⚡️Nikolay Mladenov, Executive Director of the Peace Council, in an interview with Israel's Channel 12:

Destroying all these tunnels in Gaza will take more than 10 years. Therefore, the Peace Council is currently exploring contracting with other companies and contractors who can actually carry out this work.

The Roadmap is a document to ensure that Gaza will never again pose a threat to Israel's security, and that the events of October 7th will never be repeated.

We are continuing our discussions, and I hope they will lead to a positive outcome for everyone, resulting in the complete disarmament of all weapons in Gaza—all weapons, including those in the hands of the police, those in the hands of the factions and militias, heavy weapons, and production facilities.

If the weapons are disarmed, removed from the factions, stored, and ultimately rendered unusable, then Israel will withdraw from Gaza.

Israel is currently positioned at the Yellow Line; that is where its forces are stationed. What we are asking is that the IDF not deploy its forces beyond the Yellow Line.

My experience over the past eight months is that without Egypt and the other mediators, Turkey and Qatar, we would not have been able to reach a point where Hamas agreed to the roadmap. Their contribution was absolutely crucial in this matter.

What happened on October 7th will never, ever be allowed to happen again, as long as we fully implement the Peace Council plan.

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Last Friday prayer in Gaza.

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Israeli settlers blocked Haaretz journalists from reaching a Palestinian home in the West Bank village of Qusra on Monday, attacking a reporter and photographer as they tried to reach the isolated property.

The incident occurred near a newly established settler outpost built in a yard of the Palestinian home on Sunday, blocking the family's access to the village with rocks.

Soldiers at the scene refused to assist the journalists, while Border Police officers who arrived more than an hour later said they were waiting for orders to remove the settlers.

Israeli soldiers were also filmed sitting alongside the settlers and joining them in prayer.

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Cartoon by Yemeni kamal Sharaf

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