PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:46 pm - Jerusalem Time

28 injuries in traffic accidents in Gaza last week

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Gaza Traffic Department announced, on Saturday, that it had recorded 28 injuries during 47 traffic accidents last week (from 7 to 13 January).


According to the statistics, among the injuries, there was a serious condition, 4 were moderate and 23 were minor.


56 vehicles sustained material damage and damage, according to the statistics.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:46 pm - Jerusalem Time

Will America abandon the Middle East??

Washington - "Al Quds" dot com - Saeed Erekat - Russia's invasion of Ukraine not only highlighted the key role to be played by Gulf oil producers, but also embodied the dangers of allowing Russia and China to gain influence with traditional partners that the United States or, in the case of Saudi Arabia, took for granted. Saudi Arabia, outcasts, this is what the newspaper "Foreign Policy" published today, Wednesday.


According to the report: “Diplomatic officials sent President Joe Biden on a packed and packed tour of the region to spread American flags and begin to repair the damage done to the region, but comforting though the headlines of the visit may sound like Saudi Arabia opening airspace to Israeli flights, and the defense coalition The atmosphere of the Middle East (which includes Israel and Arab countries) is beginning to take shape, so the trends do not seem comfortable to the same extent.


From hydrocarbons to Iran, Israel and Palestine and curbing Chinese and Russian influence and human rights, the current US administration faces remote prospects for success in a region marred by seemingly insurmountable challenges and which still has real doubts about US resolve and survival. Given the fraught relationship between Biden and the crown prince Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi Biden would not have been likely to visit Saudi Arabia had Russia not invaded Ukraine, disrupting global oil supplies and causing fuel prices to soar in the United States.


Saudi Arabia:


Nor did the administration want to make oil the focal point of the visit, lest it appear that the president was trading in hydrocarbons to give the crown prince an excuse for his appalling human rights record, and also because any increase in Saudi oil production is expected to be modest. Motivated by the need to Maintaining market discipline and the advantage of keeping prices high, the Saudis have no intention of breaching the OPEC+ agreement with Russia, in which the two parties agreed to slowly restore monthly collective production at a rate of just 400,000 barrels per day, and Riyadh is likely to exploit its spare capacity in light of the oil market Which may get tighter by the end of the year. Regarding the reduction in fuel prices, which are currently falling due to the slowdown in the Chinese economy, it is not clear what kind of impact any modest Saudi increase could have.”


The report notes, "Given the president's strong view that the twenty-first century will see conflict between democracies and authoritarian regimes, it would seem natural that Washington would want to foster relationships with important countries that could be vital in what could turn into a new, protracted Cold War." Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, for example, are not limited to autocratic rule, but they have also proven that they are keen to hedge and reluctant to choose the United States over Russia” and that “this is not only due to their dissatisfaction with the withdrawal of the United States from the region, but they also want to balance Their relations between Washington, Beijing and Moscow because it makes sense for their long-term interests.”


As for Israel, it is hedging its bets a bit, including by distancing itself from harsh criticism of Russia's activities in Ukraine and bringing Chinese investment into Haifa port.


That the United States will remain the main security partner for the Gulf states, but not at the expense of abandoning cooperation with Russia and China. Biden has raised the issue of human rights publicly and in private meetings with Saudi leaders, where he has spoken of Khashoggi's assassination. But in essence, Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia and the image of the fist salute that spread around the world represent Washington's closure of the Khashoggi file. Nearly four years after his murder, there is still no accountability for the personal role of the Crown Prince. In short, Mohammed bin Salman got away with a murder, and legitimacy was conferred on him. "It is now led by an American president who truly believes in affirming American values. Moreover, the Saudi regime accepts no dissent and wages a massive campaign to criminalize any dissent and detain, imprison and torture anyone who speaks against the regime."


And the report added: “According to Freedom House, the government has also launched a cross-border crackdown to harass and intimidate opponents in at least 14 countries. None of these issues were raised in the Biden meetings, and there was no expectation or pressure on the Saudis to change their behaviour. The Biden administration’s defense of human rights, democracy, and freedom against Russian aggression in Ukraine on the one hand, and then meeting with Arab authoritarian leaders on the other hand without any serious discussion about the need for political reform and respect for basic rights is very clear.In this way, the Biden administration has not only failed on this issue, Rather, it left the region with the decline of the status and credibility of the American president.


Iran and the Iranian nuclear file:


The report notes that “Making significant progress on the Iranian nuclear issue was too burdensome under any circumstances. Simply put, the answer to the Iranian nuclear file lies neither in Jerusalem nor in Jeddah but in Tehran – and now Iran is not interested in making a deal that Washington can accept. Hence, The focus of the visit was to create an environment that might pressure Tehran into making a decision while supporting alliances if it did not.Although the acrimony and resolve over Iran resonated strongly in Israel and in some Arab circles, it is also likely that they have heightened tensions and thus concerns among many countries. Gulf Arab states that military action against Iran could really happen - and if it did, they would be the most threatening.


And he shows, "Many of these Gulf countries enjoy important relations with Iran, and none of them wants to be the spearhead of the United States - let alone the Israelis - in a war with Iran. But the unspoken and sad truth is that American policy towards Iran is stuck between returning to the agreement." Nuclear conflict and conflict that Washington really wants to avoid, and Biden's visit did little to solve this conundrum.


The Israeli-Palestinian conflict:


The report notes that “the Israeli-Palestinian issue received very brief attention, and the focus was mainly on the economy and institution-building. It is not clear whether Biden touched on his commitment to reopening the independent US consulate in Jerusalem – which worked, before it was closed by President Donald Trump In 2018, as the de facto US embassy to the Palestinians, Israeli settlement activity, which stopped during the visit, was not mentioned in Biden's public statements either. The Palestinians were also deeply disappointed that Biden failed to discuss any responsibility or accountability on the part of Israel for The killing of the (American-Palestinian) journalist, correspondent of Al-Jazeera Network, Sherine Abu Aqleh.In short, the peace process does not concern Biden or the Israeli government, and the Palestinians do not have a strategy to deal with the new regional alliance between Israel and the Arab Gulf states, which leaves them isolated, as was evident in May The past during the confrontation between Israel and Hamas, Washington will only intervene when it has to.


“Communication makes sense if it is creative, consistent, realistic, and based on the principle of reciprocity, where the United States can give gifts to its allies and partners, but it must get something in return. On this visit, there was a lot of giving on the part of Biden, but it did not happen.” I get a lot in return, while downplaying or fundamentally ignoring the hard issues — Israel, Palestine, human rights, Russia in Ukraine.”


The authors conclude, "This visit was merely an immediate, time-limited response to the demands created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, domestic US economic challenges, and an uncertain path forward with Iran. Preoccupied with domestic challenges that lack consensus even within his own party, Biden has transformed within a few days to focus on Russia and China in this troubled region." They conclude their article by noting that Biden confirms that he will not move away from the Middle East and that the United States has returned, but the question after this visit is how long will this last?


The report was written by Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; And a member of the American negotiating team for peace talks in the Middle East during the eras of President Yosh Sr. and Bill Clinton, and Daniel Kurtzer, a former US ambassador to Egypt and Israel who teaches diplomacy and conflict resolution at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:46 pm - Jerusalem Time

Exposing the circumstances of the case of incitement through social media in Jenin

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Tuesday, the police revealed the circumstances of the case of incitement via social media, and arrested the suspect in Jenin.


The Department of Public Relations and Information in the police stated that, based on a complaint submitted by a citizen in the governorate to the General Investigation Branch, about an unknown person publishing inflammatory posts against him on Facebook.


And through electronic research and investigation by the Electronic Crimes Department, a person was suspected and arrested, and after hearing his statements, he reported that he had incited the complainant through the Facebook site.


The police confirmed the detention of the arrested person until he was referred to the competent authorities to follow up on the necessary legal procedures against him.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

He refused to submit to the occupation.. Farmer Abu Farha: Threats to farmers in Al-Jalama are "soft displacement" to plunder the land

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - Despite the occupation's threats and continuous harassment, the latest of which was his notification to vacate his land near the apartheid fence within the borders of the village of Al-Jalama , north of Jenin, and to remove greenhouses and agricultural crops, the farmer, Abu Muhammad Abu Farha, refuses to submit and abandon He and his family's source of livelihood, and calls on all ministries and concerned authorities to stand by the farmers of Al-Jalama, to thwart and confront the occupation's policies aimed, as he says, "to plunder the land, forcibly empty it, and destroy the agricultural sector in the area, which is considered agricultural of the first degree."


“Soft displacement” is the description given by the farmer Abu Farha to the new Israeli decision, which affected dozens of landowners and farmers in the Al-Jalama area, after the occupation distributed notices to them to remove greenhouses and move them from the area for tens of meters, and he said, “This land was inherited from father to grandfather, We work on it all our lives, and there is no substitute for it, so that we can live a decent life and provide a future for our families. How will I move it and to where, when there is no other land for me and other farmers? It is a decision to destroy, cleanse and expel us indirectly.”


Permanently, Abu Farha and his brother spend their days working on their land and taking care of their greenhouses and other agricultural crops, but the occupation cut them off, and they are threatened with losing their main and only source of income, in the event that the occupation implements the decision to remove the greenhouses, and he says, "What is happening today is a continuation of the war." The occupation is against the agricultural sector in the village of Al-Jalama, which is considered part of the main food basket in the West Bank and the occupied Palestinian interior, in addition to their most dangerous goal of emptying the land of the population.” Their fear and anxiety about the Israeli aggressions and sanctions, but whatever they practice, I will not leave my land.”


Abu Farha explains that the agricultural sector in Al-Jalama has suffered and is still suffering in light of the occupation practices that have not stopped over the past years, from storming the area, closing roads, firing bullets and gas bombs, and not allowing them to work on their lands, whether in the early morning or evening hours. And sometimes there is deliberate and repeated shooting to intimidate farmers and expel them from the land, explaining that these practices prompted some farmers to sell their lands, and he added, "Unfortunately, there is neglect and marginalization of the Palestinian farmer despite his steadfastness and the violations and practices he is exposed to to confiscate his land and destroy his crops, which pushes some to leave the land Agriculture and work in other fields.


Abu Farha confirms the seriousness of the new notices, which call on farmers to destroy their crops and greenhouses. He added, "We demand practical and immediate action from the concerned, governmental and international institutions in order to put pressure on Israel to back down from its arbitrary and unjust starvation decision."

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

The fall of a photographic plane.. "The Lions' Den" reveals the foiling of a plan to "annihilate" it

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - The " Black's Den " group revealed, on Friday evening, that it thwarted a plan at dawn yesterday, Thursday, aimed at "annihilating" all its members, during the maneuver it carried out, claiming that it had stormed the "Joseph's Tomb" area.


In a statement, the group stated that its members uncovered the plan after making sure that more than 40 cars of special forces and undercover soldiers had stormed the vicinity of each area, from which the occupation believed that the "Al-Areen" elements would set off.


The group affirmed that it is alert to the methods and deception of the occupation in persecuting the resistance fighters, and has studied the black history of the occupation in such operations, as happened in Operation Fardan and the plan to deceive the resistance fighters in Gaza during the battle of "Saif al-Quds," as stated in the statement.


It also confirmed the fall of an Israeli filming plane this evening in the old city of Nablus, indicating that it is in the possession of specialists and technicians from the group to examine the purpose of its fall or dropping it away from the locations of the group's members.


In its statement, the group affirmed that it is fully vigilant and in contact with all its fighters and the fighters of other factions on the ground, noting that it followed what happened in the town of Hawara, Beita, and other towns in terms of confrontations and events, calling on the resistance fighters in those areas to clash with the occupation, as happened in Beita hours ago.


And she reaffirmed that "the days of wrath that he announced have not yet begun. We will make you taste the death that you have long tasted for our people, and we swear to you that we will strike you everywhere, in every street and in every alley, and that we are on the covenant of martyrs." according to the text of the statement.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers attack citizens while harvesting olives, east of Nablus

Nablus - "Jerusalem" dot com - A group of settlers attacked, Thursday evening, citizens while they were picking olives, east of Nablus.


According to local sources, the settlers attacked the citizens in the village of Azmut, and the youths of the village tried to confront them.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

“I hear fanfare but I don't see grinding.” Ben Gvir and Smotrich are examples after the bombing of Gaza tonight

Translation by "Jerusalem" dot com - Most of Benjamin Netanyahu's allies in the new Israeli government remain silent about the Israeli military response to the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip .


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich , before they entered the government, were calling for a much stronger response against the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, but this morning they remained silent and did not comment.


According to the site, the calculated reaction of the Israeli army, which included striking an underground missile production site and a Hamas military site, caused a sharp reaction from Knesset member Zvika Fogel of Ben Gvir's "Jewish Power" party, who tweeted questions to the new army minister. Yoav Gallant, "Do you want to achieve deterrence? Well, this is how deterrence is achieved: Close the crossings and do not allow the passage of goods and the exit of workers until the return of the children (captives of Hamas), and kill senior officials and do not waste ammunition by firing them only at the sites.. Attack.. Do that." .


According to the site, Smotrich, during the presence of the Bennett-Lapid government, was attacking it for its reactions to the rocket fire, and during Operation "Dawn" last August against Islamic Jihad, he called on it to bring down Hezbollah and the Hamas government.


Ben Gvir had also spoken several times on the issue of Gaza, and he said in 2019: "The time has come to bring a heavy price from Gaza for every missile fired from the Strip... 30 terrorists must be killed, Gaza leveled to the ground, and a return to Gush Katif (a settlement that was withdrawn from in 2019) 2005). according to his expression.


In another tweet that year: "The children of the Gaza border live in a state of fear instead of enjoying their lives like all the children of the rest of the Israeli cities...Hamas imposes its agenda on us and the government once again stutters and is weak in its responses."


This morning, a member of the Likud, Mayor of Ashkelon Tomer Ghulam, sent a message to Netanyahu, in which he said: “40 thousand residents of the city do not have a suitable protected place, and tonight they held their breath again in those difficult moments … the vast majority of these residents chose you and supported you.” They believed you when you said that you would eliminate rocket fire and terrorism, and you talked about a program to protect the city of Ashkelon and give it economic benefits, and most of these residents stand behind you steadfastly in every operation and every escalation..There must be a comprehensive defense reform of the city to save the residents in the process coming".

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation tightens its military measures in Nablus

Nablus - "Al Quds" dot com - The occupation forces continue to harass citizens in Nablus, for the third day in a row, by closing some roadblocks and roads.


The occupation forces close the Surra checkpoint , south of Nablus, and tighten the noose on citizens while moving through it, which impedes the movement of citizens to their work outside the governorate.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

A woman from the occupied interior died of a gunshot wound

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Rima Khadija (33 years) died today, Tuesday, of critical injuries she sustained 3 days ago in a hood in the occupied interior.


Khadija, a widow and mother of four children, one of them with special needs, was seriously wounded by a gunfire in the yard of her house, where she was taken for treatment at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba.


According to the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority, the Israeli police are still investigating the incident.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

A national day of mourning in Iraq for the victims of the bombing, which Baghdad held Turkey responsible for

Baghdad - (AFP) - With anger and grief, Iraq mourned the victims of the bombing, which Baghdad held Turkey responsible for, and claimed the lives of nine civilians in a tourist resort in Kurdistan, in an event that would increase tension between the two neighboring countries.


At Erbil airport, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, a military plane was dispatched to transport the bodies of the victims to Baghdad, as seen by an AFP photographer.


The nine coffins were transported by ambulance, including the coffin of a small child, and wrapped in the Iraqi flag and wreaths of roses. Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein and the President of the Region, Nechirvan Barzani, carried the small coffin towards the plane before it took off for Baghdad.


At Baghdad International Airport, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi received the bodies and presented the official funeral ceremony, in the presence of a number of security leaders and officials, and met with the families of the victims, according to an official statement.


Later Thursday, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador, Ali Reza Konay, in Baghdad and handed him a strongly worded protest note "for this heinous crime committed by the Turkish forces."


And the Iraqi Prime Minister declared Thursday a national day of mourning, while escalating popular anger in Iraq over the tragedy that claimed the lives of nine Iraqis and injured 23.


Most of the victims are from the center and south of the country, heading to the mountainous regions of Kurdistan bordering Turkey, to escape the heat.
Iraq accused the Turkish forces of launching the bloody bombing that hit a tourist resort in the Zakho district.


Ankara, for its part, denied responsibility for the attack, accusing the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of being responsible for it, an organization that Turkey and its Western allies classify as "terrorist" and that has waged an insurgency against it since 1984.


In a modest Baghdad home, Nour had come to offer his condolences on the death of his friend Abbas Alaa and was waiting for the return of the family, who had headed to the airport to retrieve the body of the 24-year-old engineer.


He said, "Abbas got married one week ago and was with his wife in Kurdistan to celebrate their honeymoon. ... It is a shock to his friends and relatives. His first trip was on Tuesday and he was martyred on Wednesday. We cannot believe it."


He continued, "He went to enjoy himself in northern Iraq and returned as a martyr and his wife was injured. This does not happen in any other country. Only in Iraq."
Later, dozens of residents of the neighborhood where Abbas lived buried his body and placed a white bride's suit on his coffin, in the presence of journalists from dozens of media outlets, before he was buried in the city of Najaf in the south of the country.


Ankara, which has established military bases in northern Iraq for 25 years, is launching military operations against the PKK rebels stationed in training camps and rear bases in the region.


Turkish military operations in northern Iraq exacerbate pressure on relations between Ankara and the central government of Iraq in Baghdad, which accuses Turkey of violating its territorial sovereignty, even though the two countries are important trading partners.


Baghdad often summons the Turkish ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest, but these measures remain most of the time without result.
Dozens of people demonstrated Thursday morning in front of a center for granting entry visas to Turkey, amid strict security measures, demanding the expulsion of the Turkish ambassador from Iraq, according to an AFP photographer.


Patriotic songs were broadcast through loudspeakers, while some demonstrators raised a banner that read, "I am Iraqi. I demand the expulsion of the Turkish ambassador from Iraq."


The German Foreign Ministry condemned the attack, calling for "urgent consideration of the circumstances and responsibility" for the bombing.


In Tehran, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson condemned the attacks and stressed Iran's "firm support for stability and security" in Iraq.


Among the demonstrators, Ali Yassin, 53, told AFP, "Turkey and the Turkish embassy tell them enough is enough," adding, "Peacefulness does not help. Burning the Turkish embassy is our demand after we expel the Turkish ambassador because our government does not respond and is unable."


Similar demonstrations took place on Wednesday night in different parts of the country in front of entry visa centers, such as Kirkuk in the north, Najaf and Karbala, the largest cities in southern Iraq.


The demonstrators burned Turkish flags and trampled them, holding pictures of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the words "terrorist" written on them.
These moves often come at the initiative of the Sadrist movement, the movement of the prominent Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr, who enjoys a wide popular base.


On Wednesday night, Baghdad raised the tone by calling for the withdrawal of the Turkish army from its territory. The Iraqi authorities also announced the summoning of its charge d'affaires from Ankara, "and stopping the procedures for sending a new ambassador to Turkey," according to an official statement.


The condemnation came directly from Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, who denounced the "Turkish forces' once again committing a clear and blatant violation of Iraqi sovereignty," while the President of the Republic, Barham Salih, denounced the "Turkish bombing," considering that it "represents a violation of the country's sovereignty and a threat to Iraqi national security."


On its Twitter account, the Turkish embassy offered "condolences to our Iraqi brothers who were martyred at the hands of the PKK terrorist organization."


For its part, the Turkish Foreign Ministry considered that "such attacks" are being carried out by "terrorist organizations," calling in the statement on Iraq "not to issue announcements under the influence of terrorist propaganda."

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation continues to harass citizens in Nablus

Nablus - "Al Quds" dot com - The occupation forces continue to harass citizens in Nablus, by closing some roadblocks and roads from time to time.


And those forces closed the Hawara checkpoint to the movement of people leaving from inside and outside Nablus, and they also prevented citizens in the Al-Masoudia area, to the northwest of the governorate, from entering or leaving.


The occupation forces often prevent the movement of vehicles through various checkpoints and roads, especially in the villages in the south and east of the governorate.


Last night, resistance fighters fired at Israeli sites and targets in the vicinity of Nablus, without any injuries reported.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Palestinian Embassy in Pakistan denies its connection to the shipment of alcoholic beverages

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Palestinian Embassy in Pakistan categorically denied its relationship with the shipment of alcoholic beverages that was said to belong to the embassy .


The embassy confirmed that the statement issued by the Pakistani Customs Service denied the embassy's relationship with this shipment, and that the carrier company acknowledged in an official message that there was a human error from the workers in its warehouses by sending the shipment of the embassy to another country, while the shipment that arrived at the port of Karachi was supposed to reach the country This categorically denies the relationship of the Embassy of the State of Palestine with this shipment, from near or far.


The embassy added in an explanatory statement that it voluntarily renounced its right to have a representative on it when opening the container and assured the concerned Pakistani authorities of its absolute commitment to Pakistani laws and regulations, especially the Pakistani Diplomatic and Consular Privileges Act of 1972. The embassy also confirmed its permanent commitment to what is stipulated in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, and based on Accordingly, the embassy is responsible for the contents included in the customs exemption approved and approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan.



PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

3 martyrs, one of whom succumbed to his wounds in Jenin

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - Ali Samoudi - 3 young men were killed, at dawn and Saturday morning, by Israeli occupation forces, in two different areas of Jenin, in the northern West Bank.


Al-Quds.com correspondent reported that the two young men, Ezzedine Hamamra (24 years old), and Amjad Khalilah (25 years old), were shot dead by an Israeli special force that shot them inside their vehicle in the town of Jaba, south of Jenin.


He mentioned that the two young men were shooting towards Tarsala settlement, and they clashed with the occupation soldiers before they were killed, and they are members of the Jaba Battalion.


Meanwhile, Yazan al-Ja’bari (20 years), from al-Yamoun town, died of serious wounds he sustained when the occupation forces fired an “explosive boom” bullet at him, which caused his intestines to rupture. He underwent several surgeries before announcing his death after midnight.


Al-Ja’bari was injured during the confrontations that took place in the town of Kafrdan on the evening of the first of this month, during the demolition of the homes of the perpetrators of the Al-Jalama checkpoint operation, the two martyrs, Ahmed and Abdel-Rahman Abed, in which the boy Muhammad Hoshiyeh from Al-Yamoun and Fouad Abed from Kafrdan were martyred.


This brings the number of Palestinian martyrs since the beginning of this year to 12.

ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Turkey launches a military operation in northern Iraq

Ankara - (dpa) - Turkey launched at dawn today, Monday, a military operation in northern Iraq.


The Turkish Anadolu Agency quoted Defense Minister Hulusi Akar as saying: "Our armed forces have launched Operation Claw Claw in order to prevent terrorist attacks on our people and security forces from northern Iraq, and to ensure the security of our borders."


The operation is taking place in the regions of Matina, Zab and Afshin-Basyan in northern Iraq.
Akar said, "According to the plan, the Air Force intensively targeted terrorist sites in the regions of Matina, Zab, and Afshin-Basyan, and our pilots succeeded in hitting targets such as hideouts, caves, tunnels, ammunition depots, and the so-called headquarters of the terrorist organization."


Turkey frequently launches operations targeting PKK members on Iraqi territory, and says that the organization's militants are taking the mountains of northern Iraq as their stronghold, and are active in many cities, regions and valleys, and from which they launch attacks on the Turkish interior.


It should be noted that the "PKK" is classified as a terrorist organization in Turkey, the United States and the European Union.


According to Turkish data, the organization has killed about 40,000 people during its separatist activities that have been going on for more than 30 years.

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

"Hamas" and the mood of the people

Written by: Mohamed Salama


Hamas is subjected to severe criticism daily, whether in Gaza, the West Bank or abroad, and the reason is its refusal to participate in the recent war on Gaza on the side of Islamic Jihad, and we will not reveal a secret if we say that the people's mood tends to accuse it.


Israeli intelligence reports indicate that the detainee, Tayseer Al-Saadi from Al-Jihad, is the founder of the Palestinian Hezbollah and the armed Nablus Battalion, one of the radical Islamic Jihad elements, and one of the Fatah rebels, most of whom are from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, and that Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi is the field commander of the Nablus Battalion, while it is indicated that funding is from Iran, and in the other picture, a popular mood against Hamas and the moderate Fatah in the West Bank.


The duo “Hamas and Jihad” in Gaza are the most influential and control over the Strip, while the Fatah movement is out of the game, and the equation is reversed in the West Bank, since the Jenin armed battalion has effectively become a force parallel to that of the Palestinian Authority, and now the Nablus battalion, which seeks to establish an authority parallel to the Palestinian Authority. Estimates are that the members of the two battalions are in the thousands, and that the people’s mood is rapidly changing against Hamas by accusing it not of treason but of participating in security coordination in the West Bank. What is remarkable here is that the dissidents from Fatah from the Al-Aqsa Brigades lead the resistance, and constitute the main elements in the Nablus and Jenin battalions, and attempts are being made to tarnish the image of this alliance. It comes from religious Salafist elements, some of whom are affiliated with Hamas, and this increases the popular mood calling for resistance and overcoming Hamas and the PA together.


“Hamas” .. its image is not good these days among ordinary people, as the popular mood in the West Bank tends against it, and perhaps this is what Israel wants to perpetuate the complete separation between Gaza and the West Bank, and the continuation of the Israeli army’s operations in Nablus comes to dismantle the cells of the Nablus Battalion before it is formed and imposed A new reality on the ground, as there are (400) prisoners since the beginning of this year, and more than thirty martyrs have been killed during the same period, which means that the security campaign is continuing and that the confrontations in the West Bank are likely to escalate, and that the risk of a third intifada is inevitable.


Hamas, for the first time, is out of people's mood in its dealings with the recent Gaza war and with the armed confrontations in Nablus, and for the first time popular accusations are directed against it. The result is that its attempts to stabilize the calm in Gaza or the West Bank have turned against it. In any case, it is still within the equation of the conflict with Israel, and it has Its accounts are far from the jihad and the Al-Aqsa Brigades, and perhaps if the confrontations continue in the West Bank, it will find itself forced to participate in it in response to the popular mood against the Israeli occupation and the settlers who have confiscated and destroyed Palestinian land. About the "Jordanian Constitution"


OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Paying compensation to settlers.. Adaptation and normalization

Written by: Kaddoura Fares


With or without the occasion, the political, military, and security leaders of the Israeli occupation repeat the saying that they aim through their criminal measures to “raise the cost of the struggle for the Palestinians.” Therefore, vandalism, intentional destruction, confiscation, and theft of money or vehicles become associated with every arrest, not only that, but also We have to occupy from time to time with a new repressive tradition that falls in the same context as the aforementioned declared goal, "raising the cost of the struggle."


Perhaps one of the most dangerous of these measures is forcing the prisoner, through his lawyer, to pay compensation to the settler who was harmed by the work done by the prisoner and to appease him. A financial fine, and thus the prisoner has incurred three material losses, the first of which is the damage to the house, which usually exceeds several thousand shekels, then the compensation that is paid to the affected settler, and sometimes it reaches tens of thousands of shekels, in addition to the fine, which varies from one prisoner to another. In the account of the Ministry of the Occupation Army, therefore, I estimate the size of the sums that are looted from the pockets of the families of the prisoners in the occupied territories, especially Jerusalem, at fifty million shekels annually, and this does not include the damages resulting from the storming of the house and the harm caused to it.


What I referred to is just a small aspect of the consequences of the arrest process and its costs on our families and our families. Perhaps the slogan used by the fascist settlers and their gangs, “Paying the price” is derived from the statements of the official leaders, “Raising the cost of the struggle” within the framework of a role-sharing process that aims primarily at exhausting and despairing the Palestinian people ability to achieve its national goals.


It is very dangerous to look at the procedures, laws, and military orders as an inevitable destiny, and that we have no choice but to accept them and resort to measures to relatively mitigate their impact on us, as this encourages the wrong approach, and opens the occupation’s appetite for more measures, while the occupation preserves for itself the line of return. In many of the measures he takes, since at the beginning they are a test balloon, if things go smoothly, he devotes and organizes them, and if there are obstacles, opposition, and rejection, we soon find him retreating, and there are hundreds of examples of that. If we want to oppose the occupation in a serious sense, we must first and in terms of The principle is that we reject any decisions issued by it, and secondly, we must scrutinize and reflect on their reasons and motives, the parties behind them and the contexts that brought them into existence, then formulate a position and examine the possibilities of strengthening the initial rejection of the occupation measures with action plans, decisions and policies, so that we keep some of the initiative for ourselves and not We turn into complacent recipients of what is imposed on us on the grounds of believing that it is impossible for the occupation to back down from a decision it has taken. This is a wrong rule that we must free from because it is one of the expressions of recognition of the occupation.


Everyone agrees on the golden rule that says that "turning the occupation project into a losing project" is the way that leads to defeating the occupation and expelling it from Palestine, and although this represents an axiom and a postulate and a place of national consensus, the collective behavior on our part as Palestinians does not suggest at all that the rule The aforementioned matters are of interest and application, and therefore we find that the Israeli parties and forces, and given that the occupied territories have come to represent a gigantic economic project for Israel, are striving to perpetuate and root the occupation, and falsely try to give their project fabricated historical and religious meanings, and this is only in order to give legitimacy to the occupation. And mobilizing Israeli public opinion among the common people in favor of this economic project.


Let's go back to the beginning and so that we do not delve deeply into this issue away from the issue that we have dealt with, which is compensation for the settlers, it is not addressed through persuasion and awareness only of its importance, as specific measures must be taken by the competent authorities to cut off some phenomena or reduce them at the very least. The detainee who demands his family and insists on it to pay compensation to the settler and then the fine for the purpose of shortening the period of his detention should have remained in his house. It is not permissible to go out to fight against this occupation and turn overnight into a person who pumps money into the treasury of the occupation, this money that is used in Funding the brutal military operations they carry out, and according to the new tradition, “compensation” also turns into financing for the settlers.


Therefore, I call for the adoption of the following measures to contain and besiege this dangerous phenomenon, which are as follows:


A- Carrying out an awareness campaign and informing citizens of the danger of this approach, which will expand more and more if it is not addressed.
B- Deciding not to adopt the file of any prisoner who concludes a deal that includes compensation under any circumstances, so that his ruling becomes the ruling on arms trade files.
C - Termination of the contract of the lawyer who participates in concluding this type of deal if he is contracting with any official or private body working to support the cause of the prisoners.
D - After clarifying the dimensions and seriousness of the issue of compensation to the Palestinian Bar Association and its promise to take trade union actions against any lawyer who is a member of the bar.


My confidence is high that with awareness and firmness together we can cut off this phenomenon and its promoters as a prelude to moving to deal with other dangerous phenomena that affect the essence of our struggle, this Israeli occupation.


* President of the Palestinian Prisoners Club

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Thousands greet the "Great Dawn" in Al-Aqsa, Ibrahimi and West Bank mosques

Jerusalem - "Al-Quds" dot com - Large crowds of citizens performed, on Friday, the dawn prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, Al-Ibrahimi in Hebron, and several mosques in separate governorates of the West Bank, to revive the " Great Dawn " event.


Al-Aqsa Mosque witnessed strict Israeli measures, as dozens of worshipers were prevented from entering it, and they were forced to perform prayers near its doors, despite the extreme cold.


Citizens flocked to the various mosques, chanting takbeers and chants that glorified the martyrs and the resistance, and affirmed walking on their path and loyalty to them.


Before and after performing the prayer, sweets and other items were distributed to some of the mosques’ doors.



ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Finland will host trilateral talks with Sweden and Turkey this month

Mikkeli (Finland) - (AFP) - The Finnish Foreign Minister announced Friday that his country will host a tripartite meeting with Sweden and Turkey later this month, after Ankara announced its opposition to the accession of the two northern countries to NATO.


"Representatives of Finland, Sweden and Turkey will meet in Finland in August," Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told reporters.


The minister did not specify a date for the meeting, but his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, had referred to an upcoming tripartite meeting on August 26.


This year Sweden and Finland abandoned their long-standing non-alignment policy and announced that they intended to join NATO after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February.


And ratified the United States, along with more than half of the member states in NATO, on the requests to join Sweden and Finland. However, the mechanism for joining the bloc requires the unanimity of member states.


Turkey is the only member that opposes the accession of the two countries, and calls for Helsinki and Stockholm to make concessions before giving its approval to their requests.


Haavisto said the meeting scheduled for this month will be a follow-up to discussions based on a memorandum signed by the three countries in Madrid in June.


In that memorandum, Sweden and Finland agreed to "accelerate" the study of deportation requests submitted by Ankara to recover people suspected of involvement in the 2016 coup attempt or of belonging to banned Kurdish factions.


Last week, Sweden announced the deportation of the first Kurdish citizen under the agreement, but the Turkish Minister of Justice said Thursday that Ankara is calling on Sweden to hand over "terrorists" and not just "ordinary criminals" if it wants to join NATO.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Jerusalem Affairs: Extensive contacts are taking place to stop the aggression against Shuafat camp

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs revealed, on Wednesday, extensive contacts with international diplomats, UN institutions, and others, in order to work to stop the crime of collective punishment committed by the Israeli occupation authorities against the people of Shuafat camp and its surroundings.


In a statement, the ministry confirmed that what is happening amounts to a "war crime," noting that the situation is very dangerous on the ground and that these measures affect more than 140,000 citizens in Shuafat camp, Anata, Ras Khamis, Ras Shehadeh, and Dahiyat al-Salam.


She said: This calls for immediate and rapid action to stop this Israeli crime.


She added, "The Israeli occupation has turned the punishment of tens of thousands of Palestinians, including children, women, the elderly and the sick, into part of the Israeli electoral propaganda, which was expressed through the influx of Israeli candidates to the occupation military checkpoint at the entrance to Shuafat camp and the launch of racist slogans from there." ".


And it showed that the war crime committed by the occupation authorities affected all aspects of life in the Palestinian neighborhoods, including the educational, commercial and health process, and prevented hundreds of patients, including kidney and heart patients, from reaching medical centers to receive treatment.


And she continued: "The tightened Israeli siege is accompanied by barbaric storming of citizens' homes, firing tear gas and sound bombs at homes, widespread arrests, beatings against citizens, and the use of wastewater against residents."


She pointed out that the crime of collective punishment in the Shuafat camp and its nearby neighborhoods is associated with the crime of storming Al-Aqsa Mosque under the pretext of Jewish holidays.


The Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs confirmed: "The situation in the occupied city of East Jerusalem is very dangerous and that the occupation government bears the full consequences of this escalation."

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Prisoners' Club: Demolishing the homes of the prisoners' families is a collective punishment aimed at revenge

Ramallah – “Jerusalem” dot com – The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said today, Saturday, that the Israeli occupation authorities continue to escalate the crime of collective punishment targeting the families of prisoners, through a number of systematic tools and policies that fall within its framework, most notably the arrests to which it is subjected. Members of the prisoner's family, the continuous threats against them, the repeated incursions, summonses and pursuit in order to obtain information, in addition to the systematic home demolition policy.


The Prisoner Club confirmed, following the demolition of the house of the prisoner Omar Jaradat in the town of Silat al-Harithiya / Jenin, at dawn this day, that the demolition of the homes of the families of the prisoners is only part of the reprisals pursued by the occupation authorities against the prisoner and his family, and his continuous attempt to discourage the Palestinian from his right to resist. Occupation and confronting it.


He pointed out that this house is the fourth house of the Jaradat family that has been demolished since the beginning of this year, in addition to the fact that there are other houses belonging to families of martyrs whose bodies are being held and threatened with demolition.


He said: House demolitions constitute the most prominent systematic policy that has been linked to the history of the occupation in implementing its substitution policies over the past decades, and although international institutions consider this measure a violation of the principles of international law, a war crime and collective punishment, the occupation continues to implement it without the slightest regard for everything It is stipulated by international laws and norms.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

70,000 worshipers perform Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque

Jerusalem - "Jerusalem" dot com - Tens of thousands performed Friday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities at its gates and entrances to the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.


The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated, in a statement, that about 70,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa.


And local sources reported that the occupation forces deployed in the streets of Jerusalem and the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, stationed at its gates, stopped the worshipers, checked their identity cards, and prevented dozens from entering it.


Thousands of worshipers from the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and within the lands of the year 48, performed the dawn prayer today in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in support of the holy sites, and in rejection of the Judaizing occupation policies.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Shtayyeh: The occupation is fighting the Palestinian identity

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh considered today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation's decision to demolish the Ein Samia School, northeast of Ramallah, as coming within the framework of the war on the Palestinian identity, and its continuous and frantic endeavor to familyize education, especially in Jerusalem, which is what It constitutes a flagrant violation of the rights of Palestinian students.


This came during a speech he gave at a ceremony honoring outstanding high school exams and top students with disabilities, in Ramallah.


Shtayyeh expressed his rejection of the occupation measures and the revocation of licenses of six private schools in Jerusalem


He said: We will follow up these serious violations at the highest levels and in all forums, and we deliberately announced the results from Jerusalem to be a message to the occupation that wants to occupy our curricula and schools.


He added: We have no choice but to continue success and excellence in the process of liberation and construction. Our weapon is our human capital, and our weapon is science and knowledge. The Palestinian person always performs miracles and transcends his reality and circumstances, and for us the positions of our Jerusalemites, Jerusalemite institutions, and parents are the best example, as they have formed and still are the line of defense. The first is about the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, and about the sovereignty of education and the Palestinian curriculum.


And he continued: Palestine excels with its steadfastness and struggles, and excels with its successful and creative people in all fields and in all forums. Palestine records every day a success story, and provides the world and humanity with lessons in patience, steadfastness, giving, struggle and knowledge.


The Prime Minister directed his message to the outstanding students: "Study what you want and what you like, but with what enables you to arm yourself with a high-value qualitative advantage. Study with what enables you to stay in the country to be a lever for it and with it, dream and use your imagination, and excel for your dreams and not for the desire of your parents."


Shtayyeh said: "It is our duty to support you and create an enabling environment for you to continue the path of excellence, and the duty of institutions and universities to guide and direct you, and your duty to make the necessary effort in planning and choosing for your future. You have received a distinguished education, with the efforts of thousands of teachers in our schools who are making the effort, and with wise management from the Ministry of Education." And education, for which we thank its staff, especially those that completed the exam to the fullest, and in the most accurate circumstances.”

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Controlling a fire in a restaurant in the southern Gaza Strip

Gaza - "Jerusalem" dot com - On Friday evening, civil defense crews controlled a fire inside a restaurant in Khan Yunis , in the southern Gaza Strip.


According to the Civil Defense, the fire caused damage to the place, but no injuries.


PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

Jenin: Mass demonstration to condemn the crimes of the occupation

Jenin - "Jerusalem" dot com - A mass popular demonstration took place, Thursday evening, in front of Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, to condemn the crimes of the Israeli occupation , the latest of which was the martyrdom of the two young men, Abdel Hadi Nazzal and Habib Kamil.


The participants carried the bodies of the two martyrs, Nazzal and Kamil , who succumbed to their wounds, which were shot by the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.


The participants chanted slogans condemning the crimes of the occupation and its continuous aggression, calling for international protection for our people, and stressing the need to strengthen national unity.


After the demonstration, a march of vehicles set off to the town of Qabatiya, and the bodies of the two martyrs, Kamil and Nazzal, were transported to the health center in the town.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

One of them is critical... Injuries and arrests during a campaign of raids in the West Bank

Muhafazat - "Al Quds" dot com - A number of citizens were injured, and a number of others were arrested, at dawn and Monday morning, during a campaign of raids by the Israeli occupation forces in separate areas of the West Bank .


And the Ministry of Health announced that a 14-year-old child was critically injured, as a result of a gunshot wound to the head, during the occupation forces’ incursion into the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem.


Large forces raided the camp, amid violent confrontations with dozens of young men, whom the occupation forces fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at.


They arrested Mahmoud Salah Hammash after raiding his house, while Muhammad Tariq Hamamrah and Osama Muhammad Hamamrah were arrested from Husan.


In Jenin, the occupation forces carried out large-scale raids in the town of Qabatiya , during which armed clashes and violent confrontations took place with young men. As a result, a young man was wounded with a live bullet in the foot, another with a rubber bullet in the front of the head, and several others suffocated.


The campaign focused on the homes of several freed prisoners who were field interrogated and threatened with arrest, while 4 young men were arrested, including Adham Abu al-Rub, Muhannad Turkman, and the two brothers Arshad and Muhammad Adam Zakarneh.

In Nablus, the editor, Abd al-Rahim Bishkar, and Hamza Qatanani were arrested during a military operation in several areas, including the Askar camp and the popular housing.


In Ramallah, 3 boys were arrested: Saleh Abu Safiya, Mahmoud Abu Safiya, and Ali Abu Safiya, all from Beit Sira.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

"Resistance to the Wall and Settlements": The occupation has delivered 5,820 notices since 2015 to demolish and remove buildings and facilities

Ramallah - "Jerusalem" dot com - The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission stated, on Saturday, that the occupation authorities have delivered 5,820 notices since 2015 to date, to demolish and remove Palestinian buildings and facilities for citizens, with the aim of besieging Palestinian construction, expansion and natural growth.


In a statement, the Commission stated that most of these notifications were concentrated in Hebron Governorate with 1,584 notifications, followed by Bethlehem Governorate with 735 notifications, and then Ramallah Governorate with 704 notifications.


Muayad Shaaban, head of the authority, said that the occupation authorities use demolition notices as one of the occupation’s means to besiege the Palestinians, and prevent them from developing and urban expansion, specifically in areas classified (C), in light of the occupation’s control over planning in those areas, and preventing the Palestinians from their right to prepare plans. Structural structure of the Palestinian villages, and not to approve it if it was presented to them, in order to exploit and develop these areas, which represent 61% of the total area of the West Bank, as the occupying power is trying to keep it in favor of the expansion of settlements, and as a strategic geographical reserve for them in the future.


Shaaban added that last year set a record in the number of notifications submitted to citizens, as the number of such notifications in all governorates of the West Bank, including Jerusalem, amounted to a total of 1,220 notifications, a significant increase compared to previous years, as the number of notifications that were delivered reached In the previous year, 2021, a total of 875, compared to 736 for the year 2020.


He pointed out that the year 2022 set a new record indicating new policies and new directions of the occupation authorities in dealing with Palestinian construction and the natural growth of Palestinian villages and towns.


He continued: Most of these notifications were concentrated in the governorates of Hebron, with 400 notifications, and the Bethlehem governorate with 225 notifications, while the rest of the notifications were distributed in the governorates of Ramallah, Salfit, and Jericho, with more than 100 notifications each.


And he indicated that the current dangerous escalation in the implementation of demolitions of facilities and buildings in the Palestinian territories comes as a result of the density of demolition notifications, as the arms of the occupying state, especially with the formation of the extreme right-wing government, seek to enforce the largest possible number of demolitions, in order to besiege Palestinian construction and natural growth. , displacing the Palestinians, and emptying the land, in favor of controlling it, and turning it into the settlement project.


He said that the displacement and deportation measures taken by the occupation authorities, through which the laws in force in the Palestinian territories before 1967, foremost of which was the Cities, Villages and Buildings Regulation Law No. It is imposed on the Palestinians, and a tool for demolition and siege, through demolition notices, stopping construction and deportation, which are necessarily inconsistent with internationally recognized basic rights, most notably the right to housing, ownership of land, its development and the development of human life on it.


Shaaban warned of the plans of the occupying power at the present time, which seeks to intensify the siege and demolish Palestinian construction in order to empty the Palestinian land, specifically with the dangerous slogans declared by the current fascist government.


He called on the citizens who received this type of notification to go immediately to the Authority's offices, along with their documents, in order to drop the pretext of occupation, and to protect the Palestinian building in all its locations.

OPINIONS

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

Will the occupation succeed in "irritating" the consciousness of Jerusalemites?

Written by: Rasem Obeidat
The war waged against the Jerusalemites in order to "kid", "adapt", "melt" and "sweep their consciousness" is not carried out on one level, but rather it includes all levels and in all fields....and the occupation seeks to penetrate the consciousness of Jerusalemites on more than one front Within systematic plans and programs in which all its security services, including the police, army, intelligence, and the Ministry of Interior, participate in the civil services from the municipality, civil and community institutions, community centers, the police, reform committees, tribal committees, etc.. Therefore, hundreds of millions of shekels are allocated for this war, for example the government’s five-year plan 2018 - 2023 for integrating Jerusalemite Arabs into Israeli society and economy. NIS 875 million out of 2 billion shekels were allotted to it only for the familyization of the curriculum and the educational process in Jerusalem. The remainder was distributed to the rest of the sectors such as roads, transportation, etc. Not to mention the allocation of 15 million shekels outside this amount. Annually for community centers, etc.
There is no doubt that the operations of breaching the walls of our "consciousness" fortresses achieved some successes in issues related to education and the curriculum, as well as in terms of progress in the project to Judaize Al-Aqsa Mosque .... Not to mention the occupation's endeavor to strike the national immunity of our people, through penetration operations in cases Normalization and an attempt to transfer it to the popular and institutional level, in addition to the tireless work by the occupation, to create an environment that expels the resistance work to confront the Judaizing projects and plans of the occupation, by spreading the policies of despair and frustration among the ranks of the Jerusalemites, and telling them that you are alone and you will not be able to defeat a state heavily armed and has the most powerful apparatus intelligence in the region.
Within this vision and strategy, the occupier waged a psychological war in order to "destroy" the Jerusalemite citizen, and preoccupy him in a series of crises, by removing him from a crisis and introducing him into a new one... The occupier, who is trying to finish off the city and impose control and sovereignty over it through intensive settlement and Judaization projects, I believe that The opportunity is right for him to “captivate” our people in the city, strip them of the characteristics and signs of their national existence, and erase their national and political rights, while granting them only limited and “legalized” civil rights, and turn them into scattered islands in a wide Israeli environment, by changing the city’s demographic and geographical reality. , isolating it from its Palestinian surroundings, and changing the overall scene in the city, from an authentic Arab, Islamic-Christian scene to an artificial, biblical, Talmudic Jewish scene.
The occupation sought to "Israeli" the educational process in the city through the Israeliization of its educational curricula, and the complete removal of the Palestinian curriculum from the city, and not to suffice only with the "distorted" or modified Palestinian curriculum, but rather a comprehensive and total Israeliization of the curriculum, and the occupier achieved breakthroughs and successes in this aspect, which encouraged him In order to take a step towards achieving his goals and plans, he threatened some private schools "Abrahamia and Al-Iman" with its five branches to withdraw their licenses and grant them restricted licenses, if their curricula were not corrected by omitting what the occupier considered incitement in those books, and what is meant here is omitting all patriotic content in the curriculum. This includes falsifying history, “dwarfing” geography, and omitting the Palestinian novel and narrative.
This step, which was taken by the occupation municipality and its circle of acquaintances, constituted an awakening for the people of Jerusalem with their popular unions from the Union of Principal Affairs Committees, Central Parents Committees, and their institutions and national forces, in order to restore Palestinian awareness, and prevent “K” and its “deviation” and “familiarity.” A series of activities were carried out And protest activities, including the announcement of a comprehensive strike in all educational umbrellas in Jerusalem for a period of one day, on Monday 9/19/2022.
This strike constituted an important stage on the road to restoring Palestinian awareness, and "immunizing" the educational process from penetration, "Israelization", falsification and distortion of awareness.
On the other hand, we found that Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is a purely Islamic mosque, after the closure of the Mughrabi Gate from September 2000 until 2003, and whose keys have been controlled by the occupation police since 1967, has come under direct targeting of Talmudic and Biblical groups, given that Al-Aqsa Mosque, It is the alleged structure, which must be built in place of the Dome of the Rock mosque, and to achieve this goal, this Judaization project was moving and progressing step by step, from individual intrusions to collective intrusions, and from individual prayers to silent collective prayers, and after that public Talmudic prayers, and ritual performance Talmudic and Biblical, including the epic prostration, and after that the incursions to Al-Aqsa intensified, and the Talmudic and Biblical groups sought to evoke the moral structure, by introducing plant offerings to Al-Aqsa from palm fronds, citrus fruits and willow leaves, as well as collectively blowing the trumpet in The courtyards of Al-Aqsa, not only as a biblical Talmudic religious ritual, the blowing of the trumpet is a political act par excellence, symbolizing sovereignty, domination and hegemony, but it is wrapped in the biblical Talmudic religious aspect... and in order to work to create sanctity and Jewish life in Al-Aqsa And tightening security and administrative control over it, and consecrating the temporal and spatial divisions in it, the Talmudic groups threw all their weight and capabilities, supported by a decision and a green light from the political level, in order to mobilize the largest number of extremists in Al-Aqsa squares during the Jewish holidays that extend from September 26 and 27 last, New Year Hebrew and October 5, what is known as Yom Kippur, and the Feast of the Throne, which extends from 10 to 17 / October, employing biblical Talmudic thought, travels, and Talmudic orders in the service of achieving the goal, but all this extremism and this mobilization did not succeed in achieving the goal, by mobilizing 5000 extremists On the second day of the Feast of the Throne, the first even-numbered day immediately after the Sabbath year, and the Sabbath year is the year of “making up” the land for lack of cultivation, and it comes once every seven years… These continuous and continuous incursions are like “rehearsals for” the “adaptation” of the mind The Palestinian, the Arab and the Islamic, and made them look at what the Jewish extremists are doing in terms of abnormal practices and actions, Talmudic and Biblical prayers, rituals of blowing the trumpet, epic prostration, and the introduction of plant offerings to the Al-Aqsa square as something normal and normal.
But the state of steadfastness and reluctance of Jerusalem through the bond and i'tikaaf and the intensification of the presence and presence in Al-Aqsa and confronting these extremists, and the fear of the entity's government that the situation will explode from the gate of Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem, and the outbreak of an open war entitled "Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa may trigger a comprehensive uprising, not only affecting the city of Jerusalem and the entire Palestinian geography, Rather, the situation may develop into a regional war, and for this reason the extremists and behind them the entity state, did not succeed in creating sanctity and Jewish life in Al-Aqsa, nor did they succeed in "ironing" the Jerusalemite consciousness, despite all the rush and official Arab normalization, and they also failed to "ironing" the consciousness Al-Maqdisi, and disassociated himself from the ideology, culture and choice of the resistance. Rather, we witnessed an escalation in the resistance action in the city as a direct and natural response to the crimes, oppression and abuse committed by the occupation against our people, land and people, desecration and incursions against our sanctities, primarily Al-Aqsa... Perhaps what the Shuafat camp witnessed after the operation The quality and daring that a Palestinian youth carried out against the occupation soldiers at the Shuafat checkpoint, on Saturday evening 10/8/2022, which put the entity state out of its phase, prompting it to impose a comprehensive blockade and collective punishments against the residents of Shuafat camp, Anata, Dahiyat al-Salam and Ras Khamis Shehadeh headed sanctions that paralyzed all commercial and economic facilities, transportation and education, and even humanitarian cases of patients with kidneys and chronic diseases were not allowed to go out to medical centers and hospitals, and the accompanying repression, abuse, imposition of violations, raids, searches and arrests... All of this did not lose the support of the population The camp did not break their will, but rather they said that we will defend our existence and our camp, a symbol of our calamity, and we will remain committed to our rights and constants, and our right to return to our land from which we were expelled, and our right of return will not be forfeited by statute of limitations.
It seems that the Palestinian, nearly thirty years after the Oslo catastrophe, is regaining consciousness, and has become fully convinced that this miserable agreement that the occupier abandoned, with nothing left but security coordination and economic dependence, will not lead to the realization of the rights of our Palestinian people, and it will not liberate a land And he will not come to a state, and that is why this people announces a divorce with this approach and the choice and those in charge of it.
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PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

Injuries during the suppression of the occupation march against the settlement in Hebron

Hebron - "Jerusalem" dot com - Today, Saturday, dozens of citizens suffocated during the Israeli occupation forces' suppression of a march against a settler's seizure of citizens' lands south of Hebron.


According to local sources, the occupation forces fired stun grenades and poisonous gas massively at citizens and residential communities, chased journalists and young men in the area, and set up several checkpoints in Masafer Yatta to prevent the solidarity activists from reaching Zuwaidin.


The occupation forces also detained the photographer of the Palestinian News and Information Agency "Wafa", Mashhour Al-Wahwah, for several hours before releasing him.

PALESTINE

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers attack a citizen's house and vehicle in Bethlehem

Bethlehem - "Jerusalem" dot com - At dawn on Friday, settlers attacked a house and a vehicle in the village of Kisan , east of Bethlehem.


According to local sources, a group of settlers infiltrated the village and attacked with stones the home of Ayesh Ebayat and his son's vehicle, causing damage to them.

Wed 15 Mar 2023 9:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

The death of French adventure painter "Le Petit Nicolas" Jean-Jacques Sempé

Paris - (AFP) - The French painter Jean-Jacques Sempé, who was famous for his graphic embodiment of the adventures of "Le Petit Nicolas" and his journalistic caricatures, died Thursday, at the age of 89, according to what his wife, Martine Jussieu Sempé, told Agence France-Presse. .


"The humorist Jean-Jacques Sempé passed away peacefully on the evening (Thursday) 11 August (2022), at the age of eighty-nine, in his holiday residence, surrounded by his wife and close friends," his friend and biographer Marc Lecarpantier told AFP.


Since the fifties of the twentieth century, Sambih has had comic illustrations in "The New Yorker", "Paris Match" and "Express" magazines, and he was one of the most prominent illustrators that "The New Yorker" dealt with, as he drew about a hundred of the magazine's covers.


The painter, born in 1932 in Pessac, near Bordeaux, has about 12 volumes, including “Saint-Tropez” and “Two So Complex”, but the most prominent of them is the adventures of “Petit Nicolas” for children, of which about 15 million copies are sold today.


Since publishing, with René Goscinny, Le Petit Nicolas in 1959, Sempey has published approximately one volume a year, and about a hundred of his illustrations have appeared on the front pages of newspapers.