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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.