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‎A new Israeli aggression. Two martyrs and 3 wounded, including a child, in two raids in southern Lebanon‎

Sawt Beirut, 29-Jul-2024 11:51 AM‎

‎The Civil Defense in South Lebanon announced that two Lebanese people were killed and 3 wounded, including a child, as a result of two raids from an Israeli march that targeted a car and then a motorcycle between the towns of Mays Al-Jabal and Shaqra in southern Lebanon.‎

‎The National News Agency reported that ambulance teams were working to transport the injured to Tibneen Governmental Hospital.‎

‎According to the agency, "the warplanes and drones of the Israeli entity have raided the town of Markaba after midnight, targeting a house without causing injuries, and also raided the town of Rab thirty at dawn."‎

‎On the other hand, the Israeli military said that its defenses succeeded in intercepting a march launched from Lebanese territory towards the western Galilee and that sirens were activated for fear of shrapnel from the interception.‎

‎The Lebanese Middle East Airlines announced the delay in the return of some of its flights to Beirut from Sunday evening to Monday morning, without revealing the reasons.‎

‎The postponement included flights from London, Copenhagen, Doha, Dammam, Dubai and Jeddah, while German group Lufthansa suspended flights to Beirut until today as a precaution.‎

‎Two Martyrs as a result of an Israeli raid in southern Lebanon‎

‎Beirut 29-7-2024 Wafa -

Two Lebanese citizens were killed on Monday morning, as a result of raids by the Israeli occupation march, targeting a civilian vehicle and a motorcycle on the road to the towns of Mays Al-Jabal and Shaqra, south of Lebanon‎‎.‎

‎A number of civilians, including a child, were also wounded in the raids, in addition to the two martyrs, who were taken to area hospitals, coinciding with the flight of warplanes and reconnaissance aircraft in the airspace of southern Lebanon.‎

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9% of Gaza's population displaced last week by Israel, says OCHA

(WAFA Images)

NEW YORK, Monday, July 29, 2024 (WAFA) –

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that 9% of the population of the Gaza Strip was displaced during the past week alone due to the Israeli occupation army's evacuation orders.

The UN office explained in a statement on Monday that 29,000 people were present in the area that the Israeli army ordered to be evacuated yesterday, Sunday, noting that the repeated displacement deprives civilians of survival with dignity.

It pointed out that the UN humanitarian partners estimate that more than 190,000 Palestinians have been displaced this week from Khan Younus and Dair El-Bala'h since the evacuation order was issued last Monday while hundreds are still trapped east of Khan Younus.

The UN office confirmed that the recent evacuation orders and intense hostilities have affected relief operations and undermined efforts to provide essential assistance to civilians in Khan Younus.

It added that the continued insecurity and the allocation of only one access point for the entry and exit of humanitarian workers, namely the Karm Abu Salim crossing, undermined efforts to deploy urgently needed emergency medical teams in Gaza to relieve the burden on the exhausted medical staff in the Strip.

K.T. 

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Turkish president threatens to intervene militarily to protect Palestinians

Monday 29-July-2024

ANKARA, (PIC)

Turkish President Recep Erdogan stressed on Sunday the need for his country to act strongly to deter Israel from its practices against the Palestinians in Gaza, alluding to the possibility of intervening militarily in the conflict.

Erdogan told a meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the northeastern city of Rize on the Black Sea that Türkiye “must be very strong so that Israel can stop doing such things to the Palestinians.”

“Just as we entered Karabakh, just as we entered Libya, we might do the same to them (Israelis),” Erdogan added.

“There is no reason why we cannot do this. We must be strong so that we can take such a step,” he added.

The president was referring to Türkiye’s military deployment in 2020 to the North African country and its military support for Azerbaijan as the latter fought a war to take back Karabakh from Armenians.

Erdogan also cited how Türkiye cut off commercial ties with Israel as he talked about his administration’s actions to stop the Israeli war on Gaza.

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WAFA monitors incitement and racism in the Israeli media‎

‎Ramallah Allah 29-7-2024 Wafa-

The Palestinian news and information agency "WAFA" monitored incitement and racism in the Israeli media, between 21-7 and 27-7.‎

‎In its report No. 370, WAFA monitors and documents the inflammatory and racist discourse in the Israeli media against the Palestinians, in light of the continuous Israeli genocidal war against our people, against the Palestinian National Authority, against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and against prisoners in the Israeli occupation apartheid regime prisons.‎

‎In this summary, we review the most important inflammatory articles, ‎‎an article published in the newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth" by the well-known writer "Itamar Eichner", through which he incites against the International Court following its decision on the "occupation", and the article entitled "Israel's arguments against the Hague Court and the opinion of the dissenting judges: "What about the obligations of the Palestinians?‎‎"‎‎:‎

‎"The dramatic advisory opinion published by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which ruled that settlements are illegal and that Israel effectively annex the territory of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, is not a binding decision – but it raises great concern in Jerusalem that it will be exploited to increase political pressure on the Israel and deepen its isolation in the world, an isolation that has already peaked due to the war in Gaza," he said.‎‎.‎

‎In an effort to stop initiatives to exploit opinion in various fields, Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz directed all Israeli embassies around the world to work urgently with senior political officials. The State Department distributed a "political activation cable" to all ambassadors around the world, asking them to convey a series of messages against that advisory opinion, including arguments expressed in the country that the ruling is detached from the situation on the ground and will harm the chances of a political settlement with the Palestinians‎‎.‎

‎"In the dramatic verdict, we recall that the majority of The Hague judges have decided that the settlement project is illegal, and that Israel should evacuate them "as soon as possible" – this includes not only areas in the West Bank (which are referred to by the Israeli occupation regime as Judea and Samaria), but also everyone who has settled in East Jerusalem since the unification of the city in the 1967 Six-Day War. This is the first time since that war that the International Court of Justice has ruled that the Israeli occupation of the territories is illegal, but the verdict is even more serious as it is accused of Israel's actions constituting de facto annexation and possibly even apartheid‎‎.‎

‎The ‎‎resolution also states that Israel should compensate Palestinians for land confiscation and 'exploitation of natural resources', and ordered all countries of the world to refrain from providing assistance to Israel's continued control over the territory. They also decided that Israel was considered an occupying power in Gaza even before the current war in the Strip and despite the disengagement in 2005, as it continued to control some aspects of its administration thereafter. They rejected the claim that they should not intervene in the case for fear that it would affect This is on future negotiations, they said, and they said this is "speculation‎‎."‎

‎"I consider this ruling particularly extreme and, while non-binding, could harm Israel politically and internationally – and also reinforce calls‎‎ by ‎‎ BDS ‎‎ activists ‎‎for a boycott. The Court published this opinion at the request of the UN General Assembly, at the initiative of the Palestinian Authority, and now the subject may be re-discussed in the General Assembly or brought to the attention of the Security Council. The judges explicitly called on the council to take steps to end Israeli control over the territory, but it is very likely that the US will veto it if a resolution against Israel is presented in the council.‎

‎Author Eleanor Fabriker also incited against Palestinians in Jerusalem and against the PNA, in an article on Makor Rishon, which reads: "Kafr Aqab: Identity is Blue, Governance is Palestinian," and the "terrorist" who carried out the attack near Sarafand last week came from one of Jerusalem's largest Arabic neighborhoods, where Israeli control is almost non-existent and infrastructure neglected. This vacuum is filled by local law enforcement and terrorism organizations, with the support of the Palestinian Authority."‎

‎Mu'hammed Ghalib Shihab, 27, from Kafr I'qab in East Jerusalem, carried out a vehicular attack at the Nir Zvi junction near Sarafand base: Four soldiers of the IOFs were injured, as the Sheila Research and Policy Forum notes that the neighborhood in northern Jerusalem – part of a sovereign Israel state under the law – is undergoing an ongoing process of transformation into a PA neighborhood, as part of its broad plan to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.‎

‎"The PA's plans under the 2030 Plan to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital include large-scale construction, the establishment of new neighborhoods and the provision of services in areas such as education, health, social welfare, culture, security, trade and industry, employment, tourism and others. The plan seeks to establish a separate municipal institution in Jerusalem under the control of all Palestinians, including residents of the Old City.‎

‎"The PA actually started building the Palestinian state more than twenty years ago, shortly after the signing of the Oslo Accords," said Dr. Anat Root, director general of the forum. "We are aware of the existence of this plan, but the highest quarters in Israel are not taking action against it. Under the watchful eyes of all Israel governments, Palestinians in Jerusalem have built a vast political, organizational, social, educational and economic infrastructure that undermines Israeli sovereignty in the city and allows Palestinians, technically and mentally, to move to the next stage."‎

‎"The ambitions of the Palestinian Authority are embodied throughout Judea and Samaria, and the Kafr I'qab neighborhood is a clear example of this. It and Shu'fat are the largest neighborhoods Arabic outside the security barrier in northern Jerusalem. Most residents of Kafr I'qab hold blue ID cards, have permanent residency in Israel, and enjoy greater freedom of movement than Arabs in Judea and Samaria who hold green ID cards. They are entitled to national insurance services, vote in municipal elections, and even reside and work throughout the Israel without special permits. They pay municipal taxes for fear of losing residency, but representatives of authorities such as the police, postal office and Israeli infrastructure providers avoid entering Kafr I'qab. in response to ACRI's petitions."‎

‎"It is clear that those who live in Kafr I'qab are more vulnerable to the influence of terrorism, because the place is open and we are not there to prevent it," says Ran Yishai, head of the Jerusalem department at the Jerusalem Center for Applied Policy. "There is no law enforcement police, no one to monitor what is taught in the school, no one to remove hostile and instigating elements and to threaten the population. It makes sense for terrorists to get out of there, but not because of economic hardship or because the municipality is not repairing the infrastructure. The strange thing is that most people there do not turn to terrorism. They don't sympathize with Gaza, and the vast majority sympathize with Israel and see in it its future – not out of great love, but because of the comfort Israel can provide them. But as soon as the state decided to remove Kafr I'qab from the separation barrier, it ceded this place to the Palestinian Authority, and thousands of Palestinians came to live there."‎

‎ ‎‎Incitement and racism in the virtual world‎‎:‎

‎Zvi Sukkot, a member of Knesset for religious Zionism, instigated in a Facebook tweet against Arab MP A'hmed Al-Teebi, "‎‎Now on the podium, A'hmed Al-Teebi compared our kidnappers in Gaza to terrorists who were 'kidnapped' from their homes by the IOF.‎

‎Extremist minister Itamar Ben-Gvir tweeted on Facebook and incited against the Palestinian National Authority, saying, "‎‎In response to the news that the Israeli security apparatus is trying to buy calm and demand a series of facilities in the West Bank, the security apparatus is returning to the pre-7.10 concept and losing its temper. The PA is an enemy like Hamas, and the way it should be acquired is fake and absurd."‎

‎Boaz Bismut, a Likud MK against UNRWA, tweeted on the X platform,‎‎ "‎‎I am pleased to announce that the law I initiated to shut down UNRWA has now passed through the first reading!‎‎ ‎‎With a little effort, we will be able to eliminate this terrorist organization."‎

‎"The law sends a sharp and clear message to our enemy: we will not allow international organizations to continue to manufacture terrorism and incitement. Whoever helped Hamas, will be punished, there is no place for our enemies in the heart of the capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem!"‎

‎"This law is the result of hard work, deep sessions and cooperation with civil society organizations. I would like to thank those who supported, provided advice and helped along the way."‎

‎Ariel Kleiner, a Likud MK on the X platform‎‎ ‎‎against prisoners, tweeted, "‎‎There is no need to demobilize the vandals, even if there is overcrowding, this must be according to fixed instructions, not just according to the instructions of the hour."‎

‎Yulia Milinubsky, a member of Knesset from Yisrael Beiteinu, incited in a tweet on ‎‎the UNRWA X platform‎‎, "‎‎What hypocrisy‎‎ ‎‎if the saboteurs were murderers, rapists and kidnappers of European civilians, would you still plead to get them out of the illogical law? Because that's exactly what the UNRWA staff did, and the agency itself that gave sponsorship to this terrorism did. We all know that there is a refugee problem in Europe that has just grown, we are invited to call UNRWA to you in order to address the problem and then you may receive the seventh of October because this sad and painful attempt happened to us."‎

‎M.L‎