On Sunday morning, the Israeli army announced that it had arrested two young Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, as they tried to bypass the security obstacle.

According to a statement by the Israeli army, the two young men were not carrying any weapons, and they were taken for investigation.

A flight attendant for the Irish Airlines (Ryanair) angered the Israelis who were on board a plane heading to Lod "Ben Gurion" airport in Tel Aviv.

According to the Hebrew Channel 7, the flight attendant said, during a flight coming from Italy, towards the airport, that "the plane will land soon in Palestine."

According to passengers on the plane, the flight attendant repeated her words in English and Italian, and the passengers asked her to apologize for that, but she refused and repeated it several times, and said again: "All passengers must return to their seats because the plane is about to land in Tel Aviv, occupied Palestine."

The CEO of the company, Eddie Wilson, announced his apology later in a statement published by the company about what happened.

Today, Sunday, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs, Barrera Leaf, is scheduled to arrive in Tel Aviv on a diplomatic visit that includes several countries in the region.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Lev will meet with senior Israeli political and military officials, and will focus in her discussions on Iran's behavior in the region and deepening Israel's integration into the Middle East.

Lev will meet with senior officials in the Palestinian Authority to discuss issues related to US-Palestinian relations, including US efforts to support the Palestinian people, and will also meet with figures from Israeli and Palestinian civil society.

Liv will also travel to Jordan to meet senior officials in the Hashemite Kingdom.

On Sunday, the Israeli government is scheduled to approve the formation of the Ministerial Committee for Arab Society Affairs (Palestinians of the Interior), which will be one of its first tasks to develop a mechanism to address the widespread crime.

According to the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority, the ministerial committee will not include any Arab minister, and the only representative of the Palestinians in the interior will be the head of the Economic Development Authority, Hassan Tawara, as a permanent member.

It is expected that this committee, which will include 15 ministers, will be chaired by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and among its members will be the Minister of the so-called National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Settlements Orit Strok, Minister of Development of the Negev and the Galilee Yitzhak Fislarov, and another number of Ministers.

The committee's discussions will be coordinated by a representative of the National Security Council who will participate regularly in the discussions.

A number of citizens were injured, at dawn on Sunday, during the occupation forces' raid into several areas of the West Bank.

According to local sources, a young man was wounded in the foot with a rubber bullet, during clashes that broke out in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, after it was stormed by an Israeli force.

These forces raided many houses and shops, although they were closed, and confiscated camera recordings, amid confrontations with young men who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at these forces.

In the context, the occupation forces arrested Ibrahim Mustafa Abed, a student at the Faculty of Engineering, from Tal village in Nablus, when he was passing through a flying military checkpoint.

The occupation forces also stormed several areas in Jenin, and clashes broke out, wounding a young man with a rubber bullet in the hand.

In Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, a special force, followed by military reinforcements, infiltrated before it was detected by the resistance fighters, with whom they engaged in armed clashes.

Tens of thousands demonstrated on Saturday evening in Tel Aviv and dozens of towns and junctions against the plan to weaken the judiciary, especially in the wake of recent developments and disagreements that have re-emerged between the opposition parties and the government coalition after the talks that took place in the office of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The ongoing protests come for the 24th week in a row, days after the election of a member of the Knesset for "Yesh Atid", Karen Elharar, as a representative of the opposition in the Committee for the Appointment of Judges.

Today, Saturday, the Administrative Prisoners Committee in the Israeli occupation prisons decided to give the opportunity to complete the dialogue with the Israeli Prisons Administration and the competent authorities in following up the administrative detention file.

A statement by the committee stated that this step distanced the occupation from responding to some of the demands and suspending the answer to the main demand until the next dialogue session early next month.

The committee considered this opportunity as the last chance to respond to the just demands of the prisoners, stressing its full readiness and high readiness to guarantee the preservation of their rights and the occupation's response to their demands.

It called on the Palestinian masses and all institutions supporting the cause of the prisoners to continue their role in supporting their right to wrest their freedom and end this unjust file.

Tomorrow, Sunday, June 18th, marks the ninth anniversary of the re-arrest of dozens of the liberators of the “Wafaa Al-Ahrar” deal, according to which (1027) were liberated in 2011, in exchange for the release of the Israeli soldier (Gilad Shalit).

The Captive Club said in a statement that the occupation authorities continue to detain (48) those released from the deal, and they are among about (70) prisoners who were re-arrested by the occupation in 2014, and later returned to about 50 of them their previous sentences, most of which are life imprisonment, in addition to years, Based on an arbitrary law that he approved especially for them, and implemented it through what is known as the Military Objections Committee, which was established to consider their cases, and today it detains them in its prisons under the pretext of having a (secret file), and based on this pretext they are serving life sentences.
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He added that what the prisoners of the "Loyalty of the Free" deal were subjected to was one of the most dangerous measures that the occupation carried out against prisoners who were liberated through exchanges, and it was clear that the occupation had taken them hostage for political goals.

And he continued, that despite all the claims that took place over these years, and among them were claims to the sister Republic of Egypt, which sponsored this agreement at the time, to put pressure on the occupation for their release, he continued to arrest them and violated the agreement that was made, and he was among the most prominent of those who returned Arresting the captive commander, Nael Al-Barghouti, who is serving the longest period of detention in the occupation prisons, with a total of 44 years in two periods.

The Captive Club called, once again, on the sisterly Republic of Egypt, and on all Palestinian levels, to intensify efforts to liberate them, and to restore the basic demand in this issue, which is freedom, and to decide the fate of thousands of prisoners, after the years of detention of some of them exceeded four decades, and some approached them.

Hamas said, on Saturday, that it views with great concern the intention of the occupation Knesset, tomorrow, Sunday, to discuss a bill that would allow imposing prison sentences on Palestinian children from the age of 12 years and over.

In a statement, Hamas considered this as "a precedent that confirms the racist and brutal nature of this usurper entity, which requires a serious stance from the international community to condemn the Zionist entity and hold it accountable for its ongoing crimes against our children and our Palestinian people." As stated in the text of the statement.

She added, "The children of Palestine have always been exposed to the most heinous crimes committed by the Zionist machine of aggression and terrorism, including killing, arrest, abuse and torture. Legislating these fascist practices is a flagrant challenge to all laws that affirm the protection of children and distance them from conflicts." According to the text of the statement.

Hamas affirmed that "all inhumane and immoral practices that seek to pressure and resist our Palestinian people will not discourage our steadfast people from continuing their path of defending themselves and their sanctities and achieving their aspirations for freedom and self-determination." according to the text of the statement.

Police spokesman Louay Irzeqat said, on Saturday, that 17 citizens have been victims of murders in the West Bank since the beginning of the current year 2023.

In an interview with the official "Voice of Palestine" radio station, Irzeigat indicated that two young men from Nablus were killed within 24 hours due to an accidental shooting.

And that the police and security services revealed most of the circumstances of these crimes and arrested the perpetrators.

Irzeigat touched on the number of deaths due to traffic accidents since the beginning of the year, noting that it has reached 35 deaths, after about 7 thousand accidents.

The warnings issued by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to the Israeli Minister of Security, Yoav Gallant, during their meeting yesterday at the Pentagon, about his country's concern about the explosive security situation in the West Bank as a result of the escalating settlement construction, do not change anything in the facts that Israel has drawn on the ground, and will not remove the focus of settlement, or stop an aggression against a peaceful village, or prevent an attack on farmers in their fields from which they live and produce, and will not deter a soldier suffering from a lust to kill from aiming his bullet at the head of an innocent child to kill him in cold blood without any guilt, as happened with the child "Muhammad Al-Tamimi" In the Prophet Saleh, which Israel said that one of its soldiers killed him by mistake!!.

It is known to all that Israel does not give weight to such warnings that successive American administrations and the international community took turns on, as our people and its leadership are fed up with such statements that did not end the occupation and its settlement project, because this occupation is reassured that the United States, the European Union and the entire international community will not He takes any sanctions or measures against it that deter it from moving forward with its replacement project that is based on our land and our capabilities and praises the blood of our youth, children and elderly who are being killed in plain sight of everyone.

Since the extreme right assumed power in Israel, daily killings have escalated among our people, and the construction of settlements has accelerated and the existing ones have been expanded by adding thousands of new units to them. Time, and this is not done in the dark, but in broad daylight and in public, in an unparalleled Israeli violation of international laws that prohibit the occupying state from changing the status quo in the occupied country in what is internationally known as the "status".

When the United States of America warns of the consequences of an explosive situation in the Palestinian territories, it will have sowed ashes in the eyes and sent a message that it is keen on security, stability and calm in the region at a time when the situation continues to flare up due to the continuous Israeli aggression against our people who stand defending The right to live in security, peace and stability like the rest of the peoples of the world. Here it must be pointed out that the Palestinian people do not initiate the attack as Israel claims, but rather defend themselves against the machine of killing, oppression and non-stop aggression. Jenin and Nablus are only the best evidence and blatant example of that.

In light of the foregoing, although we do not rely on such warnings, we remind those who issued them of their moral, humanitarian and political duty towards the Palestinian people who have been suffering for "75 years" non-stop from killing, destruction and displacement, and are still paying with their flesh, blood and land the price of their steadfastness and survival on the land of their homeland and the price of His adherence to his just rights to freedom, return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

How long will we keep receiving warning data without seeing a single practical step on the ground?

It was reported that an Israeli military court sentenced an Israeli soldier to reprimand for his act of killing a two-year-old Palestinian child. The military court claimed that the killing of the Palestinian child was an unintentional mistake, and acquitted the Israeli soldier. When I heard this news, all the images of Israeli killings, with all their imagined and unimagined tools, over more than five decades, jumped into my memory. How can an army that describes itself as moral and boasts of the purity of its weapons justify the killing of a two-year-old child? Are the actions of the Israeli security forces justified, no matter how long they are, and are the Palestinian people sentenced to pay the price of Israeli fear and cowardice with their lives? The most appropriate and commanded to judge the murderer with a grievous penalty is a reprimand. How much is the Israeli disregard for Palestinian life, and how degraded is the Israeli behavior in respecting the value of life, which is the highest. Let justice fall if it is in this way and this form.

He is not the first Palestinian child, nor will he be the last, to be killed by Israeli forces' fire. The occupation forces used to kill Palestinian children, as they do not recognize the International Child Protection Convention of 1989, nor its application to Palestinian children, whether they are under direct military occupation, or under the Israeli civil authority. Since 1967, Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinian children under one pretext or another.

The systematic Israeli killing process did not stop at the men of the Palestinian resistance, but included pregnant and non-pregnant women, innocent elderly people, and children with special needs such as Iyad al-Hallaq, and those who are deaf and those who do not hear. Intended racial death. Even whoever seclusion in a mosque or celibacy in a mihrab, or conferred with his family, the Israeli hand of menon reached him and his family, friends and companions without the slightest discrimination or distinction.

The hand of Israeli killing extended from the Palestinian massacres in Deir Yassin, Tantura, and Kafr Qassem, to the Bahr al-Baqar School and the Egyptian students there, and in the Qana massacre, where 106 Lebanese civilians were killed in southern Lebanon at the hands of Shimon Peres, who won the Nobel Prize, Jordanians in Jordanian cities such as Salt and Jerash, and Egyptian scientists. Iraqis, Syrians, and representatives of the Palestinian resistance in various parts of the world.

Although the first of the Ten Commandments forbids and prohibits killing, and the heavenly religions prohibit it, “And do not kill the soul that God has forbidden, except with justice.” Human rights charters protect it with all its tools, and international humanitarian law has only been established to protect the right to life for the residents of the occupied areas, civilians and military personnel. The Israeli security, including the army, police and intelligence services, has a policy of killing by various means, by air, land and sea.

The Israeli outstretched hand for killing does not wait for a judicial authorization as is required in all countries of the world, as is the case in executions, but rather seizes any opportunity from an unknown informant, day or night, dawn or evening, to implement the policy of physical liquidation, even if the entire family of the wanted person, She is present in his house, communicates with him, or sleeps with him, even if that leads to killing all of them, and in return you see them sing of warning others to vacate the place.

And you see them accompanying the killing process later by demolishing the house of the dead person or the house of his relatives even if he slept one night in it, or they let him bleed on the pretext that he might be carrying an explosive belt, or they disrupt and prevent the arrival of the ambulance, and even provide him with the necessary and vital aid from an Arab doctor or paramedic.

Even the directives on open fire published by the United Nations as the gospel of live fire in all countries, as a last resort for the use of lethal force, have been replaced by instructions for the Israeli army to use lethal firepower if the Israeli soldier is endangered, as if the UN experts do not value the right to life. They are inhuman, as they stipulated that the aggressor be warned in a language he understands and in a loud voice to stop, and that the firearm be directed in the air with warning shots.

Specific and clear instructions, which cannot be ambiguous, have been replaced by the Israelis with vague, flexible, ambiguous, vague, and cloudy instructions, which allow ample room for interpretation. It may be a verbal altercation, an emotional movement, a punch or a blow, a humiliating movement, a stone, a children’s game, or transgression, so who assesses the criterion of danger, its seriousness, and its proportionality with the use of armed firepower, and is it equal to a knife with a machine gun?!

What encouraged the systematic Israeli policy of killing was the absence of an effective penalty or deterrent punishment for the perpetrator, accomplice, instigator, and accomplice in these crimes, regardless of their different names and ranks. The United States, for example, has distanced itself from the trial and prosecution of the Israeli killers of American civilians because they are of Palestinian origin, and this in itself is racial discrimination, i.e. a crime in itself.

The Americans did not pursue, prosecute, or punish the killers of Sherine Abu Aqelah and the elderly Omar Asaad in the village of Jaljalia, despite the fact that a long time has passed since they were killed. Likewise, the European Union was and still is acting towards the Israeli security forces, protecting them and immunizing them from any responsibility, despite the possibility of prosecuting them. Even the International Criminal Court, which is supposed to be the first and last resort to try the Israeli killers against the Palestinians, has failed in this task that its texts oblige it to do. Rather, its Attorney General, Karim Khan, distanced himself from directing any charge or submitting any indictment against any Israeli security guard, settler, or any Israeli official. We note here that the Oslo Accords do not allow any Israeli to be tried before Palestinian courts for any crime he committed on Palestinian land.

It is a sad matter, rather a matter that stirs the nerves and makes the perpetrator of the crime not receive his punishment and recompense so that he may be an example to others, and so that the punishment will have a deterrent effect on others. Otherwise, the punishment loses its function and purpose. As for talking about reprimands, warnings, demotions, salary deductions, arrests for interrogation for days, transfers, retirement, and other grievous punishments, this is nothing but "laughing at the beards" and disregarding the value of life for the Palestinian, and systematic antagonism against his divine, natural, and human right to life. Life (And there is life for you in retribution, O people of understanding, so that you may fear).

A Palestinian (57 years old) was killed, on Saturday morning, as a result of being shot by unknown assailants in the occupied city of Nazareth.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the new crime, which moderately injured another person, was the result of a family vendetta that led to the killing of 29 Palestinians within two years from the Bakri and Hariri families.

This brings the number of Palestinian victims from the occupied interior since the beginning of the year to 104.

At a time when Gaza is preparing to receive the blessed Eid Al-Adha, the fourth and last group of pilgrims from the Strip arrived on Friday, the sixteenth of June, to Mecca to perform the Hajj, as the number of members of the Gaza Strip mission is more than 2,900 pilgrims and needy people who have the capabilities to provide travel fares and special tickets. Hajj due to the high prices, where an amount of more than four thousand dollars must be paid to obtain the opportunity for Hajj per person, which is a very, very high amount that only a small part of the population of the Gaza Strip can provide.

We go back to Gaza and start with the exciting controversy, starting with the high prices of the Hajj season for this year by about 700 dollars compared to last year, as this poses a major dilemma for the population, most of whom are poor, but this situation is considered partial and unique within the framework of a group of other serious challenges facing the residents of the Gaza Strip Their number is nearly two million citizens. Poverty, high prices, and the high cost of living are all factors that disturb their comfort and cause a negative impact on the Palestinian economy in the Strip, which is forced to create a state of balance with the neighboring economy based on trade exchange movements. Therefore, the conclusion of the pre-Eid al-Adha situation can be described as disastrous for the citizens of the Strip. Given that the war of high prices and high prices has already begun …

The movement appears to be thriving towards the markets and commercial centers in the Gaza Strip and the cities of the Strip as a whole, especially the main ones. However, this movement is nothing more than another attempt by the Gazan citizen to acquire the necessary necessities only in order to draw the smile of Eid on the faces of children, sons, and young girls whose families should provide them with a margin, albeit a simple one. It makes Eid an occasion for joy and happiness…

Many families go to the markets of the Strip and are forced to buy very little. Since Eid al-Adha comes 70 days after Eid al-Fitr, most families do not buy new clothes for Eid for their children, preferring to rely on what was bought in the previous Eid. Prices are high, merchants do not cooperate, and their treatment is not good, which increases the burden on the hidden families.

Despite monitoring by the responsible authorities, the prices of some items of holiday food, in addition to clothes, rise dramatically, which exhausts citizens.

The rise in prices and the high cost of living schedule do not correspond to any improvement in salaries that do not exist in the first place or the aid that ranges in the same place, where the citizens wonder: Are there salaries and an increase in them until prices are raised in this insane way, hoping that the siege of the Strip will end until conditions improve and prices return to normal. .

Regarding the reasons behind the high prices of Eid clothes, clothing merchants explain that there are many reasons, including; The high price of the dollar against the shekel and also the low price of the Turkish lira against the dollar, which caused an increase in the prices of clothes inside Turkey, from which Gaza imports many pieces of clothing, in addition to the effects and shadows of the Corona pandemic in the last period, as this affected the clothing industry in China, which was not produced as well. It was previously, as it ended the epidemic measures only at the end of last year, and therefore no goods were available from China, the leading manufacturer of clothing …

Among the reasons are also the government measures that impose customs and taxes on the seeds imported from abroad, in addition to attempts to support the national product and place it in a price list close to the international and Arab prices surrounding the Gaza Strip. Also, the Israeli blockade until this moment limits the ability of national factories to cover the needs of the local markets. The besieged sector suffers from the deterioration of the humanitarian, economic and living conditions as a result of the continuous and strict occupation blockade, and the sanctions imposed by the authority on the sector, which exacerbated poverty and unemployment and the persistence of the problem of power outages, which increases the suffering of various groups.

Despite the position of the Ministry of Economy in Gaza regarding the rise in prices and the state of popular discontent with them, and despite the Ministry of Consumer Protection’s continuous follow-up of the markets, especially in the days preceding the holidays, after complaints that come from citizens and their grumbling about the high prices, the general situation of prices cannot Satisfaction in the hearts of Gaza's poor citizens, mainly...

The many economic consequences due to the high prices in the Gaza Strip will inevitably and once again affect the citizens in the Gaza Strip and will greatly affect their well-being. It will also contribute continuously to affecting the social fabric in the Strip with impressive blows through which the citizens of the Gaza Strip continue to be classified into well-off, poor, very poor, and destitute. It cannot inspire luxury or even be described as a decent living. The economic and living gaps are huge and require efforts and many years until we find a thread of happiness that brings back to the Gaza Strip a very small part of its luster.

American Robert Powers was convicted of committing the most deadly attack on Jews in the history of the United States in 2018 by targeting a synagogue in Pittsburgh, and he faces the possibility of the death penalty.

The extraordinary trial has now entered a new phase during which it will be decided whether Powers will be sentenced to death or life in prison.

Fifty-year-old Robert Powers was accused of killing 11 people in October 2018 at the "Tree of Life" synagogue in Pittsburgh, in the northeastern United States.

Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania said the jury deliberated for five hours to reach this verdict.

Powers was found "guilty" of the 63 charges against him.

In addition to deeming the accused guilty, the bet in this two-stage trial focuses on the death penalty that may be issued by the US federal judiciary.

The white truck driver initially pleaded not guilty before his lawyers offered to plead guilty in exchange for a guarantee that he would not be sentenced to death, but the US Department of Justice refused.

On October 27, 2018, Powers stormed the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh armed with three handguns and a semi-automatic assault rifle. He opened fire shouting "All Jews must die" and killed 11 people, including a 97-year-old woman, during Saturday prayers in a historic Jewish neighborhood in Pittsburgh, in the attack that resulted in the largest number of victims against Jews in the United States.

Prior to that, Powers had posted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant messages on a far-right social network.

The then US President, Republican Donald Trump, called for the imposition of the death penalty on Robert Powers, which was followed by the Ministry of Justice and confirmed after the term of Democratic President Joe Biden began on January 20, 2021.

But candidate Biden pledged in 2020 to abolish the death penalty at the national level, so this trial revived the controversy over this penalty, which is still applied in a number of US states.

In early 2019, the federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh said he would seek the death penalty for Robert Powers, citing his "no remorse" and "hatred and contempt" for Jews.

And his lawyer, Judy Clark, admitted that her client was indeed the man who shot the Jews. "There is no point in looking for meaning in an act of insanity," she said, trying to save Powers' life rather than asserting his innocence.

The trial comes against the backdrop of escalating racist and anti-Semitic acts in the United States, which have reached their highest level in 30 years, according to FBI figures published by The Washington Post in April.

The American organization to combat anti-Semitism, the Anti-Defamation League, said that in 2021, the country witnessed a record number of 2,717 anti-Semitic acts of assault, verbal attacks, and material damage, an increase of 34 percent over a year.

The same organization counted 3,697 anti-Semitic acts in 2022, an increase of 36 percent in one year and unprecedented since 1979, according to the Washington Post.

The United States has the largest number of Jews in the world, after Israel.

And the Pew Research Center reported that the number of adult Jews in the United States reached about 5.8 million in 2020, in addition to another 2.8 million adults whose parents are Jewish.

The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Saturday morning, a campaign of raids in several areas of the West Bank.

According to Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, a young man arrived with an injury in his right hand, and his condition was described as slight, after he was shot by the occupation forces.

Large forces stormed several neighborhoods in the city of Jenin and the outskirts of its camp, amid clashes with resistance groups that forced the occupation forces to withdraw, without any arrests being reported.

In Nablus, the young Yassin al-Qatanani, a resident of the popular housing neighborhood in Askar, east of the city, was arrested after storming his family's home, searching it thoroughly and tampering with its contents.

The Red Crescent reported that its crews dealt with the injury of a young man after he was run over by a military vehicle in the old Askar camp, and 3 injuries of gas suffocation.

The occupation forces stormed several houses in the town of Beita, as well as in Beit Furik, which led to the outbreak of confrontations. A young man was injured by a gas bomb in the head, and his condition was described as moderate and stable.

On Friday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken denied any agreement between the United States and Iran regarding Tehran's nuclear program, stressing that press reports that spoke of such an agreement were "inaccurate."

"With regard to Iran, some of the reports we've seen about an agreement on nuclear issues or about detainees are simply inaccurate and incorrect," Blinken said in response to a question during a press conference.

Several media outlets recently published reports that confirmed that Washington and Tehran are about to conclude an interim agreement to replace the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, which has become null and void since the United States withdrew from it in 2018.
Iran also denied this information.

This comes in light of moving talks between the Westerners and the Iranians on the nuclear issue.

Diplomatic sources said that a high-ranking Iranian diplomatic official discussed, on Monday in Abu Dhabi, with representatives of France, Britain and Germany, strategic issues, including the Iranian nuclear program.

Tehran also confirmed on Monday that it is holding indirect talks with the United States, mediated by the Sultanate of Oman.

Blinken renewed the American position on Friday in terms of that the United States is "determined that Iran not obtain a nuclear weapon" and that to achieve this, "all options remain on the table."

"We still believe that diplomacy is the most effective way to achieve this, but there is no agreement, and reports to the contrary are inaccurate," he said.

He added that "there was no agreement" on the release of American citizens in Iran or the exchange of detainees.

At least three Iranian Americans are being held in Iran, including businessman Siamak Namazi, who was arrested in October 2015 and sentenced to ten years in prison for espionage.

Israeli special forces detained a young Palestinian from Balata refugee camp in the city of Lydda on Friday, alleging that he planned to carry out an attack. 

The detained man was identified as Muhammad Nasr Sawalmeh. 

His family rejected the reports in Israeli media that he intended to carry out an attack, saying that he was visiting relatives in the city.

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his country's relations with the United Arab Emirates on Friday while meeting with the head of the oil-rich country, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in St. Petersburg.

"The UAE is a very good partner," Putin said in televised remarks at the beginning of the meeting, which was held on the sidelines of an economic summit in Russia's second-largest city.

Putin thanked Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed for the UAE's contribution to the exchange of prisoners and prisoners between Russia, Ukraine, Russia and the United States.

For his part, the Emirati president said he supports "de-escalation" and "political solutions" to the Ukrainian conflict.

He added that he discussed with Putin the "strategic partnership" between their two countries, according to a statement published by the official UAE news agency (WAM).

Russia and the UAE cooperate closely through the OPEC+ oil alliance.

Dubai is also one of the few global capitals to maintain direct flights to Moscow after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, allowing the UAE to benefit from a large influx of Russian tourists.

Mohammed bin Zayed is the most prominent foreign leader participating in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, an annual event that brings together officials and companies from around the world.

Ramallah – Several Palestinians were injured by live and rubber-coated bullets in protests and confrontations with Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank on Friday. 

Local sources added that several others suffered from tear gas inhalation in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and Beita, in the south.

In the town of Beit Ummar, near Hebron, a young man and a photojournalist Ihab Al-Alami were wounded by live ammunition, while others were hit by rubber-coated bullets. Dozens of others suffered from suffocation from tear gas.

Eyewitnesses said that clashes broke out in Beit Ummar after the Israeli army raid the town, wounding the two men in the thighs with live ammunition. The two men were evacuated to hospital.

The occupying state believes that by escalating its attacks on citizens in the West Bank, storming cities and towns, and killing young men in cold blood, in addition to the acts of vandalism, attacks, and cutting down of trees and burning homes and cars and other things, it can achieve its goals in continuing its occupation of the Palestinian land. He made the citizens raise the white flag and recognize the occupation, especially for those who remain among the Palestinian citizens on their lands after, according to its plans, a large proportion of them are expelled out of the country, either voluntarily through the crimes it commits against them, or by force, waiting for the opportunity to implement that.

This is not new, as many officials in the Israeli right-wing, racist, and extremist government declare day and night that the West Bank is Jewish land, that the Palestinians must leave it, and that the Palestinian people is a people that was invented only decades ago and that before that there was no Palestinian people.

But Israel will be disappointed and its plans will fail in light of the Palestinian’s insistence on steadfastness on his land and his willingness to make more sacrifices and confront the occupation crimes with bare chests, and that the forced displacement that took place in 1948 as well as in 1967 will not be repeated, no matter how great the sacrifices and whatever the tyranny of the occupation and its herds. settlers.

Contrary to what the occupation believes, its crimes and violations by it and the settlers' flocks, including storming the city of Nablus last night and shooting at citizens, which led to the death of a young man, the injury of dozens, and the demolition of a prisoner's house, will lead to an escalation of violence and counter-violence in the region, and the occupying state will not be able to During that, achieving any of its objectives, for violence generates violence, and for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
This is what is happening in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem. Whenever the occupying state escalates its violations and crimes, the Palestinian people will respond to that, which will lead to an escalation of violence in the West Bank, and our people will not be complacent or acquiesce in the occupation.
The easiest way for the occupying state to prevent violence and counter-violence is to recognize the inalienable national rights of our people to return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, and thus the region will witness complete calm, and without that, the occupying state bears responsibility not only for the unbridled escalation that it practices. Against our people, but what will happen in the future in terms of the outbreak of confrontations and perhaps wars that may threaten security and peace in the region and the world, and then our people will not be the ones who will pay the price alone, but the occupying side will also pay the price.
And the wise people on the occupation side, if there are wise people and we doubt that, they must remedy matters before it is too late, as continuing the escalation will never serve the occupying state.

In October of the year 1995, Senator Robert Dole presented the draft "Law Implementing the Transfer of the Jerusalem Embassy", and after one month it was approved and issued as a "public law". The “General Law” is considered binding for implementation, and the drafting of its preamble was a major shift in official policy, as it referred to the city of “Jerusalem” as being completely under the sovereignty of the “State of Israel” and considered its “capital” since 1950. And that in the period 1948-1967 the city was “divided Where Jordan supervised the eastern part of it, "and prevented the Jews from accessing the holy places." He goes on to say that this situation "changed after the Six-Day War and the unification of Jerusalem," when "Israel guaranteed freedom of access for people of religion to their holy places." The law adopted Senate Resolutions 106 and 113, which stipulated that "the city of Jerusalem remains undivided, considering it the capital" and "unified." The "law" ignored the status quo and international law regarding the city of Jerusalem, and instead referred to the "Declaration of Principles of Self-Government" and the subsequent signing of the "Gaza and Jericho" agreement and the "transitional period".

In order to implement it, the “law” gave the Secretary of State 30 days to present to Congress a plan with time stages for “constructing and moving the embassy.” It gave the US President until May 31, 1999 to move the embassy, ​​while giving him the president the possibility of asking Congress to postpone the implementation of the “law” for six months only if it was “security.” The United States is threatened by its implementation. In its formulation, the "law" went further when it approved the reduction of the annual diplomatic mission's budget by half and the transfer of the other half to the budget for building and transferring the embassy. .

From its establishment in 1844 to 1995, the United States Consulate in Jerusalem was symbolically and politically important to the United States of America and its values. During this period, with its many stops, the United States refused to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and established its embassy in Tel Aviv, and kept its consulate in Jerusalem to serve the Palestinians. And it went further by not allowing its official vehicles to fly the American flag in Jerusalem, and its insistence on putting the name “Jerusalem”, and not “Israel”, in the birthplace of the American passport holder born in Jerusalem. And it practiced its parallel foreign policy when it put pressure on any country that tried to move its embassy to Jerusalem.

It is clear that the radical change in US policy towards the Palestinians and their rights has taken on different and accelerating dimensions since the mid-nineties, specifically by Congress and its active members, as Congress is still discussing and adopting many bills and laws that restrict any potential endeavors of the US administration that would reach an acceptable political settlement. In this context, Congress passed the "Taylor Force" law in 2018 regarding "stopping US economic aid to the Palestinian Authority if it does not stop aid to the families of martyrs and prisoners." In the same year, Congress passed the “Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act-ATCA” in the wake of federal lawsuits against the Palestine Liberation Organization. and Justice for Victims of Terrorism - (PSJVTA) to target the Palestine Liberation Organization directly and cut off any official Palestinian representation in the United States, and pave the way for the prosecution of the organization and the Palestinian Authority in American courts.

It is clear that the main objective of these unjust laws towards us is to blackmail and subjugate the national decision, which was not accepted before, nor later. What is required of us remains a greater effort to win advocates from the American legislative level for our just cause.

The point at which the agendas of the Israeli political forces meet in their struggle and agreement is “intimidation.” Those in power intimidate the public against the opposition, as if it opens Israel’s doors to danger, and the opposition fears that the government is taking policies that endanger existence. As long as there is a government in Israel that fears for itself to fall, and as long as there is an opposition that seeks to win.

So; There is much talk these days that the Hebrew state is facing three fronts simultaneously, and only the current government is able to confront it, especially when Benjamin Netanyahu is its president. The only way out is to get rid of it.

These days, a fourth front has appeared in Israel, but it differs from the other fronts, namely: the Palestinian in Gaza and its extensions in the West Bank, and the Lebanese represented by “Hezbollah” standing with its “accurate” missiles on the direct line of contact between it and Lebanon, and the Syrian, which flares up at times and fades at other times. However, the danger remains. The talk of the government and the opposition about the three fronts has become routine in a way that the public has become accustomed to, and it is almost believable that the Israeli army, regardless of the government that leads it, can confront them and win in them, and the matter is not devoid of citations of past wars, and what Israel considers the victories that it celebrates until now, not to mention the Its massive destructive capabilities in Gaza and the southern suburbs and its geographical extension - the northern front - was not a slip of the tongue when the Minister of Defense threatened Lebanon to return it to the Stone Age if it committed an act that threatened the security of Israel.

However, it appeared in Israel, in the context of its celebrations of the victory of “June (67) 67” on the three fronts, to warn that what was in the year 1967 is no longer guaranteed to be repeated, as many matters and considerations have changed, and the current new is not a literal reproduction of the old.

The three fronts, with their current reality, characteristics and climates, and if it is possible for the political and military leaders to reassure the public of the ability to confront them at once, the one who reassures himself is not reassured. Whatever the capabilities of the Israeli army in confrontation, many opinion makers in Israel remind the army leaders that although it is winning its battles according to its estimates and standards, it has not yet decided one of them. The Palestinian front has not raised the white flag despite the enormity of its losses, and the Lebanese front has not Stop playing with the public's nerves, by talking about the hundreds of thousands of precision missiles ready to be launched when the decision is made.

Examining the seriousness of this type of threat is the prerogative of political leaders, and the information available to them and the assessments they reach. However, the Israeli leaders' repetition of that does not negate the fear that prevails in the hearts of their public, especially where there are adjacent settlements, as soon as a single missile is launched from In southern Lebanon, a large-scale spontaneous exodus begins, as well as on the Gaza border and beyond... which makes the three fronts, and their traditional names, a source of fear and anxiety, and lack of confidence in the Israeli army's decisive capabilities.

As for the fourth front, which is completely different from the traditional fronts, it started from within Israel as a small vine that was nurtured in order to nurture another body, and if its development and enlargement carries a dangerous repercussion for the entire Hebrew state, that is when the number of organized crime deaths in the Arab sector reached one hundred and two. This is double what it reached during the same period last year. What made this tumor, which was kept silent about, more likely to grow, and its disastrous effects on the Jewish state uncontainable, not in terms of image, reputation, and pretense of democracy, but in terms of public security; Because the two million Arab Palestinians live in Israel, each one of whom feels that the rampant crime is not the work of local gangs, but of the work of the state and its agencies, in which they live, hold passports and are called Israeli Arabs.

The Hebrew state, and especially its current government headed by Netanyahu, could not deny its responsibility for it, albeit in an indirect way, when an internal debate erupts about Netanyahu's intention to introduce the "Shin Bet" apparatus to resolve this dilemma, and many respond to him that whoever will assign him to solve it is mainly involved in the phenomenon, so this is an admission Indirect responsibility, as well as an acknowledgment that the Shin Bet, who knows what a Palestinian is whispering in the ear of his fiancée, certainly knows who killed hundreds of Palestinians during the era of organized crime, knows their hideouts, and knows the sources of their arming and protection.

The Shin Bet, which is the state's general security apparatus, either considers the two million Palestinians enemies who deserve what is done to them, or for professional reasons, it will not engage in work that would harm its affiliates and those in its orbit, and in either case... a disaster.

The Fourth Front counts two million Palestinians who do not carry weapons, to direct them to the state in which they live, but rather to bear arms against them, claiming the lives of their children, and filling their hearts with fear that each one of them will be the next number. Can Israel, the deep, “democratic” and civilized state, avoid the repercussions of this front on it? The Palestinians talk about an escalation on their part in the confrontation, some of them suggest handing over the keys to Knesset membership to its people, and some of them call for the heads of local councils to submit their resignations and close the doors of their municipalities, and other things that might happen. After the next meal of the dead, it reaches the level of total civil disobedience, which committees, promises and pacification pills will not solve.

Is Israel aware of the significance of what it did?

Do you realize the size of the rebound on it?

I'm afraid to say... Even if I wake up, and try, it might be too late.
In agreement with the "Middle East"

French President Emmanuel Macron will receive Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Paris on Friday, in an effort to push the de facto ruler of the oil-rich kingdom to provide greater support to Ukraine in the face of the Russian invasion and to find a solution to the presidential crisis in Lebanon.

The visit of the 37-year-old crown prince highlights the good relationship between Paris and Riyadh, and comes less than a year after his previous visit to the Elysee Palace, which angered human rights activists over the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at his country's consulate in Istanbul.

And the French presidency announced that the talks would start at 11:15 GMT and would focus on bilateral relations as well as on "challenges of regional stability." The two men discuss "major international issues, including the war in Ukraine and its repercussions for the rest of the world."

Saudi Arabia distances itself to some extent in the Ukrainian file, and has called for an end to the war.

Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended part of the Arab League summit hosted by the Kingdom in Jeddah, in his first visit to the Middle East since the start of the Russian invasion of his country. At that time, Macron placed a French government plane in the service of Zelensky, which took him to Jeddah and then to Japan to participate in the G7 summit.

Riyadh had voted in favor of Security Council resolutions condemning the Russian invasion and Moscow's annexation of regions in eastern Ukraine, but at the same time it continued to coordinate closely with Russia on oil policies. It brokered a prisoner exchange between Kiev and Moscow.

Macron is publicly seeking to persuade non-aligned countries such as China and India, as well as Saudi Arabia, to pressure Moscow to end its war on Ukraine.

And the French president believed that Zelensky's visit to Jeddah allowed "obtaining very clear support from Saudi Arabia and other major powers in the region."

While in France, bin Salman will participate in the "For a New Global Financial Pact" summit that Macron is organizing in Paris on June 22-23.

The French President will discuss with his guest the preparations for this summit aimed at "collecting and focusing private and public funding where the world and people need it most to fight poverty, lead the necessary climate change and protect biodiversity," according to the French side.

The crown prince owns a luxurious home near Versailles in the Parisian region, which was designed by a relative of Khashoggi in the style of French royal palaces.

On the other hand, it is expected that the French president will ask the crown prince to use Saudi Arabia’s influence in Lebanon to break the political stalemate that led to the parliament’s repeated failure to elect a new president for the republic, the last of which was on Wednesday, amid an intensifying political division between Hezbollah and its opponents and threatening to prolong the presidential vacancy. , on the impact of an economic collapse that the World Bank ranked among the worst in the world since 1850.

And the French President appointed former Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as a “special envoy to Lebanon” to try to help find a way out of the political impasse. The veteran politician is expected to visit Beirut soon.

Researcher Denny Bouchard, advisor for Middle East affairs at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), notes that Riyadh may "play a role to mitigate Hezbollah's position, through Iran, to reach a compromise" regarding the presidency in Lebanon. "The issue is whether the reconciliation of Saudi Arabia and Iran can contribute to calming the political arena in Lebanon," he added.

Last March, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced the resumption of their diplomatic relations in a surprising agreement concluded under the auspices of China, which raised hopes of resolving several regional files.

The previous visit of the Crown Prince to Paris sparked much criticism in France by human rights organizations and left-wing opponents, who accused Macron of sacrificing human rights in favor of "pragmatism" regarding the rise in energy prices.

A CIA report concluded that the crown prince "authorized" the killing of Khashoggi, but Riyadh denies this.

Despite the social and economic reforms implemented by Prince Mohammed bin Salman in his country, he is being criticized for a crackdown on activists and opponents, even from within the ruling family.

Khashoggi's murder damaged his image as a reformer on the international stage.
Bin Salman will also participate next Monday in an official reception organized by the Kingdom on the occasion of Riyadh's official candidacy to host Expo 2030, an issue in which Riyadh wants to obtain French support.

Russia has signed an agreement with the Jerusalem municipality to a consular branch of its embassy to Israel in the occupied city. 

The confidential agreement was signed in Jerusalem in the presence of Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov, and the special envoy of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Makarov, according to the Hebrew news site Ynet. 

Jerusalem municipality said that the branch of the Russian embassy will be equipped to provide full consular services to Russian citizens in and around Jerusalem.

Ynet also added that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sponsored the agreement and assisted in the negotiations. The final technical details will be ironed out within the next two months. 

The site indicated that the decision to open the consulate came as part of an agreement to resolve a real estate dispute between the Jerusalem Municipality and Russia over a 100-square-meter Russian-owned parking complex.

Israel's police commissioner Kobi Shabtai and the head of the Shin Bet Ronen Bar are looking to prevent the involvement of the security service in tackling the spiralling homicide rate among the Palestinian citizens of Israel, Haaretz reported. 

According to the Israeli newspaper, the two sides established a direct channel of communication between them, bypassing the far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who wants the Shin Bet to intervene.

Several sources told the newspaper that Shabtai and Bar met following the killing of five Palestinians last week in Yafa an-Naseriyye in a bid to present a unified position to the security establishment. 

While Shabtai is not eager for the Shin Bet to involved in tackling the crime rings that are dominating the Palestinian community in Israel, he made it clear in closed discussions that he is interested in acquiring the technological capabilities of the Shin Bet for the police. 

Bar concurred, and said that his position was supported by Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara

Security sources said that this is not the first time that Shabtai and Bar have established direct channels of communication and defied Ben-Gvir's positions.

CNN accused the Israeli army of failing to prevent the attack last February by Israeli settlers on occupied West Bank town of Hawara in an investigation broadcasted on Thursday.

In an hours-long rampage, settlers set vehicles and houses ablaze, causing widespread damage to property and livestock, as well as injuring several and even killing one Palestinian. 

According to the investigation, the Israeli military did not attempt to prevent the rioting, nor stop it once it had already began. 

It also pointed to a widespread incitement campaign from parties within Israel's government. An Israeli member of parliament for Itamar Ben-Gvir's extremist Jewish Power party, Limor Son Har-Melech, was a member of one of the social media groups that spread the calls for revenge.

One Israeli soldier who spoke to the American network said that dozens of soldiers were present at the scene, along with the Shin Bet forces and others, and that they were aware of the threat, but no one attempted to suppress it. 

Corroborating the account of Palestinian witnesses, the soldier added that they stood by while hundreds of settlers attacked the town.

Another soldier also told CNN: "The acts of violence and setting fire to Palestinian property could have been avoided if the forces present in the area had used force against the settlers and prevented them from entering the town of Hawara in the first place."

He said that their "biggest failure" was the failure to provide safe passage for fire trucks, which were attacked by the settlers.

Many Palestinians from the town said that they were shot at with tear and stun grenades when they tried to defend their homes. 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin expressed his concern about the deteriorating security situation in the occupied West Bank in a meeting with his Israeli counterpart on Thursday.

The meeting with Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and other senior security officials took place in the U.S. embassy to Belgium in Brussels. 

Austin stressed the need to increase security cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to quell tensions, and reportedly suggested that this be done through a U.S. security coordinator.

According to the Hebrew news site Walla, the two sides also discussed the issue of Iran.

Israeli and Turkish sources have been in conversation over setting up a meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Israeli hopes to hold the meeting in the coming weeks, though no concrete data has been set. 

This comes after Netanyahu congratulated Erdogan on his reelection last month. The Turkish president also called Netanyahu to extend his congratulations when he returned to power in November 2022. 

While Ynet reported that this meeting would only be the second meeting between Netanyahu and Erdogan in 15 years, it noted that Erdogan wishes to establish warmer ties with Israel. 

Four vehicles were set on fire in a suspected arson attack on Thursday night in a parking lot in Nof Hagalil area, a mixed Palestinian-Jewish city that sprawled out of Nazareth. 

According to the Israeli news site Ynet, firefighters managed to contain the fires. The police have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident, and is being treated as suspected arson.