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Vol. 1 Issue 58 August 2023
and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav
Galant announced the start of a
comprehensive siege on Gaza,
including banning food and fuel entry.
Reactions in Palestine:
The President of the Palestinian
Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, stressed
the need to provide protection for the
sons of the Palestinian people, and to
enhance their steadfastness and
stability, affirming their right as a
people to defend themselves, in the
face of the terrorism of the settlers and
the occupation forces. The Permanent
Representative of Palestine to the
Arab League, Muhannad Al-Aklouk,
submitted a memorandum that
includes a request to hold an
emergency meeting of the Council of
the League of Arab States at the level
of Arab foreign ministers in an
extraordinary session as soon as
possible, to discuss ways of political
action at the Arab and international
levels to stop the Israeli aggression and
hold its perpetrators accountable and
provide international protection for
the Palestinian people and achieve
peace and security based on
international law and resolutions of
international legitimacy and the Arab
Peace Initiative. The Palestinian
Minister of Health declared a "state of
emergency" in all Palestinian hospitals,
requested that the ministry's
23 warehouses and blood banks supply
hospitals with the necessary medical
supplies and medicines, and added that
all hospitals in the West Bank are
ready to receive the wounded from the
Gaza Strip.
ELITE
Reactions in Israel:
Former Prime Minister and opposition
leader Yair Lapid, National Unity leader
Benny Gantz, Israel Beiteinu leader
Avigdor Lieberman, and Labor Party
leader Merav Michaeli issued a joint
statement expressing full support for the
Israeli army and unity with the
government, saying: "At times like these,
there is no opposition or coalition in
Israel." Magen David Adom, an Israeli
medical organization, appealed for blood
donations. It also carries out genocide in
Gaza, where it deliberately and
continuously kills members of the
Palestinian group, using aerial, land, and
naval bombardment, and directly targeting
civilians, children, women, elders,
journalists, and paramedics, in addition to
causing serious physical or mental harm to
members of the Palestinian group using
weapons prohibited internationally, such as
phosphorus and cluster bombs, and
injuring thousands with serious wounds
and permanent disabilities. It also
deliberately subjects the Palestinian group
to living conditions intended to destroy it
materially in whole or in part, by
continuing to impose a severe siege on
Gaza for 16 years, cutting off electricity,
water, food, fuel, and medicine from its
residents, and forcibly displacing members
of the Palestinian group from their homes
and lands, using demolition, bulldozing,
land grabbing and house seizure.