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?

The issue of detaining the bodies of the martyrs represents a bleeding wound to the feelings and national and human dignity, especially to the families of the martyrs, for whom the loss of their dearest loved ones was not enough, but their lives turned into a kind of continuous suffering, and a long nightmare filled with feelings of oppression, pain, and the fires of heartbreak and anxiety that does not stop day or night, summer or summer. Winter, as long as the bodies of their loved ones are kept in the cold of the occupation’s refrigerators, and have become material for blackmail and bargaining.

All heavenly and earthly laws acknowledge the dignity of the human being, whether alive or dead. What is noteworthy is that Jewish law is the most concerned with the proper burial of the dead. You see specialized teams, such as the Zakka organization, which is a voluntary organization whose mission is to uncover victims of disasters, and after every traffic accident or The process of collecting the remains of the dead and their body parts in special bags to bury them in accordance with Jewish burial rituals. We also saw the Israeli occupation state making exceptional efforts and spending tens of millions of dollars to recover the remains of the spy Eli Cohen, or searching for those killed in Operation Sultan Yacoub, and sometimes it pays millions to bring the remains of a rabbi who died in Yemen or Morocco hundreds of years ago.

This interest in the dignity of the dead on the part of the State of Israel is limited to the Jewish dead, while the bodies of the Palestinian martyrs are subject to all kinds of forced disappearance and random burial in the cemeteries of numbers. Sometimes the burial is near the streams of torrents and the valleys that sweep away those graves, including them, in addition to the long-term detention of the bodies in refrigerators, all with the aim of blackmailing the Palestinians, whether through the release of the bodies as part of security or political deals, or to deter the Palestinian public, and create the conviction that... He thinks of resistance or carries out any operation that will cause permanent suffering to his family. The occupation does not content itself with field executions of those who carried out the operations, but rather punishes the families by demolishing homes, withdrawing permits or identity cards, and threatening deportation. Then, it resorts to the most psychologically harmful measure, which is detaining the bodies.

What confirms the importance of the issue is that President Mahmoud Abbas referred to it during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly meeting, asking a denouncing question about the reason and usefulness of the bodies of the martyrs. Two days before the speech, the “Masarat” Center hosted a dialogue symposium on a research paper prepared by the two young researchers, Ghazal Al-Natour and Moatasem Zaidan, and they discussed it in the presence of representatives of the martyrs’ families and the Al-Quds Center for Legal Aid, which made distinguished legal, political and public efforts during the past years to release the bodies of the detained martyrs and the bodies of the graves of figures. The Center's efforts succeeded in releasing some bodies after they had been detained for more than 30 years. Its efforts were met with actual and artificial Israeli obstacles and attempts to mislead and evade responsibility for preserving the bodies of martyrs, especially those who had been detained for decades. The aforementioned research paper talks about the detention of the bodies of more than 140 martyrs during the past seven years, in addition to the preservation of the bodies of more than 256 martyrs in the number cemeteries. Here it must be noted that these numbers are moving on a daily basis, and often in an upward direction, as the occupying state continues its policy of brutal repression, assassinations, and invasions within the policy known as attempts to resolve the conflict by military force.

One of the things that shocked the participants in the symposium was what Mrs. Azhar, the mother of the martyr Abdul Hamid Abu Srour, who was martyred in 2016, and she is the daughter of the martyr Abdul Hamid Abu Srour (Abu al-Ghadab), who was martyred in 1981, said that the occupation authorities deliberately buried her son in a number cemetery called ( Amiad) near Safed. The martyr and his family were residents of Bethlehem, and he was martyred in Jerusalem. What motivates him to be buried in Safed other than the desire to oppress his family and torture them for a lifetime, knowing that this information was only available after painstaking legal reviews, diligent efforts, and the intervention of the “Adalah” Center for the Rights of the Palestinian Arab Minority in... Inside in order to know the fate of the martyr.

The paper reveals a set of political and psychological backgrounds for the policy of detaining bodies or “collecting bodies,” including bargaining and blackmail, being a tool for controlling and controlling the Palestinian body and consciousness, a type of collective punishment, concealing the circumstances of the execution of martyrs after their capture, medical neglect of prisoners, and the possibility of using the bodies of prisoners as cases. Study, as stated in a statement by Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh. This is in addition to the spread of reports about stealing the organs of Palestinian martyrs or conducting experiments on them, as stated in the testimonies of Israeli doctor Meira Weiss, and in a report by CNN. that. The American.

The families of the martyrs whose bodies are kept in refrigerators or cemeteries have dozens of painful and sad stories, and specialized human rights institutions have a lot to say in this regard. What is important is that the official and popular Palestinian effort on this issue does not remain scattered and fragmented, and that the work to free the bodies not be limited to their families. The issue concerns every Palestinian, male and female, wherever they are. Rather, it concerns every individual in whose veins human dignity pulsates.

What is required is to transform this issue into a top national priority, and for it to occupy the position it deserves at the forefront of the concerns of the PLO, the Authority, and all civil and official institutions, and a major issue for all Palestinian forces, civil society organizations, and Palestine advocacy committees throughout the world. Work must be done to build a broad national coalition to continue putting pressure on the occupation government and its supporters in order to resolve this issue and not link it to any conditions or political settlements. It is necessary to arm our communities with all the information and data on this sensitive issue through which Israel’s crimes can be exposed and support and advocacy for the legitimate struggle of our people can be attracted, and that interest in this issue should not remain limited to families and specialized human rights institutions.

President Abu Mazen’s speech at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly was not a traditional speech based on constructive or philosophical expressions, and it is not a showy speech because it is devoid of linguistic and political showmanship. The President’s speech was focused and comprehensive through which he was able to present the Palestinian concern and suffering due to the Zionist occupation. Its extremist settlement and the daily crimes committed by this occupation are before the eyes of the entire world. The President focused on all the rights approved and recognized by international law, starting with the international protection of our people, passing through the right of return and compensation, the right to recognize us as a state under occupation, and ending with the rights of self-determination, holding the occupation responsible for all crimes committed against the Palestinian people and their sanctities, and trying to implement the occupation’s plan to change the historical situation. He also held the world fully responsible for his failure to intervene justly to end this long occupation, and wondered why international standards differed when dealing with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and thus dealing with Israel as an occupation, settlement and apartheid state. It is clearly defined and has many evidences and proofs. The world asked: Why is the Israeli occupation state treated as a state above the law? Why is Israel not yet subject to any international accountability or responsibility? .

Al-Raisi began his speech with an important message addressed to several parties, the most important of which are Israel and the United States of America. He said, “The most important person is who thinks that peace can be achieved without the Palestinians obtaining their full rights.” Al-Raisi did not want to allude more than that to the issue of “reverse peace” that Netanyahu and the United States are trying to achieve. The United States can achieve it through normalization agreements with many Arab countries. Therefore, the new Middle East whose map is drawn by the United States and Israel will not force the Palestinians to give up their identity and political rights, the first of which is their right to an independent, fully sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital. Therefore, all steps to make an imaginary peace cannot be achieved. To force the Palestinians to accept joining the normalization train and accept economic solutions within the framework of the Arab-Israeli peace agreements without the Palestinians achieving complete independence or obtaining a fully sovereign state geographically contiguous with the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza. This is also a clear message addressed to the (Joe Biden) administration, which is trying to conclude normalization agreements with Saudi Arabia by offering some concessions, as they call them, to the Palestinians without putting forward real peace initiatives based on the principle of the two-state solution, so that it is unable to take measures through which it can restrain the government. The extremism led by Netanyahu by stopping the plan to resolve the conflict through settlement and annexation as a plan that does not leave the Palestinians any political rights that they can speak about in the future.

The President alerted the world to the danger of turning the conflict into a religious one by committing more crimes against Palestinian civilians and desecrating Islamic and Christian sanctities. He called on the world and international community organizations, led by the United Nations, to provide protection for the Palestinian people who suffer from the scourge of occupation and face alone all the crimes of racial discrimination and deprivation from performing their religious rituals in His sanctities freely and without provocation, and here he called on the international community to assume its responsibilities in preserving the historical situation in Jerusalem, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, and called on the United Nations to take deterrent measures against the occupying state until it responds to the resolutions of international legitimacy, and strongly criticized the United Nations’ inability to Implement even one resolution out of a thousand issued regarding the conflict with the Israeli occupation, all of which support Palestinian rights and demand an end to this occupation and grant the Palestinians the rights of self-determination.

The International Peace Conference was one of the President’s most important directions to the United Nations and the General Assembly, as it is the safest path to accelerating the achievement of international justice towards the rights of our people, provided that all countries concerned with achieving peace in the Middle East participate in it. The President called on Mr. (Antonio Guterres), Secretary-General of the United Nations General Assembly The United Nations should make urgent arrangements to hold this conference as a last opportunity to save the international solution. The President also called on the United Nations General Assembly and the member states to grant Palestine full membership in the United Nations. He wondered why some countries that recognize Israel do not recognize Palestine as a state. The President was astonished at the world’s insistence on dealing with double standards. The standards are especially related to the Palestinian issue and the Israeli occupation. The world also asked why Israel is not held accountable for the crimes it commits against the Palestinians and the occupying state is treated as a state above the law. The President reiterated that Britain and America are held responsible for all those crimes that were committed in the past and are still being committed because of their role in making (the Balfour Declaration) and implementing it on the ground. He called on them to confess, apologize, make amends, and provide compensation in accordance with international law to the Palestinian people.

The President sent a clear message to the Israeli people and their government that their occupation of the Palestinian land will not last, regardless of their racist ambitions, policies, and plans to liquidate the Palestinian cause through the great Jewish project in a purely Hebrew Jewish state without the Palestinians enjoying any political rights. The President said it clearly, “The Palestinian people will remain on their land, which they have inhabited for thousands of years, generation after generation, and will not leave.” This means that all the criminal occupation measures will not undermine the steadfastness of our people on their land, and will not discourage them from resisting the occupation, especially resisting annexation and settlement projects, which are destined to fail and will not remain. Any of their settlements that they are trying to expand at the expense of the Palestinian land and cultivate it with a million settlers in the coming years because we, as Palestinians, are the owners of the land and we will resist this settlement with everything we have. President Abu Mazen sent a final and strong message to the international community with all its components that he must bear full responsibility for this hateful occupation and speed up enabling the Palestinians to Their legitimate rights and the implementation of all international and legitimate resolutions, the implementation of which will remain an international moral, ethical and legal right that falls on the responsibility of this organization to ensure security and stability in the Middle East region.
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