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Morocco World
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Morocco World
Morocco to Send Further Humanitarian Assistance to Gaza
Rabat – Morocco reportedly seeks to send more humanitarian aid to Gaza, asking Israel to allow the aid to enter the Palestinian enclave, which has been subjected to a starvation war and genocide since October 2023. Israel Hayom reported today that King Mohammed VI previously asked Benjamin Netanyahu to allow humanitarian assistance to enter Gaza from Morocco. 'Morocco wants to fly in aid, mainly food, to Ben-Gurion Airport and then transport it by truck to the Kerem Shalom crossing,' the news outlet added. It added that the request has been discussed by Israel's National Security Council to review the feasibility of Morocco's request. The plan reportedly involves the eighth Hercules transport fleet. If confirmed, the news will further reflect Morocco's ongoing commitment to the humanitarian campaign for Gaza. In July, Bayt Mal Al Quds Asharif agency implemented the third phase of Morocco's humanitarian aid campaign, which includes a variety of fresh vegetables among other supplies. In June 2024, Morocco's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said King Mohammed VI had sent urgent directives to deploy a medical aid operation for the people in Gaza. The aid package included 40 tons of medical supplies, with the aim of addressing medical needs amid the IOF's genocide. In March of the same year, Morocco also sent 40 tons of humanitarian aid to alleviate the situation in Gaza. The North African kingdom has consistently called for the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave, as well as the lifting of the blockade and an immediate ceasefire to halt Israel's genocidal war. People have been starving to death as Israel troops continue their relentless attacks on Palestinian homes. According to converging reports, famine has so far killed at least 154 Palestinians, including many children. In the past 24 hours alone, seven people, including a child, succumbed to starvation. To date, a total of 89 children have died of starvation. Tags: Children killed in Gazahumanitarian aid
Ammon
18 hours ago
- General
- Ammon
Occupation announces intention to establish new settlement in Jordan Valley
Ammon News - The Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom revealed that the Jordan Valley Regional Council and the New Watchman organization are currently working to establish a new settlement in the Jordan Valley, near the Argaman settlement. The newspaper reported that the first meeting of the founding nucleus of the Giv'onit settlement was held yesterday evening, Tuesday, a new settlement scheduled to be established in the Jordan Valley in 2026. The meeting included a tour of the construction site, an inspection, and a meeting with the council head and representatives of the settlement department. Jordan Valley Regional Council head David Elhayani said that the establishment of the Giv'onit settlement is evidence of growth, renewal, and the strengthening of settlement and the strengthening of the Israeli and community presence in the Jordan Valley.
Ammon
7 days ago
- Ammon
9 Israeli soldiers injured in Kfar Yona ramming attack
Ammon News - Israeli ambulance teams announced that 9 Israeli soldiers were injured in a car-ramming attack in Kfar Yona on Thursday morning. Channel 12 reported that Israeli police estimates that the incident in Kfar Yona was a deliberate attack. 9 injured people were transported from the scene of the attack in Kfar Yona, 6 with moderate injuries and 3 with minor injuries, according to Israel Hayom. Hebrew media confirmed that those injured in the attack in central Israel were soldiers who were at the Kfar Yona bus station. Israel Hayom reported that Israeli security forces were on their way to the scene of the incident, a helicopter was surveying the area, and an investigation was underway into the circumstances of the incident. The perpetrator of the operation managed to escape and is being pursued.
Al Bawaba
7 days ago
- Al Bawaba
Ramming attack injures 9 soldiers in Israel
Published July 24th, 2025 - 07:25 GMT ALBAWABA - Israeli police revealed that nine soldiers were wounded on Thursday in a ramming attack at a bus station in Kfar Yona, central Israel. Policemen are still conducting a search operation for the suspect after he fled the scene, local media confirmed on Thursday. Israel Hayom said, citing Israeli ambulance service, that six of the injured Israeli soldiers are in a moderate situation while three others suffer light wounds. Police were mobilized in the area to search for a driver suspected of carrying out the ramming attack at a bus station, without providing any information about his identity. It explained that the West Bank Division set up roadblocks in an attempt to apprehend the driver suspected of carrying out the ramming attack. About 7 or more people have been injured in a Jihadist ramming attack in central Israel near the entrance to Kfar Yona — Documenting Israel (@DocumentIsrael) July 24, 2025 © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Ammon
23-07-2025
- Politics
- Ammon
Beyond Gaza's shadow: The unseen war for the West Bank's future
Israel is meticulously following a textbook model of instigating unrest in the occupied West Bank. The latest such provocations consisted of stripping the Palestinian-run Hebron (Al-Khalil) municipality of its administrative powers over the venerable Ibrahimi Mosque. Worse, according to Israel Hayom, it granted these powers to the religious council of the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement, an extremist settler body. Though all Jewish settlers in occupied Palestine can be qualified as extremists, the approximately 7,500 inhabitants of Kiryat Arba represent a more virulent category. This settlement, established in 1972, serves as a strategic foothold to justify subjecting Hebron to stricter military control than virtually any other part of the West Bank. Kiryat Arba is infamously linked to Baruch Goldstein, the US-Israeli settler who, in February 1994, unleashed a horrific attack. He opened fire at Muslim worshipers kneeling for dawn prayer at the Ibrahimi Mosque, mercilessly killing 29. This bloodbath was swiftly followed by another, where the Israeli army brutally cracked down on Palestinian protesters in Hebron and across the West Bank, murdering an additional 25 Palestinians. Yet, the Israeli Shamgar Commission, tasked with investigating the massacre, resolved in 1994 that the Palestinian mosque, a site of profound religious significance, was to be grotesquely divided: 63% allocated to Jewish worshipers and a mere 37% to Palestinian Muslims. Since that calamitous decision, oppressive restrictions have been systematically imposed. These include pervasive surveillance and, at times, unjustifiable, extended closures of the site, solely for exclusive settler use. The latest decision, described by Israel Hayom as "historic and unprecedented," is profoundly dangerous. It places the fate of this historic Palestinian mosque directly into the hands of those fanatically keen on acquiring the holy site in its entirety. But the Ibrahimi Mosque is merely a microcosm of something far more sinister underway across the West Bank. Israel has exploited its war in Gaza to dramatically escalate its violence, carry out mass arrests, confiscate vast tracts of land, systematically destroy Palestinian farms and orchards, and aggressively expand illegal settlements. Though the West Bank, previously largely subdued by joint Israeli military pressures and Palestinian Authority crackdowns, was not a direct party to the October 7, 2023, assault nor the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza, it has inexplicably become a major focus for Israeli military measures. In the first year of the war, over 10,400 Palestinians were detained in Israeli army crackdowns, with thousands held without charge. Furthermore, hundreds of Palestinians have been forcibly ethnically cleansed, largely from the northern West Bank, where entire refugee camps and towns have been systematically destroyed in protracted Israeli military campaigns. Israel's overarching aim remains the strangulation of the West Bank. This is achieved by severing communities using ubiquitous military checkpoints, imposing total closures of vast regions, and the cruel suspension of work permits for Palestinian laborers, who are almost entirely dependent on the Israeli work market for survival. This insidious plan also explicitly targeted all Palestinian holy sites, including the revered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, and the Ibrahimi Mosque. Even when these shrines were nominally accessible, age restrictions and suffocating military checkpoints make it difficult, at times utterly impossible, for Palestinians to worship there. In August 2024, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted that his relentless violent campaign against the West Bank was part of confronting the "broader Iran terror axis." Practically, this statement served as a green light for the Israeli army to treat the West Bank as an extension of the ongoing Israeli genocide on Gaza. By mid-July 2025, over 900 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank, while at least 15 were murdered by settlers. As Palestinians were pushed further against the wall, with no centralized strategy by their leadership to meaningfully resist, Israel exponentially increased its illegal settlement constructions and the brazen legalization of numerous outposts, many built illegally even by Israeli government standards. Israel's actions in the West Bank were not a sudden deviation but consistent with a long-standing, insidious scheme. This includes a plan solidified by the Israeli Knesset in 2020 that allowed Israel to officially annex the West Bank. Israel's ultimate goal has always been to confine the majority of Palestinians into Bantustan-like enclaves, while asserting full control over the vast majority of the region. In August 2023, extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir articulated this sinister vision: "My right, the right of my wife and my children to move around Judea and Samaria (the occupied West Bank) is more important than freedom of movement for the Arabs." More coercive measures swiftly followed, including Knesset laws to significantly curtail UNRWA operations, and further legislation to entrench de facto annexation. Last May, Smotrich audaciously announced 22 more settlements. On July 2, 14 Israeli ministers made a public call on Netanyahu to immediately annex the West Bank. In fact, every action Israel has undertaken, especially since the commencement of its devastating genocide in Gaza, has been carefully calculated to culminate in the irreversible annexation of the West Bank - a process that would inevitably be followed by declaring native inhabitants persona non grata in their own homeland. This level of systemic pressure and oppression will ultimately lead to a popular explosion. Though suppressed by the brutality of the Israeli army, the terror of armed settlers, and the suppressive actions of the Palestinian Authority, the breaking point is fast approaching. Those in the West who preach hollow calls for calm and de-escalation must understand the region is hurtling towards the brink. Neither diplomatic platitudes nor sterile press releases will suffice to avert the catastrophe. They are advised to act decisively against Israel's destructive policies, and they must act immediately. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, co-edited with Ilan Pappé, is 'Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out'. His other books include 'My Father was a Freedom Fighter' and 'The Last Earth'. Baroud is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA)
