Israel signals rejection of ceasefire proposal accepted by Hamas

from PressTV

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire proposal in Gaza, where it has fought a seven-month Israeli aggression that has left tens of thousands dead. 

A short statement from Hamas on Monday said that head of the group’s politburo Ismail Haniyeh had informed Qatari and Egyptian mediators that it accepted their proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.

If the ceasefire agreement takes effect, it would be the first truce since a week-long pause in the fighting in November 2023.

However, an unnamed Israeli official indicated that the ceasefire proposal is a "softened" version of an earlier Egyptian proposal, which included "far-reaching" conclusions that are not acceptable to Israel.

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Hamas says it has agreed to ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar

from CNN

Hamas says it has accepted a ceasefire deal proposed by Egypt and Qatar which seeks to halt the seven-month war with Israel in Gaza.

In a statement Monday, Hamas said the head of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, told the Qatari prime minister and Egyptian intelligence minister that the militant group had accepted their proposal.

The Israeli government is now reviewing the Hamas response, CNN has learned. The Israeli prime minister’s office has declined to comment at this stage.

It’s unclear whether Hamas has agreed to the most recent ceasefire proposal, as outlined last week, or a revised version of it.

The most recent framework, which Israel helped craft but has not fully agreed to, calls for the release of between 20 and 33 hostages over several weeks in exchange for a temporary ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners.

After the initial exchange, according to that framework, there would follow what sources describe as the “restoration of sustainable calm” during which the remaining hostages, captive Israeli soldiers and the bodies of hostages would be exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners.

A diplomatic source familiar with the talks told CNN that after a day-long meeting in Doha, Qatar’s capital, between CIA Director William Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, mediators convinced Hamas to accept a three-part deal.

“The bill is now firmly in (Israeli Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu’s court,” the source said...

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Norman Finkelstein on debating clueless streamers on Israel Palestine

 

Protests for Palestinians in Gaza Are Authentic, Not Violent or Orchestrated Like 2020 BLM Psyop (AuntBB)

 from AuntBB

CORRECTION: This was the 5th event I've attended in solidarity w/Gaza, not the 4th, as I said in the video. I looked into the local group organizing events in support of Palestinians in Gaza, so I know about its connection to student organizations in Canada which are connected to the USA. But I can vouch that people from a broad spectrum of backgrounds take part. They include old-school pacifist Mennonites, like those who protested & were arrested in Washington DC earlier this year. There were 4 older Mennonite ladies at today's rally, standing in pairs & holding signs similar to the video thumbnail. Zionist regime-change propagandists on social media are desperate in trying to discredit the protests & college campus encampments as "commie" & orchestrated, like the violent 2020 Black Lives Matter "color revolution" psyop was. Decent people in communities & on campuses are simply saying, "Enough is enough!"

So Exactly Who Has Been 'Radicalized' Here?

by Scott Creighton

 Here is yet another example of a Jewish person making up lies about being harassed in order to try to get anti-war demonstrations shut down. Watch this young woman lie to cops on the phone in hopes she might get some of these young people arrested, ruin their lives, get them kicked out of school... all so that more genocide can be committed, in the dark, in Gaza.

Tell me again who's been radicalized? 

We have Eric Adams making up a story about a grandmother from Tampa and some young Jewish girl pretending to have been blinded by a Palestinian flag. One after another these fucking liars do their best to try to aid and abet a foreign power in its pursuit of and illegal land grab and genocide. They don't care who they hurt. They don't care that their own actions are making people distrust other Jewish people. All they want is to cause harm to somebody so the IDF can harm someone else.

It's fucking insane.

Fox News' Zionist Propaganda Continues

by Scott Creighton

"Pro-Israel" Columbia student on a FOX NEWS panel says political speech she dislikes "is not actual Free Speech," and that her speech has been "silenced" because she's "scared." Another student complains about "Token Jews" supporting protesters, who he calls "Modern Day Nazis" Michael Tracy

One student tries to explain that she really believes in free speech, just not when it mentions something negative about Israel's genocide in Gaza while another student totally dismisses the Jewishness of Jews who happen to oppose that same genocide. While Fox News viewers sit quietly drinking their Bud Lites (yes they are back on the Bud Lite train) soaking in all the stupid lies coming out of their TVs.

I wonder how many times Fox has hosted a panel of anti-genocide students during prime time hours? Remember the 'Fair and Balanced' tag-line they used to use? So much for that.

With Schools in Ruins, Education in Gaza Will Be Hobbled for Years

from the NYT

 Most of Gaza’s schools, including all of its universities, have severe damage that makes them unusable, which could harm an entire generation, the United Nations and others say.

Amjad Abu Daqqa was among the top students at his school in Khan Younis, excelling in math and English, and he was applying for a scholarship to study in the United States when war erupted in the Gaza Strip last October.

Teachers used to reward his good grades with trips to local historical sites or to the pier, where they would watch boats and take pictures of the sunset. He dreamed of going into medicine like his big sister, Nagham, who studied dentistry in Gaza City.

But his old life and old dreams now feel far away. His school was bombed, many of his friends and teachers are dead, and his family fled their home to seek safety in Rafah, along with more than one million others.

“Everything in my town is gone forever,” said Amjad, 16. “I feel like I am a body without a soul, and I want to feel hopeful again.”

No end to the war in Gaza is in sight. Even if there were, it would do little to change the bleak educational prospects of more than 625,000 students who the United Nations estimates are in the territory...

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Debunking “Screams Before Silence,” Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 Oct. “mass rape” film

from Electronic Intifada

Last week, billionaire former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg released Screams Before Silence, which is being promoted as “a documentary film on the sexual violence committed by Hamas” on 7 October 2023.

But it is a total fraud. Seven months after that day, Israel has still not identified a single survivor of the alleged mass rapes on 7 October, nor a single credible eyewitness.

While Israel claims that many Israeli women and even some men were raped and sexually tortured in horrific ways on 7 October, before being killed, not one deceased victim has been identified either.

We debunked the film’s sensational but demonstrably false claims on this week’s Electronic Intifada Livestream and showed how many of the “witnesses” Sandberg interviewed are lying...

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No Saudi defense pact without Israel deal – White House

from RT

The US will not enter into a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia unless the kingdom recognizes the state of Israel, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has said. However, Riyadh has made any recognition deal contingent on the Israelis agreeing to work toward the formal establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

Media reports last week suggested that Washington and Riyadh were drawing closer to signing a bilateral security pact, even as progress toward a Saudi-Israel normalization deal remained stalled. According to Reuters, the pact would see the US enter into a formal alliance with Saudi Arabia and help with its civilian nuclear program in exchange for Riyadh cutting some economic ties with China...

The Saudi Foreign Ministry stated in February that the kingdom would not establish formal relations with Israel “unless an independent Palestinian state is recognized on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops and all Israeli occupation forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip.”...

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Israel orders 100,000 Palestinians to evacuate Rafah ahead of ground invasion

from PressTV

The Israeli regime is forcibly evacuating Palestinians from the eastern part of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip amid the prospect of its widely-discouraged ground invasion.

“The estimate is around 100,000 people,” an Israeli military spokesman told journalists on Monday when asked how many people were being evacuated.

International organizations, including the United Nations, have repeatedly warned the regime against invading the city, citing its hosting around 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a ground assault on Rafah would “put the final nail in the coffin” for humanitarian aid operations in the Gaza Strip.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs also said, “Any ground operation would mean more suffering and death,” with an official saying “It could be a slaughter of civilians.”

Multiple aid agencies, including the Norwegian Refugee Council, have likewise warned against a Rafah offensive...

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