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.

Four Israeli settlers were injured by gunfire on Tuesday around the Umm Al-Rayhan checkpoint, near the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. 

According to Israel's public broadcaster Kan, one settler was lightly injured in his hand after bullets his vehicle, while three others nearby were also injured.

The news broadcaster added that the Israeli army sent reinforcements to the scene.

19-year-old Faris Abdel Moneim Hashash was killed and a number of other Palestinians were injured on Tuesday in an Israel raid of the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that eight civilians were wounded by live ammunition. One was wounded by shrapnel to the head. 

The Israeli forces prevented the Red Crescent teams from reaching a child with a foot injury inside a house. He was eventually rescued and taken to hospital, where he is in a stable condition. 

A special Israeli unit had raided Balata refugee camp to capture a young man, surrounding his house and demanding that he turn himself in. 

At the camp, they faced armed resistance from Palestinian militants, and called on reinforcements. 

There were also reports of an explosion, apparently caused by an RPG fired toward the besieged house.

Member of the Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement, the Commissioner-General for Arab Relations and China, Abbas Zaki, confirmed that the upcoming visit of the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, to the People's Republic of China, from 13 to 16 June, comes at an important time to consolidate bilateral relations and mobilize support for the Palestinian cause. .

"President Abbas is heading to China, with which we have a strong relationship and supports the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders," Abbas Zaki said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua before President Abbas's visit.

He added, "President Abbas is heading to China and the world is experiencing the echoes of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba of the Palestinian people, which was commemorated in the United Nations for the first time, stressing that China and Palestine are closer friends than brothers and partners with each other."

He continued, "President Abbas visited China in May 2013 and met his counterpart Xi Jinping, and a bilateral meeting took place between them in December of last year on the sidelines of the first Arab-Chinese summit hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, noting that Presidents Abbas and Xi have good relations." ".

He pointed out that China has begun to take advanced positions in favor of supporting the Palestinian cause, whether in the United Nations or in terms of providing support to the Palestinian people, considering that the relations between the Palestinian and Chinese sides are advanced and developed, and the visit of President Abbas would further consolidate them.

He explained that President Abbas' visit will focus on the Arab Peace Initiative launched in 2002 and the possibility of China playing a greater role with the participation of other parties to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

He highlighted that China is keen on the principle of peaceful coexistence, and previously presented an initiative to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from four points in 2013 and renewed it in 2017 for the central dialogue that imposes a comprehensive and lasting peace in the Middle East region.

Zaki said, "China has begun to take on a much larger role than in the past in the Middle East region through holding the Arab-Chinese summit and reforming the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran."

The Palestinian official and a prominent leader in the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) led by President Abbas praised the Saudi-Iranian agreement that was reached under the auspices of China, considering that this step is calculated for the Chinese leadership led by President Xi and paved the way for Syria's return to the Arab League.

Regarding China's support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Zaki indicated that the Chinese support is to "establish the legitimate and inalienable rights and implement Resolution 194."

He added, "China's position stems from the international stabilization of the Palestinian situation and its support for UNRWA, noting that China has always called on the international community to support a just and comprehensive solution in the Middle East region."

It is noteworthy that Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a press conference held last Friday that President Abbas is an old and good friend of the Chinese people and the first Arab head of state hosted by China this year. "This says a lot about the high-level friendly relations between China and Palestine."

He added that over the past years, thanks to the personal guidance of President Xi and President Abbas, China-Palestine relations have maintained a good momentum of growth with stronger political mutual trust and deeper friendship between the peoples of the two countries, stressing that China, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, will continue to work with The international community in order to find a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue at an early date.

The Jordanian army announced in a statement on Tuesday that the Border Guard forces shot down a drone coming from Syria that tried to cross the Jordanian border while it was loaded with drugs.

The statement quoted an official military source in the General Command of the Armed Forces as saying, "The Border Guard forces, in coordination with the military security services and the Anti-Narcotics Department, detected an attempt to illegally cross the border from Syrian territory into Jordanian territory, and it was shot down inside Jordanian territory." .

He added, "After the plane was shot down, it was found that it was carrying 500 grams of (narcotic) crystal," referring to "the transfer of the seized items to the competent authorities."

The source emphasized that "the Jordanian armed forces continue to deal with all force and firmness, with any threat on the border fronts, and any endeavors intended to undermine and destabilize the security of the homeland and terrorize its citizens."

On February 25th, the Jordanian army announced that it had shot down a drone coming from Syria carrying hand grenades and a rifle.

The Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah II, vowed on May 22 to strike the local and regional drug gangs that threaten the kingdom's "national and regional security with an iron fist." The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in Britain, announced on the eighth of this month, "the killing of Marai al-Ramthan and his family of of his wife and six children as a result of the Jordanian warplanes targeting a building containing their house in the village of Al-Shaab in the eastern countryside of As-Suwayda" at the border with Jordan.

Al-Ramathan is considered, according to the observatory, "one of the most prominent drug dealers, including Captagon, in the region and the one responsible for smuggling it to Jordan."

There was no Jordanian comment on the raid.

The Jordanian army announces, from time to time, that it has thwarted smuggling of weapons and drugs coming from the Syrian territories.

On February 17 of last year, the Jordanian army announced that it had thwarted a large number of attempts to smuggle drugs across the 375-kilometre border, which had become "organised", using drones and protected by armed groups.

The army said at the time that the Jordanian authorities thwarted, within about 45 days in early 2022, the entry of more than 16 million Captagon pills, equivalent to the quantity that was seized throughout the year 2021.

The Kingdom confirms that 85 percent of the drugs seized are intended for smuggling out of Jordan, especially to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.

The Captagon industry is not new in the region, and Syria has been the most prominent source of this substance since before the war broke out in 2011. However, the conflict made its manufacture more popular, used and exported. Captagon pill factories are also active in several areas in neighboring Lebanon.

The Gulf countries, especially Saudi Arabia, are the main destination for Captagon pills, which are easy-to-manufacture drugs and classified by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as “a type of stimulating amphetamine,” which is usually a mixture of amphetamines, caffeine, and other substances.

While the world economy faces mounting uncertainties, international capital remains assured by the investment opportunities generated by China's long-term economic fundamentals.

Foreign capital has continued to flow into China's stock market, with a net influx of 170 billion yuan (23.9 billion U.S. dollars) through stock connect programs in the first five months, the latest official data show.

There are plenty of reasons to invest in yuan-denominated assets. 

Their low correlation with other risky assets can help investors achieve risk diversification while capturing potential upside opportunities. The valuation of RMB assets is still at a relatively lower level. The scale of the world's second-largest capital market and its improved liquidity also strongly appeal to global investors.

Admittedly, the Chinese economy still faces the triple pressure of demand contraction, supply shocks, and weakening expectations amid an increasingly complicated external environment. But insightful investors know full well that the long-term prospects for China as a major investment destination have not changed.

The economic recovery after the COVID-19 response shift is still going on. In April, China's retail sales of consumer goods surged 18.4 percent year on year, 7.8 percentage points higher than that of March.

The pent-up demand of over 1.4 billion people can't be ignored, and the strength of consumption will continue to shore up the country's future growth as an expanding middle-income group continues to favor travel and entertainment, higher quality goods and better health care.

Resilience can be seen in other areas. Though overall manufacturing activity slowed in May, the sub-indices of activity gained in some major sectors such as equipment manufacturing, high-tech manufacturing and consumer products industries.

Against the backdrop of stuttering global trade, China maintained a 4.7-percent year-on-year growth in foreign trade of goods in yuan terms in the first five months, a hard-won achievement.

With a huge and vibrant market, sound industrial system and efficient governance, China will be an undisputed bright spot in the global economy this year.

The latest reports issued by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) both noted that China's reopening will provide impetus for global economic growth. The World Bank predicted that China's economy will grow by 5.6 percent in 2023 and the OECD set this figure at 5.4 percent.

China's policy pendulum has also swung toward the pro-growth side. Monetary and fiscal policies will continue to play a major role in consolidating recovery, boosting the confidence of investors in the country.

As the Chinese economy gathers pace toward technology-driven and greener growth, its capital market provides global investors with the opportunity of investing in some of the world's fastest-growing and most promising companies in such sectors as technology innovation and renewable energy.

Over the past five years, foreign investor holdings on the ChiNext board, China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, surged more than 11 times. In 2022, the high-tech manufacturing enterprises in China registered a combined revenue increase of 14.6 percent and an R&D intensity of 6.71 percent.

China's capital market is more open and market-oriented than ever before. At a difficult time when unilateralism and protectionism are rearing their ugly heads, a string of reforms have testified to the country's commitment to opening up. This includes the newly launched Swap Connect, an interest rate swap market access scheme between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.

In a nod to the market's attractiveness, major global benchmarks like MSCI, FTSE Russell, and the S&P Dow Jones have included the A-shares and strengthened their weightings. China's government bonds also made their way into major global bond market indices.

With the scrapping of ownership caps for foreign institutions for securities, futures and funds, many global financial institutions have expanded their footprints in China. Morgan Stanley, as the latest example, is to set up a futures unit in China.

These facts, amid the clamoring for the so-called "de-risking" from China, have sent a clear signal that global investors remain confident in China's long-term growth even at this challenging time.

If foreign investors exclude China from their portfolio, they risk missing out on the huge potential of this rewarding market. The more one buys into China, the more opportunities they will share in its sustained and quality growth

 The first Airbus A321 aircraft is produced at the Final Assembly Line Asia (FALA) facility in north China's Tianjin on Nov. 9, 2022. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)* The world does not need so-called "de-risking" that targets China. But it urgently needs de-risking that targets ideology-based mentality, bloc confrontation, exclusive circles, and hegemony -- the real risks from the West.* Certain Western politicians should drop their pride and prejudice and adapt themselves to the development realities and needs of the multi-polarized world.BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- A few developed countries led by the United States replaced "decoupling" with "de-risking" to target China, but it is just old wine in a new bottle, and there is little difference in what they intend to do. An objective analysis will prove that their so-called "de-risking" proposition is illogical and unfeasible.Risks should be detected first when it comes to "de-risking."

 Many realistic and urgent threats to peace, prosperity, and the welfare of humanity derive from those countries that preach the anti-China rhetoric. And it is these real risks that need to be removed.Not to mention the terrible consequences of Western military invasions in countries such as Iraq and in the past decades, certain powers' frequent provocative military show-offs at the doorstep of others but thousands of miles away from their lands pose severe risks to the world. Last year alone, the United States sent aircraft carrier strike groups to the South China Sea and nearby areas multiple times, and its large reconnaissance aircraft conducted over 800 close-in flights to spy on China.The trilateral AUKUS security partnership of the United States, Britain and Australia and related nuclear submarine cooperation create nuclear proliferation risks and may turn the region into an arena for an arms race. Such a dangerous move has raised strong concerns among regional countries. The support and connivance of foreign forces for "Taiwan independence" separatists endanger peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Western politicians should reflect on themselves and stop their irresponsible acts that threaten regional and world peace.From an economic perspective, so-called "de-risking" means de-globalization. Certain countries have claimed they would limit trade and investment with China. 

Since entering the World Trade Organization in 2001, China's economy has extensively integrated itself with the global economy. With the development of international industrial divisions, no country can maintain supremacy in all sectors and produce all goods alone. The United States has repeatedly resorted to the use of government power to suppress Huawei and other Chinese tech firms. The acts of politicizing trade and sci-tech issues and overstretching the concept of national security to suppress companies of other countries destabilize global industrial and supply chains.As a master of economic coercion, the United States has also openly coerced the EU and some countries into restricting the export of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China. Such acts of tech bullying severely hinder the development of the semiconductor sector and undermine multilateral trade rules and the global economic order. Even worse, Washington has long used its dollar hegemony, shifted crises, and spread U.S. inflation to other parts of the world, worsening economic woes in some developing countries and seriously holding back global recovery. Those are the big risks that need to be addressed.Yet despite the "de-risking" talk, global enterprises have their own stance. U.S. restaurant brand Subway announced this week it has entered into a new master franchise agreement with a Shanghai-based company to significantly expand its presence in China. A report issued by the EU Chamber of Commerce in China indicates close to 60 percent of the companies surveyed said they would increase R&D expenditure in China in the coming five years. An AmCham China survey shows 66 percent of U.S. companies in China will maintain or increase investment in China in the coming two years.Most Europeans see China as "a necessary partner," according to the latest poll by the European Council on Foreign Relations. Airbus will build a second final assembly line in Tianjin. During a recent visit to China, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, said the interests of the United States and China are interlinked, like conjoined twins inseparable from each other. Tesla will build a new mega plant for energy-storage products in Shanghai this year.

China is committed to peaceful development, a win-win strategy of opening up, and providing a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment for companies from all countries. Over the past decade, China has accounted for more world economic growth on an average annual basis than all G7 members combined. China brings opportunities, stability and certainty to the world.

The international community is increasingly opposed to Western hypocrisy and hegemony in international relations. Certain Western politicians should drop their pride and prejudice, adapt themselves to the development realities and needs of the multi-polarized world, and pursue common peace and shared prosperity, rather than indulge in inciting confrontation and creating risks and chaos.

The world does not need so-called "de-risking" that targets China. But it urgently needs de-risking that targets ideology-based mentality, bloc confrontation, exclusive circles, and hegemony -- the real risks from the West. 

An Israeli court in occupied Jerusalem ordered the Palestinian Authority to compensate tour guides 4 million shekels ($1.12 million) for the loss of business during the Second Intifada. 

According to the Israeli news site Ynet, this lawsuit was filed by the Israeli right-wing organization Shurat Hadin - the Israeli Law Center in 2003 on behalf of 59 tour guides, who claimed that they suffered economic losses after the Palestinian uprising, the Second Intifada, broke out in September 2000.

The court obliged the Palestinian Authority to pay this amount for the damages caused to the tour guides for the period between October 2000 and May 2022, with an emphasis on the impact on areas in the West Bank.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday that conditions have been created for the reopening of Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran.

This came in statements made by Nasser Kanaani at a weekly press conference in the Iranian capital, Tehran, commenting on the latest developments in the resumption of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, according to the website of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He said that based on the initial steps taken by a Saudi technical team that visited Iran in April, the Saudi Embassy in Tehran and the Consulate General in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, will reopen in the near future.

Kanaani added that, in light of an invitation made earlier by Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian to his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, the chief Saudi diplomat will make a trip to Iran in the near future.

Former US President Donald Trump arrived in Miami on the eve of a federal criminal indictment for keeping classified documents after his term ended, in a trial that goes far beyond the misconduct charges that pursued him in the past and which he managed to evade.

Trump will appear in court on Tuesday to answer the accusations against him that he lied and planned to keep dozens of secret documents that he transferred to his residence in Florida after leaving the White House in 2021.

The serious indictment, which Trump supporters say is politically motivated to block his return to the White House, has raised fears of unrest, as Miami police are preparing to receive protesters who may number up to 50,000 people.

But the former president, who was tried in Congress twice and who is competing for the Republican nomination for the 2024 elections, maintained a defiant tone as he prepared to become the first US president to be summoned by a federal court amid strict security measures.

"We must all be strong and defeat the Communists, the Marxists and the madmen of the Radical Left who are systematically destroying our country," Trump wrote on his social network, TruthSocial, as he headed out to spend the night at his golf club, 125 minutes from the courthouse.

Trump, the frontrunner in the 2024 Republican primaries, has confirmed that the latest indictment will not force him to withdraw from the election.

"I will never walk away," Trump told Politico on his plane to a campaign rally over the weekend.

The billionaire, who will turn seventy-seven on Wednesday, is accused of possessing government secrets, refusing to return them, and conspiring to obstruct the work of investigators who were seeking to recover them.

He is also accused of sharing top-secret information with people without security clearance, in a case more serious than any he has faced before.

The indictment includes photos showing boxes that were supposed to be in the National Archives stacked in ballrooms, bedrooms and bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Palm Beach residence.

The former president had dismissed the 49-page indictment issued by the Justice Department at the conclusion of a months-long investigation, describing it as "ridiculous and baseless."

Security has been stepped up around the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. Courthouse in Miami, with some right-wing groups planning demonstrations, for example a local branch of the far-right Proud Boys.

"We hope tomorrow will be peaceful. We encourage people to be peaceful in showing their feelings," Miami Republican Mayor Francis Suarez told reporters.

Trump is expected to travel to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, afterward to reaffirm his innocence in a speech to supporters.

The former Republican president has twice been tried by Congress and accused of interfering with a federal investigation into ties between his campaign and Russia, and was convicted in a civil trial of sexual assault charges.

His company was convicted of fraud, Trump University suspended operations due to lawsuits, and his charitable foundation was dissolved by court order amid a series of controversies.

Trump's closest aides were not spared from prosecutions. His campaign chairman, vice president, personal lawyer, chief strategist, national security adviser and others were convicted of crimes related to their work with him, and some even faced imprisonment.

But Trump did not personally face criminal charges in any of these cases.

That changed dramatically in March, when the New York attorney general charged Trump with 34 counts for allegedly covering up payments to buy the silence of a porn star.

Trump's allies in Congress denounced the government's use of the judiciary as a weapon against conservatives.

Some Republicans have come under fire for rhetoric that could incite violence, such as Rep. Clay Higgins from Louisiana who told his supporters to "buckle up" and Andy Biggs from Arizona who tweeted, "Now we're at war. An eye for an eye."

The Southern District Court of Florida is known as a "rocket court," a colloquial expression used to denote courts that press for speedy justice or decide cases quickly, so that the authorities did not rule out completing the trial before the 2024 elections.

Much of the focus in the preliminary proceedings will be on Judge Eileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who was chosen for this case at random and will have a tremendous impact on how quickly things move.

Cannon's series of rulings in Trump's favor earlier in the case derailed the investigation for weeks, until a conservative appeals court ruled it had acted outside its authority.

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed his government's position on any agreement with Iran on the nuclear issue.

Netanyahu said during a session of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Israeli Knesset that his government is not bound by any agreement signed with Iran.

He stressed that his government is committed to defending "Israel" by all means available to it, and will do everything in its power for that.

He stressed the existence of differences with the United States in opinion on this issue, and that what his government says in closed rooms, it announces it to the public and does not hide it.

He said, "We are working to expand the circle of normalization of relations and peace with neighboring countries, and at the same time we seek to rein in Iran and its nuclear weapons."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again postponed a meeting with Foreign Minister Eli Cohen over nominating candidates for several diplomatic positions, although many have remained vacant for a long time.

According to the Israeli news site Ynet, Netanyahu postponed the meeting to discuss the appointment of new ambassadors and consuls in several countries, including important positions such as an ambassador to France, Ethiopia, and a consul in New York, as negotiations with the opposition over a compromise on the judicial overhaul rumble on. 

The French embassy has been without an ambassador for four months after the resignation of Yael German over the current government's decision to advance its judicial overhaul, and the government have struggled to find an appropriate replacement. 

The report suggested that French-Jewish member of parliament, Meyer Habib, who is a close ally of Netanyahu, has been moving behind the scenes to appoint an Israeli ambassador to Paris. 

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abib has previously accused the embassy of fomenting opposition to the planned neutering of the judiciary within the French Jewish community, as well as working against setting up working meetings with the far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich when he visited Paris. 

The Prisoner's Club said, "The prisoners in the occupation prisons decided, today, Tuesday, to partially close the departments, in protest against the refusal of the (Ramle Prison Clinic) administration to respond to the demands of sick prisoners, especially the deprivation of the prisoner leader, Walid Daqqa, from communicating with his family for flimsy pretexts, and its continuation as such. By abusing the prisoners by preventing many types of food.”

And the club stated in a statement that the step of closure means the cessation of all aspects of daily detention life related to prison systems, which are based on the reality of detention life, as this step constitutes one of the (disobedience) steps against the prison system, on which the prisoners relied in their steps to confront the procedures of the administration. prisons.

It is noteworthy that the so-called (Ramla prison clinic) contains sick prisoners, and today there are 15 prisoners, including two prisoners, one of whom is wounded, and she is the prisoner Fatima Shaheen, who suffers from a difficult health condition, in addition to a group of sick and wounded prisoners, including the prisoner commander Walid Daqqa, who has been detained for 38 years, and who faces a serious health condition, and the prisoner Asif Al-Rifai, who also faces serious health conditions, and beside them are a group of prisoners who have been permanently imprisoned in (Ramla) prison for more than twenty years, including (Mansour Muqada, Moatasem Raddad, and Nahed Al-Aqra’ ).

It is noteworthy that among the prisoners held in Ramla are the two prisoners, Samer Abu Diak and Iyad Radwan, as they supervise and care for sick prisoners.

Settler violence against our people is constantly increasing, and it is not, as the Special Representative of the European Union for Human Rights said, that the Israeli government ignores this violence. Rather, more than that, the more right-wing, extremist and racist Netanyahu government encourages herds of settlers to commit these attacks that affected people, trees, stones and sanctities. And everything related to the Palestinian people over their land that they inherited from their fathers and grandfathers.

The attacks of the herds of settlers take place under the protection and guard of the occupation forces. In many cases, these forces also take part in the herds’ attacks, which escalated with the formation of the far-right government, many of whose ministers are settlers and supporters not only of settlements, the re-legitimization of outposts and the annulment of separation from five settlements in the West Bank. Rather, it works by all means to annex the West Bank after its annexation of East Jerusalem, in clear and explicit violation of all international laws and norms.

The protection of the Palestinian civilians occupied by the occupying state is the responsibility of this occupying state, but the attacks that are taking place, whether by the occupying forces or herds of settlers, aim to force our people to leave their land in order to facilitate its annexation and the establishment of more settlements on it in the worst and broadest process of ethnic cleansing.

Also, the announcement of working to increase the number of settlers in the West Bank, including Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and arming the settlers so that they carry out their attacks not only with arrogance and arrogance, but also with weapons, as they fire their weapons that they were allowed to carry at the citizens, which led to the death of a number of them and the injury of many, to In addition to the burning of homes, the burning of Hawara by these herds is still visible, which took place in front of the eyes and ears of the whole world without the occupation government moving a finger or preventing them from carrying out their crimes and attacks in stealing land, cutting trees, stealing agricultural crops, especially olives, and preventing citizens from cultivating their lands. , and seizing it behind the wall ..... etc. are among the crimes that condemn humanity and are considered, according to custom and international laws, war crimes for which the International Criminal Court and war crimes are held accountable.

The occupying state, represented by its extreme right-wing government, does not investigate these crimes, and if it investigates some of them that are visible to the eye, the perpetrators escape punishment under various justifications that do not convince anyone except those who support the occupying state, led by the United States of America and Western countries with a colonial past.

The statements of the Special Representative of the European Union for Human Rights, despite their importance, the occupying power does not attach any importance to them, which requires urgent action from the Palestinian side at all levels and levels in order to work to stop these attacks and crimes, by providing all forms of support and assistance to our people to confront the herds Settlers thirsting for Palestinian bloodshed with the support of their government as well as previous governments, where ministers in the previous government said that the settlers constitute the first line of defense for the occupying state, and this means that the state supports these attacks and crimes.

For how long will our people continue to suffer, not only from the occupation forces, but also from the herds of settlers who wreaked havoc in the Palestinian land every day, without any deterrent response from the Palestinian or international side, which suffices to issue only statements of denunciation and denunciation without punitive steps.

Zionist endeavors to Judaize Al-Aqsa Mosque and divide it temporarily by removing it from its Islamic sanctity as an exclusive religious right to follow the Islamic religion to the exclusion of other religions, and that it does not accept division or division, with its spaces, domes, minarets, terraces, above ground and underground as an Islamic mosque to a common sanctuary through the policies of religious substitution that did not It stopped since the occupation of 1967, and the Talmudic and Biblical groups began to employ all Jewish holidays and what is known as national occasions and any opportunity available to them, in order to redefine Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa in the minds and minds of Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, and to tell them that their prayers and their retreat in Al-Aqsa are not a divine right, but rather they are done By the will of the occupier and in the manner and form decided by him alone.

Every time and every year, the Talmudic and Biblical groups take a step forward on the path to the Judaization of Al-Aqsa Mosque, after completing what is called the rituals of reviving the moral structure, from introducing plant and animal offerings to the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and practicing Talmudic and Biblical rituals such as blowing the trumpet, public collective prayers, and performing what is known as With the epic prostration, the settlers lay down on their faces as the highest form of Talmudic and Biblical rituals...and targeted the Lions Gate with repeated incursions, in order to become an important part in controlling the entire eastern region of Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is equivalent to a third of its area...and in the process of realizing this plan and project Temple groups, rabbis, and associations known as the Temple Trustees and Returners to the House of the Lord have set aside financial rewards amounting to 20,000 shekels for each extremist who breaks into Al-Aqsa and introduces an animal sacrifice into its courtyards... A while ago, a Zionist lobby was formed from members of the Knesset to discuss freedom of worship for Jews on the "Temple Mount." And incitement to storming operations, and considering Al-Aqsa part of the Jewish holy places, because of its status and importance in the Zionist existence and fabric.... Within this scheme and under the government of the extreme right and Jewish fascism, the storming operations did not escalate and the numbers of those who invaded did not escalate with the participation of Knesset members and ministers only Rather, the flag of the entity state is being raised in Al-Aqsa squares and what is known as the entity’s anthem “Hatikvah” is being sung.... Matters have reached the point where the entity’s government minister, Amit Halevy from the Likud, sought to present a proposal for the actual division of Al-Aqsa Mosque, so that the southern region would be The Muslims and the central and northern regions are given to the Jews, including the Dome of the Rock mosque, which they say is built on their alleged temple.... He did not only talk about the partition process, but rather about ending the Jordanian guardianship over Al-Aqsa, which is exposed to "hollowing out" and emptying of its content Day after day, as well as ending any political relationship of Jordan with Al-Aqsa, as well as ending the administrative control of the Endowments Department over it, and that the incursions into Al-Aqsa are not limited to the Mughrabi Gate, but as called by what is known as the Chief Rabbinate and the Council of the New Sanhedrin, that the intrusions of Al-Aqsa be from all gates Without a specific hour, and in the incursions, Muslims must be evacuated from worshipers, seclusions, and stationed from Al-Aqsa.

If the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic positions continue as they are, in terms of statements of denunciation, denunciation, notes of protest, and a bet on the American and international position and what is known as the institutions of international legitimacy, as well as threats made that have no basis in reality, that crossing the red lines in Al-Aqsa will blow things up. And that the resistance and its axis are ready to respond to these transgressions and to tamper with the fate of Al-Aqsa and impose new facts in it, and all the data and what is happening on the ground indicate that the entity is going to Al-Aqsa towards the fate of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, which was divided after the massacre committed by the extremist terrorist Baruch Goldstein in February 1994 Where it has become a hotbed for settlers who abuse it on a daily basis and hold celebrations and loud dances in it, and sing the entity's anthem "Hatikvah" in it, and raise the flags of the entity's state massively over it.

The situation in Al-Aqsa and what is being plotted and planned crosses all the red, zero and green lines, and everyone says, “Al-Aqsa will not be Jews,” and Al-Aqsa will come to its aid by 2 billion Muslims, present on paper and virtually, and they are nothing more than an audio phenomenon, and those who did not come to support Al-Aqsa, when It was burned by the extremist Zionist of Australian origin, "Michael Rohan on August 21, 1969, and the then Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Golda Meir, who said that she did not sleep all night and was crying over the fate of her country, for fear that the Arab and Islamic armies would come to support Al-Aqsa and remove entity state of existence, and to discover that Arabs and Muslims are nothing more than an acoustic phenomenon.

Everyone knows that we are within the framework of what was known as the Oslo transitional agreement, the catastrophe agreement for which we are still paying the price today in terms of loss of rights and land, fragmentation and division of the people and the land, and the dismantling of the cause. We are still paying the price of this Kaduk to this day, as the entity, in exchange for this Kaduk, has increased its oppression and brutality on our people, through building hundreds of thousands of settlement units, confiscations, dismemberment of the land, looting and plundering it. And killing any opportunity for the possibility of establishing the so-called illusion of a two-state solution, where there is no settlement left as a place for the establishment of a Palestinian state, even on 1/5 of the area of ​​historical Palestine. The leaders of the entity state, America, and the colonial West countries, which are false, deceitful, and misleading, and which lack credibility, through what is happening on the ground in terms of facts that say that the entity state is proceeding with its projects and plans to Judaize Al-Aqsa, and to create a Jewish partnership, life, and sanctity in it, canceling its Islamization, as an Islamic sanctuary for the followers of the religion And the time is not long in which the government of the entity and extremism will announce that the Jordanian tutelage and the political relationship of Jordan to and with Al-Aqsa Mosque have become a "Kadouk", and then the "Kadouk" will be the Jordanian tutelage by the entity, as is the case of the "Kadouk" of the Palestinian National Charter and a curse on us as Palestinians And upon the owners of guardianship and upon all the Arabs and Muslims who are said to be two billion..??.

Azmi Al-Shuaibi does not need my testimony, nor the testimony of anyone. But for those of the younger generations who do not know Al-Shuaibi, or those who think they can silence and intimidate him, their memory must be polished, as the late leader Abu Ammar used to say. The history of Azmi Al-Shuaibi’s struggle began since the prime of his youth when he was a university student in Alexandria, and throughout his life’s struggle for the sake of Palestine and the cause of our people, he was not one of the “high-ranking elites” despite the partisan, national and official positions he occupied, but rather he was always close to the people, feeling their pain and suffering under the occupation and in Opposites of asylum. Perhaps the dental profession helped him feel pain with his patients, as he was always biased towards the poor and the oppressed. I was a witness to his connection with the people in his clinic in Jabal Al-Hussein in Amman, where years of deportation and work brought us together in the Occupied Territories Committee of the Democratic Front and then the Democratic Union. Azmy had deported him and the activists Marwan Barghouti and Amin Maqbool to Jordan before the outbreak of the major uprising at the end of 1987, where we worked together in the Support Committee for the Intifada from Amman. He had previously represented the Democratic Front in the National Front and the National Steering Committees with the late greats Haider Abdel Shafi, Ibrahim Al Dakkak, Fahd Al Qawasmi, Bassam Al Shakaa, Karim Khalaf, Muhammad Melhem and other national symbols, and he ran in the municipal elections in the city of Al Bireh in 1976, which represented at the time a challenge to the occupation. Raising the voice of the Palestine Liberation Organization, despite the occupation's brutality and bloodshed. Azmy is one of the founders of the volunteer movement in Palestine, in the early and mid-seventies. After he became a member of the Legislative Council, he chose to work to institutionalize parliamentary oversight of the government and the executive authority, as it became clear to many since the establishment of the authority, including those who believed that Oslo might be a step towards ending the occupation, that it had the ability to establish justice, good governance and good performance. To establish a respectable institution free from nepotism and corruption, that respects its people first, and invests its resources to enhance their steadfastness, ability to survive, and popular resistance. The governments of Israel, which began to pay the price of its occupation imposed on it by the Intifada, concluded that without flooding occupied Palestine with the bureaucracy of corruption that began to hold the neck of the exile revolution, it would not escape its predicament or be able to contain the local, regional and international transformations imposed by the Great Intifada, which carried hope. With the possibility of defeating the occupation and moving forward towards freedom, the Intifada, despite the gaps that befell it, was likely to develop into a historical lever to restore stolen national rights, after Israel had been under the illusion that it had succeeded in burying Palestinian patriotism between the Nakba wars of 1948 and Lebanon 1982.

I am not legal to refute the nature of the assault on the law that was included in the attempt to silence Al-Shuaibi and Issam Al-Haj, and even the Aman Coalition, the national member of Transparency International itself, but I realize, according to all polls, that the phenomenon of corruption in all its forms and the phenomenon of nepotism and influence-abuse have crossed all red lines in each of The Gaza Strip, which is under the control of Hamas or within the framework of the national authority, feeding on the absence of parliamentary oversight due to the freezing of the work of the Legislative Council after the division and then its dissolution, and the insistence on evading the entitlement to hold general elections, even if the price for that is the disintegration of the inclusive national legitimacy and the loss of the national cause As a result of the division, which has become the most important tool in the hands of Israel to destroy the national entity and to attack the historical rights of our people in this country.

Attempt to silence Shuaibi

Al-Shuaibi only did what was imposed on him by the rules of good citizenship, and the national responsibility entrusted to all citizens and institutions of the Palestinian people, including the AMAN Coalition, and the goals for which it was established to combat corruption "in the institutions of the de facto authority led by Hamas in Gaza or the government of the National Authority and its affiliated institutions." In this context, AMAN’s 2022 report “The Reality of Integrity and Anti-Corruption in Palestine” was fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to it, although this came some time late, and after the ears of the relevant institutions that were addressed by the AMAN Coalition closed their eyes to those issues it included. The report and some of them touch the nerve of Palestinian patriotism. Instead of these institutions returning to carry out their duties, a complaint was filed and a case was initiated in the courts against those who fight corruption and perform the duty to strip it. What recklessness is this with people's minds? This constitutes a violation of all red lines, as instead of holding the corrupt accountable and holding them accountable, an attempt is being made to silence Al-Shuaibi, Al-Hajj, and Aman and put them on trial!!! However, it seems that this attempt is turning into a public opinion issue and a popular trial for corruption and the corrupt.

The exclusion approach is a shovel for the destruction of the national movement

Yes, enough! Enough is enough. The continued attempts to exclude everyone who has an opinion turns the national movement and the country's institutions into mere emptiness, and constitutes a threat to the national destiny. We have to look at this issue, which has become a public opinion issue with these dimensions, in addition to what is happening affecting the status of the national cause among the natural allies of our people, including Transparency International, which has become a site of global influence. I was a coincidental witness to AMAN's regional and international standing at the Transparency International conference held in Copenhagen in 2019, where it happened to host the film Naila and the Intifada to show the ugliness of the occupation within the framework of the development of the role of Transparency International in addressing and exposing issues of political corruption and government violations, including the Israeli occupation. In the context of this conference, which was attended by more than forty foreign ministers and hundreds of institutions and parliamentary figures from most countries of the world. Palestine and the Aman Coalition were strongly present and had influential relations with this Coalition as one of the levers for the right of the Palestinians to live and to be independent by self-determination and the management of their looted resources from the occupation.

Laws by decree and executive regulations were previously designed in contradiction with the laws in force and the statute, with the aim of restricting non-profit institutions and forcing some of them to close, as happened with the Al-Ghad Foundation, which was founded by former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to support farmers and rural areas threatened with settlement and confiscation, and our people in the Old City of Jerusalem and restoration The ramshackle houses in some of the camps. This is after all attempts to distort the institution that justice has triumphed have failed.

The lesson that must be drawn here is if the silence on what happened with Al-Ghad Foundation is in contradiction with the higher national priority related to strengthening people’s steadfastness in the face of settlement, which requires mobilizing all official, popular and civil resources in the service of this national priority, and not pushing it to close, then we must realize Those who dominate resources and the national destiny are now threatening anyone who disagrees with their opinion and seeking to silence it. If this attack passes without a deterrent popular stance, the social fabric will be subject to targeting and disintegration.

Towards a popular coalition to defend the national destiny

How desperately we are in need for the emergence of a broad popular coalition to defend the supreme national interests and national destiny, adhere to the rules of pluralism in the face of policies of exclusivity, exclusion and divisive domination, and restore consideration to the inclusive national institutions to unify all efforts in order to straighten the compass of the national struggle against the occupation instead of continuing bleeding in the components of the front interior. Progress towards achieving this requires the initiative of national personalities and leaders who are independent in their opinion and orientations outside the axes of divisional polarization and hegemony, to constitute a political lever for social, popular and national movements and for the broad groups affected by division and corruption, and to present a transitional road map that contributes to getting our national cause out of the blockage it is going through, and devotes Its priorities are to strengthen people's steadfastness and restore their constitutional rights by preparing for general elections within a sufficient period to release freedoms that make elections a station for change, overthrowing division, and saving the national cause. This is the duty of all Palestinian patriots wherever they are. Otherwise, history will not have mercy on us, nor will our people, whose banner will not be lowered.

As soon as the cease-fire agreement was announced in the Gaza Strip exactly a month ago, many media outlets went out to talk about a truce and a multi-faceted agreement between the resistance factions and the Israeli occupation under Egyptian auspices.

Days after the cease-fire, delegations from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad arrived in Cairo, and before the start of the meetings, media reports began to come out talking about a long-term truce for several years, huge economic projects and great facilities, which prompted the residents of the Gaza Strip to circulate this news extensively, until it became It looks like it will happen tomorrow!

Since the delegations arrived in Cairo, well-informed sources told Al-Quds.com that everything that is circulating is just "media fallout" that has no value.

The same sources, who are well-informed leaders, reaffirmed after the meetings that what was discussed were issues aimed at maintaining calm, and not allowing the occupation to unilaterally resist on any front, whether Gaza, the West Bank, occupied Jerusalem and the occupied interior, and that it was stressed the need to provide facilities And expand it according to the need, in a way that facilitates people’s needs and their movements to and from the Gaza Strip, and accelerate work on the Egyptian residential cities file that began after the 2021 war.

In their interview with Al-Quds.com, the sources described that the meetings were more usual protocol than to open up any prospects for a long-term armistice or other agreements, and that the main objective of them was to establish the rules of the cease-fire with the resistance affirming its right to respond to any aggression against the people. Palestinian.

Yesterday, leaders of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad denied what previously informed sources told Al-Quds.com that the talks did not touch on a long-term truce.

Zvika Fogel, a member of the Knesset for the "Jewish Power" party, led by the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, presented a bill that would allow the latter, in his capacity as the so-called Minister of National Security, to issue administrative detention orders under the pretext of fighting crime among the Palestinians of the interior.

According to the website of the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, the bill stipulates that this authority be granted to Ben Gvir, after requesting this from the legal advisor to the Israeli government in the event that he is convinced of the almost certain possibility of actual harm to public security in the event that the suspect is not under arrest.

The bill also grants additional powers such as restricting exit or residency in certain areas and restricting freedom of movement.

The bill also stipulates that Ben Gvir is able to prevent any suspect from traveling, oblige any detainee to surrender his passport to the police, that he will have the power to compel him to appear before the police station on dates that he will specify, and impose the obligation to inform of his intention to leave or enter a certain area In addition to giving him the power to prohibit the purchase, possession or carrying of certain things, the use of certain services and communications in a limited way, and the prohibition of contact with a specific person or group.

Twenty-two US soldiers were injured in a helicopter accident in northeastern Syria, according to what the Central Command of the US Army "Centcom" announced on Tuesday, without mentioning its circumstances.

"On June 11, an accident involving a helicopter in northeastern Syria injured 22 American soldiers to varying degrees," Centcom said in a statement.

Ten of the injured were transferred outside the central command's area of operations to receive care in advanced health facilities, according to the statement.

"The cause of the accident is still under investigation, although no hostile fire has been reported," Centcom said.

It is rare to announce similar incidents in Syria, where the international coalition forces, most notably the US forces, are deployed in the areas of influence of the Kurdish forces and their allies in northeastern and eastern Syria. American forces are also present at the al-Tanf base in the south, near the Jordanian and Iraqi borders.

US bases have been repeatedly targeted during the past year, with cells affiliated with the Islamic State standing behind some of them, while others point fingers at armed groups loyal to Tehran.

Since 2011, Syria has been witnessing a bloody conflict with many sides, which, since its outbreak in 2011, has caused the death of more than half a million people, massive destruction of infrastructure, and the displacement of more than half of the population inside and outside the country.

A Palestinian fisherman was injured by Israeli gunfire in the Mediterranean, northwest of the Gaza Strip, early on Tuesday. 

According to the Fishermen Union Committees in the besieged enclave, Jafar Bakr is in a moderate condition after he was hit by a rubber bullet by Israel's army, and was transferred to Al-Shifa hospital for treatment.

Israel's military maintains a naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, severely restricting the movement of fishermen. The policy impacts the livelihoods of thousands of Palestinians.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli army will publish the results of its investigations into the shooting attack carried out by Egyptian policeman Mohamed Salah at the border that killed 3 Israeli soldiers, about two weeks ago.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, a copy of the investigations will be delivered to the families of the dead soldiers, before it is published to the public.

The site expected that there would be decisions against officers due to serious shortcomings that were discovered in the investigation that the commander of the so-called southern region, Eliez Toledano, handed over last Thursday to the Chief of Staff, and through which the failure to properly manage and deploy forces appears.

According to the investigations, two soldiers heard 4 gunshots from a point 200 meters away from the point where the female soldier and a soldier were killed, and they did not report this because they believed that it was due to the wind, and due to the repeated shooting in the area, and it appears that the soldier who was shot was sitting on a chair And that the soldiers did not know the emergency corridor through which the Egyptian policeman infiltrated, and did not receive any immediate warning of his infiltration.

It is not clear who approved the 12-hour shift in a row for soldiers in stressful and difficult conditions.

Over the past two years, B'Tselem Center for Human Rights has documented six incidents in which settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the village of Surif, east of Hebron, causing damage to their agricultural properties and harming its residents.

In its report, the center emphasized that this violence is a result of the protection and policy of the Israeli government, which it supports and under its auspices.

B'Tselem's report said that on Sunday, 2 April 2023, dozens of settlers arrived in the village of Surif and assaulted its residents for three days, protected by the army, which fired tear gas and live fire at Palestinian civilians who were defending themselves.

The organization stated: At around 17:30, two masked settlers armed with pistols arrived at the agricultural land belonging to Ibrahim Ghunaimat (53 years old), while he was grazing his sheep in the area with his son Obeida (15 years old). The settlers approached the two, and one of them threw a large stone at Ibrahim's forehead, causing him to fall and lose consciousness. His two sons, Rami (24 years old) and Ahmad (31 years old), came to the place to help him, and they were assaulted as well, but they managed to evacuate him to Alia Hospital in Hebron, where he was diagnosed with a crack in his skull, and deep wounds were sutured on his forehead and the back of his head. The father also suffered from bruises on his left shoulder and neck, and swelling in his left eye. He was hospitalized for two days for observation. In addition, a crack was diagnosed in the leg of his son, Rami, who was injured by a stone thrown by the settlers, which required her to be cast in plaster.

Meanwhile, about 20 other settlers arrived at the area of ​​the attack, some of them masked and armed with pistols, and soldiers with them. The settlers attacked the Palestinians, who arrived at the site, and threw stones at the neighboring houses. When the villagers responded by throwing stones at them in self-defense, the soldiers started firing tear gas canisters at the houses. Iman Ghunaimat, 30, who was on the roof of her house, was hit in the stomach by a stone thrown at her by settlers. She was taken by a Palestinian ambulance to the village clinic.

The settlers and soldiers remained in Surif, and at a certain point the Border Police joined them as well. During the clashes that broke out between the settlers and the youths of the village, the soldiers fired tear gas canisters at the residents' homes, and the Border Police fired live fire at the youths. At around 20:00, the settlers left the area, but some soldiers remained in the area until the late evening hours.

The next day, 3 April 23, at around 14:30, dozens of settlers, some of them masked, arrived at the village again, accompanied by soldiers. One of the settlers was armed with a rifle and another was riding a tractor. The settlers cut down olive trees and burned them in a field belonging to the villagers, then advanced towards the village houses and started throwing stones at them in front of the soldiers. The village youth tried to fend off the settlers with stones, at which point the soldiers fired tear gas canisters at them. Some of the residents were injured as a result of gas inhalation, and they were treated in the field. Meanwhile, Border Police officers also arrived at the scene and started firing live fire at the youths. The settlers and the army confronted the residents until the evening hours, then the settlers left, shouting and threatening to return and burn the village, as they did in Huwara. Some of the soldiers stayed there until late at night.

On Tuesday, 4 April 2023, at around 4:00 PM, the settlers returned, accompanied by several soldiers. This time, too, the settlers broke down and burned the olive trees in the village fields, and the village youth threw stones at them. The confrontations continued for about a quarter of an hour, and then Border Police arrived at the scene, firing live fire and tear gas canisters at the youths. At this point, the settlers left, and the soldiers stayed there until late, then they left too.

Ibrahim Ghunaimat, a father of seven from Surif, said in a testimony he gave B'Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja'bri: I live in the Shu'ab al-Sir area, northeast of Surif, with my wife, Laila, 53, and our children: Tariq, 27, Issa, 26, and Rami. (24 years old), Mustafa (23 years old), Osama (16 years old), Obeida (15 years old) and Yazan (13 years old). On Sunday, 2 April 2023, at around 3:00 P.M., my son Ubaidah and I let our sheep go to pasture on our land, about 300 meters away from our house. Everything was quiet until, at about 5:30 P.M., I saw two masked settlers, putting their pistols around their waists, advancing towards us. They stopped about 10 meters away from us, then one of them came closer until he stopped 4 meters away from me. I asked him what he wanted and told him to go from there, but he ignored me and kept quiet. I turned my head to talk to the second settler, and just at that time the second settler threw a big stone at me, hitting me on the left side of my forehead. I fell to the ground completely unconscious.

I woke up in the clinic in the center of the village. My son Ahmad was there and told me that he took me to the clinic after Ubaida told him about the settlers' attack. He said that when they arrived, Rami found me lying on the ground. At the clinic, they gave me first aid, stopped the bleeding, and then took me in an ambulance to Alia Governmental Hospital. They did a head CT scan and found a crack in the skull. I also had a deep wound in the forehead and a wound in the back of the head and they sutured them, in addition to bruises on my left shoulder and neck and swelling in my left eye. The doctors kept me in the hospital for two days for observation.

Rami Ghunaimat, a resident of Surif, said in his testimony: On Sunday, 2 April 2023, at around 15:00, my father and Ubaida let our sheep go to pasture on our land. I was in my room facing the floor. At about 17:30, I heard Obeida screaming for help. I looked out the window and saw two masked settlers at the top of the hill.

He added: I quickly left the house with my brother Ahmed in his pickup truck. Ahmed dropped me off next to the vineyard, and when I got to my father, I found him lying unconscious on the ground, his face covered in blood. Obeida and I tried to get him out of there, but the two settlers threw stones at us. I was hit by a large stone in my left leg, but I ignored it and managed to get my father away to the pickup truck and Ahmed took him to the clinic in the village.

He continued: I stayed there, and in the meantime a few other residents of the village arrived. Meanwhile, more than 30 settlers, aged between 20 and 30, came, some of them masked and others carrying weapons. They were accompanied by soldiers. The settlers started throwing stones at the houses. The residents threw stones at them in self-defence, and the soldiers responded by firing tear gas canisters at the houses. Iman Ghunaimat, 30, who was on the roof of her house, was hit by a stone in her stomach and taken by ambulance to the village clinic.

The next day, 3 April 2023, at around 14:30, dozens of settlers came to the village again, some of them masked. This time, too, they were accompanied by soldiers. They entered the land of Mustafa Jamil Ghunaimat (50 years old) and started smashing and burning olive trees and throwing stones at houses in full view of the soldiers, who did nothing.

The village youth tried to stop the settlers by throwing stones at them, and then the soldiers fired tear gas canisters at the village and doused it with gas. Some of the people suffocated and were treated in the field. Several Border Police officers also arrived and fired live fire at the young men. Clashes with settlers and the Israeli army continued until approximately 20:00. After that, the settlers left, but threatened that they would return and burn the village, as they did in Huwara. Some of the soldiers stayed in the village until 23:00.

On Tuesday, 4 April 2023, at around 4:00 PM, the settlers returned, accompanied by several soldiers. They broke and burned olive trees, and the village youth threw stones at them. I heard shooting, and I didn't know who was shooting, whether it was a soldier or a settler. The confrontations lasted about a quarter of an hour, until the Border Police arrived and fired live fire and tear gas canisters at the youths. After that, they removed the settlers, and the soldiers stayed there until about 19:30.

The next day, 3 April 2023, at around 14:30, dozens of adult settlers, some of them masked, came to our area, accompanied by soldiers. The settlers started destroying and burning olive trees in the orchard of Mustafa Jamil Ghunaimat, about 200 meters away from our house. The soldiers did not stop the settlers, so they advanced towards our homes and started throwing stones at them. The villagers tried to stop the settlers by throwing stones, at which point the soldiers started firing tear gas canisters at the residents, and the Border Police arrived, who also fired live fire. One of the teargas bombs fell on the stairs leading to our house. Gas flowed into the house and my children started choking. They cried and screamed and did not calm down until we were able to ventilate the house.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in the People's Republic of China on Tuesday for a three-day official state visit.

During the visit, the president will meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to discuss strengthening ties with Beijing and to exchange views on the latest developments on the Palestinian front. 

Abbas will also discuss regional and international issues of common concern, and meet with a number of other senior Chinese officials.

Abbas Zaki, a member of Fatah's Central Committee who oversees its ties with China, explained that President Abbas' visit will focus on the Arab Peace Initiative launched in 2002 and the "possibility of China playing a greater role with the participation of other parties to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict."

Zaki added that "China has begun to take on a much larger role than in the past in the Middle East region through holding the Arab-Chinese summit and reforming the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran."

President Abbas is accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Ziyad 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 the Palestinian Ambassador to China, Fariz Mahdawi.

The so-called Israeli District Committee decided to expand settlement construction in the western triangle north of occupied East Jerusalem on the lands of the villages of Lifta, Beit Iksa, Beit Hanina al-Tahta and Shuafat to expand the settlements of Ramot and Ramat Shlomo by 1,703 new settlement units in the separating area between Beit Hanina al-Tahta, which has become behind the separation wall, and Beit Hanina al-Tahta. Hanina Al-Fawqa within the borders of the occupation municipality after the wall was pushed back and dozens of cameras were re-fenced and installed along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv bypass road 443, which divided Beit Hanina into two parts and isolated Beit Hanina Al-Tahta from the rest of its lands in Jerusalem.

Resolution No. 59992/23 states that work is to expand the northwestern area of ​​Ramat Shlomo settlement by 900 settlement units in the foothills of Shuafat lands to the west with its borders adjacent to bypass road 443 by 28 buildings, each building consisting of 6 floors according to a natural gradient, and connecting it to another Fatafy Street as an exit. to the settlement on Highway 443.

The decision includes a new plan to build 1,703 settlement units in the Ramot settlement, between the displaced village of Beit Hanina and Lifta, and the village of Beit Iksa to the west.

The villages northwest of Jerusalem, especially Nabi Samuel, Beit Iksa, Lifta, and Beit Hanina, are subjected to racist measures that isolated them, reduced their population, and confiscated most of their lands, especially after the completion of the apartheid wall in Beit Hanina, which swallowed up more than 65% of their lands, while the villages of Beit Iksa and Nabi Samuel, their population shrank to Less than 20% of the original number and turned into a semi-isolated area suffering from continuous suffocation by the occupation.

According to the same plan, the "Ramot" settlement will be expanded on the opposite side of the Ramat Shlomo settlement, with a series of residential buildings and towers from 8 to 20, according to the heights that are commensurate with a corresponding gradation, by 1,200 settlement units at the expense of the lands of Lifta, whose people were displaced, and on the lands of Beit Iksa, "the plain area." To form a settlement wall from west to east with the construction of a bridge over Street No. 1, from which a tunnel branches under the settlement of the French Hill and Mount Scopus towards the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, and the second branch on the lands of Shuafat, through the settlement of Givat Zeev and the settlement of Nebi Jacob.

Two elderly people were injured, and several young men were arrested, at dawn and Tuesday morning, during a campaign of raids and arrests in separate areas of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.

The occupation forces stormed the Askar camp in the city of Nablus and its surroundings in the Tal Street area, and raided the house of the martyr Moaz al-Masri’s family, and took its measurements in preparation for its demolition, claiming that the martyr was responsible for carrying out the Jordan Valley operation weeks ago, which led to the killing of 3 settlers.

During the raids in the camp, these forces arrested the two young men, Muhammad al-Dash, and his brother Walid, and assaulted them and their elderly parents during the storming of the house, which necessitated their transfer to the hospital for treatment.

In Tulkarm, the editor, Jasser Kharouf, from Alar, and the young Hamza Ajaj, from Sidon, were arrested.

Meanwhile, Muhammad Mufreh was arrested from Bethlehem, and Uday Shloun from Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho.

In Jenin, the correspondent of Al-Quds.com reported that the editor, Uday al-Baajawi, survived the bullets of a special force that later stormed his house in the eastern neighborhood of the city, and abused his family after detaining them in the open. They blew up Uday's house and threatened to kill him.

In occupied Jerusalem, the occupation forces arrested the boy, Qassem Muhammad al-Abbasi, after raiding his house in the town of Silwan, while they arrested the young man, Hamza Hussein Obaidat, from the town of Jabal al-Mukaber, after assaulting him.

The spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, John Kirby, said, on Monday evening, that the United States has repeatedly expressed its concern about building more Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Kirby was commenting in the daily briefing on what was published in the Israeli and American media about Tel Aviv informing Washington that it intends to promote the construction of 4,000 new settlement units.

Kirby said: We do not want to see Israeli steps that would increase tension and make it difficult to reach a two-state solution.

Today, Monday, the occupation forces arrested two boys from the town of Al-Isawiya in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested Amir Skafi, 14, and Amr Abu Rumaila, 16.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed with the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Winsland, the latest developments and political developments in Palestine.

The official spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, said that the meeting, which was held at the Foreign Ministry's headquarters today, Monday, dealt with the need for concerted regional and international efforts, and at the United Nations level, in order to stop the continuous escalation in the occupied territories, and to create a new climate supportive of reviving the process. peace.

He added that Minister Shukri expressed deep concern about the continued escalation of violence, the intensity of Israeli incursions into the West Bank and the resulting casualties, which exacerbates tension and tension.

Abu Zeid said that Minister Shoukry reviewed the efforts made by Egypt during the last period to calm the situation on the ground.

For his part, the UN coordinator expressed his appreciation for Egypt's pivotal role in the peace process, looking forward to continuing coordination with it in order to break the current stalemate in the peace process and restore hope for finding a final, comprehensive and just settlement for the Palestinian cause.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the European Union to play an effective role by pressuring Israel to abide by the agreements signed with it and to stop all unilateral measures in the Palestinian territories.

This came during his meeting with the Vice-President of the European Commission, Margaritis Schinas, today, Monday, in his office in Ramallah, in the presence of the European Union representative to Palestine, Sven Kon von Burgsdorff.

Shtayyeh discussed with Shinas the latest developments in light of the political vacuum, stressing the importance of working to create an international movement to revive the Arab peace initiative, end the Israeli occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.

The Prime Minister said: "Israel is working to impose measures to destroy the two-state solution, through daily incursions into the Palestinian territories, which constitute a process of reoccupying the West Bank, killing and arresting operations, and seizing lands in favor of settlement expansion, and re-settlement in a number of evacuated settlements in the northern West Bank." Which will lead to a slide towards a single state with an apartheid regime in reality, laws and legislation.”

And he continued: "In addition to the war on Palestinian geography, money and the narrative, Israel is waging a religious war on Islamic and Christian holy sites, especially in Jerusalem, and is working to Judaize them, and attempts to divide temporally and spatially the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which will lead to igniting a religious war."

He added, "While Israel has held 5 elections in the last 4 years, it continues to prevent us from holding elections in all of our lands, including Jerusalem."

Shtayyeh appreciated the continued European support for Palestine at all levels, and its harmony with the Palestinian national priorities, and its firm and supportive position for the two-state solution.

For his part, Schinas expressed the European Union's continued support for Palestinian national priorities and the needs of the Palestinian people with the aim of improving their living conditions and achieving a two-state solution. He expressed his concern about what is happening in Islamic and Christian sanctities, stressing the need to work to preserve the historical status quo, especially in Jerusalem.

The reliable Israeli political reporter, Barak Ravid, revealed, on Monday evening, a new Israeli settlement plan that will be promoted at the end of this month, to build 4,000 new settlement units in various settlements in the West Bank.

The Israeli correspondent for the Hebrew Walla website, and the American Axios, quoted American and Israeli sources as saying, “Last week, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu informed the administration of US President Joe Biden of its intention to promote this settlement scheme, by informing Tel Aviv, Washington, that it decided to postpone the discussion of The issue of construction in the E1 area, which is sensitive in terms of security and politics.

An American official said that the announcement of postponing construction in that sensitive area is just the first part of the Netanyahu government informing the Biden administration that it intends to build 4,000 more units in the West Bank, indicating that there are efforts by the US administration to try to reduce the number of new units, and that They will be in the settlement blocs and not outside them in isolated settlements.

An Israeli source said that the Higher Council for Planning and Building in the Civil Administration will convene at the end of this month to approve this new plan.

In response, a White House spokesman said that settlement expansion is an obstacle to the peace process. Neither Netanyahu's office nor the US State Department responded to the report.