On the 212th day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, Israel announced the closure of Tel Aviv Tribune’s offices in Israel in a decision that was met with widespread international criticism. This coincided with the faltering negotiations in Cairo to reach a deal to exchange prisoners and detainees.
On the ground, the Palestinian resistance engaged in fierce clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in various locations in the Gaza Strip, and the occupation army admitted that a number of its soldiers were injured in an attack that the Israeli media described as dangerous.
Closing of Tel Aviv Tribune offices
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the decision to close Tel Aviv Tribune’s offices in Israel had been passed unanimously in the Council of Ministers, and the Israeli Ministry of Communications announced a raid on the channel’s offices with the support of the police and the confiscation of its equipment.
Tel Aviv Tribune Network described the Israeli government’s decision as a step deep in misinformation and slander, and said in a statement that “Israel’s suppression of the free press to cover up its crimes by killing and arresting journalists did not deter us from performing our duty,” reminding that more than 140 Palestinian journalists have been martyred for the sake of the truth since the beginning of the war on Gaza. .
The Israeli decision sparked a wave of widespread criticism, amid confirmation that the decision aims to silence Tel Aviv Tribune because of its coverage of the war on Gaza.
International and Arab bodies expressed their condemnation of the Israeli decision and stressed that it reflects unacceptable censorship against the last media outlets that can report events in Gaza, and considered that the decision should be a cause for concern for all supporters of the free press.
Cairo negotiations
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced that the movement’s delegation would leave Cairo on Sunday after the handover of mediators from Qatar and Egypt in response to a proposed ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners and detainees.
The movement’s delegation left Cairo after two days of talks, and the “Cairo News” channel, which is close to Egyptian intelligence, said that the Hamas delegation left for consultations and would return on Tuesday to complete the negotiations.
For his part, CIA Director William Burns went to Doha to meet with the Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman bin Jassim Al Thani.
Reuters quoted an official whom it described as familiar with the mediation talks on the war in Gaza, that Burns’ visit to Doha aims to put maximum pressure on Hamas and Israel to continue negotiations.
The head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Sunday that the resistance was keen to reach a comprehensive agreement to end the war on the Gaza Strip. In contrast, Netanyahu described ending the war as a catastrophic defeat and submission to Hamas’ demands.
Qatar is sticking to its role
Diplomatic sources told Tel Aviv Tribune Net that Qatar stressed that it will not accept to become a tool of pressure on any party, and that it is committed in the current mediation between Hamas and Israel to maintain its role as an honest mediator.
The sources indicated that Qatar confirmed that it does not impose itself on the conflicting parties, and cannot undertake any mediation unless the parties ask it to do so, including the current mediation between Hamas and Israel, adding that it does not allow any dictates from any party that would affect the integrity of its role.
The diplomatic sources added that the Qatari mediation disturbed some of the parties that worked to criticize and attack it in order to pressure it to transform from an honest and reliable mediator into a tool for pressure on a party, which is something that Qatar did not undertake in previous mediations in which it succeeded in mediating in more than one international and regional file over the course of a period. The past years, including the Palestinian file.
Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said that Doha is in the process of evaluating the role of its current mediation, stressing that Qatar saw that this mediation was being misused for narrow political interests, as he put it.
Battles and targeting of the occupation army
The Palestinian resistance engaged in fierce clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the western and southwestern neighborhoods of Gaza City, and the Al-Qassam Brigades said that they, in conjunction with the Al-Quds Brigades, bombed the occupation forces positioned in the “Netzarim” axis, which separates the north of the Strip from its center and south, with short-range “107” missiles. .
The occupation army suffered losses in an attack that the Israeli media described as dangerous this afternoon, as the Palestinian resistance bombed crowds of the occupation forces at the Kerem Shalom site and its surroundings in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli Channel 12 reported that 3 soldiers were killed in the incident.
On the other hand, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the occupation forces committed 3 massacres in the Strip, killing 29 martyrs and 110 injured, bringing the number of victims of the Israeli aggression to 34,683 martyrs and 78,180 injured since last October 7.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that 18 martyrs were killed in Israeli raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip since Sunday morning, and he reported that 6 martyrs, including 3 children, were killed and a number of others were injured. After the Israeli occupation bombed a house in Rafah.
The correspondent also reported that there were martyrs and wounded in an Israeli raid on an UNRWA school housing displaced persons in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The West Bank and southern Lebanon
The Israeli occupation forces stormed several cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, and arrested 25 Palestinians in various areas, while the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of martyrs in the West Bank had risen to 496 since last October.
The Israeli incursions were concentrated in the towns of Beita and Beit Furik and the eastern and western neighborhoods of the city of Nablus. The occupation forces also stormed the town of Birzeit and the villages of Deir Ghassana and Beit Rima, north of the city of Ramallah, and the town of Beit Ummar and Haret al-Sheikh in the city of Hebron.
On the southern Lebanon front, the Lebanese Civil Defense announced the killing of 4 civilians in an Israeli raid on the town of Mays al-Jabal, and Hezbollah confirmed launching 4 attacks on Israeli sites, and launching rocket salvoes towards Kiryat Shmona, the Galilee, and the Golan.
The university movement is expanding
Protests against the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip continued in many American universities, and expanded to include universities in Canada, Britain, Scotland, and Ireland.
The administration of the University of Southern California asked the protesters to evacuate their sit-in camp, and Al-Jazeera’s correspondent said that the American police broke up a sit-in at the University of Virginia.
Meanwhile, protesting students at Harvard and Massachusetts universities continue their open sit-ins, and the students reject the pressures and threats aimed at dispersing their sit-ins.
In Canada, hundreds of students demonstrated at the University of Toronto to demand an end to the Israeli war on Gaza, and Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent in England reported that students at the University of Manchester confirmed that they would continue their sit-in to demand that the university sever its relations with Israel.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that students protesting against the Israeli war on Gaza set up a camp in the main square of the University of Edinburgh campus in Scotland.
In Ireland, the head of the Trinity University Student Union in the capital, Dublin, said that the sit-in denouncing the Israeli war on Gaza will continue until the students’ demands calling for an end to the war are met.
