Israeli army kills 3 Palestinians and storms a university in the West Bank
The Israeli occupation army killed 3 Palestinians, including a child, and wounded others, on Monday, June 29, while continuing to expand its areas of control in the Gaza Strip by expanding the "Yellow Line".
Medical sources said that "3 Palestinians were martyred and 5 others were wounded in shelling carried out by an Israeli march that targeted a gathering of civilians on Al-Baraka Street in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
The sources added that a young man and a woman were moderately wounded as a result of Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the area of Al-Sultan in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that a number of Israeli army vehicles infiltrated Salah al-Din Street in the vicinity of the electricity company in Nuseirat camp, amid gunfire and artillery shelling.
The sources stated that the occupation forces removed the cement blocks that symbolize the "Yellow Line" towards the west, about 150 meters, from the vicinity of the electricity company in the south towards the Gaza Valley Bridge in the north, indicating the expansion of the areas controlled by the occupation army in violation of the provisions of the ceasefire agreement.
Israel manipulates the "yellow line"
The sources added that residents were surprised on Monday morning by the presence of a number of concrete blocks along Salah al-Din Street in the area, indicating the expansion of areas controlled by the Israeli army, in violation of what was stipulated in the ceasefire agreement.
The Israeli army is stationed along the so-called "Yellow Line," a security strip imposed by Israel inside the Gaza Strip, preventing Palestinians from accessing nearby areas and controlling more than 70 percent of the Gaza Strip.
According to data from the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, Israeli violations as of Sunday resulted in the death of 1,041 Palestinians and the wounding of 3,372 others.
In total, since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 8, 2023, more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than 173,000 injured, in addition to extensive destruction of 90 percent of civilian infrastructure.
Israeli forces storm Birzeit University
At dawn on Monday, Israeli army forces stormed the campus of Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, and assaulted a security guard, before withdrawing from the area.
Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the campus of Birzeit University, north of Ramallah, assaulted the security guard, and also raided the building of the Faculty of Sports from the eastern side, and destroyed its contents.
The university administration published photos on its Facebook account showing the state of vandalism inflicted on the university facilities as a result of the Israeli forces' storming and searching buildings, stressing at the same time the defiance of the occupation authorities by not changing the dates of the exams and keeping them according to the approved schedules.
The Israeli army's incursions into Birzeit University are frequent, and usually include the arrest of students, assaults on employees, raids on university facilities, and the seizure of collectibles and publications related to student activities, according to the university and Palestinian institutions.
Is the occupation paving the way for the complete abolition of the role of the "Jerusalem Endowments"?
Palestinian sources warned of the danger of the frenzied movement of the occupation authorities towards a radical change in the management of Al-Aqsa Mosque, through cumulative steps targeting the Islamic Endowments Department and besieging its historical role in protecting the mosque, considering that the escalation of incursions, the prevention of journalists and the expulsion of employees aims to isolate Jerusalem in the media and impose a unilateral Israeli narrative of what is happening inside the mosque.
Successive developments show that the occupation is restricting anyone who tries to convey the image of Al-Aqsa to the world, from the arrest of activists and journalists to preventing the director of the mosque, Omar al-Kiswani, from speaking to the media, in an attempt to create an information vacuum that allows sensitive changes to be passed without Arab or Islamic reactions.
Researchers specialized in Jerusalem affairs believe that this blackout is not a temporary measure, but part of a political decision aimed at ending the role of the endowments in cooperation between the occupation government and the current US administration, which makes the only alternative to Israel's full control over the management of the mosque.
A Palestinian source warned that the occupation has now control the media narrative of Al-Aqsa, and that most of the images circulating in the Arab world originate from settler groups, while the Awqaf prevents the escalating violations from being exposed, considering that the Hashemite guardianship has become "formal", after the reduction in the number of guards and the removal of many of them from the mosque.
The source described the current situation as a direct threat to the religious identity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, in light of the occupation's attempts to impose change by military and intelligence force, while the world is facing a scene that is being carried out "live and live" without the ability to intervene or stop this path.