A Palestinian was shot dead on Friday by the Israeli military in the village of Umm Safa, north of Ramallah.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said that the man was wounded by live bullets in the chest. He arrived at the Istishari Arab Hospital in a critical condition, and doctors later pronounced him dead.

Large crowds throned in Nablus to send off 32-year-old Hamza Maqbool and 34-year-old Khairy Shaheen, who were killed by Israeli occupation forces earlier on Friday.

The stream of Palestinians carried the deceased from Rafidia Governmental Hospital to the eastern cemetery, walking through the alleys of the Old City and chanting against the crimes of the occupation authorities.

Three other Palestinians were wounded in the raid of Nablus' Old City this morning.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said on Friday that Israel's government is not just working to thwart a Palestinian state, but also "pushing the Palestinian Authority to collapse, and working to systematically weaken it."

Shtayyeh's comments came during a meeting with Oman's Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi and the Sultanate's Ambassador to Palestine Salem bin Habib Al-Amiri, which was also attended by the Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki.

He added that Israel is waging "several wars" against the Palestinian people: building settlements, killings and arrests, and an economic war on the Palestinian authority by siphoning off tax revenues.

In the absence of a political horizon, the Palestinian Authority is focussing its efforts to strengthen domestically in order to confront Israel's occupation, as well as conducting meetings with allies abroad to exert pressure on Israel. He also stressed the importance of holding elections, but that Israel must allow free and fair voting to occur across Jerusalem, as well as reconciliation between Palestinian factions. 

During the meeting, Shtayyeh stressed the importance of strengthening bilateral relations between Palestine and the Sultanate of Oman.  For his part, Albusaidi stressed his country's solidarity with the Palestinian people and their just cause.

A number of citizens were injured by live bullets, rubber-coated bullets, and suffocation, during clashes that erupted with the occupation forces in the West Bank governorates, today, Friday.

Local sources said that a number of citizens suffocated from tear gas today, Friday, during clashes with the occupation in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and Beita, in the south.

In Nablus, dozens of citizens and solidarity activists were injured, during the suppression of the Israeli occupation forces, a march in Burqa, northwest of Nablus, against the settlers' return to the "Homesh" settlement, evacuated since 2005.

Local sources said that the occupation forces targeted the participants with bullets and tear gas canisters, which led to suffocation, and the burning of some trees and plants by the gas canisters.

The march started from the village of Burqa, with the participation of foreign solidarity activists, to demand the dismantling and removal of the settlement buildings built on the lands of Jabal al-Qubaybat, on which the "Homesh" settlement is established.

In Qalqilya, five civilians were injured when the Israeli occupation forces suppressed the weekly Kafr Qaddum march, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources said that the occupation army fired metal bullets and tear gas at the participants in the march, which was launched to condemn the ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people, which led to the injury of five citizens with metal bullets, and dozens of suffocation, who were treated in the field.

20-year-old Mahdi Al-Hilou died on Friday morning when an explosive device he was preparing was accidentally detonated in Tulkarm refugee camp.

The Tulkarem Battalion of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed the martyr as their own, and said he died preparing an explosive device.

Two Palestinians were killed on Friday in an Israeli raid on the Old City of Nablus.

A special Israeli unit came under fire after they surrounded a house in the Old City. The troops called large military reinforcements, and went on arrest Palestinians from other houses.

Local sources identified the martyrs Khairy Shaheen and Hamza Maqbool. 

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that it treated one moderately injured man.

Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Hebron in a dawn raid on Friday.

Local sources identified the man as Badr Abu Aisha. Israeli troops stormed the house in the early hours of the morning, upturning the home and detaining Abu Aisha.

Washington – The Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres condemned Israel's operation on Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

“As the occupying power, it has a responsibility to ensure that the civilian population is protected against all acts of violence,” he said in a press conference from New York.

“Israel’s airstrikes and ground operations in a crowded refugee camp were the worst violence in the West Bank in many years, with a significant impact on civilians,” Guterres said, adding that Israel stopped humanitarian workers and medical workers from reach the injured, as well as disrupting water and electricity services.

“I again call on Israel to abide by its obligations under international law, including the obligation to exercise restraint and to use only proportionate force,” Guterres said, adding, “The use of airstrikes is inconsistent with the conduct of law enforcement operations.”

While he said he understood Israel's "legitimate concerns" about security, he said an operation of this nature will only deepen "the cycle of violence."

He called on Israel to "abide by its obligations under international law,” he said. “The use of airstrikes is inconsistent with the conduct of law enforcement operations,” he said.

Twelve Palestinians were killed and over 200 were injured in the 48-hour operation. 

In Qibya, west of Ramallah, Israeli occupation forces raided the family home of Ahmed Ghaidan who carried out Thursday's shooting attack in the settlement of Kedumim. 

An army engineering unit took measurements of the house in preparation for its demolition, in line with a long-standing policy of razing the family home of Palestinians who carry out attacks. 

Clashes subsequently broke out in the village between the occupation forces and dozens of Palestinians, who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the soldiers. One Palestinian was wounded in his foot by army gunfire.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said that a baby and ambulance crew were attacked by settlers in the Qalqilya Governorate on Friday, in a revenge attack over the shooting of an Israeli soldier in the settlement of Kedumim.

The ambulance from Qalqilya Governmental Hospital came to collect the child, aged 1, who was already seriously injured after suffering head trauma, when settler threw stones at the ambulance, shattering the windows, the director of the hospital Dr. Ramez Abdullah said.

Palestinian Health Minister Dr. Mai al-Kaila said that such attacks have become commonplace, and blamed "international silence" for enabling them to occur.

On Thursday evening, it was revealed that the Israeli army used 6 suicide planes during its recent battle in Jenin.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, these planes are of the "Maoz" type, which are owned by the ground forces.

These planes, which were manufactured by Israeli military industries "Raphael", contain a small amount of explosives.

According to the site, these planes were used to destroy control and control points, and laboratories containing dozens of explosive devices, and this was done so that they could be detonated safely from a distance.

The Israeli army does not rule out the use of these aircraft in the coming times to target armed human elements to eliminate them. As the site mentioned.

The delivery of these aircraft to the Israeli elite forces, which used them for the first time in the Jenin operation, has been delayed. They can roam alleys and enter buildings, be piloted independently by ground forces, and explode on targets with greater precision and more lethality.

Israel's cabinet will discuss steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority on Thursday, the public broadcaster Kan reported.

According to the channel, the security establishment had recommended the measures in light of the deterioration in the northern West Bank.

The report said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already established a team to formulate recommendations to provide relief to the Palestinian Authority before the Jenin operation.

A political source told the broadcaster that "it is in everyone's interest that the Palestinian Authority remain stable."

Clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces on Thursday evening in the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah.

According to local sources, occupation forces stormed the village and raided the house of the family of the martyr Ahmed Yassin Ghaidan, who killed an Israeli soldier in Kedumim earlier on Thursday. Israeli troops fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters at Palestinians. 

The same sources added that the Israeli army obstructed the work of the press crews, prevented them from covering the clashes, and forced the journalists to leave the vicinity of the family's house.

A Palestinian was injured in an attack by settlers on his vehicle in the town of Hawara, south of Nablus, on Thursday evening.

Hawara has been regularly targeted by Israeli settlers, witnessing one of the worst cases of settler violence in February. One Palestinian was killed, dozens were injured, and settlers caused widespread damage to property.

The official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, said that a group of settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones. One Palestinian suffered a hand injury after the windows of vehicles were shattered.

Israeli occupation authorities released 66 Palestinian men on Thursday who were arrested during the invasion of Jenin Refugee Camp. Seventy others, however, remain in detention. 

Director of the Prisoners' Club in Jenin, Montaser Samour, told Al-Quds that the court released them during its session held in Salem camp, west of Jenin. Their release, he argued, shows that their detention was arbitrary and illegal from the offset.

He stated that the detainees were taken from their homes by the occupation during the raids and searches and used them as human shields, and after the failure of its aggression, it used the issue of their arrest to mislead and deceive the Israeli public opinion and present them as wanted persons, stressing the continuation of the efforts of the lawyers to release the rest of the detainees and return them to their families in Jenin camp.

Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the shooting attack on Thursday at the settlement of Kedumim, near Qalqilya, which saw the killing of an Israeli soldier. 

The Al-Qassam Brigades issued a statement from the Gaza Strip mourning the martyr who carried out the operation, Ahmed Yassin Hilal Ghaidan, from the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah. He was shot dead by Israeli forces after carrying out the attack.

"This heroic operation comes as a quick response to the occupation's aggression against our people in Jenin refugee camp, and in response to the desecration of our sanctities and the ripping of the Holy Koran in the town of Urif," the Al-Qassam Brigades.

The attack, the statement said was intended to "tell the criminal Zionist minister Smotrich that Al-Qassam almost knocked on your door...Whoever sows murder and crime against our people will only reap death, terror and defeat," the statement said.

The far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also hold a portfolio in a defense minister overseeing civil policy in the West Bank, lives in the northern West Bank settlement.

The New York Times published a report by its correspondent in Israel, Isabel Kirchner, under the headline "Israel's Major Incursion into the West Bank Ended, But Has It Fixed Anything?" On Thursday, in which I stated that “the Israeli army announced on Wednesday morning (5/7) that it had ended its incursion into the West Bank city of Jenin with the aim of curbing attacks by armed Palestinians against Israelis; barely five hours later, some 40 kilometers away, bullets hit Fireworks were fired from a car carrying Palestinian license plates for the Israeli police, which caused damage, but no injuries.

According to the report, "The 48-hour military operation was one of the largest military operations in many years against armed groups in the occupied West Bank, and included deadly air strikes not seen in the region for nearly two decades, but few Israelis and Palestinians had illusions about its results, Saying that not long ago, the groups that lost weapons and fighters during the incursion will rebuild their ranks."

The report notes that three decades after the Oslo peace agreement raised hopes for the possibility of two states, a Palestinian and an Israeli, side by side, "the prospects for peaceful coexistence seem remote, and the main sources of Palestinian anger remain, including the occupation of the West Bank, which Dating back to the 1967 Middle East war, continued land encroachment by Jewish settlements, and a lack of economic opportunity, a Palestinian state seems more distant than ever, as radical members of the Israeli government reject any talks or political progress with the weak, divided, and incompetent Palestinian leadership. willing or unable to monitor the escalating hotbeds of rebellion.

According to the author of the report: “Israeli analysts said that the army achieved tactical success in Jenin, as it roamed the crowded refugee camp that the Israeli authorities described as a haven for militants and which, before the raid, had become a no-go zone for Palestinian security forces and, increasingly, for Israeli forces.” About a thousand soldiers, most of them special forces, discovered and dismantled explosives manufacturing laboratories, caches of weapons and explosives hidden inside buildings, under narrow roads, and even in holes under a mosque.

As Kirchner says, “The Palestinian Health Ministry said 12 Palestinians were killed during the operation; officials said Israeli security services detained and interrogated dozens, in some cases to obtain real-time intelligence; and one Israeli soldier was killed, possibly by mistake by a fellow soldier.” ".

The author ends her report by saying: “However, analysts said that the situation lacked any deeper strategy and could lead to more violence and revenge attacks, as Itamar Yar, former deputy head of the Israeli National Security Council, said, “The operation was relatively brief and limited, and this means that we have We are seeing similar activities "in the Jenin camp, although perhaps on a smaller scale."

An preliminary Israeli investigation on Thursday evening found that the rocket launched from Lebanon was in fact an anti-tank missile, explaining why sirens and the Iron Dome system were not activated, according to Israel's Channel 12. 

It was originally believed that Katyusha rockets or mortar shells were fired toward Israeli territory earlier on Thursday. 

The Israeli army announced that it responded by firing artillery shells at the location where the rockets were launched.

Israeli special forces detained a former Palestinian prisoner from his workplace in Tulkarm on Thursday. 

According to local sources, undercover troops in a vehicle with a Palestinian registration plate raided a restaurant in the northeastern neighborhood of the city, and kidnapped 35-year-old Safi Imad Salameh, who works there as a security guard. His whereabouts are unknown. 

Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man from the West Bank town of Tamun at his his workplace on Thursday.

The director of the Palestinian Prisoners Club for the Tubas Governorate, Kamal Bani Odeh, stated that the Israeli police detained Ahmed Bassam Ahmed Bani Odeh from his workplace inside Israel. 

An Israeli security guard was killed on Thursday evening in a shooting attack carried out near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, between Qalqilya and Nablus in the West Bank. The Palestinian gunman was then "neutralized," according to Israeli media. 

Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported that a Palestinian carrying a weapon shot the security guard, killing him on the spot, before attempting to run over an Israeli soldier.

A district court in occupied Jerusalem acquitted the border policeman who killed the autistic Palestinian, Eyad al-Hallaq, in the Old City of Jerusalem in May 2020.  

32-year-old al-Hallaq was on his way to a school for people with disabilities when he was shot dead.

At the time, the Israeli authorities claimed that al-Hallaq was holding a suspicious object in his hand. However, this account was retracted and the officer was later indicted for reckless homicide. 

This is not the only recent case of the acquittal of an Israeli soldier or policeman over the killing of a Palestinian. Last month, Israel also closed the case against the soldier that bound and gagged 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad from the village of Jaljalia, north of Ramallah, which resulted in his death last year.n 

Hamas and Islamic Jihad called on Thursday for the Palestinian people and different factions to reach a comprehensive national strategy to confront Israel. 

They described the unified plan as a "duty" and called on a meeting of secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions.

This comes after President Mahmoud Abbas held faction meetings to discuss Israel's large-scale assault on Jenin, with the two Islamist groups sitting out. 

"The occupation's plans to end the Palestinian presence in the occupied 48 lands, as well as the size of the risks, challenges and violations that our people are exposed to, oblige us to take action to confront this, in a way that responds to the aspirations of our people for liberation and return," the statement read.

"This achievement of the Palestinian resistance would not have been achieved without the unity of our people and its fighters in the field, which requires all of us to build and accumulate on this great achievement," it continued.

The Jerusalem governorate revealed that nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces and another 1,800 were arrested across the city during the first half of the current year 2023.

The Palestinians who were killed by Israel in the capital are 41-year-old Samir Aslan, a father of eight, 17-year-old Muhammad Ali, 22-year-old Youssef Muhaisen, 16-year-old Wadih Abu Ramoz, 21-year-old Khairi Alqam, and 32-year-old father-of-three Hussein Qaraqe’, 26-year-old Muhammad Al-Osaibi, 39-year-old Hatem Abu Najma, and 18-year-old Ishaq Al-Ajlouni.

While the Israeli occupation authorities are holding the bodies of 23 Jerusalemites, it has handed over the bodies of six Palestinians. These are Hatem Abu Najma, Wadih Abu Ramoz, Muhammad Abu Jumaa, Ashraf Halasa, Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali, and Muhammad Abu Kafia.

The governorate's statistics department also documented 1,800 arrests, including more than 208 children and about 56 women. 774 Palestinians were arrested in April, the highest number in a single month. 

While the occupation courts issued 192 prison sentences against Palestinian Jerusalemites, including 76 administrative detention orders.

The governorate also counted 181 demolitions and 19 bulldozing operations, including 40 self-demolitions. The occupation authorities charge fines if they have to raze buildings on the occupant's behalf.

It also added that the occupation government approved 23 settlement projects,including the approval of a new settlement near Qalandia, as well as $17 million tunnel-digging project under the Western Wall in occupied East Jerusalem.

The period also witnessed 128 attacks against Palestinian, including 29 physical assaults.

The department of statistics noted that 26,276 settlers had entered the Al-Aqsa compound, while almost half a million others had visited as tourists.

The Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement confirmed, on Thursday, that the attempts of the right-wing government and the extremist settlers to break the will of the Palestinian people's steadfastness, to resolve the conflict through the force of massacres and terrorism, and to destroy the idea of ​​a Palestinian state, have failed in the face of "the greatness of the struggle, resistance and struggle of our people and our fighters in the fields of honorable confrontation that our people register in front of all aggression". According to her statement.

Fatah Central said in a statement, "Our only contradiction will remain with the occupation and the Zionist subjugation project, and we will not be dragged behind the secondary contradictions aimed at diverting the compass of our national struggle, no matter how intense the conspiracy." According to the statement.

She added: "The efforts of the occupation and its collaborators and the pillars of the conspiracy against the Palestinian cause to strike at the unity and steadfastness of our people and the continuous targeting of the Fatah movement, the sponsor and protector of the Palestinian national liberation project, and insulting it, are nothing but an insult to the struggle of the Palestinian people, which protected the Fatah movement as its compass and did not submit to it." Great challenges, which alone does not satisfy the occupation and its clique." According to the statement.

It considered insulting the symbols of the movement as "a service to the efforts of the occupation and its collaborators," and aims to strike at the scene of the field and combat unity embodied by the Palestinian people in Jenin.

Today, Thursday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs published details of the health status of a number of prisoners languishing in the Negev Prison, after the commission’s lawyer, Fadi Obeidat, visited them.

The lawyer stated that the prisoner, Ahmed Azmi Hanatshe (24 years), has been suffering from a chronic disease, which is blood clotting, since he was 17 years old, especially after the first arrest in which he spent 20 months.

He also complains of clots spread all over his body, and a problem with the nerves, which led to a lung problem. Until now, no examinations have been conducted on him, although he was being treated at Alia Hospital and Jordan Hospital, and he received a lung vaccination every four years.

The prisoner had also suffered a fracture in the finger of his left hand, during the explosion of fireworks in a celebration he participated in before his arrest, and he was supposed to undergo surgery, but he was arrested, and then transferred to Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, where an X-ray was taken and the wound was replaced. .

Note that Hanatshe was arrested on 12/23/2022, and was transferred to administrative detention. This is the first extension of the prisoner for a period of six months, and ends on today 06/22/2023, and until this moment it is not known if it will be extended or not.

As for the prisoner, Ayman Ahmed Abu Arab (50 years), from Al-Amari camp / Ramallah, he suffers from a problem with the thyroid gland that affects him and makes him dizzy and persistent diarrhea, and he is not allowed to receive special treatment for that, despite his continuous demand for thyroid medication. From a previous injury to the right hand, he was supposed to undergo an operation on tendons and nerves, and medical reports were brought, but the prison clinic later informed him that there was no treatment for him.

It is reported that the prisoner was transferred to administrative detention under the pretext of having a secret file, and it was extended twice every six months, and the extension is supposed to expire on 06/28/2023, and there is no information about whether this extension is the last or not.

The prisoner, Issam Sami Sadouk (44 years), from Tulkarm, has been suffering from chronic colitis since 2012 and is receiving treatment. He had an endoscopy 14 days ago in Soroka Hospital, and he was informed of the need for an urgent CT scan.

Noting that Sadooq was arrested on 11/09/2002, and a 21-year prison sentence was issued against him.

The Minister of Public Works, Muhammad Ziyara, said, "15.5 million dollars is the amount required for the reconstruction of buildings and roads in Jenin and its camp, as a result of the recent Israeli aggression against it, which lasted for two days."

Ziyarah added in a statement: "The damages listed by the Ministry of Public Works pertain to buildings and roads, including infrastructure (water and sanitation networks, etc.) in the city of Jenin and its camp."

He continued, "The complete removal of 4 buildings at a cost of $1.5 million, partial medium and large damage to 25 buildings at a cost of $2 million, various partial damages to 250 housing units at a cost of $2.5 million, and damage to 150 commercial and service buildings at a cost of $5 million, in addition to severe damage to a mosque." Ansar at a cost of 1 million dollars.

The Minister of Works confirmed that the total required for the reconstruction of buildings is $12 million.

Regarding the roads, Ziyara said: "5 kilometers inside Jenin camp were bulldozed at a cost of $1.5 million, and a 10-kilometer stretch of land was partially damaged at a cost of $2 million."

And he indicated that this inventory of damages includes the infrastructure, including water and sewage networks, etc. As for the above-ground structure, work is underway to repair it and it has another cost, indicating that the cost of road reconstruction amounts to $3.5 million.

He stressed that the Ministry of Works started, since 9 am yesterday, with the "rescue phase", and the initial dealing with the effects of the aggression by opening roads and securing buildings that are about to fall so as not to cause danger to citizens, and it will continue until all these tasks are completed.

He pointed out that the remnants of the occupation and its explosives are everywhere, and that the ministry's staff are careful with the civil defense so as not to be exposed to danger.

Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the executive committees of the PLO and the Central Committee of Fatah, said that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will invite the general secretaries of different Palestinian factions to attend the emergency meeting in Cairo.

President Abbas held a similar meeting during Israel's onslaught on Jenin earlier in the week, in which he announced the Palestinian Authority would halt all cooperation with the occupation authorities.

Jenin reads Israel more faithfully than the claims of Tel Aviv, just as Jenin now corrects the claims of Israeli humanity as every Palestinian martyr "corrects" them; The truth about Israel does not lie in its struggles, but rather in the supreme regulator of its conflicts: its colonial cohesion. And since the assimilation project of an invented people did not succeed in creating a unified society, the colonial function succeeded in that. But the strangeness vanishes when we put in the center the fact that we are in the process of an ideological colonial project, which does not distinguish between “perception” and the “state” - hence the fragility of the state - and that membership in the ideological project is dependent on hegemony, or on political agreement much more than it is on civil identity. Or statism, which explains the Israelis' fear of "collapse".

However, the weakness of the doctrinal project, i.e. its need for political agreement as an existential necessity that compensates for the fluidity of statism, is matched by colonial cohesion: the deep values ​​of colonial society.

In a study on the "lethal army", a concept that developed in the Hebrew state - on the heels of the American army - and was put forward by former IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi shortly after his appointment in January 2019, explaining that it would provide a "deadly, efficient and renewable army". The selection and dissemination of the term "lethal" as a result of its identification as an attractive element to all segments of Israeli society, as part of a strategy to recruit societal legitimacy for what the Israeli army is doing - and will do - later on.

The research indicates that the fluidity of the term allows the various Israeli sectors to interpret it according to their values ​​and positions, based on the fact that the choice of this term in particular depended on a "deep knowledge of the values ​​of the Israeli public." That is, the term "lethality" was chosen because of its ability to "produce mobilizing effects within Israeli groups of different ethnic, religious, and demographic backgrounds."

In short, the research indicates that the Israeli army relies in its increasing violence on legitimacy that addresses the deep values ​​- albeit different - of Israeli society with its liberal and right-wing groups, meaning that the success and legitimacy of the "lethal" AETOS did not depend on the power of the right, but rather on the term's ability to fathom the value denominator. the deepest depths of Israeli society in all its fissures.

On the other hand, the Israeli social sectors are similar in their need for violence. Some of them may be satisfied with the Hawara model, while others may be satisfied with the Jenin model. They will differ on the degree of the scene of lethality, which is more scenic: Hawara or Jenin. They may differ on that, and they will differ on the extent to which the existing institutions need to be disciplined by violence. This is currently the center of the dispute, but both of them need violence: the Palestinian pays with blood the price of Tel Aviv's civil requirements no less than he pays the price of the ideological aspirations of the outposts.

The "liberal" needs to manage a normal life, prosperity, deal-making and academic cooperation in the country's capitals for an inexpensive struggle, which requires the disappearance of the Palestinian resistance and its distance from the possibility of collecting any price from the colonizer, not less than what is needed by the settler who wants the expansion of random outposts. The Palestinian must refrain from resistance and presence so that Tel Aviv continues to feel the lightness of the occupation and its low Israeli price, in order to be “liberated” from it. Tel Aviv needs to be liberated from Jenin as part of the cost of its day, so it uproots it by force, and goes on with its demonstrations proudly.

However, pride has its sources that do not need backyards. Jenin knows them. We know that the right to liberty has no meaning without the right to strive for liberty. Let all talk of “participation” or a “common homeland” or recognition of a “bi-national” reality stop now, and let the authors of these discourses express their positions regarding the right to resistance.

President Mahmoud Abbas' call for an emergency meeting of the secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions and forces was widely welcomed and positively received, considering that such a meeting constitutes an extremely positive and necessary step to confront the challenges and arrogance of the occupation and its settlement expansion throughout the West Bank and Jerusalem in the first place.

The answer to such a question is very simple despite its extreme importance, and we have heard a wide welcome from the leaders of all organizations and their willingness to respond to them, and this is a positive thing, but it is not sufficient. The important question is when will the meeting take place, what is its agenda, and what are the necessary preparations that precede such a meeting? President Abu Mazen has called for such a meeting, and he is required to set a date in consultation with the leaders of all factions and national forces, so that the important call does not remain mere words that are repeated without any results.

It goes without saying that the occupation persists in its measures and does not stop at any argument or point of view, and therefore it will not stop it and put an end to its practices that are contrary to all laws, any words except for its feeling that what calls for such words is ready for confrontation and challenge, and it will not allow the continuation of the practices of this ongoing occupation over all of our land since tens of years.

Abu Mazen's call for an emergency meeting of the faction leaders will remain mere words without any implementation or real value if it is not translated into a real field reality. In fact, this is something that is extremely easy and implemented if the real response is made, and not just a verbal response to it. As everyone and the leaders of the factions at the forefront know, we are facing great difficulties and extremely dangerous challenges that do not constitute mere political obstacles, but constitute a serious and extremely important turning point.

Oh, Mr. President Abu Mazen, and the leaders of the factions, you are primarily responsible for what is happening, and you are the ones who bear all the consequences, and we have suffered and are still suffering a lot, and we are paying the price for our land and our future, and this situation must end, and this is the responsibility of the leadership in all its departments... So when will he realize Who cares about this matter, and when will the unaware or ignorant people wake up to what is going on?!