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20-12-2024
GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, killing at least 14 Palestinians in the besieged north, including children and a doctor at al-Ahli Arab Hospital.
The United Nations says Israel has again denied its requests to get aid to starving people in Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, which have been under an Israeli siege and blockade for more than 70 days
The Palestinian Authority (PA) continues its raids on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, as part of an operation it says is aimed at rooting out “lawless elements” there.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,097 Palestinians and wounded 107,244 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Israeli forces bombed tents and homes across Gaza, killing 10 Palestinians in the Jabalia refugee camp, four in Gaza City, and three in southern Khan Younis.
A UN spokesman says Israel has once again denied requests to get aid to tens of thousands of people who have been trapped by an Israeli siege in northern Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoon and Jabalia for more than 70 days.
Israel’s assault on the barely functioning Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya also continued, with dozens wounded and the intensive care unit (ICU) forced out of service.
The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) forces exchange fire with fighters in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp as a days-log security operation continues.
Mediated talks between Hamas and Israel appear to be gaining momentum, with a US official saying current discussions centre on the names of the Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners who will be released in the first phase of a ceasefire.
The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in southern Lebanon despite agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah and admits that a settler group entered the neighboring country briefly earlier this month.
When injured Yahya Sinwar hurled a stick at the Zionist war machine, resisting even in the last moments of his life, he embodied the unbreakable Palestinian cause for liberation. For 75 years of relentless brutality, we Palestinians have remained steadfast in our pursuit to see freedom on our land.
Our resistance endures because it is driven by a profound truth: that the struggle for Palestinian liberation is inseparable from the universal fight for human dignity. It is this commitment to collective freedom, rather than narrow national interests that has both sustained Palestinian resistance and ignited a growing tide of global solidarity.
That is why as we Palestinians watch Syrians flood the streets of Damascus, Aleppo, Hama and Homs, tasting freedom for the first time in generations, our hearts are full of complex emotions: grief for those who have been lost, hope for what might be possible, and an unwavering commitment to our own liberation.
Some now claim that Palestine’s because is weakened by the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that our struggle for liberation somehow relied on his iron grip over Syria. They speak of “axes of resistance” and geopolitical necessity but they fundamentally misunderstand the nature of our struggle.
The Palestinian cause has never depended on dictators who oppress their own people. Our resistance has never needed those who murdered Palestinian refugees, who imprisoned our fighters, and who maintained decades of cold peace with our occupiers.
We know the al-Assad family like other regional tyrants used the Palestinian cause as a source of national and regional legitimacy while seeking to control and even suppress the Palestinian liberation drive. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
