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Rejecting trump Gaza plan

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad has also reacted to Trump's so-called Gaza ceasefire plan. The movement rejected the American-Israeli truce proposal as a recipe for igniting the region. The Islamic Jihad said the plan announced by Trump and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is an American-Israeli agreement, which expresses Tel Aviv’s full position. It added that the plan is a formula to continue the aggression against the Palestinian people. The movement noted that by accepting this proposal, Israel seeks to impose on Palestinians what it could not achieve through war. Gaza’s Government Media Office also rejected the plan, saying it offers no just or durable solution. The office warned that the plan only seeks to legitimize Israeli occupation and strip Palestinians of their national, political and human rights. It noted that the only way to end the genocide is to stop Israel’s attacks, lift the blockade of Gaza, end the systematic extermination of Palestinians, and guarantee their right to live in freedom and establish an independent state.

US-Israeli Gaza genocide

Israeli forces kill more Palestinian civilians as they press ahead with their military aggression against Gaza City, focusing their latest attacks on the city’s hospitals. On Monday, the regime’s forces conducted an extensive military operation around Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City. They also carried out a ground military maneuver, advancing along two axes, and penetrating the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital. Other units moved from the south to impose a military cordon around the hospital. Israeli forces have also besieged Gaza City’s Al-Helou International Hospital, targeting it with a barrage of artillery shells, despite the presence of dozens of patients and displaced persons inside. Local sources say Israeli forces have surrounded the hospital from all sides, with tanks approaching its perimeter. More than 90 people, including medical staff and patients, are trapped inside the hospital, amid a complete disruption of communications and the internet. Israeli forces also killed five Palestinian aid seekers on the same day. The toll from the Israeli genocide now exceeds 66,000 with nearly 168,350 others injured.

Iran nuclear program

Iran's foreign minister has slammed the US and three European parties to the 2015 nuclear deal for abusing the agreement’s so-called snapback mechanism to reinstate expired UN sanctions on Tehran. Abbas Araghchi was speaking during a meeting with secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres. Araghchi described the move as an unprecedented blow to diplomacy, and a sign of lack of goodwill on the part of those countries. He stressed that UN Security Council Resolution 2231 and all restrictions resulting from it on Iran's peaceful nuclear program should expire on October 18. Araghchi referred to the US-Israeli aggression against Iran's territorial integrity and its nuclear facilities, calling it a betrayal of diplomacy and a blatant violation of international law and the UN charter. Iran's top diplomat also stressed that the UN and its secretary general shoulder a special responsibility for safeguarding the principles and objectives of the UN Charter.

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