#israel, #freeGaza from #hamas!
a #palestinian from #gaza in a #interview about #opposition to hamas and the current situation on the ground in #gaza / #rafah
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793994
#palestinian
Israeli Channel 12, citing #Israeli sources: We received a response from #Hamas, and we will not send a delegation to Cairo.
#Hamas’s response does not address #Israel’s demand for a list of names of living prisoners.
#Hamas's response does not include the number of #Palestinian prisoners it demands to be released.
If #Hamas wants to blow up the negotiations, there will be consequences.
The decision not to send an #Israeli delegation to Cairo was taken unanimously by the War Council and the professional teams.
- The answers we demand are basic and we will not give up on them. According to the channel. #HostageEcxchange #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow
German memory culture, anti-Semitic Zionists and Palestinian liberation
Germany’s much lauded ‘memory culture’ is pure, empty, self-congratulatory propaganda.
Rachael Shapiro — Anti-Zionist Jewish activist based in Berlin
Published On 1 Mar 20241 Mar 2024
I am a #Jewish #pro-Palestine solidarity activist originally from the #NewYork area and now based in #Berlin. My #grandmother was a #Holocaust survivor from #Cologne who fled to the #UnitedStates during the Second World War at the age of 16. Her parents and much of her family were murdered during the Holocaust. I came “back” to #Germany about five years ago, a decision born largely out of the desire for intergenerational healing for me and for my grandmother, who was alive at the time. I learned German and was able to speak to her in her native language in the last few years of her life. I told her stories about living in Germany, she met some of my friends and she was grateful for the ways in which the country and its people had apparently evolved and atoned for their ugly history.
I am glad she died before I had the opportunity to recognise what a naive, idealistic delusion this was.
In the past few years as I have educated myself, become active in the movement for #Palestinian #liberation and extracted myself from the extreme #Zionist conditioning and #brainwashing baked into the fabric of my upbringing, my appreciation for German “Erinnerungskultur” (“memory culture”) has steeply devolved into the realisation that the entire concept is pure, empty, self-congratulatory propaganda. It is grounded in the intentional, racist displacement of anti-Semitism and responsibility for the Holocaust from the Germans who perpetuated it to the #Arabs, #Muslims and, above all, the #Palestinians, who they now demonise and scapegoat as a deflection and distraction.
A documentary from 1985, Ma’loul Celebrates Its Destruction, provides an account of the destruction of entire villages during the 1948 #Nakba. In it, an interviewer says to a Palestinian man who was displaced: “But they killed six million Jews.” His rightful response is, “Did I kill them? Those who killed them must be held accountable. I haven’t hurt a fly.” The fact that a truth this fundamental has been so deeply buried in the language of “complexity” and “conflict” is a testament to the commitment and breadth of the imperialist narrative disseminated by Israel, the #US and #Germany (and the #West in general). Meanwhile, more than 90 percent of all anti-Semitic incidents in Germany are attributable to the #far-right despite the media’s rampant efforts to ignore statistics, skew the reality of the violence and racism directed at Palestinians, and disguise the true apathy towards the so-called “fight against anti-Semitism”.
While actual incidents of anti-Semitism go largely unpunished, those of us standing in solidarity with Palestine are accustomed to brutal, state-sanctioned violence, repression and surveillance from police and the German government in response to peaceful #protests and #boycotts. This has intensified massively since the #genocide in #Gaza began in October, regularly under the guise of accusations of anti-Semitism and “Judenhass” (“hatred of Jews”). We are accordingly committed to remaining loud and visible, including through our refusal to be excluded from the fight against rising fascism and the extreme-right Alternative for Germany party ( #AfD ).
On February 3, I attended an #anti-AfD demonstration in Berlin as part of the pro-Palestinian bloc with the revolutionary #Marxist group #Sozialismus #von #Unten (“Socialism from Below”), in which I am an active member. I had quite a bit of trepidation about going to this protest after the violent, racist and disturbing experiences of my Palestinian and pro-Palestinian comrades at anti-AfD protests over the past few weeks. Folks protesting the AfD while showing solidarity with Palestine have been ruthlessly harassed, attacked, reported to the police and violently removed by both demonstrators and cops all over Germany.
In general, the #mood was positive, and there seemed to be more of a tangible solidarity in comparison with the earlier demonstrations. I stood with a sign that read, “ #Juedin #gegen die #AfD und #Zionismus, #fuer ein #freies #Palaestina” (“ #Jew #against the #AfD and #Zionism, #for a #free #Palestine”). We handed out flyers encouraging a strategic and systematic mobilisation against the AfD. We spoke to demonstrators about the link between fighting fascism and fighting for Palestinian liberation. We explained that Palestinians in Palestine are currently suffering under the fascist policies we are demonstrating against in Germany, and in Germany, Palestinians and those standing in solidarity with them are already experiencing the concrete infringement and denial of #fundamental #human #rights ( #freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly). We emphasised the importance of unconditional, #international #solidarity.
Some were cautious about engaging, ostensibly out of concern for being viewed as anti-Semitic, but many were curious, interested and open to learning. As much as the mainstream media have tried to distort and mangle news of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a recent poll showed that among German voters, only 25 percent answered in the affirmative when asked if they believe Israel’s attacks on Gaza are justified; 61 percent believe they are not. The latter cohort was clearly represented at the demonstration.
After about an hour, I came into contact with a representative of the 25 percent of that poll. An older German man with an aggressive expression approached me, stopped in front of me and half-shouted, “So what do you think the #similarities are #between the #AfD and #Israel?” I could tell he had no intention of engaging in a reasonable conversation but nonetheless began trying to explain. After a few words, he rolled his eyes and spat at me.
It is hard to describe the particular shade of red I saw, the sourness of the blood pumping to my head, the bitterness of the fury on my tongue. It looked like the lifeless faces of my great-grandparents at the mercy of #Nazis, deported and murdered in the #Warsaw #Ghetto as they have appeared in my dreams since I was a child. It felt like the fierceness with which I will unconditionally defend the Palestinian resistance, the right of every people to resist their oppressor in any single form, until my last breath. It tasted like the rage and incredulity that have boiled in the corners of all of our mouths as we scream at the top of our lungs, watching the world passively observe the slaughter of Palestinian men, women and children for more than four and a half months – silent, complicit and accompanied by the relentless echo of more than #75 #years of #occupation, #apartheid, #theft, #ethnicCleansing, #lies, #dehumanisation and unforgivable #injustice.
I ran after the man, shouting at him that my family was murdered because of fascism during a genocide – in response to which he spat at me again.
He goaded me: “What do you know? The AfD is a fascist party. What does that have to do with Israel?” I began to state the obvious – “Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza as we speak …” – but didn’t finish my sentence before he spat in my face for a third time.
As I was shaking, incensed and disgusted, my final comment was, “You are clearly an anti-Semite.” Up to this point in the interaction, he had been condescending and full of contempt, but (as I knew it would) this final shot sent him into a blind rage. As I turned and walked away, he shrieked: “WHAT did you say to me?”
A friend of mine recently said to me, “The #Germans will #never #forgive the #Jews for the #Holocaust.” These words have rung in my ears and sat in my chest with nowhere in particular to go, a hard, ugly truth at the core of German society that precisely reflects my experience living in it. It is bewildering, it is comical, and it is accurate.
From the neo-Nazis of the AfD to “anti-Deutsche” leftists who claim to be combatting German anti-Semitism by obsessively and unconditionally supporting Zionism, many of today’s Germans are brimming with repressed rage towards Jews. Whether they are aware of it or not, this is resoundingly apparent in the deep, hysterical hypocrisy of a reaction such as that of the man at the demonstration – spitting in a Jewish person’s face for standing against fascism and genocide on the basis of her personal, generational relationship to fascism and genocide and becoming enraged at being identified as an anti-Semite accordingly.
This fury is seemingly a reaction to the “injustice” of Germans having to repent for the actions of their ancestors, something they have been widely celebrated for on the global stage. The #resentment takes the form of #narrowmindedness and #bigotry: The only acceptable concepts of #Judaism, #Jewish people and “Jewish life” are those they themselves, #non-Jewish Germans, explicitly sign off on. (Refer to the “anti-Semitism commissioners” claiming to represent the interests of Jewish people in Germany – not a single one of whom is Jewish or an expert in any relevant or related field.) For many Germans, the only palatable Judaism is Zionism, which in fact is no kind of Judaism at all. When forced to contend with perspectives in conflict with this toxic narrative or with Jewishness that doesn’t align with their understanding of it, their anger surfaces violently, explosively. “Anti-Deutsche” weaponise the fetishisation of Jews through their obsessive Zionism to an extreme degree, spearheading aggressive hate and smear campaigns against those who do not share their views (including anti-Zionist Jewish people). How dare anyone, most of all Jews, call into question the authority of Germans in defining and relating to Judaism, anti-Semitism and genocide.
The sick, decades-long collaboration between Israel and Germany and the widespread assertion that Israel’s security is “Germany’s reason of state”(“Staatsraeson”), which upholds Zionist socialisation in the interests of political, racist ends, has created an atmosphere of fear, shame, guilt and ultimately self-righteousness that permeates much of German society. It punishes questions, dissuades education and quashes the necessary understanding of Judaism as a broad, differentiated and historically diasporic culture that existed long before Zionism – and will exist long after.
This designation of all Jews and all Judaism as a single uniform entity, necessarily speaking the same language (modern Hebrew), holding the same values (Zionism) and sharing an identical culture (which in Germany, must be determined by Germans), is, in fact, the precise definition of #anti-Semitic, #Nazistic #racial #segregation and the othering, dehumanising rhetoric they employed in its service. The rigid and inherently anti-Semitic conception of Jews as an undifferentiated people “native” to one land, characterised by the nationalist settler-colonial Zionist movement, has merely served as a #continuation of #Hitler’s #work. It has erased secular Judaism in Europe. It has #eradicated the #Yiddish, #Ladino, #Judeo-Arabic, #Judeo-Persian and #other #Hebraic #languages. Eighty years after the Holocaust, it has succeeded in upholding the view of Jews as a monolith, a foreign nuisance separate from German society, the attempted annihilation of whom can now be exploited to justify the annihilation of another group.
The #tradition of #policing #Jewishness has been passed down in Germany for generations now, which, as in the case of the man at the anti-AfD demonstration, revolves not just around an established, homogenous definition of Jews but, crucially, also the exclusive right and obligation of the Germans to dictate it.
So what are we left with? I believe we can see it in our aforementioned statistic. The majority of Germans know, despite what they have been raised and conditioned to believe, that at the very least, what is going on in Gaza is wrong. Many can see that there is something significant and conspicuous missing in the mainstream narrative around anti-Semitism, Israel and Palestine. I would venture that the majority of those in the streets marching against the AfD are doing it because they genuinely want to stand on the right side of history. Meanwhile, what is in reality a minority is simply louder, angrier and more visible in propagating their anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Semitism and pro-genocide views and, in being so, intimidate the rest into docile silence.
#No #one in the mainstream German #media has reported on my experience at the anti-AfD protest. Given the cultural context, this is not a surprise. But highlighting this hypocrisy and the prevailing, ever-more destructive narratives illustrated by such an incident represents a powerful opportunity for education and empowerment. Calling out the root causes and social backdrop of this moment make them available and necessary for all to grapple with. As so many are stepping into the streets, it is our responsibility to arm them with the facts as fuel, to enable every single person to raise their voice and know decisively what they speak for and what they speak against. We will continue – with more resolve than ever – in the fight for a free Palestine and in mobilising in this way against racism, Zionism, (actual) anti-Semitism, fascism and genocide. We will repeat it again and again until the rhythm of our words becomes the heartbeat of a society that attempts to snuff out our resistance but will ultimately fail at doing so: Never again means never again for anybody.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
#Netanyahu: Israel will maintain full security control over the entire West Bank and #Gaza Strip. There is unity within #Israel against the international attempt to impose a #Palestinian state on us.
I'm sure #Biden will speed up delivery of weapons and cash to Israel but publicly say he is "concerned" about Netanyahu's stance.
#WestBank #Gaza #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics
There's an older documentary along this vein also worth watching:
Occupation 101
♲ #ceasefire - 2024-02-18 04:11:39 GMT
#palestine #gaza #documentary #film #berlin #berlinale2024 #berlinfilmfestival #screening #dates #worldpremiere@palestine
"No Other Land" by #Palestinian and #Israeli debut filmmakers Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor.
Tickets for tuesday screening still available ⬇️
The moment the building in which the occupation forces were holed up exploded after being targeted by the #Palestinian resistance.
This is probably the ambush that killed some 20 IDF soldiers and injured upto 50 other.
This was the deadliest verified attack by palestinian resistance fighters against occupation forces.
Video shared on telegram channel.
#SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SaveTheChildren
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow #Gaza #IDF #KhanYuni
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-two-state-solution
#Netanyahu Takes #Palestinian State Off the Table, Vows #Israeli Control 'From the River to the Sea'
BRETT WILKINS
Jan 18, 2024
...""This truth I say to our American friends—and I also stopped the attempt to impose on us a reality that will jeopardize us—a prime minister of Israel has to be able to say no, even to the best of friends," the prime minister added. "To say no when you need to and to say yes when you can."
The "from the river to the sea" mantra—a claim to all of historic Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea—is expressed in both the original charter of Netanyahu's right-wing #Likud party and the aspirational chants of Palestinians and their supporters around the world.
"So it's okay for Netanyahu to say 'from the river to the sea', but not for Palestinians?" quipped journalist Richard Medhurst following the press conference. "Gee, I wonder which of them has not just said it, but forced millions of people from their native homes for 75 years and just killed 24,000 people of them to achieve it."
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres responded to Netanyahu's comments in a statement reiterating his stance that "the only way to stem the suffering" in the region is "an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza and a process that leads to sustained peace for Israelis and Palestinians, based on a two-state solution."
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday informed the United States that there will be no independent Palestinian state after the current war on Gaza is over, and that Israel will control Palestine "from the river to the sea."
"For 30 years I have been very consistent. This conflict is not about the lack of a Palestinian state, but the existence of a Jewish state," Netanyahu—who has previously boasted about thwarting the so-called "two-state solution" favored by Washington—said during a nationally televised press conference.
"From every area we evacuate we have received terrible terror against us. It happened in southern Lebanon, it happened in Gaza, and also in Judea and Samaria," he continued, the final part a reference to the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
"Therefore, I clarify that in any arrangement in the future the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea," he stressed. "This is what happens when you have sovereignty."
"This truth I say to our American friends—and I also stopped the attempt to impose on us a reality that will jeopardize us—a prime minister of Israel has to be able to say no, even to the best of friends," the prime minister added. "To say no when you need to and to say yes when you can."
The "from the river to the sea" mantra—a claim to all of historic Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea—is expressed in both the original charter of Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and the aspirational chants of Palestinians and their supporters around the world.
"So it's okay for Netanyahu to say 'from the river to the sea', but not for Palestinians?" quipped journalist Richard Medhurst following the press conference. "Gee, I wonder which of them has not just said it, but forced millions of people from their native homes for 75 years and just killed 24,000 people of them to achieve it."
Following Netanyahu's comments, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday that "there is no way to solve [the region's] long-term challenges to provide lasting security and there is no way to solve the short-term challenges of rebuilding Gaza and establishing governance in Gaza and providing security for Gaza without the establishment of a Palestinian state."
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres responded to Netanyahu's comments in a statement reiterating his stance that "the only way to stem the suffering" in the region is "an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza and a process that leads to sustained peace for Israelis and Palestinians, based on a two-state solution."
Unnamed sources have told reporters that U.S. frustration with Netanyahu's far-right government has been increasing along with the casualty count in Gaza—which Palestinian officials and international groups say is over 100,000, mostly innocent men, women, and children.
President Joe Biden has accused Israel of "indiscriminate bombing" of civilians in Gaza but continues to back Netanyahu's policy unconditionally and the U.S. has supplied Israel with billions of dollars in military aid and diplomatic support at the United Nations and beyond.
On Wednesday, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid filed a no-confidence motion against Netanyahu's far-right government over its inability to secure the release of the 136 Israeli and other hostages still held by Palestinian militants in Gaza.
"This government cannot continue to exist," Lapid's Yesh Atid party said in a statement. "It is a failure that costs human lives and the future of the country."
Netanyahu has survived two previous no-confidence votes. He is also facing three criminal corruption cases, and opponents allege he is dragging out the war in an effort to evade justice."...
🇵🇸 x 🇱🇧 A Group of Children Raising the Sign of Peace
in one of the Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon (1980's).
#peace #palestinian #kids #refugees #lebanon ☮︎ #palestine #archive #photo
Photos from The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive 🇵🇸 أرشيف المتحف الفلسطيني الرقمي : صورة
☮︎ ~ https://palarchive.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14822/lang/ar_PS
Orthodox Christians attend midnight Christmas mass in Bethlehem | AJ #shorts
Palestinian Christians and church leaders held a solemn midnight mass to mark Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, in the occupied West ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Bethlehems #Christians #Christmas #Festive #Gaza #Orthodox #Palestinian #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #cancelled #celebrations #church #latestnews #leaders #mark #mass #newsheadlines #occupiedWestBank #solemn #war
Orthodox Christians attend midnight Christmas mass in Bethlehem | AJ #shorts
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-cnn-censor
#CNN Admits 'Disturbing' Israel-Palestine Coverage Policy 'Has Been in Place for Years'
JULIA CONLEY
Jan 05, 2024
..."CNN has long been criticized by #media analysts and #journalists for its deference to the #Israeli government and the Israel Defense Forces in its coverage of the occupied #Palestinian territories, and the cable network admitted Thursday that it follows a protocol that could give Israeli censors influence over its stories.
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"Every single Israel-Palestine-related line for reporting must seek approval from the [Jerusalem] bureau—or, when the bureau is not
staffed, from a select few handpicked by the bureau and senior management—from which lines are most often edited with a very specific nuance," the staffer said.
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CNN's senior director of news standards and practices, David Lindsey, told journalists in a November 2 memo that "#Hamas representatives are engaging in inflammatory rhetoric and propaganda... We should be careful not to give it a platform."
Another email sent in October suggested that the network aimed to present the Ministry of Health's casualty figures as questionable, with the News Standards and Practices division telling staffers, "Hamas controls the government in #Gaza and we should describe the Ministry of Health as 'Hamas-controlled' whenever we are referring to casualty statistics or other claims related to the present conflict."
Newsroom employees were advised to "remind our audiences of the immediate cause of this current conflict, namely the Hamas attack and mass murder and kidnap of #Israeli civilians" on October 7.
At least 22,600 people have been confirmed killed in Gaza and 57,910 have been wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. Thousands more are feared dead under the rubble left behind by airstrikes. In Israel, the death toll from Hamas' attack stands at 1,139.
Jim Naureckas, editor of the watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, noted that the Israeli government is controlling journalists' reporting on Gaza as it's been "credibly accused of singling out journalists for violent attacks in order to suppress information."...
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in an interview with Western media: #Israel deals with #Palestinian #prisoners more harshly than #Hamas deals with #Israeli prisoners, as #Israel detains hundreds of #Palestinians in bad conditions, and such conditions are not seen even in #Russia, which is ruled by #Putin.
"It's a huge honour to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac, Senior Pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of #Bethlehem, who delivered a hugely powerful #Christmas #message about Israel's onslaught on Gaza. We speak about Western complicity - including those who remain silent - and the refusal to describe Israel's actions for what they are."
#Palestinian Christian Leader: " #History Will Hold You Accountable" Over #Gaza #Genocide
IDF soldier Elisha Madin, son of Rabbi Yaakov Madin, who issued a fatwa permitting the rape of #Palestinian women.
He is the only survivor of his group in the paratroopers unit, when an explosive device exploded among them in #Gaza. They were all killed, and he remained amputated.
Israeli settlers protected by #IDF destroyed a #Palestinian farm in north west of #Ramallah in occupied West Bank.
This kind of actions are happening all over occupied territories and Israeli extremists destroying the livelihood of palestinians to starve them and making it easier to occupy their farms to build new illegal settlements.
This is not a war against #Hamas, it is a war against the whole Palestinian population under Israeli occupation.
Video shared on telegram.
#Terrorism #JewishISIS #WestBank #palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics
Displaced Palestinian mother in Gaza gives birth to quadruplets | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
This Palestinian mother has given birth to quadruplets in Gaza after fleeing with her family from the north. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubsc...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Palestinian #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #birth #displaced #family #fleeing #latestnews #mother #newsheadlines #pregnancy #quadruplets
Displaced Palestinian mother in Gaza gives birth to quadruplets | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
Injured Palestinian boy in Gaza no longer recognises his own face | Al Jazeera NewsFeed
“I hope my face comes back as it used to be.” This injured 11-year-old Palestinian boy says the sight of his own face, now unrecognisable, makes him cry. 12 ...#11YearsOld #AlAhlyFC #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Cry #Face #FamilyKilled #FootballFan #GazaCrisis #GazaHome #Goalkeeper #InjuredBoy #IsraeliForces #Meet #MohamedElShenawy #Palestinian #Unrecognizable #Wish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Injured Palestinian boy in Gaza no longer recognises his own face | Al Jazeera NewsFeed
#Palestinian Telecommunications Company: Communications services begin to gradually return in the central and southern areas of the #Gaza Strip after services were interrupted due to the ongoing aggression.
EVIL IN YOUR FACE AND MOST JUST LOOK AWAY
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur.
The text:
In #Gaza, #Palestinian #children are given sedatives to alleviate their pain while dying - as they cannot be treated.
80 days of heavy Israeli bombing have devastated the health system.
This level of horror is unmatched in our lifetime.
Moderate #Arab countries like #Egypt and Qatar might be better mediators than Western countries. And Egypt certainly wants long-term quiet.
Egypt presents phased hostage deal outline to end #Gaza war.
Egypt has proposed a phased hostage deal outline, involving an initial two to three-week #ceasefire in exchange for the release of 40 #Israeli hostages, Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday.
According to the report, the second stage will involve discussions with the #Palestinian Authority about establishing a technocratic government.
The third stage will include a permanent cease-fire, a comprehensive prisoner exchange deal and #Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Sources told the newspaper that Hamas agreed to the proposal.
Meanwhile, Qatari newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported that "Egypt's vision is based on the desire to involve all Palestinian factions and find an alternative to [Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas]."
Bethlehem businesses struggling: Israeli attacks keep tourists out of West Bank
Bethlehem is revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ. This time of year, the town is usually packed with thousands of foreign tourists. But the war on Gaza...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AlJazeeraLatest #AlJazeeraLive #AlJazeeraLiveNews #AlJazeeraVideo #BethlehemChristmas #BethlehemStruggles #BethlehemTourism #BethlehemWestBank #GazaWar #IsraeliAttacksInBethlehem #Palestinian
Bethlehem businesses struggling: Israeli attacks keep tourists out of West Bank