I Agree!
CrossFireArabia- September 9, 2024
I agree with Dr Norman Finkelstein, a leading US academic of Jewish origin fiercely fighting for the right of the Palestinians and expressing his abhorrence to the Gaza genocide.
West Bank Journalists Need Protection From Israeli Violence
- CrossFireArabia
- September 9, 2024
The Amman-based Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists condemns the ongoing violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against journalists in the occupied West Bank.
“What is happening in the Palestinian territories in terms of persecution and systematic violations against journalists is horrific and dangerous,” the CDFJ stated last Thursday.
“The scenes shown by television networks showing the occupation bulldozers raiding journalists and firing live bullets directly at them, despite them wearing press badges and clothing that identify them,” are not acceptable.
“The West Bank has become like the Gaza Strip, with no safe place for journalists to practice their profession and carry out their work,” the CDFJ added.
The independent organization noted “the Israeli occupation targeted with live bullets seven journalists, directly and deliberately, riding in three press vehicles, clearly wearing press protection, in an area where there was no “field activities” on their way to the town of Kafr Dan, west of Jenin.”
The CDFJ noted also the occupation forces also blew up the broadcast room of Radio Nas in Jenin.
The Amman-based organization called for the monitoring and documenting violations against journalists in the cities of the West Bank, calling on the United Nations, international human rights organizations, and the media to “take urgent action to protect them from deliberate Israeli targeting.”
The Israeli occupation forces began its aggression on the northerns part of the West Bank, since 28 August, and which resulted in the killing of 34 Palestinians, including 19 in the city of Jenin, eight in Tulkarm, four in Tubas, and three n Hebron, bringing the death toll in the West Bank since 7 October, 2023 to 685.
Military Eye: Israel, West Bank and Karamah’s Deadly Operation
- CrossFireArabia
- September 9, 2024
Military and strategic expert Dr. Nidal Abu Zeid said the Karamah Crossing operation is casting its shadow over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as the occupation army from now may step up its security measures.
He pointing out to the repeated statements and warnings issued by the occupation army to its so-called home front point to the fact.
Abu Zeid added to the Jordan24 news website that the West Bank may witness martyrdom operations in the coming period in response to the increase security violations committed by the Israeli occupation.
Abu Zeid pointed out that the current calm and the decrease in the intensity of operations suggest that the occupation army is presently involved in intelligence gatherings to search for what he termed as “high-value targets.”
Regarding to what is happening in the West Bank, Abu Zeid pointed out that the Israeli occupation have already headed to the Balata camp in Nablus. He pointed out this indicates that occupation forces maybe now heading towards the center of the West Bank, then towards the southern camps and finally target Hebron.
Ehud Barak: ‘Israel is Closer to Defeat…’
- CrossFireArabia
- September 9, 2024
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said, Sunday, “Israel is closer to defeat rather than to a complete victory in Gaza.
Israel Hayom newspaper quoted Barak as saying “Israel is stumbling without a strategy or a plan of action in the Gaza Strip.”
“I warned Netanyahu against staying in Gaza for a long time, as there is no interest in staying in Gaza for many years,” he added.
Barak pointed out Netanyahu is “an obsessive gambler who risks the lives of prisoners.”
For the 338th consecutive day, the Israeli occupation army continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip, with American and European support, as its aircraft bomb the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers, and homes of Palestinian civilians, destroying them over the heads of their residents, and preventing the entry of water, food, medicine, and fuel.
The ongoing aggression by the occupation on Gaza has led to the martyrdom of more than 40,939 martyrs, the injury of 94,616 others, and the displacement of 90% of the population of the Strip, according to data from the United Nations.
Interior Ministry: Jordan Shooter is an ‘Individual Act’
- CrossFireArabia
- September 8, 2024
Jordan’s Interior Ministry announced a Jordanian driver opened fire at the Allenby Crossing (King Hussein Bridge as it is called in Jordan and Al-Karamah Crossing as it is called on the Palestinian side), killing three Israelis and the perpetrator of the operation according to Al Jazeera.
The ministry said in a statement that “initial investigations into the shooting incident on the other side of King Hussein Bridge confirmed that the shooter is a Jordanian citizen named Maher Diab Hussein Al-Jazi, a resident of the Al-Hussainiya area in Ma’an Governorate” south of Amman.
Individual act
It stressed “the incident is an individual act and that investigations are ongoing to reach all the details of the incident,” noting that “coordination is underway between the relevant authorities to receive the body of the perpetrator of the operation so that it can be buried in Jordan.”
The statement explained that “all Jordanian drivers who were investigated (by the Israeli authorities) after the incident were released, and more than 100 trucks returned to Jordan in succession, Sunday.”
The statement concluded by saying that the relevant authorities are also following up on the issue of closing the bridge after the incident.
On Sunday morning, three Israelis were killed after being seriously wounded by gunfire at the Allenby Crossing linking the occupied West Bank and Jordan.
The Jordanian Interior Ministry did not address the motives behind the shooting, but it comes at a time when Israel – with broad American support – has been waging a war on the Gaza Strip since 7 October, leaving more than 135,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women.
In parallel with its war on Gaza, the Israeli army expanded its operations and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which resulted in the martyrdom of 692 Palestinians, the injury of about 5,700, and the arrest of more than 10,000, according to official Palestinian institutions.
