🔻Scenes from the ambush against Ziopig army in the southern Jaba'a town of Jenin city two days ago

🔻The video shows a Zionist infantry force walking towards the point of ambush where Local Palastinian mujahideen launched a surprise attack on them


🔻Fierce zero distance clashes erupted at the spot which continued for a long time leaving several Ziopig soldiers dead n wounded

🔻The Zionist army then destroyed a water pipeline to wash away the filthy blood of its dead soldiers from the spot

🔻They also destroyed several CCTVs and electricity connection of that street in order to keep their losses hidden

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The funny thing is that the Zionist army didn't announce a single casualty or even "slight injury" during this operation but the resistance fighters and locals know how many Zionist losses occurred in that ambush

Every single Israeli raid or ground operation in the West Bank ends with several Zionist casualties but the Israeli army never announces it

imagine how many settlers and soldiers they have lost since the revival of armed resistance in the West bank in 3 Yrs
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This video was filmed by local sources who are not affiliated with resistance .

This means there's more to it and most probably the resistance has documented this operation with more details

This is indeed a significant operation

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🔽🔴A military statement issued by the Al-Qassam Brigades:

▪️We mourn to our people and the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation a knight of its noble knights:

▪️The martyr Mujahid Al-Qassam/
Muawiya Khaled Al-Hajj Ahmed
(From Tulkarm Camp)

▪️Who ascended to heaven yesterday morning, Thursday, 17 Safar 1446 AH corresponding to August 22, 2024 AD; accompanied by his two brothers, the martyr Mujahid Waseem Saber Anbar and Imad Tayseer Shraim, as a result of an assassination operation carried out by the treacherous Zionist aircraft while they were confronting the occupation forces’ invasion of Tulkarm Camp in the northern occupied West Bank.

▪️And we mourn the martyred Mujahid, to emphasize that the escalation of the occupation’s barbaric aggression against the city of Tulkarm and its two steadfast camps will only be an incentive for our people to further strive to wrest their stolen freedom from their usurping occupier.

▪️We also stress that our honorable Mujahideen, who wrote heroic deeds yesterday by confronting, clashing with, and detonating explosive devices against the Zionist forces that had penetrated various axes in Tulkarm Governorate, will remain the shield and support for our people alongside their Mujahideen brothers from various resistance factions.

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PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki:

The Palestinian Authority expects a large-scale Israeli operation in the West Bank, and I believe that we are well prepared for such a situation if it happens. It is clear that our people will resist, will remain, and will try to fight.

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The moment a rocket fell directly on a house in Kiryat Shmona, northern Palestine.

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Following Al-Qassam's ambush in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, and the targeting of Israeli forces stationed in the Netzarim corridor with multiple barrages of heavy-caliber mortar shells, multiple Hebrew sources have announced that 6 officers and soldiers were killed and over 10 wounded.

So far there are reports documenting 7 helicopters transferring dead and wounded from Gaza to Israeli hospitals

The real numbers are much higher, and the Israeli army won’t announce the actual figures.

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Occupation terrorists storm Kafr Jamal village, south of Tulkarm.

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🚨🚨🚨Karim Khan is NOT sleeping!🚨🚨🚨

Today, Karim Khan submitted a 49-page response to the various drama statements and excuses submitted to the ICC by assorted governments trying to shield the occupation from its responsibilities under international law.

I’ll try to recap the most relevant “F U Israel” Khan wrote. But, there are SO may that I might inadvertently have missed some. Apologies for that! Let’s start.

History of the proceedings:

1 January 2015: Palestine accepts the ICC’s jurisdiction for crimes allegedly committed “in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, since June 13, 2014”

2 January 2015: Palestine accedes to the Rome Statute by depositing its instrument of accession with the UN Secretary-General

1 April 2015: the Statute enters into force in Palestine, while Palestine develops an active role in the work of the Assembly of States Parties (“ASP”), contributes to the Court’s budget, and participates in the adoption of resolutions by the ASP.

16 January 2015: the Prosecutor opens a Preliminary Examination into the Situation in the State of Palestine.

22 May 2018: Palestine refers this situation to the Prosecutor requesting “the Prosecutor to investigate, in accordance with the temporal jurisdiction of the Court, past, ongoing and future crimes within the court’s jurisdiction, committed in all parts of the territory of the State of Palestine”.

22 January 2020: the Prosecution requests the Pre-Trial Chamber I to rule on the scope of the Court’s territorial jurisdiction

28 January 2020: the Chamber expressly invites Israel to provide observations on the question identified by the Prosecution

20 February 2020: the Chamber allows numerous legal representatives of victims, States Parties, intergovernmental orgs, and amici curiae to provide observations. The Chamber received submissions from some 11 groups of one or more victims, 31 States Parties, and 34 academics or NGOs.

30 April 2020: the Prosecution files a consolidated response

5 February 2021: the Chamber issues its Article 19(3) Decision, confirming Palestine is a State Party and a State for the purposes of article 12(2)(a) of the Statute, that the territorial scope of the ICC’s jurisdiction in this situation extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967 and that the Oslo Accords do not bar the initiation of the Prosecution’s investigation.

3 March 2021: the Prosecutor announces the opening of the investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine with respect to crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court that are alleged to have been committed in the Situation since 13 June 2014.

17 November 2023: South Africa, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Comoros and Djibouti refer the Situation to the Prosecutor.

18 January 2024: Chile and México also refer the Situation to the Prosecutor.

20 May 2024: the Prosecutor publicly announces his intention to apply under article 58 for the arrest of five persons in the Situation in the State of Palestine

10 June 2024: the United Kingdom requests leave to provide observations on “[w]hether the Court can exercise jurisdiction over Israeli nationals, in circumstances where Palestine cannot exercise criminal jurisdiction over Israeli nationals pursuant to the Oslo Accords”.

27 June 2024: the Chamber grants the United Kingdom’s request to file observations and invites any further requests under rule 103 to be submitted by 12 July 2024.

22 July 2024: after receiving over 70 applications from individuals, organisations, and States, the Chamber grants leave to most applicants to provide observations by 6 August 2024

9 August 2024: the Chamber allows the Office of Public Counsel for the Defence (“OPCD”) to file observations by 16 August 2024. It also authorises the Prosecution to file a consolidated response of no more than 53 pages by 26 August 2024.


Khan immediately sets the tone:

Israel has occupied Palestine since 1967. As the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) held in its Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024, Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (“oPt”) is unlawful.

The territory occupied includes Gaza, over which Israel exercises a range of forms of control. It has done so both before and after its unilateral disengagement in 2005, and before and after its military operations in response to the attacks of 7 October 2023. It includes the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Israel has established, maintained, and expanded settlements in violation of international law.

Israel has also engaged in policies and practices in violation of international law that have resulted in the annexation of large parts of the oPt, that entail systematic discrimination, and that impede the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.

He writes:

As described above and as victims participating in these proceedings have asserted: “the situation clearly did not start on 7 October 2023”, pointing out that the Oslo Accords “should be considered an agreement between an occupying power (Israel) and a local authority (the Palestinian Liberation Organization) regulating aspects of the occupation.

He submits that:

The Chamber should dismiss all submissions related to the Oslo Accords, because the matter has already been adjudicated several times (so-called res judicata).

The cases identified by the Prosecution are admissible because Israel is not investigating Netanyahu and Gallant for substantially the same conduct as alleged in the submission

The legal framework of the ICC relies solely on the evidence brought by the Prosecutor (art 58)

The public announcement of the Prosecutor of his intention to apply for arrest warrants was legitimate because it’s a public proceeding, and it has been done in at least 4 other cases.

The UK misinterpreted the reasoning in the Article 19(3) Decision on the Oslo Accords.

My favourite bits:

Certain interveners argue that the Oslo Accords bar the exercise of the Court’s jurisdiction over international crimes committed on the territory of the State of Palestine by Israeli nationals. This argument is without merit. First, it is inconsistent with the Statute when interpreted in accordance with ordinary modes of treaty interpretation under international law and the Court’s consistent jurisprudence, and wrongly seeks to treat the State of Palestine differently from every other State Party. Second, the argument that the Oslo Accords bar jurisdiction is premised on a misunderstanding of foundational concepts of jurisdiction under international law, including under the law of occupation, as well as their implications for the Court’s exercise of jurisdiction under the Statute.

When a State becomes a party to the Statute, it accepts the jurisdiction of the Court. The Court is endowed with jurisdiction in relation to crimes committed on the State’s territory or by its nationals.

As made explicit in article 47 of GCIV, and as recently applied by the ICJ in its Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024, such an agreement [the Oslo Accords] shall not “in any case or in any manner whatsoever” deprive protected persons of the benefits of the Convention or “be understood to detract from Israel’s obligations under the pertinent rules of international law.

The juicy legal bits:

The American Sociological Association has decided to divest from the occupation.

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Joint Statement: 50 Days of a Labour Government and arms sales to Israel continue unabated

On Labour's 50th day in office, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, Global Legal Action Network, War on Want, and the Campaign Against Arms Trade have written a joint statement condemning the UK government for its inaction on suspending arms sales to Israel.

You can read it on their site:

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