#Gaza

[xtruss]

“The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Illegally Occupier of Palestine and The Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 Isra-hell” has seized Gaza's Rafah border crossing after storming Rafah overnight, despite Hamas announcing it had accepted an Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal to halt Israel's seven-month war on Gaza. Here's the deal Tel Aviv rejected due to it "falling short" of “The Terrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, War Criminal, Liar, Conspirator, Illegally Occupier of Palestine and The Illegal Regime of the Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗 demands.

[sayruq]

Joe Biden has called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, telling Benjamin Netanyahu that future US support for Israel will depend on it taking concrete action to protect civilians and aid workers. As the two leaders held their first phone call since Israeli airstrikes killed seven employees of the international food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK), Biden issued the strongest US rebuke toward Israel since the start of the conflict. In Thursday’s call, which lasted less than 30 minutes, the US president “made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers”, the White House said in a statement.

[rotzaprachim]

yeah I’m never going to forgive any of the protestors for not choosing this moment to march on Washington with a massive CEASEFIRE NOW movement

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[lemedstudent2021]

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[workersolidarity]

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ISRAELI POLICE ASSAULT DEMONSTRATORS

📹 Footage from demonstrations against Israeli occupation Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, where Israeli police get violent with protesters in Haifa, in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇵🇸🔻🇮🇱 Israeli truce proposal includes possibility of ‘restoration of sustainable calm’ in Gaza: Report

🔸 Source: Al Jazeera

[soon-palestine]

[girlactionfigure]

FINANCE MINISTER SMOTRICH INFORMS PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: A DEAL UNDER THE CURRENT CONDITIONS - THE END OF THE GOVERNMENT.

"Mr. Prime Minister,

Egyptian mediation deals that ended previous "rounds" when Hamas was alive and kicking and allowed it to strengthen again and again and massacre Israeli citizens like it has not happened since the Holocaust, this is exactly what you have led in the last two decades, and it is exactly, but exactly what we all promised not to do again this time.

Agreeing to the Egyptian deal is a humiliating surrender, and it grants victory to the Nazis on the backs of the hundreds of heroic IDF soldiers who fell in battle, it imposes a death sentence on the abductees who are not included in the deal, and above all - it poses an immediate existential danger to the State of Israel.

If you decide to raise a white flag and cancel the order to occupy Rafah immediately for the purpose of completing the task of destroying Hamas, and restoring security to the residents of the south and the citizens of Israel, and returning ALL our abducted brothers and sisters to their homes - the government headed by you will have no right to exist.

This is a fateful moment for the people of Israel. The decision is yours.

שאב כוח וגבורה מיציאת מצרים ומההיסטוריה היהודית. ממשה רבנו ומנחשון בן עמינדב שהלילה, כן הלילה לפני 3,336 שנה עמדו על הים, התגברו על חולשות של חלקים מהעם וקבעו את ההיסטוריה של העם היהודי.

‏דבר אל בני ישראל ויסעו לרפיח עכשיו, בכל הכח. ומי יודע אם לעת כזאת הגעת למלכות."

[sayruq]

This is Hamas' response to the proposal the Israeli occupation government sent them

In other words, Hamas made a counter offer the other Resistance factions are happy with. The terms that must be met before a prisoner exchange are:

Permanent ceasefire

the complete withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza

Lifting the blockade and allowing aid to enter the strip

Reconstruction of Gaza

The Palestinian resistance has the upper hand. Remember the last time Hamas sent a proposal in November that included a pause in the fighting, Israel immediately dismissed it before crawling back and accepting. This time they are willing to consider it from the start. In fact Netanyahu has gone from saying the war will last a year to just months

I trust that all the conditions for the prisoner exchange will be met.

[agentfascinateur]

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The deal was offered from Day 1 but Israelis turned it down, preferring war.

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by Seth Mandel

And here’s the try-not-to-laugh payoff, beginning a full 20 paragraphs into the story:

For months, Israel said it would agree to a cease-fire only if its soldiers could screen the returning Palestinians for weapons as they moved from southern to northern Gaza. Then, in its May proposal, Israel softened that demand. While its position paper still stated that the returnees should not be “carrying arms while returning,” it removed the explicit requirement that Israeli forces screen them for weapons. That made the policy seem more symbolic than enforceable, prompting Hamas to agree to it. Israel’s July letter revived the question of enforcement, stating that the screening of people returning to the north would need to be “implemented in an agreed upon manner.”

So Netanyahu’s “demand” was that returnees be checked for weapons by some mutually agreed-upon process, with Hamas’s full consent.

Frankly I am surprised Netanyahu is being that flexible about checking returnees. The only reason Hamas would oppose including an even symbolic method of ensuring that returnees cannot be armed is that members of Hamas will be “returning” to northern Gaza along with the residents. That’s it—that’s the only reason. Hamas doesn’t want arms it cannot control in the hands of Palestinians who do not answer to it. Bibi’s demand is that Hamas at least agree on paper to an actual ceasefire, knowing full well that in any deal there would be holes a Hamasnik can drive a jeep through.

Speaking of which. Another sticking point in the negotiations appears to be whether Israel will abdicate its stewardship of a tunnel system Hamasniks have been driving jeeps through. In May, the Times writes, Israel “had suggested” it would withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor. Yet now, Netanyahu wants to keep IDF troops in the vicinity of this piece of the Gaza-Egypt border. What gives?

Well, a lot can happen in three months. Since that May proposal, Israel has discovered—and made public its discovery, which is key—of two dozen smuggling tunnels running under that part of the border with Egypt. The IDF even released a photo of a military truck driving through one. These tunnels are for moving weapons, terrorists, and supplies from Egypt to Gaza. They are quite literally Hamas’s lifelines.

The discovery of these tunnels was not necessarily surprising, but they do represent a black eye for Egypt, which has now been revealed to have been keeping Hamas alive and enabling it to keep the region at war. Now that the public is aware of the Egypt-Hamas collusion along the border, to whom should Israel hand off control of that crossing? Egypt? Hamas? It sounds like a rhetorical question.

[phaon1]

Documentary by Al Jazeeras Fault Lines. Investigating the killings of civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war.

[documenting-apartheid]

JUNE 24 2024- "An Israeli source with knowledge of the negotiations with Hamas tells Channel 12 that Netanyahu’s comments yesterday on backing only a “partial” deal “caused damage that will be very difficult to fix and at terrible timing — when all pressure was directed at [Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya] Sinwar."

“His statement was actual sabotage. It’s difficult to see how we can reach a deal in the near future. It’s ‘game over’ for a deal,” the source said, adding: “He’s giving up on releasing the abducted soldiers and on the chance to try to first bring home the women, female soldiers, and the elderly.”