Jenin – Prisoner Falah Shehadeh will be moved back to his original prison, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club said on Wednesday, just hours after he launched a hunger strike after on Wednesday in protest of the Israel's treatment.

Shehadeh has been suffering from severe abdominal pain following an endoscopy last month, and was transferred to Ashkelon Prison because of its proximity to hospital. 

Shehadeh, who has been detained since 2004, was never sent for any medical examinations, and wishes to return to Ktzi'ot Prison. 

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs were earlier informed of the hunger strike by Shehadeh's lawyer, Karim Ajwa, that he would undertake a hunger strike in protest.

President Mahmoud Abbas praised the strong relations between Palestine and China in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday.

As part of a three-day state visit, Abbas updated China's president about the situation on ground in Palestine, and the two also discussed broader regional and international developments.

The meeting comes as part of a broader effort by Palestinian leadership to rally international support for Palestine to be upgraded from observer to full member status at the United Nations, as well as to advance the advisory opinion from International Court of Justice on the Israeli practices of occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. 

In his brief to Jinping, Abbas testified to the ongoing crimes of Israeli occupation, the intensification of Israeli army raids and settlement expansion, as well as the violations of Muslim and Christian sites in Jerusalem. He also pointed to the Israeli government's withholding of tax funds from the Palestinian Authority.

Abbas also expressed support for the principle of One China, recognizing Beijing's sovereignty over Taiwan, and expressed a desire for the State of Palestine to be involved in China's sweeping development project, the Belt and Road Initiative. Abu Mazen also vowed to continue cooperation in all fields, and expressed his hope that China will continue providing political and economic support to the Palestinian people.

Abbas was greeted by an official reception with a guard of honor, followed by the national anthem of both countries. 

The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Member of the Executive Committee of the PLO Ziad Abu Amr, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Riyad Al-Maliki, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Palestine Investment Fund Muhammad Mustafa, Chief Justice of Palestine, Advisor to the President for Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habash, and Advisor to the President for Diplomatic Affairs Majdi Al-Khalidi, and Palestine's ambassador to China, Fariz Mahdawi.

As part of the trip, which began on Tuesday, the Palestinian delegation will meet with several other high-ranking officials and are expected to sign several agreements. 

Palestinian officials and observers believe that the visit of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to China from June 13 to 16, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, contributes to mobilizing international support for the Palestinian cause, leading to the establishment of an independent state.

Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh confirmed at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting in the city of Ramallah on Monday that the Palestinian side is looking with great interest at President Abbas's visit to sisterly China.

He added, "The visit comes on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two friendly countries, and we look forward to its expected outputs in terms of consolidating and strengthening bilateral relations in all fields."

Dalal Salameh, a member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah), considered that President Abbas's visit to China comes to maintain diplomatic relations and maintain a large international force that supports the rights of the Palestinian people and international legal decisions.

Salama told Xinhua that China has an important position in the UN Security Council and its role is escalating at the international and regional levels, noting that China is one of the first countries to embrace the Palestinian cause.

She pointed out that strengthening the relationship with China and other countries in the world comes within the framework of the Palestinian vision and political and diplomatic action in order to maintain a strong relationship within the framework of mobilizing support for the Palestinian cause.

It is worth noting that President Abbas, who contributed to the founding of the Fatah movement in the fifties of the last century and presided over several rounds of negotiations with Israel in the nineties as the chief negotiator, which paved the way for the signing of the Oslo Accords, and made four state visits to China before the current visit.

The former Palestinian diplomat for Asia and Africa, Mazen Shamieh, said that China is keen to receive the Palestinian leadership historically, adding that China made a very important initiative for peace in 2013 and was renewed in 2017, dealing with the Palestinian file in all its aspects and preserving the interests of the parties concerned with peace, and the Chinese leadership will reaffirm its The necessity of resolving the Palestinian file in a just and comprehensive manner as a main approach to resolving the region's crises.

He said that China has great interests with the world, especially in developing countries, and it is a key partner with all parties in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe, and therefore strengthening its relations with the Palestinian side will help and contribute to mobilizing international support for the Palestinian cause in all forums.

The Palestinians are looking forward to a different approach from the international community towards finding a serious and quick solution in dealing with the file of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after years of marginalization.

Political science professor at Al-Quds University Ahmed Rafiq Awad said that President Abbas's visit to China and talks with the Chinese leadership come at an important time.

Awad stressed the importance of China's firm position and its belief in international resolutions related to the Palestinian issue and its support for the rights of the Palestinian people to establish a state.

He pointed out that China is not satisfied with talking about resolving the Palestinian issue and its firm stances are translated into actions through signing agreements and providing all forms of political support in the UN Security Council and various UN organizations.

Israeli authorities demolished a house in the Negev village of Sa'wa on Wednesday, alleging that it was built without a permit.

Eyewitnesses reported that vehicles belonging to the Israeli authorities demolished a house belonging to the Al-Qassasi family in the village, and prevented the residents from accessing the site.

On Monday, Israeli authorities demolished five homes of the Al-Ghoul family on the outskirts of the village of Ararat al-Naqab, leaving the residents without shelter in the summer months. 

About 300,000 Palestinians live in the desert region, and suffer discrimination in the areas of housing, education, employment, as well as other fields. 

Many of them live in unrecognized Palestinian villages, which are deprived of their most basic rights and live under the constant threat of demolitions. 

The pretext of permits for demolitions extends well beyond the Negev and unrecognized villages, to mixed cities such as Jaffa and Acre, as well as Palestinian cities as Nazareth, Kafr Yasif and Shefa Amr. 

The United Nations announced on Wednesday that there are 110 million people in the world today who have been forced to flee their homes, stressing that the total number of refugees fleeing their countries or displaced within them has never reached such a high level.

The recent conflict in Sudan has exacerbated an already exceptional situation in 2022 due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its annual report that the total number of refugees fleeing their country or internally displaced has never reached such a high level.

The UNHCR stated in its annual report that the number of displaced persons or refugees reached 108.4 million at the end of last year, an increase of 19.1 million from the number at the end of 2019, which is an unprecedented increase.

The organization added that fighting between rival factions in Sudan pushed the total number of refugees and displaced persons to about 110 million people in May.

"This is where we are today (...) We have 110 million people who have fled conflict, persecution, discrimination and violence, often with other drivers - in particular the impact of climate change," UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi told a press conference in Geneva.

He added that this constitutes "a condemnation of the state of our world."

The UNHCR said that 35.3 million people are refugees and 62.5 million are displaced out of the total number registered in 2022. It indicated 5.4 million asylum seekers and 5.2 million others who need international protection.

The High Commissioner said that all these people face "an even more hostile environment, in particular refugees, almost everywhere".
"Real leadership is convincing our public opinion that there are people who deserve international protection," he added.

He noted that three-quarters of the refugees fled to low- or middle-income countries.

Grandi welcomed the EU's recent progress on migration policy reform, calling it a good attempt to balance tensions around these issues and "relatively fair".

The reform provides for a system of solidarity between member states in the care of refugees and rapid examination of asylum claims for some migrants at the border. It is supposed to be ratified by the European Parliament before it can be implemented.

The High Commissioner said dealing with the influx of migrants seeking to come to Europe must start very early in their long journey. But at the same time he stressed that in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States, "the door must remain open" for asylum seekers.

Grandi stressed that "asylum seekers should not be sent to prison," stressing that "asylum is not a crime." He especially condemns London's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda and is concerned about US policy in this field.

Grandi acknowledged that the organization he leads "wasn't in a good financial position this year" like many other humanitarian organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The global economic situation and inflation are affecting calls for donations.

For Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has only 16 percent of its need for funds.

This percentage drops to 13 percent of refugee assistance needs in receiving countries due to the explosion of violence in Sudan.

Last year, more than 339,000 refugees from 38 countries returned to their homes, while 5.7 million displaced people were able to return to their homes.

The countries hosting the largest number of refugees are Turkey (3.6 million), Iran (3.4 million), Colombia (2.5 million), Germany (2.1 million) and Pakistan (1.7 million).

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced the postponement of the meeting that was scheduled for last week, as a result of pressure from the administration of US President Joe Biden. Behind this decision, Netanyahu hoped that he would receive an invitation to meet US President Joe Biden, whom he had not met for a long, unusual and unprecedented time.

Postponing such a meeting constitutes in theory putting pressure on Israel, but in practice it is nothing more than mere movements of little interest and effect, because the occupation expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem in particular, has not stopped and will never stop, starting from Jerusalem, our promised capital, and to all parts of the West Bank. And the Jordan Valley in particular, and decided to expand two settlements and informed Washington of their intention to establish 4 thousand units.

If the American administration had been serious in its positions to prevent settlement expansion throughout the West Bank, it would have taken many other realistic steps that would lead to stopping the cancer of settlement, which destroys all possibilities for peace, coexistence and cooperation, but it is satisfied with statements, sometimes and not always, and its impact is without any value or value. Real effect. And Netanyahu's latest decision is a postponement, not a cancellation, meaning that settlement expansion exists and will always exist, even if it is postponed for a limited period of time.

If the American administration was really serious, we would have reached the stage of peace, stability and coexistence a long time ago, but because its positions are mere speculation and talk in the air, the region is facing tension and unrest and more bloodshed and what is to come is worse..!!

The Palestinians in Israel are not the "peel of garlic," but rather a thorn in their throat
The Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” stated in its report on the escalating murders in the Arab sector, that the lives of Arabs are no longer worth more than a “garlic peel”, that is, without any value or interest. of it a lot.

The Palestinians inside Israel constitute the vanguard of the Palestinian people and the multiplying and ever-increasing presence, and they are therefore a strong and effective stab in the Israeli side of the continuous confrontation between the Zionist forces and the Palestinian reality that is interconnected with the Palestinian people in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem and all their places of existence.

Certainly, these Palestinians are not just a “crust of garlic” as they say, but they are a thorn in the side of Zionist settlement expansion and a flag flying for the Palestinian national future..!

The world celebrates on the ninth of June of each year the International Archives Day, which was approved by the International Council on Archives (ICA) and UNESCO in 2007, to enhance public awareness about the importance of archives, documents and archives, and to activate initiatives to preserve them as they represent treasures of human activity, and a reliable witness in the narration of events The past and the promotion of the identity of peoples, and this day also witnesses national demonstrations with many activities and initiatives from the institutions of information and documentation centers to make archives available to the public out of their belief in the necessity of making information available in line with the principle of freedom of access to information and human rights in accordance with the laws in force in this field.

The scene here in Palestine is completely different, and contradicts all the values, morals and freedoms that the world espouses. The moral, human and religious duty that falls on the world is still standing and barricaded behind the policies of the spectator, and using different and contradictory standards with everything that is said, written and published. He is the same who enabled the invaders with all their might. The means are from the theft of Palestine, and it is in line with the efforts made by the Western orientalists who roamed the Arab East to search for the cultural and civilizational heritage to serve colonialism and dispel the Arab right and erase it from geography and history.

On International Archives Day, we write to ourselves and the world to narrate what our cultural heritage has been subjected to, and still is, to the most heinous crimes against humanity, what was documented from oral testimonies of eyewitnesses, what was written and documented by writers and historians who survived the crime, and documented testimonies of those who participated in it, in addition to what was written and documented by many From the Israeli historians, in the section “And a witness from his family testified”, “And from your mouth I condemn you”, all of this is considered an irrefutable document for the Palestinian right.

The chapters of the Nakba of the Palestinian people in 1948 were not limited to massacres, displacement, displacement and extermination, and the destruction and burning of cities and villages by Zionist gangs. Another people is in its place and is delusional that it can build another historical narrative. All of this was not random, but was carried out with deliberate plans to steal the Palestinian identity, starting with targeting the place, geography and history in all its details, to looting the cultural heritage, and the knowledge and heritage treasures it contains rooted in the depth of history thousands of years ago.

So he continued to attribute everything Palestinian, including food, fashion, and antiquities to him, thinking that he could falsify and Judaize a looted and stolen history and culture in order to build a new Israeli narrative that he would market to the world, betting on changing the historical, geographical and cultural consciousness of future generations, “the old are dying and the young are forgotten.”

One of the most dangerous things that the occupation faced within its plans, which still haunts it until now, is the treasure of the historical and documentary heritage and the intellectual production of the Palestinians. The Israeli tanks were accompanied by employees specialized in history and archives to carry out the crime of looting and robbery. They collected thousands of books from public and private libraries, libraries of educational institutions, schools, mosques, churches, museums, printing presses and cinemas. Music and theaters, and they looted precious antiques, statues, precious stones, jewelry, diamonds, gold, bank accounts, and everything that one could reach, as pointed out by the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe. He says: “Between 70%-75% of the Palestinian population before the Nakba were rich in the material sense, and there was nothing left for them part of their movable and immovable property.

What we would like to point out here, in particular, is the scale of the crime committed and the methods of concealing it against the Palestinian archives, historical documents, manuscripts, and intellectual and knowledge production, which is estimated at millions of documents and thousands of books dating back to the Ottoman era and before and extending before 1815-1917, including government documents and public institutions. It also extends from the days of the military rule of the British Mandate over Palestine (1917-1948), in addition to the archives of Sharia courts, civil courts, municipalities, private papers of Palestinian families, leaders, and intellectuals, documents of the Supreme Islamic Council, Ottoman and British documents, population records, and archives of German, Austrian, British, and Arab consulates that worked in Jerusalem, such as the Saudi, Iraqi, Egyptian, and other consulates, the archives of the Arab Higher Committee, and the archives of clubs and chambers of commerce.

This heritage, in its size and important content, was not burned and destroyed, and the largest volume is left and preserved in the Israeli National Library, the Hebrew University Library, and the military archives. It is not available to the public and is under strict supervision. And the Israeli historian Adam Raz points out in his book (The Looting of Arab Property in the 1948 War) that he says: "There are many documents that prove looting and looting, but they are subject to censorship." The Sacred Scene), Chech Amit in his book (Royalty Card), Ronh Sela in her book (for audience viewing), Uri Avnery in his book (The Other Side of the Coin), Benny Bruner in his documentary (The Great Theft), Tom Segev, Benny Morse and others.

Regarding the contradiction between professionalism, democracy and the availability of archival information, the director of the archives of the occupying state presented a report in 2018 that sparked widespread controversy in the governmental, political and security milieu, where he said: "There are many obstacles that affect the proper functioning of the archive and are linked to the method of revealing and making archival materials available to The public, the vast majority of archival materials are closed forever, and this is not appropriate, as one would expect from a democratic country.” The officials responded to his report with the following pretexts:
1. Exposing the facts may constitute a means in the hands of our enemies and opponents and lead to weakening the resolve of our friends.
2. The process of exposing the banned archives leads to inflaming the feelings of the Arab population in the country and the Palestinian territories.
3. Weakening the arguments of the state in the courts of the country or the courts in the world.
4. The process of opening the archives leads to the disclosure of information that may be interpreted as Israeli war crimes.

The occupation continued without stopping to carry out its crime of looting and theft of the historical and cultural heritage from the Nakba to the Naksa to the present day, and for seventy-five years, the Israeli occupation continued to pursue the cultural and historical heritage of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, and the institutions of the National Authority and civil institutions with the same plans and methodology because it He knows with certainty that this legacy is the one that decides the battle and controversy of the novel, so he has always set up his hostility to fight this legacy with looting, theft and forgery. Also, the Palestinian realized from the beginning of the conflict its nature and its goals, so he always worked to collect, preserve and protect his heritage in its various forms.

Regarding the questions that always revolve in the mind, regarding the Palestinian effort regarding the recovery and collection of the looted heritage from the Israeli occupation and British colonialism and the transmitted and transferred heritage of the Ottoman period and the Jordanian and Egyptian eras, the effort has been continuous for years in research, collecting statistics, preparing lists and bibliographies, and the Palestinian National Library has a huge and enhanced file. With the supporting documents, and work is underway on it now with the Arab regional branch of the International Council on Archives and the Arab Executive Committee of the League of Arab States to restore the looted and looted archives from the occupying and colonial countries, UNESCO and the International Council on Archives.

And our message on this occasion to the international community and international professional and legal institutions is that the occupation committed its crimes in implementation of the ominous Balfour Declaration, and committed all its crimes in violation of all international covenants and agreements, international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, which included the protection of cultural property and the need to preserve it during the war. It is time for the global conscience to act. To address the effects of the crime, restore the rights of its owners, and stop the policies of double standards, and we also affirm that the flame of Palestinian hope has not and will not be extinguished, and hope is renewed and adherence to its inalienable right increases, and that the awareness is firm that the Nakba and the setback and its consequences do not disappear except with the end of the occupation, and the certainty that the Zionist plans will not be achieved Its objectives, and the memory of the Palestinian is inherited and will continue to burn from the ashes of injustice and crimes until the dream of restoring rights is fulfilled.

Despite the participation of two thousand American soldiers out of ten thousand in the ongoing NATO maneuvers in Europe, most of which are in Germany, with 250 aircraft, and it was considered the most numerous and important, but it bears the German orientation, the German desire, and the imposition of the German presence, as a prelude to a future that Germany seeks after The end of the period of sanctions imposed on it since its defeat in World War II, as the sanctions prevent Germany from becoming a military power, and deprive it of having a strong army equal to its economic and political capabilities.

The Atlantic maneuvers aimed, as the US ambassador said in Berlin, to deliver a message to a party she did not name and meant Russia, but the German military official responded to it clearly that these maneuvers are of a defensive nature, and do not target anyone in particular, which increases the gap between the American-German oppositions, as Germany begs to It does not clash with one party for another’s account, as the political, military, and economic conflict is between the two camps: the first is the Russian-Chinese, facing the second, the American-British, Germany seeks not to get involved in it, as a preparation after the end of the sanctions period with the first of January 2025, to form the third pole The third camp is in alliance with France, between the two poles and the two clashing camps.

Last year, 2022, Germany allocated an amount of one hundred billion euros to build its future army, and this will be the first payment followed by a similar payment, so that it can build a strong army comparable to the armies of the five major countries: America, China, Russia, France and Britain, and thus it will not remain a prisoner of international sanctions or American policies that worked. Europe in general, and Germany in particular.

Germany has decided to purchase the "Hetz 3" air defense system from the colony for an amount exceeding 4 billion euros. It is an advanced system that works to intercept ballistic missiles outside the atmosphere, at a height of up to 100 kilometers. It will make Germany superior to most European countries, and contribute to it. In its protection, after it receives these missiles in the year 2025, after it has been liberated from the restrictions imposed, and the fall of its conditions.

Germany is striving towards its uniqueness and supremacy, and it now has economic superiority as it is the third economic country in the world after the United States and China, and it is the first politically in Europe, and it lacks the military capacity to qualify it to be a member of the club of the powerful, and it works for it and for it with these maneuvers, purchasing weapons and building the army .

With the continuation of the killings and indiscriminate and unjustified violence directed against members of the Arab community in the country, the follow-up committee’s move to call for a general strike over the ninth and tenth days of June was a correct step and the Arab community should have responded to it on a large scale, as all Evidence that the response did not reach more than 50%, and this matter deserves careful consideration and re-mobilization.

In this context, informed sources in the follow-up committee confirmed to us that, in light of the absence of security and safety in the Arab society and the general feeling of tension and fear among the Arab masses in the country, and the failure of state institutions to carry out their duties and responsibilities seriously and practically, in the face of the increasing manifestations and phenomena of violence and crime, It has become important for this society to work to escalate the struggle and confront this painful reality that we are facing and that is practiced and imposed systematically and officially on our Palestinian Arab society at home.

The killing that was carried out in Jaffa Nazareth is considered a massacre by all standards, as it claimed the lives of innocent people, children and youth under the age of thirty, and it is a chilling crime.

A similar crime was carried out in France against four children, and another crime in the United States against young people who graduated from universities in the United States, which provoked French and American public opinion there on a large scale, and the French Prime Minister visited the scene of the crime and the perpetrators were arrested within hours.

As for Israel, the muscle-flexing process of Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Inspector General Kobi Shabtai, in addition to more than 200 accompanying policemen, arrived near the scene of the crime, to give sermons and lectures related to what this new government will do against Arab citizens, represented by the establishment of the National Guard, which is to be established at the initiative Ben Gvir within months.

It can be said that this minister clearly took advantage of the axis of crime in Jaffa, Nazareth, to theorize about the importance of establishing this National Guard, and the elected and unelected Arab leaders do not give sufficient importance to the seriousness of such statements, as there are those who call on the Shin Bet to come and move in order to solve the mystery of the widespread murders. Every day in Arab society, and there are those who have reservations about this, and there are those who say that the police have the means, the staff, and the technology to solve violent crimes and uncover the perpetrators.

As for the reality of the matter, it is that the Shin Bet has existed and operated for decades within Arab society at the level of cities, villages and various Arab brigades, and it cooperates closely with the police, as they classify what the security threat to Israel is and take appropriate steps against it with one signal, whether it is from the police or the Shin Bet. Against any Arab outlet, and classify it as security or criminal. If it has a security connection, the Shin Bet takes action, but if it has a criminal connection, the two do not move.

Recently, the Shin Bet’s branches have also begun to move in their activities towards and towards the West Bank with the aim of confronting the third intifada, which is accelerating and escalating these days, especially after the government approved quartet settlement plans to increase settlement construction in the next four years there.

In this context, this security leadership, headed by Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, is working hard to establish an additional security body that will further tighten the screws on the Arab citizens of the country. Mixed and later developed to work in the West Bank.

Ben Gvir and his movement are pressing a lot to establish this National Guard, which will include several thousand armed volunteers from old army officers, retired Shin Bet officers and retired Border Guard officers, who will join this guard with a high monthly salary, as they will tour and arrive in Arab villages and cities with the aim of inspecting, investigating and collecting Information and even stopping suspects, and all of this will serve as an arm of the police and the Shin Bet, as it can be said that this security institution, consisting of the police and the Shin Bet, has privatized security work within the Arab community through this new National Guard.

Bin Ghafir is trying hard to obtain huge budgets, some of which he obtained in order to establish this National Guard, and the rampant crime operations in the Arab sector, which the police do not take any action to prevent and stop, is one of the justifications for expediting the establishment of this National Guard and obtaining more budgets.

Ben Gvir is also trying to justify the establishment of such a guard internally in the Jewish street, and the recruited Hebrew media is supporting him in this, as he says that one of his most important upcoming tasks is to work hard on the Judaization of the Galilee and pass the policy of governance in the Negev against the Arab citizens there, and the Arab community is waiting for more steps Related to the Judaization of the Galilee, those procedures that have become public and clear, and foremost among them is the expansion of the admission committees in the Jewish communities here, to increase them from three hundred housing units to a thousand housing units, as these three hundred Jews will decide to increase their housing units from three hundred to a thousand housing units without including any An Arab citizen, and if all these gatherings increase, the Galilee will turn into a Jewish majority in a short period of time, and this is what Ben Gvir wants with the help of the National Guard.

In the past, during the era of the previous government, huge funds were allocated for the Judaization of the Galilee, but they were not used properly due to the government's inability to attract a sufficient number of Jewish citizens to these areas.

As for Ben Gvir today, in his capacity as Minister of National Security, he and his staff blatantly neglect what is happening in Arab society in terms of violence and massacres. A plan and strategy that includes all the foundations and structural and essential factors related to how to combat violence and build a strategy for these aggressive plans against this society, which are crucial for our existence in this country.

"There is no return to the 1967 borders, and the Jordan River is Israel's eastern borders, and the three major settlement blocs in the north, center and south of the West Bank will remain under Israeli sovereignty," with this statement former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin summarized the matter after signing the Oslo Accords in 1993. It has been circulated in the past few days. It is an old and new project that was discussed in the corridors of the Israeli cabinet meetings. It is the annexation of the area between the Ma’ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem. According to the plan, it was called Greater Jerusalem. Despite the pressure from the White House, not to proceed with this project based on the Aqaba and Sharm understandings. Sheikh, who were both under American auspices, but the opportunity to achieve it remains available at any moment on the ground, as its implementation suggests that, so the follower of what is happening in that region of land confiscation and the erection of military checkpoints would be the beginning of the division of the West Bank, the military barrier located southeast of Jerusalem called " The Container witnessed two decades ago the policy of separation, separating the West Bank from its north to its south.

Netanyahu is following in the footsteps of his predecessor
The absolute ambiguity in Netanyahu's speech was in supporting settlements in the West Bank, which evolved into a demand for annexing the West Bank and the Jordan Valley, and he became more serious in realizing this dream in order to win the settlers' votes in his favour. At that time, it annexed the West Bank sooner or later, and raised the slogan "Jordan has two banks, the first is ours, and the second is ours." The Likud party was also influenced by the ideas of the Mapai party, which recognized the partition decision to gain the support and recognition of the United Nations of the occupying state, a deception used by the leader of the Mapai party, and he succeeded in that, Indeed, on this line and approach, the Prime Minister of Israel is following, and he is winning the United States to his side. In return, he is pressing towards gaining American support in annexing the Arab West Bank. In the way of the Mapai party, a lesson and lessons learned. On approximately 77% of the land of historic Palestine, the West Bank is the second prey that the occupation is trying to devour, even though it took the largest part of it, but it aims to swallow it all.

Zionist schools of thought are one
There are two main projects for the idea of ​​annexing the West Bank, which is the “Igal Allon” project, and the second project is “Matityahu Drupless.” The first project is the annexation of a larger area of ​​the West Bank and a smaller population, and the second project is annexation and an increase in the number of settlers. This is how the Zionist schools of thought appear in ingenuity and good planning. Its thought does not fall by statute of limitations, so if a party is gone, it does not mean that its ideas are dissipated. On the contrary, the Zionist movements and parties will soon work to revive and restore the old thought. Everything that was proposed about Palestine and how to control it from the beginning of the Basel Conference in 1898 until today is an idea that stipulates a Judaization. Palestine and controlling it in many ways, including killing, displacement, and other forms of torture, and this depends on the ideas of their rabbis. Eliezer Melmad, a clergyman belonging to religious Zionism, explained that leaving the West Bank outside Israeli control is forbidden according to Jewish law. Recently, a policy began Annexation or what is being circulated in the media as creeping annexation is embodied in the projects and programs of all right-wing parties, especially the religious Zionist movement, which began to invade the West Bank through settlements and outposts, which fragment the West Bank into isolated areas from each other. According to the beliefs of Zionist Judaism, the land of the West Bank must remain under Israeli control, as this brings closer the return of Christ, and beyond that, control of the West Bank must lead to the construction of the Temple in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The post-Zionist thesis was stillborn
Whoever follows the scene closely will notice that religious Zionism has succeeded to a large extent in imposing its vision regarding control over the Israeli decision represented in the official institutions, as it continues to control the largest part of the West Bank, and this rolling settlement race means in itself the return of Christ the Savior, The new Zionism, under the component of ideological convergence between the secular right and the religious nationalist current, played a major role in increasing settlement and empowering settlers from the West Bank. The occupation of power in the occupying state is considered a shift against the post-Zionist thesis, and this is seen through the behavior of the right-wing government, so the birth of conciliatory Zionism In which all Zionist currents blended under the framework of settlement in all of the land of Palestine, which is a major shift between what was and what is happening today, and between the gap of the ideological and religious dimension that melted into one crucible, and the deep disagreement that was between the orientations of each party, the current scene is one of compatibility and harmony in Achieving the vision of an exclusive Jewish state with one nationality, and there is no place for Arabs in it.

As 2024 approaches, it is clear that partisan positions on contentious issues will dominate discussions, while many “big issues” will be ignored, largely because neither side will see any advantage in addressing them in debate. Here are three important concerns that won't be discussed in 2024. The biggest "big issue" that won't be on either party's agenda is money's corrupt role in our politics. Since the campaign finance reform was struck down by the Supreme Court, the cost of federal elections has skyrocketed. In 2020, more than $14 billion was spent on presidential and congressional elections, more than double the amount spent in 2016. Aside from sums, it is what chasing money has done to our politics that is troubling. Our political parties no longer exist as organizations that provide grassroots activists with governmental and local structures and meaningful access to decision-making. Rather, parties and their associated entities raise hundreds of millions of dollars in donations each election cycle, then distribute that money to advisory groups to develop communication strategies. Advertising campaigns and contacting voters to collect more money. The issues that concern the consultants are those that bring in more money. What is most harmful to the political process is the role played by major donors and “independent” political committees now in financing the elections. In 2020, 100 people donated more than $6.1 billion to political committees that support candidates and their parties, more than 11 percent of the total spent in the entire election. The amount raised and spent by the “independent committees” amounted to $3.3 billion, giving them a major role in defining the issues raised and shaping the outcome of many races. A huge advertisement to harm the candidates who sought to defeat them. As a result of the role of the abundance of money in our politics, both parties fully adapted their operations to reflect this pursuit of money. Neither party is ready to challenge the corrupting influence of money.

The other "big issue" is that neither side will raise new warheads annually and we are currently working on upgrading, modernizing and repositioning our arsenal. This costs the US treasury more than $60 billion annually, or $634 billion over the next decade. In the same way that neither side raises the issue of campaign finance reform, which is tantamount to unilateral disarmament, it is a political taboo to talk about putting serious controls on our nuclear arsenal. In the 1980s, Jesse Jackson's campaign attempted to present a propaganda platform calling on the United States to pledge not to "be the first to use" nuclear bombs. Jackson stressed that neither side could use a nuclear warhead because it would lead to "guaranteed destruction for both sides." In fact, he said, “there is no first use and no second use. In fact, the bomb was never used. The party establishment reacted negatively, declaring that a "non-first use" would make the "Democrats" look weak. The decision was rejected and it was not submitted again. Another issue that will not be discussed next year is our bloated defense budget, now set to reach $842 billion by 2024, up from more than $126 billion in two years. And it continues to grow, unchecked, into the future. It is no secret that this amount involves a great waste of money, but no one dares to challenge this "sacred cow". None of this means that the 2024 elections will be without substance. Rather, critical social, political, and economic concerns will be discussed. Given the deep polarization that exists between the two parties on many issues, voters will have a real choice. But it would be even more important if the role of money as a spoiler in politics, our costly and useless nuclear stockpile, and a bloated defense budget were also up for discussion. But, unfortunately, these matters will not be discussed in 2024.

Finally, albeit indirectly, Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the Hebrew state's responsibility for the exacerbation of the phenomenon of crime in the Arab sector.

The direct reason for this recognition is the killing of six Palestinians in one hour, bringing the killing rate since the beginning of the year to just under a hundred, which set a record that made the Israeli disregard and the lack of any serious effort on the part of Israel's security services, primarily the police, a motive. Strong for the Palestinian Arabs to escalate their cries about the phenomenon, and accuse the state not only of negligence, but of directly contributing to its continuation.

The official Israeli interpretations are validated by the saying: “an excuse is worse than a sin”:
- The police chief, in a public statement, attributed the phenomenon to what he described as "the culture of killing among the Arabs." Thus, he removed the accusation from Israel, casting it on the Arabs and their "bloody revenge" culture.
- As for the minister, who is the highest Israeli official responsible for the police and its work in the Arab sector, he is one of the adherents of the principle of "death to the Arabs." He attributed the persistence of the phenomenon to the accumulation of long-term shortcomings committed by successive governments. As if to say: "Like me, like others." So why blame and accusation, then, when some officials accused the Shin Bet of sponsoring the phenomenon?

The state runs the "organized mafia"
Most of the organized mafia elements are affiliated with and commanded by this apparatus. And because the Shin Bet, the police, and the Ministry of National Security are not charitable and non-governmental organizations, but rather they are pillars of the state, the official involvement in the phenomenon is no longer an emotional accusation launched by the victims, but rather a fact that the Israeli official authorities are no longer able to deny, and to promote stories that absolv them of responsibility for a waterfall of bleeding. From the bodies of people who hold her passport and whom the state calls Israeli Arabs!

Israel is one of the most important countries in the field of information, not only about what is happening within its borders and even the borders of its neighbours, but on a global level, and it faces a logical question: As long as this is the case, why is there no ability to collect information related to organized crime active in the Arab sector? Even though the state’s apparatus knows in minute detail what the Arabs whisper and what they write on social media, and it sells to everyone who needs information about what is going on in their country, even if it is thousands of miles away. As for the gangs that kill Arabs daily, it is as if they are operating in another planet, or they are killing enemies.

After the phenomenon turned into a moral burden on the state, which boasts of its democracy, security, and the equality of its residents before the law, Netanyahu intervened directly in the matter to personally lead the official effort to "pick up the issue" in a way that reeks of avoiding a scandal that stains the face of the state with blackness.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was removed from the committee he headed to deal with the matter. This is an almost direct acknowledgment of the minister's role in the phenomenon and the illogicality of his involvement in the effort that is supposed to be within his powers, and the illogicality of his intention to involve the Shin Bet in the process. This confirms the accusation that this powerful apparatus that knows everything was prevented from intervening to end the phenomenon, from its inception until it reached the point of losing control over it.

Netanyahu is a partner in crime

Netanyahu was late for a long time in leading the official effort to contain the phenomenon and limit its disastrous repercussions on internal security and the alleged civilized image. If the bleeding stops, and this is what we hope, out of pain for the lives of the innocent Palestinians living in Israel, then it will be the last and decisive proof that his non-interference was tantamount to direct participation in the emergence and continuation of the phenomenon and the doubling of its victims. And if it continues, and this is what we do not wish, then things will get out of control, and this is what not only the Arabs say, but rather a large percentage of the Israelis.

Note: Hours after I finished writing this article, the death toll became one hundred and one, and until it is published, no one knows how many people will be killed.

A final note: Shin Bet leaders are reluctant to participate in any effort to reduce crime in the Arab sector, because the Shin Bet will not sacrifice its influence within organized crime families.

In the early eighties of the last century, the "Islamic Union for Palestine" was established in the American city of Chicago, by a group of activists and members of the Muslim community in the city, which is inhabited by a high percentage of the Palestinian diaspora. This founding of the Union allowed for the increase of activities and events of a Palestinian national nature, and it was agreed to hold an annual conference in December during the Christmas holidays.

Most of the participants in the conference were students and members of the Palestinian community in the city and the surrounding states, and the three days of the conference varied between lectures of a political nature related to the developments of the Palestinian cause, and shopping, where temporary shops sold everything Palestinian, including food, popular costumes, and tapes for months. singers in the homeland and diaspora.

A friend gave me a set of 19 cassettes inside an elegant box, and he said to me: Listen to it and you will pray for me.

I had never heard of this name, we "religious Islamists" used to see in that art "an abomination of Satan's work"!! I accepted the gift after hesitation, and started listening to those tapes alone and when the time was available and the place was free.

It didn't take long for me to enjoy listening to them all, and they provided me in my exile with an emotional charge that imbibed all my sides, and I became addicted to this kind of songs of patriotic melodies, especially when I travel between states for long hours, where my journey is accompanied by other tapes of the Holy Quran.

“Abu Arab” was a refugee from the village of Al-Shajara, the Tiberias district in Palestine. He excelled in presenting the tragedy of the Nakba and the cause in poetry and chanting, and made it dwell and emotionally take root in the heart of each one of us in the homeland and the diaspora. They have a stolen homeland, and the depth of longing for it and nostalgia.

Abu Arab's father was killed in 1948, during the Zionist militia's invasion of Palestine, and his son was killed in 1982, during the Israeli army's invasion of Lebanon. In his childhood, he witnessed the launch of the Great Palestinian Revolution in 1936 against the British occupation and Zionist settlement, to which his grandfather devoted all his poems to praising the revolution and inciting the revolutionaries to fight the British occupier.

Abu Arab founded his first troupe in Jordan in 1980, and it was called the “Palestine Folklore Band.” It consisted of 14 artists. Naji Al-Ali.

He composed, composed, and sang many patriotic songs, the most famous of which are: From Acre Prison, The Martyr, Daloona, Oh My Country, Oh Wave of the Sea, Guide, Oh Sea of ​​Guide, Oh Nice Length...etc.
"Abu Arab" is the poet of the Palestinian revolution, the poet of the camps, the living memory of the Palestinian singing heritage, the voice of the revolution, the first singer of the revolution, the resistance in song, and many other names given to him by the Palestinians. Return to Palestine.

The sons of the national movement know him through a huge lyrical heritage that speaks in the language of the Palestinian popular conscience, in a language that derives its vocabulary from his memory of the homeland, the Nakba, the camp and the resistance. Asir's steadfastness.. Palestinians know him for his singing of return and liberation, and his refusal to compromise on rights and constants.. The man was truly a repository of memory that draws you with strong affection to Palestine; Earth, trees, people and fruits.

In 2006, I went on my first visit to Syria as an advisor to former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. I was drawn to visiting the Palestinian communities there, especially the Yarmouk camp on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, where history and faces await and dream of returning to the land of our fathers and grandfathers. While roaming in the camp markets, I used to find everything related to the Palestinian heritage, from antiques, keffiyehs, medals, costumes, and tapes of traditional songs, and I would stop to buy some of them. The vocalist "Abu Arab" was the most beloved to my ears in his songs and words, which take you to the distant past and the pains of absence from the homeland, and make you feel comfortable even if some tears flow from your eyes.

I remember that at the end of the nineties, I moved from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and the travel journey was long, about 12 hours, and I was the only one driving the bus, and the thing that was my companion throughout that trip was the songs of the creative artist "Abu Arab." In fact, in my estrangement, whenever longing and nostalgia for my family and country gripped me, I would sit at home alone to listen to it.

I used to follow his new tapes from time to time, until the opportunity came on that trip to Syria, when I embarked on a journey from Damascus to Homs and Aleppo. In the city of Homs, we met at night in the house of one of the city's notables among the Palestinian refugees. We were received by a group of young people residing in the city. The vocalist "Abu Arab" was invited to dine with us and we shared the evening with some of his songs that night.

It was an enjoyable evening for the Palestinian brothers in that region who attended it, and it was an opportunity to get to know each other and exchange pains and concerns, as I talked about the government, our tense political situation, the relationship with Syria, and other Arab and international files. And with the end of the paragraph in which I presented my political speech, there was a dinner and a night party with the vocalist Abu Arab, who entertained us with his old and new songs, and with his wonderful words removed a lot of sadness from us, and relieved us of the burden of travel.

After midnight, we completed our visit to the city of Aleppo, where we toured by car in some of its neighborhoods and streets.
We arrived in Damascus near dawn, and in the "Al-Muhajireen" area, we entered one of the streets by mistake, only to discover, after guns surrounded us from every direction, that we are in the security square of President Bashar Al-Assad's house!! The driver apologized for not knowing the area, and had it not been for our diplomatic passports and a private government car, we would have ended up in one of the detention centers, and we would have taken our right from the hospitality usually offered by the security services to everyone who falls into their hands, with or without guilt.
Ibrahim Saleh, known as "Abu Arab", died, but his legacy is the melody of eternity and national immortality for our generations, and for all those who come after us from among the people of Palestine.

Abu Arab, O nightingale, you will live with us on all our national occasions, and this sweet heritage of melodies, chants and melodies will remain a historical document of the Arabness of this land, and that its cities, villages, plains, valleys, mountains and plateaus, which were provided by elegant formulas of melodies, are one of the most prominent signs that the land of Palestine will remain for its people. It must return to them one day, like every stranger who was driven away by the hand of treachery and aggression, to plant it again, and to flourish on its blessed riches of thyme, olives, and the good fruits of figs and pomegranates.

"Abu Arab" will remain in the Palestinian memory the icon of Palestinian chanting, and he will live in us quenching the thirst of alienation and homesickness... Abu Arab died in the Syrian city of Homs, on March 2, 2014, at the age of 83.
May God have mercy on him and accept him among the righteous among his servants.. Amen.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will head to France on Wednesday on an official visit, during which he will meet President Emmanuel Macron, according to the Saudi royal court.

In a statement published at dawn on Wednesday, the court said that Mohammed bin Salman has left the kingdom for France, where he will lead the kingdom's delegation participating in the "For a New Global Financial Pact" summit to be held in Paris on June 22 and 23.

The prince will also participate in the Kingdom's official reception for Riyadh's candidacy to host Expo 2030, to be held in Paris next Monday, according to the statement.

The de facto ruler of the world's largest oil exporter visited Paris in July 2022, during which he met Macron, in the context of the rise in energy prices due to the war in Ukraine, which sparked harsh criticism, especially from leftists and human rights advocates.

This was his first visit to Europe since the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country's consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.

A CIA report concluded that the crown prince "authorized" the killing of Khashoggi, but Riyadh denies this and indicates the involvement of rogue elements in the horrific crime.

Despite the reforms he has implemented in his country, the crown prince is under criticism 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.

Eighty migrants were rescued from the sea on Wednesday after their boat capsized off the coast of the Peloponnese in southwestern Greece, during a relief operation carried out by the Greek authorities, according to the Coast Guard.

"Since early Wednesday morning, a large-scale rescue operation has been underway off Pylos when a fishing boat with a large number of migrants on board capsized," a coast guard statement said.

The Greek authorities have not yet determined the number of migrants.

"So far, 80 migrants have been rescued from the sea and they will be taken to the port of Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese," a spokeswoman told AFP.

The sinking occurred in international waters, 47 nautical miles from Pylos in the Ionian Sea, according to the spokeswoman.

In addition to the port police patrol boats, a frigate from the Hellenic Navy, an aircraft and helicopter from the Air Force and six boats navigating in the area participated in the rescue operation.

Winds of about 12 km/h were blowing in the area.

Preliminary information provided by the authorities indicated that the migrants' boat had set sail from Libya, heading to Italy.

Greece is located in the southeastern Mediterranean at the external borders of the European Union and is a destination for people fleeing war and poverty, coming from Asia, Africa or the Middle East and wishing to reach northern European countries.

A number of drowning incidents were recorded, most of them in the Aegean Sea separating Greece and Turkey, while Athens is often accused of “illegally” blocking migrant boats.

Along with this route, migrants also attempt to cross directly into Italy by crossing the Mediterranean Sea in the southern Peloponnese or Crete.

Ramallah – The General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate decided on Wednesday to launch a media campaign to urge the International Criminal Court to expedite the criminal procedures against Israel over the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May of last year.

The decision, taken in coordination with the International Federation of Journalists, will involve reaching out to press federations and unions, as well as international human rights organizations, to build sustained pressure for accountability. 

The General Secretariat noted the urgency of such a move in light of further attacks on journalists. Just last week, Palestinian journalist Moamen Sumreen was seriously injured after Israeli forces shot him in the head with rubber bullet during a raid in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Rabih Al-Munir, a press photographer, was also wounded by a shot to the abdomen.

Another journalist, Bilal Al-Tamimi, was attacked by occupation forces in a separate incident in the town of Nabi Saleh. 

Despite international outcry over the Abu Akleh's killing during an Israeli army raid in Jenin, nobody has been brought to justice. Abu Akleh was clearly marked as press and stationed far from the military's position, several eyewitnesses detailed at the time, while several international investigations have corroborated that she was likely killed deliberately.

Dozens of settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday under the strict protection of Israeli police.

The settlers performed religious rituals on the tour of the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, in violation of the longstanding status-quo at the holy site that prevents Jewish prayer.

Settler groups have been touring the Al-Aqsa compound with increasing frequency in recent years, reaching a near-daily basis. Entrance to Jews is forbidden on Friday and Saturday.

Ramallah – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Israeli authorities in the "strongest terms" for closing the investigation into the killing of 80-year-old Palestinian-American, Omar Asaad, from the village of Jaljalia, north of Ramallah. 

The Israeli military's attorney's office said the soldier, who bound and gagged Asaad after detaining him at a flying checkpoint in January 2022, would face disciplinary action rather than any criminal charges, on the grounds that there was no direct link between the violent conduct of the soldier and Asaad's death. 

The ministry in Ramallah said that the investigation was part of "an official Israeli policy...to mislead countries, the international community and global public opinion," even though such the perpetrators are almost always let off. 

Such probes, it added, "provide escape hatches for political and military officials as well, who give instructions to facilitate the killing of Palestinians."

The ministry called on the U.S. to investigate the crime, given that the elderly man is an American citizen, and pledged to cooperate with any American investigations into the incident. 

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces continued the siege of the town of Ya`bad, southwest of Jenin, for the second day, and closed all entrances leading to it, in addition to closing the Barta'a and "Dotan" military checkpoints.

Local sources said that the occupation forces closed all roads leading to the town of Ya`bad with dirt mounds, raided a number of homes and shops, and seized surveillance cameras.

In the same context, the occupation forces arrested the released prisoner, Ahmed Jawad Abu Bakr, after they raided his family's house and destroyed its contents.

The occupation forces also arrested five young men from the town of Ya`bad, and interrogated them in Al-Jalama camp, before releasing them at a later time.

Several neighborhoods of the town of Ya`bad witnessed clashes between young men and the occupation soldiers last night, without any injuries being reported.

In the same context, settlers deployed this morning, in the plain of the town of Ya`bad, chasing farmers and preventing them from working on their lands, while preventing workers from reaching their workplaces inside the lands of 1948, through the Barta'a military checkpoint.

In the same context, the spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Sadiq Al-Khadour, said that despite the occupation’s closure of the town, the high school exam for this day will be held as planned, and the necessary arrangements will be made to reinforce the observers or provide replacements in case the observers are unable to arrive. For the halls, and in the event that some students are unable to reach the examination halls, the cases will be counted with the start of the examination, and measures will be taken that take into account their conditions and interests.

An Israeli NGO published a report on Wednesday revealing that half of the lands confiscated for "public purposes" by Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank are used by settlers.

According to the report by two Israeli organizations, Kerem Navot and Haqel, the Palestinian lands in the West Bank were predominantly confiscated by Israeli authorities for public projects such as roads, but much of the seized land was eventually confined for use by settlers only, including four settlements and infrastructure serving them.

Israel's Supreme Court had previously ruled that it was only legal to confiscate land for public purposes if it serves both the settler and the Palestinian population in the occupied West Bank. Yet the report shows that half of the lands are earmarked for exclusive use by settlers, just 2 percent for Palestinian use only, and the rest for use by both groups.

The report shows that since Israel's occupation of the West Bank began and up to 2022, the authorities have issued 313 orders to confiscate lands for public purposes, covering an area of approximately 74,000 dunams.

The research also identified a correlation between the number of land confiscation orders and the increase in settlement construction. Most of the orders were issued between 1977 and 1984, constituting 56 percent (179 in total) of all the expropriation orders for public purposes. During that period, 70 settlements were constructed, as well as infrastructure to serve them. 

Today, Wednesday morning, the Israeli naval forces arrested 5 fishermen aboard a marine "launch" off the coast of Al-Sudaniyya area, northwest of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Union of Fishermen's Committees, the occupation boats surrounded the marine "launch", arrested 5 fishermen on board, and took them to an unknown destination.

The Israeli military arrested six citizens in separate areas of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, Israeli forces entered the Kharouba neighborhood in Jenin and arrested two brothers, Muhammad and Deiaa Turkman.

The young man, Qusay Abu Al-Rub, from the town of Jalboun, was arrested following the raid on his family's home.

Amer Salameh, a resident of Tulkarm refugee camp, was arrested when he passed the Deir Sharaf checkpoint in Nablus.

In occupied Jerusalem, Ahmed Al-Sheikh was arrested after storming his house in the town of Anata, north of the city.

Shadi Sharhah was arrested after being assaulted on Al-Wad Street in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, occupied Jerusalem.

A Syrian soldier was seriously injured late on Tuesday night as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted several targets near the Syrian capital of Damascus.

The Syrian army said in a statement that "The Israeli enemy carried out an air aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, targeting some locations southwest of Damascus." They added that their air defences intercepted some of the missiles, but that the strikes seriously injured one Syrian soldier and caused material damage. 

Syrian media noted that the shelling focused on the Al-Kiswah area and targeted locations related to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, warehouses containing military equipment, and the sites of the Syrian air defense system that fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli planes.

On Tuesday evening, the US House of Representatives passed a bill to create a new special envoy position in the US State Department devoted to normalization agreements between Arab countries and Israel known as "Abraham's spending" with the aim of continuously integrating Israel into the Greater Middle East region.

The project was presented in a bipartisan form by the Republicans, sponsored by Democratic Representative Richie Torres (New York State) and Republican Mike Lawler (New York State also), and both representatives are known for their strong ties with the Israeli lobby organization "AIPAC", which provides them with a lot of support.

The legislation required the Biden administration to prioritize "Israel's regional integration."

The bill passed by 413 votes in favor, 13 against, with eight members not voting. Eleven nos came from progressive Democrats who consistently criticize Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, as well as the Biden administration's supposed failure to hold Israel accountable: Representatives Jamal Bowman, Betty McCollum, Cory Bush, Jesus "Choy" Garcia, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Barbara Lee Summer Lee, Ayanna Pressley, Delia Ramirez and Rashida Tlaib, while Republicans Reps. Thomas Massie and Rich McCormick broke with Republican orthodoxy by not embracing aggressively pro-Israel voting records.

The legislation calls for the Envoy—appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate and reporting directly to the Secretary of State—to be responsible for coordinating on behalf of the United States Government with regional ambassadors, NGOs, and other stakeholders to promote and expand the scope of the Compacts.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged in his speech to AIPAC last week that "we will soon create a new position to strengthen our diplomacy and our engagement with governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations, all working toward a more connected, peaceful region in order to achieve significant historic progress to deepen and expand the Abraham Accords." Building on the work of the Trump administration.”

An investigation conducted by the Israeli army into the operation of the martyr Egyptian policeman, Mohamed Salah, who carried out a shooting attack about two weeks ago at the Egyptian-Palestinian border with Sinai, which resulted in the death of 3 Israeli soldiers, revealed the exact details of the operation.

This came within the framework of an investigation conducted by the command of the so-called Southern Region, which it handed over to its Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, and its results were published today, and based on its details, many decisions were taken, including dismissing a senior officer and transferring him to another location, reprimanding a number of officers, and taking new security steps.

The investigation recounted the operation, moment by moment, and how the martyr Mohammed Salah, the perpetrator of the operation, acted.

According to the investigation, at 4:20 in the morning, the officer on duty that night inspected the soldiers by radio, and at the point where the operation took place, Private Uri Yitzhak Iluz answered the phone, and replied that everything was fine.

At 6:09 in the morning, the usual inspection by monitoring means, everything was found to be in normal condition.

At 6:50 am, a radar detected suspicious movement in the area, and during that the soldiers at the monitoring site contacted the military point, but the soldiers did not notice anything, and the scanning process continued in the neighboring areas, and at that moment, the port reached a point called a "security hole". It turns out that he knew in advance of its location, and infiltrated it.

Within 11 minutes, it infiltrated completely quietly towards the military point, as it was spotted at 7:02 am.

And at 7:14 am, he arrived at the military point where the soldier Iluz was, accompanied by the female soldier, Lea Bin Nun, and at that time the soldier was wandering around the fence next to the guard station and inspecting the area, in a state of alert, accompanied by his weapon and wearing a jacket, and with one bullet he killed him, then He went to the same point and shot the female soldier, then continued to sneak into the area.

The investigation indicates that female soldiers at the other nearby point heard the gunshots, and recognized a person close to the place, but they believed that he was a soldier near the site, and therefore the event is not reported in such circumstances.

At 9:03 am, two recruits from the duty force arrived to assume their duties instead of the two soldiers, before they found them dead bodies, and immediately issued a distress call.

At 9:22 am, a state of emergency was declared and an infiltration operation was reported. At 9:27 am, the "Fahd" battalion serving in the area began a comprehensive survey of the area and work to isolate it from its surroundings.

At 9:34 am, the "Qassasi al-Athar" military unit discovered human footprints, and they incorrectly estimated that they were for a person who had returned to Egypt. Despite this, the officer on duty made a decision that the investigation described as "correct", "important" and "decisive". Continuing search and combing operations in the area.

The time was 10:37 in the morning, that is, an hour after the decision to search and sweep, until a platoon commander was able to detect the port with a 2-km-range binoculars.

After the chain of command, it was decided, at 11:08 am, to fly a drone and identify the perpetrator as armed, and at 11:18, the perpetrator opened fire, and at 11:35, he exchanged fire with a military force that arrived at the scene, within range Its range was 200 meters, and as a result, two soldiers were wounded, one of whom was later announced dead from his wounds, Ohad Dahan, to be the third casualty in the operation.

At 12:22, the exchange of fire continued with a force that arrived for reinforcement in the place, and after clashes that lasted for two minutes, the port was liquidated. According to the investigation.

The investigation reveals that the main reasons for the attack were the security corridor in the fence, which was hidden but not closed, and the misapplication of the principle of security and protection in the border area. smuggling, as well as security incidents, confirming the investigation that the soldiers who were killed did not commit any mistake, and were in a state of full vigilance and dealt properly in the field, as Israeli soldiers. As the investigation says.

It turned out that the deployment of the forces in the region was important, but the division into two pairs at each point, the duration of the mission, and the method of control were wrong. It also turns out that the forces when locating the port were decisively acted upon and neutralized, and no gap was found in the Air Force’s response to the demands. field forces.

The investigation confirms that the security openings were not known to the soldiers in advance, and they are designated for any activity when necessary for the Israeli forces, and it was also found that the soldiers who were in the nearby points, and due to the large number of criminal incidents, did not report hearing gunfire.

As part of the lessons learned, it was decided to close the security points in the fence, reduce the duration of the shift mission to less than 12 hours, and a joint investigation was conducted with the Egyptian army against the background of the strategic security cooperation between the two sides.

As a result, it was decided to dismiss the commander of the so-called "Faran" brigade in the Israeli army, which is the brigade responsible for the area, Ido Sa'ad, and transfer him to another location because of his public responsibility for the incident, and it was also decided to reprimand the commander of the 80th Division, Itzik Cohen, for his lack of control over the implementation of the procedures. , and the commander of the Caracal Battalion, Ivo Kun, and his promotion freeze for 5 years, due to his responsibility for not dealing in an accurate operational manner with the event.

It was decided to examine the concept of defense and the means available in the region, and to form a team to study that.

As part of the lessons learned from the operation, it was decided to close the crossings and security points in the fence, reduce the duration of the soldiers' shift mission, and set a different minimum for them in this type of mission.

Commenting on this, the commander of the southern region in the Israeli army, Eliaz Tualedano, described what happened as a serious incident with serious operational consequences that could have been prevented, and it is necessary to draw lessons from it immediately.

While the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, said, This is an operational incident that resulted in a serious result of the killing of 3 soldiers at the hands of one “terrorist”, as he described it, stressing that there were gaps and errors in the operational concept that could have prevented such an attack, and that a conclusion would be drawn. Lessons learned from the attack on all fronts.

US President Joe Biden intends to invite his Israeli counterpart, Isaac Herzog, to visit the White House.

The Hebrew Channel 12 quoted American sources as saying that the invitation will be sent in the coming days, and Herzog may arrive at the White House in the third week of next July, after delivering a speech before the US House of Representatives.

Herzog is expected to visit the United States in about a month, and will deliver his speech in the House of Representatives.

This evening, Tuesday, the Israeli army released the results of its investigations into the operation of the martyr Egyptian policeman, Mohamed Salah, who killed, about two weeks ago, 3 Israeli soldiers in a shooting operation at the border in the Al-Auja area.

According to a statement by the Israeli army, the chief of staff of his forces, Herzi Halevi, adopted the results of the investigation into the operation, which were presented to him by the commander of the southern region, Eliezer Tualedano.

It was decided to dismiss the commander of the so-called "Faran" brigade in the Israeli army, who is the brigade responsible for the area, Ido Sa'ad, and transfer him to another location because of his general responsibility for the incident. Caracal, Ivo Kon and his promotion freeze for 5 years, due to his responsibility for not dealing in an accurate operational manner with the event.

It was decided to examine the concept of defense and the means available in the region, and to form a team to study that.

As part of the lessons learned from the operation, it was decided to close the crossings and security points in the fence, reduce the duration of the soldiers' shift mission, and set a different minimum for them in this type of mission.

The Hebrew website Ynet revealed, this evening, Tuesday, that the Israeli Military Prosecution decided to close the investigation file against the officers and soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Brigade, which includes Haredi soldiers, in the file of the elderly martyr Omar Asaad (79 years), who died after being detained in a construction site with a group of Of the citizens in January 2022, in the village of Jaljilia, north of Ramallah.

According to the Hebrew website, the Public Prosecution was content with disciplinary measures against 4 officers who served in the battalion and were field officials responsible for the incident at the time, after being interrogated by the military police.

At that time, the commander was reprimanded from the unit and two officers were removed from their posts.

The Israeli army claimed that the family of the martyr did not receive any medical report about the circumstances of his death, and did not cooperate with the investigation, claiming that this proves that he died as a result of a heart attack.

Amnesty International said Tuesday that Israeli strikes on Gaza last month could amount to a "war crime," adding that Palestinian armed groups should be investigated on the same charges for rocket fire.

Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, including Islamic Jihad, traded heavy fire in the May 9-13 flare-up that claimed 35 lives, including civilians and combatants.\

The London-based human rights group charged that Israeli strikes carried out "without military necessity" amount to "a form of collective punishment against the civilian population."

It also accused Palestinian armed groups of "indiscriminate" rocket fire aimed at Israel that "should also be investigated as war crimes."

Amnesty said the Israeli military operations damaged 2,943 housing units, including 103 homes that were completely destroyed.

"Israel also conducted apparently disproportionate airstrikes that killed and injured Palestinian civilians, including children," the statement added, noting that "intentionally launching disproportionate attacks ... is a war crime."

Israel and militant groups in Gaza have fought several wars since the conservative Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007.

The Israeli army claims more than 1,230 rockets were fired from Gaza toward Israel from May 10-13 before a cease-fire came into effect.

"Israel's impunity for the war crimes it repeatedly commits against Palestinians, and for its cruel ongoing 16-year illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip, emboldens further violations and makes injustice chronic," said Heba Morayef, Middle East and North Africa Regional Director at Amnesty International.

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to requests from AFP for comment on Amnesty's claims.

A spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad said the group "welcomes" the report.

"We are doing our part to defend ourselves against the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people," it added in a statement.

Some 2.3 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip which has been under a crippling Israeli-led blockade since Hamas rose to power.

Ramallah – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said Tuesday that the European Union must label products that come from illegal Israeli settlements and prevent them from entering their markets.

Citing Europe's belief in "international law and human rights," Shtayyeh told Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė in a meeting in Ramallah that there must be a "cost" to Israel's occupation and exploitation of resources in Palestinian territory.

The Palestinian prime minister discussed advancing bilateral relations with his Lithuanian counterpart, especially in trade, academic exchanges, artificial intelligence, information and communication technology, women's empowerment, waste recycling, and combating climate change.

Shtayyeh, alongside National Economy Minister Khaled Al-Osaili, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amal Jadou, and Representative of Lithuania to Palestine Bertas Venckaitis, updated Šimonytė on the latest developments on the ground in the Palestinian territories, stressing the Israel's intensified raids and killings in the occupied West Bank.

Pointing to Israel's policy to "erase" the 1967 borders and continued settlement expansion, Shtayyeh called on Lithuania to recognize the State of Palestine, with the aim of ending the occupation and establishing the Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. 

On her part, Šimonytė reiterated Vilnius' support for the two-state solution and the peace process.