The Israeli occupation army announced, on Sunday, that the commander of the so-called southern region in its forces, Eliezer Toldano, visited the Egyptian capital, Cairo, earlier in the day.

According to a statement by the occupation army, in both Hebrew and Arabic, that the head of international relations in its forces, Avi Deverin, and another officer from the intelligence agency, accompanied Toldano on his visit to Cairo.

And he indicated that the goal is to continue the joint investigation with Egyptian army officials in the operation of the Egyptian policeman, Mohamed Salah, who killed 3 Israeli soldiers before his martyrdom on the third of June.

He pointed out that the joint investigation began on the day of the accident when a delegation including senior Egyptian army officials visited the site of the accident in Israel, as the joint investigation continues these days, and the two sides expressed their commitment to conducting an in-depth investigation and reaching the truth. As the occupation army statement said.

On Sunday evening, Hamas held the Israeli occupation responsible for spreading crime in the occupied interior, calling on the people of the interior to protect civil peace and their national unity in the face of the occupation's plans.

Hamas said in a statement, "We are following with great concern the series of killings and crimes among our people, which since the beginning of this year have resulted in more than 100 victims, amid deliberate police neglect and failure by the occupation authorities not to intervene to stop them, but rather their silence on the entry and spread of weapons." between gangs and organized crime groups and the involvement of the Israeli security services in them.

And she called on the masses of our people inside the occupied homeland and the national institutions, personalities and forces in it to quickly activate their national and religious role to prevent the escalation of these crimes, and to miss the opportunity for the occupation that targets the unity of our people.

Hamas affirmed its full support for all efforts aimed at stopping these extraneous acts against our people, stressing our unity in defending our Palestinian national project and establishing our independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.

British opposition leader Keir Starmer on Sunday demanded a general election after three Conservative MPs, including Boris Johnson, resigned from parliament over the "Partygate" investigation, i.e. parties hosted by government headquarters in violation of health restrictions related to Covid-19.

Starmer, who leads the Labor Party, said in a tweet that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should "call an election and let the public decide on 13 years of failure of the Conservative Party".

He added, "This farce must stop and people are tired of a corrupt Tory government and a weak Prime Minister who no one voted for."

On Friday, Johnson announced his resignation from Parliament in the wake of the parliamentary investigation into the "Party Gate" scandal.

Johnson, 58, confirmed that his decision takes effect immediately, which requires organizing by-elections that will put more political pressure on current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

A year after his exclusion from Downing Street at the initiative of the majority, following his three years in power that witnessed a series of scandals, Johnson remained subject to a parliamentary investigation to determine whether he had misled Parliament in the "Partygate" case.

A parliamentary inquiry committee must determine whether Johnson lied to Parliament when he repeatedly said that all health restrictions related to Covid were respected within the seat of British government.

"I am very sad to leave Parliament - at least for the time being - but above all I resent that I have been forced to leave in such an undemocratic way," Johnson said, accusing the committee of "egregious bias".

Boris Johnson's resignation will automatically lead to a by-election in his district in northwest London, where he won a majority of just a few thousand votes.

And one of his closest allies, former Culture Minister Nadine Dorris, who was still an MP, resigned, while another, Nigel Adams, resigned on Saturday.

Thus, there will be high-stakes local elections in three or more constituencies if Johnson's allies continue to resign.

Thus, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has been in office since October, is facing electoral tests that appear to be difficult at a time when opinion polls show a significant decline for the conservatives after 13 years in power.

At the beginning of May, the Conservatives suffered huge losses in local elections in England.

Today, Sunday, the Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza published details about the martyrdom of Lieutenant Khaled Musleh, who was shot dead by one of the outlaws, while performing his duty in enforcing the law in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on Saturday morning.

The ministry said in a press statement: “On the morning of yesterday, Saturday, corresponding to June 10, 2023 AD, at (9:27), a patrol from the Execution Department of the Nusseirat Camp Police Station in the central Gaza Strip went on a regular mission to implement several arrest warrants issued against a number of wanted persons. Arrest warrants issued by the courts against the background of a number of cases, including (Issam Suleiman Al-Nabahin), 33 years old, against whom (11) arrest warrants were issued in theft cases.

And she added: "When the police patrol arrived at the house of the wanted "Al-Nabahin" to arrest him, he fled from the back of the house and two members of the patrol followed him, one of whom was the martyr lieutenant (Khaled Muhammad Musleh); in order to arrest him, but they were surprised by him shooting directly at them and he fled. They fled, and the bullets hit the martyr "Musleh" in the abdomen, which led to his death.

And the ministry continued: “Immediately, the police alerted, closed the scene of the accident, and started the search and tracking process to arrest the fugitive wanted man, and within less than two hours of the accident, the police managed to arrest him, and he was in possession of the crime tool, which is a (0.45) caliber pistol, and he was referred.” to investigate and complete legal procedures.

She had mercy on the soul of the martyr of duty, Lieutenant / Khaled Muhammad Musleh (27 years) from the salaries of the Palestinian Police, and offered his family and esteemed relatives sincere condolences and sympathy, stressing that she will fulfill her duty and responsibilities towards the family of the martyr as a martyr of national duty.

The Ministry affirmed that this crime, rejected and rejected by all segments of Palestinian society, will not affect the performance of the police and security services in their duty to enforce the law and maintain civil and community peace.

And she stressed that anyone who assaults police and security personnel will not escape punishment, and that the hand of justice will punish all criminals and those who tamper with the security of our people.

The ministry stated that it will continue to take legal measures against the perpetrator, "Al-Nabahin", in order to achieve prompt justice.

She pointed out that the police and security services fulfilling their duty to enforce the law and maintain public order represents a safety valve for our people and our society, stressing that maintaining security is a sacred duty that they will not allow anyone to hinder them from carrying out.

Palestinian officials stressed the importance of the visit of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to China, which comes at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, praising the Palestinian-Chinese relations and China's support for the Palestinian people and their cause.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced on Friday that President Abbas will pay a state visit to China from June 13 to 16, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The Palestinian Presidency said in an official statement that Abbas' visit comes on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two friendly countries and within the framework of the Palestinian and Chinese leaderships' keenness to promote and consolidate strong bilateral relations in all fields.

The statement added that President Abbas will, during the visit and his meeting with President Xi, discuss strengthening bilateral relations and exchanging views on the latest developments in the Palestinian cause and regional and international issues of common concern.

In turn, the Palestinian ambassador to China, Fariz Mahdawi, told the official ((Voice of Palestine)) radio that China receives President Abbas as the first Arab leader since the beginning of this year, which indicates the depth of the historical relationship between the two sides.

Mahdawi added that the visit carries a special symbolism that Palestine is on the ladder of the interests of the Chinese leadership, as it is the central issue for the stability of the Middle East region and the key to its relationship with the Arab peoples.

Mahdawi added that the Palestinian-Chinese relations are historical and will take on new dimensions during President Abbas's visit, because the Palestinian and Chinese sides are in the process of raising the level of relations to a higher level than it is.

He pointed out that President Abbas' visit will focus on several aspects, the most important of which is the political one, through holding official talks with President Xi and informing him of the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and the challenges facing the Palestinians.

He continued, saying that the visit will also focus on the cooperative and development aspect, expressing the Palestinian side's aspiration to bring Chinese companies to work in the Palestinian territories.

Mahdawi also expressed his hope that China would play an important role in the peace process in the Middle East region, especially as it is now strongly present in the region and its relations are taking great momentum at all levels, politically, commercially and economically.

China was one of the first countries to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization, and then recognized Palestine, so Abbas's visit to China would support existing strong relations, according to Mahdawi.

Abbas' visit comes in light of the cessation of peace negotiations with Israel since 2014, the refusal of successive Israeli governments to sit at the negotiating table, and in light of the Palestinians' criticism of the US administration for not playing its role in sponsoring the peace process.

For his part, Abdullah Abdullah, Deputy Commissioner for International Relations of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), told reporters in Ramallah that the Palestinian leadership is working on international mobilization from China in cooperation with other countries to strengthen positions supporting the Palestinian right and stop the "violations" carried out by Israel in Palestinian territories.

Abdullah added that China has entered the Middle East region firmly as a political and economic partner of the Arab countries, and has recently succeeded in mediating between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and we must benefit from Chinese efforts in favor of the Palestinian cause.

Abdullah praised China's positions in support of the Palestinian people and their cause, noting that China is the first non-Arab country to open an office for the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the relationship between the two sides is historical and constantly developing for the better.

For his part, Omar Awadallah, Palestinian Assistant Foreign Minister to the United Nations and its specialized organizations, considered that China is one of the friendly countries whose positions have not changed over the 35 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations with Palestine.

Awad Allah said that China has remained the same supportive and friendly brother who stands by Palestine, and it has been one of the active countries since the international system began to form.

Awadallah added that China "did not change its positions and did not use the method of bullying and blackmail to impose its agenda on anyone in the world, and it is a pivotal country and the first on the agenda of the international community in terms of economic terms and now it plays an important political role in the stability of regions and many countries, especially what happened recently in mediation." between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Awadallah stressed that the Palestinian-Chinese relations are continuing to develop, and President Abbas's visit is the culmination of these relations, which have been in existence for 35 years.

Today, Sunday, the Administrative Detainees Committee announced a state of alert in prisons, in preparation for the open-ended hunger strike on the 18th of June.

The committee affiliated with the Higher National Emergency Committee in the occupation prisons stated, in a statement, that the state of general mobilization will be in all prisons in which administrative detainees are held, in preparation for participating in the open hunger strike under the slogan: (Freedom Revolution - Administrators' Uprising), which will begin on 6/18/2023.

The Prisoner's Club had recently stated that the occupation authorities began summoning a group of administrative detainees, and threatened a number of them, against the background of the Administrative Detainees' Committee announcing a hunger strike decision on June 18.

He said, "The occupation aims to put pressure on the detainees to discourage them from engaging in the hunger strike, and it also deliberately broadcasts 'promises' to a group of them that if they back out of the strike step, there will be no new orders against them."

Two Yemeni soldiers were killed in an attack by the extremist al-Qaeda organization on Sunday, targeting a military site in Shabwa, south of the center of the country mired in war, two security officials told AFP.

A government security official in Shabwa said, "Two soldiers were killed in an al-Qaeda attack on a military point" in the province, adding, "The attack took place at dawn on Sunday, and resulted in the injury of a number of soldiers (...) and the attackers."

In turn, another Yemeni official confirmed the attack and the killing of the two soldiers.

Yemen, the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, has witnessed a bloody conflict since 2014 between pro-government forces and Houthi rebels.

The conflict escalated with the intervention of Saudi Arabia at the head of a military coalition in March 2015 to halt the advance of the Iran-backed Houthis after they took control of the capital, Sana'a.

Since then, the conflict has killed tens of thousands of Yemenis and caused a humanitarian crisis that the United Nations described as the worst in the world, with the displacement of millions of people.

Al-Qaeda took advantage of the chaos in Yemen to expand there, targeting government forces and the Houthis with its operations. The United States considers Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula one of the most dangerous branches of the global jihadist network.

However, the organization's attacks have declined in recent years, after operations launched by government forces and the Saudi-led coalition against it.

Today, Sunday, the lawyers for the prisoners in the Ofer Military Court continued their open strike and boycott of the courts, in rejection of the occupation’s decision to prevent them from entering their cars through the Betunia Gate checkpoint, which leads to the yard of the Ofer Military Court.

According to the prisoners' institutions, since Thursday, the lawyers have embarked on a collective strike that requires them not to go to court.

She pointed out that the occupation has been preventing the families of prisoners and detainees from providing a car to reach the court, for about a year and a half, forcing them to walk.

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs published, in its report issued today, Sunday, the details of the health status of the sick prisoner, Ali Hassan Abdullah Al-Rajabi (47 years), from Hebron, after the commission’s lawyer, Sherine Iraqi, visited him in Gilboa prison.

The prisoner suffers from severe back pain throughout the 24 hours due to the presence of discs, and the pain has begun to spread and descend to the joints, which prevents him from sleeping at night and moving normally during the day, in addition to the presence of a constant heat in the man’s soles of unknown cause, and he has lost 20 pounds of weight. A kilo to relieve pressure on his joints, but to no avail.

Al-Rajabi went several times to the prison clinic, and the orthopedic doctor assured him that he needed urgent treatment, imaging, and a ramotolog to find out the causes of the pain he was suffering from, in addition to providing a special medical mattress so that he could sleep. However, the prison administration procrastinated, as usual, by providing The necessary treatment for him and suffice with painkillers only.

The prisoner had previously suffered from cataracts in the eyes, and he underwent an operation in May 2022, and his condition is now good.

Noting that Al-Rajabi was arrested on March 7, 2003, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Hardly any day passes without the occupation forces invading the cities, towns, villages and camps of the West Bank, apart from the measures taken to Judaize Jerusalem and confiscate lands, expand settlements and increase the number of settlers in the occupied Palestinian territory, which has become embarrassing not only the Palestinian National Authority, but also the national and Islamic action factions as well. The resistance factions, and everyone presents arguments not to confront these Israeli violations and crimes, many of which are carried out in broad daylight in cities and towns under the national authority, according to the Oslo Accord, from which the occupying state has left only its name, while refusing to implement any of its provisions, although it is not It meets the minimum level of Palestinian national rights.

And if the Palestinian Authority cannot prevent the occupation forces and herds of settlers from doing everything they do against our people, their land, and all their property and sanctities, then all the factions, whether supporting or opposing the Authority under different names, also do not provide anything mentioned in order to protect our people and prevent the occupation from continuing. and herds of settlers.

So the storming of Ramallah on Thursday/Friday night and the demolition of the house of the prisoner Islam Al-Faroukh, a city that is not only subject to the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority, but also contains all the official Palestinian institutions, foremost of which is the headquarters of the Palestinian Presidency, without any confrontation with these forces that violate all international agreements, laws and norms, with the exception of citizens At the forefront of them were the young men, who confronted these forces with their bare chests, which caused severe injuries to many of them, including two journalists.

Here the question arises again; What is the point of the Palestinian Authority sticking to the Oslo Accords, and what is the point of remaining as it is without any role for it?! Which encourages the occupation to continue its violations and thus show the authority to our people that it cannot protect it from the Israeli occupation and the herds of settlers, and that its existence or not is the same, and the same applies to the rest of the factions without exception.

Here we do not call for fighting the occupying state in the traditional sense, i.e. confronting it with weapons, because the balance of power does not currently work in favor of the leadership and the factions. Rather, there are other means to confront this, the most prominent of which is providing all support and assistance to the citizens so that they can not only confront the occupation as is happening now with their chests. naked, but also by strengthening their steadfastness on their land to thwart the plans of the occupation by using force against them to force them to leave, to facilitate the procedures for continuing annexation, expansion and the establishment of more settlements.

It is the steadfastness of the citizens on their land that worries the occupying state and prevents the implementation of its policies and the failure of its plans to annex the West Bank, especially the Jordan Valley.

Hence, it is the duty of the Palestinian Authority and the rest of the factions to work by all practical means and not to issue statements on the steadfastness of the citizens who are defending the country and are ready to make more sacrifices for it.

In this wide world, environmental problems and what is related to global warming are no longer the root problem. Dilemmas multiply, and a new type of global warming has emerged, affecting the educational environment and eroding the educational system. On the other hand, he is possessed by weakness and lack of resourcefulness to face the challenges of work, life, and the requirements of the age.

The educational environment has become filled with teachers who lack passion and enthusiasm for work, and symptoms of hidden unemployment have appeared. Despite the existence of an official job, this job does not meet the teacher's needs and desires and does not work to highlight his full capabilities. This official job is often contrary to the teacher's whim and does not meet his requirements.

Underemployment is a social and economic problem, as employees in general and teachers in particular suffer from a lack of job satisfaction and a decline in motivation to work, which negatively affects economic growth and the standard of living of individuals and societies in general. The reason for underemployment may be attributed to the lack of real opportunities for professional development, which often stems from corruption and administrative slackness.

How can corruption and administrative sluggishness in the educational system contribute to implicit unemployment?
One of the most prominent and common reasons is duplication of dealing and unfair employment based on unethical criteria. Individuals with high qualifications and competence are ignored, which leads to the appointment of unqualified persons for educational positions and the promotion of those who do not deserve it. As a result, the educational system may suffer from a shortage of The competencies and skills necessary to provide quality education, which affects the quality of education and reduces job opportunities for qualified graduates. The situation is exacerbated by a lack of transparency and accountability as educational resources and opportunities are directed to schools or areas with strong ties to officials, while areas that may be in dire need of support are left behind. This leads to inequality in educational opportunities and increases the opportunity gap among students, poor quality of education and the isolation of professional development.

These reasons constitute a major factor in demolishing and weakening the morale of those teachers who make sincere efforts all their time and thus see with their own eyes that they are equal to those who are sitting and wasting their time until the end of work and receiving the same salary, thus entering into a clear contradiction between remaining on the principle of sincerity and dedication to work and using their time to develop himself and bringing about change in the workplace through production and serious work, making him feel that he is spending his work time on something useful to him and his work, thus increasing his self-confidence. Or catch up with the flabby boat? He works on wasting time and gets a salary and benefits without any compensation, which leads to high costs of products and services without any meaning or benefit. Certainly, the greatest responsibility rests with those principals and officials in the educational field who use their authority in illegal ways, such as amending decisions based on personal interests and allowing the proliferation of corruption, nepotism, favoritism, nepotism, and personal interests, so they spread, with or without intent, hidden unemployment.

Therefore, the question remains: What is the best way to reduce the phenomenon of hidden unemployment?
The public job is basically an assignment that is not honorable. Work in it is dependent on creativity and not idleness and sitting only waiting to receive the salary. Progress and development require thinking and seriousness in work and breaking out of the mold of imitation and imitation of others to the world of creativity and innovation. Certainly, there are many methods of treatment for this phenomenon, which lie in determining the powers of managers when making appointments to remain based on a scientific and objective basis and to be based on competence, skill and equal opportunities within the conformity of qualifications and experience with the job description. And that teachers are evaluated scientifically based on monthly reports and away from favoritism and personalization, and that the principle of reward and reward be strengthened with the aim of learning, so it is not reasonable to reward those who do not work with those who work, because that is glorifying slackness and destroying the morale of the innovator, as well as moving away completely from the issue of permanent and eternal employment. He works diligently and deserves to remain at the top of his work. Otherwise, the concerned authorities must send them to various training courses in order to become productive elements, whether they remain in their workplace or in any other workplace.

The educational system bears a great burden in the problem of slackness and implicit unemployment, because all working human cadres are among its outputs, and they bear the greatest burden in changing the intellectual and behavioral structure of its members so that they are able to lead society and solve problems with methods based on rationality, awareness, transparency and conscious boldness. Educational systems must provide intellectual climates that are open to their environments and societies, capable of developing mental habits that move students from the level of limitations, naivety, and simplicity in understanding and perception to the level of critical analysis away from illusions and fantasies, and to build generations capable of dealing effectively with the data of the twenty-first century.

There is no one in the world who knows as well as the Palestinians the importance of the “home” for the family and its members, with all the social, psychological and material connotations implied by the concept of “building”, “home” and “home”. The wars that do not stop, to build a life that embodies his steadfastness and survival and befits him and his humanity that the occupation wants to usurp.

All of this is understandable to us and the occupiers as well, but does the lust for killing and the desire for revenge justify stripping a massive military campaign of fifty military vehicles, and hundreds of soldiers backed by the Air Force, drones and advanced technology, which are capabilities sufficient to occupy a large city, just to demolish or sabotage the building of the captive Islam Al-Faroukh’s family? By making it unsuitable for housing his family and neighbors?

Apparently, the matter is contrary to political and military logic and all the rules of justice. It is inconceivable that a country shouts its horns day and night about the Iranian nuclear threat and the long-range "Khyber" and "Al-Fattah" missiles, and conducts continuous maneuvers in preparation for multi-front wars, spending its military energies on continuing to pursue Palestinian youth in The alleys of villages and camps, abuse of workers and farmers, protection of settlers when they burn crops and steal livestock, and demolish Palestinian homes as if they were uranium enrichment facilities.

From a legal point of view, these brutal policies represent a fundamental and flagrant violation of all principles of justice, such as the principle of "personality of punishment", represented in limiting punishment to the person against whom the accusations are proven, and it cannot be inflicted on anyone else, even his relatives and family members. These barbaric penalties also contradict the principle of "judicial punishment", which stipulates that no punishment may be imposed unless an explicit legal text is mentioned in it and the decision was issued by a specialized judicial body. Decisions to demolish Palestinian homes are carried out by officers in the occupation army and are implemented with the approval of the Minister of Defense. These are penalties that have nothing to do with the logic of the state of law and institutions. Rather, they are brutal practices inspired by the traditions of past centuries and the narratives of the Torah written by wild imagination.

Israel relies in its implementation of house demolition penalties on the mandatory emergency regulations that are still applied in the occupied Palestinian territories, and they represent an ugly and disgraceful colonial legacy for Britain and the occupying state, which the West still views as an oasis of democracy in our Middle Eastern deserts, although all facts confirm that the continued application of two systems Two distinct legal entities in the same geographical area, and for a long and extended period of time, is the clearest expression of the system of separation and racial discrimination (apartheid) associated with the colonial occupation.

Although the international and regional media view the permissibility of the city of Ramallah from the angle of its relationship to the status of this city as a center for the PA’s institutions and leaders, and what this represents in terms of provocation to the PA and disregard for its existence, this should not prevent us from seeing the full picture in terms of the operation being part of the comprehensive attack that is taking place. The government of fascist extremism in Israel wages it against everything that is Palestinian for a number of internal and external reasons. On the Israeli internal level, the campaign aims to restore the image of force, and to send messages of reassurance to the Israeli public, who no longer trust its government's ability to provide security, and to prove that Israel's long hand is capable of reaching any place at any cost, and among the reasons that push Israel to carry out such operations As well as keeping the Israeli public attached to security and military challenges and risks, and the occupying state's disavowal of any political entitlements by deluding the world that Israel faces existential threats.

For the Palestinians, the process carries a number of messages: the first of which is the consolidation of the principle of Israeli deterrence, which is based on paying the entire Palestinian people the price of their support for and glorification of the resistance. His decision and actions, demolishing their homes and restricting their lives in every way, including work and travel permits, thus creating a conviction among large groups of people that the resistance is a burden on them and is not a means to achieve their goals, nor is it a lever for their national program.

This operation is part of the political and military offensive aimed at implementing the project to resolve the conflict by force of iron and fire, not through negotiations, and therefore it is a link in the series of invasions, daily killings and looting of Palestinian lands, keeping the Palestinians all the time under the blows, chasing the results of the aggression, and thinking of saving themselves and their children. .

Israel realizes that this operation, like all other operations of invading cities, carrying out executions, arrests, demolitions, and even closing institutions with red wax, embarrasses and weakens the authority and shows it incapable of protecting its people. Israel concludes it with international and regional parties, and even with the Authority itself, as happened in the Aqaba and Sharm El-Sheikh meetings. But Israel aims behind this to send other messages and achieve clear political goals, as it says to the Palestinian Authority in the language of fire and bullets: If you, the Authority, do not take the initiative to curb and prevent the resistance, arrest the resisters and collect weapons, then the Israeli army will carry out this task itself, regardless of the results. . This is part of continuous pressure on the PA to weaken it and reduce its role to a mere security agent and barrier between the occupying state and the Palestinian people, and not the nucleus of a Palestinian national project.

The Ramallah operation, which resulted in the injury of dozens of citizens, and widespread confrontations that included several neighborhoods in the city and its surroundings, did not pass easily and smoothly as planned, but witnessed heroic resistance, albeit spontaneous, with limited and primitive means, and because it will not be the first nor the last, it becomes the duty of all forces The Palestinian bodies should prepare for how to deal with similar and expected upcoming operations, instead of issuing ready and prepared statements of denunciation and treason in advance.

Israel is my chosen home. At the age of sixteen, I decided to make Israel my home. At the age of 22, I moved from New York to Israel and have never regretted my decision. Israel has never been a perfect country, and no country is. But when I immigrated to Israel, it was a land of hope and opportunity that I don't see today. When I spent my intervening year in Israel in 1974-1975 for the Judea Youth School Year Programme, I spent a year on a kibbutz and half the year studying in Jerusalem. I learned from my teachers that immigrating to Israel is not just a change of address, it should be a change in the essence of our lives. Becoming an Israeli means making a commitment to making Israel a better country. During that year I learned that Israel faced three basic problems: socio-economic gaps between citizens (gaps between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews), questions regarding the nationality of Arab citizens of Israel (one in six Israelis were subsequently referred to as “Israeli Arabs”), And the cause of the Palestinian people and the land occupied by Israel in June 1967 and under Israeli military control.

The issue I was most interested in was the Palestinian issue. As a university student in the United States, I began studying and getting to know other Palestinians and Arabs to try to understand what they wanted. I visited the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization, where the Palestine Liberation Organization has observer status at the United Nations. In 1976, I met with the High Representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization and suggested to him that the PLO recognize Israel and accept a Palestinian state on land Israel captured in the June 1967 war. His response was, "Over my dead body, you Jews have stolen our land and we will take it back." While not unexpected, the response was disappointing. I believed in my heart that one day the PLO would face the reality of Israel's existence and decide that liberating part of their land was better for them than having nothing. When I immigrated to Israel in 1978, I decided that until the Palestinian cause matured, I would devote my energies to helping create a more equal and democratic Israel by working to try to improve relations between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. I joined a volunteer organization called Interns for Peace and went to live and work in the Arab village of Kafr Qara for two years.

I learned that Jewish-Arab relations in Israel must become the responsibility of the state to ensure equality and not just the work of voluntary civil society organizations. I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Menachem Begin suggesting that the State of Israel needs to hire people to work on this issue. Prime Minister Begin replied to my letter and I was invited to come to Jerusalem to meet with this adviser on Arab affairs. From that meeting I was referred to the Minister of Education, Mr. Ziflon Hammar of the National Religious Party.

With the help of MK Muhammad Watad of Mapam, who found a provision in the state budget to finance my position, I was hired and went to work in the Ministry of Education. I was a young man, a new immigrant and got a high-ranking position in the ministry. The ministry's main policy document issued by the Director General, Eliezer Shmuli, signed the new policies it developed including encouraging Jewish and Arab schools to participate in meetings between them. I fought for budgets to help out with those programs and eventually got paid to work with them. With Neve Shalom-Wahat Salaam, we have developed a training program to co-facilitate meetings. Together with Aluf Harvin of the Van Leer Institute, we set up a government commission to evaluate Education for Democracy and Coexistence (as we called it Building a Shared Society at the time). The committee was chaired by Deputy General Director Aryeh Shoval and I was a member of the committee. Our main implementation recommendation was to establish a Department of Education for Democracy and Coexistence, which was implemented by the next Minister of Education, former Israeli President Yitzhak Navon. She then established the Institute of Education for Arab-Jewish Coexistence, which she directed in partnership with the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Education, with funding mainly from the German Hans Seidel Foundation. I did that until the first intifada exploded when I left that job to start addressing the issue of Israel and Palestine.

I believed then and for many years that Israel could fulfill the terms of its own definition as the democratic nation-state of the Jewish people provided that the Palestinian people could live in their own country, in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967, side by side with Israel. The First Intifada and the subsequent Palestinian declaration of independence in November 1988 gave credence to my claims. I believed that if there was peace between Israel and Palestine, the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel would not be viewed as suspects because of their identity with their people and not their state, and then true equality could be achieved within the State of Israel. This was the basis of my support for the two-state solution. I also thought it immoral and unfair that we Jews, who have suffered so much persecution, should treat the Palestinians the same way we have been treated. Moreover, economically, socially and politically for Israel in the international community - Israeli-Palestinian peace made sense and was to me, and is clearly in Israel's interest.

But we failed. We did not make peace. The Palestinian state was not established. Settlements grew and expanded. The Israeli occupation is deeper and more extensive than ever before, and the Palestinians have suffered at the hands of Israel in ways that are totally unacceptable to anyone who can look objectively at our situation. Israel has the right to defend itself, but that defense does not include denying the political, civil and human rights of millions of people. Our tragedy is that those who oppose peace with the Palestinians have prevailed for the time being. The two-state solution may no longer be viable, but that does not negate the basic fact that millions of Jews and millions of Palestinians live on this tiny piece of land between the river and the sea. This issue is more existential than ever and I refuse to give in to despair. Our survival as a people depends more on making peace with the Palestinian people than on any other issue. Without a definitive resolution to this conflict, I will continue to work every day to try to help all of us find our way back to the negotiating table and back to the hope that we can one day live in peace.

I do not hide that what prompted me to write about Sudan is not the material facts, including what is related to the strategy that links Palestine and Sudan only, but what is indicated by the great sympathy between the Sudanese and the Palestinians, much more than what many people think, including the Palestinians and the Sudanese. It is my belief that the Israelis are the ones who understand and still understand this interdependence between Palestine and Sudan, who have worked and are still working to destabilize it in one way or another.

In the many meetings that brought me together with my Sudanese friend Othman, other friends used to make fun of us by saying, "The miserable swoon over the disappointed hope." We used to accept that "judgment", without thinking much about its realism, and without trying ourselves to determine who among us was "unhappy" and who was "disappointed", until we met for the last time after the last "revolution" in Sudan, and what happened from " Normalization" of the relationship with Israel, when Othman, who usually had a loud voice, said to me in a low voice that carried a lot of feelings of apology... "The unfortunate betrayed the hope, my friend." Only then were the meanings defined, and it became clear that the unfortunate is Sudan, and that the hopeless is disappointed It is Palestine, at least in this context.

We, the people of the Arab East, did not know much about Sudan and the Sudanese, despite the great affection between us, as I said. All we knew about that vast country is what was mentioned in the geography lesson that it is the "food basket" of the Arab world, in addition to the impression we got from the Egyptian cinema - may God forgive her - that the Sudanese is the gatekeeper of the "cute and light-blooded" architecture in the films of the sixties and seventies . Perhaps because of that, I was surprised when I visited Geneva, and learned that the hotel I stayed in was owned by a Sudanese, and that the Sudanese community there was one of the most successful.

The strategic value of Sudan
In order for the picture of what we are talking about to be more clear, the state of Sudan, which is part of what is historically called the region of Sudan, which extends from the Red Sea through Chad, Niger, Mali, and the southern borders of Algeria to Mauritania, and where Arab and African tribes mix, is a very strategically important country. Because of its exceptional location, as it is considered the "gate" of Asia and Africa, and its unlimited wealth.

The area of ​​Sudan, after losing a third of its lands with the secession of the State of the South (which has an area of ​​the total area of ​​Iraq, Syria and Lebanon), has become equal to the area of ​​Germany, France, Italy and Spain combined. After the separation, it became the third Arab and African country in terms of area, after it was the largest before that.

Sudan is a country that has borders with seven important countries; Egypt, Libya, Chad, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Central Africa, on the other side of the Red Sea are Saudi Arabia and Yemen, with all the importance of these two countries.

Sudan's beaches extend on the Red Sea for a distance of 850 km. This puts him in a position to control the security of the Red Sea, which means the Bab al-Mandab and the Suez Canal, the ways of communication between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the very important security of the Horn of Africa.
And because of the Nile River, which cuts Sudan from its south to its north, the role of Sudan is considered decisive in the issue of water security for the region, especially for Egypt.

Sudan is also of great importance to the food security of the region. In addition to the vast arable areas, those lands that Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have begun to invest in extensively, there is a huge animal wealth, although a large percentage of it does not add much to the Sudanese economy, as it is only used as an indicator of The social value of its owners, tribes and individuals.
Sudan also possesses huge mineral wealth, primarily gold, which is one of the reasons for the current conflict between Sudanese leaders.

Sudan Sociology
Sudanese society consists mainly of Arab and African tribes, the majority of which profess Islam, in addition to a percentage of Christians and pagans. Many tribes of African origin are farmers working in agriculture, while the Arab tribes, which we mentioned extend beyond the borders of Sudan to Chad, Niger and Mali, work in cattle grazing.

It is obvious that the relations between farmers and pastoralists are tense, and matters become more complicated when the ethnic and religious identities of both parties multiply, as Muslim pastoralists of Arab origins “clash” with African peasants of various religious affiliations, so that the conflict takes on an identity and intellectual character that is difficult to control. This complex form of conflict prevailed in the Darfur region, starting in 2003. There, the "Arab" tribes felt weak in front of the "African" tribes, so the central government in Khartoum, which considered the Arab tribes to be their natural extension, won victory for those tribes, and established the Janjaweed militias. From which the Rapid Support Forces later emerged to fight the "rebels". This was in order for the government to find supporters in those tribes, and the rift deepened between the government and an important part of the people, and between the components of the people themselves.

The regime's mishandling of multiple identities in Sudan, and its "suspicious" resort to Islamic law to compensate for the erosion of its legitimacy, has often been a motive for the country's instability, its sometimes going into civil wars, and secession, as happened with the south.

The Nimeiri regime, which was nationalist and socialist in its infancy, "adopted" Islamic law to confront its opponents, at the same time that it conspired with Israel to facilitate the transfer of Ethiopian Falashas to Israel via Sudan.

After the coup of Field Marshal Swar al-Dahab against al-Numeiri in 1985, and the advent of civil rule after that, Lieutenant General Omar al-Bashir seized power with the support of the Islamic Front led by al-Turabi, and imposed Islamic law, which contributed to the south going to secession, and the outbreak of fighting in Darfur before that.

With regard to the fighting now taking place between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, despite the ferocity of the fighting and the suffering incurred by the peaceful people as a result, the fact that this conflict does not take an identity or regional dimension makes the possibility of intervention to find a quick solution to it a possible issue, as this fighting is nothing more than A struggle between two "leaders", each with its international and regional extensions, competing for power and wealth in Sudan.

Sudan in the midst of international conflict
There are many countries concerned with the Sudanese issue, where the interests of those countries decide their policies towards that country, and their alignment in the ongoing conflict there now.

Egypt is considered the country most affected by what is happening in Sudan, as its stability is stability for it, as it has a border with Sudan of 1,200 km, and through it comes the Nile River, which is indispensable to both, and they also share the security of the Red Sea. Sudan is a route for illegal immigration to Egypt and through it to Europe, and it may be a source of "terrorism" in its various forms.

Saudi Arabia, which faces Sudan on the Red Sea, is also concerned with what is happening there. It is an ally in its war in Yemen, and it has huge investments in it, so we found it participating in the United States in an initiative to put an end to the conflict in it.

In parallel with Saudi Arabia, the UAE has close relations with the Rapid Support Forces and its leader, Hamidti, given the great commercial relations between the two parties, especially in the field of gold, and large investments in the field of land, as well as its ambition to manage Sudanese ports, as the UAE is keen to "control" maritime transport through ownership Ports in various important regions of the world.

As for America, it is historically concerned with Sudan, as it is a starting point for the rest of Africa, and it is an arena to confront the growing influence of China and Russia on the continent, and it wants Sudan to never again become an ally of Iran and Palestinian organizations.... That is why it imposed sanctions on it, and therefore lifted them.

In addition to these countries, there are China, Russia, Ethiopia, and Chad, as well as Israel.

Sudan, which is the country of the three "no's" of "no peace, no recognition, no negotiation" with Israel, was among the countries closest to the Palestinian cause, not only in terms of popular sympathy for it, but also through the support it provided to the Palestinian resistance.
Because of this, in addition to other reasons related to Sudan’s location in relation to Egypt, the central Arab state, and the major international alignments and the international conflict over Africa, Sudan has suffered a lot in the past decades from direct American and Israeli aggressions, as well as from internal problems that resulted from “irresponsible” dealings. Successive Sudanese governments with the mosaic social structure, and the West relying on this sociology and dealing with it in order to fuel internal conflicts, which led to the secession of southern Sudan, and the presence of other movements in some regions of the north, that could go, if not dealt with rationally, to other divisions .

As is the custom of the West and America in particular, in the selective use of human rights, to pressure and blackmail countries that do not agree with it, US sanctions were imposed on Sudan, and Sudanese leaders, including former President Omar al-Bashir, were sued at the International Criminal Court, and finally Barakat arrived. The Arab Spring to overthrow the Al-Bashir regime, and the advent of a "new" regime headed by the former regime's senior men in the army and the Rapid Support Forces.

It is difficult to find any indication of the "success" of the Arab Spring in the countries it reached, other than going to normalization with Israel. With Qadir’s ability, and through a barter deal that removed Sudan from the list of terrorism, and promised a loan of $1.2 billion, and some aid related to Corona, the head of the Sudanese Transitional Presidency Council, General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, met with Netanyahu in Uganda, and Sudan turned from an anti-Israel party into an ally, and established Economic relations between the "two countries" and the opening of Sudanese airspace to Israel. The relationship reached the point of Israeli mediation between the two poles of the Sudanese leadership in the recent conflict between them.

When the United States decided to "reduce" its presence in the Middle East in order to dedicate itself to fighting China and Russia, it "assigned" Israel to be its exclusive agent for hegemony in the region. The normalization of relations with Israel has become tantamount to "baptizing" any regime that wants to prove its "purity" to the United States.

The United States used all its military and economic means, accusing it of terrorism, "international law", "civilian" conspiracy, and "relatives" pressure to force Sudan to normalize relations with Israel until it succeeded in doing so. It is a normalization that is closer to the actual "rape" of the victim than to anything else.

Israel is now working to weave relations with various military and civilian forces in Sudan. Through this, it aspires to perpetuate its presence, and the presence of the West, in Africa, and impose a siege on Egypt, which together with Palestine forms the strategic heart of the nation, to keep it a weak, anxious and dependent country in order to dominate it and use it as it wants.

All that we see of Israeli tampering with the fate of the Arab world and the fate of the "East" in general, and which appears in Sudan today in its clearest form, comes in the context of America's attempts to cling to its hegemony over the world, and for that it invests - in the case of Sudan - all its own weaknesses, especially at the level Its social and identity structure, and exploits the "unjustified in many aspects" weakness that Egypt (the heart) suffers from, and its symptoms are clearly reflected in the "periphery" countries of the nation.

Palestinians must realize that what is happening in Sudan now is a state of temporary and transient "loss of balance", which does not reflect the true essence of Sudan towards Palestine (nor towards Sudan itself). In Sudan there are living forces represented in an aware and active civil society, in ancient political parties whose position on Palestine is an essential part of their consciousness, in historical unions that have been established on the culture of liberation that is not complete except in Palestine, and in two peoples who are "distorted" in distinguishing between their flags.

The social media circulated a message addressed by the lawyer, Walid Abu Tayeh, to the President, Mahmoud Abbas, asking him... "Your blessing and approval of the participation of the people of Jerusalem in the Jerusalem municipal elections." Brother Walid explains in his letter that he was born in Nazareth and holds Israeli citizenship, and that he has been a resident of occupied Arab Jerusalem for 44 years. In his letter, he says that he has decided to run in the municipal elections that will be held next October.

These are some, but not all, of the reasons he mentions in his letter and for which he decided to run for the presidency and membership of the Jerusalem Municipality:
1. Resilience and survival, preserving the Palestinian presence, and stopping displacement.
2. Preserving housing and property rights, work, the Palestinian narrative, and the acquired rights of the people of Jerusalem.
3. Stop demolishing homes and stop confiscating lands.
4. Collecting building permits and building new Arab neighborhoods.
5. Preserving Islamic and Christian holy places
6. Transforming the municipality into a political and legal platform for the justice of our national cause
7. Because the only beneficiaries of our non-participation are Israel and the Jewish residents of Jerusalem, who alone have the municipality’s revenues, which reach every year no less than seven billion dollars, and it is the Israelis alone who dispose of the resources of East and West Jerusalem, and the Israelis do not want anyone to share the pie with them, and the Jerusalem municipality It earns a net profit, after expenses and costs, from the people of East Jerusalem, not less than two billion dollars annually.
8. Coexistence in peace in an open Jerusalem, east and west, is a model and a mini-sample of a one-state solution in historic Palestine, in addition to the idea of ​​an international Jerusalem with Bethlehem Corpus Separatum. "
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Although the above is a priority demand for every Palestinian, it is naive to believe that participation in the municipal elections can achieve any of its provisions.

Scenarios for participation in the elections
In any case, the debate over participation in the municipal elections in occupied Jerusalem is not new. Rather, it has been discussed in every municipal election cycle since the eighties. The Meretz movement was urging the Palestinians from Jerusalem to participate in the municipal elections, and some of them reached the point of blaming the Palestinians for his failure in the elections. In the last two decades, it was noticed that some Palestinians from Arab neighborhoods ran for candidacy, but none of them succeeded, because there is a national consensus in the city against participating in the elections, because Arab Jerusalem is an integral part of the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Participation in elections conducted according to Israeli law constitutes acceptance. And a legitimization of the occupation and an acknowledgment that Jerusalem is subject to Israeli legal jurisdiction.

On the other hand, there is a marginal minority that says that municipal elections are not political or national elections, but rather service elections, and that any resident of Jerusalem has the right to choose the municipal council that provides services to him, and that the presence of Palestinians in the municipal council will protect the rights and interests of Jerusalemites, including some of what they included. Brother Walid Tayeh's aforementioned message.

If we dealt with the subject theoretically, we would say that there is logic in both points of view and we tried to balance them to choose the best, but the theoretical does not agree with the application and reality.

What will happen is that the religious Jews and the extremist nationalists and racists will take advantage of the talk about the participation of the Palestinians in the elections to incite against them and urge the Jews to go to the polls with their masses to save Jerusalem from the Arabs, while the Arabs do not have such an opportunity and will not be able to move the masses of Jerusalemites towards the polls for political and national reasons. The aforementioned, and then, even if the Arabs win some seats, the majority will be in the hands of the Jewish members, and we will come out with a municipality that is a thousand times worse than the current municipality, while we will be before the world as we have given legitimacy to the occupation municipality and we have normalized the occupation and its laws in Jerusalem. Therefore, any action from which it may be understood that the Palestinians will participate in the Israeli municipal elections must be avoided.

Accordingly, there is no value or practical benefit for the Palestinians of Jerusalem from participating in municipal elections that are conducted according to Israeli law. The municipal elections in Jerusalem must be politicized and viewed from a purely political perspective, not a service perspective.

Dealing with reality
On the other hand, there are those who believe that it is possible to deal with the status quo in Jerusalem, but without involving the Palestinian national movement in the city, the leadership of the PLO, or the Palestinian Authority in these elections, and without giving Israel the luxury of claiming that the wall of refusal to participate in the elections has collapsed, or giving the opportunity To the right and Jewish extremism to exploit Arab participation to urge Jews to go to the polls in a provocative manner. Brother Lawyer Walid Tayeh, although he has been residing in occupied Arab Jerusalem for 44 years, as he says, is, as he says in his letter, an Israeli by birth. Although I do not have accurate statistics, the sources that I was able to find say that the number of Israeli brothers who reside in Jerusalem permanently ranges between 11-15 thousand, and there are about twenty thousand residents of the part of Beit Safafa that was subjugated to Israel. Since 48, they hold Israeli citizenship, and there are also Jerusalemites who obtained Israeli citizenship, and there are conflicting estimates about their number. While some say that their number does not exceed 15,000, others insist that their number exceeded 30,000, and that obtaining Israeli citizenship was being done discreetly. . It can be said that there are about fifty thousand Arabs residing in Jerusalem who can participate in the municipal elections without political embarrassment.

They add that, therefore, there is a possibility to participate in the municipal elections, whether on a single list or on a coalition list with the Meretz movement. Whether it is alone or in coalition with Meretz, it should not present itself as a Palestinian list and not search for its legitimacy in the corridors of the boycott in Ramallah, and not burden the Palestinian Jerusalemite community with the burden of its work, and it should present itself as an Israeli-Arab list. In the context of talking about the hypothesis that there are about fifty thousand Arabs in Jerusalem who hold Israeli citizenship, it is necessary to take into consideration the possibility of a number of Jerusalemites joining them for personal purposes related to their places of work, as happened and is happening with some employees and workers since the beginning of the occupation as workers and municipal employees or those exploited by their employers They blackmail them into voting for the employer's party. I do not rule out that the Arab List will work for such people to vote for it, and I do not see the interest in shedding light on such people, but rather ignoring them.

An independent municipality... and the revival of the Jerusalem Municipality
Finally, some may challenge the necessity of reviving and activating the Jerusalem Municipality Council, while recalling that the main problem facing Jerusalemites is the problem of organization and building permits, and that the Jerusalem Municipality has no control over that. However, the issue of the Jerusalem Municipality is greater than just responding to the Israeli municipal elections, and it is an issue It is multifaceted, and reviving the trust is a vital matter of very high political and moral value, and I hope to address it in an upcoming article soon.

In conclusion, I say:
It is not permissible for the Palestinian leadership to interfere in the Israeli municipal elections in Jerusalem, and it must adhere to the traditional position that we used to adopt, which is that we reject the occupation and refuse to give legitimacy to the application of the occupation laws to occupied Arab Jerusalem.
There is no harm in the participation of the Arabs of the interior who hold Israeli citizenship in the elections, as this is a matter related to them, with the emphasis that their participation is not a Palestinian participation, but rather in their capacity as Israeli citizens.

Finally, the Palestinian leadership must draw up a plan, promote it, and work to make it a success in international forums, striving towards its implementation, based on the argument that municipal elections are service elections, and demands that Israel refrain from the Israeli municipality’s control of East Jerusalem as an occupied land that is still on the negotiating table as one of Final status issues, and enabling the citizens of Arab Jerusalem to elect a separate municipal council for Arab Jerusalem with an independent budget and financial responsibility with full powers, including planning, construction, education and social activities, while expressing readiness to participate in a coordinating council that coordinates between the two municipal councils in the two parts of West and East Jerusalem as a preparation step The atmosphere for any future settlement of the issue of Jerusalem. Achieving the existence of such a municipal council under the ceiling of the current situation and on a temporary basis does not contradict with reviving and activating the Jerusalem Municipality as an extension of the legal status that existed before the 1967 occupation, which removed the Secretary and disrupted the work of the Municipality Council.

I find myself compelled to address this topic once again to draw the attention of the decision-maker to the importance of prior preparation. On 8-2-2023, the court in the Netherlands issued a decision regulating the legal procedures and time limits for presenting written statements, comments and responses regarding the issuance of an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice regarding the legal consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territory, i.e. about (what is the legal occupation).

The court decided that the United Nations and its member states, as well as the observer State of Palestine, are able to provide information about the questions submitted to the court to obtain an advisory opinion pursuant to Article 66 of its statute, and set 25-7-2023 as a time limit for submitting written statements about questions to the court. And the date is 10-25-2023 as a time limit for countries and organizations after submitting written statements, they may submit written comments or objections to the written statements submitted by other countries or organizations.

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations and consists of 15 judges elected by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council for a period of nine years. The Court has a dual role:

First: Settlement of legal disputes submitted by states to them in accordance with international law through provisions that have binding force and are not subject to appeal for the parties concerned (arbitration).

Second: Providing advisory opinions on legal issues referred to it by duly authorized United Nations organs and agencies (the Palestinian case).

At the request of a Palestinian, the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the decision to request an advisory opinion from the highest international judicial body (the International Court of Justice) on the nature of occupation, which is very necessary for the decision-maker:

Not to underestimate the decline in the voting record among the number of countries supporting resolutions supporting the Palestinian right. It is necessary to follow up and work hard to win over these abstaining countries, or at a minimum, not to allow the number of supporting countries to decline.

Learning and building from the experience of 2004, when an advisory opinion was issued by the International Court of Justice, stressing the obligation to establish a Palestinian state as soon as possible. The court's opinion affirmed the illegality of the wall and placed responsibility on the United Nations. However, the advisory opinion was not properly built upon and is ultimately non-binding.

With the international system aware of the Israeli government's determination to continue its occupation and undermine the right of Palestinian self-determination, this time, for the court to provide an advisory opinion on the legitimacy of the long-term Israeli occupation, it is necessary for the questions to revolve around exposing the obsessive settlement purpose of prolonging the occupation, which is a clear violation of peremptory norms Therefore, the Palestinian decision-maker must prepare an international legal team to present written statements, comments and responses in order to formulate appropriate questions and sound legal language that achieves the supreme Palestinian interest.

In light of publishing the dates for the court's procedures, the Palestinians must reactivate the national and legal committees to mobilize and unify efforts to follow up on the file and avoid wasting any opportunity, as there are only 45 days left!!

The comment I wish to take into account is that it is not wise for the International Court of Justice to repeat that bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israeli government are “the only and sufficient tool” to achieve peace and to secure a politically independent Palestinian state. It is very necessary to draw the attention of the Court to consider peaceful measures and means of conflict resolution Other than "negotiations" to achieve the same goal.

It is possible to resort to mediation, conciliation, or arbitration from the methods that the court may deem preferable, with the ultimate goal remaining the same, to avoid further delay and to achieve Palestinian self-determination, which is an inalienable right in the international system.

The importance of submitting this request for asylum to the ICJ coincides with a bloody extremist Israeli government. The Palestinian step by requesting an advisory opinion constitutes positive progress with a Palestinian initiative to get out of the circle of being lost in the details to directing gravity around the "occupation" and the need to start ending it.

If the court decides to deal with the occupation as a legal issue, then there will be an opportunity for the Palestinians to get rid of the justification for negotiations and peaceful talks, because the issue of occupation becomes, by an international decision, a UN legal issue and not an issue for negotiation.

- Dalal Erekat: Professor of Diplomacy and Strategic Planning, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Arab American University.

Today, Sunday, the General Authority for Civil Affairs announced in a statement that the body of the martyr Ahmed Yaqoub Taha (39 years old) will be received from the town of Bidya in Salfit Governorate, today morning, by the Authority’s staff and the martyr’s family from the northern entrance to the city of Salfit.

In its statement, the authority indicated that the martyr Taha was killed by the occupation bullets on 04-27-2023, north of the city of Salfit.

The Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Lynn Hastings, said that hundreds of Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem are at risk of forcible eviction.

In a tweet on her official Twitter page, the UN coordinator said, "Today, Sunday, elderly members of the Sub Laban family may be evicted from their home in which they lived since 1954 in the Old City of Jerusalem."

She added, "Hundreds of Palestinians are at risk of forced eviction in East Jerusalem. This devastating practice - which is contrary to international law - must end."

Today, Sunday, the eleventh of June, the Israeli occupation authorities set a deadline for the eviction of the Sub Laban family from their home in favor of the settlers.

And last Thursday, the European Union office said in a tweet it posted on its official page on "Twitter" that "about 150 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem are at risk of eviction and forced displacement" from the Israeli occupation authorities.

The European Union reaffirmed its opposition to the Israeli settlement policy, and the measures taken in this context, including forced evictions.

The house of the Sub Laban family is located in a building in Aqaba al-Khalidiyah in the Old City, directly overlooking the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is inhabited by the seventy-year-old Mustafa Sub Laban and his wife Nora. Settlers previously seized an upper part of the building and another part of it several years ago, and the house of the Sub Laban family remained. In the middle of the building, which is surrounded by settlements on all sides.

It is noteworthy that a case was filed against the Sub Laban family in an attempt to forcibly evict them from their home in 1978, and the family entered into a whirlpool of courts and cases with the Israeli occupation and settlers, and fought seven court battles, including in 2000, when the family won the case and stayed at home.

In 2010, the occupation authorities transferred the property to the "Ateret Cohanim" settlement association, which began filing cases against the family in an attempt to forcibly deport them. In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a decision to prevent the presence of children and grandchildren in the home, with the aim of preventing them from claiming the right to protection as a third generation, while the spouses remain in it.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested, at dawn and Sunday morning, 9 citizens from separate areas in the West Bank.

According to local sources, these forces raided the town of Ya`bad in Jenin, and arrested the injured young man, Ghanem Bassam Hamarsheh, Abboud Jaafar Al-Taher, and the boy, Abd Muhammad Hamarsheh, after raiding the homes of their relatives and tampering with their contents.

These forces also raided many citizens' homes, including the editor Tareq Qabha, amidst clashes with angry youths.

While the Israeli army said that, in addition to Ya`bad, it arrested a number of what it called wanted persons, from Nilin in the Ramallah district, and Husan in Bethlehem, and that it had found weapons during the raids.

A Palestinian was killed, last night, as a result of a murder that took place in Jaljulia, in the occupied Triangle.

This is the second crime that occurred within hours yesterday, after another killing in Qalansawa.

According to the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority, the dead man in Jaljulia is Ashraf Kharroub (49 years old), and he was shot by unknown persons, while his wife and her sister were injured of varying degrees in the same crime.

According to the investigations, the talk is about a revenge operation, as his murdered son was arrested last month on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Mahdi Hariri, the son of one of the leaders of organized crime, but he was released due to lack of sufficient evidence, then he traveled to Turkey.

The Commission indicated that 13 Palestinians were killed in murders since last week, bringing the total number of victims since the beginning of the year to 102.

Last night, a civilian was killed by gunfire in Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.

According to the police spokesman, Colonel Louay Arziqat, 3 other citizens were injured during a quarrel that occurred inside the camp, indicating that the security services began investigation procedures after they took control of the place and cordoned off the quarrel.

Local sources said that the dead man was the editor, Khalil Mesbah, who was released about a month ago after spending about 20 years in the occupation prisons.

Tens of thousands demonstrated in Tel Aviv, in addition to hundreds in front of the hotel where Netanyahu and Levin are meeting in Caesarea, for the 23rd week in a row.

On Saturday evening, protests against the Netanyahu government and the plan to weaken the judiciary were renewed in Tel Aviv and dozens of towns and main junctions, for the 23rd week in a row.

Tens of thousands demonstrated in the central demonstration on "Kaplan" Street in Tel Aviv, which included a minute of silence for the victims of the murders in the Arab community, after the death toll reached 95 since the beginning of the year until now.

In Caesarea, hundreds demonstrated in front of the hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Justice Yarliv Levin met, amid the presence of reinforced police forces who prevented the demonstrators from approaching the hotel.

The demonstrators called on the Israeli Minister of Justice to come out and listen to them, and they said they chanted, "Levin, here is not Poland."

In Beersheba, more than a thousand people demonstrated, including former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who called for an escalation of protests and civil disobedience.

Barak said, "Netanyahu's project was passed in Poland and Hungary, but it will not pass here because we will continue to protest and we are not afraid of anyone or anything, nor will there be bargaining with anyone who tries to crush democracy."

A shooting crime committed in the city of Qalansawa resulted in the death of a 28-year-old man who succumbed to his critical wounds, bringing the death toll in the Arab community since the beginning of the year to 95.

A 28-year-old man died of his critical wounds in a shooting crime committed in the city of Qalansuwa, while 3 young men were injured in two separate fights in the Negev, on Saturday evening.

According to the information received, the crime was committed in a street near the Magazin cemetery, as the young man was wounded in the upper part of his body.

A medical staff from the "Men of David" provided resuscitation for the injured person, who was suffering from critical wounds in his body, then he was quickly transferred to "Meir" Hospital in Kfar Saba to complete treatment, but his death was confirmed after attempts to save his life failed.

The police arrived at the scene of the crime and began investigating its circumstances. Without reporting the arrest of any suspects.

In the city of Rahat, two young men (31 and 18 years old) were injured, described as moderate, after they were subjected to a shooting crime following a fight that occurred in lane 2.

A medical staff provided initial treatment to the injured, then they were transferred to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba to complete treatment.

In Shaqib al-Salam, a 21-year-old man was wounded in a fight, described as moderate.

The injured person suffered from wounds in his body, and he was transferred to Soroka Hospital to receive treatment after providing him with initial treatments.

Unchecked crimes in the Arab community

Crimes continue in the Arab community on a daily basis, at a time when the Arab community witnessed yesterday, Friday, angry protests denouncing the rampant crime and the inaction of the police, especially after the mass murder that took place in Jaffa Nazareth, in which 5 young men were killed on Thursday.

The crimes also come in light of the police’s failure to carry out its work in combating crime, confronting criminal gangs, and arresting the perpetrators, amid indications of the collusion of the Israeli security services with criminal organizations.

95 dead in the Arab community since the beginning of the year

With this crime, the number of murder victims in the Arab community has risen since the beginning of this year until today, to 95, including 6 women, a young woman and two children.

Arab society is witnessing an endless series of violent incidents and murders, at a time when the police are failing to carry out their work to curb crime, pursue criminal gangs, and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Street shootings and murders have become commonplace in recent years in Arab society, which finds itself left to its fate and hostage to organized crime.

This comes amid the criminals' feeling of impunity, as the perpetrators of the shooting believe that everything is permissible for them, noting that most of the crimes are related to working in usury, the black market, and settling scores between criminal gangs.

The families of the martyrs whose bodies are being held by the occupation authorities organized, this evening, Saturday, a stand in the city center of Ramallah, to demand the recovery of the bodies of their children, and they also demanded the immediate release of the sick prisoner, Walid Daqqa.

During the stand, the participants chanted against the occupation policies against the prisoners, and raised slogans rejecting the policy of medical negligence, and stressed the need for the international community to move to end the procedures practiced against them.

After the vigil, the participants organized a march from Al-Manara Square to the house of the prisoner Islam Al-Froukh's family in "Ramallah Al-Tahta", which was blown up by the occupation forces two days ago, where several words were delivered in support of his family and an affirmation that our people stand by their side.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Walid Daqqa, who entered his 38th year in the Israeli occupation prisons, is facing a serious health condition, as a result of his recent serious health symptoms, in addition to his suffering from a rare type of cancer that affects the bone marrow and is known as "myelofibrosis."

On Saturday evening, clashes broke out between young men and the Israeli occupation forces, in the town of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported that settlers from the "Kadumim" settlement, which was established by force on the lands of Kafr Qaddum, gathered near Jabal Al-Kadan, north of the town, under the protection of the occupation soldiers, in an attempt to storm the area. .

Hundreds of students from the "Al-Qastal" school in Nazareth participated in a vigil, today, Saturday, to protest the violence and murders rampant in Palestinian society in the 48 territories, and the failure of the Israeli police to fight it.

During the vigil organized by the school administration, the educational staff and the parents' committee, the students raised banners condemning violence and chanted loudly to stress the need to speak the language of dialogue in society and to reject all forms of violence, killing and intimidation.

The students also raised slogans denouncing violence and crime, and chanted against the "miserable state" that Arab society has reached, including violence, killing, oppression, bullying and other negative behavior.

Last Thursday, the town of Yafa al-Nazareth witnessed one of the bloodiest criminal shootings, in which five young men were killed, one of them a 15-year-old minor, as a result of settling scores between two criminal organizations active in the Arab community.

Dozens of vigils will be organized in Arab towns, against the escalation of violence and the spread of crime, in light of the failure of the Israeli authorities to combat this phenomenon, at the invitation of the Higher Follow-up Movement of the Arab Masses.

Thirteen people were killed and 20 others injured during ethnic clashes in a camp for the protection of civilians of the UN mission in southern Sudan, according to the United Nations Agency for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OSHA) on Friday.

On Thursday, a 14-year-old boy from the Shilluk ethnic group was stabbed to death in Malakal camp, about 520 km north of the capital, Juba, in Upper Nile state.

The UN agency stated in a statement that this incident "caused the outbreak of ethnic violence," speaking of a total of "13 dead and 20 wounded."

This climate of insecurity impedes humanitarian activities, she said, noting the suspension of "the transfer of South Sudanese fleeing the conflict in Sudan from border points towards Malakal."

South Sudan gained its independence in 2011, but two years later it sank into a five-year civil war between rival rivals Riek Machar and Salva Kiir, which left nearly 400,000 dead and millions displaced.

The war officially ended in September 2018 with a peace agreement that stipulates the principle of power-sharing. But this agreement has been largely unimplemented, more than two years after the formation of a national unity government that included Kiir and his archenemy Machar, the current vice president.

The United Nations and the international community accuse South Sudanese leaders of maintaining the status quo, stoking violence, suppressing political freedoms and embezzling public funds.

Zaher Jabareen, a member of the Hamas political bureau and the official in charge of the Martyrs, Wounded, and Prisoners Bureau, said today, Saturday, that the ongoing policy of administrative detention against the Palestinian people is an organized crime committed by the occupation in violation of international norms, and a flagrant violation of all humanitarian charters, through which it practices oppression and persecution. Right of the Palestinian people without censor or accountability.

In a press statement, Jabareen considered that the battle of the open hunger strike, which the administrative prisoners are waging on the eighteenth of this month, will be the title of a new chapter of our battles with the occupation inside and outside prisons.

The official of the Office of Martyrs, Wounded and Prisoners in Hamas explained that the number of administrative prisoners exceeded 1,083, noting that it is a dangerous indicator indicating the occupation’s pervasiveness in robbing the freedom of our people. It contradicts the simplest humanitarian standards with all available means and means. like he said.

Iran has denied a media report that it is "close to reaching an interim nuclear deal" with the United States, saying such a deal does not exist and is not on the agenda, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Friday.

Tasnim news agency reported that Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations on Thursday responded in a statement to a report published by the London-based news outlet Middle East Eye which said that Tehran and Washington were close to reaching an interim agreement, under which Tehran would limit its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.

"There is no interim agreement to replace the JCPOA and it is not on the agenda," the Iranian mission said.

A White House National Security Council spokesman also denied the report, saying it was "false and misleading".

Iran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with world powers in July 2015, agreeing to place some restrictions on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions on the country. However, the United States withdrew from the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed its unilateral sanctions on Iran, prompting the latter to reduce some of its nuclear obligations under the agreement.

Talks on reviving the JCPOA began in April 2021 in Vienna without any breakthrough after the last round of talks in August 2022.

The Ministry of the Interior in Gaza announced, on Saturday morning, the death of Khaled Muhammad Musleh (22 years), a member of the police force, as a result of a gunshot wound while carrying out an arrest mission against a citizen in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Several arrest warrants were issued against him in different cases.

In a brief statement, the ministry indicated that an urgent investigation had been opened into the incident, noting that the police forces had arrested the shooter.