Gaza & Palestine
Heavy artillery shelling targets the area around Abbas Kilani Junction on Al-Shimaa Street, north of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip
Palestinian Al-Ahrar Movement:
▪ We denounce the occupation’s continued attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip, and its deliberate attempts to undermine security and stability and spread a state of lawlessness and chaos in a way that threatens citizens’ lives and deepens their suffering amid a suspicious international silence and a clear inability to provide the protection guaranteed by international law for civilians. ▪ We ask: Where is the so-called Peace Council from protecting civilians in Gaza? And where is its role in stopping the occupation’s violations and its client militias and holding it accountable for its crimes? The continued targeting of civilians, terrorizing residents, and striking the foundations of security and stability cannot pass before the international community as if it were a passing matter. ▪ The silence of the Peace Council and the international community in the face of these violations is no longer merely a failure or a neutral position; it has become a political cover for the occupation and gives it a sense of impunity, opening the way for it to continue its crimes, escalate its attacks, and pursue its attempts to spread chaos inside the Gaza Strip. ▪ We affirm that the occupation bears direct responsibility for its crimes and violations, and that the Peace Council and the international community bear political, moral and legal responsibility for their continuation as a result of their silence and inability to take deterrent and effective measures. ▪ We affirm that peace is not achieved by silence over aggression, nor by protecting the aggressor from accountability, nor by leaving civilians prey to chaos and killing. From here, the continuation of this silence effectively turns the council from a peace council into a war council by its silence and sends a dangerous message to the occupation to continue its crimes against our people
Police in Gaza:
A 22-year-old man was killed after being injured by a sharp object during a quarrel in the Yarmouk area. An investigation has been opened into the incident, and work is underway to arrest the suspect.
A female civilian was shot by occupation forces in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City
Haroun Nasser al-Din, member of the Political Bureau and head of the Jerusalem Affairs Office in Hamas:
▪ The field execution crime committed by the occupation at dawn today against a young man from East Jerusalem, under the claim that he attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at Bab al-Amud in the holy city, comes as part of its ongoing war and organized terror against our people everywhere, especially in the occupied city of Jerusalem, which is witnessing a dangerous escalation in the crimes of the occupation and its settlers against its Jerusalemite residents in a desperate attempt to undermine their steadfastness and resilience. ▪ We mourn the martyr who was assassinated and affirm that the pure blood of the martyrs from which the blessed land of Palestine is nourished will not be shed in vain, and that these crimes will only increase our people's determination to resist and remain steadfast until the occupation is driven out. ▪ We hold the Zionist occupation fully responsible for the repercussions of these crimes and call for more rallying around the resistance and unity in confronting the occupation, which deludes itself into thinking that its brutal crimes will break the will of our proud people. ▪ We call on the people of our nation in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the occupied interior to travel and remain stationed at Al-Aqsa Mosque and to confront with all force the terror of the occupation and its settlers, who understand nothing but the language of force.
