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The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday called on diplomats meeting in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank to condemn Israel's detention conditions of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry invited representatives of many countries, including European ones, and international organizations to watch three minutes of testimonies from Palestinians who have been detained in Israeli prisons in recent months.
"This is against all human rights laws and it must stop," said Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, the Palestinian Authority's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. "This is an issue that concerns us greatly," she continued, "and we hope it concerns the rest of the world as well."
Israeli jets broke the sound barrier over Saida and other areas of southern Lebanon, as well as in the Bekaa, L'Orient Today's correspondents in these regions report.

Photo sent by the head of the municipality to L'Orient Today's correspondent
The head of the Hibbariyeh municipality (Hasbaya), Ayman Choucair, called on "all those concerned to help extinguish the fires that have rekindled today in the forests of the village, and which have come closer to homes," following Israeli strikes.
Residents of Hibbariyeh are "calling for help," Choucair told L'Orient Today's correspondent. The forest fires broke out yesterday, following an Israeli strike, and have destroyed large green spaces. Firefighters from the Lebanese Civil Defense, the Hezbollah-affiliated Health Committee and the Amal Movement's al-Rissala Scouts are cooperating to control the fires, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent.
Choucair also said that the fire moved closer to a gas station located at the entrance to the village.
Hamas official Hossam Badran told AFP that the "intensification" of Israeli "massacres" in the Gaza Strip had the effect of strengthening his movement's demands, at a time when negotiations are due to resume with a view to a cease-fire.
Asked about Israeli operations in Gaza City, where the army has stepped up its offensive in recent days, Badran said Israel was trying "to put pressure on the negotiations by intensifying bombings, displacement and massacres, hoping that the resistance will give up its legitimate demands."
"But it will achieve the opposite result because the massacres are forcing us to stick to our demands for an end to the war and a withdrawal from Gaza," he added. "We cannot know for sure how far the negotiations will go despite the flexibility we have shown," Badran said, accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying "to prevent reaching an agreement for purely personal reasons."
During the first hours of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood launched on the morning of Oct. 7 by Hamas in Israel, fighters from the Palestinian movement attacked a vehicle in the Sderot region driven by an Israeli and carrying seven Gazans who had come to work legally in Israel.
This was reported by the Israeli daily Haaretz on Tuesday, recalling that the fate of these Palestinians remains unknown, some having probably been killed and their bodies still not identified.
Read the full story here.

Photo sent by the Civil Defense of the Scouts of al-Rissala to L'Orient Today's correspondent
Members of the Rissala Scouts Civil Defense (affiliated with the Amal movement) reported removing rubble and clearing roads in Taybeh (Marjayoun) after an Israeli attack on the town.
Israel bombarded inhabited areas around Hibbariyeh (Hasbaya) with white phosphorus munitions, according to local witnesses quoted by L'Orient Today's correspondent. Fires started due to these strikes, they added.

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The Israeli army launched four missiles on the town of Taybeh (Marjayoun), according to security sources quoted by L'Orient Today's correspondent.
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah has concluded his speech.
Nasrallah on the Lebanese front:
We will remain cautious, and we are preparing for the worst. If Netanyahu insists on continuing the fight, he is leading his country to its doom.
Nasrallah on a possible cease-fire agreement in Gaza:
If a cease-fire is established in Gaza, our front [in Lebanon] will stop fighting, we are committed to it because we are a support front. If there is no cease-fire, we will advise in due time.
If Israeli aggression occurs in Lebanon, we will not stand idly by, even if there is a cease-fire in Gaza.
Nasrallah:
The resistance launched the largest number of missiles with the death of Hajj Abu Naame and achieved new goals. We are not afraid of war and the enemy knows it.
Nasrallah addressing Israel:
When your tanks arrive at our borders, you know what awaits them. The resistance in Lebanon is ready and not afraid.
Nasrallah:
The Israelis first asked for the withdrawal of the al-Radwan force. But what do they think? It also has the Nasr Unit, the Aziz Unit, the Abbas Unit ... Whatever you want!
At first, they wanted to move us three km away from the border, because our rockets reach three to five km. Then, they found out that we have missiles of eight to 10 kilometers, so they asked us to move 10 km away. Israel is in a stalemate on the Lebanese front!
Nasrallah:
Israeli goals in Lebanon have decreased in intensity. In 2006, they wanted to destroy Hezbollah in Lebanon and failed to achieve their goals.
Nasrallah:
The Israeli army is now threatening to invade the region south of the Litani. If the Israelis win in Gaza, they will come to Lebanon.
Nasrallah on Rafah and Israeli leaders:
If the Israelis stop the operation on Rafah, they will be defeated. Netanyahu's stubbornness on Rafah is a sign of defeat and rout.
They are fools, idiots, those who ask us to retreat above the Litani. The Smotrichs, the Ben-Gvirs, the so-and-so and so-and-so.
Nasrallah:
The whole world is calling on Israel for a cease-fire. We will accept whatever Hamas accepts.
Nasrallah:
Everything that is happening in Gaza reflects a failure of the enemy. Israel wanted the return of the hostages or the annihilation of Hamas. It has been unable to do anything in 10 months.
Nasrallah:
Israel will have to stop the war, otherwise it will go adrift. The enemy is going through the worst period of its existence, in terms of the army, the economy and in terms of loss of credibility.
They even admitted to issuing the "Hannibal" directive, most of the civilians killed in Gaza were killed by the Israeli army!
Nasrallah:
The Israelis are afraid, not only of the possibility (for Hezbollah) of entering Galilee, but of the infiltration of small groups into occupied Palestine.
Nasrallah on Hezbollah's participation in the al-Aqsa Flood:
We want to continue to be part of the battle of of al-Aqsa Flood. We see the successes and exploits achieved day by day. And the enemy sees these successes well. From the beginning, we wanted this Lebanese support front to exhaust the enemy's forces, on the human, material, economic and psychological levels.
Through this pressure, we can make the enemy understand that the cease-fire on Israel's northern front depends on the ceasefire in Gaza. The Israelis are aware that a cease-fire in Gaza must be achieved because it is the only way to stop the fighting in the north.
Nasrallah on the commander of the party Hajj Abu Naame recently killed by Israel:
He participated in the 2006 war, 33 days on the front. He also led the Nasr Battalion special forces from 2004 to 2008 and fought Daesh in Syria.
Abu Naame fought in southern Lebanon from the start of hostilities last October until his death.
Hassan Nasrallah on the different regions controlled by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon:
After the 2006 war, the southern Litani region was divided into two military zones. From the sea to the center of this zone, it is the Aziz zone. From this central point to the Shebaa Farms, it is the Nasr zone.
Hezbollah said it bombarded Israeli artillery positions in Zaoura, in the occupied Syrian Golan, with dozens of Katyusha rockets, in response to the Israeli attack in the Bekaa last night.
Israeli jets broke the sound barrier twice over Saida in south Lebanon, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent. They have also done so over Beirut, according to residents.

Screenshot from al-Manar
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah began his speech by commemorating a party commander, Mohammad Naame Nasser, who was killed in an Israeli strike a week ago.
France said it is "unacceptable that schools, especially those sheltering civilian populations displaced by the fighting, should be targeted" by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip.
"The strike carried out yesterday on the Al-Awda school, which left several dead, is the third targeting a school for displaced people since last Saturday. We call for all light to be shed on these strikes," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Latest developments on the Lebanese-Israeli border:
– Israeli jets targeted a house in the village of Tayr Harfa (Sour), completely destroying it, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent. No injuries have been reported so far.
– The explosion of interceptor missiles was heard and seen in the airspace of the eastern sector of South Lebanon, according to residents quoted by our correspondent.
– The Israeli military said about 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel, Haaretz reports.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned of a "serious" shortage of medical equipment in the Gaza Strip, where no truck from the French NGO has been able to enter for more than two months, while the war continues to rage between Hamas and Israel.
"We are facing a serious shortage of many materials, such as compresses" or "surgical gloves," Amber Alayyan, head of MSF's medical program for Palestine, lamented in an interview with AFP in Paris. "No MSF truck has entered Gaza since the end of April," the NGO lamented in a statement dated July 5, urging Israel to open "more crossing points" into the besieged territory.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has claimed that the Israeli army has "eliminated or wounded 60%" of Hamas fighters after nine months of war with the Palestinian Islamist movement in the Gaza Strip, calling it a military "success," according to remarks reported by AFP.
Gaza's Health Ministry has announced a new death toll of 38,295 in the Palestinian territory since the start of the war with Israel, now in its tenth month.
At least 52 people have been killed in the last 24 hours, it said in a statement, adding that 88,241 people had been wounded in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7.
"Schools have gone from being safe places of education and hope for children to overcrowded shelters that often become a place of death and misery (...) Gaza is no place for children," Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said on X.
Israeli Minister Benny Gantz said, "It is time" to attack "the military targets and infrastructure of the state of Lebanon, of which Hezbollah is a part."
Speaking at a conference at Reichman University, Gantz, a former member of the war cabinet, said, "The operational effort should have been shifted to the north in March, as we demanded. We should have implemented a plan to return hostages even at painful costs, and moved the IDF north for a possible offensive."
Gantz accused Netanyahu of refusing to add to the war's objectives the return of northern residents to their homes by Sept. 1. "Unfortunately, the prime minister hesitated and we are paying the price. And the price is heavy," he said.
The Israeli army dropped leaflets on Gaza City on Wednesday, calling on "all people" in this northern locality of the besieged Palestinian territory to leave for the south via "security corridors," an AFP journalist reported.
"To all persons present in Gaza City, security corridors allow you to move quickly and without inspection from Gaza City to shelters in Deir el-Balah and Al Zawiya," says the leaflet seen by an AFP correspondent. "Gaza City is a dangerous combat zone," warns the text.
The Israeli team lands in Doha, Qatar, ahead of a summit on hostage talks with senior U.S., Egyptian and Qatari officials, according to Kan news.
Israel’s delegation is led by Mossad chief David Barnea.
Local and security sources quoted by our correspondent in the Bekaa, report an Israeli strike carried out during the night on Yanta, near the border with Syria, around 15 kilometers southwest of Baalbeck.
For its part, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for an operation against an Israeli army "building used by soldiers" in the town of Avivim, opposite the Lebanese village of Aitaroun (Bint Jbeil).
- At around 1 a.m., an Israeli drone targeted an apartment in a building in Braasheet (Bint Jbeil). Six people living in nearby buildings were injured by shards of glass, some of whom were treated on the spot and others transferred to Bint Jbeil hospitals by Civil Defense teams from the Islamic Health Committee (affiliated with Hezbollah). These were displaced persons from the neighboring villages of Aitaroun and Houla.
- At around 1:30 a.m., an Israeli air raid targeted the outskirts of Markaba (Marjayoun). Two missiles were fired, causing a fire that was brought under control by the rescue teams deployed on site.
In southern Lebanon, the night was marked by several Israeli strikes which left at least nine people injured and set off several fires in the border regions, according to local and security sources quoted by our correspondent:
- At around 10 p.m., Israeli aircraft attacked the village of Kfar Kila (Marjayoun district) twice, targeting a house in which three people were injured, one of them in critical condition. Two other homes in the same village were targeted by other raids later that night, with no further casualties reported. An Israeli drone targeted a car between Haddatha and Rshaf (Bint Jbeil), but the missile missed its target.
- At around 11 p.m., Israeli artillery targeted Yaroun (Bint Jbeil) twice with light bombs and a dozen shells.
Regarding the clashes between Hezbollah and Israel on the front line in southern Lebanon:
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah yesterday, stating, "Nasrallah, if you don't stop the threats and violence, you will be considered the destroyer of Lebanon."
In Geneva, 10 independent U.N. experts accused Israel of conducting a "starvation campaign" in Gaza, which they say is resulting in the deaths of children. "Israel's intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in starvation throughout the Gaza Strip."
The accusations were dismissed by the Israeli mission to the U.N. in Geneva.
In the north of the territory, Israeli troops bombarded Gaza City from the air and on the ground, in a major new offensive against Hamas.
This was the "most intense fighting in months," said Hamas.
Three other schools housing displaced persons have been hit since Saturday by Israeli bombardments which, according to Palestinian sources, have killed at least 20 people. In all three cases, the army said it had targeted "terrorists," after accusing Hamas of "using the inhabitants as human shields."
For its part, the Israeli army said it had targeted "a terrorist from the armed wing of Hamas" near the school, who had taken part in the attack on Oct. 7, and "verified reports that civilians were hit" in its fourth strike in four days on a school.
At least 29 Palestinians were killed yesterday in a strike on a school housing displaced persons in southern Gaza, Hamas said, while Israeli troops are engaged in a major offensive in the north of the territory.
"A strike targeted the door of the Al-Awda school in Abassan, east of Khan Younis. There were 29 martyrs," said a medical source at the town's Nasser hospital. Hamas blamed Israel, giving a similar death toll of 29, "mostly children and women."
"This massacre is a continuation of the crime of genocide that the occupying army has launched against our people for the 10th consecutive month", said the Islamist movement's press office.
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