Al Mayadeen – September 6, 2024
Day 336 of aggression:
Martyrs, injured in shelling on Gaza Strip
On the 336th day of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, the occupation concentrated its bombing on the southern and central Gaza Strip and several areas of Gaza City.
In recent hours, Israeli bombing has concentrated on the southern and central Gaza Strip, as well as several areas of Gaza City, marking the 336th day of the relentless war waged by the occupation forces on the Strip.
In Rafah, located in the southern Gaza Strip, occupation forces demolished residential blocks northwest of the city. Additionally, the bodies of two martyrs were recovered in the northern region.
Israeli helicopters heavily targeted western Rafah and the occupation forces intensified their fire in the southwestern part of the city.
In eastern Khan Younis, also in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces launched heavy fire on Palestinian homes in the town of al-Fakhari.
In the central Gaza Strip, Israeli bombardment of the northern Nuseirat camp resulted in at least two deaths and several injuries. The occupation forces have resumed bombing in the northwestern areas of the Nuseirat camp and the eastern regions of the al-Maghazi camp.
Israeli helicopters also fired upon the Sabra neighborhood, located south of Gaza City, and conducted a raid on the city.
In the al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, where occupation forces demolished residential buildings, at least six martyrs were reported, and several others were injured due to an Israeli airstrike targeting a house.
The number of martyrs in the neighborhoods of al-Zaytoun and Tal al-Hawa reached at least eight last night. These casualties add to the toll of over 40,875 martyrs and 94,450 wounded recorded since October 7.
1.26 million doses of the oral vaccine had been delivered to Gaza
Earlier this week, a campaign to vaccinate children in Gaza against polio and curb the spread of the virus commenced, amid the continued Israeli war on the Palestinian people in the enclave.
Gaza's Health Ministry announced at a news conference on Saturday that children in the Strip had begun receiving vaccines, just one day before the large-scale rollout and a planned temporary pause in fighting agreed upon by "Israel" and the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
An unspecified number of children received their first dose of the vaccine at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The vaccination, which consists of two oral doses, will be administered across the Strip.
Following its start in central Gaza, the campaign will extend to southern and northern Gaza to vaccinate over 640,000 children under the age of 10, according to health officials.
WHO Deputy Director-General Michael Ryan informed the UN Security Council this week that 1.26 million doses of the oral vaccine had been delivered to Gaza, with an additional 400,000 doses expected to arrive shortly.
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Al Mayadeen – September 6, 2024
Philadelphi main obstacle to ceasefire
A trusted leader in the Palestinian Resistance informs Al Mayadeen that the Philadelphi Corridor remains the primary obstacle to achieving a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. This impasse is due to the occupation's continued refusal to withdraw from the area during the first phase of the agreement.
A high-ranking leader within the Palestinian Resistance confirmed to Al Mayadeen that the Philadelphi Corridor remains the key obstacle in achieving both a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip and a prisoner exchange deal. This contentious area continues to be a critical point of negotiation, impeding progress toward a broader resolution.
The leader added on Friday that the Israeli occupation is adamant about not withdrawing from the Philadelphi Corridor during the first phase of the agreement, intending to postpone the withdrawal to the second phase. He also noted that Hamas informed mediators of its categorical rejection of allowing occupation forces to remain in the area during the initial 42 days of the agreement.
He further revealed that mediators had presented proposals for the occupation to gradually withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor during the first phase of the agreement. However, "Israel" rejected these proposals, maintaining its stance against an immediate or phased withdrawal.
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains steadfast in his insistence on keeping Israeli forces in the Philadelphi Corridor, an opinion poll revealed that 48% of Israelis support withdrawing from the area to facilitate a prisoner exchange deal with the Resistance.
On Thursday, Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas's deputy head in Gaza, said that Hamas reaffirms its commitment to the agreement reached following US President Joe Biden's proposal and the UN Security Council's decision on the Gaza Strip ceasefire.
He stressed that "The movement does not need any new documents or proposals from any party," adding that "the occupation must be forced to fulfill its commitments."
Al-Hayya also highlighted that any agreement must constitute an end to the aggression and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, including the Philadelphi Corridor and the Rafah crossing.
Additionally, it should ensure the unimpeded return of displaced people to their homes without "any inspections," along with the provision of humanitarian aid, and the reconstruction of the Strip, leading up to a prisoner exchange deal, he continued.
Al Mayadeen – September 6, 2024
Israelis kill US-Turkish activist in West Bank, shoot her in the head
An American activist volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement has been shot in the head by the IOF in Nablus.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) targeted and sniped a human rights activist and US-Turkish citizen in the head while she was peacefully protesting the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, an American-Turkish human rights activist, arrived in the West Bank on Tuesday to volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) as part of a campaign to protect Palestinian farmers from settler and IOF violence.
It is worth noting that Eygi would be the third ISM volunteer the IOF murdered, after Rachel Corrie in 2004 and Tom Hurndall in 2005.
"An American solidarity activist arrived at the hospital with a gunshot in the head, and we announced her martyrdom around 14:30," the director of Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, Fouad Nafaa said on Friday.
The Hamas Resistance movement issued a statement strongly condemning the Israeli crime that led to Eygi's martyrdom, stressing that it is an extension of the Israeli murders deliberately targeting international volunteers in occupied Palestine.
In July, foreign volunteers helping Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank were attacked and assaulted by Israeli settlers, with some having to be transported to the hospital to receive medical treatment for reported injuries, activists stated on Sunday.
Eight volunteers, most of whom are American, were attacked by a group of 11 Israeli settlers from the Esh Kodesh illegal settlement while working in an olive grove near the Palestinian village of Qusra, David Hummel, an American-German volunteer, said.
"We were standing there peacefully, not a threat to anyone when they started coming towards us and pushing us down the path," he told AFP, adding "They started attacking and beating us all with sticks and metal pipes and they were throwing rocks as well at us."
Hummel described the attack as "very violent" and showed AFP his bruises sustained after the settlers beat his legs, arms, and jaw.
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Arab regimes sitting idly by amid Israeli atrocities, Qur’an desecration, says Ansarullah leader
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has taken a swipe at certain Arab regimes over sitting idly by whilst the occupying Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its brutalities against the oppressed Palestinian nations and desecrates the holy Muslim book of Qur’an in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“Arab countries are simply watching the Zionist regime's crimes against Palestinians, arson attacks on mosques and desecration of copies of Holy Qur’an without taking a clear stance in this regard,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said in a televised speech broadcast from the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Thursday afternoon.
He underlined the significance of the spirit of jihad (endeavor for the sake of God) for the entire Muslim world, warning that Muslims will lose their dignity and independence if they overlook such an important issue.
“Some Arab countries and regimes try to appease the Zionist enemy and offer it concessions in return for their protection. No matter how beneficial these Arab regimes might be for the enemy, they will be discarded once they are no longer required.
“The concept of Jihad must be revived, and the most practical way to eliminate the Zionist enemy lies in this notion. The downfall of the enemy is certain and inevitable, and any other calculations in this regard is doomed to failure,” Houthi pointed out.
The Ansarullah chief went on to hail Gaza-based Palestinian resistance fighters for fighting off Israeli military forces with unsophisticated weapons, saying, “Even the big armies of some Arab countries could not withstand the attacks of the United States and the Zionist regime to the extent that Palestinian fighters have so far resisted in the Gaza Strip.”
He emphasized that Gazans are enduring brutal Israeli offensives and a genocidal war, which have stirred human consciences in non-Muslim countries.
“All Muslims have a moral and religious responsibility in the face of the Zionist regime’s attacks against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The collusion of some Arab regimes with the Zionist enemy, and their surrender to the Tel Aviv regime have become known to anyone. This is fairly humiliating,” Houthi stated.
The Ansarullah leader also lamented that many nations and governments in the Muslim world have almost lost the spirit of jihad, warning that such indolence prevents them from fulfilling their Islamic duties and entails terrible dangers.
Houthi also warned that hypocrites are trying to discourage Muslims from engaging in jihad.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Ansarullah chief pointed to Yemeni maritime operations against Israeli-affiliated merchant vessels in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stressing that enemies have acknowledged their failure to stop such retaliatory measures in the Red Sea and beyond.
“We continue our activities. We have already obtained favorable results concerning marine operations. We will surprise enemies on land, just as we did at sea, with new and sophisticated technologies,” he said.
Israel shouldn’t doubt Iran’s resolve to retaliate: Top military official
A ranking Iranian military official says the Israeli regime should not doubt the Islamic Republic’s resolve to retaliate over the regime’s assassination of senior Palestinian resistance leader, Ismail Haniyeh, which took place in Tehran in late July.
The Iranian Armed Forces’ Deputy Chief of Staff for Coordination, Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi made the remarks during a ceremony in the northwestern Iranian city of Koumeleh on Wednesday.
“The Zionist regime should not dream that Iran would not respond to this atrocity...because the Islamic Republic has [already] proven its will to deploy all its capacities towards responding to enemies’ violation of its soil and waters,” he said.
The official quoted remarks made by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei following the assassination, in which the Leader pledged that the Islamic Republic would deliver a “harsh response” to the atrocity.
“The time of the response, however, will be determined by the Leader and the country’s senior commanders,” Abdollahi noted.
Haniyeh, the late head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ Political Bureau, was assassinated alongside one of his bodyguards in the Iranian capital Tehran on July 31, a day after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Abdollahi cited several instances of the country’s successful retaliation against aggressors such as its steadfast defense of its soil during the 1980s in the face of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s invading army, which was being heavily armed by the West.
“The country’s security, power, and advancement are the results of the sacrifices that were made by its martyrs and fighters [during the war],” he said.
Abdollahi also enumerated Iran’s firing of volleys of ballistic missiles against United States-occupied bases in Iraq in January 2020 in response to Washington’s earlier assassination of the Islamic Republic’s senior anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
Iran’s response to the assassination came “while there had been no direct attack [like it] on the US’s interests throughout the previous 70 years,” the official stated.
He also pointed to the country’s retaliation of April 13 against a deadly attack by the Israeli regime that had targeted the consular section of the Islamic Republic's Embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus earlier that month. The reprisal saw Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) targeting the occupied Palestinian territories with a barrage of drones and missiles, inflicting damage on Israeli military bases there.
“There are many countries that have [various type of] equipment and weapons, but having the will to deploy these is a different matter, and the enemy knows that Iran possesses the will to do so,” Abdollahi said.
“Our enemies have been humiliated and do not dare to violate the Islamic Republic’s territory…,” he added, asserting, “Therefore, we say this to the global arrogance that it should not test the Iranian nation’s steadfastness once again.”
Al Mayadeen –September 6, 2024
Xi Jinping unveils $50Bln plan to strengthen China-Africa partnership
At the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit, a declaration and an action plan were adopted to build an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era.
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Friday that China is ready to work with Africa on implementing 10 partnership actions to promote modernization jointly, the Global Times report.
He also proposed elevating China's diplomatic relations with African countries to the level of strategic relations and advancing China-Africa ties to an "all-weather" community with a shared future for the new era.
Xi made these remarks during a keynote speech at the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing.
The three-year action plan includes cooperation in trade, industrial development, healthcare, rural revitalization, green development, security, and people-to-people exchanges.
China will provide Africa with 360 billion yuan ($50.69 billion) to support these initiatives, offering duty-free access to products from least developed African nations, expanding market access, and facilitating 30 infrastructure projects, including a sea-rail transport network.
Additionally, China will send 2,000 medical personnel, implement healthcare and clean energy programs, and create 1 million jobs through Chinese businesses in Africa.
China's commitment includes knowledge transfer, governance experience-sharing, and military cooperation, offering opportunities for development and empowerment across Africa.
Observers praised the plan for deepening economic ties, encouraging innovation, and supporting Africa's modernization goals.
Sena Voncujovi, an analyst of Africa-China relations from Ghana, told Global Times that inclusive economic globalization will be key to the "all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era."
He noted that China's partnerships are primarily in manufacturing, which is aiding Africa's industrialization, agricultural modernization, and integration into global supply chains.
Hamad Alhosani from TRENDS noted the importance of solidarity in this collaboration, particularly in a world marked by geopolitical tensions. For his perspective, FOCAC underscores cooperation rather than confrontation, thus positions China as a vital partner for Africa.
Song Wei, a scholar, added that the strengthened relationship demonstrates China's commitment to aligning and developing its national strategies alongside those of African nations.
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