North Korea warned the United Nations on Tuesday that the Korean Peninsula faces the risk of a nuclear war erupting, blaming what it described as hostility from the United States.

"The military and security situation on the Korean Peninsula and its environs is being pushed further to the brink of a nuclear war," North Korea's delegate to the United Nations, Kim Song, told the UN General Assembly.

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the Dheisheh camp, south of Bethlehem.

Local sources reported that a special Israeli unit, "Musta'ariboun," arrested the young man, Muhammad Fares Fararja (26 years old), while he was in front of the main entrance to the camp, on the Jerusalem-Hebron Street.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fears that the eastern border with Jordan will turn into a new route for the infiltration of refugees, especially African ones, and therefore he is seeking to build a new wall that will completely close the long border.

According to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, Netanyahu warned his ministers during the last session of the Israeli government weeks ago, that if the eastern border is not completely closed, there will be no Jewish state.

Netanyahu gave his ministers an example of what happened in Cyprus, where he said 7 percent of its population were Muslims.

He said: We would have been in a situation similar to theirs had it not been for the decision to close our southern and northern borders in the face of infiltrators.

He pointed out that the majority of African countries live in a state of extreme poverty and famine, and their residents flee to European and other countries, and that there are many residents of Arab countries seeking asylum in various countries of the world.

He said: Since Israel possesses all the capabilities to be a country that enchants these infiltrators, and is close and accessible...
"The eastern border is so long and less secure, it may become the next port through which intruders will involuntarily flow."

He pointed out that “Israel is one of the few countries that controls its borders almost completely,” he said. Adding: “We have a border on one side that has not yet been dealt with in terms of fencing, which is the eastern border, and we will have to close it as well.”

A number of citizens were injured, on Tuesday evening, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ suppression of a march on the eastern border of the cities of Gaza and Rafah.

Two young men were injured by live bullets east of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

While a number of others suffered from suffocation due to the occupation forces firing heavy tear gas bombs at the young men.

Israeli drones bombed a resistance observation point east of the city of Rafah, without causing casualties.

On Tuesday evening, an Israeli special force kidnapped a young man after raiding his family’s home in Nablus.

According to local sources, this force stormed a house in the Fatayer area, and arrested the young man, Nasser Al-Sukari, before quickly withdrawing from the area.

Statements by Saudi and Israeli officials suggested that a normalization agreement between their countries was imminent, but political, security and diplomatic obstacles still constitute a barrier to this historic step in the Middle East.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of the Kingdom, said in an interview last week with Fox News that the talks are getting closer every day to achieving results that could rearrange the cards in the region.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly that the two countries are on the cusp of a "historic peace." US President Joe Biden is also looking forward to reaching an agreement before he gets busy with next year's presidential elections, according to officials familiar with the talks.

The following are questions and answers that address the possibilities of reaching an agreement:

In a meeting with Biden in New York last week, Netanyahu said that “such a peace would go a long way toward ending the Arab-Israeli conflict.” This would also represent a major political victory for a prime minister facing corruption accusations at home and protests against judicial reform plans.
Riyadh has always linked the issue of normalizing its relations with Israel to the Palestinian issue. In 2020, under American sponsorship, normalization agreements were concluded between Israel, Morocco, the UAE, and Bahrain, which the Palestinians considered “treason.”

Last year, Saudi officials presented to Washington their conditions for taking a similar step, which include security guarantees and assistance in building a civilian nuclear program and the ability to enrich uranium.
It seems that Biden is excited about the prospect of achieving a major foreign policy achievement that could help stabilize the Middle East and reduce the threat posed by Iran, before the upcoming US elections.

Former American diplomat Dennis Ross believes that the Biden team is also motivated by the desire to reaffirm Washington's influence in the region where China has achieved progress.
Ross, a former Middle East peace envoy who currently works as a researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, says, “Saudi demands from the (US) administration are great, but it is clear that the administration (...) is ready to try to reach a result.”

The New York Times reported last week that American officials are looking into a “mutual defense treaty” with Saudi Arabia similar to existing agreements with Japan and South Korea, but noted that this “will certainly raise strong objections in Congress.”

It is still unclear what form the potential security agreement between Washington and Riyadh will take.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies research believes that Washington should consider classifying Riyadh as a “major defense partner” or a “major non-NATO ally,” so that the same obligations are not imposed on it towards its allies in NATO.

Helping build a nuclear program would also raise questions among American lawmakers, noting that press reports confirm Israel's rejection of this request.

Riyadh says that its program will be peaceful, although Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in his interview with Fox News, repeated the Kingdom’s position that if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, Riyadh must obtain it as well.

Given the many criticisms of the Kingdom's human rights record, any deal that deepens US relations with Saudi Arabia may face objections within the United States.

“U.S. lawmakers should never allow a security agreement that commits the U.S. military to shedding blood to protect a brutal dictatorship,” said Abdullah Al-Awda, Saudi director of the Washington-based Freedom Initiative.

Saudi Arabia has long said that it will not establish relations with Israel without a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In August, the Kingdom appointed its first non-resident ambassador to the Palestinian territories. Today he is on a visit to the Palestinian territories.

Speaking to Fox News, Prince Mohammed bin Salman confirmed that the Palestinian issue is “important” for Riyadh, adding, “We hope that it will lead to a result that makes life easier for the Palestinians and allows Israel to play a role in the Middle East.”

It is unclear whether Netanyahu can make effective concessions while heading a government that Biden described as “extremist.”

"This will be a difficult test," Ross says, adding, "I don't know if it's possible."
Persuading Saudi Arabia to establish relations with Israel would provide cover for countries that have joined the normalization agreements or are considering such a step. However, hostility towards Israel is deeply rooted in countries in the region.

Reports last month that Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush met with her Israeli counterpart sparked protests that led to her dismissal.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose country has influence in several Arab countries, said in New York that Saudi Arabia's normalization of its relations with Israel would constitute a betrayal of the Palestinian cause.

Analyst Hisham Al-Ghannam wrote this month in the Saudi magazine Al-Majalla that there is no doubt that all considerations related to the Palestinians are on the minds of Saudi leaders.

He considered that "establishing diplomatic relations between the Kingdom and Israel before (the latter) commits to major concessions to the Palestinians does not provide added value to Saudi security and national interests."

The Minister of Tourism in the Israeli government, Haim Katz, heads the first official delegation from Tel Aviv to Riyadh, to participate in an international conference hosted by Saudi Arabia.

According to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, Katz, accompanied by a large delegation from his ministry, left Tel Aviv via Ben Gurion Airport, heading to Riyadh.

According to the channel, the Israeli delegation will participate in the United Nations Tourism Organization conference, which will last for two days.

She indicated that Katz will meet with officials from various countries, including Arab countries.

At its meeting held in Doha, today, Tuesday, the Council of Ministers of Culture of the Islamic World chose the Palestinian city of Hebron as the capital of Islamic culture for the year 2026.

This came after the meeting devoted to discussing the renewal of the cultural reality in the Islamic reality at the summit of culture ministers hosted by Doha.

The government had commissioned the Ministry of Culture two years ago to form a national committee headed by Minister of Culture Atef Abu Saif to prepare the file for nominating Hebron as the Capital of Islamic Culture for the year 2026, in order to shed light on the attempts to Judaize the city, steal its heritage and antiquities, and change its Arab-Islamic identity.

Abu Saif said that making such a decision is of great importance because it means that the Islamic world, considering Hebron the capital of Islamic culture for the year 2026, will focus its efforts on cultural work in the Holy City, and through this, programs, plans and visions will be presented that strengthen Islamic identity in the city and combat all policies of erasure. And the removal, replacement, and replacement that the occupation authorities are trying to establish in this city, which witnessed important historical and national events in the history of our Palestinian consciousness and the history of the Arab and Islamic nations.

Abu Saif added: “We have a great responsibility to present what is happening in Hebron to the Islamic world to tell them a clear message that preserving the holy places requires effort from all of us and strong interventions in order to preserve the Palestinian identity in this city.”

It is noteworthy that Jerusalem was the capital of Islamic culture in 2019 and the capital of Arab culture in 2009, and Bethlehem was the capital of Arab culture in 2020.

On Tuesday evening, Israeli occupation forces stormed the Shuafat refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources said that the occupation forces stormed the camp and fired heavy tear gas bombs towards citizens' homes.

She added that the occupation forces attacked citizens, but no injuries were reported.

Today (Tuesday), Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, made an urgent appeal to double the funding and investments allocated to fill the food gap in the Arab region.

During the Arab ministerial meeting, which he called to discuss "Arab food security and financing" in the presence of Arab agricultural ministers and representatives of financial institutions, unions and the private sector, Aboul Gheit stressed the importance of food security as an integral part of Arab national security.

He pointed to the challenges facing Arab food security, especially after the Corona pandemic revealed the danger of relying on global supply chains, and after the war in Ukraine demonstrated the necessity of preparing for a decline in imports, especially of grains.

The Secretary-General warned of the increasing food gap, currently estimated at more than 100 million tons of food products, affected by a number of interrelated and complex factors, including the increasing population of the Arab world and the decline in rainfall rates in all parts of the Arab world due to climate change, in addition to other influential factors.

Aboul Gheit reviewed the efforts of the League of Arab States to enhance Arab food security, as it prepared a number of strategies and plans related to Arab food security, the latest of which was included in the outcomes of the 2022 Algiers Summit, before adding that “the obstacle of lack of funding prevented the implementation of these Arab plans and strategies.”

He stressed the speed of dealing with these challenges facing Arab food security, and called for activating an Arab financing mechanism that guarantees a permanent flow of capital and encourages investment in sustainable projects that aim to raise Arab capabilities in the fields of clean energy and smart sustainable agriculture.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the town of Silwan, south of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the young man, Jihad Al-Rajabi, after storming his house, and referred him for investigation.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces closed the Hamra and Tayasir checkpoints in the northern Jordan Valley from all directions.

Local sources reported that the occupation closed the two checkpoints in front of Palestinian citizens from all directions, as part of the policy of collective punishment pursued by the occupation authorities against Palestinian citizens.

The two military checkpoints connect the cities of the West Bank to the northern, central, and southern Jordan Valley, and closing them hinders the movement of citizens.

The occupation also tightened its military measures at the Zaatara military checkpoint south of Nablus, and a stifling crisis occurred due to the inspection of some vehicles.

The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Palestine and its Consul General in Jerusalem, Nayef Al-Sudairi, affirmed the Kingdom’s adherence to the Arab Peace Initiative as a basis for resolving the Palestinian issue, which is the basic point in any upcoming agreement.

Al-Sudairi expressed to reporters, after his meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, Riyad Al-Maliki, at the Ministry’s headquarters, Ramallah, today, Tuesday, his happiness for his presence in Palestine, and for his meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas, on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and the Crown Prince, Prime Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Al-Sudairi said that he handed over a copy of his credentials as ambassador to Palestine and consul general of Saudi Arabia in Jerusalem, stressing that the Kingdom intends to open a consulate in East Jerusalem.

Al-Sudairi pointed to the statements of the Saudi Crown Prince last week, “in which he clearly indicated his great interest in the Palestinian issue and the Palestinian people.”

He also referred to statements also made by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, “regarding the importance of the Palestinian issue and its solution on the basis of the two-state solution leading to the establishment of the State of Palestine.”

Al-Sudairi stressed the depth of Saudi-Palestinian relations, which began during the era of the late King Abdulaziz Al Saud, to reach what it reached during the era of King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, stressing their keenness to develop them.

For his part, Al-Maliki told reporters, “His Excellency the Saudi Ambassador to Palestine received the Consul General in Jerusalem, who is visiting Palestine as a representative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and His Highness the Crown Prince,” describing the Saudi ambassador’s visit as “a historic moment in the distinguished relations between the two countries.”

He added: We are very happy with the presence of the Saudi ambassador in his second country, Palestine, and we believe that this step by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Crown Prince brings us very close as two countries, two peoples and leaders, and reflects the depth of the historical relations between them.

Al-Maliki considered the presence of the Saudi ambassador in Palestine "reflects the development of bilateral relations and the great interest of the leadership of the two countries."

He said: We welcome the Saudi ambassador to Palestine, and we are ready to begin work from the moment to develop relations between the two countries, revealing the soon return of the Saudi ambassador to Palestine “to begin his work to develop relations between the two countries, as it is a major responsibility, and to work for his basic mission, which is to preserve the Palestinian cause.” The central issue for all Arabs, and certainly for Saudi Arabia.”

The Swedish police opened an investigation into an intentional act, after a fire Monday destroyed a mosque in Eskilstuna in the center of the country.

Police said on their website on Tuesday: “The investigation into the fire is continuing.

The police will interview witnesses and check whether there are surveillance cameras in the area.”

During midday on Monday, a fire broke out in a mosque in the town of Eskilstuna, located about 100 kilometers west of Stockholm, without causing any casualties, according to a spokesman for the police investigating the incident, told Agence France-Presse. No one has been arrested yet.

"The mosque was almost completely destroyed and nothing can be repaired," Anas Dinesh, the mosque's spokesman, told AFP. According to emergency services, the fire engulfed the main building, causing the roof to collapse.

Dinesh added, "Many children, women and men ran to the site crying. I have never seen so many people crying like this," explaining that everyone asked the same questions: "What happened, who did it?"

Dinesh refers to a year that included many acts of violence against the mosque, and also against his family. "But it is still too early to draw conclusions, and we have to wait for the police to do their job," he said.

The police confirmed that there are various hypotheses on the cause of the fire, without providing further details.

Between 15,000 and 20,000 Muslims live in Eskilstuna, while the city's population is about 108,000 people.

The commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Viktor Sokolov, who the Ukrainian army announced Monday that it had killed last week, appeared in photos distributed by the Russian Ministry of Defense on Tuesday.

The official is pictured in military uniform on a large screen alongside other senior military officials as they participate in a video meeting chaired by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

A statement that did not mention the name of the official indicated that the meeting took place on Tuesday. The Ukrainian army announced on Monday that it had killed the commander of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea in a strike on Friday on the naval headquarters in Sebastopol on the Crimean peninsula.

Pakistani authorities were preparing on Monday to move former prime minister Imran Khan (pictured) to a prison with better facilities after a court order, his party said.

His legal team and party had been pleading with several courts to issue orders for Khan to be shifted to Adyala Jail in garrison city of Rawalpindi, which they argued was more appropriate for a former premier.

“Arrangements are taking place,” Khan’s close aide Zulfikar Bukhari said in a message to journalists, referring to preparations to move the former premier after Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Panjutha, said a high court in the capital had ordered the move.

Panjutha later wrote on social media platform X that Khan had been moved to the new prison but then deleted that post. Khan has been detained in a low-key, colonial era prison in the northwestern Attock district that lacked facilities like attached bathroom and television and made it harder for family and friends to visit or send newspapers, books or food.

The former prime minister has been in jail since early August after being controversially convicted on hotly disputed corruption charges. The judge cantered to Britain for a workshop after announcing a verdict without hearing the defense witnesses.

A court suspended his three year prison term, but his release on bail did not happen as authorities charged him in another case related to “leaking state secrets”.

The Intercept, an American news outlet known for its investigative mien, last month published the full contents of the cipher at the heart of the case, which appeared to strongly back Khan’s claim of US involvement in his removal from power by orchestrating a no-confidence vote in the parliament for not siding with Washington in the Ukraine war.

Khan says the charges are designed to stop him running in an election early next year, an allegation the authorities deny. From moving as a free citizen until last year, he has been charged in over 150 cases. Most opinion polls this year give him an edge over his rivals by a country mile, but he has been barred from contesting after the court verdict last month.

The Prisoners' Club said on Tuesday, "Since the beginning of this year, the occupation authorities have escalated the arrest of the wounded, whether those who were shot during their arrest, or before the arrest, as the number of wounded who were subjected to arrest reached about (60) wounded, including children and women, And previously wounded, and these numbers are higher compared to the number of wounded during the past year.”

The Prisoner's Club explained that the occupation carried out systematic acts of abuse against the wounded, including attacks on them during their arrest, without the slightest consideration for their health conditions, and even turned their injuries into a tool to torture them by practicing the crime of medical negligence (slow killing), and they deliberately continued to restrain them during... The first moments of arrest, and even after they were transferred to hospitals, and the majority of them were subjected to interrogation while they were tied up inside the hospitals, in addition to the orders prohibiting them from meeting with a lawyer that were issued against some of them.

In this context, the Prisoner's Club called on all international human rights institutions to seek serious and real intervention in the crimes that the occupation continues to carry out against prisoners and detainees, including the wounded, and to ensure the provision of the necessary treatment for them, and to stop the crime of medical negligence (slow killing) that they face in the occupation prisons.

The Saudi ambassador to Jordan and the non-resident ambassador of Riyadh to the Palestinian territories, Nayef bin Bandar Al-Sudairi, published a post on “X” in which he greeted the Saudi king and his crown prince from what he described as “beloved Palestine.”

Al-Sudairi’s post included pictures of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The Saudi ambassador wrote in his post: “From the beloved state of Palestine, the land of Canaan, best regards.”

Al-Sudairi continued, saying that the greeting is “combined with the love of My Lord, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and His Highness, the Crown Prince,” as he put it.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned the attack that led to the killing of two Bahraini soldiers on its border with Yemen.

Manama announced on Monday that a Bahraini officer and soldier were killed in an attack launched by Houthi drones.

The Kingdom of Bahrain, which neighbors Saudi Arabia, has been a member of the military coalition led by Riyadh since 2015 in support of the Yemeni government against the Houthi rebels supported by Iran.

The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed “the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s condemnation and denunciation of the treacherous attack on the defense force of the sister Kingdom of Bahrain,” the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday.

The Saudi authorities did not identify the perpetrators of this attack, which came a few days after discussions in Riyadh with Houthi officials, which both parties described as “positive.”

Likewise, the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, headquartered in Jeddah, condemned the “Houthi drone attack.”

The organization's Secretary-General, Hussein Ibrahim Taha, stressed that "such provocative actions are not consistent with the positive efforts being made to end the crisis in Yemen."

The Houthis did not comment on the attack.

The conflict in Yemen has caused the death and injury of hundreds of thousands and the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the United Nations.

Yemen, which is the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula and which was devastated by years of war, has witnessed relative calm since the truce entered into force in April 2022 under the auspices of the United Nations, although it was not officially extended when its term expired in October of the year. the past.

Today, Tuesday, a group of settlers destroyed a house under construction in the town of Al-Auja, north of Jericho.

According to local sources, the settlers attacked the 70-square-meter residence of citizen Abdul Qader Masharqa in an area classified as A, south of the town of Al-Auja, and destroyed it and broke the trees around it.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog warned on Tuesday of the state of division that the Jewish community has witnessed recently, especially after the events that Tel Aviv witnessed by separating the sexes in Yom Kippur prayers during the past two days.

Herzog said at a ceremony commemorating the Yom Kippur War, “Internal disputes are the most dangerous of all... Only yesterday we saw in the largest Hebrew city a painful example of how internal conflict escalates and worsens.”

He expressed his sadness at seeing Israelis fighting on a day that was an example of unity. According to him.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “The people, secular and religious, left and right, Jews and non-Jews, have all proven that what we have in common is greater than what divides us.”

He added: "I am sure that even today what we have in common will overcome what divides us."

He continued: "In difficult moments, we all unite. On the day we find ourselves in a new round of fighting, we are all in one row against our enemies."

Netanyahu claimed that many Middle Eastern countries want peace with Israel... Expanding the circle of peace is a historic opportunity and we are committed to it with all our might while preserving the vital interests of our country.”

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested one of the guards of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque.

According to local sources, these forces arrested Al-Aqsa guard, Shaher Al-Razem, while he was at his workplace near the Bab Al-Rahma prayer hall.

An official Saudi delegation, headed by the non-resident ambassador to the Palestinian territories, Nayef Al-Sudairi, arrived in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a Palestinian official confirmed to Agence France-Presse.

The acting governor of Jericho, Yusra Sweiti, explained to Agence France-Presse that "the Saudi delegation arrived in the Palestinian territories."

The visit of the delegation, which arrived via the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge, which is controlled by Israel, is the first since the signing of the historic Oslo Accords.

It comes in conjunction with American efforts to normalize relations between Riyadh and the Hebrew state.

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the Palestine Monetary Authority issued the preliminary results of the international investment position and external debt of Palestine as they stand at the end of the second quarter of 2023, as part of the periodic release of the international investment position and external debt statistics for Palestine, which represents a continuation of the joint efforts undertaken by the two institutions.

These results indicate that the disparity between the stocks of investments in the Palestinian economy employed outside Palestine and the stocks of foreign investments employed in the Palestinian economy (foreign assets - foreign liabilities) is still large, with a value of 3,397 million US dollars, an increase of 2% compared to the previous quarter.

58% of the total balances of external assets of the Palestinian economy are currency and deposits at the end of the second quarter of 2023, due to the lack of a Palestinian national currency.

In this context, the results indicate that the total stocks of the Palestinian economy’s assets invested abroad amounted to 9,514 million US dollars, distributed between 3% foreign direct investment, 17% portfolio investments, 67% other investments (the most important of which are currency and deposits), and 13% reserve assets. . At the sectoral level, the banking sector’s foreign investments (balances abroad, cash on hand, and portfolio investments abroad) constituted 66% of the total foreign assets of the Palestinian economy.

53% of the total stocks of foreign liabilities (commitments) on the Palestinian economy at the end of the second quarter 2023 are foreign direct investment. In contrast, the total stocks of foreign liabilities (commitments) on the Palestinian economy (stocks of non-residents invested in Palestine) amounted to about 6,117 million US dollars, distributed Between direct foreign investment by 53%, portfolio investments by 13%, and other investments (the most important of which are loans and deposits from abroad) by about 34%. At the sectoral level, foreign investments in the banking sector constituted about 35% of the total foreign liabilities on the Palestinian economy.

The government's external debt stock stabilized at about US$1.3 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2023.

Preliminary results indicated that the total balance of external debt on the Palestinian economic sectors amounted to approximately 2,109 million US dollars at the end of the second quarter of 2023, a decrease of 3% compared to the previous quarter. It was distributed between debt to the government sector at a rate of 62%, the banking sector at a rate of 35% (deposits of non-residents in banks operating in Palestine), and other sectors (non-banking financial companies, non-financial companies, private institutions, and households) at a rate of 2%, and borrowing between... Affiliate subsidiaries 1%.

It should be noted that the International Investment Position represents a record of the investment stocks of residents of Palestine (individuals, companies, and government) invested abroad under the name (assets) on the one hand, and the investment stocks owned by residents outside Palestine (individuals, companies, and governments) invested in Palestine under the name (liabilities) on the one hand. On the other hand. These assets and liabilities are divided (based on the “Guide for Preparing the Balance of Payments,” fifth edition, issued by the International Monetary Fund in 1993) into direct investment (investment of 10% or more of the capital of a non-resident enterprise), and portfolio investments (investment of less than 10% of the capital of a non-resident enterprise). value in addition to investment in bonds), other investments (trade credit balances, loans, currency, deposits and any other assets or liabilities), in addition to reserve assets, which are defined as the balances held by central banks/monetary authorities to address imbalances in the balance of payments, which It falls under the assets side only.

As for external debt, it represents a record of debt stocks owed by sectors of the Palestinian economy to non-residents, including loans from non-residents, deposits of non-residents placed in the banking sector in Palestine, Palestinian bonds purchased by non-residents, and debt transactions that take place between non-resident companies and those Subsidiaries and affiliates in Palestine, and any other obligations on the Palestinian economy other than those mentioned. External debt data is obtained by liabilities in the international investment position system (debt items), based on the External Debt Statistics Manual issued by the International Monetary Fund in 2003, which is consistent with the Balance of Payments Manual, fifth edition.

Our region and the world are witnessing rapid developments, whether in terms of wars and deteriorating conditions or in terms of attempts to achieve peace in the region, but it seems that this peace, if achieved, will be incomplete due to the Israeli refusal to establish an independent Palestinian state with Holy Jerusalem as its capital and content with providing some economic and financial aid, i.e. A return only to economic peace, or what Netanyahu and the leaders of his government call peace in exchange for peace, and without the Palestinians obtaining a state.

These rapid developments force the Palestinian side to exploit them for the benefit of the cause of our people and for the sake of ending the occupation and establishing the Palestinian state, and not be satisfied with continuing to present demands to either the United Nations or the international community, many of whose forces and countries are fighting for the sake of creating a multipolar international community and ending American and colonial West hegemony over the world. This hegemony, which deals with Arab issues, most notably the Palestinian issue, according to two criteria when it comes to the occupying state, which has encouraged this state to continue its rejection of peace, to continue settlement and aggression, and to consider the Palestinian land as Jewish, and that only the Jews have the right to settle in it and not to abide by the decisions of international legitimacy to withdraw from it. As occupied Palestinian territories.

The countries that seek to make the world multipolar are concerned with ending wars, disputes and conflicts, which is the duty of the Palestinian side to exploit in order to end the occupation and restore the Palestinian people to their full inalienable national rights to return, self-determination and establishing an independent state with Holy Jerusalem as its capital.

Without broad Palestinian action at all levels, the situation will remain as it is and without taking advantage of the opportunity of rapid developments, in addition to the increase of countries and peoples that have revealed the truth about the occupying state that it practices racial discrimination against our people and oppresses them, which has increased the number of countries and peoples supporting the right to self-determination. For our people to establish their independent state.

In order for the Palestinian movement to be effective, it is necessary to restore Palestinian national unity and end the destructive division that has caused the greatest harm to our people and their national cause. Also, stopping betting on the possibility of achieving peace with the occupying state and the two-state solution, which has become far-fetched, and working according to a unified work program and a vision different from what is happening now, will lead to the failure of the occupation’s plans to resolve the conflict in its favor, and eliminate and liquidate the issue. On the contrary, unity The joint work program and the development of a future and interim strategy are the basis for benefiting from the rapid developments and achieving the full national goals of our people.

The Fatah Revolutionary Council decided today, Tuesday, to hold the movement’s eighth general conference on December 17, 2023.

Tayseer Nasrallah, a member of the Revolutionary Council, said in statements to the official “Voice of Palestine” radio, “The Council is in permanent and continuous session, to follow up on all the files that it approved in its last session, in addition to following up on what is happening inside the Palestinian territories in terms of the ongoing crimes of the Israeli occupation and its settlers against our people.” "Palestinian."

He pointed out that the preparatory committee will hold its meeting next week with all its members to review all the preparations made by the subcommittees, and review all the reports that will come from these committees, in addition to another session that will be held for the Revolutionary Council on the sixteenth of next November to review the proceedings of the conference. The eighth of the Fatah Revolutionary Council on the seventeenth of next December.

Nasrallah said: "The Fatah movement has great concern as a result of the shootings that are taking place on the institutions of the authority and the security services, and the incidents of shootings and attacks on citizens or officials in the municipalities of Hebron, or other attacks."

He added: "This is against the law, and it is what the Fatah movement seeks with all its capabilities in order to maintain order and for the law to prevail among the Palestinian people."

The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said, on Tuesday, that the Israeli army, thanks to the intelligence information it was obtaining from the General Security Agency, “Shin Bet”, which was transmitted quickly, with the improvement and intensification of cooperation between the two sides, led to the implementation of 172 arrests of wanted Palestinians during the year 2023, and it was The vast majority of them are successful.

According to the newspaper, in January of this year, 26 operations were carried out in which all the wanted targets were arrested, and in February 18 similar operations were carried out and were successful, and in other successive months 24, 12, 27, and 34 were carried out. 22 and 9, similar operations.

The newspaper claimed that these operations were focused and aimed at closing circles related to carrying out attacks or planning attacks that were on their way to being implemented.

The newspaper says: The process of transmitting intelligence information has improved significantly, and what used to take about 40 minutes last year, now takes about a minute, which helps in arresting wanted persons who are being pursued.

A senior security official said that intelligence information goes directly to soldiers in the field using technological means, and all they have to do is arrest the wanted person.

He added: Intelligence has become very sophisticated, more details about targets are passed on more quickly, we see successes, and we are able to arrest them in the place suitable for us. like he said.

He continued: Intelligence cooperation between forces has improved greatly, and in the past, it would take us perhaps 40 minutes to transmit accurate information to a soldier in the field, but today, within a minute or so, the information reaches the soldier in the field in detail with a lot of information. And the data, and all he has to do is stop the terrorist. And it worked. like he said.

The newspaper pointed out that the Israeli army, in cooperation with the Shin Bet, is currently focusing its operations on pursuing the perpetrators of the attacks and those who have not been arrested, including the perpetrator of the Hawara operation that led to the killing of settlers, another operation near the town that led to the injury of settlers, and a shooting operation near Tulkarm that led to the death of a settler.

The operations focus mainly on the northern West Bank, which witnessed a series of shooting operations, which prompted the Israeli army to resume its operations in the Jenin camp despite the attempts of the Palestinian Authority to move against the armed cells there.

A senior Israeli officer said that the aim of these operations is not only to chase, but to create a state of deterrence, and therefore large-scale arrests are carried out, and not only the targeted wanted persons.

The newspaper says that the offensive activity does not come out of nowhere, but rather due to the increase in shooting operations that have increased this year and which arouse anger among the settlers who are demanding the restoration of checkpoints and inspections at the entrances to Palestinian cities and villages.

Today, Tuesday, two press institutions called for the largest practical local, Arab and international campaign on the ground to expose the occupation’s practices against journalists and to provide and strengthen their steadfastness and provide protection for them during their press coverage in the field, especially since the majority of Palestinian press crews do not possess the most basic protective tools such as protective vests and helmets. Or armored cars for transportation.

The Journalists Support Committee called on the national committee charged with following up on the International Criminal Court’s file regarding the occupation’s violation of the rights of journalists to take urgent action in foreign institutions.

It said: “We urge journalists, human rights activists, and social media activists to monitor and document in word, image, and video all violations in order to prepare a comprehensive file so that organizations and centers defending media freedom and human rights can file complaints before international courts to prosecute and try criminals and aggressors.”

The Journalists Support Committee confirmed that the crimes committed by the occupation against the media are expected from the frameworks that protect the freedom of the press, media, publishing and printing to prosecute the Israeli authorities, and also require the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (No. 2222), which guarantees the protection of journalists.

It called on international and human rights institutions to pressure the release of journalists detained in occupation prisons, and to intervene in order to stop the policy of arresting and detaining journalists while performing their journalistic duty.

The Journalist Support Committee warned of the danger of the Israeli government’s pressure on the management of social media platforms to fight Palestinian content and violate the rules of international law for freedom of opinion and expression, by imposing unjust restrictions on Palestinian content, which it uses as a tool to combat the Palestinian narrative. The Journalist Support Committee report recorded Journalists (102) cases of violation of the Palestinian content of journalists, media professionals, and their news websites.

In another statement, the Palestinian Media Forum said, “The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian Journalist comes in the wake of the Authority’s security violations against media knights, the most recent of which was the arrest of journalist Tariq Al-Sukji by the Preventive Security Service, and this was preceded by the exposure of journalist Jarrah Khalaf, a Quds Network correspondent in, Jenin was beaten and ghosted, the journalist Hatem Hamdan was arrested from Al-Bireh, and the journalist Muhammad Shusha was detained because of a post on his personal Facebook page during the current month, which contradicts the role sought from the Palestinian Authority in ensuring freedom of journalistic work.”

It stressed that we must strive diligently to try and hold the leaders of the Israeli occupation accountable for their crimes against journalists and their continued violations of freedom of opinion and expression, and to ensure that the Israeli occupation adheres to Article 79 of the Additional Protocol annexed to the 1949 Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians in Military Conflicts, which stipulates that civilian journalists who perform their duties in areas of armed conflict They must be respected and treated as civilians, and protected from every form of deliberate attack.

The Palestinian Media Forum called for intensifying international solidarity with the Palestinian journalist, and translating it into programs of work, support and support for journalists in various fields.

Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates described as shocking facts in the “OCHA” report as a result of the absence of international will to impose deterrent sanctions on the occupying state.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates welcomes the recent report issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA), which summarizes the scene of violations and crimes committed by the occupation forces, settler militias, and their organized and armed terrorist elements against Palestinian citizens, their land, homes, property, and sanctities, and which highlights the crime of heinous and widespread ethnic cleansing against Bedouin communities in the occupied Palestinian territory, of which approximately 17 communities were displaced and expelled, either completely, or partially , through racist colonial measures and procedures that reflect the distribution and integration of roles between the occupation forces and the settler militias to achieve the broadest process of seizure and annexation.

Palestinian lands, especially those located in areas with a high density of random settlement outposts, with the aim of fattening them and turning them into large settlement blocs, whether related to the violence and terrorism of settlers, such as seizing the lands of shepherds or sabotaging and burning their crops and property, in addition to physical attacks on them, or through measures Military occupation, such as declaring closed military zones and issuing confiscation orders for the lands that these communities benefit from, as well as depriving them of water sources by polluting, sabotaging, or seizing them.

At dawn on Tuesday, a group of settlers cut a number of electricity poles between the towns of Qusra and Jalud, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, the settlers attacked the southern region on the road connecting the towns of Qasra and Jalud, and cut four poles from the electricity network, and the residents confronted them and fled the area.