LIVE UPDATE - BREAKING. 3rd Intifada v Israel's Ops IRON SWORDS. Saudi - Israel normalization deal forgotten about the fate of Palestine, Palestine raises the riffle in Sukkot holiday

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Jerusalem, Gaza, Tel Aviv 11.55am

[NEW UPDATE Jerusalem, Gaza, Tel Aviv 4.45pm, or around 11.5 hours after clash started]

Because 40 weeks nonstop protesters in Tel Aviv, 95 percent military focused on Tel Aviv, forgot to regular checking / drill exercise in southern, then, exploit by HAMAS Palestine.

11.5 hours IDF unable regain southern.198 Palestinian died, mostly in Gaza, in last 11 hours. Israeli died so far 100. Total Palestinian died between January 1st, 2023, until at least Oct 6th, 2023, are 262 died, and with new [so far] 160 died in last 11.5 hours clash, total Palestinian died since Jan 1st, 2023 to be 460, still counting.

Litmus test of global, Palestinian issue. In last 5 hours, very high tension, maybe biggest ever since 2021 raid Israel to Gaza, killing more than 250 Palestinian in Eid-el-fitr day, and even biggest ever since 2nd Intifada. People in Jenin, since January 2023 until today maybe suffering around 120-125 died [just in Jenin] because brutality by Israeli, celebrating ‘this Intifada.’ [AGAIN] Total Palestinian died between January 1st, 2023, until at least Oct 6th, 2023, are 262 died, and with new [so far] 198 died in last 11 hours clash, total Palestinian died since Jan 1st, 2023 to be 460, still counting. Not counting Arab-Israel [Balad] died because assassinated by Israel settler or because another cause since Jan 1st, 2023.

152 IDF [ONE of them is Nimrod Aloni, IDF commander for Gaza area since July 2019], kidnapped, currently all of them in Gaza side, no longer Israel side. For context, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 prisoners. At least 20 Palestinian deceased body [already died] still in Israel / are being held by Israel, so the family has until now been unable to buried. 40 hours ago, FM Iran on call FM Saudi resolve Sepahan incident [Soleimani statue] football match

Top military analysts on TV are describing this as a complete collapse of Israeli security and intelligence. Huge moment in the middle normalization Saudi - Israel. Clearly is the largest attack by a Palestinian organization ever since Intifada. A major failure of the Israeli security forces. Hamas isn’t dumb, just patriotic. Hamas is a well-trained armed faction & a very intellectual body with its goals. There is a no-return point like the previous escalations. Either Gaza is reoccupied by Israel or something unprecedented we don’t know about will happen. Prime Minister's office an ounces a special security cabinet meeting at 1:00 PM in Tel Aviv, but already postponed. Israel has lost control of multiple communities along the border. Hamas militants have taken over small towns will civilians still inside, according to Israeli media.

The first time since 1948 that Israel loses control of its towns and villages. In 1973, the surprise Egyptian and Syrian breakthroughs were in occupied Sinai and Golan, not in sovereign Israel proper. Sderot is not a settlement. It is a large town on territory that is indisputably Israeli since 1948, in borders recognized by the Palestinian Authority, the UN etc. Sderot settlement was built over the Palestinian village called Al Najd. The indigenous Palestinians were driven out in 1951.

Gaza journalist Mutna a-Najjar reports, among other things, that he is in an Israeli kibbutz. Adds that there are numerous Israeli dead and wounded.

Mutna a-Najjar

3 Palestinian so far died since / in last 7 hours of clash, Moin Muhammad Muammar, Ahmed Sabri Muammar, and Abdullah Fawzi Al-Ghalban. Israeli casualties estimate 40. Around 152 IDF soldiers and 5 Israeli civilian kidnapped. 70 percent Southern Israel already under control Hamas [at least now 3pm - 3.30pm local time]. HAMAS was able to surprise the best, most sophisticated, most experienced intelligence in the world and mock the strongest security system in the Middle East, and that it was able to control the event for long hoursm will not be erased from the minds of the players in the region.

Israeli analyst Uri Zaki said

"Today saw collapse of Netanyahu's doctrine promoting Hamas at expense of the Palestinian Authority– to avoid negotiations & Israeli concessions. We'd lose a religious war against a billion Muslims & don't want it. Smotritz & Ben Gvur's values are alien to 98% Israelis."

A planned attack that Israel has not experienced since 1973, 50 years to the day when Egypt surprised Israel in a massive attack. Unbelievable. Israelis are celebrating the Sukkot holiday this weekend. IDF says dozens of fighter jets carrying out strikes on Hamas sites in Gaza. IDF launches operation "Iron Swords" to fight back. One of special force of IDF, as ABRAMS tanks operator, got kidnapped. AND this is not only in Gaza or Souther Israel. In the meanwhile, a Hamas rally in the heart of the PA [PALESTINE AUTHORITY - PLO] administrative capital of Ramallah. President Abbas is more shocked than ever.

Israel soldier, as ABRAMS tank operator, got kidnapped.

Head of the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, Ofir Liebstein, was killed during fighting with Hamas terrorists this morning. At least 80 wounded have been taken just to Soroka hospital. Currently only 2 high-rank Israelis, PM Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant already giving a statement to the public. People in Jenin, since January 2023 until today maybe suffering around 120-125 died [just in Jenin] because brutality by Israeli, celebrating ‘this Intifada.’ Total Palestinian died between January , 2023, until at least Oct 6th, 2023, are 262 died, and with new [so far] 198 died in last 11 hours clash, total Palestinian died since Jan 1st, 2023 to be 460, still counting.. Not counting Arab-Israel [Balad] died because assassinated by Israel settler or because another cause.

9 Hours ago, in the wake oil price [BRENT; WTI, ARAB LIGHT] in range 96-102 dollar per barrel, Saudi willing to raise oil output to Help Secure Saudi - Israel Deal. Senator Ernst to lead U.S. delegation to Saudi Arabia and Israel. They are expected to meet MBS and Neyanyahu and discuss normalization efforts between the countries. And former Israeli minister of defense Benny Gantz, an anti Netanyahu profile, is on a low profile visit to Washington & met at the White House with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. His visit comes amid White House efforts to reach a mega deal with Saudi.

Saudi Arabia can make peace very lucrative for both Palestinians and Israelis, but it can’t negotiate or decide on their behalf. Seemingly forgotten about the fate of Palestine, then Palestina raises the riffle this morning.

Massive trance party that was attacked. People are calling TV, whispering, afraid for their lives. One can question their judgment for going to a party there, but no one deserves to die, not on the Israeli side of the border or the Palestinian side in Gaza. Hamas is set on taking control of the West Bank. True. And, Hamas like the last round is writing the script. That in itself is a strategy. Both HAMAS leader [currently in Doha] and PLO leader already meet Mohammed bin Salman and his advisor, in Jeddah directly, or in Doha. Hamas has no strategy here. Just chaos with no long-term political goals. Anyway you look at this, it is bad.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made four things crystal clear about the Palestinian-Israeli issue during his recent interview on Fox News weeks ago:

One: Yes, it is true that there are ongoing talks relating to a potential solution that will improve the lives of Palestinians.

Two: Riyadh is edging closer toward normalization with Israel.

Three: The Biden administration is leading the initiative.

Four: No, it is not true that Saudi-Israeli talks were suspended.

This clarity came after months of speculation, with many international policy analysts apparently confused by Saudi Arabia’s long-standing and legitimate demands for a written security pact with the US, assistance in developing its peaceful nuclear program, and removal of previous restrictions on arms sales to the Kingdom at the expense of a solution accepted by the Palestinian leadership.

What many pundits also missed is that these asks of Washington are a natural result of a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal. None of them would have been possible without this, as it would be almost an impossible mission for any US administration to approve such arrangements for any country which does not have a deal with Israel.

Needless to say, countries have a right to focus on and pursue their own interests. In this case, we are seeing a regional powerhouse that is insisting on including a Palestinian angle when there is really nobody forcing it to. Other regional countries have had no reluctance in pursuing similar normalization deals in exchange for the recognition of a disputed land, such as in the case of Morocco and the Donald Trump-era recognition of Western Sahara, thanks to Oman for mediating everything. Oman also mediating, secretly, between Iran and US to release 6 [actually 11 but just successfully only 6] US citizen, not only help by Qatar. With cost USD6 billion.

Or even the more extreme case of the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon, which still managed to sign a maritime border agreement with Israel (despite not recognizing it officially) in return for rights to offshore gas reserves.

However, none of the Arab countries that have signed deals with Israel have the weight, importance and influence of Saudi Arabia. So, the inevitable questions cynics will soon raise are: But what about the Palestinian cause? And does this mean Saudi Arabia has sold out on this crucial principle? Well, nobody responded better than the crown prince himself: “For us, the Palestinian issue is very important. We need to solve that part … We hope that will reach a place that will ease the life of the Palestinians.” However, skeptics and warmongers will always do whatever it takes to muddy the waters, so no attention should be paid in my opinion, as actions will always speak louder than words.

One of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result.

Let us not forget that Saudi Arabia was the country that presented the Arab Peace Initiative in 2002. What the crown prince said does not deviate from any attempt since then to give peace a chance. At the end of the day, Saudi Arabia — just like any other country — cannot negotiate or decide on behalf of either the Palestinians or the Israelis. Peace and the terms of peace have to be agreed by them alone.

What Saudi Arabia can do — and, from what I understand, has been doing for the past two years — is work on an initiative to make peace a more attractive proposition than war for both parties. In fact, there is a whole team at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs that has been working with serious and concerned parties such as the EU and the Arab League on imagining a 2.0 version of the Arab Peace Initiative. How would the region look if peace were achievable and how could we pool resources to ensure both parties understood its value?

Every detail imaginable has been examined, including how to boost the Palestinian economy through exports to Israel and other neighbors. In fact, one could argue that this could be a lesson learned from Jared Kushner’s plan. Yes, it could be argued that Kushner ended up giving more to Israel than to Palestine and that his team could have done a better job by not alienating the Palestinian Authority (and the PA could have bothered showing up nevertheless), but if anything it gave, for the first time, an idea of how to support the economy and give Palestinians a chance.

With steps like appointing the Saudi Ambassador to Jordan, Nayef bin Bandar Al-Sudairi, as the Saudi consul general to Jerusalem, its continuous condemnation of any intimidation of worshippers at Al-Aqsa and by continuing to offer both sides a carrot (including allowing some Israeli ministers to attend international summits in the Kingdom), Saudi Arabia is doing its best to enable a real and verifiable framework for peace — and that is the maximum it can probably achieve.

Can a miracle take place over the next few weeks or months? Well, if anything can be learned from Saudi Vision 2030 and what it has accomplished over the past six years, it is never to say never.

Could there be peace with the most right-wing government in Israeli history? The best answer to that came from Rabbi Marc Schneier during his conversation on Arab News’ “Frankly Speaking” this week: “Often when it comes to these negotiations, when it comes to concessions, you need the people who are more to the right to lend credibility and legitimacy and authenticity to what would be a genuine and real peace.”
After all, the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty was agreed and signed by then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin — a staunch Zionist and former leader of the brutal Irgun militia that committed atrocities in the years leading up to Israel’s foundation — and it still stands to this day.

Begin even shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. And who would have thought that Irish republican leaders Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, who for so long were hated in London due to their terrorism links, would ultimately play a key role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland through the 1998 Good Friday Agreement?

But what if Hamas decides to once again sabotage a deal? Well, all we can say in that case is that one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. The events of the past 70 years suggest that the Palestinian cause has been losing ground, not winning it.

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يوم مفصلي في تاريخ النضال الفلسطيني والمقاومة يوم سطر بالدماء وبعزيمة الرجال الابطال الذين تقدموا نحو الشهادة دون وجل او خوف يوم امتزجت به دماء الشجعان في غزة ومحيطها وفي اريحا ورام الله والخليل وقلقيلية المجد للشهداء ..المجد لفلسطين

سحب جثه جندي من داخل دبابه الميكرافا

الشباب وهم في الطريق ع البلاد

مشاهد حصرية لسرب "صقر" إحدى الوحدات العسكرية التي شاركت في عملية #طوفان_الأقصى داخل أراضينا المحتلة اعلام القسام

خليك على الذكر يا بابا" .. أحد المقاومين يتصل بوالده مودعاً من داخل فلسطين المحتلة بعد إصابته بجروح خطيرة خلال الاشتباكات مع جيش الاحتلال.

يا ثأرنا و يا كل غلنا على الي صار بالحرائر والمقدسات … يوم لا ينفع الندم

عد قليل.. مداخلة صوتية للناطق العسكري باسم كتائب القسام "أبو عبيدة" عبر فضائية الأقصى

جرافة فلسطينية تزيل أجزاءً من السياج الفاصل شرق غزة

يا الله قشعرلي بدني يا رب ارزقه وارزقنا لحظة و مشهد التحرير

اليوم نغزوهم ولا يغزونا

مصادر طبية إسرائيلية: أكثر من 300 مصاب في المستشفيات من بينهم 40 بحالة صعبة وحرجة. أنت بتحكي عن أرقام فخمة كثيرررر

أبو عبيدة: العمليات تجري على الأرض كما هو مخطط لها في كل المحاور.

أبو عبيدة: هذا الحساب للعدو من المطلوب مشاركة فيه كل الشعب الفلسطيني والأمة.

أبو عبيدة: المقاومة تفتح اليوم كشف حساب مع هذا العدو.

ابو عبيدة: ازرعوا الرعب والكابوس في صفوف الاحتلال النمر الورقي الذي يسترجل على شعبنا من سنين ها هو امامكم يتهاوى وساهموا في شرف تركيعه.

أبو عبيدة: سيتابع هذا العدو بذهول حينما يستفيق من صدمته ويدرك حجم خيبته.

أبو عبيدة : ادعوا أهلنا بالضفة والقدس إلى التحرك باتجاه المستوطنات والحواجز وشاركوا في طوفان الأقصى.

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