Jerusalem. Israel's Minister of National Security, the far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir, recommended “killing 30 or 40 Palestinians every night,” including those who “do not represent an immediate threat, because they do not deserve to live, they are not even people”; He further stated that the prisoners should be hanged “one by one,” Al Jazeera reported yesterday.
“I promise you that I will do everything in my power and turn the world upside down to make this (the death penalty by hanging) happen,” he declared to the October 8 podcast hosted by former Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski; At the same time, he said he was “happy” that Palestinian prisoners suffer harsher conditions in Israeli prisons.
The Israeli Parliament approved a law on March 30 that imposes the death penalty by hanging on Palestinians convicted of the murder of Israelis, if a military court determines that the act was “terrorism” or was motivated by the denial of the existence of the State of Israel.
“Gaza is ours”
"I consider that all of Gaza is ours. We should have settlements not only in Gush Katif (Israeli colony in the Palestinian enclave dismantled in 2005), but in the entire strip, encouraging as much emigration as possible, sending them to their countries of origin and for the terrorists, no emigration, nothing, just killing them one by one," Ben-Gvir commented, Deutsche Welle reported on its website.
In this context, the United States negotiator and son-in-law of President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, held an unusual meeting in Cairo with the leader of Hamas, Jalil al Haya, in a new diplomatic effort to advance the stalled ceasefire in Gaza.
At the meeting, the US envoy assured the delegation of the Islamist organization (as well as the general director of the Peace Board for the coastal enclave, Nickolay Mladenov, and the Turkish and Qatari mediators present at the meeting) that the peace plan is not subject to any renegotiation, sources close to the conference told Al Arabiya.
“The objective is to implement the plan, not to renegotiate it,” explained the contacts of the Arab network, while Hamas urged the mediators and the Junta, imposed by Washington, which supervises the ceasefire, to “force the occupation (Israel) to approve the road map for the second phase of the plan.”
Countries in the region condemn Israeli rejection of the pact
The foreign ministries of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt condemned in a joint statement Tel Aviv's rejection of the agreement presented by the junta.
“Such rejection confirms that Israel is now responsible for hindering efforts to achieve peace in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory,” stated the document in which they also stated that the roadmap was “accepted” by the different Palestinian factions.
More than 150 Israeli settlers broke into the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, under the protection of Israeli police, and where they performed Jewish prayers; Meanwhile, the Tel Aviv army prevented a tanker from the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) from reaching three homes besieged by Israeli settlers in Qusra, the reoccupied West Bank, Wafa published.
“I renew my call for an end to the repeated violence against the Palestinian civilian population in the reoccupied West Bank,” said Pope Leo XIV from his residence in Castel Gandolfo, without mentioning specific clashes.
The special rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the United Nations (UN), Francesca Albanese, assured that Israel uses settlers “to promote ethnic cleansing” in West Bank territory.
Tel Aviv "has outsourced coercion to settlers and is using them to promote ethnic cleansing," he asserted after stating that these actions are "a crime. This is pure and simple terrorism; these invaders must be investigated and prosecuted."
