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Oct 16

🧵 We’re sharing key takeaways from a briefing today with two senior advisers to Donald Trump, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity.

The advisers outlined Washington’s evolving approach to Gaza’s reconstruction, post-war governance, Hamas’ disarmament, and ceasefire implementation — signaling notable shifts in U.S. policy since the start of the Trump administration.

1. On Forced Displacement of Palestinians

Washington has done a full reversal — from previously backing plans that would have ethnically cleansed Gaza and redeveloped it into a “Middle-East Riviera” to reiterating today that Palestinians will not be forced to leave the Strip while it is being rebuilt.

One advisor said:

“These are tough people. They’ve been through a lot, and they seem to be resilient. They’re coming back to their homes, and they’re pitching tents. People feel very invested in the places where they live. It’s remarkable to see,” he says.

“While there are Palestinians who have left because the living conditions are that difficult… no one is forcing any Palestinians to leave,” the senior Trump adviser said.

2. On Disarmament of Palestinian Resistance and Demilitarization of Gaza

The senior advisers acknowledged that demilitarizing Gaza will be one of the most complex and difficult elements of the ceasefire negotiations.

“Right now we’re in the process of defining how to get there in a way where everyone feels safe,” the adviser said. “It’s not realistic to think everyone’s just going to walk in, drop their arms and say, ‘There you go.’”

He described widespread fear among Palestinians:

“A lot of the people, even on the Hamas side, are fearful of retribution from other people inside Gaza. So it’s a very complex dynamic.”

Still, he said Arab mediators and the U.S. “want to continue to work together to find a way to do it,” adding, “We’re all working very closely, creatively and aggressively to find the right outcome that satisfies everyone’s objectives.”

3. On Reconstruction

Regardless, the Trump adviser stated that all mediators agree that “no rebuilding money will go into areas that Hamas controls.”

“Hamas-free, terror-free zones” will be rebuilt first and those areas “hopefully can be the examples for what could be possible in the whole place if this program is successful.”

“We’ll know over the coming weeks if the right plan develops” for demilitarizing Gaza, the adviser said.

“If Hamas tries to reconstitute in a way that will pose a long term threat for Israel, that would be a violation of the agreement, but we’re not at a point yet where anyone feels like the agreement has been violated,” he adds.

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Oct 13

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again that Israeli soldiers had killed his entire family – a form of psychological torture, he said, meant to break him. But when he walked up the stairs of his Gaza home today, his wife rushed into his arms, his children and parents beside her – alive, waiting, and all of them delirious with relief and joy.

One of the 1700 Palestinians of Gaza who returned home today after being abducted and tortured by an illegal occupation.

He is photojournalist Shadi Abu Sido who was abducted by occupation forces from Al-Shifa hospital in March 2024.

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Oct 8

🟡 Statement Issued by the Media Office of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine

A leadership delegation from the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine will arrive tonight in Sharm El-Sheikh to participate in the ongoing indirect negotiations concerning a ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation army, reaching a prisoner exchange deal, and the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip.

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine – Media Office
Wednesday, 16 Rabi' al-Thani 1447 AH | October 8, 2025 AD

On the ground, the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of PIJ, marked the second anniversary of the October operation by reaffirming a pledge to continue resistance until occupation ends. The group said it seeks an end to the war and lifting of the siege — but warned that enemy prisoners “will not see the light of day except through an honorable exchange deal in which the Zionist entity commits to ending the war.”

The statement also praised allied forces and urged intensified actions across the West Bank. Full statement below.

“On the second anniversary of the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa”

Military statement issued by the Al-Quds Brigades
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O masses of our steadfast and steadfast Palestinian people, today marks the second anniversary of the heroic Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, which coincides with the thirty-eighth anniversary of our blessed jihad, a turning point in the history of the conflict with the Zionist enemy. During this period, the Palestinian resistance wrote one of the greatest battles against Nazism and the Zionist oppression of our people over the course of decades. During this period, the enemy practiced all forms of killing, destruction, and displacement against our people everywhere, in blessed Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank, and in the Gaza Strip. It bombed, besieged, and starved, recording the worst holocaust and tragedy throughout the ages, in full view of the world, which watched silently.

Two years ago, the Palestinian resistance carried out a blessed operation against enemy army positions along the fence east of the Gaza Strip. Our heroic fighters displayed great scenes of heroism, courage, and sacrifice. They captured a large number of captured soldiers and officers and engaged in direct clashes from ground zero. During these operations, our fighters killed hundreds of enemy soldiers and captured dozens. Our resistance offered convoys of its finest fighters as martyrs, wounded, and prisoners.
Since that date, our resistance has continued to confront this criminal, murderous enemy, which has declared a destructive and devastating war, killing tens of thousands of defenseless civilians in Gaza, the majority of whom are children, women, and the elderly. However, the resistance has found no way to undermine the resolve of our steadfast, rooted people who cling to their land and homeland.
Over the course of two years of fighting, the resistance has been committed to stopping this war and alleviating the suffering of our people. It has offered all the necessary flexibility to conclude an agreement whose sole condition is ensuring an end to the war and the lifting of the siege on our people. However, the Netanyahu government has continued the war to achieve the goals of his extremist coalition.

Two years have passed since the Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa, and we are still confronting the enemy's army divisions, brigades and battalions, which are destroying homes, streets and buildings in Gaza. We are confronting its forces and inflicting losses on them in the longest battle with this enemy since the establishment of its temporary entity. During this battle, we have offered hundreds of fighters and leaders as martyrs who were at the forefront of tens of thousands of our Palestinian people during two years of fierce fighting and unparalleled steadfastness with minimal resources on the road to Jerusalem and liberation. This battle, which witnessed great steadfastness from our resistance, prevented the enemy from achieving its declared goals.

We, in the Al-Quds Brigades, as the second anniversary of the blessed Battle of the Flood of Al-Aqsa passes, we affirm the following:

1- Our people's resistance, led by the Al-Quds Brigades and the Al-Qassam Brigades, will continue as long as the occupation exists, and we will spare no effort in fighting it. We have prepared ourselves for a long war of attrition that will not stop or retreat until it is eliminated.

2- The fate of the so-called "Gideon 2" operation, which involves systematic destruction, mass murder, and psychological terrorizing of our people, will only lead to more disappointment, defeat, and defeat.

*3- We affirm that we and all Palestinian resistance factions will spare no effort to find a way to end this war and the suffering experienced by our people in the Gaza Strip. We have been keen to achieve this for many months.*

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Oct 6

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention.

Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.

Greta Thunberg:

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.

What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an entire population, an entire nation in front of our very eyes.”

Greta:

“I will never comprehend how humans can be so evil. That you would deliberately starve millions of people living trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”

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Oct 5

“Hamas’s Strategic Gamble”

Thread on the latest report by Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill 🧵

1. Trump’s Plan and the Stakes
➤ Trump unveiled a 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan, framing it as an ultimatum: accept or face escalation.
➤ Plan includes prisoner exchange, ceasefire, aid, withdrawal — but also Palestinian national issues like foreign troop deployment, an international board run by Trump and Tony Blair, and Palestinian disarmament.
➤ Both Trump and Netanyahu said rejection would mean intensified war.

2. Limits of Mandate

➤ Palestinian factions agreed Hamas and Islamic Jihad could negotiate on exchange, ceasefire, aid, and withdrawal.
➤ Mohammed al-Hindi (Islamic Jihad deputy head) told Drop Site:
“Regarding the resistance factions, our jurisdiction is concerning matters of prisoner exchanges in return for halting the aggression, withdrawal, the entry of aid, and stopping the policy of displacement against our people. As for the national issues, the resistance factions are not authorized to speak on them alone, as these concern all factions and forces of the Palestinian people everywhere.”

3. Hamas’s Dilemma

➤ Past: Hamas amendments were spun as rejections by US and Israel → led to more massacres.
➤ Outright rejection of Trump’s plan = risk being cast as rejecting peace.
➤ Acceptance = surrender.

Hamas needed a middle course.

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Oct 2

REPORT | Dr. Mohammed Al-Hindi, deputy head of Islamic Jihad, on Trump’s Gaza plan, and the wider struggle:

1. A Plan Drafted for Netanyahu
➤ Al-Hindi called the Trump draft “a congratulatory note between Trump and Netanyahu” — written to give the occupation, on paper, what it failed to win after two years of war.

➤ He explained that the revisions openly legitimize Netanyahu’s core positions: rejecting a Palestinian state outright and reducing it to a mere “aspiration,” while permitting annexation of the West Bank.

➤ Trump himself, Al-Hindi noted, “said he now accepts Netanyahu’s rejection of a Palestinian state,” showing the draft was tailored to accommodate Israel’s stubbornness and defiance of international law and repackage it as international consensus.

2. Criminalizing Resistance
➤ The text begins with the demand that Gaza be “free of terrorism.” Al-Hindi said this means nothing less than “free of resistance” and Gaza stripped of arms necessary for liberation.

➤ He stressed that this wording locks in Israel’s version of events:

“From the very first line, it reinforces Israel’s claim that the problem is a security problem, that on October 7 terrorists attacked Israel. It erases that this is an occupation, decades of aggression, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.”

➤ By framing the resistance as “terrorism,” he argued, the draft makes any Palestinian faction a criminal entity and rewrites the entire conflict: “It is not a question of occupation and national liberation anymore, but of ‘terrorists’ who must be disarmed and expelled.”

3. Trusteeship and U.S.–Israeli Control
➤ Al-Hindi warned the plan imposes a system of foreign control that strips Palestinians of sovereignty: It hands sovereignty to a “Board of Peace” led by Trump and Tony Blair, effectively giving security to Israel and municipal services to unelected technocrats.

➤ Under this arrangement, all political, security, and economic decisions would fall under international trusteeship — an American mandate in Israel’s favor.

➤ “It cancels any national political process, even with the Palestinian Authority, which would be forced into “reforms” based on American and Israeli standards,” he warned.

4. Al-Hindi’s On Terms of the Deal
➤ He said the factions “have no objection to a comprehensive deal” where all prisoners are released in exchange for:
1. A real and permanent halt to aggression
2. Full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza
3. Relief and reconstruction
for the Palestinian people.

➤ He said: “We seek amendments that guarantee withdrawal, the halt to aggression, and safeguards against displacement. We want a written guarantee that the war will stop… and we want to guarantee against expelling our people outside Gaza.”

5. The 72-Hour Demand is Impossible
➤ The draft requires all captives be released within 72 hours.

➤ “Even if they were in one house, it could not be done in 72 hours. With the destruction, bombardment, and graves of Gaza — everyone knows this is impossible.”

6. Withdrawal Must Be Scheduled
➤ The only scheduled item in the plan is the release of Israeli prisoners.
➤ “[Israeli] withdrawal is left vague and tied to disarmament. We demand it be phased and explicitly linked to prisoner releases.”

7. Guarantees to Stop the War
➤ Al-Hindi insisted that without guarantees, Israel will resume killing under any pretext:
“We want a written guarantee of a true end to aggression. Not two days for prisoner handover, then Israel resumes its massacres, as it has in Lebanon and Syria.”

8. On Disarmament
➤ “These are not the weapons of Hamas or Jihad. They are the weapon of the Palestinian people. We are in a stage of national liberation. We will not give them up.”
➤ He warned that surrendering arms is a trap: “When Palestinians surrendered their weapons in Lebanon, the massacres of Sabra and Shatila followed.”

Continued… 👇

9. Trump’s Threats Do Not Intimidate
➤ Trump threatened to give Israel a green light to “finish the job militarily” if factions refused within 72 hours.
➤ Al-Hindi replied: “Tons of American bombs have already fallen on our people from American planes with American intelligence. This threat does not frighten us.”

10. Starvation and Massacres
➤ He acknowledged the Israeli siege, engineered starvation, and daily civilian massacres as “the real pressure” facing the resistance.
➤ “Our hearts bleed for our people. But does this plan stop the aggression? That is the key.”

11. National Project Cannot Be Surrendered
➤ Al-Hindi said the plan attempts to liquidate the Palestinian national project and replace it with foreign trusteeship under Trump, Blair, and Israel.
➤ “These questions — Gaza, the West Bank, the future of Palestine — belong to all Palestinians. No faction can surrender them.”

12. Closing Message
➤ “We will not be deceived by illusions and false promises. We will not allow the issue to be reframed as ‘Palestinian terrorism.’ The real issue is occupation, U.S.–Israeli hegemony, and genocide. Our people are not broken, and we will not surrender our rights.”

📌 TLDR: Al-Hindi divided the issues raised by the deal into two distinct buckets.

➤ Resistance Issues:

The exchange of captives, a ceasefire, and Israeli withdrawal — all require clear schedules and guarantees.

And seek clarification on clause about demands to ‘decommission arms,’ since “these are the arms of the Palestinian people in a liberation struggle.”

➤ National Issues:

Broader questions—“the day after,” governance of Gaza, the West Bank, and the future of the Palestinian cause—cannot be decided by one faction.

Al-Hindi said these require all-Palestinian consultation. He warned the current Trump plan reduces Palestinian sovereignty to a trusteeship, giving Israel security control, the U.S. hegemony, and “technocrats” municipal authority—an arrangement he called an American mandate in Israel’s favor.

🔗 Full Interview Al Araby:

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