Jenin: ‘We Will Only Raise The Palestinian Flag Here’

The Israeli occupation forces have continued their onslaught on Jenin and its camp for the eighth consecutive day.

The onslaught resulted in the killing of 19 people, the injury and arrest of dozens with widespread destruction of citizens’ properties and infrastructure, including water and electricity networks, according to Wafa.

On Tuesday, 16-year-od Lujain Abdul Raouf was killed, and four journalists injured, including WAFA photojournalists Muhammad Mansour and Ayman Noubani, in an Israeli army siege of a house in the village of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin.

The occupation forces also raided several houses in the Al-Hadaf neighborhood on the outskirts of Jenin camp, tampered with their contents and destroyed their furniture.

The occupation forces stormed the Al-Zahraa neighborhood in the city and bulldozed the infrastructure and streets, while water continues to be cut off from most of the city’s neighborhoods and the camp.

Destroying streets

The occupation forces continue to destroy the center of Jenin city, as the occupation bulldozers razed Cinema Street and large parts of Hospitals Street to the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital, and destroyed shops in the Cinema Roundabout area and re-razed the Post Street.

The occupation bulldozers attacked a group of journalists while they were covering the destruction of the Cinema Roundabout and the surrounding shops, and opened fire directly at them, which resulted in their injury.

In Al-Jabariyat neighborhood, the occupation forces stormed the house of the detainee Zakaria Al-Zubaidi and detained his brother Yahya after vandalizing and destroying the contents of the house.

The occupation forces also continued their large-scale detention campaigns of young men in the Jenin camp and the villages of Al-Silah Al-Harithiya, Al-Yamoun and Kafr Dan west of Jenin.

They stormed the town of Qabatiya fired at citizens’ houses, Tuesday night, and resulted in the shooting of a young man in the chest while he was inside his home.

The Israeli army also detained an ambulance crew while transporting an emergency medical case to the Khalil Suleiman Governmental Hospital in Jenin and assaulted a number of them.

The Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Muthalath Al-Shuhada, south of Jenin, deployed snipers on the roofs of several houses, raided six houses, detained a number of citizens before withdrawing from the town according to the Palestinian news agency.

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Colombia Uni: First Protest Against Gaza Genocide

A large group of Columbia University students gathered at the university gates on the first day of the academic semester, reigniting protests that began last year in opposition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The students called for an academic and economic boycott of Israel and urged their peers to boycott the first day of classes in response to the destruction of universities in Gaza according to the Quds News Network.

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Displaced Palestinians Settle in Gaza Graveyards

Among the graves of the dead the Abu Samak family sleeps on the ground in the Al-Sawarha cemetery in the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip. They forcibly came here following the Israeli army’s decision to evict them from their homes east of Deir al-Balah, a few days ago according to the Palestinian Information Center.

Where to go?

Adham, head of the family, said “the decision to forcibly evict us fell like a thunderbolt, and the first thing that came our minds was where do we go?”

“All of the areas west of Deir al-Balah, which the Israeli occupation army asked us them to go to, were completely full, leaving us with few options, thus we settled here, sleeping on the ground between the graves of the dead,” Abu Samak added.

“We are dead while we are alive, the Israeli army continues to kill us – it’s been nearly a year now – and the world is watching us and does not care.

What happened to humanity, what law, or custom states that our children should sleep in the open and in fear among the graves of the dead,” he wounders.

On 24-25 August, the Israeli occupation forces issued evacuation orders to residents of many neighborhoods in Deir al-Balah, telling them to head to the so-called humanitarian zone they keep establishing but last Thursday, they asked some of them to return to their neighborhoods once again.

Most difficult war

Ibtisam Abu Amra’s situation is no better than that of Abu Samak: She was forced to flee from the Abu Areef area east of Deir al-Balah to the cemetery in the city center.

“This war is the most difficult, the army tells us to go to safe areas, then it bombs and targets civilians in them. Where is the security and safety the Israeli army claims to be providing,” she asked.

 “We were displaced to the cemeteries, which are not safe, the army has already invaded them, bulldozing them and wreaking havoc and destruction in them, neither the living nor the dead are safe.”

“Displacement is torment, asking you to collect what is left of your belongings, your children and even the elderly in your home to the unknown, is persecution,” She explained. “We found nothing but the cemetery, so here we are living among the dead.”

According to international reports, more than two million Palestinians are crowded into what is called the humanitarian zone, which is less than 11% of the entire Gaza Strip, in extremely harsh and tragic conditions.

Out of every 10 Palestinians, 9 have been forced to leave their homes and be displaced once or several times, according to reports from international organizations.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are patiently and hopefully waiting for the moment when the bloody war will stop so that their repeated displacement will stop and they can return, even to the ruins of their destroyed homes.

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Brik: ‘It is Not Hamas That is Collapsing But Israel’

Retired Israeli General Itzhak Brik said if the Israeli forces “continue fighting in Gaza by raiding and re-raiding the same targets, not only we won’t bring Hamas to collapse, but we will collapse ourselves”.

In an opinion piece published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, titled, “It Is Not Hamas That Is Collapsing, but iIsrael,” Brik said every day, Israeli forces in Gaza grow weaker while Hamas, “in contrast, has already replenished its ranks with 17- and 18-year-olds”.

Brik also noted many Israeli reservists are “no longer consenting” to being “redrafted again and again” and “conscripted soldiers are exhausted and are losing professional skills for lack of training”.

“Some argue that withdrawing army forces from Gaza after signing a hostage deal with Hamas would be the same as being defeated and surrendering…but this claim is grounded in a fundamental misunderstanding of what is taking place in the Gaza Strip.

It is fueled by clichés spread by the political and military echelons to justify their actions and gain public support and legitimacy to continue a failed war… it is those very same people declaring that a cessation of hostilities means our defeat and surrender who are bringing the military closer to collapse and the state to its downfall,” he added.

“Israel’s economy, international relations and social cohesiveness are severely damaged by this war of attrition against both Hamas and Hezbollah,” he said, adding the Israeli military “does not have enough forces to fight a multi-front war”.

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Resignation of Top Chief Shows Deep Turmoil in Israeli Army

The Israeli occupation army Ground Forces Commander Tamir Yedie resigned his post “for personal reasons,” it was reported by the Israeli media.

The resignation of the top commander has been trending on social media ever since it was announced with his name trending.

An Israeli military statement did not provide further details about Yadai’s resignation, which came after he served three years in his position according to Anadolu.

His resignation maybe seen as a protest at the way the Israeli war is being handled in Gaza and the current rift between Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The latter insists that the army must continue fighting against Hamas and the Palestinian resistance groups while Gallant is in favor of a breakthrough political deal that would see the return of the 100-or-so remaining hostages.

Also Yadai’s sudden resignation reflects deep-seated dismay within the Israeli army who privately feel they are being made to do an impossible task in Gaza.

Last April, 2024 head of the Military Intelligence Division Aharon Haliva resigned, and the Israeli media then expected a series of resignations in the Israeli army leadership after the launch of internal investigations relating to the military and intelligence failure in repelling the Al-Aqsa Flood operation by Al-Qassam Brigades on 7 October, 2023 according to the Palestine Information Center.

It was then expected among the military leaders that would resign were Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, his deputy Amir Baram, commander of the Gaza Division Avi Rosenfeld and commander of the Southern Command Yaron Finkelman, although he had been in his position for only two months before 7 October.

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