December 31, 2023
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The IDF operation to destroy Hamas continues in the Gaza Strip . Palestinians say the death toll from Israeli airstrikes has risen to 21,672 dead and over 56,000 wounded. In the north of the enclave, the situation has not undergone significant changes.
In the central and southern Gaza Strip, the IDF is advancing in the vicinity of the Al-Brej refugee camp and in the urban area of Khan Yunis . The offensive is accompanied by a large number of artillery and air strikes on almost all populated areas and refugee camps.
The situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border remains tense. The exchange of blows between the IDF and Hezbollah naturally leads to large-scale destruction on both sides of the border.
Progress of hostilities
North Gaza Strip
The IDF is launching massive artillery and air strikes on various areas of Gaza and surrounding areas. There is fighting in the areas of Sheikh al-Radwan , At-Tuffa and Ad-Daraj . According to the Palestinians, they managed to hit several armored vehicles.
In addition, in the Sheikh Ajlin area , from where there was no news for quite a long time, according to Palestinian sources, they managed to conduct a successful ambush on several supply transports.
Center of the Gaza Strip
The main events, as before, unfold in the central part of the enclave. The IDF is carrying out multiple strikes on Al-Breij and other populated areas using aircraft and artillery. Palestinian militias also report fighting east and north of the refugee camp.
The IDF press service published footage from a forward base in the west of the city near the Abu Halo school , where several Palestinians were detained. This confirms a deep wedge into the territory of the enclave, at least up to the Salah ad-Din highway .
South Gaza Strip
In the south there is fighting in Khan Yunis and Bani Suheil. The Palestinians reported several successful ambushes and destroyed armored vehicles. There is no evidence of IDF advance; strikes and shelling are taking place in the same areas as a few days ago.
Border with Lebanon
The exchange of blows between the IDF and Hezbollah continues on the Lebanese border. The Lebanese, as before, are launching anti-tank systems at border points and military bases and also launching UAVs. The Israelis respond with massive shelling of the surrounding areas and the populated areas themselves. In the village of Kafr Qila in southern Lebanon, one local resident was injured by an Israeli airstrike.
West Bank
In the Beit Hagai area , another car terrorist attack occurred with a hit on Israeli soldiers. The attacker has been eliminated. A similar terrorist attack occurred at a checkpoint at the entrance to the Al-Fawwar refugee camp . At the same time, 14 Palestinians were arrested today in the West Bank , bringing the number of people detained since October 7 to 4,860. At the same time, compared to the previous day, most of the day in the autonomy was relatively calm.
Aggravation in the Middle East
Last night, the US Air Force attacked a convoy of trucks near the border crossing near the village of Al-Bukamal . According to some reports, members of the IRGC and the Syrian branch of Hezbollah were killed.
During the day, the IDF air force attacked Aleppo airport and nearby buildings. At night, pro-Iranian formations attacked the US Harir base in Iraq with kamikaze drones, and in Syria , bases at the Conoco plant and in the Green Village oil workers’ village .
Additionally, there are reports of a security incident 55 nautical miles from Houthi-controlled Hodeidah . However, whether this is really an attack by the Houthis or the activity of Somali pirates is not yet known.
Political-diplomatic background
On arms supplies to Israel
The US State Department has approved a deal to sell M107 high-caliber sniper rifles and related equipment to Israel for $147.5 million, saying there is an urgent need to immediately sell the weapons to Israel.
On the consequences of the actions of the Yemeni Houthis in the Red Sea
The Egyptian channel Al-Qahira Al-Ikhbariya published satellite images of the port of Eilat , which shows the absence of unloading ships. However, Israel is not the only one suffering financial losses due to the actions of the Houthis. Jordan faces similar problems , and Egypt loses money for transit through the Suez Canal.
On Netanyahu's new hawkish statements
The Israeli Prime Minister said that Israel has achieved great victories and suffered great costs. Victory will take longer, and the fighting will last months. The politician said that he was facing international pressure, but would continue to “achieve the goal.” Despite this, the IDF will deepen operations in the south and center of the Gaza Strip.
Israel's goals, according to Netanyahu, are to restore security on the northern and southern fronts and return residents to their homes. Formally, this can be considered an announcement of an operation on the border with Lebanon in some time. Netanyahu said that if Hezbollah expands the war, it will receive blows that it “cannot imagine.”
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Death Toll from Gaza Genocide Exceeds 29,000: Euro-Med Monitor
Israeli soldiers target civilians during the assault on Al-Fawwar camp, Dec. 29, 2023. | Photo: X/ @agence_wafa
Published 29 December 2023
The catastrophe in the Palestinian territory is accompanied by the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure.
From October 7 to December 27, Israeli occupation forces have murdered 29,124 Palestinians, of whom 11,422 were children, and 5,822 were women. Israeli soldiers also injured 56,122 people and murdered 101 journalists.
The figures on the genocide in Gaza were collected by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), a Switzerland-based independent NGO.
The catastrophe in this Palestinian territory is also accompanied by multimillion-dollar damages caused by the destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, and other infrastructure.
"At least 65,600 housing units have been completely destroyed by the ongoing Israeli attacks, while 177,200 others have been partially damaged," Euro-Med pointed out.
"Another 305 schools,1,541 industrial facilities and 135 health facilities, including 23 hospitals, 56 clinics, 55 ambulances were targeted."
"Israel has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure in Gaza in order to cause as many casualties, material losses, and destruction as possible as a form of retaliation and collective punishment," the humanitarian organization added.
The figures, however, are likely to increase until 2023's last day. Only between Dec. 28 and 29, in less than 24 hours, the Zionist army killed 190 Palestinians, the majority of whom were women, children, and the elderly. Palestinian authorities also counted 312 people injured.
On Friday morning, Israeli occupation forces attacked various areas of Gaza by land, sea, and air, indiscriminately destroying civilian homes.
The Israeli army continues to bomb large areas of the governorate of Jan Yunis on Friday, the WAFA news agency reported. Dozens of people died from airstrikes in the city of Rafah, where a significant portion of the 1.9 million Gazan internally displaced people are concentrated.
Thousands of Palestinians have arrived in Rafah in recent days, following the escalation of Israeli attacks in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah in the southern territory.
Rafah has now become the most populated area in Gaza, with over 12,000 inhabitants per square kilometer, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Meanwhile, Israel acknowledged that its forces are deepening their advance in Khan Younis and are operating for the first time in the Khuza'a area on the eastern outskirts of the city. Zionist troops have also been harassing residents of the Deir al-Balah governorate.
Over the last 24 hours, 14 people also died in attacks on the Al Maghazi refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, where Israeli occupation forces used helicopters to strafe citizens' homes.
According to estimates by UN agencies, in this area there are about 90,000 people and about 61,000 Palestinians who were displaced from northern Gaza.
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Here we see the true meaning of the title of a popular Hollywood movie from the 60s, "How The West Was Won".
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US approves arms sales to Israel without legislative authorization
The package includes ancillary items, including fuses, charges and primers that Israel would need to operate the 155mm projectiles it had previously purchased. | Photo: WAFA
Published December 30, 2023
For the second time in a month, the United States approves ammunition for Israel while calling for an end to mass civilian deaths.
The Government of the United States (US) approved for the second time in December a million-dollar sale of weapons to Israel without having the approval of Congress.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Congress that he had made a second emergency determination in less than a month, covering a $147.5 million sale of equipment to Israel.
“Given the urgency of Israel's defensive needs, the secretary notified Congress that he had exercised his delegated authority to determine that an emergency existed, which required immediate approval of the transfer,” the US State Department said.
The sale comes as Israel intensifies its offensive in the Gaza Strip. The United States is pressing Israel to minimize the number of civilian casualties in Gaza and calling on it to reduce the intensity of the war in the coming weeks.
The Pentagon said Israel requested that fuzes, primers and charges be included in a previous order for 155mm projectiles. The total value of the sale is estimated at 147.5 million dollars.
It is the second time this month that the Biden administration skipped congressional review of an arms sale to Israel. On December 9, the administration used emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to the country.
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Zionist slaughter of Palestinians will only hasten the demise of Israel
With 22,000 murdered and 52,000 wounded so far, the mass murder of civilians in Gaza has achieved nothing except the further weakening of the genocidaires.
Harpal Brar
Friday 29 December 2023
While Israel’s air force has been extremely effective at destroying people, homes, hospitals and infrastructure in Gaza, the zionists have signally failed to suppress the spirit of liberation in the hearts of Palestinians. Quite the reverse, zionism has never looked so precarious or Palestinian resistance so determined.
Israel has been waging a barbaric genocidal war against the people of Palestine, aimed at ethnically cleansing the Gaza Strip of its entire population. At the time of writing (27 December 2023), nearly 22,000 Palestinians have been slaughtered and another 52,000 wounded in the zionists’ indiscriminate non-stop bombing of Gaza’s civilian population.
Of those killed, 70 percent were women and children. No distinction is made between civilians and combatants, with every civilian, presumably children as well, being targeted. High-ranking Israeli politicians, army officers and officials have openly stated that there are “no Palestinian civilians”.
If the Israeli ‘Defence’ Force (IDF) ‘suspects’ that one combatant is in a building and there are hundreds of civilians there too, the whole building is bombed, killing everyone. Quite correctly, Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham has described the entire Gaza Strip as a mass assassination factory.
The number of Palestinians murdered so far accounts for a massive one percent of its prewar population of 2.3 million people. Translated into US terms, such a percentage of deaths would amount to 3 million – larger than the entire population of some US states.
Almost 100 percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced and its infrastructure destroyed. Israeli occupation forces, through their Nazi-style blitzkrieg, have been busy destroying every means of the barest existence, let alone of any semblance of a civilised life. Residents of northern Gaza were told by Israel to move to the ‘safety’ of the south, while the Israeli airforce got busy destroying everything in the north. Large numbers of those who followed this instruction were bombed on their way south; even ambulances were not spared.
Hospitals, school, businesses, mosques, churches, bakeries, United Nations buildings, housing complexes and cultural centres have all been obliterated through merciless bombing. This war against Palestine is characterised by the greatest number of medical personnel slaughtered, the greatest number of UN employees killed, and the greatest number of journalists assassinated – all of whom have been deliberately targeted by the rabid zionist war machine.
The bombing campaign has been accompanied by a propaganda blitzkrieg that describes Palestinians as “human animals”, “cockroaches” and “subhumans” who deserve to be “eradicated”, even “nuked”. So far, the zionist air force has dropped 30,000 bombs – more than the US and British air forces between them dropped on the German cities of Dresden and Hamburg during the second world war.
More than 40 percent of these bombs have been 2,000lb and 1,000lb dumb bombs – that is, without any precision system, causing destruction beyond imagination. Sixty-eight percent of the buildings in northern Gaza have been flattened, and their surviving residents thrown out to eke out an existence wherever they can find a space.
Having devastated northern Gaza, the Israeli air force is presently subjecting southern Gaza to similar treatment. Gaza, especially its southern part, is the most densely populated place on the planet. While the pretext for this intensive bombardment is ‘the elimination of Hamas’, the truth is that this genocidal campaign, involving the commission of war crimes on an industrial scale, is aimed at eliminating the entire Palestinian population through death, destruction and expulsion.
But the zionists will no more achieve this aim than did the Nazis in their campaign to eliminate the jewish people from the face of the earth.
War on the West Bank
While the world’s attention is focused on the zionist blitzkrieg in Gaza, Israel’s armed forces and settlers are busy terrorising and murdering the Palestinians who live in the Bantustans of the West Bank.
Daily raids on Palestinian towns and villages are taking place at an escalating rate, with soldiers and settlers routinely breaking into Palestinian homes in the middle of the night and terrorising women and children.
There is not even the pretext of the presence of ‘Hamas’, which has become a euphemism for the combined forces of the resistance against the 75-year long occupation, in which Hamas doubtless does play a prominent role.
Only a few days ago, the Israeli army of occupation destroyed a major cultural centre in the West Bank. It raided the famous Freedom Theatre in Jenin, killing 12 people, destroying all the theatre’s equipment and stealing its computers. Quite rightly, deputy chief of the theatre Ahmad Tobasi stated that the raiders should be called thieves and not soldiers.
The occupation forces are trying to eliminate all the cultural symbols and heritage of Palestine – even waving a Palestinian flag has been criminalised!
Who are the terrorists?
Labelling Hamas as a ‘terrorist organisation’ will not save zionism and its imperialist backers from an ignominious defeat, which is as certain as the sun rising in the east.
During the anticolonial struggle of the American revolutionaries against the British, did not the latter condemn the American revolutionaries as terrorists? Were not George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and their comrades given a similarly flattering characterisation? That, however, did not save British colonialism from doom.
Likewise, did the USA not condemn the liberation fighters in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan, among a host of others, as terrorists? None of that helped stop the victory of the liberation forces against the occupation armies of US imperialism and its satellites.
There can be scarcely any doubt that a similar fate awaits the zionist army of occupation in Palestine.
The zionists have cut off electricity and water supplies to Gaza, and very little in the way of medicines and food is being allowed in by the occupation forces. The purpose of this criminal and barbaric collective punishment is to force those who survive the bombing to succumb to starvation and disease – a practice from which even the Hitlerites could have learnt a thing or two.
The zionists are attempting to do the same to the Palestinians as the Nazis did to European jews – only their method is different from that of the Nazis. Whereas the Nazis used gas chambers, the zionists resort to wholesale and indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations. But in the end, the zionists will be no more successful in their attempt at imposing a ‘final solution’ on the ‘Palestinian problem’ that were the Nazis in their ‘final solution’ to the ‘jewish problem’.
The state of Israel is a colonial state founded on the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their land and homes, but it came into being late in the day, when colonialism was already breathing its last. It will go the same way as every other colonial state.
Israeli attempts at genocide and ethnic cleansing are serving only to hasten the arrival of that day.
Israel loses all sympathy
The Israeli wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people seen daily on social media has turned most of humanity against the zionist monstrosity that is Israel, which has decidedly lost the battle for the hearts and minds of the people of the world.
Even imperialist mainstream media have been compelled occasionally to let people have a glimpse of the reality in occupied Palestine.
There have been massive protests in support of the Palestinian liberation struggle across the world, including in the centres of imperialism, where many are outraged at the obvious complicity of their governments in Israel’s war crimes.
Hundreds of thousands of people have attended these protests – in London, Paris, Berlin and many other cities across Europe, as well as in the United States, the biggest and most important backer of Israel.
IDF kills Israeli hostages
Notwithstanding its bombast and fascistic intent, Israel will not be able to eliminate the resistance to its occupation. Its soldiers and reservists, being occupiers bereft of a just cause, are unable to match the determination and courage of the Palestinian fighters, who are fighting a just war of liberation, and for whom this is an existential struggle.
Not surprisingly, then, since the eruption of the latest fighting, over half a million Israelis with dual citizenship have fled the country. Israeli soldiers are frightened of their own shadows and in panic shoot randomly in all directions.
On 15 December in Shejaiya, IDF soldiers killed three Israelis who had somehow managed to escape from detention in Gaza, allegedly ‘mistaking’ them for resistance fighters – although they spoke Hebrew and were seeking to surrender, shirtless to show they were unarmed and waving a white flag.
Following this act of cowardice, the Israeli military issued a statement expressing its “deep remorse over the tragic incident and sends its heartfelt condolences”.
In fact, the incident revealed the shoot to kill policy of the Israeli army. Anything that moves is clearly fair game, according to their own ‘rules of engagement’, in which soldiers shoot first and ask questions later.
The Israeli prime minister Netanyahu called the killing of the three Israeli men “an unbearable tragedy”, exposing the deep inhumanity and supremacy at the heart of zionism. For while the killing of three jewish persons is characterised as “an unbearable tragedy”, for which deep remorse must be expressed, the killing of 22,000 Palestinians evokes no such remorse and is not treated as tragedy.
Blinded by their dead-end racist ideology, the Israeli ruling class regards jews as the chosen people while reserving utter contempt for Palestinians. Moreover, while oppressing Palestinians in the most brutal way, it cultivates the aura of victimhood based on WW2 mythology – even though nowhere in the world are jews an oppressed people today!
For the zionists, there is only one holocaust – namely the murder of six million jews by Nazi Germany. The dozens of other colonial and imperialist holocausts, including the wiping out of the indigenous populations of north America, Canada, Latin America and Australia, do not come under this category, let alone their own holocaust of Palestinians.
The zionist ideology effectively blinds its followers to the suffering of other people, reserving its humanity for one group of people only. Thus Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant has vowed that “Israel would remain resilient and continue operating – for the hostages, for our citizens and for our soldiers.”
Imperialists backing genocide
It is not Israeli resilience that keeps the murder machine going, however; it is the backing the zionists are receiving from imperialist countries – especially from the USA.
The USA is not merely green-lighting the Israeli genocide in Gaza; it is actually facilitating it with military, economic and diplomatic support. Planeloads of military materiel – bombs and shells in particular – are being delivered every day by the USA to the Israeli armed forces. As Max Blumenthal of Grayzone has pointed out, the USA could stop the slaughter in Gaza within one hour if it wanted to do so.
All the administration of President Joe Biden has to do is to make a telephone call to the Israeli prime minister to the effect that there will be no more spare parts for F16 fighter planes, no more F35s, and no more military, economic or diplomatic support for Israel’s genocide.
Instead, the US government says to the Israelis: “Please be careful.” Bypassing Congress, the US government has sent millions of dollars’ worth of military equipment to the zionist murder machine on the pretext of ‘responding to an acute emergency that threatens the interests of US national security’.
Moreover, the USA has used its veto in the UN security council to thwart a resolution calling for a ceasefire. A similar resolution was brought to the general assembly, where it passed with 153 countries voting in favour. While there were just over two dozen abstentions, only the USA, Israel and half a dozen countries in thrall to the USA voted against.
While general assembly resolutions are non-binding, this vote revealed the total isolation of the USA in the court of world opinion. It also made very clear to the world that the Israeli genocide could not continue even for a day without the active support of the USA.
Even in the midst of the carnage in Gaza, top US officials such as national security advisor Jake Sullivan and secretary of state Antony Blinken keep repeating the sickening formula that “Israel has a right, indeed a duty, to defend itself against Hamas”, stressing the USA’s continuing commitment to supporting the country, no matter what.
Israel has no right to attack in the name of ‘self-defence’
As a matter of fact, however, as an occupying power, Israel has no right to defend itself against the people whom it is occupying. On the other hand, being occupied and oppressed, the Palestinians have every right to resist by any means – including by armed resistance.
Leaving aside for a moment the present fighting, ever since its founding in 1948, Israel has practised genocide and ethnic cleansing. At present, there are 7.3 million Palestinians and 7.3 million jews living in historic Palestine, where Israel has firmly established a jewish supremacist apartheid state in which Palestinians are denied even a modicum of rights, and where institutionalised discrimination is practiced against them through controls on their every movement and activity.
Even such western NGOs as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have documented in their reports the state of apartheid in Palestine. But none of this inconvenient information prevents the thoroughly immoral and corrupt imperialist spokespersons and media from describing the fascist Israeli state as the “only democracy in the middle east”.
Anyone who disagrees with this false narrative is either ignored or ostracised as an antisemite. But this overused weapon is increasingly being seen for what it is: namely, a means of silencing opposition to zionism.
More and more people all over the world, including in Europe and the USA at last, have come to see through this hypocritical cant and to show support in very large numbers for the national-liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. Moreover, an increasing number of jewish people in the USA and some European countries are condemning Israeli genocide and standing up for the Palestinian people.
This development has started to ring alarm bells in the camp of imperialism, where governments are busy attempting to suppress all dissent by any means available. A recent Harvard-Harris poll found that, among the younger generation of Americans aged 18-24, there was wide support for Palestine; 51 percent of whom believed that Hamas was justified in its assault of 7 October against Israel.
Imperialist attempts to silence those denouncing genocide
In Britain, the government is trying every trick to suppress opposition to the government’s pro-zionist stance. In the middle of a huge demonstration in support of Palestine on 25 November, the London Metropolitan police arrested four comrades from the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) for selling a pamphlet exposing zionism’s reactionary, racist and antisemitic ideology.
If the idea behind this persecution was to suppress our pamphlet, the police and their masters in the Home Office have ended up lifting a rock only to drop it on their own feet. Following the publicity around our comrades’ arrests, sales have increased exponentially.
It is a sign of the authorities’ weakness, not strength, that the sale of a pamphlet telling the truth about this history of zionism should make them resort to arrests. Nevertheless, the suppression of free speech is a sign of the sharpening of class struggle in Britain, and the class-conscious proletariat should accept the challenge and rise to the occasion.
Looking forward
Even before the genocide in Gaza has subsided, the imperialists are hatching plots against the rising Palestinian revolution, saying that the stooges of the Palestinian Authority should take responsibility for running Gaza and that a two-state solution must be implemented – the very thing they have worked hard for three decades to prevent from emerging in practice.
As to who should run Gaza, or for that matter the West Bank, this can only be decided by the Palestinian people themselves. The Palestinian Authority, thoroughly discredited for collaborating with the occupation, will certainly not be acceptable to the people.
The people of Palestine have every right to choose their own government in a fair and transparent election, and not to have a government imposed on them by imperialism through its stooges and collaborators.
As for the two-state solution, it has been rendered impossible through jewish settlements in the West Bank. There remains only one solution: namely, a single state in which Palestinians of all religions – muslims, christians and jews – enjoy equal rights.
Victory to the Palestinian resistance!
Death to zionism!
Death to imperialism!
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Joint Statement Issued by Palestinian Resistance Organizations
Posted by INTERNATIONALIST 360° on DECEMBER 30, 2023
Joint statement issued by Palestinian resistance organizations…Joint statement issued by Islamic Jihad in Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and Islamic Resistance Movement-Hamas
The leaders of the Palestinian Resistance factions held a consultative meeting in Beirut, where they discussed the events of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle amid ongoing Zionist aggression against our land, our people, and our holy sites, especially in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Al-Quds. The meeting concluded with the following results:
First: With all pride and honor, attendees praised the heroic steadfastness of our people in the occupied lands, especially the legendary steadfastness of our people in the Gaza Strip, where our children, women and all our people, bare-chested, face the brutal acts of the Israeli enemy, which targeted shelters for the displaced, homes, mosques, churches, schools, hospitals and infrastructure facilities in general, as part of the implementation of a genocidal and scorched earth policy against our firm people, that firmly frustrated the project of massive displacement towards the Arab neighbors, to empty the firm Strip of its residents and annex it to the state of occupation and mass murder.
This plan aims very clearly to end the Palestinian national cause and liquidate the legitimate national rights of our people, by determining fate, establish the independent Palestinian State with Al-Quds as its capital and guarantee the right of return of refugees from our people to their homes and properties, according to Resolution 194, in contrast to the annexation of territories occupied in the 1967 war of aggression and the establishment of « Greater Israel » at the expense of our national project, the identity of our people and their right to sovereignty over their land and the establishment of their independent state with Al-Quds as their capital.
Second: Attendees highlighted the heroic actions of the valiant Resistance in the occupied Palestinian lands in general, and in the Gaza Strip in particular. They praised his ability to thwart the enemy’s objectives, demonstrating his incompetence and the fragility of his forces on the field.
They also praised the unity of struggle of all the military wings of the Resistance factions, manifested on the ground in creativity, smart tactics and actions that exceeded expectations in an extension of the strategic battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood, which it did on October 7, 2023, a historical turning point that has shaken the international situation.
This reaffirms that the Palestinian cause remains and will continue to be the central issue at the regional level, and that the decrease in interest was not due to a decrease in status on the political map of the region, but rather to an expression of the decline in the role of official leadership, who based his calculations on betting on the US project of « two-state solution », and the project of « understanding » with the Zionist occupation « Oslo Accords ».
In this context, attendees affirm their determination to continue resistance on the ground and in other forums, until the brutal war against our people ceases and the aggression from the Strip is rejected.
Third: The attendees affirmed that the combative tasks and direct and immediate struggles to be achieved are the following:
Immediate cessation of the war of genocide, scorched earth and ethnic cleansing by the Israeli enemy in the Gaza Strip.
Break the siege of the Strip, begin to supply our people with all the necessities of life and, simultaneously, rebuild infrastructures, institutions and facilities. This includes providing the necessary supplies to reactivate and support the medical system, which is collapsing under the barbaric acts of Israeli aggression, and transfer cases of serious injuries from the Strip to treatment abroad, in sister countries and friends.
Arab, Islamic and international commitment to reconstruction, and request brother and friend countries, and international and regional organizations, including the Arab League, the Islamic Cooperation Organization and the United Nations, to launch an international initiative to rebuild what the occupation and barbaric aggression have destroyed in the Gaza Strip, and work seriously to bring the arteries of the Strip back to life, to provide the necessary foundations to improve the firmness of our people and their adherence to their land, as a minimal reward for the legendary sacrifices that amazed the entire world.
Fourth: Attendees underscored their condemnation and rejection of the scenarios of Western and Israeli circles for the so-called « day after » in Gaza. They confirmed that such rejected scenarios, both in detail and in general, are nothing more than a bet on the failed attempt to break the firmness of our people and our courageous resistance; they are mere chimeras that will not come true now or in the future, especially after signs of the enemy’s defeat began to appear, in their explicit recognition of their deaths and injuries at the hands of our resistance, and in their forced withdrawal of troops, a more significant part of their forces, after the misfortune he suffered in the field at the hands of our heroic resistance fighters in the field.
Attendees affirm that our national movement and our brave Resistance have a heritage of struggle, intellectual and political that qualifies it to reject all projects and scenarios presented as a « solution » to the cause of Gaza, since there is no separate cause for the Strip, another for the West Bank and another for Al-Quds.
The Palestinian cause is the cause of all of Palestine: land, people, rights, the future and destiny. The solution to the cause can only be achieved through the end of the occupation and all forms of settlement, paving the way for our people to determine their national destiny in their land.
Fifth: The attendees agreed on the need to confront the consequences of the barbarian war on our people with a unified strategic and combative struggle, reintroducing our cause as a cause of national liberation for a people under occupation. In this context, they propose the following suggestions to all parties of the Palestinian national movement and its components:
Call a comprehensive national meeting that includes all parties without exception, to implement what was agreed in previous Palestinian dialogues and to face the consequences of the brutal war against our people in the Gaza Strip and the barbaric attacks by the settler gangs and the occupation forces, and settlement and annexation projects in the West Bank, especially in Al-Quds.
Reject all solutions and scenarios for the so-called « future of the Gaza Strip » and present a Palestinian national solution based on the formation of a government of national unity emerging from a comprehensive national consensus that includes all parties, responsible for unifying national institutions on occupied land in the West Bank and the Strip, assuming responsibility for adopting projects aimed at rebuilding what the barbaric invasion destroyed in the Strip, restoring life to our people there and preparing for the elections.
Full emphasis on the need for a ceasefire and the permanent cessation of all acts of aggression, and the complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, as a condition to discuss the exchange of prisoners based on the principle of « all for all », emptying prisons and stopping arrests against our people in the occupied lands.
Develop and improve the Palestinian political system on democratic bases, through general elections (presidential, legislative and national council), according to a system of full proportional representation, in free elections, fair, transparent. and democratic, with the participation of all, thus rebuilding internal relations on the bases and principles of the national coalition and the genuine national association.
Attendees salute the martyrs of our people in the occupied lands, especially our people in the Gaza Strip, they want a speedy recovery for the wounded and salute those who remain firm despite the harshness and brutality of the aggression in the Gaza Strip. They extend a greeting of struggle and admiration to the States and forces of the Resistance in our nation (Arabic and Islamic) for their role in supporting our people and our resistance.
They also salute our Arab peoples and the free peoples of the world who took to their streets and capitals to condemn Zionist terrorism and to support the right of our people to defend themselves themselves, their land and their dignity. They call for more political, media and financial support, establishing a global front against Israeli terrorism and aggression and Atlantic barbarism, led by the United States, the number one enemy of the peoples of the world who aspire to freedom, independence, prosperity and a decent life.
Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command Islamic Resistance Movement-Hamas
Beirut,
December 28, 2023
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Hamas denies reports of ceasefire talks in Cairo: Report
The Palestinian resistance has stressed that there will be no negotiations or prisoner exchange without the complete cessation of the Israeli aggression on Gaza
News Desk
DEC 29, 2023
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Hamas has denied the arrival of a delegation from its leadership to Cairo to hand over a response regarding Egypt’s ceasefire proposal, Al-Mayadeen reported on 29 December.
“No Hamas delegation is in Egypt now," Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mardawi told the news organization, stressing that "there are no official dates in Egypt for a Hamas delegation [this] moment."
Mardawi added that “the position of Hamas is clear and decisive that there is no negotiation or exchange without stopping the aggression,” stressing that the objectives of the Israeli aggression on Gaza "are broken so that it has nothing but defeat."
Hamas has yet to issue an official statement regarding the matter.
In an audio message released on 28 December, the military spokesman for Hamas' Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida, reiterated that “there are no exchange deals or other proposals that we can accept before the aggression against our people is completely stopped.”
That same day, five Palestinian resistance factions — Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (General Command) — met in Beirut to discuss the developments of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. The factions “stressed the necessity of a final ceasefire and all acts of Zionist aggression, and the withdrawal of the occupation forces from the Gaza Strip as a condition before carrying out a prisoner exchange and on the basis of all for all.”
Media outlets began reporting news of a high-level delegation from Hamas’ political bureau set to arrive in Cairo on Friday.
The head of the Egyptian General Information Authority, Diaa Rashwan, put out the proposal framework on Thursday, describing it as an attempt “to bring viewpoints between all concerned parties closer, in an effort to stop Palestinian bloodshed and the aggression against the Gaza Strip and restore peace and stability to the region."
Agence France-Presse quoted a Hamas official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, as saying that “a high-level delegation from the Hamas political office will visit Cairo tomorrow to meet Egyptian officials and give the response of the Palestinian factions, including several observations, to their plan.”
The Egyptian proposal includes a three-step plan and specifies extendable truces and the measured release of dozens of captives held by Hamas in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Egypt’s proposal also seeks for the parties to commit to a ceasefire “for 48 hours before implementing the proposal so that both sides may agree on the names of those released in the first and second phases, whether from Israel or Hamas.”
The proposal also says that Egypt, Qatar, and the US are responsible for the coordination of the formation of a technocratic government that will manage the Gaza Strip and West Bank once a complete ceasefire is announced.
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