For some reason, the word “normalization” was translated as “normalization,” even though it is derived from “normal.” The Israelis have become accustomed to using the term and emphasizing it no less than their emphasis on peace agreements with Arab countries, which they fear will remain formal and superficial if they are not followed by the normalization of relations, so that “peace” takes root, and settler colonialism in the Arab region turns from aggressive power relations that contradict everything. It is normal to normal, and people are accustomed to the fact that relations with Israel, in the presence of occupation and practices of apartheid, are normal.

The African countries that boycotted South Africa and refused to normalize relations with it were much poorer than the Arab countries, and more in need of economic relations with the abnormal party located next to them. Nor was it more democratic, nor less authoritarian, than the Arab countries. But there are positions on which countries (peoples and regimes) agree, including racism and colonialism, as well as its continuation in the era of liberation from it. There is no doubt that racist South Africa at the time, and Israel (which remained its ally until its last days) were remnants of the colonial issue. In our region, the unity of the position (at least apparent) on the last open colonial issue has collapsed.

If we put the moral position aside (and it should not be set aside for purposes other than discussion, as such a departure constitutes a prelude to social and cultural collapse) and consider the step as resulting from the awakening of a practical, “pragmatic” style of thinking, we find that there was no need for it from this perspective, even when it was attached. The matter concerns the countries neighboring Palestine, as well as those that did not participate, officially, in any wars against it. There are illusions related to Israel's contribution to strengthening or fortifying the relations of normalized regimes with the United States.

The truth is that whoever arranges his internal situation to the minimum required to maintain stability (we are not talking here about justice), and acts responsibly in foreign policy, imposes his respect on others in the East and West. From an economic standpoint, relations with Israel did not contribute to reviving any country's economy. Ask the countries that have normalized since the Egyptian-Israeli Camp David Accords!

The truth is that the leaders of countries know this. Those who met the Israelis noticed their pushy, inquisitive, vulgar, and colloquial manner, and realized that their goal was to benefit, not to benefit. But they are pushing in this direction because they want Israel as their ally in the West as opposed to nearby adversaries. The latest examples of this competition in getting closer to Israel came from Libya and Sudan. The motive in this case was the rivalries within each country, as each party within Libya and Sudan feared that the other alone would enjoy this “glory.” As for the regional conflicts and rivalries and competition for the affection of the United States that have pushed the parties towards Israel, as in the case of the Gulf and Morocco, they do not need explanation.

Will normalization with Israel solve the internal Arab conflicts or contribute to fueling and inflaming them?

Normalization is taking place at the expense of the Palestinian people. This is a given. What requires reflection is that concessions to Israel are made at the expense of the Arabs as a nation and people. It is enough for a person to quickly look at this region to be shocked by the combination of political and moral deterioration and the gap between regimes and peoples in the context of which normalization is taking place.

If Arabs do not want to bother themselves with arguments about the justice of the Palestine issue, even though they are convincing arguments and have convinced wide circles of Americans, then the “pragmatic” argument that can be presented to the elderly Biden, for whom normalization will not bring a single additional vote, and who is rushing to put pressure on the Arab countries Motivated by his Zionist convictions, they are summed up in the fact that every Arab step toward normalization with Israel so far has increased the latter’s extremism, intransigence, and conviction in its position that intransigence and the logic of force are what works with the Arabs, who are moving from one peace initiative to another with less conditions. This can be supported by evidence. What about normalization in the presence of the current government? It is an incentive reward for the practices of the Israeli government, and for settlers who are not interested in normalization with the Arabs. This is a convincing answer even for Biden. But those who want normalization will not do so, because their motives are different, and they are looking for justifications to do so, not for a way out of it.

There is no need to talk about the benefit that the Palestinians will reap, as the normalization steps so far have shown that the marginalization of the Palestine issue is structural because it is based on the fact that normal relations with Israel are possible without resolving the Palestinian issue. It is a confirmation of Israel's point of view since the Nakba regarding the marginality of Palestine in the context of what was once called the Arab-Israeli conflict, which still exists only in terms of the peoples.

The truth is that the Palestine issue has nothing to do with the motives of the normalizers, whether positive or negative. The issue is demands and expectations from the United States. This does not hide taking pictures with Mahmoud Abbas, nor even with Hamas leaders, nor wearing a shawl in the colors of the Palestinian keffiyeh. This folklore is repulsive and consuming. Israel is not prepared to sacrifice settlements for the sake of peace agreements, nor even the unity of its coalition.

But the matter goes beyond the lack of connection with the Palestinian issue to justifying some of their steps towards Israel with a retrogressive effect for themselves by attacking the Palestinians, and even the Arabs in general. No normalization so far has been without media choirs that excel at bridging the gap between moral conscience and practice, and between convictions and actions (cognitive dissonance) by silencing conscience and changing convictions. This falls within the deterioration of the moral and political cultural conditions that constitute the context of such steps.

Archives indicate that a large number of Arab leaders communicated with the Zionist movement before the Nakba and with Israeli officials after it, and that the almost complete cessation of this occurred during the period of rule of the nationalist parties. But Sadat went beyond those who were secretly managing relations when he signed peace and normalization agreements with Israel, turning the issue into bilateral border settlements. At that stage, Egypt was removed from the Arab League, which moved its headquarters to Tunisia, and a steadfastness front was established to confront opposition to this approach.

But the approach continues. No official fronts or conferences were formed against normalization, and some began to argue that normalization was a sovereign step, as if the debate was legal about the powers of states to conclude bilateral peace agreements. The debate is not legal, but rather political and moral, and this is generally the nature of disagreement with the sovereign steps taken by states, from waging wars to concluding peace agreements.

The Palestine issue remains, and it is becoming less usable by Arab regimes. On the other hand, Israel, which insists on expanding settlement and actual annexation, is transforming the settler occupation system into a system similar to apartheid in the heart of the Arab region, which cannot become a natural matter, and it is impossible to accustom the Arab peoples to accepting it.

The current year, 2023, witnessed developments in the international and regional tracks, and reading them carefully, without romanticism, shows that they are in the Palestinian strategic interest, making 2023 a turning point in international and regional policies in favor of the Palestinian cause, which makes developing the internal situation an imposition on the Palestinians that is a sin for laziness. In its performance, in order to take advantage of the opportunities these developments entail, it has become clear that they outweigh the threats they entail in the path of freedom, independence, and an independent state.

In the current year, 75 years have passed since the Palestinian Nakba, which is the foundation of the Palestinian narrative, the establishment of the State of Israel on 78% of the area of Mandatory Palestine, and the formulation of the international system that emerged after World War II, with its values and principles in which the Palestinian people were excluded from public destiny. 55 years have passed since Israel occupied the remainder of Palestine (the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip), and 30 years have passed since the signing of the Oslo Accords, which is the basis on which the Palestinian Authority was established.

While Israel has received, over the past decades, full support and support from its partners in the world (the colonial West), whether materially, politically or popularly, which has led it and still believes that it is a state above the law that does what it wants with the Palestinians, their property and their sanctities without accountability or oversight, and what is wrong with the Palestinians and the Arabs? Muslims and the entire world behind them, except to accept it as a fait accompli and submit to its conditions, which prompted its current Prime Minister, Netanyahu, to brag about saying in recent years that Israel seeks peace with the Palestinians and the Arabs! But it is a free peace, and without charge! That is, peace in exchange for peace, not peace in exchange for land and rights for the Palestinians, and peace according to Israel’s vision, especially the vision of the extreme right that now rules the state, not peace according to international legitimacy and its resolutions, which number more than a thousand resolutions.

However, this year can be considered a turning point in the course of the conflict, especially since it has witnessed and continues to witness transformations at the internal Israeli, Palestinian, regional and international levels, all of which indicate that the Zionist colonial project in Palestine is a project built on failure and has reached its end, and there are no options. Its supporters have no choice but to acknowledge the reality of failure, and that the time has come to lift the historical injustice against the Palestinian people and give them their rights, or some of them, to freedom, independence, self-determination, and the establishment of their own sovereign state on their land.

At the internal level of Israel, the political, cultural and media community there is witnessing a deep debate and controversy driven by a question, even if it does not surface, which is: Why has Israel not become a safe, just, prosperous, and democratic Jewish state, as the first founders wanted it to be, after all these decades since its establishment? Then why is Israel's deterrent power eroding in the face of its enemies, many of whom are in the region, despite all the military, technological and economic capabilities it possesses and political support from the great powers that have dominated the global system since the end of World War II?

Why has the number of Jews on the land extending from the sea to the river become less than the number of the country's indigenous owners? Why has the percentage of Jewish immigrants to Israel since the beginning of Jewish immigration to Palestine more than a century ago not exceeded 43% of the total number of Jews around the world?

Why did the Palestinians not surrender and raise the white flag despite their ongoing catastrophe for 75 years?

Why do 52% of the state’s Jewish citizens still consider the Palestinians to be the greatest external threat to the state, compared to 24% who believe that the Iranian nuclear program is the greatest threat, according to the indicators of the Israeli National Security Scale for the year 2023? More importantly, why has this country become, in the eyes of a large percentage of Jews in Israel and around the world, an apartheid and apartheid state, while it was presented to them as an oasis of democracy and a refuge protecting Jews from Nazi and anti-Semitic crimes?

As for the global level, there is a shift in the view of Israel, whether at the level of international institutions such as the United Nations and its affiliated institutions, or at the level of the great powers at this moment in time in which the global system is witnessing a radical transformation and transition from a unipolar system to a multipolar system, or at the level of public opinion. Especially American public opinion, especially among Jewish communities.

One of the most prominent changes in this regard was the United Nations’ commemoration of the Palestinian Nakba as a crime committed against the Palestinians, which opens the doors, even if it is 75 years later, to the necessity of punishing the perpetrators of this crime, and then declaring all the poles of the world order, whether the old one that has not yet died, or This is the desired new thing that has not yet found its feet due to the necessity of getting justice for the Palestinian people and establishing their independent state, which was clearly demonstrated at the recent BRICS summit in Johannesburg.

As for public opinion, all the pro-Israel awareness and public opinion formation centers owned by Jewish lobbies around the world are no longer able to change the labeling of Israel as an apartheid and apartheid state, especially among the senior generals of the Israeli security system and among the American Jewish communities, which is a matter that It is expected to spread within American institutions of government within a decade.

The Saudi-Israeli normalization and Saudi Arabia’s conditions for signing the expected normalization treaty are considered among the most prominent developments witnessed this year at the regional level. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman set these conditions in his rare and long interview on the American Fox News channel four days ago with three conditions: (Giving the Palestinians what They need it, normalization that unites the region, making life easier for the Palestinians, a good life for the Palestinians.

While the Crown Prince did not mention an independent Palestinian state as a condition for normalization, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan added this condition in the Kingdom’s speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, 9/23/2023.

The above shows that the current year has already inaugurated a turning point in regional and global politics in favor of Palestine, which puts an end to Netanyahu’s boasting that Israel is ready to make peace with the Palestinians and Arabs for free and without compensation from Israel. Today, Israel is facing the truth and must decide where to go? Will it admit failure, or will it continue to continue deceiving its people and Jews around the world?

Perhaps this is what prompted President Abbas to say from the podium of the United Nations in his speech several days ago that he is “delusional who believes that he can make peace in the region without giving the Palestinian people their full rights.” Yes, it is, Mr. President, but in return we must prepare for what is coming and make all the changes. What is required in order to avoid sin and gain the respect and pride of future generations.

Administrative detainee Kayed Al-Fasfous (34 years old) from the city of Dura/Hebron continues his open hunger strike for the 50th day in a row in rejection of the crime of his arbitrary administrative detention, amid escalating risks to his fate in the cells of the Negev Desert Prison, where the prison administration has held him since he began his imprisonment. 

The Prisoners' Club said, "The occupation forces are carrying out systematic abuse and harassment against him, in addition to pressure operations that continue to this day in an attempt to dissuade him from continuing his strike. The prison administration also insists on detaining him in the cells of the Negev, despite the passage of this period since the strike." In previous individual strikes, the prison administration would transfer the striking detainee after a certain period to a civilian hospital.”

According to the prisoner Al-Fasfous, after he started the strike, the prison administration and its forces deliberately carried out daily searches of his cell, and all the electrical appliances and clothes were removed from it, and he was left with nothing but the clothes he was wearing, and he was given his sleeping mattress with a cover, and later they deliberately took it out in the morning, and returned it in the evening. This procedure continued for five days.

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Last night, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the ex-prisoner Raad Amjad Odeh, while he was passing through a military checkpoint in the city of Qalqilya.

The occupation forces took the Odeh to an unknown destination.

Odeh, a resident of Tulkarm, spent several years in occupation prisons.

On Monday morning, Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in successive groups, amid calls to intensify the storming to commemorate the so-called “Yom of Atonement.”

Yesterday, hundreds of settlers participated in the ongoing raids due to Jewish holidays.

A group of settlers were seen performing “epic prostration” inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa.

Previously, large forces of the occupation police stormed the courtyards of the mosque to secure the settlers’ incursions, as some members of those forces were seen removing some of the stationed people from inside it.

These forces prevented worshipers from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, and forced those inside it to leave.

A group of male and female Palestinians who make sit-ins gathered inside Al-Aqsa, where they shouted “Allahu Akbar” amid attempts to disrupt the settlers’ incursions.

The occupation forces deployed heavily inside the Old City since the early hours of dawn in preparation for securing the settlers' incursions.

In recent days, various factions, forces, and activities have launched calls to gather in Al-Aqsa and Rabat inside it, coinciding with calls for settlers to participate forcefully in the raids.

At the inaugural Al-Monitor/Semafor Middle East Global Summit, King Abdullah II emphasizes the centrality of the Palestinian issue; 

King Abdullah II of Jordan, speaking at the first Al-Monitor-Semafor Global Summit on Sept. 20, said that the possibility of normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia could offer a “new horizon” for the region, but “part of the challenge is with the Israeli government.” 

“This belief, by some in the region, that you can parachute over Palestine, deal with the Arabs, and work your way back; that does not work,” said King Abdullah, who was the keynote speaker at the summit. “And even those countries that have Abraham Accords with Israel have difficulty moving publicly on those issues when Israelis and Palestinians are dying. So unless we solve this problem, there will never be a true peace.” ..and dealing with 'two elephants in the room'

“There are two elephants in the room,” the Jordanian king explained.

“One is the Palestinian transition and the future for the younger generation of leaders. We saw [Palestinian President] Mahmoud Abbas in the past month shaking up his government, new blood coming in. So that's one of the issues that we have to understand; where the Palestinians are going. And part of the challenge is we Jordanians, Arabs, Israelis, Americans do not know who the younger generation of Palestinians are. And this is very, very important for us to be able to reach out to, to these young voices.”  

“The other, the second elephant in the room, is where is Israel going? How can we have an understanding of a political horizon? Is it a one state solution that you want? Is it a two-state solution? And I'm sure your state solution is different than mine.” 

'Politics doesn’t work'

“My experience over the past 20 years is that politics doesn't work,” said King Abdullah, adding that “regional projects” offer the potential for a new horizon in the region. 

“So based on the tactical steps that we're doing with the Israelis and Palestinians, now with the Americans, the Egyptians, it's how do we get calm on the ground, so that the political horizon can be much easier to identify, because of all these regional projects from which we can all benefit. And at the end of the day, those that are against peace in the Middle East, 99% of the people on the ground, just want to put food on their table, and we can provide that new narrative for the region. That's why I'm optimistic.” 

Jerusalem as flashpoint, symbol for humanity.

“What binds the three monotheistic religions together is, you know, love thy God and love thy neighbor,” said King Abdullah. “And I think we need to listen to that a bit more. I mean, how could we go to our places of worship, and then come out and hate somebody else? And I think Jerusalem is central to bringing Islam, Christianity and Judaism together. And, again, maybe it's for religious figures to sort of raise the flag as opposed to politicians that look to their own personal issues. I know there's some challenges on the ground at the moment. But, again, Jerusalem is a flashpoint. It could send us into the abyss, or it could be the symbol of not only our region, but to the world of how humanity can come together."

The young man, Majdi Ghabayen (18 years old), died on Sunday evening, as a result of serious wounds he sustained on the thirteenth of this month on the eastern Gaza border.

Ghabayen was receiving treatment at Al-Shifa Hospital in critical condition, and his death was announced on Sunday evening.

Ghabayen was injured as a result of an explosion that occurred in the Malka area, east of Gaza, on that day, which led to the death of 5 young men at the time.

A Saudi delegation is due to visit Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah this week, a Palestinian official said to "Reuters" , amid diplomatic efforts to secure an accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia that could involve concessions for the Palestinians.

The delegation will be led by the non-resident Saudi envoy to the Palestinians, who was appointed last month, the official said.

The visit comes after both Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that efforts were underway to reach an agreement normalizing relations between their two countries.

U.S. officials have cautioned that any agreement, expected to include a defense agreement with Washington and a civilian nuclear program for Saudi Arabia, would be some way off.

Among the issues to be resolved would also be the Palestinian question, and calls for a revival of a peace process leading to a two-state solution with an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians broke down in 2014 and relations between the two sides have plummeted amid a tide of violence.

Last week Abbas said no Middle East peace agreement would be achievable until Palestinians were granted full rights, and the Saudi foreign minister also called for a revival of the objective of a two-state solution.

French President Emmanuel Macron expressed on Sunday evening his concern about a possible military attack by Azerbaijan on Armenia, stressing that Baku “threatens” the common borders and the “territorial integrity” of this country, after Azerbaijan’s lightning victory over the separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Macron said in a televised interview, "France is very keen on Armenia's territorial integrity, as this is the test. Today we have Russia complicit with Azerbaijan, Turkey, which always supports these maneuvers, and an unrestrained authority that threatens Armenia's borders."

The Hebron Municipality denounced in the strongest terms the assassination attempt on municipal council member Lawyer Abdul Karim Farrah, this Sunday evening, by direct shooting at him and burning his vehicle, in an explicit and premeditated targeting by a group “outside the law, religion, morals and customs.” .

The municipality confirmed in a statement that targeting members of the municipal council in this criminal and reprehensible manner is a dangerous indicator that threatens to drag Khalil Rahman into a state of chaos and lack of security and stability.

It warned of the consequences of these successive crimes, and the failure to prosecute the perpetrators and impose deterrent penalties against them.

The municipality called on President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh to monitor the security situation in Hebron and provide security and protection for all the people of the city and all those who dedicated their lives to serving it.

A young man and a girl were injured today, Sunday, as a result of being stepped on by a settler while they were in a store in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron.

According to local sources, a settler drove his vehicle through a military checkpoint and rammed a store belonging to a young man, Hamdi Yahya Idais (21 years old), who is disabled and moves around using an electric chair, causing him a direct injury to the head, in addition to a girl being injured in the head while she was in the store.

The sources indicated that the two injured people were transferred to a hospital inside the occupied territories, where their injuries were described as moderate.

On Sunday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a teenager from the village of Yabrud, east of Ramallah.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the teenager, Abdul Qader Hadid (15 years old), at a military checkpoint they set up at the entrance to the village.

On Sunday evening, the Israeli occupation forces closed a number of streets in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the occupation police completely closed the entrances to a number of neighborhoods with cement cubes to prevent the movement of vehicles, and prevented citizens from moving until tomorrow evening, Monday, under the pretext of the start of “Yom Kippur.”

The mayor of Salfit, Abdul Karim Al-Zubaidi, opened the “Sidewalk Libraries” project in the city’s streets with the aim of encouraging reading.

Al-Zubaidi said that the opening of the “sidewalk libraries” is in line with the direction of the municipality and its public library to promote literature and the arts and provide various sources of traditional and advanced knowledge, and present them to the public and researchers.

He explained that this idea came from the fact that culture is not limited to a specific group or geographical area, and based on the role that the municipal library plays in encouraging reading and raising the cultural level of all members of society wherever they are.

The sidewalk library includes book shelves that the Salfit Public Library team works to supply daily with a variety of books for adults in addition to books for children. It also includes various types of historical and scientific books, novels, stories, children's books, and others.

Today, Sunday, a group of settlers continued their attacks against citizens in the Tuqua Wilderness, southeast of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, the settlers threatened a number of citizens from the Jibril and Al-Badan families that they would have to leave their tents in the Al-Birya area, otherwise they would be subjected to continuous harassment.

The sources indicated that the settlers seized about 300 dunums in the Al-Birya area some time ago, and set up a number of tents there, in preparation for establishing a settlement outpost.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned the violations carried out by extremist settlers by storming the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, and allowing them to carry out provocative practices that violate the sanctity of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif and Islamic cemeteries under the protection of the occupation police.

The Ministry’s official spokesman, Ambassador Sinan Al-Majali, said today, Sunday, “The continuing and unacceptable provocative practices against the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the escalation of their frequency, and the provocative practices that accompany them inside the sanctuary, in its vicinity, and in the Islamic cemeteries adjacent to it, which are considered an Islamic endowment, is a violation.” It is scandalous and unacceptable to international law, and to the historical and legal situation existing in Jerusalem and its sanctities.”

He stressed that the ongoing violations and attacks on holy sites, in conjunction with the ongoing Israeli incursions into the occupied Palestinian territories, herald further escalation and represent a dangerous trend that must be stopped immediately.

The Ministry’s official spokesman called on Israel, in its capacity as the occupying power, to cease all practices and violations against the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/the Holy Mosque, and to respect its sanctity, reiterating that the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/the Holy Mosque, with its entire area of 144 dunams, is a pure place of worship for Muslims. .

Al-Majali warned against the continuation of these violations, stressing the need to respect the authority of the Jerusalem Endowments Administration and the affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is affiliated with the Jordanian Ministry of Endowments, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places, as it has the exclusive jurisdiction to manage the affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/the Holy Mosque in its entirety, and to regulate entry to it.

A number of citizens were injured today, Sunday, as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ suppression of marches on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.

According to local sources, the occupation soldiers stationed inside their positions and in their military vehicles fired poisonous tear gas canisters towards the demonstrators, causing 5 people to suffocate.

Dozens of young men demonstrated on the eastern border of Gaza City and Jabalia, in protest against the siege imposed on the Strip, and against the continuing crimes of the occupation against our people in all governorates of the country.

Today, Sunday, two brothers were killed as a result of being electrocuted in the village of Beitlo, west of Ramallah.

The head of the Beitlo Village Council, Nasr Radwan, said that two brothers died, and their brother and mother were injured, as a result of being exposed to an electric shock while washing carpets inside their house.

Palestinian media professionals and human rights defenders recommended today, Sunday, the necessity of translating and activating international laws protecting journalists on the ground in order to put an end to the series of targeting of Palestinian journalists.

During a workshop organized by the Islamic Radio and Television Union - Palestine Office - on the eve of commemorating the activities of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian Journalist, entitled: “International Laws in Light of the Targeting of Palestinian Press Crews and Institutions,” the international human rights and journalistic institutions called for the need for immediate and urgent intervention to stop the violations. Israeli forces against Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, in a way that guarantees them the freedom of journalistic work approved by international legislation and laws.

The speakers called for the necessity of activating the role of official institutions in documenting the occupation’s crimes against journalists and submitting them to international courts to hold the soldiers and leaders of the occupation accountable, especially since the international Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute confirmed that targeting media professionals during their work is a war crime punishable by international law.

They urged the necessity of activating a plan for Palestinian journalists to work with Arab and international journalistic institutions and bodies, and to provide them with awareness of the Israeli violations against them, demanding the necessity of forming a strong union body that includes all Palestinians without bias or discrimination in order to convey the voice of journalists to the world.

They unanimously agreed on the necessity of activating the official Palestinian position through embassies and institutions spread around the world, and taking immediate and urgent action in order to expose the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian journalist, prosecute the killing, and prosecute them until they receive their punishment.

According to statistics from the Palestinian Journalists Support Committee, the Israeli occupation forces have committed 514 violations against journalists since the beginning of 2023, ranging from injuries, arrests, prevention of coverage, incitement, and harassment.

On Sunday, Birzeit University condemned the storming of a large force of the Israeli occupation army into its campus, the arrest of a number of its students, and the destruction of university property.

The university explained that it sees this as a major and clear violation of all international norms and conventions that criminalize violating the sanctity of universities and educational institutions.

The University  pointed out that the it is working through its lawyers and legal institutions to check on the detained students.

Today, Sunday, the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Commission, citing its lawyer Sherine Iraqi, monitored the arbitrary and brutal violations that prisoner Bassem Hamdan (44 years old) from the town of Tamoun was subjected to during his arrest by the Israeli occupation forces, as the Israeli occupation forces stormed his house at At four in the morning, they tied his hands behind his back and blindfolded him, then they severely beat him on his right foot with a sharp object, then they put him in the military jeep and beat him again, after which he was transferred to a camp and stayed there for 10 days, after which he was transferred to a crossing. "Megiddo" prison and then to "Gilboa" prison.

Prisoner Hamdan says: “I cannot pray unless I am sitting because I feel great pain in my legs, especially my right leg, and I also suffer from diabetes and blood fats.”

While the prisoner Sameh Bani Odeh (23 years old) from the town of Tammoun was subjected to the same policy of arbitrary violations during his arrest and investigation, and the Commission’s lawyer, Hanan Al-Khatib, reported what the prisoner Bani Odeh was exposed to during his arrest, as the Israeli occupation forces raided his house and arrested him, and tied his hands. To the back and blindfolded him, then he was transferred to the “Al-Jalama” Detention and Investigation Center, where he stayed for 40 days, and then he was transferred to the bird rooms. The prisoner Bani Odeh says: “During the period of interrogation with me, I was threatened with the arrest of my family, and they actually arrested my brother Sami. They threatened to keep me in the cells for a long period of time. My hands were tied behind my back and the shackles were attached to the chair, which caused me severe pain. The cell was narrow and lacked the most basic necessities of life. It had no windows, and the light in it was annoying and had rough, protruding walls that were difficult to lean on. The mattress was very thin, without a file and without... Pillow".

The Commission says: The prisoner Bani Odeh was transferred to the “Megiddo” detention crossing, where the conditions at the crossing are very bad, in terms of food, food supplies, bedding, and scarce clothes, and there is not a sufficient “canteen,” while a portion of the detainees sleep on the floor, and the prisoner suffered. Bani Odeh suffered from severe pain in his chest while he was at the “Megiddo” prison crossing, where he was vomiting blood. After that, he was transferred to “Haemek” Hospital in Afula. They conducted medical examinations on him, and it was found that his blood level had reached a level of 4. He underwent He underwent a catheterization and gastric endoscopy. He remained in the hospital for 5 days and was then returned to “Megiddo” detention center.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces notified the cessation of construction on 21 homes and facilities in the village of Sarta, west of Salfit.

According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the village and handed citizens notices to stop work and construction in 17 houses, most of which were inhabited, and 4 barracks in the northern and eastern regions, under the pretext of building in an area classified as “C.”

They stated that the total number of notifications that were delivered during the past two months until today amounted to 55 notifications.

The UN has a “moral duty” to resolve the Palestine question through a two-state solution, Oman’s foreign minister has told the UN.

Sayyid Badr Al-Busaidi was speaking at the 78th UN General Assembly in New York City on Saturday.

The minister described the Palestinian issue as “an injustice which has lasted more than 70 years.”

He added: “The Palestinian people, however, stand firm in their conviction and determination vis-a-vis the brutal Israeli occupation, the embargo and abuses and violation of international law, and Security Council resolutions.”

Oman’s belief in justice, equity and respect of the UN Charter means that “like all peaceful nations,” the country sees no other solution to the Palestine question than the two-state solution, Al-Busaidi said.

He appealed to all countries to “stay attached” to the UN system in settling disputes and resolving conflict, adding that the UN has a duty “to put an end to the painful suffering of the Palestinian people.”

This can only happen through Israel’s withdrawal to the June 1967 borders and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, Al-Busaidi said.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities pumped wastewater from the Shaarei Tikva settlement towards Palestinian agricultural lands southeast of Qalqilya.

According to local sources, wastewater was pumped from the settlement located on the lands of the villages of “Azoun Atma - Beit Amin”, southeast of Qalqilya, and raided Palestinian agricultural lands planted with olives, indicating that this is not the first action, as the occupation deliberately pumps this water, to destroy agricultural lands and its products.

The Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Authority said on Sunday that prisoner Khaled Tubila was brutally assaulted by occupation soldiers and police during the arrest process.

According to the authority, he was subsequently transferred to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, and is now being held in “Megiddo” prison.

The authority indicated that there is great concern for his life, as the torture included the physical and psychological aspects, and he is now suffering from a difficult nervous condition, and has become unable to move.

The authority added that his detention was extended for five days to complete the investigation. She also indicated that a complaint had been filed about the circumstances of the assault on him.

The Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority reported on Sunday that prisoner Kayed Al-Fasfous (34 years old), who has been on hunger strike for the 53rd day in a row, suffers from critical health conditions.

The Commission explained, in a press statement, quoting the Commission’s lawyer, Karim Ajwa, who visited him in Ashkelon prison, that the prisoner Al-Fafsous, from the town of Dura in the Hebron Governorate, lost approximately 30 kilograms of weight, and complains of severe pain throughout his body, especially the back and joints. He can barely walk, in addition to suffering from severe headaches and general emaciation, in addition to his condition getting worse day after day.

It pointed out that the occupation authorities insist on not responding to his demand to end his administrative detention, but rather deliberately abuse him, as they recently transferred him from the Negev prison to Ashkelon, deprived him of visiting his family, and imposed a financial fine on him, with the aim of pressuring him and discouraging him from continuing his strike.

It is noteworthy that Al-Fafsous is a former prisoner who spent 7 years in the occupation prisons, and was re-arrested on 5/2/2023. He had gone on a hunger strike for (131 days) against his administrative detention in 2021. He is married and the father of a daughter, and he has four brothers in prisons. Occupation.

Turkey condemned the "provocative attacks" on the Holy Qur'an outside the embassies of Islamic countries, including the Turkish embassy, in the Netherlands, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

The ministry said in a statement, "We condemn the spread of these provocative attacks, which aim to insult our religion and its believers, in European countries where these attacks are tolerated, and these acts of hatred are permitted under the guise of freedom of expression."

The Ministry stressed that countries witnessing these attacks must take measures against these provocations, which the United Nations considers religious hatred and a violation of international law.

The Ministry called on the Dutch authorities to take the necessary measures against the perpetrator of the accident and to take the necessary preventive measures to prevent the recurrence of these incidents.

The statement added, "Turkey will continue its struggle against this sick and hate-based mentality resolutely and in all forums."

The official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeina, condemned the dangerous Israeli escalation against our Palestinian people, their land, and their sanctities, and the continuation of daily killings in all governorates of the country, the most recent of which was the execution of the two young men, Sayed Farhan Abu Ali (21 years old), and Abd al-Rahman Suleiman Abu Daghash (32 years old). years), in cold blood in Tulkarm at dawn today.

Abu Rudeina added that the Israeli occupation authorities are waging a continuous war against our Palestinian people and their capabilities, to implement their plans, which Netanyahu announced in his speech before the United Nations, in defiance of all resolutions of international legitimacy and international law, which affirmed the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

He pointed out that the occupation is striving to drag the region into the realm of violence and escalation through its continuous aggression, as well as calls by Jewish extremists to storm the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and storm Birzeit University, forgetting that the Palestinian people will not give up any of their legitimate rights, whatever the cost.

The official presidential spokesman stressed that the crimes of the occupation will not deter our people from continuing their legitimate struggle, until they achieve their goals and aspirations for freedom and establish their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Abu Rudeina said that the Israeli response is the greatest evidence of the power of the Palestinian “veto”, which was expressed by President Mahmoud Abbas in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, in which he affirmed that there will be no peace or stability in the region without our Palestinian people obtaining their legitimate national rights. perfect.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested three citizens from the Hebron Governorate.

According to local sources, the Israeli forces arrested: Ismail Raed Abu Sheikha, Fawaz Abu Sheikha, and Moaz Abu Sheikha, from the village of Karma, south of Hebron.

The organizations of the alleged Temple and other settler organizations have continued their calls to storm the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and hold Talmudic prayers inside it today and tomorrow, that is, on the eve and the Jewish Day of Atonement. This is a matter that calls for more than concern, because targeting the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque has become a daily part of attempts to The occupation divided the mosque spatially after it succeeded in dividing it temporally in front of the eyes of the entire world, especially the Arab and Islamic worlds, which means the Blessed Al-Aqsa, just as the Holy Kaaba and the Noble Prophet’s Mosque mean, as it is the first of the two qiblahs, the second of the two mosques, and the third of the two holy mosques.

It is no longer sufficient to issue statements of denunciation and denunciation and call on the United Nations and international organizations to curb the occupation, because these organizations cannot even implement international resolutions related to Al-Aqsa, Jerusalem, and the other occupied Palestinian territories, which has encouraged and encourages the occupying state and the organizations of the alleged structure to continue their attacks and work day and night for Not just dividing it spatially, but working to demolish it and erect the alleged temple in place of the honorable Dome of the Rock from which the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace, ascended to the highest heavens.

In order to achieve this, the occupation continues its excavations under the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which exposes it to the risk of collapse as a result of any earthquake that may strike the region, God forbid, and this is what the occupation and these biblical organizations are seeking, which have no other interest than harming the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the rest of the Islamic sanctities. Christianity in the Holy City.

Hence the call of these government-backed organizations for broader storming operations into the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque today and tomorrow. They are preparing for this and are mobilizing settlers for the storming operation, after they performed Talmudic prayers yesterday in front of the Islamic Council building and in front of Bab Hatta near the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, to see the reaction of the Jerusalemites to the attack. This is in preparation for the incursions today and tomorrow.

Therefore, it is the duty of all Jerusalemites and our people inside Palestine to work unitedly in order to thwart the plans of these associations through the permanent presence in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, whether by worshipers, marabouts and marabouts, or by youth and women, because this mosque is, according to the decisions of states, special for Muslims alone. It is not for anyone but them, and what the settlers are doing is an attempt to Judaize it, despite international resolutions and global laws and norms.

The Palestinian leadership and all National Action factions must provide everything necessary for the people of Jerusalem to continue defending Al-Aqsa in the face of these extremist and racist organizations that are desecrating Al-Aqsa under the protection of the occupation forces, which are also brutalizing the people of Jerusalem as if Al-Aqsa is theirs only.

It is true that the occupation forces impose a siege on Jerusalem and prevent our people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from entering it. They also carry out deportations and arrests of Jerusalemites who make sit-in (Murabitats), and guards of the mosque to keep them away from it, and so that Zionist organizations can storm it without significant obstacles. However, this does not mean that everyone should carry out their duty towards the Blessed Al-Aqsa.

Is there anyone who will respond to protect it and prevent it from being divided and Judaized, as happened in the Noble Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron?