very low voice out of intense terror. I stood waiting for the sound of the bullet, so the soldier approached me and hit me with the butt of the rifle on the top of my back, between my shoulders, and he threw me to the ground on top of the rubble. He put his foot on my back, moved my hand back, and handcuffed me in the middle of the beating, but nothing helped me. Attempts to introduce myself as a pharmacist, and increased beatings with kicks and rifle butts, beatings on the verge of death, and beatings to death all have preliminaries that must be cut off in the first moments of arrest before the journey of torment leads to the new detainee. I was not killed by gunfire, but during my transfer I heard someone screaming and then he disappeared. His voice after a burst of gunfire close to me. It seemed that one of the soldiers had killed a civilian and was surprised by him. I said to myself, “Maybe my brother, maybe my friend, and maybe one of my relatives.” This event increased my anxiety and fear, and perhaps they had seen me beforehand, and therefore they did not kill me. In any case, I was destined to stay alive and get to know him. The new Guantanamo in its Israeli version The new Guantanamo on the arduous road to the Sde Teman military base, west of the city of Beersheba, where the trucks transporting the prisoners stopped. It was a journey of additional pains and pains. I thought at first they were taking us to the Ashkelon prison, a detention center immersed in...The oldest and one born from the womb of a military decree issued by the leadership of the occupation army in 1970, the decision was translated by Moshe Dayan and Rafael Eitan in their statements, summarizing the purpose behind putting prisoners in prisons, saying that they would be places for people who were merely numbers and human masses suffering from diseases. This was repeated by the director of Ashkelon Prison in the year 2000, in a press interview, when he said that he did not know or mention the name of any of the prisoners and that each one of them is just a number. I said to myself: Will I become a number, will I become a hostage of permanent illness, or will one of the former Shin Bet investigators remember me? I read in one of the WhatsApp groups some time before my arrest. The security man, whose name I did not remember, remembers the character of Yahya Sinwar very well. He said that he knows him better than his mother knows him, in reference to the degree of his knowledge of the character of Abu Ibrahim, and this matter in itself undermines the theory of Eitan and Dayan. I said to Moataz the doctor in the depths of my soul, while I was naked and handcuffed, did you tell prisoner No. One, but my name is Moataz and I am from Jabalia and I am not Mahmoud Bakr Hijazi. The first Palestinian prisoner to enter prisons and was arrested following the Eilaboun tunnel bombing on January 17, 1965. Will I have to gradually reduce the experience of prisoners for the past 50 years? Will I be forced to work as forced labor in the manufacture of chains? Tanks, bags, and cloth mops. I am forced to clean the rooms of the jailers and officers. Perhaps one of them will come and do what his predecessor did when he forced the prisoners to make candles for the Jewish holidays. An interrogation without a room. There were many investigators in the interrogation place. I waited for the cloth bag to be removed from my face. I want to see the interrogator’s face and observe. His broken Arabic language, and his confusion and confusion in searching while I am in front of him makes me stronger. There is no table behind which he sits so that he can jump at me with lightning speed and beat me up, and there is no light shining on me, behind which sometimes an agent or a security element disappears who they do not want me to know, and no one passes a cup of hot tea or a cup of coffee to the investigator so that he can... By sipping it slowly, he appears before me as an ordinary person who goes about his normal time with a lot of comfort in the most difficult moments, and he is not the only one who bombarded me with questions, as the voices interspersed with the screams of the new prisoners and the sounds of beating with the stick and the iron cable that carves painful lines in the body, and what increases the pain is the pouring of cold and hot water. On those many lines, and between question and question, and before waiting for the answer, the investigator used to administer an electric shock that shocked the sensitive areas of my body. I was in severe pain, and the pain exceeded sitting on a small chair whose height did not exceed 20 centimeters and whose base did not exceed 20 square centimetres, with the limbs tied together at the back, and during the hours of the night, the The weather was cold in the Negev desert, in the open air surrounded by a window topped with barbed wire, and strong flashlights were directed at the prisoners. Moataz was able to distinguish between day and night through the intensity of the sun’s rays and the cold of the night, as my face was covered all the time with a piece of cloth or a bag that exuded a dirty smell. I am not among the names. It is true that I am not the first detainees and I will not go into the long experience of prisoners, but the occupation applied to me and my colleagues the new illegal security law, which prevents prisoners from meeting with a lawyer and forces them to be brought before a judge who extends their detention in accordance with the applicable regulations and laws, with certain conditions related to the investigation process that could It has been going on for months. I am not among the names. There is no message from me, even verbally, from the International Red Cross to tell my family that I am still alive and not among the names. So I am now in Guantanamo, its Israeli version. I only hear moaning and screaming, and I have never seen the light. I urinate in my clothes and eat with my eyes closed. Also I don't know what the food isWhat I eat, but it is one meal throughout the day and night, and I also relieve myself in the open air, and I do not know anything around me. I have become without eyes, and I only smell my scent, and I am not among the names. The air, the cold, the sun, and the night are the ones that indicate my presence, in addition to my many aches throughout my body, in addition to the desert that has turned into An interrogation room, a large cell, and a large prison full of hope and pain would summarize the story of 31 detainees, prisons, and detention centers, and tell the story of more than 800,000 detainees, according to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, and more than a million prisoners, according to official figures. Palestinian, a non-hypothetical biography of a group of stories of prisoners who were arrested from the Gaza Strip during this aggression read the original
Blog title Palestinian art in a time of war Author Jassim Shoman Date January 30, 2024 In a society that has been succumbing under the weight of a war waged by an occupying military machine for nearly 80 years, he faced... Palestinian society, with all its spectrums, these assaults and attacks, each according to their location and profession, but the scale of the recent aggression against the Gaza Strip after the events of October 7, 2023, made an old and modern question rise to the surface again about the importance of art and its usefulness in documenting the attacks and supporting the Palestinian cause, and some artists, intellectuals, and initiatives have risen. And institutions launch dialogues in this regard, such as the dialogue on art in times of war, for example, which was organized by Studio 301 in the city of Bethlehem. With a quick look at the history of international art in similar moments, we find it clear that art has its impact and its important role, and by analogy with the Palestinian street, art has said its word and followed an important example in this regard. Over the past 80 years, the field has played an important role in expressing and protesting against aggression, occupation and its tools. It has played a fundamental role in documentation and archiving. It has polarized the discourse in its connotations, stimulating solidarity with its cause. It has played a major role in transmitting trauma across generations and keeping the memory alive after he consolidated it visually using representation. In its symbols, what is the extent of the impact of art and the soft power of culture in confronting the cruelty and brutality of the bloody war machine in general and the occupation machine seeking ethnic cleansing in particular, as is the reality in the Palestinian situation in particular, when talking about an act of occupation uprooting the land and the resources beneath it and the buildings above it? With people and trees, it seems to the viewer that art is nothing but a palm facing an awl, for it is the power to prevail. This question has made the author of this article bloody with a sense of the absurdity of any act that does not amount to the horror of the Israeli occupation’s attacks, which have recently wreaked havoc on the besieged Gaza Strip, specifically after the events of October 7. October 2023, or what was known as the Al-Aqsa Flood, and on all the human and geographical components of the Palestinian people in general. The Revolution, Shafiq Radwan, 1967 poster. In order to respond, as a writer and visual artist, to the despair that gripped me about the futility of what art creates in the face of the horrors that are occurring, I had to search for answers. Because of my many questions regarding this matter, I began reading history and reality alike and measuring them against the current situation of the Palestinian street, trying to search for the extent of the eloquence of the artistic act compared to the eloquence of the act of resistance and death. Is there anything more eloquent than the action of the martyr Basil Al-Araj? What is less than this supreme action was the search for the futility of any action? Another action, and in this context of art, war, aggression. The question was about the importance of the role that art plays in general in times of war, especially the importance of the role of Palestinian art at the present time, and the impact that this artistic practice has onThings that are not hidden from those interested in the culture and arts sector are the fact that art is a form of expression practiced by the human being. In addition to the linguistic expression transmitted through speech and perceived by listening, there is visual expression transmitted through several means of visual and performing arts and perceived by seeing and seeing, which is one of the The most important and oldest means of expression practiced by human beings was when he drew on the walls of caves before language to express his primary human needs to survive in finding hunting grounds or to document his victories in capturing his prey. Since then, art has remained a language of individual expression sometimes and collective expression at other times as he used it. Artists as individuals, and the authorities have also used it throughout the ages to pass their messages and ideologies to the societies they rule or to other societies and regimes to whom they want to deliver their messages. Regimes throughout history have successively attracted artists to them in times of war to use their art to convey images of victory for their forces or document their aggression. And its strength or the glorification of its leaders and its human and material arsenals, as well as the demonization and condemnation of the enemy, passing through the eighteenth century and arriving at the beginning of the nineteenth century when the French Revolution, as art historian Ernst Gombrich points out, gave a great push to this type of topic of interest in history and the depiction of heroism. The French liked to view themselves as They are born-again Greeks or Romans, which justifies Napoleon accompanying a group of artists in his battles, such as Jacques-Louis David, the official artist of the revolutionary government, Nicolas Charlet, Auguste Ravitte, Antoine-Jean Gros and others. However, later on, in the early nineteenth century, another artistic trend appeared that condemned wars. In it, artists have the talent to protest against the war machine, expose it, and change people’s understanding of it in a way that seems to us now to be familiar and in harmony with the common dispassionate view of art. This was done by the Spanish artist Francis Goya, who for years denounced wars and condemned them through art and made it a witness to their horror and scourges in his works, especially in The Second of May and the Third of May, which he produced in 1814 AD, is something that only poets did, according to Gombrich. Likewise, Goya produced before that a series of works known as Los Desastres de la Guerra, which is 82 printed works produced in the period. 1810-1820, which art historians see as a visual protest against the violence of the events of the Revolution of May 2, 1808. Opposition to the tradition of glorifying wars began to increase in the middle of the nineteenth century, when artists took a new way to express their feelings about simple soldiers and the harbingers of war on people, addressing their emotion and humanity that they had shunned. It is far from glorifying generals and commanders and from using them as a media tool implanted and integrated with armies (embedded artist), which today resembles journalists embedded in armies with the aim of controlling the image that reaches the masses about the war, which was adopted by the American army after the Vietnam War in order to try to influence In the masses and image control. For example, and in relation to this increasing trend towards the human side of the scourge of war, the work of the artist Joseph Paton, in which he depicted a Scottish soldier returning to his home with an amputated arm. At the beginning of the twentieth century, important works and experiments appeared in this context, such as the works of the German artist Otto Dix, who fought... In the ranks of the German Army in World War I, he drew several sketches and manuscripts on the lines of the first war, which he displayedLater in the Dir Krieg exhibition, which had an important impact and echo at that time in denouncing the war machine and its brutality, all the way to the icon of art and war Guernica by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, which sparked a revolution in this regard until it reached the point of being hung in the building of the United Nations General Assembly as a witness to the brutality of war and its scourges. On nations and people, and in this context, the context of art and war, Palestinian art made its contribution and said its statement, starting with the innate nature of the artist Abd al-Hay Muslim in the early twentieth century, all the way to the contemporary Keffiyeh artist Issam al-Haj Ibrahim. The Palestinian went through several stages at the hands of its early pioneers, such as Ismail Shammout, who founded the Department of Artistic Culture in The Department of Information and National Guidance of the Liberation Organization and the pioneers who followed him, such as Mustafa Al-Hallaj, Suleiman Mansour, Kamel Al-Mughni, and others, who provided the Palestinian revolutionary resistance movements with visual content that expressed their hopes, glorified the resistance, and worked to mobilize the visual and intellectual masses of the masses. Here you go, Palestine Raafat, the 1948 poster. When looking at the artistic practice of the artists Palestine in the various and recurring aggressive moments at a somewhat constant pace from the replacement occupation machine. We find that this practice played an important role on three levels that can be divided and looked at on the curve of time. These practices had a direct, momentary role in the moment of aggression as a means of expression and an archival, documentary, and forward-looking role for the image of the homeland. After liberation and my rhetoric to attract solidarity from other nations and at the level of expression provided by art, which is sometimes known for and comes close to it in most of its multiple definitions from philosophers, including Plato, who considered it to be one of the highest forms of human expression and must be used to teach us about life, even though he excluded its makers from... His virtuous city in his book The Republic, Socrates, who considered it an important educational means, and Kant, who described it as a science. What remains common among these attempts to define it is that it is an important means of expression practiced by the human self to create a discourse that expresses it through the use of symbols and visual elements that represent its opinions, beliefs, convictions, ambitions, and hopes at other times. When looking at the time of production of the artwork, we see that the Palestinian artist produced his works during the moments of aggression as an act of protest against the horrors of war and its scourges, and he expressed this protest by showing them in his works, as in the paintings of Ismail Shammout and Abed Abdi about the Nakba, and the works of both Diaa Al-Azzawi and Bashir Al-Sanwar about the massacres. Sabra and Shatila and Amer Al Shomali’s protest against the apartheid wall by reproducing the Visit Palestine poster to include the addition of the apartheid wall. Art is an act of resistance and confrontation to aggression. According to the artist Otto Dix, I did not paint war scenes to prevent war. I would not make this claim at all. I painted them to ward off war. All art is evocation 1. The Palestinian artist produced his works expressing his rejection of reality and for the sake of the persecution of war by the authorities, in addition to spreading the spirit of resistance and defense, as was the case in the many, many posters produced by Palestinian and non-Palestinian artists who believed in the justice of the Palestinian cause. For example, we have A poster in the name of Raafat, entitled “Labbaik, O Palestine,” produced in 1948. It contains a drawing of a man wearing a military uniform, a headband, and a hat as a kind of indication that he is an Arab. Behind it is a picture of the city of Jerusalem, in which a large Dome of the Rock Mosque appears and buildings that look like houses and churches, with writing on the poster calling on people to donate. Figure 1 Artists have increased their production of posters that stimulate motivation and play an important role in...Mass mobilization and motivation for defense and revolution, after the outbreak of the Palestinian Revolution and the Liberation Organization in May 1964, as a poster produced by the artist Shafiq Radwan in 1967 entitled The Revolution, in which a group of guerrillas appear in non-military clothing, some of them masked and others not holding their weapons, surrounded by what appears to be the trunk of a tree from which a branch has sprouted. Green, symbolizing hope for continuity, Figure 2, passing through the exposure of the war machine, its deadly action, and its challenge during the first Intifada in the work Over My Dead Body by the artist Mona Hatoum, Figure 3, which she produced in the period 1988 and 2002, and she also produced it in the year 2005 at the end of the Second Intifada and the presentation of the work. At the Museum of Modern Art in Australia in the same year, Hatoum appears in this work, a message of Palestinian defiance and steadfastness. Her face appears in the work as she looks defiantly at the plastic soldier positioned on her nose. We see a reversal of roles and sizes in which the Israeli soldier appears in the form of a ridiculous, small toy. Of course, he lost The role of Palestinian art has expanded to form an important element and tool in documenting the Palestinian situation in all its forms, especially under the aggression. This documentation works on two important basic axes: material documentation and moral documentation. For example, physical documentation and archiving, Palestinian works produced on multiple occasions and times constituted important material for supplying archives. Multiple materials documenting the events of Palestinian political and social life alike, in addition to documenting the moments of aggression, as we saw in the previously listed works, some of which were acquired in private collections and others in museums, as is the case with the work On My Corpse by the artist Mona Hatoum, which was acquired by the Birzeit University Museum. 2 This is in addition to the catalogs and printed materials that result from the display process of artistic works containing images of the works, such as the archive of the Al-Wasiti Center in Jerusalem, which contains several artistically important materials, including pictures of the stone children and the masked people in the first intifada, and the publication of the artists’ works and catalogs of their works, as the artist mentioned. Alaa Younis, in her article entitled The Archive Trap, in which those responsible for the Al-Wasiti Center researched Palestinian artistic practices between the years 1997 and 2001 and collected catalogues, brochures, press materials, articles, studies, artists’ cards, and photographs related to the career of Palestinian artists wherever they are. This archive promises a lot. For example, catalogs are available. Ahmed Nawash’s exhibitions from 1972, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1990 and others, while in the catalog of his exhibition at Darat al Funun from 1993 we see additions in his handwriting about the exhibitions in which he participated until 1997. Such materials indicate the activity of artists in documenting and moving their works themselves and into the spaces. Which were available for exhibitions and their duration 3. On the moral level, and in addition to the discourse directed in these works, the Palestinian artistic works provided the Palestinian collective memory with works that consolidated the events taking place on the ground with symbols that formed an image memory that became entrenched in the minds of the recipients, the Palestinian people and all nations in general. These symbols and visual contents of Palestinian artists’ paintings contributed to transmitting trauma and discourse from one generation to another, and this is what the artist Dr. Rehab Nazzal pointed out, saying that perhaps optics are capable of conveying what written text cannot. Optics transform abstract knowledge into concrete knowledge. Optics has the power of penetration, documentation, and visual expression in the situation. The importance of protecting Palestinian identity and memory, for example, is toysVisual art has a pivotal role in preserving the Palestinian narrative and in expressing memory and identity since the beginning of the Palestinian revolution until the 4th moment, as did Ayna Shamout, Hanzala Naji, Jamal Suleiman, and Khaled Hourani’s Watermelon. On the level of solidarity, art, according to the concept of aesthetics in the book Aesthetics by Alexander Baumgarten, is to see. The world is as I am, not as the world is, and the artist is the one who gives us eyes with which to see the world 5 as a visual artistic component of what has happened and is happening, and because art is a shared human act between the artist and the recipient, even if the primary goal of the public visiting art exhibitions or being informed of the works is Art: When any platform displays a certain cultural and artistic curiosity, it quickly turns into a moral commitment and a stance against war regarding the necessity of this joint human action, forming an appeal to cultures of peace and solidarity from the peoples of the world. Art is one of the means and basic pillars of the tools of cultural diplomacy, and it is an important soft power for thousands of years, along with action. The resistance, as the Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu pointed out in his book The Art of War, is that the ideal leader unites culture with the war mood. 6 Palestinian art and artists and other artists who support the Palestinian cause provided the protest activities in support of the cause with several means of visual expression, such as the caricatures of Muhammad Sabaaneh, Mahmoud Naim Abbas, and Batikha Khaled. Hourani was raised by the protesters as tools of solidarity and protest against the authorities and regimes, whether in the streets of cities around the world or on social media platforms, which is the most concluding use of the statement. Just as Palestinian art played its important and effective role for several decades of occupation and aggression, and as the importance of this role, its ramifications, and the diversity of its benefits appeared in this research, It would be better for him to continue to speak his mind, expose the occupation act, and form a visual discourse that urges global solidarity with its just cause, and to archive and document this ugliness and atrocity in the barbarism of the occupation, especially in light of the current conditions of an attack classified as a war of genocide and a war crime against the Gaza Strip, as a number of critics have indicated. Expert jurists 7, which claimed the lives of 25,490 souls, each with its own ambitions, dreams, and memories, and this in Gaza alone and until the time of writing this sentence on the one hundred and eighth day from the start of the aggression on January 23, 2024, and these souls whose bodies were found and the thousands of others languishing under the rubble did not They are yet to be counted, noting that it is important to research the presence of Palestinian art on social media platforms and count its appearance, impact, and people’s interactions with this appearance References 1 Ibrahim Anas Rehab Nazal Al-Basri Transforming Abstract Knowledge into Concrete Knowledge Dialogue Fasahah Cultural Magazine Arabs 48 12 15 2021 2 United Nations International experts urge the international community to prevent the threat of genocide that threatens the Palestinian people 11 16 2023 3 Palestine Poster Archive the palestine poster project archives 4 Badai Hussein Thamer Art and War Otto Dix’s Inscriptions Portfolio in the Arab Countries Condemnation or Documentation and Its Impact on Society The American International Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2023 5 Al-Rajhi Sarah’s article Goya and the art of anti-wars Ma’an Cultural Platform 2023 6 The poet Diana The soft power of Palestinian art Arab News Agency 11 18 2023 7 Trabelsi Fawaz Guernica Beirut Art and life between a Picasso mural and an Arab city at war Beirut The Arab Foundation For Studies and Publishing 1987 8 Muhammad Jassim Abdul Qader Criticism and aesthetic taste in art education Kuwait Al-Falah LibraryFor Publishing and Distribution 1994 9 Birzeit University Museum website 10 Younis Alaa Trap Archives see Palestinian visual arts resources Palestinian Art Housh website 13 12 2021 11 danchev alex on art and war and terror edinburgh edinburgh university press ltd 2009 12 tzu sun the art of war the ancient classic capstone classics chichester capstone publishing 2010 Sources 1 Hussein Thamer The Beginnings of Art and War Otto Dix’s Inscriptions Portfolio in the Arab Countries Condemnation or Documentation and Its Impact on Society American International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2023 2 Birzeit University Museum 3 Alaa Younis Trap Archive Palestinian Art Housh website 12/13/2021 4 Anas Ibrahim Rehab Nazzal Optics turns abstract knowledge into concrete knowledge Dialogue Fasha Cultural Magazine Arabs 48 12 15 2021 5 Hussein Thamer Bday A previously mentioned source 6 sun tzu the art of war the ancient classic capstone classics chichester capstone publishing 2010 7 International experts urge the international community to Preventing the threat of genocide that threatens the Palestinian people United Nations News 11 16 2023 read the original
Blog Title The International Court of Justice’s order regarding the alleged acts of genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza Author Camille Mansour Date January 29, 2024 After the International Court of Justice’s order was issued in January 26 regarding the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel 1 The majority of comments focused on the temporary steps that the court requested that Israel take immediately and expressed varying positions regarding the content of the required steps. Some saw it as disappointing because it did not order Israel to cease fire, which is the measure. The first is what South Africa had hoped the court would order Israel to do, and with the importance of focusing on temporary measures, the matter carries other implications that we should not ignore regarding its impact on the war on Gaza. The reasonableness of the occurrence of acts of genocide. First, the court declared its authority to consider the case in accordance with Article Nine. From the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 2 and then approved the admissibility of South Africa as a party to the lawsuit, which are two preliminary matters that are usually dealt with before discussing the content of the lawsuit. After that, the court addressed the arguments presented and declared, as expected, that it does not have to rule at this stage on the merits. The issue is to decide whether Israel committed genocide crimes against the Palestinians residing in the Gaza Strip. Rather, what is only required of it is to decide whether it is reasonable that Israel has committed genocide crimes, or in other words, whether the rights that South Africa seeks to be protected from Acts of genocide are characterized by plausibility, and in order to establish this, Article 2 of the Convention began to mention Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such: a. Killing of members of the group. b. Inflicting bodily harm Or spiritually dangerous to members of the group C. Intentionally subjecting the group to living conditions intended for its physical destruction, in whole or in part. D. Imposing measures intended to prevent the birth of children within the group. E. Forcibly transferring children from the group to another group. The court also stated that Article Three of the Convention prohibits the commission of the following acts. B Conspiracy to commit genocide C Direct and public incitement to commit genocide D Attempt to commit genocide E Participation in genocideIn order to find evidence that allows declaring that it is reasonable that Israel committed some of these acts, the court resorted to data on the number of Palestinian victims, displaced persons, and destroyed buildings, as it was extracted from the reports and testimonies of the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, the World Health Organization, and the Commissioner General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini. The court also referred to the position of legal experts and rapporteurs related to the Human Rights Council who sounded the alarm of genocide in Gaza. It did not limit itself to reporting and opinions that provide information about the horrific consequences of Israeli practices against Palestinian civilians, but also extracted statements from Israeli officials regarding... civilians, but it was not stated explicitly at this stage that these statements express the intention of genocide, and it is not possible to underestimate the importance of these evidence as a preparatory step for the stage of reaching the final ruling, which will not be issued for many months or years. They indicate the direction that will be adopted in the discussions within In searching for evidence that proves genocidal intent and the resulting practices, the Court will have contradicted itself if, in the future, it marginalizes current reports and testimonies and relies only on evidence, part of which has disappeared due to the passage of time or due to its intentional concealment on the part of Israel, and from here comes the order Preserving it, which the court directed to Israel as a preventive measure, Procedure No. 5. The importance also comes of what the legal centers active in the Gaza Strip are undoubtedly doing in preserving evidence such as photos, television films, and dated videos recorded by mobile phones and affidavits. Approval of temporary measures. We now come to the measures. The temporary measures taken by the court are measures that, according to the court, must have the status of urgency and aim to prevent practices that could be included in the list of genocidal acts in accordance with Articles Two and Three of the Convention mentioned above, and which will not be possible to reform if the final court decision on the substance of the case is awaited and based on Additional reports mentioned by the court are two letters from the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the Security Council, a statement by the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, and a report by the World Health Organization regarding the risk of collapse of the health system and that maternal and newborn mortality rates are expected to rise due to lack of access to medical care. The court considered that the humanitarian situation The catastrophic crisis in the Gaza Strip is at risk of severe deterioration before the court issues its final ruling. It is noted here that the risk of death that the court refers to to justify its taking of precautionary measures is limited to whether it occurred as a result of preventing the arrival of aid and services and the court was not exposed to the risk of death resulting from the continuation of hostilities when discussing it. Objectives of the precautionary measures, and based on the positive reasons adopted by the Court for agreeing to issue temporary measures, it is not surprising that it refrained from issuing a ceasefire order. In Measure No. If Israeli hostilities continue, they must avoid killing civilians, causing physical or moral harm to them, or deliberately subjecting them to living conditions intended to destroy them or prevent them from having children. In Action No. 2, the court ordered that the State of Israel ensure, with immediate effect, that it does notThe commission by its army of any of the acts described in the first procedure. It may be said that the court intentionally avoided in the two aforementioned procedures the use of the term ceasefire, as the nature of the Israeli military actions in the Gaza field inevitably means carrying out genocidal acts against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and I do not believe Avoiding using the term ceasefire is merely a linguistic trick. It seems that what the court wanted was to put Israel to the test of its continuation of the war while at the same time refraining from genocidal practices. This test is mentioned in Procedure No. 6, which orders Israel to submit a report on the measures it has taken to prevent... Genocidal acts within a month of issuing the court order. There is an argument that some have resorted to to explain the absence of a text on a ceasefire, which is that the court was not able to adopt it because such an order requires the presence of two conflicting parties, each of which has the status of a state, and this is a condition that does not apply to the Hamas movement. It is not permissible, in any case, to ask it to stop its liberation struggle. I do not think that an argument like this, which was made perhaps to please oneself after disappointment, was seriously included in the court’s considerations. The main reason for not stipulating a ceasefire is due to the fact that the court was keen not to violate the provisions of the Genocide Convention. Collective action, which does not prevent war in itself, but rather prevents genocide, and the court, while considering temporary measures, has no choice but to base it on its authority resulting from the Convention and not on rules that may be contained in international treaties regarding the provisions of international humanitarian law that condemn what falls under the umbrella of the crimes of genocide, which is War crimes and crimes against humanity. In addition to not having the authority to consider war unlawful based on the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, the court needs conclusive evidence before declaring that the war waged by Israel is genocidal in its essence. This evidence is not available at this stage, but it is supposed to be conducted. Provide it, if available, within the framework of the deliberations related to the final ruling. It is useful to point out here the pleading of Judge Aharon Barak, who was appointed by the Israeli government to sit in the court as a participating judge in the court’s deliberations only for the sake of this case, as the judge appointed by South Africa, in which he wrote, in my opinion, that the legal framework International humanitarian law, not the Genocide Convention, is appropriate for analyzing the situation in Gaza. International humanitarian law stipulates that the damage to innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure should not be excessive compared to the military advantage expected from a military strike. 3 Although the court did not agree with Barak’s opinion regarding dropping the case. In general, it seems to me that it took into account his position that war as a war, with what it entails of fighting and a ceasefire or its absence, does not fall under the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide. By the way, Barak did not object to the following two measures, as they are in line with what the Israeli authorities have begun to claim in recent weeks out of fear. From the positions and measures that will be issued by the court, Measure No. 3 orders Israel to prevent incitement to genocide and punish it, while Procedure No. 4 orders it to take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of basic services and humanitarian assistance that allow addressing the difficult life conditions facing the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In any case, it is possible In this regard, the question is whether it would be more useful for the court to delve into the details of the required aid, such as enabling access to the northern region of the Gaza Strip or opening corridors to hospitals.And shelter centers, etc. I believe that its refraining from mentioning details like this was wise, as it would have transformed its handling of the case from a case of genocide to an issue of international humanitarian law. Regarding Measure No. 5 and Procedure No. 6, as they were referred to above, the repercussions of the court’s order. There is no doubt that what we have been witnessing since... October 7 is characterized by the historical nature of the Al-Aqsa flood on that day and the nature of the Israeli military campaign that recreates the experience of the 1948 Nakba and the establishment of South Africa, an African country that defeated the apartheid regime, to file a lawsuit against Israel on charges of committing acts of genocide and the International Court of Justice considering that it is possible that Israel Genocide crimes had been committed in the Gaza Strip and the court issued an order containing temporary measures whose primary goal was to prevent Israel from continuing to commit what could amount to genocide crimes. A surprising majority of the 17 judges voted on the measures. One judge, Ugandan judge Julia Sibutende, voted against all six measures. While Judge Barak voted against four measures, all of this does not mean that the final ruling will determine that Israel actually committed genocide in the war on Gaza. Rather, it means that Israel no longer enjoys immunity in everything it commits thanks to the United States’ protection of it and as a result of the West’s tendency to accuse it. Anyone who criticizes Israel with anti-Semitism in order to atone for the responsibility of Germany and other European countries for the Jewish Holocaust, and because of the symbolic magnitude of these developments, the hope is that the case before the court can restore respect to international law and that its provisions must apply to all countries and individuals and not only The advisory opinion that the Court will issue in the coming months could give positive impetus in response to the request that the General Assembly had submitted to the Court in December 2022 to determine the legal consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem. The hope is that the course of the genocide case can serve as a lesson in the face of the International Criminal Court’s failure to pursue the case of Israeli war crimes committed since 2014 and brought by the State of Palestine. On the other hand, it is necessary to stress that one of the characteristics of the Genocide Convention is that it imposes The 153 signatory states have a responsibility to ensure that acts amounting to the crimes of genocide are not committed by a state whose actions have been recognized by the International Court of Justice as reasonably falling within this situation. This imposes on other states the duty to refrain from providing aid, especially military aid, to Otherwise, that country will be considered participating or complicit in the latter’s actions. Of course, what we mean here in particular is the diplomatic and military support that the United States provided to Israel in its war on Gaza. As for the impact of the International Court of Justice’s order on how Israel and its allies deal with It is not expected that there will be a direct legal impact on the war except in relation to the Israeli Public Prosecution’s keenness to prevent or withhold statements by officials that could be seen to call for committing genocidal acts. Does the absence or expected absence of such calls, in addition to the procedures mentioned in the court order and close follow-up, affect What South Africa will undertake in the coming weeks regarding the actions of the Israeli army in Gaza must not rule out this possibility, at least on major issues such as restricting the opportunities for the displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to...Sinai, or not occupying the Salah al-Din Line, the Philadelphia Line, or refraining from dropping 1,000-ton bombs on hundreds of civilians, as happened in the Jabalia camp on October 31, 2023. The influence may be politically military indirectly by pushing the United States to pressure Israel to conduct a prisoner exchange. Accompanied by an actual ceasefire, thus the United States has effectively accepted the reality of the field in which Israel finds it difficult to resolve, and has taken into account the court order without explicitly accepting it, and has freed the Israeli prisoners to preserve its face and that of Israel. 1 order application of the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide in the gaza strip south africa v israel international court of justice january 26 2024 2 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Treaties 12 09 1948 International Committee of the Red Cross icrc 3 separate opinion of judge ad hok barak read the original
Blog title Center Al Hussein Cancer Hospital in Amman has been unable to receive sick children from Gaza for nearly two months Author Asim Mansour Date January 26, 2024 The Institute for Palestine Studies conducted an interview with Dr. Asim Mansour, CEO of the Hussein Cancer Hospital, regarding the role of the institution and the center in receiving cancer patients, especially children, during the genocidal war. What is the role of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center in the Jordanian medical sector? The King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center operates under the leadership of Her Royal Highness Princess Ghida Talal as an independent, non-governmental, non-profit national institution that was established in 2001 by Royal Decree and has a special law. Its work is supervised by a board of trustees. It includes an elite group of businessmen and experts in economics, politics, medicine, and engineering. The Foundation is concerned with development, fundraising, spreading awareness, cancer insurance, and gaining community support. The center is the hospital that provides treatment to cancer patients and health care in addition to its role in the field of scientific research. It also has a major role in The Jordanian medical sector provides distinguished comprehensive medical care to 55 of the total cancer cases in Jordan and receives about 6,000 new patients annually from Jordan and the Arab world, as Jordanian patients constitute 75 of the total patients, and the remaining 25 of the patients are Arabs, including fellow Syrian refugees and residents of Jordan. Can you tell us about human resources and diagnostic and therapeutic devices? The center employs 3,600 employees, half of whom are medical staff, distributed among doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and technicians, while the other half includes administrative employees working in various departments. The Education and Training Center works to hold training courses for all employees to enhance their experience and competencies. No. In its specialty, whether they are medical care providers or administrators, there is no doubt that the King Hussein Cancer Center always seeks to provide the latest scientific findings in cancer treatment using accurate diagnostic or even therapeutic devices. It is equipped with the latest medical devices and equipment with international specifications and standards. We have a department Nuclear medicine, which plays a major role in accurate diagnosis, in addition to modern equipment in the diagnostic radiology department, which is concerned with imaging patients with high accuracy and whose quality is comparable to that available in the most advanced hospitals in the world. There is also a radiation therapy department, which is equipped with the latest devices dedicated to treating tumors with high accuracy from... Without causing damage to healthy cells, in less time and with high efficiencyThe Department of Surgery has introduced robotic surgery of all kinds to treat tumors of the digestive system, the reproductive system, lung tumors, and other modern devices designated for surgical interventions. What is the vision of the institution and the center regarding the catastrophic health conditions in the Gaza Strip, and what are the plans and directions regarding cooperation with medical institutions there, under the guidance and special attention of Princess Ghida? Talal, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center, and out of the humanitarian duty that we commit to cancer patients, we have taken it upon ourselves since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza to do everything in our power to stand by cancer patients from Gaza with all our capabilities. Unfortunately, the information available to us regarding health conditions There was very little in Gaza before the war, as well as after it, and there is an absence of accurate information, but what we know is that even before the aggression on Gaza, the health sector was working with modest and limited capabilities in light of the siege imposed on Gaza since 2007, which imposed severe restrictions on the entry of fuel, goods, and materials, so the impact of the siege was evident. Especially in the health sector in Gaza, as there are not many basic medical supplies available, and many patients are forced to wait months for surgical operations, in addition to a severe shortage of medicines, medical devices, and even qualified medical personnel who provide their services to 2.3 million Gazans. Given the nature of From the medical care available to treat cancer patients in Gaza in particular and to serve them, we conclude that the most basic components of cancer treatment are not available, knowing that its treatment is based on several axes, including radiotherapy for tumors. Based on the population in the Strip, at least about 6 to 8 linear accelerators must be available, and we We know that a third of cancer patients at certain stages of their treatment journey will need some type of radiotherapy, which is not present or available in Gaza. This means that a third of cancer patients in the Strip do not have this type of treatment, just as nuclear therapy or what is called scanning Nuclear atomic imaging is also not available, which is one of the types of accurate imaging that about 40 to 50 patients with solid cancer tumors need to evaluate their treatment. Therefore, the only solution for these patients who need this type of treatment is to go to Jerusalem if they have permits that allow them to do so. Anyone who has the financial ability goes to Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, or elsewhere. Over the past few years, a negligible percentage of Gazans who were referred for medical reasons and some exceptional humanitarian cases were eligible to obtain permits to travel and receive treatment outside Gaza due to the siege. Which was exacerbated by the imposition of additional restrictions on access to medical treatment that is not available in the Gaza Strip. Therefore, most Gazan patients are unable to go out to receive treatment. What about the availability of medical personnel? There are no pIn it, we presented this program to a delegation from South Africa that visited the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut on January 13, 2023. Camps and figures in the cemetery. From the main entrance of the cemetery appears a large memorial to the martyrs of Tal al-Zaatar camp, which is in fact the grave of a group of the camp’s martyrs who died in the horrific massacre that It happened there in 1976, and not far from it there is a small monument to the martyrs of the Shatila camp and the Sabra area in Beirut in 1982. The head of the Arab Higher Committee and the head of the Supreme Islamic Council, Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini 1895-1974, was also buried there. When standing in front of his grave, the memory recalls his biography in Jerusalem and Palestine, from which one can trace The events of Palestine under the British Mandate, the 1936 Revolution, matters related to World War II, the Nakba, and other matters before and after the Nakba, and with regard to the same stage and after it during the establishment of the resistance, we stand in front of the grave of Abu Maher Al-Yamani 1924-2011, and in his biography, a return to Sahmata, Akko District, and conversations and knowledge about the trade union movement in Palestine. Because he was one of the leaders of the Palestinian Arab Workers Association in the period 1944-1948 and the Palestinian confrontation with the Zionist gangs during the occupation of Palestine in 1948, the man was the secretary of the Popular Committee for the Defense of Sahmata in that year. He fought in the Galilee and refused to leave Palestine, so the Haganah forces arrested him in the period 10-29-1948 31 1 1949, then deported him to Lebanon, where he contributed to the founding of the Military Organization for the Liberation of Palestine in 1949 and the General Union of Palestine Workers. He also participated in founding the Arab Nationalists Movement alongside George Habash, Wadih Haddad, and Hani al-Hindi. He was one of the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a front in which the founder of its magazine and one of its members was also martyred. Its leaders, Ghassan Kanafani 1936-1972, are in the same cemetery, and next to him is his niece, Lamis, who was martyred with him after Israeli intelligence blew up his car in the Hazmieh area in Beirut. Near his grave are the graves of the three martyrs, Al-Kamal Nasser, 1924, 1973, Adwan, 1935, 1973, and Abu Youssef Al-Najjar, 1930, 1973, and in the stand. In front of their graves is a return to the value they represented in the Palestinian revolution, as Kamal Adwan was the director of the Planning Center and responsible for operations in occupied Palestine, the western sector, and Abu Youssef Al-Najjar was one of the founders of the Storm Forces, and Kamal Nasser was the unified media official and editor-in-chief of Palestine Al-Thawra magazine, and next to them is the grave of the martyr Majid. Abu Sharar 1936 1981, who was assassinated in Rome. He was a member of the Central Committee of Fatah and head of the Unified Information Office of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in a place not far from them, the commander of special operations for Fatah, the martyr Abu Hassan Salama 1941 1979, and four of his companions who were martyred with him, in addition to four others. Civilians in an assassination operation carried out in the Verdun area of Beirut by blowing up a car that was parked on the road to target his convoy. Maher Al-Yamani, 1949 2019, was also buried in this cemetery, brother of Abu Maher. He worked in the external action group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and carried out a kidnapping with Mahmoud Issa. A plane in Greece on December 26, 1968 kept Qala in Greece for 20 months until they were released thanks to an exchange operation that accompanied the kidnapping of a Greek plane carried out by the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front in order to free two of its fighters. 3 The researcher specializing in Israeli affairs, the martyr Hanna, also reported there. Shaheen Grace 1946 1983 Wife of the Palestinian researcher Sabri Grace, who is also the director of the Research Center of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Henna was responsible for the bombing of the center on February 5, 1983, and she had workedA translator at the Institute for Palestine Studies and later a translator and researcher at the Research Center. This cemetery also contains martyrs from the Gaza Strip, such as the martyr Fayez Mustafa Al-Maqousi, who was martyred on January 11, 1995 in a joint operation between the Popular Front and the Democratic Front on the Kunine Bint Jbeil Road in southern Lebanon. Arabs and foreigners. A large number of Arab and foreign activists joined the ranks of the Palestinian revolution, and the names are many and difficult to enumerate. Unfortunately, there is no accurate data regarding this information, but among the well-known names is the Syrian poet Kamal Khair Bey, 1935-1980, who fought in the ranks of the Palestinian revolution. He is the son of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and has participated in several Operations with Wadih Haddad, Carlos, and Anis Al-Naqqash. We also find in this cemetery Kurdish martyrs who joined the Palestinian revolution, and the martyr Balqis Al-Rawi, the wife of the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani, who died in an explosion targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut in 1981, and excerpts from Balqis Qabbani’s poem were burned on the tombstone, as we also find there. A symbolic grave for the martyrs of the Japanese Red Army who participated in the Lod Airport operation inside occupied Palestine in 1972. According to the gravestone, they are named Okadera Toyoshi, born in 1945 and martyred during the implementation of the operation, Salah Yasuke Yasuda, born in 1945 and also martyred during this operation, and Yusuf Bakau Himori, born in 1947. He was martyred in 2002 when he burned himself in Tokyo in protest against the Israeli invasion of the West Bank. Nizar Osamomaruka was born in 1950 and was martyred in 2011 due to his illness during his detention. Among these freedom fighters remains Kozo Okamoto, who lives in Lebanon as a political refugee. Among the stories of foreign martyrs that are most influential to us is the French martyr Françoise Casteman. She died on September 25, 1984 in an operation accompanied by Palestinian Captain Fathi Khalil Zaher, born in Rashidiya Camp in 1957, First Lieutenant Samir Adham Al-Basri, born in Al-Hasakah in Syria in 1961, Muhammad Zuhair Ghandour, born in Burj Al-Barajneh Camp in 1966, and Tariq Naim Mustafa, born in Burj Al-Barajneh Camp in 1967. This operation was launched towards the occupied Palestinian coast in a rubber boat, but the group clashed with an Israeli force at the Awali Bridge, north of Sidon, in southern Lebanon, and three people, Françoise, Al-Basri, and Zaher, were martyred. Ghandour and Mustafa were captured. The martyrs were also taken to the graves of numbers inside the occupied Palestinian territories, and Zaher’s body was freed in the operation. The exchange carried out by Hezbollah with the Israeli occupation through German mediation in 2008, and thus some comrades returned to meet as martyrs in the same cemetery. As for the French martyr, the French embassy demanded her, but her mother came to Lebanon and asked to be buried in the Martyrs’ Cemetery. We also mention the Italian fighter Franco Fontana, who spent years in the ranks Fighters in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as he left Beirut in 1982 with the PLO’s departure from the Lebanese capital according to the Philip Habib agreement, but Fontana, or Joseph Ibrahim, as he was known among his comrades, his heart remained in Beirut, and he actually returned to it in the year 2015, next to his old comrades in the Mar Elias camp. In Beirut, he had not been there for three weeks until he suffered a stroke that led to his death. He died in the Martyrs’ Cemetery according to a will he left with his family. It was fortunate that a grave was found for him to be buried in due to the overcrowding of the cemetery, but what happened was that the family of a Tunisian martyr had come before him. It took a short time to transfer the remains of her son, but his grave became vacant, so the Italian Franco Fontana received Joseph Ibrahim. The story of the cemetery does not stop with the martyrs who died inA confrontation with the occupation, but it is also a witness to the conditions of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, as it received the bodies of Palestinian refugees from Lebanon who died by drowning while trying to immigrate to Europe by sea in the year 2022. The Homeland Cemetery This cemetery is full of a fully-fledged Palestinian story in which living Palestine resides in the presence of those who died from For its sake and for the sake of the project of justice in the world, it is true that liberating the land was the direct goal of their struggle, but all of them from different countries, religions and sects joined a revolution and a struggle that crosses divisions, rifts and ethnicities. With the burial of the martyr Al-Arouri in the cemetery, Palestinian national unity is complete in the cemetery this time at a time when this unity did not occur. There is a distance between the living, and Al-Arouri called for it, along with some activists in other factions, in the hope that it would be fulfilled in loyalty to Palestine and to the martyrs who died for it. And in this cemetery there is an archive of Palestine and its ongoing revolution, as I mentioned previously, and according to Dr. Abdul Rahim Al-Sheikh, who is working on researching the living Palestinian cemetery, if The archive was the cemetery of papers. The cemetery provides renewed hope with a living, open, and subversive stone archive present in every city, town, village, and camp within the borders of historic Palestine and in the diaspora. Here it can be said that in the beginning it was the cemetery, then the archive came and assumed some of its features. As for the cemetery, it does not impersonate the characteristics of the archive, but rather When it works outside its normal working hours as a cemetery for the traditional archive, the cemetery becomes a site for the reproduction of the cultural field 4 1 1973 Beirut A quarter of a million and they said goodbye to the martyrs and the perpetrators of the massacre did not leave Lebanon Al-Qabas 1 2 2020 2 Saqr Abu Fakhr Khalil Izz al-Din al-Jamal Who remembers those days? Journal of Palestinian Studies, Issue No. 86, Spring 2011 3 Dialogue with Maher Al-Yamani and the oppression of relatives Etiquette File 28 3 2017 4 Abdul Rahim Al-Sheikh The Living Palestinian Cemetery 1 Conceptual History Journal of Palestine Studies Issue 134 Spring 2023 read the original
Blog title The residents of Gaza are victims of war, famine, and shortages Water and Epidemics Author Maher Al-Sharif Date January 22, 2024 As a result of the destructive war that Israel has been waging against them for more than a hundred days, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing very harsh living conditions. Those who escape death at the hands of the occupation army and its war machine face the dangers of famine, water shortages, and exposure to diseases and epidemics. Suffering Hunger and the continued high risk of famine. On December 20, 2023, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory was quoted as confirming that more than 71% of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip suffer from severe hunger. According to the results of an analytical study conducted by the Observatory that included a sample of 1,200 people, 98 of the participants reported that they eat Insufficient amounts of food, while 64 of them admitted to sometimes resorting to eating grass, immature foods, and expired items to satisfy their hunger. 1 On January 15, United Nations agencies warned that the continued high risk of famine necessitates a radical change in the flow of humanitarian aid to the sector. Gaza: Although the United Nations, international aid agencies, and non-governmental organizations have so far been able to deliver limited humanitarian aid to Gaza, the quantities are not at all sufficient to prevent the combination of hunger, malnutrition, and disease. The lack of food, drinking water, and medical assistance is considered particularly dangerous in the northern areas of the Strip. A report issued by the Integrated Interim Classification for Food Security and Nutrition (IPC) indicated catastrophic levels of food insecurity in the Gaza Strip, stressing that mostGazans almost skip meals every day, while many adults go hungry so that children can eat. UNICEF expects that wasting among children in the coming weeks will increase by approximately 30% compared to the situation that prevailed before the war, and is the most dangerous form of malnutrition for children’s survival. Which will affect up to 10,000 children. Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, concluded that the people of the Gaza Strip are at risk of famine even though they are just a few miles away from trucks full of food. Every hour wasted puts the lives of countless people at risk and we can To keep famine away from us, but only if we can deliver sufficient quantities of food and ensure safe access to all those in need wherever they are, while Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, said that the current flow of aid is meager compared to the sea of humanitarian needs, estimating that humanitarian aid will not be sufficient. To stop the escalation of hunger among the population, United Nations agency officials stress the urgent need to lift barriers and restrictions imposed on the delivery of aid to and within Gaza and to resume commercial movement. They reiterate their call for a humanitarian ceasefire to allow the deployment of a huge, multi-agency humanitarian operation of vital importance 2 and in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. The population does not have enough food, as the vast majority of families live on only one meal a day at the present time, which consists of food boxes or sometimes a quantity of bread, as Palestinian journalist Anas Baba says. Suffering from hunger prompts some residents to attack trucks transporting Humanitarian aid boxes were looted. In late last October, UNRWA issued a statement in which it announced that thousands of people stormed several warehouses and distribution centers in the central and southern Gaza Strip, and that these Gazans, motivated by hunger, obtained flour and basic goods to survive, and it saw in this A worrying sign that civil order is collapsing after three weeks of war and a tight siege 3 Water shortages and collapse of sanitation services The crippling Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip has led to catastrophic interruptions in access to water, electricity and fuel, and wastewater treatment and desalination facilities were closed in mid-month Last October due to lack of fuel and electricity, it is currently almost inoperable, according to the Palestinian Water Authority. The shortage of clean water has prompted public health experts to express their deep concern about the risk of an outbreak of infectious diseases, including water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid. Children of the Gaza Strip are deprived. This is what UNICEF warned of in a report issued on December 19 of last year, noting that newly displaced children in the southern Gaza Strip receive only 1.5 to 2 liters of water per day to survive, which is a much smaller amount. Among the recommendations regarding the vital minimum, it is estimated that the amount of water needed in emergency situations for drinking, washing, and cooking is 15 liters per person per day, but for survival, the estimated minimum is 3 liters, and with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of displaced people, it is believed that half of them are children to the city of Rafah. As demand continues to increase, the city's water supply and sanitation systems have become in a very critical state, especially in light of the absence of energy supplies, fuel shortages, and restricted access to...Humanitarian aid and damage to infrastructure, with at least 50 water and sanitation facilities damaged or destroyed. UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said that obtaining enough clean water is a matter of life and death, and children in Gaza barely get enough to drink. Children and their families are forced to consume water from unhealthy, highly saline or polluted sources, and without clean water, a greater number of children will die from deprivation and disease in the coming days. On the other hand, long lines of exhausted women and children wait in shelters to use the toilets, as their number on average reaches One toilet for every 700 people, forcing people to resort to using buckets or defecating in the open, and even showers are becoming less available, a situation that reduces hygiene options to almost nothing and particularly affects women and girls, which contributes to the spread of diseases. The report adds that UNICEF With the help of its partners, it has supplied water bottles to more than 1.3 million people since the beginning of the war and provided more than 130,000 sets of family hygiene supplies, including health and menstrual hygiene products. During the humanitarian truce, it was able to reach the northern Gaza Strip despite very difficult access conditions. It distributed 260,000 liters of water and 10,000 hygiene kits. 4 Risks of the spread of diseases and epidemics Water shortages and pollution have hindered access to health care, leading to the spread of diseases and creating a public health crisis. The World Health Organization reported that damaged water and sanitation systems and diminishing supplies Cleaning made it almost impossible to maintain basic infection prevention and control measures. Consumption of contaminated water greatly increased the risk of bacterial infections such as diarrhea, especially in children under five years of age. The number of cases of dehydration rose sharply, and the number of cases of gastroenteritis could no longer be counted. 5 What increases the risks of the spread of diseases and epidemics is that the bodies of thousands of martyrs are still buried under rubble and abandoned for many weeks, especially in war zones that residents rushed to evacuate. These risks are also increased by the accumulation of waste in the streets and in front of hospitals and shelter centers for the displaced, as noted by the mayor of Gaza. Yahya Al-Sarraj, in statements he made last December 19, indicating that there are about 70,000 tons of waste piled up in these places, and considering that the continued aggression and the fuel shortage crisis constitute a challenge to providing basic services to citizens. Al-Sarraj had reported in previous press statements that the occupation army Most of the heavy and medium vehicles operating in municipal services were destroyed as a result of deliberate bombing at a time when the municipality is suffering from a major shortage of these vehicles. He added that the conditions in the Gaza Strip and Gaza City in particular are very difficult, calling on everyone to bring in a lot of fuel and machinery designated for removing rubble, opening streets and providing water services. Moreover, experts expect that deaths will increase as a result of soil and atmosphere pollution and a sharp increase in carbon dioxide emissions due to the use of shells, bombs, rockets and ammunition, and because of the consumption of fuel by the land, sea and air occupation army units and because of the fires resulting from the fighting. 6 The World Health Organization was It expressed its deep concern about the increasing risk of the spread of epidemics and infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip. The Director-General of the Organization said:Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in a blog post he published last December 15 on the He expressed great concern about the increasing risk of outbreaks of infectious diseases, explaining that about 180,000 people suffer from respiratory infections, in addition to 136,400 cases of diarrhea, half of whom are children under the age of 5 years, and 55,400 people suffer from scabies, 5,330 from smallpox, and 42,700 from skin rashes, in addition to 4,683 cases of severe jaundice. An investigation published by The Washington Post on December 17 last year. Tahani Abu Taima, a refugee in Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, said with the remaining members of her family alive, “We are nothing more than living skeletons.” She suffers from thyroid cancer. She also contracted a serious respiratory infection while suffering. Her two-year-old daughter suffered from diarrhea, vomiting, sneezing, and shivering from the cold and lack of food. The investigation states that the United Nations has identified 14 diseases in the Gaza Strip with epidemic potential, including chicken pox, rashes, urinary tract infections, meningitis, mumps, scabies, measles, and food poisoning. The investigation also quoted an organization The World Health Organization is particularly concerned about the spread of infectious diarrhea, jaundice, and respiratory infections, and regarding the international aid provided to the residents of the Gaza Strip. The investigation cites Tania Al-Hajj Hassan, who worked in Gaza with Doctors Without Borders, who sees this aid as merely painkillers, and who stresses that in order to combat infectious diseases, That the permanent hospitals in Gaza be able to be used safely without being exposed to the threat of bombing or siege and without being exposed to the risk of being deprived of the necessary fuel for work, water or essential medicines. 8 For his part, Alexandre Faure, the logistical coordinator of the French organization Doctors Without Borders in Palestine, warned in An interview conducted with him by tv5monde channel about the dangers of the epidemic time bomb in the Gaza Strip, considering that all the risks associated with water-borne diseases and defects in sewage systems and access to drinking water have been present practically since the beginning of the war, but they have increased tenfold today, especially after the existing structures, specifically desalination plants, became Water and sewage treatment are out of service due to explosions and fuel shortages. However, these risks have increased greatly, he continued, due to the population increase and the limited resources available, after the southern Gaza Strip, especially Rafah and Khan Yunis, hosted approximately 1.9 million displaced people out of a total population of 2. 2 million people, and this mixing increases the needs and risks of diseases and draws attention to epidemics that arise from low temperatures, rainfall, and many people sleeping outside, which leads to an increased risk of acute respiratory infections such as bronchitis, estimating that this population overcrowding in The south is an epidemic time bomb that can only be defused by an immediate ceasefire, an end to indiscriminate bombing, an end to ground operations that lead to the displacement of residents, an increase in intense demographic pressure in the south, and allowing humanitarian aid to reach northern Gaza, as well as the removal of the ban imposed by Israel on goods imported into the south. The sector is that, under the current circumstances, if an epidemic appears today, no effective party will be able to respond to it. If we take the case of cholera as an example,For example, water and objects must be treated with chlorine, but this product is prohibited from being imported into the Gaza Strip, as well as everything necessary to produce energy, such as electric generators or solar panels. 9 Conclusion The very harsh living conditions faced by the residents of the Gaza Strip were imposed as a result of the multi-form war of extermination waged by the Israeli occupation army. The United Nations and its specialized agencies, such as the World Food Programme, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and UNRWA, must develop urgent relief programs for this population, so that those who survive the Israeli war machine have become dependent on international aid for their survival. However, the restrictions it imposes The Israeli war government made this aid unable to meet the basic needs of the residents of the Gaza Strip, which prompted the United Nations and its agencies to demand the opening of new entry routes for aid, a greater number of trucks crossing the border every day, easing restrictions imposed on the movement of humanitarian workers, and providing security guarantees for people who receive aid. 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Blog Title Cancellation of Samia Halabi’s exhibition An attempt to silence Palestinian voices on American universities Author Rana Anani Date January 19, 2024 The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University’s sudden cancellation of a retrospective exhibition of Palestinian artist Samia Halabi, 87 years old, comes as a form of political censorship Which the academic and artistic circles in the United States of America began adopting after October 7, in acquiescence to financiers and their political agendas in support of Israel. The cancellation of the Aleppo exhibition, which was her first retrospective exhibition in the United States of America, where she has lived for five decades, came suddenly after...It was scheduled to open on February 10 of this year, and the artist spent three years working on this exhibition in cooperation with the Indiana University Museum, including borrowing her works from museums in various regions of the United States of America and shipping them to the exhibition hall at the university museum, but it was canceled a few days ago. Shortly after its opening, Halabi follows the abstract style in her paintings, which are characterized by bright colors, in addition to her abundant use of geometric shapes. Her works come as a series of study or experimentation on abstract form and color, with an attempt to embody reality in her continuous endeavor to develop a deeper understanding of abstract art. Halabi’s paintings were not the reason for canceling the exhibition at all. Despite naming one of them the title “A Global Uprising,” the university had issued a set of promotional materials a few months ago regarding the exhibition, and that was before the Al-Aqsa Flood. The director of the museum praised its experimental style and was proud that the university was organizing an exhibition of this type on its campus, and did not bother Halabi to express her opinion. Political throughout her long professional career, she was the one who saw her path clearly and constantly tried to support the cause of her people and their dream of liberation through her art. On various occasions, she expressed her opinions and participated in the production of political posters and paintings that addressed the concerns of her people. The last thing she produced in this regard was a book drawing the Kafr Qasem massacre. The year 2016, the historical introduction of which was written by the historian Salman Abu Sitta, and Halabi presented in the book a group of drawings in charcoal, pencil and acrylic colors on canvas and paper from her imagination, documenting a massacre that stuck in her mind since childhood and in honor of its martyrs based on field research she conducted on the ground. The exhibition was canceled in a quick message. The university administration took it behind the scenes without providing any explanations. In an interview with the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar, Halabi says that in late December 2023, she received a phone call from David Brenneman, the director of the museum, in which he told her about his concern about her posts on Instagram, in which she criticized the genocide carried out by Israel. In Gaza, but she was upset by his proposal and did not give him room to discuss her publications. She said, “There is a massacre happening in Gaza. I am Palestinian and I am hurt by the issue. It is natural for me to publish critical publications.” 1 After this phone call, Halabi received a two-sentence email informing her of the official cancellation of the exhibition. A university spokesman said in an interview: The New York Times later reported that university officials canceled the exhibition as a result of concerns about ensuring the safety and security of the exhibition during its exhibition period. 2 Although the exhibition did not receive any threat, the silencing of the Palestinian voice in American universities. Behind the scenes, it is said that those in charge of the university succumbed to political and financial pressure to Canceling the exhibition, as the mere opening of an exhibition by a Palestinian artist at this time would contradict the desires of the Zionist institutions in terms of silencing, intimidation, and maintaining a supportive opinion of Israel in academic institutions in the United States. Halabi points out that she heard that an influential person in the government contacted the university and threatened to withdraw his donations if The exhibition continued, adding that there was a Palestinian teacher who worked with her at the college and was recently expelled from it, in reference to the growing racism targeting Palestinians at the university. Indiana University, like other American universities, was subject to pressure as part of this campaign. In November, Jim Banks, Indiana’s representative in Congress, threatened to The Republican Party believes that the university will lose federal funding if it does not address or tolerate anti-Semitism on campus. As we have seen recently, the campaign againstAmerican universities succeeded in pushing the president of Harvard University to resign, as well as the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and two new presidents were appointed in their place, with trends in solidarity with Israel and suppressing voices in solidarity with Palestine and the massacres in Gaza. Halabi says, “The loss for me is one of the many losses that I have faced in my life as a Palestinian, and this is one of the problems.” There are museums that are much more important than the Indiana University Museum, but she insisted on taking the battle to the furthest extent, so she wrote two letters to the university director, Pamela Whitten, in an attempt to dissuade the university from its decision. However, Whitten did not answer, so Halabi said, “I am trying to pressure to return the exhibition because the decision should not be between Their hands Who is Samia Halabi Samia Halabi was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and immigrated with her family to Beirut during the 1948 Nakba before moving to the United States with her family in 1952 and settling there. She studied at the University of Michigan and obtained a master’s degree from Indiana University in 1963, which is the same university that She canceled her exhibition and was the first woman to hold the position of associate professor at Yale School of Art. Halabi has worked in digital art since the 1980s, and her works are at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Yale University Gallery, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Arab World Institute in Paris, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Cincinnati Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Mead Museum of Art, the Arab Museum of Modern Art, and the British Museum resumed their efforts to return the exhibition by publishing a petition in which it asked those interested to sign to publicly support the request to return the exhibition. The petition says that the university community, including students and staff, has been deprived of Teaching and graduate staff, in addition to the Bloomington and Indiana area of the exhibition, and the walls of the museum will remain bare for more than six months in the absence of any response from the administration. It is clear that the university is canceling the display to distance itself from the issue of Palestinian freedom. Instead of using this moment to show solidarity with a marginalized artist, the Indiana University administration has chosen to silence An 87-year-old Palestinian artist, Halabi continues to appeal to organize her exhibition. All artists who have been canceled from museums, exhibition halls, and biennials in the United States and Europe continue to try to find a free space that can withstand criticism. Among the new topics that artists are presenting now, especially those who are not afraid to take... Bold stances against the genocide in Gaza is how to create liberal self-financing networks that do justice to art and the artist and enhance freedom of expression for humanitarian issues without being subject to the restrictions of financiers and academic and artistic institutions that cannot tolerate criticism 1 Lebanese An-Nahar newspaper Video on Instagram January 11, 2024 2 erik schreiber indiana university art museum cancels career retrospective of palestinian artist samia halaby icfi 14 1 2024 3 jeffrey c isaac congressman jim banks s pressure on indiana university to police antisemitism is duplicitous and dangerous the nation 29 11 2023 read the original
Blog title The war on Gaza changes standards in American universities Author Rami Al-Rayes Date January 18, 2024 What the halls of the American Congress witnessed in recent weeks of unprecedented accountability for the presidents of the most prestigious and oldest American universities raised several questions regarding the functions of American democracy and its roles in terms of the behaviors that have come to characterize institutional work, some of which contradict the essence of ConceptThe freedoms that the United States has been calling for continuously for decades, and it is a slogan that often contradicts many of its applied policies, especially in the field of foreign policy, as political interests prevail over theoretical and philosophical principles. The issue of accountability has occupied a large space in American circles, especially in the media and social media, which I discussed it over the course of a whole month. This issue has a special importance related to freedom of expression in Western educational institutions in general and American educational institutions in particular. Reading into the implications of this event, questions emerge that go beyond the academic framework related to the freedom of opinion and expression allowed in universities, the independence of higher education in the United States, and the role of universities. In mobilizing public opinion towards certain issues, American universities and freedom of expression. Universities have always been the most important edifice for expressing the orientations of young groups regarding issues that arouse public opinion, whether internal or external, and American universities are no exception to this framework, especially since the United States, which leads the global system, considers itself The pioneer of liberalism in the West. The United States Constitution guarantees freedom of expression in educational institutions and stipulates the protection of political speech on university campuses. American universities include students of different nationalities in addition to American students. This diversity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it constitutes an oasis for the diversity of cultures and political and social backgrounds. But on the other hand, it may be a reason for differing views on global issues, especially with regard to human rights issues. Groups are active in universities calling for preserving students’ right to freedom of expression and not restricting these freedoms under any pretext. In September 2023, 13 American universities announced the establishment of A group to defend freedom of expression within the framework of a plan to preserve freedom of expression and to stand up to what universities considered a threat to American democracy. The Fire Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is considered one of the most important institutions concerned with the rights of students in universities, especially freedom of expression. The Foundation believes that intellectual freedom It cannot function properly if students or faculty members fear punishment for expressing opinions that may be unpopular with the public in general or undesirable by university administrators. It also indicates that universities intend to restrict freedoms for several reasons, including politics, which is what This means the existence of laws dictating what is said or what is not said, i.e. defining areas for freedom of expression as it is limited to certain areas of the university campus only, in addition to administrative attempts to punish or suppress this freedom on a case-by-case basis, which has become common in academic circles 1 Funding Receives Universities in the United States receive financial support in the form of donations and grants from business groups, associations, and major institutions, in addition to government support under the name of research funds. Former President Donald Trump had threatened universities to deprive them of federal research funds if they did not maintain freedom of expression on campus, and he did so. He refers to more than $30 billion that the government grants annually to universities in the form of research funding. 2 And if there are views that consider that this federal funding would enhance the independence of universities as academic centers for research and liberal education, then at the same time there are profound questions being raised about the consequences of this. Financing when complex problems similar to the Israeli war ariseOn the Gaza Strip, intentionally or unintentionally mixing principled positions with political interests and disrupting the former for the benefit of the latter. The war on Gaza ignites an academic war. In the first phase of the Israeli war on Gaza, it was clear that Western public opinion was strongly supportive of Israel, regardless of the level of Israeli retaliation. However, the escalation of the pace of war and genocide against civilians brought about a change in the trends of Western public opinion, which was also reflected in American universities, which witnessed demonstrations, sit-ins, movements, and activities denouncing the Israeli aggression and supporting Palestine in an unprecedented way. However, the pro-Israel movements within the universities, in return, rose from Its movements are not only against pro-Palestine groups, but also against universities that have become subject to various accusations against university presidents and those in charge of them. In this field, Dima Al-Khalidi, Executive Director of the Palestine Legal Organization, confirmed in an interview in late August 2023, that is, before the war on Gaza, that universities are witnessing academic activity. Extending for decades, it aims to place the issue of Palestinian rights at the forefront of university concerns, which prompted pro-Israel and Zionist groups to impose censorship on the voices of academics supporting Palestine. She added that Palestine is excluded from our rights to freedom of expression, and in this context, sites have emerged whose mission is to create blacklists that include the names of students and activists. And academics who support Palestine and the Palestinians and who criticize Israel and charge them with anti-Semitism and supporting terrorism. Dima Al-Khalidi explained that the Campus Watch website was one of the most prominent sites that prepare blacklists against professors who criticize Israel, and during this year several attempts were made to impose censorship on academics and other critics of Israel in universities. United States 3. This system of oversight is also reflected in the selection and appointment of faculty members who may not be accepted because of their opinions against Israel. Over the course of three months, that is, since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza, students who support Palestine have been subjected to great practices and pressure that have reached the point of threatening to expel them from their colleges. One of them says: The female students said that these practices and harassment are carried out systematically and deliberately under the name of combating anti-Semitism, so everyone who criticizes Israel is pursued. She added that there is an exception to the rule of freedom of expression with regard to Israel. Even though she is American, if she criticizes her country, she is exposed to less harassment and pressure than she is exposed to when she criticizes Israel. 4 But what is noteworthy is that all of these pressures did not stop student activity against the war on Gaza, which put university presidents in a major dilemma, as they were faced with two options: either preventing activities and demonstrations, and this puts universities before accountability regarding the freedom of expression guaranteed in the American Constitution, or allowing all parties to express their expressions. Their opinions, and this in turn will put them facing the charge of supporting inciters against the Jews and Israel, and this is what actually appeared in the media, especially in a number of newspapers that published articles accusing Harvard University, for example, of supporting terrorists. 5 The pace of attacks on university presidents escalated and calls emerged from students, politicians, and men. Businesses and institutions demand the resignation of the targeted university presidents. In a precedent that indicates the extent of the impact of these movements on American public opinion, an accountability session was held in the US Congress on December 5, to which the presidents of three American universities, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were summoned to question them in a campaign session. The name of accounting and combating university presidentsAnti-Semitism 6 This session was like pointing the finger at the three universities, albeit indirectly. Over the course of five hours, three women, university presidents, faced a barrage of questions from representatives in Congress that addressed their position on calls that include anti-Semitism or the extermination of Jews. After four days of The hearing session, and as a result of the accusations and great pressure, Liz Magill, President of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned from her position, and Scott Bock, Chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees, also resigned. Many believe that Magill’s resignation was not the result of the war on Gaza only, as she was subjected to great pressure last September 2023 to prevent the organization of a Palestinian literary festival in The university, but the Palestine Festival writes on a contract in the presence of more than 1,500 people who celebrated Palestinian literary works despite the threats and attacks launched by pro-Israel groups 7 As for the Board of Directors of Harvard University, it announced that Claudine Guy would remain in her position as president of the university, but the matter did not last more than two weeks. She was even forced to resign from her position after new accusations of plagiarism were brought against her. In her resignation statement, Jay said, “It has become clear that it is in the interest of Harvard University for me to resign so that the university can overcome this very difficult stage by focusing on the institution rather than the individual.” 8 It is worth noting here that The Harvard administration stood by its president after the hearing and strongly supported her. On December 12, 2023, the university issued a statement supporting Dr. Jay and gave her confidence that she is the right person to head the university. Jay and her work team immediately began developing a new plan to address matters at the university 9 before it became clear that the pressures that The university administration was exercised by financiers and politicians that would not have allowed Jay to remain in her position. The great and escalating pressure on major American universities has revealed that the largest share of the financial support that these universities receive comes from institutions and individuals, either Jewish or supportive of Israel, and in the end they are subject to the lobby. The sums received by universities amount to millions of dollars annually in the form of grants and scholarships, but regardless of the funding issue that Israel and its supporters exploit, and regardless of the absolute support for Israel from conservatives, there are new signs that must have future implications that must be stopped at. Before the war on Gaza, it will not be the same as after it in the academic context. The issue has now gone beyond freedom of expression or its restriction, as universities must pay close attention to the attitudes of American students specifically regarding the issue of Palestine. What has been shown by the movements, activities, demonstrations, sit-ins, and slogans that are echoed on university campuses indicates great support. The issue of Palestine has become popular among a large segment of American students, and the matter is no longer limited to Arab students or their supporters. The major shift in the thinking pattern of youth groups in the United States towards just issues, including the issue of Palestine, could lead in the near future to the emergence of political leaders with Completely different visions from the traditional pro-Israel visions. This change in turn leads to another question regarding the possibility of establishing Arab pressure groups capable of providing financial support in the form of donations and scholarships, which would have an influence similar, if not similar, to the Zionist lobby, and this would constitute strong support for Palestinian students. Arabs and supporters of the Palestine issue, and protects them from a policy of revenge facing them, whether in universities or in the labor market in the future. In conclusion, the American thinker addressesNoam Chomsky calls what he calls incomplete democracy or the undermining of democracy. He explains that there is a sharp and strong conflict throughout American history between the pressure for more freedom and democracy, and this came from the lower class, and the efforts of the elite to extend control and impose influence for the sake of incomplete democracy, and this comes from the upper class. 10 The Gaza war brought down Many false masks and slogans have put the major players in front of a difficult test in humanity, and in the end the United States may not be able to continue its unlimited support for Israel and raise bright slogans that are destroyed every day on the land and in the skies of Gaza 1 what are my rights on campus fire has the answer fire foundation for individual rights and expression 2 Abeer Al-Adwa Trump threatens American universities freedom of expression or deprivation of research funds Beginner 3 3 2019 3 How did Palestine become at the heart of the battle for freedom of expression in American universities in Arabic 8 26 2023 4 Gaza War The United States fails the test of university freedoms Anatolia 16 12 2023 5 ingrid jacques harvard for hamas something is very twisted on America’s university campuses usa today 12 10 2023 6 Freedom of expression in the wind How does Israel’s aggression against Gaza ignite American universities Arab Post 16 12 2023 7 Palestine writes a literary festival to celebrate Palestinian culture In America, it achieves widespread success despite the threats of the Israeli lobby In Arabic 9 26 2023 8 The president of Harvard steps down from her position after pressure from the Israeli lobby Al Jazeera 3 1 2024 9 maureen farrell and rob copeland how harvard s board broke up with claudine gay new york times 6 1 2024 10 Abeer Fouad in America The struggle for democracy did not stop Arabic 21 27 1 2023 read the original
Blog title: Home murder is one of the tools of Israeli genocide in Gaza Author Maher Al-Sharif Date:January 17, 2024 In its war against the Palestinian people, successive Israeli governments, especially since the beginning of this third millennium, have resorted to all forms of genocide. Before the South African government recently filed its lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against Israel, accusing it of committing acts of genocide in its war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, it was The term political genocide has emerged since the 1970s, which the critical Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling resorted to in a book he published in 2003 entitled Political Genocide Ariel Sharon’s wars against the Palestinian people, accusing his country’s government of carrying out a wide range of social, political and military activities aimed at putting an end to existence. Political and national rights of the Palestinian people, thus denying their right to self-determination. Then, after the establishment of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in 2009, some international jurists and sociologists accused Israel of committing acts of societal genocide in order to Eliminating the components of Gazan society’s life and preventing it from reproducing itself. The term domicide has become widespread since its occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in 1967. Israeli governments have resorted to demolishing Palestinian homes under various pretexts. They demolished the homes of resistance fighters under the pretext that they targeted, with their operations, occupation soldiers, settlers, and homes. Citizens under the pretext that they built them without obtaining a permit from the occupation authorities, and the homes of Jerusalemites under the pretext that Jews owned them before 1948, etc. In its successive wars on the Gaza Strip since late 2008, Israeli forces, under false pretexts, destroyed tens of thousands of homes or caused significant damage to them. However, the size The current destruction in the Gaza Strip is of a different kind. During the war that it has been waging for more than a hundred days on the Gaza Strip, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has extensively targeted Palestinian homes with the clear aim of making it uninhabitable and pushing its residents to emigrate from it, in light of the extent of the destruction that occurred. In residential units, the term domicide appeared in the writings of analysts and the reports of experts who followed the events of this war. This term was mentioned for the first time in the year 2001 in a book prepared by geographer Douglas Porteous and assistant professor of geography Sandra Smith in their book domicide the global destruction of home Mass Destruction of Homes Published by McGill University in Montreal and in July 2022 Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, resorted to this term to refer to the widespread or systematic destruction of civilian housing during conflicts and explained in a report submitted in October From the same year to the United Nations General Assembly after his visit to the occupied West Bank, I saw how in a few seconds a house, which is the culmination of a lifelong effort and the pride of entire families, was destroyed and turned into rubble. It is not just a house that was destroyed, but it is also the savings of entire families, the memories and the feeling of belonging to a place. The destruction of a home causes social and psychological trauma that is difficult for me to describe or even imagine. On February 13, 2023, Balakrishnan Rajagopal called in a joint report prepared with Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, and Paula Gaviria Bettencourt, Special Rapporteur on human rights Human Rights for Internally Displaced Persons, mandated by the CouncilHuman Rights called on Israel to be held accountable for its deliberate and systematic demolition of Palestinian homes. They added that Israel is systematically demolishing Palestinian homes and depriving them of building permits in the West Bank while also establishing illegal settlements, considering that the Israeli tactics of forced displacement and expulsion of the Palestinian population have no limits and that the attacks Direct attacks on the homes of the Palestinian people, their schools, their sources of livelihood, and their water resources are nothing but Israeli attempts to limit the Palestinians’ right to self-determination and threaten their existence. They also stated that dozens of Palestinian families also face imminent risks of forced evictions and displacement due to discriminatory zoning and planning systems that support Israeli settlement expansion, which is an act Illegal under international law and amounts to a war crime 1 The Israeli war on Gaza and the term “house annihilation” A report issued by the United Nations in early November 2023 indicated that 45 homes in the Gaza Strip were destroyed or damaged as a result of the Israeli bombing, and by the 29th of the month The same date as the start of the temporary ceasefire, which was later abandoned. Satellite images showed that 98,000 buildings had been damaged in the Gaza Strip. Then the Wall Street Journal reported in late December of the same year that 70 homes and about half of the buildings in the Gaza Strip. It was damaged or destroyed, a devastation that is unparalleled in modern urban wars. Removing the rubble will take at least a year, while rebuilding destroyed homes will take between seven and ten years. The United Nations described the Gaza Strip as a place of death and despair and simply uninhabitable. The Humanitarian Coordinator expressed that At the United Nations, Martin Griffiths, on Sunday, January 7, expressed his regret that the residents of the Strip, especially those displaced from their homes, who are about 1.8 million people, face daily threats before the eyes of the world, while Julia Grignon, scientific director of the Institute for Strategic Research of the IRSEM Military School in France, saw that The term “house extermination” allows us to describe the reality in the sector. It is true that this term does not add anything at the legal level, but it draws attention to what is happening and also allows us to point out the violated rights resulting from it, such as the right to water and sanitation or the right to education in the case of destroyed schools 2 Among the destroyed or partially destroyed buildings were the main Palestinian court in Gaza, known as the Palace of Justice, the Palestinian Legislative Council complex, 339 educational institutions, 167 places of worship, the main public library, the four Gaza universities, and archaeological buildings in the old city of Gaza, such as the Samra Bath, which dates back to the Mamluk era, the Great Omari Mosque, and the Monastery of Gaza. St. Hilarion, the port of Gaza and several museums, including the new Rafah Museum of Palestinian Heritage, while 26 out of 35 hospitals in the Strip are non-functional. Hugh Lovatt of the European Council on Foreign Relations saw that Israel is deliberately and systematically destroying the civil institutions and infrastructure that would be necessary to govern Gaza and achieving stability after the conflict. Satellite images also revealed the erasure of entire neighborhoods in Gaza from the face of the earth, including the Karama neighborhood in the northern part of Gaza City, large parts of the Jabalia refugee camp and the town of Beit Hanoun in the northeastern part of the Strip, and the destruction of orchards. Greenhouses and agricultural lands in northern Gaza, Human Rights Watch said, in northeastern Gaza, north of BeitHanoun Green farmland became brown and desolate, fields and orchards were damaged for the first time during the hostilities that followed the Israeli ground invasion in late October, and bulldozers dug new roads for Israeli military vehicles. 3 Could home extermination become a distinct international crime? Population In the Gaza Strip, those who no longer have homes to live in number in the hundreds of thousands today. In fact, the word “home” in many languages is not limited to the place of residence, but rather includes everything that surrounds this place in terms of security, comfort, and access to water and electricity, such that the destruction of the house deprives its owner of the ability to reach To all these reasons for a decent life and involves a psychological aspect that is painful for the person who lives in it. However, the term “domestic genocide” does not exist in international law and does not have a clear definition. It is not considered a war crime or a crime against humanity and does not fall within the acts of genocide, which creates A gap in international law. For this reason, a number of experts, including Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, called for the creation of a new crime in international law, which is the crime of domestic extermination or the killing of homes. In November 2022, he sent a call to the United Nations to consider domestic extermination an international crime in itself or the fifth international crime after the crime of aggression, the crime of genocide, the war crime and the crime against humanity that can be tried before national and international courts. After Israel launched its war on the Gaza Strip, he pointed out that Israel’s military actions systematically destroy and damage civilian homes and infrastructure, making the city An entire city, like Gaza City, is uninhabitable for civilians, despite the fact that the protection of civilian homes is included in the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court for war crimes committed in conflicts between states, and called on countries that oppose what is happening in Gaza, such as South Africa and Spain, to do what they did. completely in the field of famine to bridge this gap and ensure the possibility of prosecuting the perpetrators of the comprehensive destruction of homes in Gaza, noting that the widespread destruction of homes in Gaza is not an incidental result of the war, but rather a goal in itself, based on the facts and the words of Israeli leaders. It should be noted in this context that the government South Africa stated in its lawsuit accusing Israel of committing acts of genocide that there was a huge amount of destroyed homes in the Gaza Strip and that this would therefore meet the third criterion of genocide, which is the intentional subjection of the group to living conditions intended to lead to its total or physical destruction. Partly 4 The occupation army turned Gaza into a wasteland, morgues crowded with bereaved families, exhausted and terrified residents, neighborhoods turned to dust, and a health system on its knees. This is how the French newspaper Le Matin described in its January 11 issue the situation in the Gaza Strip 100 days after the destructive war. “It is only a hundred days, but it seems like a hundred years,” says Abdel Aziz Saadat, who, like the vast majority of residents, fled their homes and lives in a temporary shelter camp in Rafah. He adds, “The small, densely populated coastal area is unrecognizable, as the neighborhoods whose streets are usually Crowded and noisy, it is now nothing but ruins. Some live in schools, others in the streets on the ground, and others sleep on benches. The war has not spared anyone, and the newspaper continues and writes, finding more.Of the 23,300 people who died, most of them were women and minors, about 60,000 were injured, and thousands are still buried under the rubble. Agence France-Presse journalists were quoted as saying that due to the limited space in the cemeteries, mass graves were dug in orchards, hospital courtyards, and even in a football field. She added, “As is the case on a horrific day.” It has no end. The scene is repeated every day. Men and women in tears identify the corpses wrapped in white plastic sheets. Many bakeries have been affected or closed due to a lack of fuel. The stores are empty and there is no money to buy food. People are dying of hunger, far from physical suffering, horror and scenes of destruction. Hadeel Shehata expresses 23 A year about the despair of young people in this region, where half the population is minors. Children can lose years of their lives by living here. Everything has been in vain. Everything is lost. 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Blog title Education under occupation is a right or a privilege Author Sundus Hammad Date January 16, 2024 You saved my books I cannot forget this sentence from a girl from Gaza who was not more than ten years old when asked what you took with you from your home before displacement in this war, and with this simple sentence you summarized what Science and education matter to the Palestinian, even in the most difficult moments. The Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, the occupied interior, refugee camps, and in exile have long believed in education to establish their survival on the land, to protect identity and narrative, as a means of steadfastness, and as a tool for resisting the occupier and imposing presence. But just as the Palestinians recognize education as the foundation of their existence on this Land It seems that Israel has followed the same logic in reverse and systematically to destroy the structure of education and reinforce its concept as a privilege. The colonizer takes into account his access to the colonized according to his vision and in a way that is consistent with his colonial ambitions not only for the land but also for its indigenous people today and while the genocide in Gaza continues for more than 100 days. The Israeli occupation continues to deprive more than 2 million Palestinians of their rights to exist and live in safety, including the escalation of violations of the rights of Palestinians to education. With the beginning of the aggression on Gaza on October 7, 2023, the educational process was completely suspended in 19 higher education institutions in the Strip. It was also The universities there were completely disabled and more than 88,000 university students were deprived of completing their current and future education as a result of the bombing of most of the universities and tEvery day, 180 women give birth in this chaos. Hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, churches and dozens of buildings have turned into rubble, and a savior is killed every two days. Therefore, even before the court decides on the truth of the genocide, which may take years, an immediate order must be issued to take temporary measures to prevent the danger, as he urges. According to South African lawyers, among these measures are the immediate suspension of military operations, a cessation of murders, expulsions and various deprivations, the provision of humanitarian assistance to the residents of Gaza, including access to sufficient fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation facilities, as well as medical supplies and assistance, and ensuring that Israeli officials and others refrain from That is, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, punish those who do so, and open the Gaza Strip to investigation teams. One of the jurists says that the reputation of international law itself is what is at stake. If the International Court of Justice decides not to condemn Israel, this will be tantamount to saying that the Palestinians are less deserving of protection than others. The court departs from its jurisprudence, and one of the speakers insists that the prohibition of genocide is an absolute legal ruling that applies to everyone, and the Palestinians in Gaza, like any people in the world, have a simple but profound right to exist, and the president ends the session with the defense having its say on Friday morning 3, and the law professor sees François Dubuisson, international diplomat at the Free University of Brussels, said that the issuance of a ruling by the International Court of Justice to activate precautionary measures so that Israel refrains from acts of war and allows the passage of more humanitarian aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip. It will be a mandatory ruling and may be issued within weeks, but this does not mean that Israel will abide by it. The court It does not have the necessary means to implement its rulings by force, and only the United Nations Security Council can do this. However, precautionary measures would constitute a means of pressure on other countries, such that the pressure on Israel will increase, including from its Western allies, to stop the massacre in Gaza. 4 Reactions of Israeli officials At the court session, the Israeli delegation will have to plead before the court today, Friday. Israeli officials have made statements commenting on the pleadings of members of the South African delegation that indicate the nature of the defense that this delegation will present. The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced what it called one of the greatest manifestations of hypocrisy in history, in addition to a series of It is a baseless lie accusing South Africa of acting as the legal arm of the terrorist organization Hamas. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday that South Africa is accusing Israel of committing genocide while the country struggles against genocide, adding that the case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague He revealed a world turned upside down, expressing his regret, saying that South Africa's hypocrisy is blatant and that Israel will continue to fight against terrorists until complete victory. Opposition leader Yair Lapid, as well as many Israeli politicians from all parties, strongly criticized the session of the International Court of Justice, and in a video statement published on Website Anti-Semitic slurs He added: Anti-Israelism is the new anti-SemitismWhile former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described the tribunal as the Dreyfus case of the 21st century and added that this was a shameful display of hypocrisy and blatant anti-Semitism on his part, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stated that never before had such a large number of infidels participated in such despicable lies. 5 These statements indicate the fact that the rulers of Israel felt for the first time that the sword of international law was hanging over their necks, especially as a result of the global symbolism enjoyed by the state that filed a claim of genocide against them. It is true that this is not the first time that the International Court of Justice has been asked to Issuing a ruling on the extent of compatibility between Israeli policy and international law, as it issued a previous fatwa in 2004 declaring the illegality of the separation wall that Israel built in the occupied West Bank, which Israel completely ignored. However, the action taken by South Africa today is considered exceptional because South Africa is not just a state, but rather a The state of Nelson Mandela, who is the most important moral figure in the world during the past hundred years, a man who made the struggle against apartheid and human liberation the battle of his life, a man who always said our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians, and it is a very sensitive state due to its past towards the Palestinians’ struggle for self-determination. 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Blog address:Gazans in exile live between two opposing worlds Author: Youmna Hamidi Date: January 12, 2024 And you, my mother, my father, my brothers, family, and comrades. Perhaps you are alive, perhaps you are dead. A letter from exile. Mahmoud Darwish. The question that the poet Mahmoud Darwish addressed to his mother in a letter from exile is posed by Iman to herself as she tries To call her sister Tasneem, hoping to God that her phone will succeed this time in catching the network so that she can be reassured about her family who lives in a city whose address has become death. Every day passes heavy for Iman with the weight of the concerns and thoughts it contains, and she lives her days terrified and afraid that one of her family members or friends might be her. Breaking news, and she is not in Gaza with them, but she is one of the expatriates of this city living abroad, living in another war alongside the one her family is experiencing, so she spends most of her time absorbed in following the war and its events, and does not see the picture like any other person. Rather, she is part of this picture, even if she is in a country. Far from her country, Iman Ali, 31 years old, has been living in Germany for many years. She has been watching silently how houses are being demolished over the heads of their residents. She says, “We have seen everything in this war, and it is genocide, if true, in the eyes of the whole world. Everything kills and destroys, and there is freedom.” The old woman, the child, the woman, the stone, and even the trees. Iman lived through many wars in Gaza and cultivated her vocabulary, but this war is more severe for her because she watches from behind the screen the death of friends and loved ones. However, she is forced to continue her extraordinary life despite all the supernatural scenes she sees. To nature because she lives in a country that does not sympathize with the Palestinian and does not consider him a human being at all. She adds, saying, “In my workplace in Germany, the only question they asked me is, ‘Are you able to work?’ And if I answered them, ‘I cannot work,’ they will simply see someone else take my place. I live between two worlds, a world in which I exist physically and have to work.” In it, because I will not be able to live without work, and the world that exists in my heart, soul, and being is Gaza. I used to exchange long letters with Iman from time to time, asking about her conditions in the exile that burdened her, and the conditions of her family, which has been living in the ravages of war for more than two months, despite my shyness. Who asked this question while they are living this genocide that violates everything and the occupation takes life from everything, looking at the Palestinians as human animals? Nothing but, in the words of Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant, a killing of the senses and annihilation of existence. Iman spoke to me about the horror and cruelty of the scenes that her family is watching. She decided to stay in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and refused to move to the south amid the occupation’s warnings. For them, all places are death, even if it takes many forms, in a city that has become without electricity, water, or food. One morning, while Iman was at work, she succeeded in contacting her adult sister, Tasnim. She is 18 years old and her voice is strained and full of grief, fear and tension. She received this answer: Iman: We left my uncle’s house and now we don’t know where we want to go. The tanks have surrounded the area and you know what will happen when the tanks surround us. Iman’s family has become scattered under the threat of death that is pursuing them by air, land and sea. That the rabid Israeli tanks came to wipe out what was left of life in this city, and that the options for survival and safety had become non-existent. Iman kept in touch with her sister on the phone during their search for a place with less death until they reached a school housing displaced people from the area, and she told me why they had not entered my family. The school hurt my heart. I felt that something was going to happen, so I insisted on my sister, once, twice, or three times, that they go in anyway.A room in the school and what remained in the yard. In fact, her feelings did not disappoint her. While she was talking to her sister, the occupation suddenly bombed the school yard. The terrifying and massive sounds did not stop, and from her horror, Iman felt that the ground was shaking beneath her, just as the school was shaking. Pain took hold of her body, and oppression seized her soul, unable to eliminate the scenes. Fear and panic in the eyes of her family as she heard them screaming and screaming that the survivors in the countries of exile are being killed by life and the survival complex, but exile is the luxury of being saved from death. Praise be to God, Iman, we are alive, living. This is what Tasneem used to say. Escaping from death has become something worthy of celebration. Tasnim, who finished high school in Last year, with a grade of 96.5, she completed her dream of studying fashion design. Iman says, if you see her fashion drawings, they are so amazing that she designed a whole dress from scratch and sewed it, but Tasneem knew despair and despair, and she saw in the prime of her life what could last her a lifetime after that. It is war that kills hopes and dreams. Memory is distorted and existence is erased, so that the first and last dream remains to be saved from death. Only after the bombing subsided, Iman’s family left school to go to the house of one of their relatives, and here she told me while I was with them on the phone, hearing my brother’s voice while he was talking. Bring a bandana and we will tie it around his leg. I would tell her who is right, Tasneem. So she quickly called my cousin, and she hung up the phone. Iman then went to continue her work after the tears of oppression and panic reached their peak. The requested number cannot be reached at the moment. Iman lost contact with her family for about five days. She was trying to call dozens of times a minute and sending several messages that no one received. She said: To me, this war paralyzed her before its time. It is not just a war, but it also contains many details that kill the estranged person and turn him into a corpse whose time has not come to bury her. She used to hear daily the news of the Shuja’iyah neighborhood and how the cancer spread throughout its parts and reached advanced stages, so the neighborhood became a hotbed for Israeli tanks. Also, the occupation never stopped wiping it with fire belts, and for those who do not know the fire belt, it is a large batch of heavy missiles fired by warplanes at one time and place. Minutes from Heaven. Iman, We Are Fine. One message was enough to return Iman’s soul to her body after many scenarios that kept revolving. In her head, she was afraid that a message would reach her mourning her family. Is there anything harsher for a person than to feel the feeling of loss even before it happens? Is there anything harsher than depriving a person of one final moment of farewell? Tasneem told her sister after she was able to contact her again. Details What her family was exposed to while leaving school, and the heartbreak, pain and fear they experienced in their relatives’ homes. The streets in Gaza turned into a large cemetery with the bodies of men, women and children scattered everywhere without evidence. No one knows who the martyrs lying on the ground are. Tasneem describes this story. moments of the horrors of the Day of Resurrection. They were walking in fear, fleeing from the sound of death that surrounded everyone in Gaza. They saw unparalleled scenes that words cannot describe, given the level of hell and destruction that was as clear as daylight and which befell Gaza. Here, Iman adds, saying: “They were My family is afraid for my little sister. If she were not 13 years old, she sees these scenes that no human mind can comprehend. They tell her all the time, “You can’t see the ground. Raise your eyes and look at the sky.” Tasneem was hit by a piece of shrapnel. One moment she was standing in school, and this is what my sister Iman says whenever she comes out of school and she tells me Iman. Praise be to God, we are alive. She was injured by shrapnel, but she continued to hold herself together and did not become a prick.I am in pain so I do not worry and fear for her. Iman’s brother, 27 years old, was injured by shrapnel that lodged in his leg for several days and he was unable to remove it due to lack of resources. Her cousin’s wife was also injured by shrapnel in various parts of her body, which led to her martyrdom. The luckiest in Gaza is the one who finds a grave. To honor the dead, and Iman’s family had no share in that, so they were forced to bury their cousin’s wife inside the house they went to, which housed 75 people who were unable to leave as a result of the intense bombing and sudden sniping. Iman added, “Because they did not know where they wanted to bury my cousin’s wife, and they were not able to get out.” From the place, the body remained with them for a whole night, and there were many children in the house, and there was no solution except that they removed part of the tiles of the house and buried it under it in attempts to escape. One day, Israeli tanks advanced towards the house that housed the Iman family and those with them, and the occupation soldiers began calling out through loudspeakers in Hadda. Here, the place was filled with silence and fear, and none of them uttered a single word for fear that the occupation would strike the house and kill everyone in it. Tasnim said to Iman, “But they started calling. We signaled to each other that we should not talk.” There was a baby boy who started crying, so a man from those present took a pillow and hid the child. His mother looked. To the man in a strange way, he said to her: One dies and 75 do not die. This is one of the scenes that cameras do not document, but it remains stuck in the conscience even with the passage of time, and every day that passes is difficult for Iman’s family as they search for a destination in this complete blindness, dispersed under the threat of bombing, and moving from the area. Inevitable death to the area of slow death and they search for repeated attempts to survive in light of the lack of chances for survival. As for Iman, her situation is like many of Gaza’s expatriate children. Her spirit was broken and she was tired of counting the days of extermination. She was waiting for the day when her family would survive so that she could meet them again. She could not control her tears as she She recalls how, in the blink of an eye, Gaza was transformed into a large funeral home. She did not imagine that her family would live in difficult humanitarian conditions like this, and that the list of lost family and friends would be long. Here Iman says with shame, “I sleep while my family is not sleeping, and the breath I breathe feels heavy, and my mind feels heavy, and if I drink or eat, I feel like it is poison.” It came down to my stomach, and during this war I lost 17 kilos of my weight. Throughout the war, I used to have terrible panic attacks, shortness of breath, and pain in the chest and shoulder area. My wishes have now become crystallized with a wish: O Lord, save my family and protect them, and I do not want anything from the world. It desires like the Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti when he He says in the poem “Lusts”, a desire to answer the phone late at night without worrying about a catastrophe. I listen daily to dozens of stories about Gaza and the war, and this story is one of what I heard from Iman, the expatriate girl who lives in Germany, who deserves to write down that Gazans survive in exile from bombing or Death under the rubble, but they may not survive death out of fear and oppression for their families, as happened weeks ago with Shatha Al-Kafarna, 23 years old, who died of a heart attack, and Samar Al-Sheikh, 30 years old, whose heart suddenly stopped due to pain and fear for their families.
Blog title: Prince Turki Al-Faisal’s plan Author: Walid Al-Khalidi Date: January 10, 2024 On January 5, 2024, the Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an article by Prince Turki Al-Faisal on the ongoing Gaza Hashem Holocaust and the Palestinian issue in general, and on the positions of the main parties in them, led by Zionism and Israel on the one hand, and the West and its media led by the United States on the other hand, and it is divided. The article is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the motives of these parties at the expense of the rights of the Palestinian people and the sanctity of sanctitiesIslam in Palestine, while the second section presents the author’s vision of not only a way out of the epic Gaza impasse, but also a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue as a whole, as he does not even hesitate to specify the time period for its achievement. What is striking in the article, in addition to its details and the breadth of its treatment of its topics, is the spirit that permeates its lines, which reflects the Authentic, doctrinal sentiments of faith that remind us of the honorable, sincere and sincere positions of the predecessors of the most righteous Saudi leaders, whom we believed the new young leadership in Saudi Arabia had rejected in recent years, eager to follow the ranks of the secular Abrahamic normalists and seeking to win arms deals and nuclear expertise on the ruins of Palestinian rights and the sanctity of holy sites. With the aim of forming a tripartite axis that dominates the Arab East, whose pillars are Zionist America, Talmudic Israel, and a hybrid Sunni alliance headed by the Sadnat al-Haramain, which will stand up against neighboring Shiite Muslim Iran and its alleged allies, the Chinese and Russians. As for the perception of the author of the article that we referred to, its main elements are, firstly, an Arab effort to issue a new international resolution imposing a cessation. Immediate fire. Secondly, imposing a long truce for a period of 5 years or more on both sides, with an Arab guarantee for the Palestinian side and an international guarantee for the Israeli side. Thirdly, the end of this truce culminates in the establishment of a Palestinian state based on international resolutions Resolution 1948 and Resolutions 242 and 338. Fourthly, serious negotiations will follow for a final solution to the Palestinian issue based on The Quartet Initiative and the Arab Peace Initiative Fifth: Hamas’ declaration of its commitment to the PLO Charter and its political options Sixth: Palestinian agreement on a Palestinian political leadership for the Gaza Strip that will manage its affairs until general Palestinian elections are held Seventh: Complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and exchange of prisoners Eighth: Lifting the siege on Gaza Ninth: An international fund To reconstruct the Strip under international supervision funded by Israel, its Western supporters, and Arab parties. Tenth: Preventing the current leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel from holding a political position forever. The author of this article is not an ordinary Saudi citizen, as he is the third son of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz, may God have mercy on them In general He graduated from Princeton and Georgetown Universities in 1945 and held several positions, including successively advisor to the Royal Court 1973-1977, head of intelligence 1977-2001, and ambassador to Britain 2002-2005 and the United States 2005-2007. He is the founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the King Faisal Foundation and head of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He is the veteran representative of a segment A mission from the Saudi political elite, and he has reached his eighth decade. We do not know for sure whether the prince’s article was his own or if he was expressing, even ambiguously, a change in the opinions of the ruler in Saudi Arabia and in their position following the exposure of the fangs of the Black White House in Washington regarding the Gaza massacre. Hashem, the Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims in general, and the truth about Zionism’s intentions towards the Palestinian people and the Islamic holy sites under its custody. What we know is that there is an exclusive centrality in the Saudi decision, and that an article with the contents and contents of Prince Turki’s article is unlikely to be published without a green light from the Royal Court of Riyadh, no matter what the obstacle. In any case, whatever the case may be, it is the duty of those responsible for the Palestinian decision and those responsible for directing public opinion in the country, in the Authority and outside it, and in Fatah, Hamas, and other organizations, to contemplate at length the project of Prince Turki, regardless of the reservations on any of its elements, and to make a serious effort.It is necessary to evaluate it while waiting for what follows from the Prince or others in the Kingdom in this regard in the coming weeks or months 8 1 2024 read the original
Blog title Exporting anti-Semitism and the reeling apartheid colony Author Anis Mohsen Date 09 January 2024 It is very confusing to understand How can people of Semitic origins be stigmatized as anti-Semitic and insist on this stigma when any individual of these people criticizes Israel, the colony planted by the colonial West in Palestine, which it colonized along with the rest of the region’s geography after World War I until the 1940s and 1950s? The stigmatization of critics has declined. Israel is accused of anti-Semitism in some Western countries after the Israeli army delved into the slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza and committed massacres that could not be tolerated or obscured, no matter how much the Zionist propaganda and media outlets or those supporting them try to broadcast their propaganda. This is because the social media revolution, which has become a Alternative media has reduced the influence of the main classical media owned by Zionist capital or supporting Zionism, and the event has become transmitted at the moment of its occurrence, without an intermediary or the scissors of a censor. If and when the truth of what happened on October 7 is revealed and the truth about it is revealed from the claimant, public opinion has begun. The international community is changing its trends from criminalizing the Hamas movement and continuing to criminalize all Palestinians to stigmatizing Israel for mass murder, demanding that it be held accountable, and censuring the governments of the West for standing by the colony against the slaughtered indigenous Palestinian people and at the same time the fierce resistance. Are they Semites or anti-Semites? The Oxford Dictionary defines Semites as the linguistic group that includes Hebrew and Arabic. Or those associated with it, or people who speak the Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic, or who are associated with them. 1 Anti-Semitism is defined as hatred of Jews or unfair treatment of Jews. 2 There is a lot of contradiction in the two definitions, and the political rather than linguistic derivation is highlighted. In the first definition, Semites are those who speak Arabic or In Hebrew, as for the second, the matter is limited to the Jews and not the Arabs, and the matter is neither confusing nor strange. For those who lived in the Christian West, they are groups of people belonging to the Jewish religion, but their genetic genes are not the same as those of the Eastern Jews, since despite being one of the most From the groups that have been genetically analyzed, the origin of European Jews has remained a mystery. However, a study published online in the journal Genome Biology and Evolution by Dr. Eran El-Hayek, a geneticist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, argues that the European Jewish genome is a mosaic of Caucasian, European, and Semitic 3. The play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare is an example of the European view of the Jew, past and present, and the events that followed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the darkest of which was the Holocaust committed by German Nazism in the 1940s against the Jews and the Roma, as well as the Russians. It intensified the search for a solution to the Jewish question that Karl Marx spoke about. Also in his book on the Jewish question, Hannah Arendt talked about the attempt to integrate Jews in the 1940s into European society, but the matter did not succeed. In her famous article, We Refugees, which she published in the small English-language Jewish magazine the Menorah Journal in 1943, she went through the experience of refugees. Jews from Europe and in Europe point to the impossibility of integration in the sense of complete assimilation, assimilation into the culture of the host country, and uprootingThe original culture of the refugee willingly and opportunistically in order to coexist with the new society is given as an example by Mr. Cohen, who when he was in Germany behaved absolutely like a German 150 and the same thing was repeated when he went to Austria and the same thing happened in France to discover at the moment of truth that he was not any of these 4 and in return he was Jewish. The East, especially those who lived under the umbrella of Arabs and Islam, were active participants in society and were free to express their culture. The Jews in the Islamic world, which included Spain, North Africa, and the Near East, constituted a vital part of those societies. In the modern era, the status of Jews in Arab countries was not less important, and it was rejected. Many Arab Jews adhere to Zionism and maintained their connection to their countries had it not been for the operations carried out by the Mossad that targeted Jewish interests in Iraq and Egypt, in addition to the conspiracy of Arab regimes to displace the Jews of Arab countries. For example, an article by Yehuda Shenhav Shahrabani and Hanan Hefer reveals through collected documents and a follow-up of many responsible details. Direct communication to Israel about the bombings that occurred in Baghdad between 1950 and 1951 and contributed to the displacement of Iraqi Jews to occupied Palestine 5 Colonialism and imported anti-Semitism If, without the trouble of proving, anti-Semitism is an issue related to colonial Europe, which exported it to the Arab countries and concentrated it in Palestine, to the benefit of two things. Getting rid of the burden of the Jews and planting a colony that will not integrate with its surroundings and is forced to serve the colonial West in the immediate post-colonial phase. It is commonly said that Palestine was not the first or only choice for establishing Israel and most, if not all, of the choices were made by Jewish figures, including Theodor Herzl 6 Indeed, the invention of the Land of Israel 7 essentially represented a British colonial effort, embodied in the issuance by the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Balfour, of a declaration on November 2, 1917, promising the Zionist movement to establish a state for the Jews in Palestine. 8 It is not without saying that the West has long wanted to get rid of the Jewish question. He found an opportunity for this after the First World War by exporting Jews to Palestine, especially during the Second World War and after it, by exploiting the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany against the Jews and other people whom the Nazis considered marginal, in order to get rid of the Jews first and foremost to build a Western colony in a geographical center located in the middle of Arab countries and prevents their direct geographical communication, in addition to imposing a state of sustainable instability, so this colony, for which the name Israel was invented, would be an advanced base to defend the interests of the colonial West, thus preventing the building of a major Arab state or the establishment of some kind of Arab merger, federation, or confederation. There are many From what was said about the role of Zionist terrorist organizations in contributing to the displacement of Jews from Germany during the Nazi campaign 9, as well as the great role of Britain in transporting European Jews to Palestine since its occupation after the defeat of the Ottoman army. Perhaps the language and manipulation of it reveals the colonial dimension in the establishment of Israel, as all Jews immigrated to Palestine. After World War I, and especially during the time of persecution of Jews in the Nazi era, they were speakers of either the classical European languages of German, French, English, Spanish, and others10, or in the Yiddish language that was spoken by Central European Jews11. The Zionist movement has sought since the 1920s, with the help of British colonialism To name Palestinian places and sites with Hebrew names 12 and completedThe Israeli government after 1948 Judaized everything that was Palestinian-Arab, starting with the names of villages, cities, and streets, and not ending with removing Arabic words from the Hebrew language. 13 The most prominent example of exporting anti-Semitism is the construction of the Yad Vashem monument and museum to commemorate the European Nazi Holocaust, not in Berlin, but in occupied Jerusalem in In the year 1983, it is the place to which Western officials make pilgrimages whenever they visit Israel. It was visited by US President Joe Biden and other Western leaders who flocked to visit occupied Palestine after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, 2023. In the West, where the Holocaust occurred and the Jews met for centuries Bad treatment. Critics of Israel, especially Semitic Arabs, are being accused of anti-Semitism and are being tried on the basis of this charge, or Europeans and even Jews are being expelled from their jobs simply because they criticize Israel, especially after Israel was exposed to security concerns due to the Al-Aqsa flood, when the colony became dependent on its founders in the early morning hours of On Saturday, October 7, 2023, the colony became completely exposed. Israel, the Trojan fortress planted colonially in Palestine as a base to protect the interests of the West in the Arab East, seemed to be on the verge of a security collapse, which required immediate visits from Western leaders, starting with US President Joe Biden, whose administration decided to begin shipping What is present in the warehouses of its armies in the Middle East to Israel and opened an air bridge that exceeded in less than 3 months 240 flights of military cargo planes. Then the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who came with a military cargo plane and reviewed on board what British equipment was available to help the colony of his ancestors, the French President. Who raged, raged, thundered, and threatened Gaza, Hamas, and other Western leaders who followed the example of those before them in supporting Israel and condemning Hamas and the Palestinians. By the writing of the last lines of this article, the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip was already days into its third month, and the goals of the colony declared on 8 had not been achieved. October: Nothing but revenge that exceeded all that is reasonable in any of the wars witnessed by humans, even the American revenge against Japan with two atomic bombs. The volume of the explosives they carried amounted to about 32,000 tons, while the weight of what was dropped on the Gaza Strip exceeded 45,000 tons. Politically, the colony’s Western planters witnessed the colony’s Zionists disperse for the first time in the midst of a war they were accustomed to waging against the Arabs and winning quickly, but this time they failed to achieve the political goals they declared despite the destruction of approximately 80 of the Gaza Strip’s homes and infrastructure at a time and the wounding of about 100,000 Gazan Palestinians, more than 75 of them children, women and the elderly. The world witnessed this negative and violent debate between Israeli politicians against each other and the targeting of the Israeli army leadership by government ministers in an event that is the first of its kind in the history of Israel and its wars. Western popular support has become impossible. The unprecedented amount that the colony received in the first two weeks of the war in support of the Palestinians against the ongoing Israeli holocaust in the Gaza Strip, to the point that South Africa took the initiative to file a genocide lawsuit against the Palestinian people before the International Court of Justice, and then filed a second lawsuit before the International Criminal Court by 100 Chilean lawyers. On charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, which violate the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, they were preceded at the end of 2023 by French and Turkish lawyers in two similar calls. Almost every weekend is not devoid of demonstrations in various capitals.Greater Gharb and its cities condemn the Israeli massacre and demand an immediate ceasefire and the trial of Israeli war criminals. Despite repeated threats to expand the war to include southern Lebanon by targeting Hezbollah, all of the colony's Western allies warn that the Israeli army is too weak to fight a war on the A front. Another while it was still stuck in the mud of Gaza. Thus, the Trojan colony, protecting the interests of the West, appeared to be a fragile state and in need of someone to protect it militarily, politically, and diplomatically. Is the protecting colony now in need of someone to protect it? Will we witness a day in which the farmers abandon their crops after its fruits were absent, and Israel becomes a pariah state? Its fate will be no better than the fate of the apartheid system in South Africa 1 oxford lerner s dictionaries 2 oxford lerner s dictionaries 3 new study sheds light on the origin of the European jewish population eurekakert oxford university press uk 16 1 2013 4 hannah arendt we refugees in altogether elsewhere writers on exile edited by mark robinson boston and london faber and faber 1994 pp 110 119 5 Yehuda Shenhav Shahrabani and Hanan Hefer Violence in Baghdad 1950 1951 and Archives Violence Journal of Palestine Studies Issue 135 Summer 2023 pp. 131 153 6 There are several books that discussed the options that were proposed and summarized Wikipedia, the electronic encyclopedia, those options, remember that among them are Grand Island in the Niagara River in America, British Uganda, Madagascar in Africa, Bahrain, and Al-Ahsa in the Arabian Peninsula. See proposals for a Jewish state. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. An article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz refers to those options and says that the location of the proposed British Uganda is in Then it is present-day Kenya. See Alona Ferber this day in Jewish history 1903 herzl proposes Kenya not Uganda as a safe haven for the Jews Haaretz 8 26 2015 7 Among the most important references that analyze the issue of the establishment of Israel and the idea of the Jewish people are two books by Shlomo Sand: Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of a Land Israel, translated by Antoine Shalhat and Asaad Zoabi, Amman, Al-Ahlia for Publishing and Distribution, Ramallah, Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies, 2014. Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People, translated by Saeed Aish and Asaad Zoabi. Reviewed and presented by Antoine Shalhat, Amman, Al-Ahlia for Publishing and Distribution, Ramallah, Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies, 2011. 8 Alex Winder The Balfour Declaration 1917 The Palestine Declaration for Others The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Issue 9 Abdel Hafeez Muharib Haganah Etzel Lehi Relations between the armed Zionist organizations 1937 1948 Beirut Research Center Palestine Liberation Organization 1981 1st edition 10 For example, the British journalist Barbara Board, who lived in Palestine until 1948, talks about The life of European Jews there and their speaking their native languages. See: barbra bord reporting from palestine edited by Jacqueline Karp Nottingham Five Leaves 2008. Ariella Aisha Azoulay also talks about her life in the colony and how her father spoke French and her mother spoke Ladino, the language of the Jews in the Iberian subcontinent, with her grandmother. See Ariela Aisha Azoulay Getting rid of the language of the settler colonialists, about language and belonging, Journal of Palestine Studies, Issue 130, Spring 2022 11 Yiddish is a Germanic language that belongs to the Indo-European languages and is spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It differs from the Hebrew language, which is a Semitic language. See yiddish language britanica last updated 24 12 2023 12 Ahmed Al-Dab Sh How did it happen?The Palestinian Map Israeli Issues Issue No. 83 October 26, 2021 13 Yehuda Shenhav Shahrabani Translation from Arabic to Hebrew in light of the theological-political and colonial relations between the two languages Journal of Palestinian Studies Issue 105 Winter 2016 p. 129 read the original
Blog title Martyr Gaza Glimpses of the Future Author George Giaccaman Date January 8, 2024 1 I begin by pointing out that the unparalleled crime committed by Israel in Gaza will have major repercussions in the future, including whether there is a future for international humanitarian law, or more precisely, that this murder and crime exposed the claim or ideology that prevailed. After World War II until now, war is governed by laws and rules that can be binding on the warring countries, and that failure to adhere to them makes them subject to possible responsibility and accountability. Indeed, it is true that many African countries and the countries of the South in general considered this obligation to be a double standard, politicized, and selective in a way. It is clear, however, that Israel’s criminality has torn these laws of war to pieces in an unprecedented manner to the point that one of two things can be expected to happen in the future: a global campaign to hold Israel accountable in which a number of countries and institutions in different parts of the West and East participate, concerned with maintaining the laws of war and fearing a return to a state of Savagery and denial of the horrors of the First and Second World Wars, in addition to the fear of denying the general human lesson of the crime of the Holocaust or the Holocaust, because this lesson is not specific to the Jews and others who were exterminated by the Nazis, even if the Zionist movement is diligently seeking to monopolize it, and it may be the case of the State of South Africa suing Israel. The International Court of Justice is a starting point. On the other hand, the other different and opposite thing that can be expected in the future is that the precedent of this massive and blatant crime will lead to a complete collapse of the system of rights and duties included in the laws of war, especially if Israel is not held accountable thanks to the sponsorship of the other party participating in the war, i.e. The United States of America and its petty European henchmen in particular. In this case, the world will return to a state of blatant brutality, as in the case of Gaza in the various conflicts and wars, after the veil is revealed in a clear, shining, and inexplicable manner, based on the assumption that wars may be governed by applicable rules and laws, but at the same time It can be violated in a blatant and unprecedented manner without deterrence or punishment. This in particular may be Israel’s greatest achievement for all of humanity. 2 Since Israel’s leaders announced that they would eliminate Hamas in the first week of the war on Gaza, it was clear that they would have a problem of who would rule. Gaza and takes over all its affairs, assuming they succeed in this endeavor. But what is more important to them is who will preserve Israel’s security, that is, that he bear responsibility for every missile fired from Gaza at Israel, regardless of its source. They also always sought to hold Hamas responsible in its capacity as the existing authority, and after about a week of 7 October This question began to circulate on the tongues of European countries and the United States as well, and after that in the Western press. There was no satisfactory answer at this stage, but rather there was confusion in the answer. For example, at a later period, the Israeli Minister of War declared that they would establish a new civil and military authority in Gaza, but no This statement resonates in the West, given their knowledge that this is just talk, and it is not clear where they will get this power from and who will be willing to have it in it after all this oppression, killing, destruction, and war crimes.Then, some time later, the voices of analysts from the Institute for the Study of National Security at Tel Aviv University, retired Israeli generals, and later National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi appeared stating that the best solution was to hand over Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, and none of them apparently asked whether the Palestinian Authority would accept Thus, the position of the Palestinian Authority was clear from the beginning of the aggression that it was prepared to have a role in Gaza, but within a comprehensive framework for a political solution, and during several shuttle tours carried out by Anthony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State, in the region to consult with a number of Arab countries in addition to Israel and the Palestinian Authority regarding The next day, several possibilities were examined, including a joint Arab force running Gaza, and later an international force composed of soldiers from a number of European and Asian countries. It was clear to the observer that these efforts would end in failure, especially since a force like this might become a target for the resistance in Gaza if its role was also to preserve... Israel's security With the beginning of December, different positions crystallized in light of the performance of the resistance in Gaza, and the position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was modified from eliminating Hamas to dismantling its military structure, and that Israel will continue to maintain its security in the future, but he continued to oppose the return of the Palestinian Authority to power. In Gaza, as for the United States, its position has become that the Palestinian Authority is the best realistic option after its rehabilitation and reform and preparing the situation for a two-state solution. This verbal refrain that President Biden previously repeated more than once as a verbal tax did not result in any serious action of the type of effective pressure on Israel. Or even taking a decisive stance on the continued theft of land and settlement in the West Bank, which ended or nearly ended the two-state solution in the Palestinian understanding of it. In the middle of the third month of the aggression, Netanyahu’s position crystallized to confirm what he had previously said, that Israel would keep security responsibility in its hands, but it would work to create local authorities. It is based on the existing tribes known to the Shin Bet, as determined to assume civil responsibilities for the residents of Gaza, and Israel will remain in control of the borders, crossings, sea, and electromagnetic field, meaning that Gaza will remain occupied as it was before. This means that sovereignty will remain in the hands of the State of Israel, with the difference that there is a local authority, links to restored villages. It lifts the responsibility of the occupying state for the Palestinian civilians in Gaza. It was clear that the United States does not agree with this perception, as it continues to insist that the ideal situation it seeks is the return of the Palestinian Authority to rule Gaza after its rehabilitation, especially its security services, so that it can guarantee Israel’s security in Gaza as well, and not just in the West Bank. The United States also abandoned the idea of eliminating Hamas, as White House spokesman John Kirby stated in a press conference on January 3, 2024, that Hamas will remain, but will not be in a position that threatens the State of Israel, and it may be advisable at this stage not to A lot can be read in John Kirby’s statement that Hamas will remain, that is, reading the phrase means that the United States may accept some political role for Hamas within the framework of its vision of the next day, which includes the unification of political authority in Gaza and the West Bank, but it is clear that this is an open question that did not escape Hamas either, in the middle of the month. The third of the war on Gaza, a delegation from Hamas headed by Ismail Haniyeh visited Cairo to discuss this issue with Egyptian officials specifically. A number of necessary matters were discussed if the two authorities in Gaza and the West Bank were unified, including, for example, Hamas joining theThe Palestine Liberation Organization and perhaps Islamic Jihad as well, even if Hamas does not have a direct executive role in managing such an authority, i.e. representation in the unified ministry, for example but not limited to it, but it is clear that any political role for Hamas in the future in the structure of the Palestinian political system is largely dependent on the approval of the United States. The United States, and to some extent Israel, is also within the balance of power that exists between them and the Palestinian Authority. 3 There are several determinants that will govern what will happen the next day. It is clear, for example, that Netanyahu in particular, along with the Minister of War and a number of senior leaders in the army and intelligence, have a personal interest in prolonging the war on Gaza without Setting a specific time to end it for the purpose of achieving something that will help, as much as possible, to save their face. They almost say this in their various statements, including that the aggression against Gaza will continue for many months. In other words, keeping security responsibility in the hands of Israel leaves the duration of the aggression open indefinitely. Name, even if it takes different forms on the ground, and despite the continuous pressure by President Biden’s administration to shorten the period due to the isolation of the United States on a global level and the ongoing internal protests and demonstrations, the American administration has not yet dared to use all the elements of its influence for the purposes of imposing its vision for the next day, and for this several reasons. Reasons include the role of the Zionist lobbies in influencing the policies of any American administration and from the standpoint of supporting your brother, whether he is unjust or the oppressed, that is, not putting effective pressure on any Israeli government for fear that this will become a precedent in the future, and it is not necessary that all of them agree with the policies of the current government in Israel, including the constitutional coup attempt. Which the far-right government sought to achieve, but the reason that is more important than the personal motivation of Netanyahu, the war generals, the security services, and others who will be considered responsible for what happened on October 7 lies in what many ordinary Zionists said immediately after the event, that the breakthrough that took place and the capture of a number of Of course, this is a media discourse in the case of ordinary Zionists in particular, even if they convince themselves of it, as the Zionists have always monopolized the role of the victim and assumed this role in all the wars that Israel has fought and in portraying themselves in Propaganda and their public relations towards the outside world as a threatened victim and in an ongoing effort to recall the Holocaust and anti-Semitism historically and presently exists or if it does not exist. Hence the saying that Israel has the right to defend itself, which Israel’s supporters repeated after October 7, even if a country occupies another people, but from the perspective The leadership of the army, intelligence, and political leaders. The phrase “existential threat” goes beyond the scope of public relations and a reminder of the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, which was clearly expressed by Minister of Defense Yoav Galant on January 2, 2024, and I quote here his words literally. Without a clear victory, we will not be able to live in the Middle East, and these are his words. A clear meaning, from the perspective of the Zionist leaders, what happened on October 7 is truly an existential threat because it was the first successful breach of Jabotinsky’s famous iron wall by two factions whose weapons or capabilities do not compare to what Israel possesses. Jabotinsky did not hesitate at the time to describe the Zionist project in Palestine is a colonial project and in a hostile Palestinian and Arab environment, and hence the necessity of the military and security strength and power necessary in this hostile environment for the success of the Zionist colonial project. It is not a coincidence that the military doctrineThe Israeli government was based on working to build the strongest army and security services in the region, fighting wars and battles in the enemy’s territory, whether large or small, taking the initiative to do so, and keeping wars that require the mobilization of reserve soldiers for the shortest possible period. This is the iron wall that collapsed on October 7, along with a thorn and a force. And the reputation of the IDF and the security services is an existential threat. 4 Although the United States has repeatedly declared through President Biden and the position was repeated in a number of interviews with the media by the National Security Council spokesman that the United States opposes the reoccupation of Gaza by Israel because the regime... Governance in Gaza should be compatible with the aspirations of the Palestinians. It does not appear to be opposed to Israel retaining security responsibility in Gaza, and this is the model that has existed in the West Bank since the beginning of the Oslo process. The United States did not object to Israel violating this agreement with regard to the exclusive security responsibility of the Palestinian Authority in Area A. Rather, it blamed the Palestinian Authority for not carrying out this task on behalf of Israel. It is noticeable here, as in the reason referred to for the United States’ opposition to Israel’s re-occupation of the Gaza Strip, that they always use the phrase “Palestinian ambitions” and not the phrase “Palestinian rights,” meaning that they do not recognize the principle of the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people, which can be translated. For more than one political arrangement, including an independent, sovereign state, Israel knows that it cannot rely on any Palestinian force that may be specially trained to maintain security according to the American vision, if there is anyone who accepts this mission, and the occupation army will continue to play this role for an indefinite period, perhaps. For many years to come, especially since Netanyahu announced that Gaza will be demilitarized, and Gaza will be full of weapons, or they can be obtained as is the case in the West Bank under occupation. This is in addition to the thousands of young men whose family, dear ones, loved ones, and friends were martyred, and they will seek revenge in various forms. It is also likely that Israel seeks to displace the largest possible number of Gazans, whose number as refugees has reached approximately two million people, and work is currently underway to find countries that accept to receive Palestinian refugees within the voluntary immigration program. As for the political path that President Biden spoke about more than once, no development will occur. In this election year in the United States, even if Biden is able to succeed in the elections, it is not clear that he will have the necessary political will to push strongly against possible Zionist opposition and make the matter a priority for him, especially if the official Arab position remains ineffective as it is now. But in return, the campaign will take The boycott and divestment of globalized investments has renewed effectiveness due to the crimes committed in Gaza, and we will find ourselves in a new phase of open, never-ending conflict. A generation goes and a generation comes, and the issue continues
Blog title: In Hebron, on Shuhada Street and Tel Rumeida, during the war on Gaza Author: Yumna Hamidi Date: January 7, 2024 The West Bank is exposed Al-Gharbia daily witnessed a fierce Israeli attack, consisting of launching campaigns of arrests, raids, and incursions into cities, villages, and camps, and its intensity increased since the first day of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli occupation forces imposed a comprehensive siege on most cities and villages by closing their entrances, erecting barriers on them, and preventing citizens from moving freely. Martyrs and Tel Armida: Life or Death? Since October 7, the Israeli occupation forces have imposed a curfew on the residents of Shuhada Street and Tel Armida inThe city of Hebron, in the south of the West Bank, lasted for about 10 days, during which the people of the area were completely prevented from leaving their homes. On October 19, the Civil Administration of the Israeli occupation issued a new program allowing citizens to enter and leave the area between 7 and 8:30 in the morning, or in the evening, if they were allowed. Entering and exiting between six and seven o'clock in the evening through a military checkpoint, through which the occupation tortures citizens and they are forced to walk long distances on foot amid constant insults and inspections. The Israeli occupation continued this policy with the residents of Shuhada Street and Tel Armida for about 50 days, and the citizens were then allowed to enter. And leaving between 7:30 in the morning and 7 in the evening. The Israeli occupation forces also reinforced nine military points in the area of Tel Armida and Al-Shuhada Street, some of which were set up on the roofs of citizens’ homes after confiscating them. In this context, Imad Abu Shamsieh, coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders Association and a resident of Tal Armida, said: The Israeli occupation forces confiscated the roof of my house and set up a military point on it, in addition to two other points bordering my house to the north and south. This is like a big prison that we live inside, as we cannot leave the house even to our small land that is in front of the house. We are also subjected to daily harassment by settlers who deliberately speak out. Using obscene words and carrying out provocative actions over the course of an entire day with the protection of the Israeli occupation army 1 About 120 families live on Al-Shuhada Street and Tel Armida, and the Israeli occupation escalated efforts to displace them after the Al-Aqsa flood battle, so the rate of settler violence increased with the participation of occupation soldiers as part of a systematic racist policy, as the closures led to The continued accumulation of waste in front of homes and containers, in addition to not allowing municipal vehicles to dispose of it. It must also be noted that the occupation authorities prevented citizens after October 7 from filling a household gas can and bringing it into homes through the checkpoint, considering that it poses a danger to the occupation soldiers, in addition to Therefore, there is only one health clinic in this area, and the occupation prevents the medical staff from providing health care to citizens except two days a week. As for educational institutions, there is only one school, which is the Cordoba School, and it is constantly exposed to settler attacks, in addition to the Tal Armida Kindergarten and the Martyrs’ Kindergarten. Which in the past was an abandoned house that the settlers used for prostitution and drugs, and the two kindergartens today are more like a prison for children, as they are surrounded by barbed wire on all sides to protect the children from repeated settler attacks. After October 7, these institutions were closed and the students turned to the distance education system for fear of being exposed to attacks. Settlers and occupation soldiers, Al-Shuhada Street between the past and the present. In 1967, Al-Shuhada Street was the center linking northern Hebron to its south. It included the central bus station that headed towards the villages of the Hebron Governorate, the city of Jerusalem, and the occupied interior, in addition to the fuel and car stores that made Al-Shuhada Street the heart artery of the city of Hebron and its villages. The settlers’ control over Al-Shuhada Street, under the protection of the occupation army, has been on Al-Shuhada Street since 1980, after the Dubuya commando operation carried out by guerrillas from the Fatah movement, which led to the killing of 6 settlers and the injury of more than 16 others. 2 As a result, the occupation demolished the central station and established on its opposite side a settlement outpost called Beit Hadassah. In 1994 The settler Baruch committedGoldstein massacre inside the Ibrahimi Mosque resulted in the death of 29 worshipers and the injury of 150 others. The occupation authorities exploited this incident to carry out Judaization and settlement operations in Hebron and its surroundings. 3 F. Shuhada Street was closed with iron gates and security barriers. The occupation also issued military decisions preventing citizens from reaching their shops. As a result, More than 500 shops were closed, and as a result, Shuhada Street turned into a lonely place for Palestinians after it was the most active and lively street in the city of Hebron. In 1997, the Palestinian Authority and the occupation government signed the Hebron Protocol, which stipulates dividing the city into two parts, area H1, which constitutes 80% of the city’s area. It is subject to the control of the Palestinian National Authority, and the H2 area, with an area of 20 meters, is concentrated in the Old City in the center of Hebron. The occupation government retains all responsibilities for public order and security there. 4 As a result, Al-Shuhada Street falls within the H2 area. How does the occupation deal with the residents of Al-Shuhada Street and Tel Armida? The occupation deals with citizens with a policy of numbers, as Every citizen living in this area has a number with the occupation soldiers, and the military checkpoint and electronic gates are equipped with a high-level system of cameras, such as the Blue Bear camera, which gives complete data about the person who intends to enter the area, in addition to the smart weapon installed on the iron gates set up at the entrance to Al-Shuhadaa Street, which fires. Citizens from a distance automatically, Al-Shuhada Street is a prison for the Palestinian and a luxury for the Israeli. Most of the citizens’ homes in Al-Shuhada Street and Tel Armida are surrounded by fences and barbed wire on all sides to protect against settler attacks. Citizens cannot easily restore their homes except after submitting a request to the Palestinian Liaison and coordination with the occupation side until The request is approved, and in many cases the settlers intentionally prevent citizens from building by destroying building supplies. Moreover, a fire truck or ambulance cannot easily enter the area during a fire or a specific accident except after coordination with the Red Cross and the Palestinian Liaison until approval is obtained from As for the Israeli occupation, this matter usually takes long hours. Accordingly, the residents of Al-Shuhada Street and Tel Armida live in difficult living conditions that are almost like a prison for them. It should be noted that the area lacks the minimum necessities of social life, as most families spend social occasions outside the area so that they can Participation of their friends and relatives who live outside the area and cannot enter it easily as a result of the Israeli checkpoints. 1 A conversation conducted over the phone with Imad Abu Shamsieh, coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders Group and a resident of Tel Armida in the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank. 2 The 32nd anniversary of Operation Al-Dabbuya. Painful details of the occupation in Heart of Hebron Ma’an News Agency 6 5 2012 3 The Ibrahimi Mosque massacre This is what they said during prayer Al Jazeera 18 4 2017 4 Fact sheet Israeli restrictions on the movement of Palestinians in the H2 area of the city of Hebron Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies Masarat July 2020 read the original
Blog title The genocide case in South Africa against Israel in the International Court of Justice Author Maher Al-Sharif Date January 5, 2024 In mid-November 2023, South Africa, in partnership with Bangladesh, Bolivia, the Comoros and Djibouti, took the initiative to file a lawsuit before the International Criminal Court requesting that an investigation be conducted into the situation in the country.Palestine, as Karim Khan, the prosecutor of this court, said, who announced that his mandate applies to the alleged crimes committed during the current war, but the court teams were unable, he added, to enter the Gaza Strip or Israel, especially since the latter is not a member of the International Criminal Court, stressing in a statement that His office received the referral and is currently investigating the situation. The South African Department of Foreign Affairs explained that it had submitted this referral with other states that share the same concerns so that this court would pay urgent attention to the current situation in view of its seriousness, and that it was also encouraging other states parties to the Rome Statute to join the referral. Or submit separate referrals independently 1 South Africa’s lawsuit before the International Court of Justice On December 29, 2023, the South African government submitted a new lawsuit to another court, the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of committing acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation welcomed it on 30 From the same month the filing of this lawsuit, it should be noted that the International Court of Justice, which was established in June 1945, is the main judicial body of the United Nations that is responsible for adjudicating, in accordance with the provisions of international law, legal disputes that arise between states and providing advisory opinions on legal issues that states may refer to it. Or the United NatThe assassination of Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri in Lebanon on January 2, 2024 was an attempt to achieve an image of victory, but things were the opposite. Both the state of solidarity and embrace of Al-Arouri’s thought and the thought of the Palestinian guerrilla still runs through the veins of the camps, villages, cities and towns and is evident in the outskirts of the old towns in Jerusalem, Nablus, Hebron and others. It is emanated in the alleys of the camps and between their old and young people. Resistance has become an ongoing feasibility that cannot be stopped by the Israeli war of annihilation. Targeting the camps represents a continuing Israeli attempt to undermine the symbolism of the camp as an incubating environment for resistance work. However, this renewed Israeli policy fails periodically, and the camps embody the reservoir of revolution and have a network effect on their rural and urban surroundings. They represent the points of connection between the local and direct Palestinian geography that surrounds the camp, lead to guerrilla action, and revive the Palestinian identity whenever the flash of political or military action fades. The camps also represent a point of historical connection and express the historical continuity of the Palestinian issue as an issue of national liberation in the face of genocidal settler colonialism 1 Tayseer Muhaisen The Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip since 1967 are incubators of resistance The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Question Retrieved on December 24, 2023 2 Jalal Al-Husseini The Palestinian refugees in the West Bank A determination to relentlessly influence the national agenda The Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Question Retrieved on December 24, 2023 3 Razi Nabulsi and others, editors, Monitor of Israeli Colonialism and Policies of Apartheid, Issue No. 3, July 2023. Retrieved on 12/25/2023. 4 Razi Nabulsi and others, editors, Monitor of Israeli Colonization and Policies of Apartheid, Issue No. 8, December 2023, under publication 5 Same source 6 Same source read the original
title Blog The Assassination of Palestinian Leader Saleh Al-Arouri in Beirut Writer Yasser Majdalani Date 03 January 2024 After the Israeli occupation forces have been unable so far in the face of the valiant resistance they face to achieve their political goals in the destructive war they are waging against the Gaza Strip, they have resorted, in an effort to obtain an image of victory, to... Implementing the policy of assassinations with which it threatened the leaders of the Hamas movement. An Israeli march assassinated on Tuesday evening, January 2, 2024, in the southern suburb of Beirut, the deputy head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement and its organization official in the occupied West Bank, Saleh Al-Arouri, with two leaders of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Samir Fendi. Azzam Al-Aqraa and four other cadres, Ahmed Ham Wad, Mahmoud Shaheen, Muhammad Al-Rais S, and Muhammad Bashasha, and thus Israel, as reported in the Beirut Al-Akhbar newspaper, opened the doors on paths that seem different from what is prevailing now politically, militarily and security-wise, especially since Hezbollah announced in its obituary statement Al-Arouri that the crime will not pass by. Without response and punishment 1 Saleh Al-Arouri, one of the first wanted by the Israeli war government. The martyr Saleh Al-Arouri was one of the first wanted and threatened with assassination by the Israeli occupation government. He had stated in a previous interview conducted with him by Al-Mayadeen channel that all Palestinian freedom fighters were projects of testimony from the leader Yasser Arafat and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. And all the leaders of Hamas, Abu Ali Mustafa, and thousands of martyrs. He continued, saying, “Our blood and our souls are not more precious or dearer than any martyr, and that the martyr who preceded us a day is better than us.” He added, “I feel that I am living an extra life and have exceeded my normal lifespan, and welcome to martyrdom.” 2 The Prime Minister of the occupation government, Benjamin Netanyahu, had threatened in The end of last August, that is, beforeA few weeks after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation with the assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri, in light of a widespread wave of incitement against him in Israel in his capacity as he claimed, he was responsible for the infrastructure of the Hamas movement in the West Bank, for the escalation of resistance in its camps, and for the formation of armed cells for the movement in Lebanon. Al-Arouri had received long threats that began... Almost since the year 2014, and it escalated after the operation of October 7, 2022, as the Israeli media began to focus on him. Reserve Major General Eitan Dangote, who served as military secretary for three former army ministers, said: “I think he is the most dangerous figure within Hamas today, and I see that his blood is being wasted, as he is the character.” The most extreme extremist who seeks to kill the largest number of Israelis. The American newspaper USA Today said that Israel launched an international manhunt to target Saleh Al-Arouri, who is believed to have had prior knowledge of the details of the attack launched by the movement, as well as because he is a link between the movement on the one hand, and Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah on the other. On the other hand, Washington had placed him on the list of US sanctions linked to terrorism many years ago and had allocated a reward of $5 million from the US State Department for anyone who provided information about him. In late October, the Israeli occupation forces stormed his house in the village of Arora and turned it into a military barracks and headquarters. The Shin Bet investigation was carried out in a move that appeared to be retaliatory. It was noted that Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari refused to comment on the raid that targeted the Hamas movement’s office in the southern suburb of Beirut, which resulted in the martyrdom of Saleh al-Arouri and his brothers, while an advisor to the occupation prime minister told MNBC that Israel did not claim responsibility for the Beirut attack, but we had previously dealt with terrorists in other countries, adding that Israeli leaders had previously confirmed that those involved in the October 7 attack were legitimate targets and that what happened in Beirut was not an attack on Lebanon or Hezbollah, but rather on Hamas leaders. 3 of He is the martyr Saleh Al-Arouri. He is Saleh Muhammad Suleiman Khasib. He bore the name Saleh Al-Arouri in reference to the village of Aroura, located northwest of the city of Ramallah, from which he was born. He was born on August 19, 1966. He studied primary and middle school in the village schools and finished his secondary studies in Ramallah. Then he joined the Department of Forensic Sciences in Hebron University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree. He had joined the Muslim Brotherhood at an early age, then joined the Hamas movement when it was launched in late 1987. He participated in establishing its military wing, known as the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the West Bank. Between 1991 and 1992, authorities arrested him. The Israeli occupation arrested him for the first time in 1990, then arrested him again in 1994, and released him in 2007. Then he was re-arrested and remained in the occupation prisons until 2010, when he was released and the Israeli Supreme Court ruled to deport him from the occupied West Bank, so he moved to Syria and you became a member of the office. In 2011, he participated in leading the prisoner exchange negotiations for Gilad Shalit, under which 1,027 Palestinian detainees were released, including the current head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar. After the outbreak of events in Syria, Saleh Al-Arouri moved to Turkey and from there to the southern suburbs of Beirut and was elected in In 2017, he was deputy head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, and he was re-elected to this position in the year 2021, in addition to heading the organization of the movement in the West Bank. 4 The man of national unity. The assassination of the leader Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri left wide repercussions in the political arena.After his martyrdom, the national and Islamic forces called for a comprehensive general strike and general national mourning. Last night and today dawn, marches took place in many West Bank cities and camps to denounce the targeting of this great Palestinian leader, who was distinguished by his determined pursuit of reconciliation between the Fatah movement and Hamas and achieving national unity. In the joint press conference he held on July 3, 2020 with the Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, Saleh Al-Arouri called for freezing all issues involving internal disagreements between the two movements in order to reach a strategic and fundamental agreement to confront the existential threat to which the Palestinian cause is exposed, and he continued. We and the Fatah movement were not different in confronting the occupation and confronting its plans, and we must take a real and sincere stand to confront this project, the deal of the century, and its failure. Again, his movement affirmed its readiness for united and national action and to make sacrifices to confront the occupation and achieve victory, expressing his movement’s support for all the political, diplomatic and legal steps it is taking. The Palestinian leadership is the most capable of addressing the international community. 5 The Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, Jibril Rajoub, mourned Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri and said to Al-Arabi TV, “We mourn the national leader who formed a safety valve to control the pace of national action in confronting the occupation.” He added that the assassination of Al-Arouri is a commandment for us to end the Palestinian division, especially since He was a founding partner of Palestinian unity and ending the suffering of the people, and he had a strategic understanding of managing the conflict with the occupation, in harmony with the aspirations of our people, and the occupation tried to deal a blow to Palestinian patriotism by striking a stature as powerful as Saleh Al-Arouri, the politically distinguished leader, adding that this assassination should be a shame for everyone to stand firm in the face of the occupation and its ambitions. On October 7, part of a defensive war took place in the history of the Palestinian issue, and we are open to developing a political approach related to the Palestinian state with the Hamas movement. 6 Perhaps the martyrdom of this great Palestinian leader will indeed be the beginning of achieving reconciliation between the Fatah movement and Hamas in preparation for the participation of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad movement in Bodies of the Palestine Liberation Organization and achieving true national unity The Palestinian people find themselves today in dire need of it to confront the genocidal war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip and thwart its goals and continue their struggle to achieve their national rights 1 https al akhbar com palestine 374811 The assassination of Saleh Al-Arouri Hezbollah promises a response And Al-Aqa 2 https www watanserb com 2024 01 02 Saleh Al-Arouri in a previous interview, The Martyr Al-Dhah 3 https www bbc com arabic articles c51zqvy3preo 4 https aawsat com The Arab world The Arab Levant 4765591 Al-Arouri 10 years of threats and persecution https www aljazeera net news liveblog 2024 1 2 Assassination of Al-Arouri Live Hamas denounces 5 https qii media news 34485 6 https www youtube com watch v uhzwhi8al3i read the original
Blog title Israel’s international isolation is an unprecedented phenomenon Author Maher Al-Sharif Date March 27, 2024 Israel was not isolated on a global level as it is today as a result of the genocidal war Which it launched on the Gaza Strip, a phenomenon that was accompanied by the return of the Palestinian issue to the forefront of world politics, after years that witnessed the strengthening of Israel’s international standing and its success in strengthening its bilateral relations with a number of countries that were previously hostile to it, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. 1 After establishing relations Diplomacy with countriesThree Arab countries: the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco. Within the framework of what was known as the Abraham Accords, Israel succeeded in normalizing its relations with Sudan, established diplomatic relations with Chad, and developed its cooperation, especially in the field of security, with a number of sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, Rwanda, and Ivory Coast. It also reached Its relations with Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, Zambia and the Congo reached unprecedented levels. In Asia, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel in 2017 and became the architect of the strategic rapprochement with Israel. Israel maintained close relations with Singapore, the Philippines, South Korea and Australia 2 Israel's war on Gaza changes the facts. In response to world public opinion sympathetic to the Palestinian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, many governments around the world have denounced the war waged by Israel and its violations of international humanitarian law, and have urgently called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and to find a just solution to the Palestinian issue. Africa No. The African Union countries, as Middle East affairs researcher Mohamed Salami believes, adopt unified positions with regard to their foreign policies, which makes their positions differ greatly depending on their political and geopolitical interests. This was evident in the position on the attack of October 7 and the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. Gaza, as the African Union countries were divided into three groups: countries supporting Israel, neutral countries, and countries supporting Palestine. 3 While Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Togo, Cameroon, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo condemned the Hamas attacks on Israel, other African countries, such as Uganda, Angola, and Tanzania, resorted to ambiguous and neutral language in their statements or ignored them. Completely war, and while the Chadian government froze its relations with Israel and recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv, South Africa and the Arab countries in North Africa blamed Israel for the escalation. South Africa emerged as the non-Muslim African country most critical of Israel, especially after it filed a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice accusing In which Israel committed acts of genocide in Gaza, countries with large non-Arab Muslim populations, such as Senegal and Nigeria, witnessed widespread protests against the war on Gaza. On February 17, 2024, the African Summit held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, condemned Israeli violations of international humanitarian law in the war. on Gaza and its use of internationally banned weapons and called for an immediate ceasefire and compliance with the decisions of the International Court of Justice to prevent genocide and lift the unjust siege imposed on the Gaza Strip 4 Latin America There lives in Latin American countries a large Palestinian community whose number ranges between 600 thousand and one million people with a presence Strong in Chile, where the largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East lives, 350,000 to 400,000 people. The majority of the continent’s countries established diplomatic relations with Israel, but Cuba decided to sever its relations with it when the Arab-Israeli war broke out in October 1973 and sent forces to the Golan Heights to support the Syrian forces. During that war, it then announced its recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization. As for Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez severed relations with Tel Aviv in 2009 after the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, and when oppositionist Juan Guaido declared himself interim president of Venezuela in 2019, Israel was quick to open an embassy for him in Tel Aviv. AvivWith the exception of Panama, all Latin American countries recognized the declared State of Palestine. Pro-Palestinian positions declined significantly when a number of right-wing governments took power in many Latin American countries between 2015 and 2019. With the encouragement of the Donald Trump administration, Brazil, led by Jair Bolsonaro, and Bolivia, headed by Jeanine Anez and others, adopted the plan. Right-wing positions in support of Israel, and Israel worked to expand its political influence on the continent by relying on the evangelical religious movement, which in 2020 included about 133 million people. With the new shift to the left in recent years, Latin American countries returned to their traditions of greater commitment to supporting the Palestinian struggle, and therefore raised The Israeli attack on Gaza, as journalist Maryam Laraibi notes, is a strong condemnation of Israel by the countries of this continent, with the exception of some Central American countries, as well as Argentina, where the right-wing populist pro-Israel politician Javier Meli won the recent presidential elections. 5 Cuban President Miguel Díaz condemned the Israeli military operations against the Gaza Strip. Gaza, saying that history will not forgive the indifference shown by some countries towards these operations. When Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant announced the tightening of the siege on Gaza, explaining on October 9 the necessity of fighting against human animals and acting accordingly, the first leftist president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, responded, saying, “This is what he said.” Nazis about the Jews, and democratic peoples cannot allow Nazism to re-establish itself on the international political scene. Israelis and Palestinians are human beings subject to international law. If this hate speech continues, it will only lead to a holocaust. When Israel bombed the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on October 31, it was not... Colombia is the only country in the region that recalled its ambassador to Tel Aviv. Chile and Honduras followed suit. Bolivia went so far as to sever its diplomatic relations with Israel. Peru and Mexico also condemned the Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip. As for Brazil, after it condemned the Hamas attacks, it submitted a timid draft resolution to the Council. Security demands a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip, which was blocked by the US veto. Since late October, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva began speaking to the press about the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Then, last February, he sparked a diplomatic crisis with Israel when he compared its war on Gaza to the Holocaust. Judaism 6 Asia The economic and geopolitical expert Hubert Testard believes that there are four factors that govern the positions of the countries of the Asian continent regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, which are the Islamic religious solidarity of a certain number of these countries, the deep-rooted anti-colonial sentiments, and the importance of economic and trade relations with the Arab countries, which are not compensated by those existing with Israel. And the strategic calculations of some countries, especially China, India, and Pakistan. 7 Although Japan had classified the Hamas movement as a terrorist movement, its government did not classify the movement’s attack on October 7 as terrorist, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida contented himself with condemning the attacks that severely injured innocent civilians and did not Japan joins the joint statement issued on October 9 signed by the leaders of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy in which they affirmed their firm and united support for the State of Israel and their unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and its horrific acts of terrorism and in Korea.Southern President Yoon Seok-yul waited for the visit of a delegation from the US Senate headed by Chuck Schumer to condemn on October 11 the indiscriminate attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip without mentioning the Hamas movement directly. In the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. confirmed to the Israeli ambassador on October 11 The Philippines stood by Israel in the conflict in Gaza before it called on the 20th of the same month for a halt to the escalation during the summit held in Riyadh between the ASEAN countries and the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, while the Parliament of the island of Mindanao, the second largest island in the Philippines with a Muslim majority, voted... On a resolution calling for an end to the collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza and adopting the slogan “We are Palestine and Palestine is us.” Then the capital, Manila, witnessed a series of widespread anti-Israel protests, and the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, was the most clear in his positions, as he announced before Parliament on October 16 that the representatives of the countries The West asked me repeatedly to condemn the attack on Israel, but I told them that we have a long-term relationship with Hamas and this relationship will continue. He added in a tweet that the international community takes unfair positions towards the forms of cruelty and oppression to which the Palestinian people are exposed, and the Zionists continue the operations of confiscating the lands and property of the Palestinian people unabated. On October 10, Indonesian President Joko Widodo called for an immediate cessation of war and violence to avoid further human losses and destruction, stressing that the root of the conflict, which is Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, must be resolved immediately within the parameters set by United Nations resolutions. On November 10, 2023, Indonesian leaders issued Brunei and Malaysia issued a joint statement calling for an immediate and permanent humanitarian truce to end the war in the Gaza Strip. While the Pakistani Prime Minister initially took a compromise position when he expressed in a tweet his deep sorrow over the outbreak of violence and asked both sides to ensure the protection of the civilian population, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry strongly condemned it on December 7. December 2023 The Israeli aggression against civilians in the Gaza Strip continued, and then it warned in early February 2024 that starving the residents of the Gaza Strip amounts to a war crime. In India, the government sought to amend its initial position in full support of Israel, when Indian Foreign Minister Subramaniam Jaishankar indicated during his participation in a conference Munich Security Council on February 10, 2024, stressed that Israel had to be careful and avoid civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israel is obligated to respect international humanitarian law and that his country maintains its belief in the two-state solution, which is not only necessary, but is now more urgent than before. China initially called for an immediate end to hostilities by protecting civilians. Then, statements by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi became strongly critical of Israel’s military actions, as he described its war on March 7 as a disgrace to civilization, repeating his country’s calls for an immediate ceasefire and emphasizing Its support for Palestine obtaining full membership in the United Nations 8 Europe At the beginning of its war on the Gaza Strip, Israel benefited from almost general support from the European continent for its right to self-defense, but after the atrocities committed by the occupation army in the Gaza Strip and with the increase in public opinion pressure and the outbreak of protest demonstrations Regarding the war, European politicians began to take more cautious positions, which necessarily entailed increased criticism of Israel, and Israeli leaders, for their part, began to feelWith great fear of losing the battle in Europe, according to the Israeli economic daily Globes, on February 14, French President Emmanuel Macron announced in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israeli operations in Gaza must stop because the human losses and the humanitarian situation are unbearable and that The need has become very urgent to reach an agreement on a ceasefire without further delay, expressing France's strict opposition to the Israeli attack on Rafah. On the 12th of the same month, a Dutch court had ordered a freeze on the supply of spare parts allocated to the American F-35 fighter aircraft used by Israel, while European High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell addressed President Joe Biden by saying, “If you think that too many people are being killed, perhaps you should provide fewer weapons.” Israel Katz, the Israeli Foreign Minister, responded sharply to Josep Borrell’s call and accused him of strengthening Hamas, and France had followed suit. The United States and Britain decided to impose sanctions on 28 Israeli settlers guilty of committing acts of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, preventing them from entering its lands. Commenting on these new European positions, a former senior Israeli diplomat said: If we take aside all these European criticisms, they are not of a dramatic nature, but the general picture is Israel's image in the world is rapidly darkening, and it is not certain that the government in its current composition is able to stop this deterioration. 9 Russia's position has been distinguished in Europe, which blamed the outbreak of the war in Gaza on American policy and received a delegation from the Hamas movement in the midst of the war and urgently demanded an end to the war. Immediate outbreak of fire in Gaza, and since October 26, 2023, it submitted a draft resolution to the Security Council calling for a humanitarian ceasefire and providing unhindered aid to Gaza. Security Council Resolution No. 2728 and the shift in the position of the United States of America. The UN Security Council adopted for the first time since the establishment of On March 25, Israel launched its war on the Gaza Strip. It issued Resolution No. 2728 calling for an immediate ceasefire during the month of Ramadan and demanding the immediate release of all hostages and ensuring the arrival of humanitarian aid to Gaza. This resolution was adopted after the United States representative in the Security Council abstained. About the vote, and although representatives of the administration of President Joe Biden were quick to confirm that this decision was not binding, the Israeli war government considered that the American administration had abandoned its previous policy, and Benjamin Netanyahu decided to cancel the travel of an Israeli delegation to Washington to discuss the issue of the attack on Rafah, in protest against the United States not using Veto power to prevent the issuance of this resolution. Many analysts saw that the passage of this resolution represents a shift in the positions of President Joe Biden’s administration, which has so far obstructed the issuance of any resolution by the Council calling for a ceasefire. They attribute this shift to this administration’s resentment against the person of Benjamin. Netanyahu in particular and his intention, contrary to the American warning, to expand the scope of the Israeli ground war to include Rafah Governorate, and not to a real change in the positions of American military and political support for Israel, as they attribute it to internal factors related to the decline in the reputation of the American President among young voters in the Democratic Party base as well as among the international community, and Martin points out. Indyk, the former US ambassador to Israel, noted in this regard that international popular rejection was unprecedented in scope and intensityThe Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has spread to the United States, as progressives, youth, and Arab Americans in the Democratic Party are angry and strongly criticize Mr. Biden because of his support for Israel. 10 On the day that the Security Council resolution was issued, former US President Donald Trump, a candidate for a second presidential term, said about the Republican Party that much What he presents himself as a loyal ally of Israel in an interview with the newspaper Israel Hayom said that Israel must end the war in Gaza because it is losing a lot of support in the world. He added, “I would like to say that Israel must be very careful because it is losing a lot in the world and is losing a lot of support, and we must We end this war 11 The question that arises now is whether this unprecedented international isolation of Israel will result in tangible political gains that will finally put the Palestinian people on the path to liberation, or will the Nakba of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which is perhaps more severe than the Nakba of 1948, be recorded as a new tragedy? 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Blog Title In Numbers The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba in the Gaza Strip Author Maher Al-Sharif Date December 31, 2023 The sad year 2023 ends today while we are witnessing the new Palestinian Nakba in the Gaza Strip and the numbers reveal to us the horror of the tragedy that our Palestinian people are experiencing in this strip, knowing that abstract numbers do not The reality of what is happening there reflects that every Gazan, whether father, mother, or child, who was martyred, injured or disabled, or had his home destroyed, has a name, a story, and a hope that we know nothing about. The most dangerous place in the world for children and a nightmare for pregnant women. This is what the meeting concluded at the meeting held by the Council of Ministers. International Security on November 22, after Council members listened to presentations made by officials of the United Nations Entity for the Empowerment of Women, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Population Fund, in which it was stated that estimates now indicate that 67 ofThe deaths in Gaza, whose number exceeded 14,000 at the date of the Council meeting, were women and children, and more than 5,300 Palestinian children were killed in just 46 days, or more than 115 children per day, so that children constituted 40 of the deaths in Gaza, which is an unprecedented situation and it is believed Children The most suffering victims of war. A report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), published on December 29, indicated that about one million children were affected by the repercussions of the war, while those who survived the war will see their lives turned upside down. Catherine Russell, the organization's executive director, traveled to... Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard there was devastating, as residents are exposed to repeated bombardments, injuries and displacement, and there is no safe place inside the Gaza Strip for the million children living there. According to the same report, since the beginning of the war, children have been exposed to horrific scenes every day, and violence and surrounding unrest can lead to They are exposed to stress that interferes with their physical and cognitive development. Even before this war, more than 540,000 children in Gaza, or half the number of children, were identified as being in need of psychosocial and mental health support. The report continued that the lives of children in the Gaza Strip are exposed to severe risks as a result of Famine is imminent, the almost complete collapse of medical services, damage to 55 percent of the water and sanitation infrastructure, the destruction of homes, and the internal displacement of more than 1.9 million people, half of whom are women and children, most of whom are currently residing in 156 emergency shelters identified by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the East. Lowest UNRWA 2 The number of casualties among Gazans reached 28,110. The government media office in Gaza reported on Wednesday, December 27, that the number of casualties among Gazans who were killed at the hands of the Israeli occupation army reached 28,110, including 21,110 bodies that were recovered. They were identified in hospitals and about 7,000 other people were missing, most of them buried under the rubble. The media office said that 310 medical workers and 97 journalists were killed, that 65,000 housing units were completely destroyed, and another 290,000 units were damaged, and that Israel targeted more than 23 hospitals and 53 A health center, 140 health facilities, and 102 ambulances. In a separate report, the Ministry of Education in Gaza said that more than 4,037 students and 209 educational workers were killed since the start of the Israeli attack on Gaza. In a separate report, the Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights said that the majority of those killed in Israeli air and artillery attacks On the Gaza Strip are civilians and that Israel deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure in order to inflict the largest possible number of victims, material losses and destruction in retaliation and collective punishment. The organization concluded that this contravenes international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention of 1949 and constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute that governs International Criminal Court 3 70 of the homes in Section D were destroyed or damaged. A few days ago, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal published a report on the effects of destruction caused by the Israeli aggression on Gaza, describing it as the most destructive in modern history, as Israel dropped 29 thousand bombs and caused destruction or damage to about 70. percent of homes in the sectorGaza also bombed Byzantine churches, historic mosques, factories, shopping malls, luxury hotels, theaters, and schools, and destroyed olive and citrus groves and greenhouses. According to a World Bank report, as of December 12, the war destroyed 77 health facilities, 72 municipal services such as parks, courts, and libraries, 68 communications infrastructure, and 76 Commercial sites and areas, including almost complete destruction of the northern industrial zone. According to the United Nations, about 342 schools were damaged, including 70 private schools, and more than half of the roads were damaged, according to the World Bank. Robert Pape, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago and a specialist in the history of aerial bombardment, said that the name Gaza would be a drawer. In history, in addition to the city of Dresden and other famous cities that were bombed, he added that what you see in Gaza is considered one of the most violent campaigns of repression in history by 25%. According to the United Nations, about 85 of the Gaza Strip’s population of 2.2 million people were displaced from their homes and now reside in less than Two-thirds of the area is due to Israeli evacuation orders. The newspaper indicates that experts assessed the damage by analyzing satellite images and using remote sensing. According to their data, about 80 percent of the buildings in northern Gaza, where the bombing was most intense, were damaged or destroyed, which is a higher percentage than it was in The city of Dresden. Hugh Yen, assistant professor of geography at Kent State University in Ohio, estimates that 20 percent of the agricultural land in Gaza has been damaged or destroyed. The Israeli war did not spare historical sites, as the ancient Great Omari Mosque was destroyed and the Church of St. Porphyrius, which dates back to the fifth century, was bombed. Eyal Weizman, a British-Israeli architect, said that Gaza was no longer a livable city and added that any reconstruction would require an entirely new system of underground infrastructure, because when the topsoil is attacked, everything that passes through the ground - water, gas and sewage - is uprooted. An analysis conducted by a group concluded. The shelter cluster, which includes a group of humanitarian organizations led by the Norwegian Refugee Council, indicated that after the end of the current war, it will take at least a year to remove the rubble only, and that rebuilding housing will take 7 to 10 years if funding is available. The cost is estimated at about 3.5 billion dollars, not including The cost of providing temporary housing 4 On the other hand, the Financial Times conducted a statistical analysis comparing the raids on Gaza and the bombings carried out by the Allied forces against Germany during World War II, in which it stated that three German cities were destroyed from the air during this war: Cologne, Hamburg, and Dresden, and in Hamburg and Dresden. A combination of high explosives and incendiary bombs created the famous firestorms that melted the streets. It is estimated that as of December 5, the number of damaged or destroyed buildings in Gaza had already exceeded the devastation seen in Cologne and Dresden. The Israeli army dropped about 1,000 bombs per day. During the first week of his offensive, he allegedly carried out more than 10,000 air strikes on Gaza until December 10, noting that Israel's main combat aircraft are capable of carrying six tons of explosives each. The Israeli army admits that it uses a new artificial intelligence technology called Engel to identify targets that... It must be struck in the Gaza Strip, which former Israeli Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi described as a machine that produces huge quantities ofThe data is more efficiently than any human being and translates it into offensive targets. On October 31, Israeli forces used a bomb weighing about a ton in the crowded Jabalia refugee camp to kill Hamas member Ibrahim Al-Biyari. The bomb, whose deadly shrapnel area was approximately 60 football fields in size, left a large hole and killed more. More than 100 civilians and hundreds of others were left homeless. 5 A report by the British BBC channel on the fourth of this month stated that satellite images revealed the extent of the destruction in the northern Gaza Strip before the start of the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and BNET that entire neighborhoods had been transformed into to rubble. Analysis of satellite data showed that approximately 98,000 buildings throughout the Gaza Strip may have been damaged, with most of them concentrated in the north, and that in the towns of Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun in the north and northeast of the Gaza Strip, which were among the first towns to be subjected to aerial bombardment, parts were bulldozed. From Beit Lahia, which overlooks olive groves and sand dunes extending towards the Israeli border, a large number of buildings were destroyed. The Israeli army also bombed 120 targets in the small neighboring town of Beit Hanoun during the first day of air strikes, and in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip, where thousands of people live in tents. Or under the rubble of the buildings that were bombed, up to 15 of the city’s buildings were damaged. 6 Home genocide is a new term in the Israeli war. Terms such as genocide and community genocide have appeared in the brutal wars launched by Israel against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since 2002. sociocide and politicide. A new term has emerged in the war currently being waged on the Gaza Strip, which is gaining increasing acceptance in academic circles, but it does not constitute a distinct crime against humanity under international law. By destroying this large percentage of homes, Israel wants to make the Gaza Strip a zone. Uninhabitable The question observers are now asking is whether the extent of damage to infrastructure is a byproduct of the persecution of Hamas members or part of a secret plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza, which erases the possibility of Gaza becoming a semi-viable community in the foreseeable future. In this regard, The Guardian newspaper said it is necessary to deal with ongoing hostilities on the basis that they will systematically destroy and damage civilian housing and infrastructure, making an entire city like Gaza City uninhabitable for civilians. Raja Gopal, a law professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, sees a loophole in the law. International because while the protection of civilian homes is included in the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court in relation to war crimes in conflicts between states, it is not included as a crime against humanity. He added, “I would like to ask those countries that oppose what is happening in Gaza, such as South Africa.” Spain must do exactly what it did with regard to the famine to overcome this loophole and ensure that the massive destruction of housing in Gaza stops. Hugh Lovatt of the European Council on Foreign Relations pointed out that Israel is deliberately and systematically destroying the civilian institutions and infrastructure that will be necessary to govern and stabilize Gaza after Conflict Retired Major General Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council, told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that the State of Israel has no choice but to make Gaza an impossible place to live in temporarily orAlways creating a serious humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve this goal. Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist. 7 Israeli bombing is a blatant disdain for Palestinian lives. Under this title, Amnesty International documented two cases in which Israeli raids killed 46 civilians, including 20 A child. The oldest victim was an 80-year-old woman, and the youngest victim was a three-month-old child. Last October 19, an Israeli air strike destroyed a building on the grounds of the Greek Orthodox Church in the heart of Gaza City.The raid resulted in the death of 18 civilians and the wounding of at least 12 others. Ramez al-Suri, who lost his three children and ten other family members in the attack, told Amnesty International: “My heart died with my children that evening. He was martyred.” All my children, Majid, 11 years old, Julie, 12 years old, and Suhail, 14 years old. There was no one left for me. I had to die with my children. He added, “We left our homes and came to stay in the church because we thought we would be protected here. I left them. Barely two minutes ago, my sister called me to go downstairs to help my father, who is... He has been bedridden since he suffered a stroke, and my children stayed in the room with my cousins and their wives and children when the strike happened and killed everyone. Sami Tarzi told Amnesty International that his parents, Marwan and Nahid, were killed, as was his six-month-old niece, Jewel, and one of the church’s leaders told Amnesty International: “No.” We know the reason for this bombing against our church, and no one has provided an explanation for the motives behind such a tragedy. It is a church, a place of peace, love, and prayer. There is no security anywhere in Gaza at the present time. On the 20th of the same month, around 2 p.m. local time, 28 civilians were killed, including 12 children. In an Israeli raid, it destroyed the Al-Aydi family home and caused serious damage to two neighboring homes in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Rami Al-Aydi, his wife Raneen, and their three children, Ghani, 10, Maya, 8, and Iyad, 6, were also martyred. Zeina Abu Shehada and her two children, Amir Al-Aydi, 4, and Rakan Al-Aydi, 3, and my two sisters, Zeina, were martyred. And Hani Al-Aydi, who survived the raid, told Amnesty International. We were sitting in the house and there were a lot of people, children and family members. Suddenly and without warning, everything collapsed on our heads. All my brothers, nephews and nieces died. My mother died and my sisters died and our house is no longer standing and now There is nothing for us. There is nothing left and we are displaced. I do not know how much worse things will get. Could it be worse? The investigation conducted by Amnesty International concluded that all those in Al-Aidi’s house, which was directly hit, as well as the two neighboring houses, were civilians. Two people had Members of the Al-Aidi family have work permits in Israel, which entails strict security checks by the Israeli authorities targeting those who obtain the permit and their extended families. 8 Genocide aims at displacement. With the increasing ferocity of the genocide, Israel aims to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip to Sinai. This is what he called for. Frankly speaking, Avigdor Lieberman, a member of the Israeli parliament and former defense minister, called on the Israeli army to demolish the fence between Gaza and Egypt. He added, “As soon as the obstacles are removed, I estimate that a million and a half people from Gaza will leave for Sinai, and we will not disturb anyone.” He published an article earlier this month in the Times of Israel. Israel titled “Innocents in Gaza, Don’t Be Naive,” in which he called for the imposition of collective punishment against the entire civilian population in Gaza because they are linked to the Hamas movement. 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Blog title Water and sanitation systems in the Gaza Strip in light of the brutal war Author Issam Al-Khatib Date December 29, 2023 Pollution of water sources The Gaza Strip has faced a huge challenge in providing potable water for a long time, as the quality of water sources in the coastal basin is witnessing a gradual deterioration. To confront this challenge, several small-sized desalination plants have been established to fill this shortage, and the residents of the Strip need about 250,000 meters. A cube of water per day for multiple uses, such as drinking and hygiene. At the beginning of the current war in October 2023, the Israeli occupation state cut off the supplies of water, electricity, and fuel to the Gaza Strip, which is considered collective punishment in contravention of international norms and internationally recognized human rights laws. 1 This led to the cessation of operations. Most of the water facilities in Gaza were hit by a severe shortage of pure water available for drinking. The reserve fuel used in the desalination and pumping stations ran out in mid-October 2023, and thus drinking water became completely unavailable, which portends a disaster in the near future. For example, a report indicated Issued on October 24, 2023, indicating that there is a major shortage of drinking water and other uses in the Strip, as only two trucks out of a total of 20 trucks arrived in Gaza through the Rafah crossing, carrying 44,000 units of bottled water, which is enough to meet the needs of 22,000 people for a day. Only one, and this represents only 1 percent of the total population. The International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that the sewage systems in the Gaza Strip have exceeded their capacity and that water purification will not continue without fuel. The Committee stressed the urgent need to provide safe drinking water to the residents of the Gaza Strip who are suffering from an acute shortage. In pure water and the deficit in its desalination 2 Also, in light of the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, the reserve water collection wells on which the towers depend have witnessed major destruction, which has led to an exacerbation of the tragedy of thirst and an increase in deaths. This tragic situation contributes to the spread of diseases transmitted through polluted water, as Many cases of diarrhea, vomiting, viral infections in the digestive system, and waterborne diseases are not the only ones. Other health problems have appeared, such as skin, ear, respiratory, and eye problems, and the number of people infected with them has increased significantly. The World Health Organization has warned of an increasing risk of the spread of diseases in light of the aerial bombardment and the difficulty of Access to clean water and overcrowding in shelters 3. The population of Gaza has been exposed to an acute shortage of water necessary for personal hygiene and sanitation facilities, which has led to the spread of skin and eye diseases and infections transmitted by lice and scabies. This catastrophic situation enhances the spread of infectious diseases and exposes the population to more health risks in light of The difficult conditions they live in 4 Israel targets water and sanitation infrastructure in every escalation, as the 2021 war witnessed the targeting of 18 water sewage pumps, 6 of which were DIt passed completely, which led to the leakage of sewage to the shores of the Mediterranean. It also damaged 18,734 meters of the sewage network, which led to the cessation of wastewater purification plants. Cutting off fuel and electricity supplies means an inability to operate water pumps, purification and water drainage stations. The devastating effects of this destruction were not limited only to infrastructure, but also went beyond it to include donors stopping investing in infrastructure projects due to Israel’s continued targeting in an attempt to put pressure on the residents of Gaza and impose its own control policies, with the imposed border restrictions and the prevention of goods from entering the Strip by Israel. It is very difficult for Egypt to repair the facilities that have been destroyed, and the basic technical materials for improving the infrastructure, such as pumps and chemicals for water purification, are among the items prohibited from importing for years before the last war in 2023, which makes it difficult to secure them. In addition, the energy supplies have been subjected to systematic destruction by The repeated bombing of all life facilities in Gaza, which increased the suffering of the population and led to them losing confidence in the continuity of their daily lives. The continuous power outages also led to the cessation of the remaining drinking water desalination plants, which are the backbone of the drinking water supply in the Strip. These events are rapidly multiplying the dangerous environmental challenges. With the continuation of the devastating war, which exacerbates the already widespread health and environmental tragedy. In addition, the power outage limits the work of the remaining underground well pumps, impeding the access of water to homes, hospitals and other necessary facilities. As a result, sanitation services deteriorate, and this increases the spread of diseases among citizens, such as diarrhea. Cholera, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. The risks in health facilities are increasing, as both employees and patients are exposed to increasing risks of injuries and diseases due to the lack of health and water services. Providing pure drinking water for multiple uses, whether for drinking, food preparation, or home use, is a basic necessity for maintaining On the lives of individuals, their health, and their safety from diseases. The concern of citizens in the Gaza Strip is directed towards wastewater and the risks it carries. The continuous bombing, the imposed blockade, the power outages, and the scarcity of fuel have led to the failure of all wastewater treatment plants in the Gaza Strip, as there are three central stations to treat it. In fact, Currently, most of the sewage water, about 120,000 cubic meters per day, is being disposed of without treatment in the sea or in Wadi Gaza, while a large portion of it overflows in the streets, roads, and sometimes inside homes as a result of the destruction and blockage of sewage pipes, and random bombing increases its leakage through cesspits. There are about 30% of the Gaza Strip’s residents who do not have sewage networks, which increases the chemical and biological pollution of water sources, especially groundwater. According to the World Bank’s report for the year 2016, about 98% of the water in the coastal aquifer is unsuitable for human consumption or agricultural irrigation. 5 All of this threatens a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe. And health in the Strip and threatens the deterioration of water quality, affecting marine ecosystems and water resources 1 Amr Al-Wawi How does Israel use water as a tool for killing instead of life Al-Jazeera Maidan 24 10 2023 2 Gaza War The situation of drinking water and other uses in the Strip is very low BBC News Arabic 24 10 2023 3 An alarm bell in Gaza The spread of diseases heralds a humanitarian catastrophe Sky NewsArabic 9 11 2023 4 ilke celik lina ma tamimi issam a al khatib defne s apul management of rainwater harvesting and its impact on the health of people in the middle east case study from yatta town palestine environmental monitoring and assessment 189 6 271 doi 10 1007 s10661 017 5970 y national library of medicine national center for biotechnology information 5 16 2017 5 The water situation in Gaza is catastrophic The World Bank 11 22 2016 read the original
Blog title Are Netanyahu’s war goals achievable Author Maher Al-Sharif Date December 28, 2023 After the war of extermination resulted The massacre launched by his army on the Gaza Strip so far has resulted in the martyrdom of more than 21,000 Palestinian men and women, the overwhelming majority of whom are civilians, not to mention the hundreds of Palestinians who are still under the rubble and tens of thousands of wounded. On December 25 of this year, Benjamin Netanyahu published an article in the Wall Street Journal. The American Journal put forward three conditions for ending the war on the Gaza Strip: the destruction of Hamas, the disarmament of Gaza, and a change in the Palestinian orientation in the Strip. Regarding the first condition, he stressed that the destruction of the Hamas movement constitutes an indispensable condition because it is the only response to prevent the recurrence of atrocities and the only guarantee that no more war will occur. And the bloodbath, realizing that achieving this goal will require a long war. As for the second condition, which is the disarmament of Gaza, it requires, as he added, the establishment of a temporary security zone adjacent to the fence and control mechanisms on the border between Gaza and Egypt that meet Israeli security needs and prevent the smuggling of weapons into the region, while it entails The third condition for the establishment of a new regime in Gaza is that schools must teach children to sanctify life, not death, and imams in mosques must stop preaching the killing of Jews, and Palestinian civil society must be changed so that it becomes supportive of fighting terrorism instead of supporting it, and this requires courageous leadership and the leader of authority, Abu Mazen. He is unable even to condemn the atrocities of October 7, while some of his ministers deny the occurrence of these crimes and accuse Israel of being the one who committed these crimes against its people. 1 The occupation army is drowning in the Gaza quagmire. Meeting the three conditions set by Benjamin Netanyahu assumes the victory of the occupation army in the war it is waging. On the Gaza Strip and its success in eliminating the Palestinian resistance that continues to confront it with valor, even in the northern areas of the Strip, which delude itself into the illusion that it is capable of eliminating the resistance there, a few days after its ground incursion into the territory of the Strip. Is the victory of the occupation army in this war that has been going on for more than Eighty days is a decision on this question. Journalist Pascal Brunel responds in an article published on the 24th of this month in the French newspaper Lesechos entitled The Israeli army is drowning in the Gaza quagmire, in which he stated that the Gaza Strip is turning into a quagmire in which the Israeli army is drowning, as it faces great difficulties in breaking the device. Military Hamas once and for all. Despite the massacres committed, the fighters of this movement refuse to surrender and continue fighting, while the news on Israeli television and radio stations begins almost every day by giving the names of the soldiers who were killed that day, the unit in which they served, and the sector in which they died. Then pictures follow. Funerals for weeping families. Brunel quoted a military commentator on Israeli Army Radio as saying: “On the field, the soldiers are probably dealing with a tougher game than they thought. After more than two months of ground fighting, there is still...Terrorists do not raise the white flag. They have learned to know our weak points and know where to strike us, especially since the battlefield is concentrated in narrow spaces and narrow alleys, where the slightest corner can hide an explosive device that is activated remotely, and very small groups of fighters can emerge by surprise from one of thousands. The tunnels built by Hamas fire an anti-tank missile before plunging again underground, not to mention all the houses that are likely to hide snipers searching for a target. The same journalist continues and writes that the soldiers’ constant tension and the feeling that they are at the mercy of the trap set at the end of the street sows confusion and pushes them into some Occasionally, they opened fire without observing the rules of engagement, which caused the death of many soldiers by friendly fire. It also caused, on December 15, the killing of three Israeli hostages who managed to escape while they were waving a white flag and wearing their underwear to prove that they were not suicide bombers. 2 Israel loses this The war is under this title: Tony Caron, editor-in-chief of Al Jazeera and former senior editor of Time magazine, and Daniel Levy, head of the US Middle East Project and former Israeli negotiator with the Palestinians, published on December 8 a joint article in the American magazine The Nation in which they saw that despite the violence Which was unleashed against the Palestinians, Israel has failed to achieve its political goals and is not moving towards victory or ensuring the stability of the situation. They added, “It may seem ridiculous to point out that a group of irregular armed men, numbering several tens of thousands, is under siege and have limited ability to reach... Advanced weapons could be competitors to one of the most powerful armies in the world, which is supported and armed by the United States. The two aforementioned researchers cited what was said by John Alterman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who considered that Israel faces a great risk of losing to Hamas. Hamas’s concept of military victory revolves around achieving Long-term political results. Hamas does not see victory in one year or five years, but rather through engaging in decades of struggle that increases Palestinian solidarity and increases Israel’s isolation. After the two researchers stated that Israeli army estimates indicate that it has so far killed less than 15 of Hamas' combat force, in a campaign that resulted in the killing of more than 21,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, including 8,600 children. They considered that Hamas adopts a comprehensive Palestinian perspective and not a perspective specific to Gaza. Hamas' maneuver may consist of sacrificing municipal rule in besieged Gaza to enhance its position as a national resistance organization. It is not trying to bury the Fatah movement, as the various unity agreements between Hamas and Fatah, especially those led by prisoners from both movements, show that Hamas seeks to form a united front, as the Palestinian Authority is unable to protect the Palestinians in the West Bank from the increasing violence practiced by the Israeli settlements and their control. well-established, let alone respond meaningfully to the bloodshed in Gaza, and while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was boasting just a few weeks before October 7 that Israel had succeeded in managing the conflict to the point that Palestine no longer appeared on his map of the new Middle East, some Arab leaders were with agreements. Abraham and other coalitions embrace Israel October 7th came as a sharp reminder that this is indefensible and that Palestinian resistance is a form of veto power over...The efforts made by others to determine the fate of the Palestinians. The two researchers continued that the Hamas movement, by liquidating the status quo that the Palestinians find unbearable, has put politics back on the agenda. It is true that Israel has great military power, but it is politically weak. They conclude that Hamas is not ISIS, as Western politicians and the media like to portray it. In fact, it is a multi-faceted political movement rooted in the fabric of Palestinian society and its national aspirations. It embodies a belief confirmed by decades of Palestinian experience that armed resistance constitutes a central element in the Palestinian liberation project due to the failure of the Oslo process. It is estimated that the Israeli campaign may lead to a reduction in Hamas’ military capacity and to the killing of... Senior leaders of the organization, but it will confirm Hamas’ message and its standing among the Palestinians in various parts of the region and outside it. While events are being followed after eight weeks of revenge, it cannot be said that Israel is victorious. 3 The illusion of a military solution in Gaza. In the same direction, the researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris, Laure Foucher, considered that The war goals set by the Israeli government, most notably the destruction of the Hamas government and its military capabilities, ensuring security on the Israeli borders, and returning the hostages to Israel, are goals that lack realism and conflict with the heavy human costs incurred by the residents of Gaza. At this stage, it appears that Hamas, with all its branches combined, is far from disintegration. According to the statements of the Israeli armed forces themselves, several dozen leaders of the armed wing of the Islamic group, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, were killed, including battalion commanders, as well as several hundred fighters, but most senior military and political officials have not yet been affected, and the movement has a chain of command ready to assume responsibility. Given that Israel's continuation of its military operations at the current pace may have more dramatic consequences for the Gaza Strip and its residents without ensuring that the war's objectives can truly be achieved, the lesson that must be drawn from the current war is that reducing the Palestinian issue to a security administration accompanied by some economic concessions will not guarantee Security for the Israelis, which requires Europe in particular to make clear to Israel, even though the matter is unheard of at this stage, that the security of its citizens cannot be achieved without resolving the political equation of the Palestinian issue and launching a real peace process in the future. 4 Conclusion The academic and Vice President of Tel Aviv University, Eyal Zisser, aspires In an article published in the Israel Hayom newspaper on the 7th of this month, until Israel achieves a victory in Gaza and not an image of victory, he considered that it is better for the Israelis to focus on achieving a resolution in the battle against Hamas and Hezbollah and creating a security reality that allows the liberation of the kidnapped and missing persons and the return of the displaced to their homes in a cover. Gaza and the north, but he adds that victory in the war does not mean the end of the war on terrorism, because the war against Hamas is a war against a terrorist organization that moves among a civilian population that provides it with protection and support, and not against a regular army with a state behind it, considering that the conflict against Hamas is a long, continuous, and intense conflict 5 What is the nature of this victory that this well-known academic aspires to? To this question, the prestigious newspaper Le Monde responded indirectly on the 9th of this month in an editorial entitled Israel is losing itself in the Gaza massacre, in which it stated that for more than two months, what has become a horrific routine continues. In Gaza, where dead are added to dead, wounded are added to wounded, and destruction is added to destruction without being able to see the end, and by resorting to...The veto on December 8 of a draft United Nations Security Council resolution in favor of an immediate humanitarian ceasefire ensured that the isolated United States ensured the continuation of the punishment imposed by Israel on an entire people. The newspaper continues that the outcome of the strategy aimed at eliminating the Islamic militia at any cost is now in front of The eyes of everyone who wants to see it are death everywhere, dying hospitals, destitution, and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians driven like cattle by Israeli orders from one area of Gaza to a second and then to a third area, while the alarm cries sounded by the officials of the United Nations agencies on the ground who are making an effort despite the contempt. Israel's impressive efforts to prevent chaos from being added to the devastation resonate in a vacuum, and after the editorial pointed out that there is no justification for this unprecedented massacre, because the results obtained so far are still far from the declared goal, and that Israel is wasting itself in this war. It is not a surprise, unfortunately, as much as it is a reflection of its deviation. The Hebrew state had torn itself apart before October 7 regarding the basis of its social contract and the position of the law. In light of the attacks of the extremist nationalist and messianic movement that has been ravaging it for more than half a century, it considered that the United States, which does not protect Israel. It itself is committing a moral mistake whose devastating effects it will not be able to avoid, and its representative at the United Nations, who justified his resort to veto power on the eighth of this month by asserting that the truce will sow the seeds of future war, ignores the fact that while the bombs that his country supplies to Israel continue to plow Gaza. Without neutralizing civilians, these iron seeds can only produce hatred that cannot be extinguished on this bloody land. https www contretemps in israel today this guerre https www thenation com article world israel gas war 4 https www frstrategie org publications notes illusion one solution military gas 2023 5 https mukhtaraat palestine studies org ar node 33260 6 https www lemonde fr idees article 2023 12 09 israel See the gas carnage_6204843_3232 html read the original
Blog Title The Palestinian Economy in the Grip of Colonialism and Total War Author Taher Al-Labadi Date December 26, 2023 Palestine has shed a lot of ink over the past two months, and scientific research has become a hostage between emotion and media and political necessities to shed light on this Thorny and painful events. If economic analysis was less present, it should have received greater attention provided that it was useful to the subject. In fact, the prevailing economic theory continues to understand the phenomena it studies by resorting only to market rules, and thus it finds itself ill-equipped to think about the conflicts and forces that arise until In the economy or in its immediate surroundings, most likely, aggregated economic data and other abstract formalities give us an estimate of the cost of war or the cost of military occupation, and in the end we understand very little about the nature of economic activity and operations within the war and in the Palestinian context. For more than a decade, there has been a debate. Great in the field of Palestinian studies, especially with regard to developing its theoretical and methodological toolsAnd its choice to read and describe this special context. This also applies to economic research, as we have witnessed the revival of political economy, the subject of which is no longer the market or growth, but rather the relations of hegemony inherent and emerging in the economy. This shake in the method goes hand in hand with the increasing criticism of the economic system that was established after the Oslo Accords in the year 1993 and the neoliberal theoretical framework on which it is based. This criticism reflects the impasse of the Palestinian national project and the failure of the two-state solution, which translates into a search for new analytical frameworks. 1 Among these frameworks, settler colonialism studies call us to realize that the various forms of domination and violence that the Zionist movement and later Israel produced and exercised over society The Palestinian Cohesive 2 This framework has the great advantage of addressing the fragmentation of Palestinian studies resulting from the historical turmoil of 1948, 1967, and 1993, and the geographical fragmentation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the territories of 1948, and Jerusalem. The comparison between the experiences of the American continent, South Africa, Australia, Algeria, and Palestine is also interesting because it reduces Among the negatives of the exceptional treatment that is often applied to Palestine. Finally, taking the colonial relationship into account makes it possible to compensate for the exclusive Marxist approach that tends to reduce all hostility to the struggle between social classes. Also, studying the many mechanisms of power that operate on the basis of the economy itself does not It must help us understand the total war taking place now. The economy as a field of abolition and population replacement. There are several types of logic at work in the field of economics. First, removal and replacement, which are characteristics of settler colonialism. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Zionist movement began confiscating lands in Palestine to establish a new society of settlers, a process that accelerated with the British occupation of the country in 1917 and the subsequent establishment of the League of Nations mandate. The conquest of the economy was a decisive means of strengthening Jewish demography and ensuring control over the lands. It also proved to be a powerful means of destabilizing Palestinian Arab society. This conquest of the economy found its most expressive expression. A process of adopting the slogan of Jewish land and establishing multiple Zionist funds dedicated to purchasing land, including the Jewish National Fund. These lands were seized on a commercial and private basis. However, they were withdrawn from the market and considered the property of the Jewish people and inalienable, which constituted a first step. Towards the establishment of national political sovereignty, which led to the displacement of dozens of Palestinian villages even before the Nakba. Secondly, Jewish Work, which is a slogan that means encouraging agricultural cooperatives run by the Zionist movement and behind it, encouraging all Jewish or British employers to give priority to employing Jewish workers, as these workers were finding it difficult. In obtaining work, including from Jewish employers who preferred to use cheaper and more experienced Arab labor to work the land, unemployment became a major challenge, and many settlers ended up returning to Europe. Thus, contrary to popular belief, the establishment of kibbutz settlements in the first half of the twentieth century did not It has nothing to do with importing the ideals of socialism, but rather due to the necessities of colonialism existing at that time. Collective organization and sharing of resources came primarily in response to the need within the competition to reduce the cost of Jewish labor in the face of Arab labor. 3 In this regard, the kibbutzim were inspiredTo some extent, it is part of the Russian artel, that is, production cooperatives that are formed among workers coming from the same place to improve their chances of survival in a competitive environment. This has nothing to do with confronting capitalism or even dissent from it. The kibbutzim, with the support of the Zionist Organization, facilitated the absorption of settlers while completely excluding Arab workers. When the Well-defined colonial outlines of the kibbutz ensured its economic efficiency. The myth of self-administered communities that responded to socialist ideals developed, which fueled the imagination of new waves of settlers coming from Europe. The fact remains that the kibbutz always provided an above-average number of fighters and leaders in the ranks of the Zionist militias. Throughout the period of the British Mandate, the Jewish labor union Histadrut, which was founded in 1920, was another major player in this first conquest of the economy. It was at the head of an enormous economic empire consisting of agricultural colonies, transport cooperatives, and industrial, commercial, and financial institutions, all of which were used to create exclusive Jewish economic enclaves. 4 This union went on to Going further to recruit labor guards who were sent to work sites and factories to intimidate employers and workers and use threats to demand the expulsion of Arab workers and the employment of Jewish settlers. 5 Therefore, this invasion was never devoid of violence, and the slogans of Jewish land and Jewish labor remained prevalent after the Nakba, as well as after the occupation of the West Bank. Western and Gaza Strip in an Israeli economy mobilized towards colonialism and governed by the priority given to the Jewish population. However, the difference is that the elimination of the Palestinian indigenous population after the Nakba became supported by the state apparatus and regulated through policies and laws. However, the plundering of lands and the separation of some of its residents from others did not stop. It prevents a policy of economic integration designed to benefit from the inevitable Palestinian presence while at the same time working to control it. Apartheid facilitates economic exploitation. When Israel occupied and controlled the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, its annexation ambitions were thwarted due to the presence of about a million Palestinians, which posed a challenge. Demographically, politically, and security-wise, the military administration then imposed integration on the occupied territories with a de facto policy while depriving the population of Israeli citizenship, which enabled it to establish a strict system of apartheid and hierarchical relations between the Palestinian and Israeli communities. These procedures used are somewhat similar to those that have been used since 1948. In Israel itself to deal with the Palestinians of 1948 6, here the second logic emerges, which is the logic of exploitation, which is represented in seizing the best opportunities offered by controlling the lands and their residents. In addition to tightening the grip on the natural resources of water, oil, gas, etc., Israel to this day implements a series of established policies. To increase Palestinian economic dependency and thus benefit better from Palestinian capital, labor and consumer markets. Until 1993, the Israeli administration was responsible for granting the necessary permits to build a house, dig a well, start a business, leave or enter the country, and import or export goods. Measures were taken to prevent any Palestinian competition, as well as Encouraging subcontracting for the benefit of Israeli producers. Therefore, the growth of some industries, such as cement, textiles, and car repair, is directly linked to the needs of the Israeli economy, as are the agricultural crops that Israel needs orThose intended for export to Europe gradually replaced the more diversified crops intended for local and regional markets. In contrast, the Palestinians have become heavily dependent on imports from Israel to meet their consumer needs. This situation did not change radically after the year 1993 and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. The powers granted to the Authority are constantly being eroded on the ground and in Israel. It is the one that maintains control over the commercial, monetary and financial systems, as well as over the borders and most of the territory. Area C, which is directly under Israeli military control and cannot be accessed by the Palestinian government, covers 62% of the area of the West Bank. From 1972 until 2017, Israel absorbed 79% of the total exports and was an exporter. For 81 of Palestinian imports 7 The employment of workers from the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the Israeli economy is another aspect of this colonial exploitation, as the occupying state controls the presence of these workers by issuing work permits to compensate for the shortage of Israeli labor according to economic conditions and in specific sectors, mainly construction, agriculture, and restaurants. Thus, the Israeli economic recession in the period 1973-1976 did not have any actual impact on Israeli unemployment, but it led to a decrease in the number of Palestinian workers. The first intifada and the economic boycott carried out by the Palestinians at the end of the 1980s led Israel to significantly reduce the presence of these workers, and for a period of time they were replaced by migrant workers from Asia, but the exploitation of Palestinian labor returned and worsened again during the past ten years with the import of workers from the West Bank, and even resumed in the months The last in the Gaza Strip, despite the blockade, in 2023 there were 160,000 Palestinians from the West Bank, i.e. 20 of its workforce, working in Israel or in the settlements, in addition to about 50,000 workers working without permits, in addition to about 20,000 workers from the Gaza Strip 9 These workers receive a wage that ranges between 50 and 75 percent of the wage of their Israeli counterparts. They are also exposed to insecurity, discrimination, and abuse. The number of work accidents and deaths in construction workshops is considered one of the highest in the world. 10 The economy as a weapon to combat insurgency, while the employment of Palestinian workers aims to The first place is the exploitation of the indigenous labor force, as it is also an excellent means of monitoring them, as a Palestinian from the West Bank or Gaza Strip, in order to obtain a work permit in Israel or in the settlements, must ensure that the Israeli military administration approves his security file, and therefore he must refrain from participating. In any trade union or political activity, it is considered hostile to the occupation, and this caution is imposed on its relatives. Therefore, families and sometimes entire villages are keen not to be subjected to any security ban so as not to be deprived of an Israeli work permit. Thus, the Palestinians’ dependence on the Israeli economy contributes to their political weakness, which increases the danger of this. The weakness is that the Israeli authorities are the ones who regulate access to the occupied territories as well as traffic within them. Therefore, closing crossing points and restricting traffic is regularly used as a means of punishment in an overt counter-insurgency logic, which is the third logic, which quickly pushes the Palestinians to the brink of economic suffocation or even survival.In a state of permanent humanitarian crisis, as evidenced by the case of the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege since 2007, the Palestinian Authority is strongly exposed to this type of punitive practices, as a large portion of its income67 in 2017 comes from taxes collected by the Israeli authorities, especially those imposed on Palestinian imports. However, the latter It regularly reduces and suspends these payments for the purpose of outright blackmail. The Palestinian government also relies on international aid, which has no less volatility and political conditions. 11 This situation largely explains the inability of the Authority to work outside the frameworks set by Israel and the donors. This political and social engineering that passes through the economy affects the Gaza Strip. Private also in multiple ways. In recent years, an increasing number of companies in the West Bank have proactively requested integration into the Israeli control system in order to benefit from preferential treatment when exporting their goods. 12 This is because, in normal circumstances, the shipment is first transported by truck to the nearest Israeli checkpoint and there it is unloaded to undergo inspection. It takes several hours before it is loaded onto a second truck to be transported to its destination, either in Israel itself or to a third country. Consequently, Palestinian exporters are hampered by high transportation costs, as well as wasted time and the risk of the goods being damaged due to these arduous procedures, as well as the number of trucks and thus the size of the goods. Transport is very limited due to daily congestion at checkpoints, which can be exacerbated by a simple Israeli decision to stop traffic at any time and for any reason. On the other hand, the introduction of logistical corridors known as door-to-door corridors has greatly facilitated the flow and reduced the cost of commercial shipping. A protocol established by the Israeli army will enable companies to transport their cargo to its destination using a single Israeli truck and without worrying about checkpoints. However, to achieve this goal, they must establish a closed and secure loading yard equipped with surveillance cameras that are constantly connected to the nearest military checkpoint. They must also provide detailed data on their employees who must Their security files are also approved by the Israeli security services. Finally, each truck is equipped with a GPS tracking system to monitor the route it takes across the West Bank. The Palestinian economy is in the grip of an all-out war. It is difficult to understand the full extent of the radical unrest sweeping Palestine, as well as its economic activity, and several Palestinian and international agencies are trying to calculate it. The material losses of the ongoing war and its impact on the Palestinian GDP and unemployment. These losses result from the comprehensive destruction caused by the Israeli bombing in addition to the siege on both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, as well as the cancellation of all Israeli work permits and the delay in transferring taxes to the Palestinian Authority. The Institute for Economic Policy Research indicates The Palestinians are facing a dangerous economic recession, the effects of which actually appeared during the war and are likely to continue after it. The Institute expects that the gross domestic product will decline by at least 25% by the end of 2023, while unemployment could reach 30% of the working population in the West Bank and 90% in the Gaza Strip. 13 It is said that any political solution to the conflict must necessarily be supported by an economic plan, and with every new war, anticipating the costs of reconstruction and supporting the Palestinian economy to stand on its feet is a way to quickly respond to the emergency, but this is not a war between two sovereign states, nor is it the impoverishment of the Palestinian people.The grave risks of famine did not come by chance, and reports published after previous wars confirm the Israeli army's deliberate intention to attack material means of livelihood. 14 The same applies to the restrictions imposed on the movement of people and goods, which do not apply to farmers in the West Bank, whose crops compensate for the interruption of agricultural activity in Israel thus contributes to its war effort. This range of power exercises taking place in the Palestinian context indicates that the economy is not a side victim of the ongoing colonial confrontation, but rather a fundamental field for it. The issue, then, is not related to actually measuring the costs of war and reconstruction, nor to the growth points that must be reaped in order to gain silence. The people, but it is a question of how to protect Palestinian society from the processes of dispossession, inclusion, and oppression that occur in the economy itself, and from a war that is intended to be more comprehensive than ever. 1 Taher Al-Labadi Colonialism and Economic Knowledge in Palestine Analytical Approaches and Frameworks Arab Future Magazine, Issue 530, April 2023 p. 74 92 2 omar jabary salamanca mezna qato kareem rabie and sobhi samour eds past is present settler colonialism in palestine settler colonial studies vol 2 no 1 2012 3 gershon shafir land labor and the origins of the israeli palestinian conflict 1882 1914 cambridge cambridge university press 1989 4 new sternhell aux origins of israël enter nationalisme and socialisme paris fayard 2004 5 george mansour the arab worker under the palestine mandate 1937 settler colonial studies 28 2 2013 6 aziz haidar on the margins the arab population in the israeli economy new york st martin s press 1995 7 unctad report on unctad assistance to the palestinian people developments in the economy of the occupied palestinian territory 2018 8 leila farsakh palestinian labor migration to israel labor land and occupation london route 2005 9 mas how to read the economic and social implications of the war on gaza gaza war economy brief no 4 6 november 2023 10 unctad op cit 11 Taher Al-Labadi European financing for Palestine Cooperation or collusion News 28 11 2023 12 walid habbas and yael berda colonial management as a social field the palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control current sociology vol 71 pp 1 18 13 days ago 14 days of the rapport of the mission of the establishment of the faits of the nations unies on the conflit of Gaza 2009 read the original
Blog title Can the Palestinian Authority rule the Gaza Strip again Author Maher Al-Sharif Date: December 21, 2023 This question has become the focus of attention of regional and international political circles that are striving to answer it, as the Arab leaders participating in the annual Doha Forum, which concluded its work on December 11 of this year, confirmed when they stopped at the proposed solutions for the post-Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that No Arab country will send armed forces to stabilize the situation once the hostilities stop, and no one in the region will agree to send forces to the field to find themselves facing Israeli tanks. While Germany put forward the idea of the United Nations managing the Gaza Strip as soon as the war ends, Josep Borrell, head of European diplomacy, pointed out That Israel will not be able to remain in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority will have toReturning there 1 The American administration The return of the Palestinian Authority to ruling Gaza after its renewal The administration of President Joe Biden adopts, with conditions, the option of the Palestinian Authority returning to ruling the Gaza Strip and unifying the West Bank and the Strip, as its Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, considered in a speech he delivered before the Senate Finance Committee on October 31 Last October 1, the US administration’s bet is for an effective and renewed Palestinian Authority to assume power and ultimately bear security responsibility in Gaza. During his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on November 5, Anthony Blinken expressed his desire to see a governmental structure Which was born from the Oslo Accords will regain control of Gaza as soon as the military operations end, while President Joe Biden himself affirmed in an article published in the Washington Post on November 18 that Gaza and the West Bank must be brought together under one governance structure led ultimately by the Palestinian Authority. A renewed Palestinian state is working to reach an agreement with an Israeli government that, as this administration declares, will lead to the revival of the two-state solution. 2 American officials are basing their hopes on the possibility of recalling soldiers and police officers who served in the Palestinian security forces in the Gaza Strip before Hamas seized power there in 2007. And returning them to active service, especially since these soldiers and officers are still receiving salaries from the Palestinian Authority. It seems that this option was suggested by White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan during his meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the city of Ramallah on December 15, as John Kirby mentioned. The spokesman for the National Security Council said that they discussed what Gaza should look like after the war, how it will be managed, and ways to modernize and renew the Palestinian Authority so that it can bear responsibility for the future of the Palestinian people. On the other hand, senior American officials indicated that the Biden administration wants to carry out broad reforms in The Palestinian Authority, especially by pumping new blood into the political establishment and introducing new, younger people with administrative skills into decision-making circles. They can win the support of Palestinian public opinion in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well, and the trust of the international community. They can also obtain economic assistance from the Gulf states. 3 Benjamin Netanyahu, neither Hamastan nor Fathastan in Gaza. Contrary to this American position, Benjamin Netanyahu and his war government categorically reject the return of the Palestinian Authority to assume power in the Gaza Strip, as he stressed on many occasions that Israel will have the upper hand indefinitely in security issues in the Strip, as is the case in The West Bank, where the occupation army launches raids wherever it wants, including in cities that are supposed to be under the control of the security services of the Palestinian Authority, and it intends to transform the Gaza Strip after the war into something similar to Area B in the West Bank, so that the security authority there is in the hands of Israel while it takes care of the affairs The Civil Service has a local administration leading the reconstruction operations based on the support of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and this administration could be made up of merchants, academics, and tribal leaders. During a press conference he held on Saturday evening, November 18, he said, “We are not waging a war to transfer governance in Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.” He accused President Mahmoud Abbas did not condemn the massacres committed by Hamas commandos on October 7, and stressed that Gaza cannot be placed under the responsibility of a government that supports terrorism, encourages terrorism, and finances terrorism.And learning about terrorism in reference to the allocations that the Palestinian Authority pays to prisoners in Israeli prisons and to the families of martyrs, as well as to Palestinian educational programs. It seems that this position expressed by Benjamin Netanyahu is adopted in Israel in one form or another by a section of the centrist opposition and many media outlets. 4 and 12 December The first of this December, the head of the Israeli war government reaffirmed in a statement that Gaza will neither be Hamastan nor Fathastan. He added, “I would like to clarify my position. I will not allow Israel to repeat the mistake of Oslo 5. Questioning the ability of the Palestinian Authority to return to ruling Gaza. Many analysts doubt the The ability of the Palestinian Authority to return to ruling the Gaza Strip due to the decline in its popularity and the decline in the popularity of its president, as well as the decline in the popularity of the Fatah movement in exchange for a significant increase in the popularity of the Hamas movement and its leaders, as shown in the latest opinion poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, which is the main Palestinian polling institute, between 1 and December 3 between 1,231 residents of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with a margin of error of 4 6. According to Ghaith Al-Omari of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the ability of the Palestinian Authority to govern in the West Bank, whether with regard to issues of security or civil order, is very limited. He wondered if the authority that It was not able to rule the West Bank. Can we expect it to be able to rule Gaza? While Jean-Paul Chagnolo, director of the Institute for Middle East Research and Studies in the Mediterranean region (IREMMO), attributed the decline in the popularity of the Palestinian Authority among the Palestinians to security cooperation between the Palestinian agencies and the Israeli agencies. Which was steadfast in all situations, such that every time President Mahmoud Abbas wanted to cut off security cooperation, the Americans opposed him and he did not do so. Dov Waxman, director of the Nasserite Center for Israeli Studies in California, was the director of research and analysis at the Arab Center in Washington, D.C., with the complete destruction of infrastructure and the displacement of more than 70 people. From the population, the challenges that will face the next government in Gaza will be enormous. He wondered whether the capabilities of the Palestinian Authority would enable it to accomplish a task of this magnitude, especially since Benjamin Netanyahu has been working for years to separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank and sees the Palestinian Authority as just another enemy, just as the nationalists The extremists in his government will do everything in their power to prevent the strengthening of the position of the Palestinian Authority in Area 7. Breathe a new spirit into the Palestinian Authority. Jean-Paul Chaniolo admits that in every internal Palestinian crisis or in every crisis with Israel, the name of the prisoner Marwan Barghouti appears again, and he is known as Nelson Mandela. The Palestinian who was arrested by the Israeli security authorities in 2002 as the leader of the organization in the Fatah movement, which was founded by Yasser Arafat in 1995. The Israeli courts sentenced him in 2004 to five life imprisonment sentences on charges of launching attacks and membership in a terrorist organization. The French researcher continues that Marwan While in prison, Barghouti did not stop participating in Palestinian political life. In 2006, he made an important contribution to drafting the National Accord Document prepared by the Palestinian prisoners with the aim of uniting the national and Islamic forces within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He proved over the years that he is the only person capable of achieving unity among the Palestinian organizations. Another French researcher, Frederic Incel, who specializes in political geography and Middle Eastern affairs, agrees with this assessment and explains, saying: Marwan Barghouti spent many years inImprisonment in Israel, which clearly gives him a guarantee of integrity, heroism, and patriotism in the eyes of the Palestinians, and when he was at the head of the organization in the Fatah movement, he supported an alliance with Hamas, but could Marwan Barghouti be the character of the day after the war for Jean-Paul Chagnolo, this hypothesis remains improbable, because Israel It has not responded at the present time to this request from Hamas to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of Israeli detainees, while Frederick Insel believes that nothing guarantees today that Marwan Barghouti will accept major responsibilities at the head of the Palestinian Authority, more specifically in the Gaza Strip, and according to a former member of the forces The security forces of the Palestinian Authority preferred not to reveal his name. Marwan Barghouti is the only person who can unite Fatah and is acceptable to Hamas. Opinion polls conducted over the years among Palestinians showed that he is the most popular figure among young people, far superior to President Mahmoud Abbas and the leader of Hamas. Ismail Haniyeh, and in diplomatic circles, is also seen as the only hope for reconciliation between the Palestinians and the revitalization of the Palestinian Authority. 8 National Unity Introduction to Thwarting the Israeli War Objectives It is not possible to talk about the return of the Palestinian Authority to ruling the Gaza Strip before thwarting the objectives of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli government on the Strip. Gaza, foremost of which is the goal of displacing its population, a task that requires achieving Palestinian national unity and, first and foremost, unifying the Fatah and Hamas movements. The war taking place today does not target the Gaza Strip alone, but rather targets the West Bank, including Jerusalem as well. It does not target the Hamas movement alone, but also targets the Fatah movement and all of them. Resistance factions, which was stated by Benjamin Netanyahu, who during a closed meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Knesset on December 11, accused the Palestinian Authority of wanting to destroy Israel in stages. He said that the difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is only that Hamas wants to destroy us here and now. While the Palestinian Authority wants to do this in 9 stages, and if there is someone who believes that the Hamas movement can be eliminated, then he is delusional, as was emphasized by Jean-Paul Chaniolo, who said, “I do not believe that Israel will succeed in eliminating Hamas, including its military wing, and even if The Israelis succeeded, and another military organization will emerge sooner or later. He also confirmed this fact, contrary to some statements that do not serve national unity issued by some Fatah officials, the Palestinian Prime Minister and member of the Fatah Central Committee, Muhammad Shtayyeh, who stated at the Doha Forum in Qatar that the Hamas movement is... An essential part of the Palestinian political map, and Israel’s talk about eliminating Hamas will not happen and is unacceptable to us. In the same direction, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in the Palestinian Authority, Amal Jado, indicated that we can eliminate the military structures, but we cannot eliminate the ideology. The Hamas movement will be replaced by another. Look. To the United States in Afghanistan, they did their best to eliminate the Taliban, but after seventeen years they returned to power and they have become stronger, and the only viable solution is to give the Palestinians the right to decide their future. She continued, saying that the Palestinian government has never left Gaza, as it is the one who runs the health administration and the education system. It always allocates 40 percent of its budget each month to Gaza and employs tens of thousands of civil service employees there. 10 I believe that the ground has been prepared at the political level to achieve national unity that includes allThe factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements within the framework of the Palestine Liberation Organization, especially in light of the Israeli government’s explicit disavowal of the Oslo Accords, which requires the leadership of the Liberation Organization to liberate itself from them and its obligations, as well as in light of the significant development that has occurred in the political positions of the leadership of the Hamas movement, which is Positions that are very close to the national consensus program agreed upon by the factions of the Liberation Organization. In this context, no Palestinian political party should have illusions about the truth of the position of President Joe Biden’s administration, which continues to equip the Israeli occupation army with all the latest types of weapons it needs and covers politically and diplomatically. Continuing its destructive war, while at the same time throwing a carrot to the Palestinian Authority by calling on it to assume power in the Gaza Strip after its renewal and after the Israeli war machine has eliminated the Hamas movement, as it threatens it again with the two-state solution, which American administrations are accustomed to withdrawing from their sleeve whenever The political situation in the region worsened and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict intensified, as did the administration of President George W. Bush on the eve of its invasion of Iraq and in the midst of the events of the second Palestinian Intifada by presenting the road map that set the year 2005 as the date for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, and if all the Palestinian forces, including the Fatah movement, had It approved the National Accord Document of 2006, which affirmed the right of the Palestinian people to resist and adhere to the option of resistance by various means. It becomes logical that the issue of means of resistance should not constitute an obstacle to achieving Palestinian national unity, especially at this time when the Palestinian people are facing unprecedented challenges whose future will depend. 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