The Israeli Arabic-language Makan Radio reported, Thursday morning, that an Israeli delegation will travel today to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to present to officials in the country the conclusions of the military investigation conducted by the Israeli army command into the circumstances of the attack, which was carried out by Egyptian policeman Mohamed Salah.

According to the radio, the delegation will seek clarifications from the Egyptian side regarding the Egyptian policeman, Mohamed Salah, the perpetrator of the attack in which 3 Israeli soldiers were killed.

The radio said that the concerned authorities in Israel are interested in clarifying whether Salah was acting alone or if he carried out the attack on the grounds of religious extremism. as described.

The members of the delegation also want to inquire about the Egyptian policeman's knowledge of the special emergency gap in the security fence that extends along the borders, especially since the Israeli army units deployed in the place were not aware of its existence.

Al-Quds.com published exclusively translated details of the operation that was carried out, and you can view it via the following link, by clicking on the word here .

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Thursday, that senior officials from the right-wing Likud Party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, voted yesterday evening, Wednesday, with the Israeli opposition, to choose the representative of the Judges Committee.

According to the newspaper, at least 4 of the party’s senior members voted for Karen Al-Harrar from the There is a Future party led by Yair Lapid, to be the representative of the Judges Committee for the opposition parties, which constituted a political blow to Netanyahu and his government parties after they failed to choose a representative for them and believed that the opposition It will fail because it does not have a majority.

The newspaper considered that this is the most important decision by senior members of the Likud party, and as a clear message from within it of their rejection of the measures taken by Netanyahu, especially with regard to the laws of the so-called "judicial reforms."

According to opposition sources, Knesset members Ze'ev Elkin and Helly Tropper of the National Camp, along with Merav Ben-Ari of Yesh Atid, coordinated with at least five members of the government coalition, namely Likud, to vote in favor of Harrar's appointment.

A source familiar with the decision to support Harrar said: "The farce led by Netanyahu, and the results of the vote should not surprise anyone after today."

In recent days, senior Likud officials have expressed their disgust with the "coup" plan or what is known as "judicial reforms" and the damage it caused to the party's public support. Netanyahu to back off and distance himself from Levin's competition to pursue it."

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Thursday, that it was decided to move a conference on Israeli attacks against Christians that was scheduled to be held tomorrow, Friday, in the hall of the Tower of David Museum in occupied Jerusalem, to another place in the Old City, due to pressure exerted by the city’s municipality affiliated with the Israeli authorities, on the management of the place. .

The Hebrew newspaper quoted several sources as saying that the office of the mayor of Jerusalem, Moshe Lion, threatened to dismiss the executive director of the museum if the conference was held there.

Lyon's office denied the reports and said there had been no threats.

The newspaper indicates that the conference will be held due to the increase in the number of attacks by settlers and Israeli police against Christians in Jerusalem, which included spitting, verbal abuse, physical violence, vandalism of graves and dissemination of hate messages.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to prevent his government ministers from going to Washington in order to hold official meetings with any of the American officials.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will have to meet his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, in the Belgian capital, Brussels, today, Thursday.

Netanyahu links the holding of meetings between his ministers and US officials to receiving an invitation from the White House to visit the United States, a long-awaited invitation since he became prime minister several months ago.

According to the Hebrew site, Gallant will discuss with Austin the Iranian threat, but it is not expected that he will focus on Israel's concerns about the nuclear agreement because Israel believes that the decision on this issue has already been taken in Washington, and therefore does not want to waste time during the meeting between the two ministers. On this issue, they are expected to talk about strengthening military cooperation and continuing joint exercises.

Gallant will also provide Austin with information about the growing Iranian interference in the region, including in Gaza and the West Bank, and the need to show American-Israeli power in order to send a message to the Iranians that both sides have a reliable military option, as well as the assertion of maintaining Israeli military superiority.

It is expected that Austin will ask Gallant to calm the situation in the Palestinian territories.

The official spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, confirmed last night that the United States will discuss with the Israeli authorities directly the issue of closing the investigation file regarding the circumstances of the martyrdom of the Palestinian American citizen Omar Asaad (79), who died after being detained by the Israeli occupation authorities in January. the second of 2022.

Miller said, in response to a question from Al-Quds.com correspondent, in his press conference, that Washington is seeking more information from the Israeli government after the Israeli army announced that no criminal charges would be brought against an officer and a soldier because of Asaad.

"What I will say is that, as we have stated previously on this case, we expected a thorough criminal investigation and full accountability," Miller said. "We have been clear that we are deeply concerned about the circumstances surrounding Omar al-Asaad's death and the need for such accountability."

“Israel itself has stated that the incident demonstrated a clear lapse of moral judgment and a failure to protect the sanctity of human life,” Miller added. “Since the tragic death of Mr. Al-Asaad, we have continued to discuss this disturbing incident with the Israeli government. We are aware of the outcome of the investigation and are currently seeking further information.” from the Israeli government on this matter.

Miller confirmed to our correspondent: "As I said, we are aware of this (about closing the investigation file) and we are seeking to obtain more information from the Israeli government, and we will talk to them directly about this matter."

At that time, the United States had expressed its concern about the Israeli army's report on the circumstances of his martyrdom.

Last December, a rights group called on the US State Department to cut funding to the notorious Israeli battalion by implementing the "Leahy Act," named after the Democratic Senator from Vermont, Patrick Leahy.

The call was made by Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN), which released a report on human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation army's Netzah Yehuda Brigade, a special unit of ultra-Orthodox Jewish soldiers.

The Leahy Act (or Leahy Amendments) are US human rights statutes that prohibit the State Department and the US Department of Defense from providing military assistance to units of foreign security forces that violate human rights with impunity. It is named after its main sponsor, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont).

In the process of implementing this law, US embassies, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and the appropriate regional office of the US State Department screen potential recipients of security assistance, and if a unit is found to be credibly implicated in a serious human rights violation, assistance is denied until action is taken. The government of the host country takes effective steps to bring responsible persons within the unit to justice. While the United States government does not publicly announce which foreign armed forces units have cut off assistance, press reports have indicated that the United States has legally cut off security forces and National Defense Forces units in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nigeria, Turkey, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Saint Lucia of assistance due to Leahy's Law, but excluded Israel.

Nablus – One Palestinian was killed and others were injured by Israeli military gunfire in an overnight raid in the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. 

The martyr was identified as Khalil Yahya Al-Anees from Ein Beit al-Ma' refugee camp. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, Al-Anees who was killed sustained a wound to the head. 

Israeli forces had sealed off Al-Muraij Street in order to storm the house of Osama Al-Tawil, a Palestinian prisoner who is one of the leaders of Lions' Den militant group, in preparation for demolition. Israel claims he was connected with the killing of a soldier in the northern West Bank in February. 

Violent confrontations erupted after Israeli troops stormed the city, with some Palestinians firing weapons toward them. 

The occupation forces used live and rubber bullets, as well as gas and stun grenades, to crackdown on Palestinians who resisted the raid. 

Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, said on Wednesday evening that what was published in the media about a truce proposed by Egypt to the Palestinian factions during the recent visit to Cairo, in exchange for projects and facilities, is unfounded news, and it is just rumors behind which hostile parties stand.

And Al-Arouri said in a televised interview on Al-Aqsa TV, which is affiliated with the "Hamas" movement, that the meetings in Egypt came within the framework of continuing consultations on the Palestinian issue and the region.

Al-Arouri added, "The talk about economic projects in Gaza in exchange for the armistice, we heard about it in the media, and perhaps hostile parties stand behind it. Hamas will not get out of the resistance equation in exchange for any economic or political projects, and Gaza will remain in the heart of active resistance."

He pointed out that the visit of the government delegation from Gaza to Cairo aims to discuss detailed government issues, and has nothing to do with rumors of a long truce.

He stated that the meeting with the leadership of the Islamic Jihad movement in Cairo was very important in terms of unifying the vision of the resistance and adjusting its rhythm to serve the interests of our people, stressing that the meeting was successful and achieved its goals, while we are in one trench. like he said.

Regarding the situation in the West Bank, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau said that the allegations of plans for Hamas to control the West Bank are empty propaganda aimed at raising the pace of internal conflict in the service of the occupation, pointing out that no one can control the Palestinian people except through popular legitimacy. like he said.

He believed that the results of the West Bank university elections are important because of the importance of the active and aware youth category in the Palestinian national equation, which is a clear indication of the general attitudes of our people. like he said.

Al-Arouri called on the "Fatah" movement for a unified national strategy that includes all paths of political, popular and armed resistance.

Al-Arouri pointed out that "Hamas" talked with the "Fatah" movement about a national strategy that includes supporting the political effort with the world in return for supporting and covering the resistance in all its forms.

And he indicated that the "Hamas" movement agrees with the "Fatah" movement in diagnosing the seriousness of the Palestinian situation, and this requires leadership decisions commensurate with the seriousness of the stage, indicating that experience has proven that political action alone did not achieve any results, and an honest review requires building a new national strategy that constitutes the comprehensive resistance.

Al-Arouri emphasized that Hamas agrees with all factions on the comprehensive resistance strategy, including political action and resistance, pointing out that Abu Mazen places his veto on the path of assembling Palestinian institutions in building a unified national strategy.

He said, "Hamas accepts the word of our people in the ballot box, and accepts political partnership with others, and we do not impose our opinion on our people. The movement has great struggle and clear popular legitimacy."

He considered that the international circumstance and the composition of the Israeli government constituted a great opportunity to unify the Palestinian action in accordance with the unified national strategy.

He reaffirmed the readiness of the "Hamas" movement and its readiness to hold student elections in all universities of the Gaza Strip on the basis of the full proportional representation law, explaining that his movement sponsors an atmosphere of complete freedom in Gaza for the work of the Palestinian factions, including the "Fatah" movement. like he said.

Al-Arouri said: "The Fatah movement is practicing its political and organizational work with full freedom in the Gaza Strip."

He emphasized that "Hamas" contributed to building the military wings of the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, referring to Hamas providing the Palestinian factions with weapons, sites and everything necessary to strengthen the resistance in the Strip.

Al-Arouri said, "Fatah youth in universities are resistance fighters, and we share with them the national concern in the West Bank."

He described "political arrest as patriotic shameful".

On the issue of prisoners, the deputy head of the Hamas political bureau said that if the administrative prisoners go on a hunger strike, their lives are in danger, and our people will unite in a battle behind them, stressing that the battle to defend the administrative prisoners will be a great national renaissance for our people.

Al-Arouri stressed that the case of the prisoner Walid Daqqa is a model that the occupation does not have an iota of morality and humanity. like he said.

Large Palestinian crowds mourned, this evening, Wednesday, the body of the martyr Ahmed Yaqoub Taha (39 years old) to his final resting place in the town of Bidya, west of Salfit.

The funeral procession of the martyr's body departed from the old emergency center in Salfit with a military funeral, to his house, where the family gave the last farewell look, before it was transferred to the city's great mosque to perform prayers on it, and the burial took place in the town's cemetery.

Taha was shot dead by the Israeli occupation forces on the twenty-seventh of last April near the village of Haris, west of Salfit, and the occupation authorities kept his body in their refrigerators, before handing him over last Sunday.

The Chinese News Agency (Xinhua) denied, on Wednesday, that it had published any information or news related to the health of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is on a visit to the Republic of China.

Imad Drimli, director of the agency's office in Palestine, confirmed in a press statement that the agency did not publish any news related to the health of President Abbas.

In a new political drama in the Israeli Knesset, opposition delegate Karen Elharar was elected this evening, Wednesday, to the Judges Selection Committee, after she received the support of 58 members.

This means that four of the deputies of the government coalition violated the factional discipline and voted in favor of it. As reported by the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

According to the committee, only 15 Knesset members backed Likudian Tali Gottlieb, who did not heed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand and did not withdraw her candidacy.

Another vote is expected in a few weeks to elect the coalition's delegate to the committee.

The coalition called on the opposition to stop issuing ultimatums and creating pretexts to torpedo the negotiations. A statement issued by the heads of the coalition stated that it is very important to reach an immediate consensus on the plan for judicial changes.

Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward a three-point proposal for the settlement of the Palestinian question during his talks with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing on Wednesday.

Xi stressed that the Palestinian question has remained unresolved for over half a century, causing great sufferings to the Palestinian people; justice must be done to Palestine as soon as possible.

First, the fundamental solution lies in the establishment of an independent state of Palestine that enjoys full sovereignty on the basis of the 1967 borders and with east Jerusalem as its capital, he said.

Second, Palestine's economic and livelihood needs should be met, and the international community needs to step up development assistance and humanitarian aid to Palestine, he said.

Third, it is important to keep to the right direction of peace talks. The historical status quo of the holy sites in Jerusalem should be respected, and excessive and provocative words and actions should be avoided. A large-scale, more authoritative and more influential international peace conference should be convened so as to create conditions for the resumption of peace talks and contribute tangible efforts to help Palestine and Israel live in peace, he said.

"China stands ready to play a positive role to assist Palestine in achieving internal reconciliation and promote peace talks," Xi said. 

Israeli defence exports hit an all-time high of $12.5 billion last year, with Arab countries that recently established ties accounting for nearly a quarter of purchase contracts, officials said Wednesday.

The defence ministry, which oversees and approves the exports of Israel's defence industries, said one quarter of deals were for drone systems, with "missiles, rockets and air defence systems" making up another 19 percent.

Ministry figures show total exports have doubled over the past nine years.

A breakdown of the regions to which the goods are exported showed a leap among Abraham Accords countries from $853 million (nine percent) in 2021 to $2.96 billion (24 percent) in 2022.

The US-brokered Abraham Accords from 2020 saw Israel normalise ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.

The defence ministry would not provide further details.

"Global instability increases the demand for Israeli air defence systems, drones, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and missiles, and we continually work to preserve our capabilities and strengthen them," defence ministry director general Eyal Zamir said in a statement.

The German parliament was set to approve a $4.3 billion deal later Wednesday to purchase Israel's Arrow 3 air defence system, as the country moves to bolster its defences following Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.

China's President Xi Jinping told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing on Wednesday that "China supports Palestine to become a full member state of the United Nations," according to the official Chinese broadcaster CCTV.

He added that "the main way out for the Palestinian cause lies in the establishment of an independent Palestinian state."

Abbas is currently in Beijing for his fifth official visit to China, which will last until Friday.

The Chinese president told his Palestinian counterpart at a reception that China "is ready to strengthen coordination and cooperation with the Palestinian side, in the face of a century of global changes and new developments in the situation in the Middle East."

"Today, we will jointly announce the establishment of a strategic partnership between China and Palestine, which will mark an important milestone in the history of bilateral relations," Xi added.

Abbas will then hold talks with other senior Chinese leaders, including prime minister Li Qiang.

Beijing has sought to strengthen its foothold in the Middle East, which has caused alarm bells in Washington.

In April, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang informed his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts in separate phone calls of China's readiness to broker a peace agreement between the two sides.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Palestinian delegation and China signed cooperation agreements in Beijing on Wednesday during a meeting between President Mahmoud Abbas and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

The delegation accompanying President Abbas signed several agreements with the Chinese side, including a twinning agreement between Ramallah and Wuhan, an agreement to advance the teaching of Chinese language in Palestinian schools, a visa exemption for diplomatic passports, and a project for China to complete the paving of roads in Ramallah. 

There was also an agreement to establish technical delegations for the four projects.

Today, Wednesday afternoon, a special force from the Israeli occupation army kidnapped a liberated prisoner from Jenin camp.

Witnesses told Al-Quds.com that an Israeli special force kidnapped the released prisoner, Mujahid Mahmoud Abu Khalifa, from Al-Anbar Street, which connects Haifa Street and Wadi Burqin.

The occupation claimed that he is an activist in the Hamas movement.

At least 59 people died in a migrant boat capsize overnight Tuesday-Wednesday off the Peloponnese peninsula in southwestern Greece, according to the latest toll from the Coast Guard.

The boat, which was carrying "hundreds" of migrants, capsized 47 nautical miles from the Greek coast in international waters, according to a source in the Greek Ministry of Immigrants.

During the massive rescue operation that began early Wednesday morning, 104 people were rescued, including four who were taken to hospital in Kalamata, a town in the southern Peloponnese.

The Greek coast guard said that when the boat sank, none of the people on board, whose nationality has not been revealed, had a lifejacket.

A statement from Greek port authorities said the boat was first spotted on Tuesday afternoon from a Frontex plane, the European border control agency, but that the migrants on board "refused any help".

In addition to the port police patrol boats, a Greek Navy frigate, an Air Force plane and helicopter, and six boats sailing in the area participated in the rescue operation.

According to preliminary information, the boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy has sailed.

On the European Union's external border in the Mediterranean, Greece is a regular corridor for many seeking to migrate to the EU from neighboring Turkey.

Many drownings occur in the Aegean Sea, while Greece is regularly accused by NGOs and the media of sending back migrants seeking asylum to the European Union.

Besides this route, migrants also try to pass directly to Italy by crossing the Mediterranean Sea south of the Peloponnese peninsula or Crete.

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.