PALESTINE

Wed 05 Jul 2023 12:17 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli army withdraws from Jenin after two-day onslaught

Israeli occupation forces withdrew completely from Jenin on Tuesday night after a massive military operation that lasted for two days.


As occupation forces retreat from the city and the camp, resistance fighters fired toward them and set off explosive devices against military vehicles.


During the withdrawal, Israeli warplanes fired a missile at the cemetery of the eastern neighborhood of Jenin refuge causing several injuries.


Twelve Palestinians were killed and more than 100 were wounded in the military operation. Twenty of the injured are in a serious or critical condition. One Israeli soldier was also killed. 


Israeli occupation forces destroyed a large number of homes and infrastructure in Jenin refugee camp, causing millions of dollars of economic damage.


After the withdrawal, Palestinians who had fled the camp over the course of the operation returned to inspect the damage. 


During the aggression, the resistance was brave in the face of the occupation, and violent clashes broke out, during which ambushes were set up using improvised explosive devices, confirming that there were deaths and injuries.


The Israeli military claimed that it had found and destroyed weapons storehouses, explosive labs, and underground tunnels, as well as arresting dozens of Palestinians. 

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 11:31 pm - Jerusalem Time

An Israeli officer was wounded at a military base

On Tuesday, an Israeli officer was wounded by a bullet during military exercises at the Tasalim base, south of occupied Palestine.


According to an Israeli military spokesman, the officer was moderately wounded and was transported by helicopter for treatment.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 10:28 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinians protest against Israeli invasion of Jenin in Ramallah

Ramallah – Palestinians marched on Tuesday evening in the city center of Ramallah to denounce Israel's invasion of Jenin. 


The solidarity march included cheers to support Jenin's resistance to Israel's aggression. Many also expressed anger about the international community's silence and inaction in the face of the large-scale operation, which has left at least 12 Palestinians dead. 


More than 100 Palestinians were also injured, and the army caused widespread destruction and damage to property and infrastructure.


Earlier on Tuesday, two Palestinians were wounded by live ammunition in clashes with Israeli occupation forces at the northern entrance to Al-Bireh, after troops cracked down on another march denouncing the army's actions in Jenin. 



PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 6:49 pm - Jerusalem Time

PM Shtayyeh: Palestinians have the right to self-defense

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday that the Palestinian people "have the right to defend themselves," in light of Israel's invasion of Jenin.


in response to some international statements about the Israeli right to defend itself: “To those who say that Israel has the right to defend itself, We say: The Israeli army is an occupation army, which invaded a refugee camp, arrested and killed innocent people, and the lands Palestinians are occupied territories.



PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 6:49 pm - Jerusalem Time

Death toll climbs to 12 as Israel's onslaught on Jenin intensifies

Two more Palestinians in Jenin died on Tuesday evening, as Israeli troops continue to operate in the occupied West Bank city.


According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, both Palestinians died from gunshot wounds, taking the death toll from onslaught to 12.


The Israeli occupation army is continuing to bulldoze roads, as well as destroy homes and public property. It also still using anti-aircraft missiles against some targets, as resistance to the invasion persists.



PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 6:33 pm - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu: Tel Aviv attack will not stop 'war on terror'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that the ramming and stabbing attack that took place in Tel Aviv will not deter his government's "war on terror."


Netanyahu made the comments on a press briefing on the operation in Jenin. "The attack would've cost the lives of many Israelis were it not for the intervention of an armed citizen."


"Our broad operation in Jenin will not be a one-off," Netanyahu told the press at Salem military base.


He added that Israel will continue "as long as necessary to eliminate terrorism, and we will not allow Jenin to become a safe haven for terrorism again." 

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 4:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

Two Palestinians injured, one arrested by the occupation near Ramallah

Two Palestinians were wounded by live fire by Israeli occupation forces near Ramallah on Tuesday.


According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the injured Palestinians were evacuated from the town of Al-Balou’ to Ramallah Governmental Hospital for treatment.


Footage from the incident also showed that Israeli occupation forces arrested another Palestinian in the vicinity.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 4:07 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas claims Tel Aviv attacker as its member

Hamas claimed Abed al-Wahab Khalaila, who carried out the ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that wounded seven Israelis, as a member of its group. 


Hamas Khalaila, a resident of the town of As Samu, south of Hebron, was described by Hamas as "heroic."


The Islamic movement described the actions as "legitimate self-defense against the ongoing Zionist massacre in Jenin, and the crimes of displacement, killing and destruction committed by the occupation forces."

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 3:59 pm - Jerusalem Time

After Tel Aviv attack: Ben Gvir calls the Israelis to take up arms

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir called on the Israelis to take up arms against "terrorists" after the joint ramming and stabbing attack that took place in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.


The far-right minister visited the scene of the attack. "This is the time to take up arms in response to the 'terrorists,'" he told the press, praising the Israeli civilian who killed the perpetrator.



PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 2:41 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli destroys property, infrastructure in Jenin invasion

The Palestinian National Economy Ministry said on Tuesday that Israeli troops have deliberately targeted infrastructure and property in Jenin, and is costing the already-struggling governorate millions of dollars.


The economic directorate in Jenin reported that the occupation forces destroyed the main lines of the water and electricity networks, especially in Jenin refugee camp, as well as bulldozing roads and agricultural lands.They also downed several homes during the operation. 


Alongside disruption to 14,000 businesses, Jenin Governorate loses more than $8 million a week during Israel's aggression.


The ministry indicated that many Palestinians were unable to reach their workplaces as a result of intensified restrictions on freedom of movement, while the industrial, commercial and services sectors in the city ground to a halt. 


Jenin's economy is particularly reliant on Palestinian citizens of Israel, who are currently unable to enter due to the closure of the Jalameh checkpoint.


The ministry called on the international community to work to stop the aggression against the Palestinian people and their economy.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 2:23 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian seriously injured by Israeli troops in Jenin

A Palestinian was seriously wounded on Tuesday by Israeli occupation forces in the city of Jenin, as the largest-scale military operation in the city in two decades continued.


The young man from the village of Fahma was by a live bullet to the head, according to the Health Ministry, and was evacuated to the Ibn Sina Specialist Hospital in Jenin.


Israeli forces are still shelling homes and using drones in Jenin refugee camp, using drones, focusing on the Al-Damej neighborhood.



PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 2:17 pm - Jerusalem Time

"Hamas" and "Jihad": the Tel Aviv operation is a preliminary response to what is happening in Jenin

The "Hamas" and "Islamic Jihad" movements confirmed, today, Tuesday, that the Tel Aviv operation is the first response to the Israeli occupation's crimes against our people in the Jenin camp.


Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said, "This is an implementation of what the resistance confirmed, that the occupation will pay the price for its crimes against the Jenin camp," praising the hands of the resistance fighters in the Jenin camp.


In turn, a member of the Political Bureau of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, Khaled Al-Batsh, called for the armed resistance to direct the qualitative strikes of the occupation forces on its settlers in various parts of the West Bank and the Israeli depth.


Al-Batsh said: "The occupation will fail to achieve its goals from this barbaric attack on Jenin and will come out of it dragging the tails of shame and disgrace."


He added, "The Netanyahu government's extremist attempts to escape from its internal crisis and transfer it to the streets of Jenin city and camp will not succeed, and this invasion will not contribute to the occupation government's exit from its internal impasse, nor will this frenzied military campaign contribute to breaking the thorn of the resistance."

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 2:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

Haniyeh and Al-Nakhala: The Battle of Jenin has a beyond in terms of impact and results

The head of the political bureau of the "Hamas" movement, Ismail Haniyeh, confirmed today, Tuesday, and the Secretary-General of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, Ziyad al-Nakhala, that the battle of Jenin has beyond it in terms of impact, results and repercussions, stressing that the resistance will continue by all means and levels and in various directions.


During a telephone conversation between them, the two parties praised the steadfastness of our people and their resistance, which was manifested among the various forces and factions in the Jenin camp.


They discussed the course and developments of the confrontation taking place in Jenin camp, the barbaric aggression carried out by the occupation forces, and the goals they seek to achieve.

They emphasized the continuation of communication, constant consultation, and assessment of the situation in order to take decisions that are appropriate to the nature of developments in the field situation on the basis of the unity of the people, the cause, and the resistance in all its locations.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 1:39 pm - Jerusalem Time

Seven Israelis injured in Tel Aviv ramming, stabbing attack

Seven Israelis were injured on Tuesday afternoon after a double ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv.


According to Israeli emergency services, Magen David Adom, some of the victims are in a serious condition. 


The Israeli police said that the perpetrator shot dead by an Israeli at the scene.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 1:06 pm - Jerusalem Time

Arab League hold emergency meeting on Israel's Jenin invasion

The Council of the Arab League convened an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Cairo to discuss Israel's attack on Jenin at the request of the State of Palestine.


The Arab states are expected to discuss concrete steps that can be taken, and to call on Israel to stop its aggression and to withdraw immediately from Jenin.


Om Monday, Israeli occupation forces stormed Jenin refugee camp with over 1,000 Israeli soldiers, backed by warplanes and drones. Ten Palestinians were killed and over 100 others were injured, including 20 in a serious or critical condition. More than 1,000 people have fled the area, and the Israeli army has destroyed many homes and infrastructure, as well as cutting off electricity and water to the camp.


The Palestinian population of Jenin refugee camp - mostly hailing from Haifa - were displaced from their homes in 1948. They also faced one of the most intensive onslaughts of the Second Intifada in 2002, where over 50 Palestinians were killed.


The State of Palestine will be represented by its emissary to the Arab League, Ambassador Muhannad Abdul-Karim Al-Aklouk, Senior Counselor Tamer Al-Tayeb, Senior Counselor Rizk Al-Za’anin, and Counselor Jumana Al-Ghoul.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 12:28 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli army claims to destroy tunnels in Jenin refugee camp

The Israeli army said on Tuesday that its engineering corp had destroyed a tunnel overnight that was found under the Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp. 


The Israeli army said it will continue its operation in the camp until its goals are achieved.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 11:42 am - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian security source denies security coordination with Israel is ongoing

A Palestinian security official on Tuesday played down claims in Israeli media that the Palestinian Authority has continued security coordination with Israel. 


Calling for unity following the army's lethal raid on Jenin, the source said that the statement by Israeli security officials was intended to sew confusion between Palestinians, and is part of a concerted campaign against the PA and its security services. 


On Monday night, the Palestinian leadership said it has suspended all contact with Israel, including security coordination.


President Mahmoud Abbas has previously halted security coordination with Israel during periods on conflict. 


OPINIONS

Tue 04 Jul 2023 10:30 am - Jerusalem Time

The Israeli annexation war and the loss of the Palestinian leadership

Jamal Zaqout

Jamal Zaqout

Opinion Writer

It is clear that the war of the Israeli occupation army and its settlers against our people, which has never stopped, rather, is escalating in an unprecedented manner at this stage, especially in the Jenin camp, the city of Nablus and other Palestinian cities and regions, especially those in which the spirit of unity and resistance is growing. A war to liquidate the hotbeds of resistance in the abstract security sense, as Israel is trying to market it, insofar as it is part of an integrated Israeli plan with many dimensions and a clear goal, which is the liquidation of the Palestinian cause, and the annexation of most, if not all, of the lands of the West Bank.

What has been going on since the dawn of yesterday in the Jenin camp, and the bombing of civilian targets, including the Freedom Theater and other facilities of the camp, its dilapidated houses, and the infrastructure of its surroundings, but foretells the scent of a bloody massacre that simulates what happened in the year 2002, but with great care to avoid such losses incurred. occupation army at the time. It is certain that adopting the military option as a primary option in the attempt to subjugate all pockets of resistance, of which the Jenin camp and its environs stand at the forefront, is a prelude to subjugating the Palestinian people to these well-planned criminal schemes militarily and politically.

The Smotrich-Ben Gvir government, led by Netanyahu, believes and is delusional that the path to annexation is now open, and it continues to mislead the world that it is waging a war of what it calls a “war of eradicating terrorism,” which, as it appears to have American approval, is a war that essentially aims to subjugate those who stand in opposition to it. Its plan, claiming to defend its existence, and what it calls the security of its citizens. Also, that terrorist government believes at the same time that the state of submissiveness experienced by the dominant forces on the divisive scene enables it to achieve its goals by ending the Palestinian cause, which is in fact the complete annexation of the occupied Palestinian land, excluding perhaps at the present moment the annexation of the population blocs in the main cities. In an attempt to reduce the risk of displacement towards the only remaining option for the future of the conflict, which is the one state, and the consequent demographic danger that it entails, as long as the Israeli ruling establishment has sought to reduce it, whether by talking about a two-state solution as happened during the Peres era, or devoting the separatist “state” of Gaza Which is devoted since the Hamas division in the Gaza Strip. This is while awaiting regional and international transformations that Israel seeks, whether to create or invest in the maximum extent, to implement the displacement plan, "transfer" and to complete what it did not accomplish during the 1948 Nakba.

It seems that the Biden administration possesses nothing but a lack of resourcefulness and indifference except to the survival of the authority with its unprecedented impotence to the point of collapse, and I am certain that this concern for the survival of the authority, while it is in this state of paralysis, is part of the occupation government's plan, in the context of its intense endeavor not to bear responsibility. population”, and once again to avoid the rapid rush towards a one-state solution, as this administration continues to talk hollowly about the two-state solution, at a time when it sees with the naked eye the spread of this option with every martyr assassinated by the occupation forces and every home it demolishes, and every racist and terrorist crime it carries out side by side with Criminal settler militia. Nevertheless, the PA leadership continues to pant after the illusion of restoring the course of negotiations, including attempts to promote the Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh meetings as aimed at this, while these two meetings produced nothing but a security concept that is a purely Israeli interest, which paved the way for the bloody crimes that are taking place and the transformation of the Palestinian cause into a mere mere one. A security agency in the framework of occupation plans.

Netanyahu, who is rushing to hold security meetings at the highest levels to discuss the reality of the national authority and its fate, having previously declared that the existence of the authority is a purely Israeli interest that requires concern for its survival, stressing his keenness to extract what he called the illusion of achieving the state from the minds of its leaders. In the service of his exit from the internal impasse in which his racist government is living, and with this exit he and his two partners Ben Gvir and Smotrich believe from the historical predicament of Zionism with the illusion of completing the Nakba and displacement.

If Netanyahu proceeds from assessing the reality of the authority and the extent of its isolation from the pulse of its people, or Hamas’s eagerness to inherit the crumbling authority, he will only conclude that he will proceed with his plans and throw some crumbs to the two sides of the division. On the other hand, his security services know the extent of the stubbornness of the Palestinian people and their willingness to sacrifice for the sake of their rights, and that the obstacle Standing in the way of his plans are not just hotbeds of resistance that can be isolated and liquidated, but rather the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian people in all places of their presence. The point of weakness at all does not lie in the exhaustion of the Palestinian people, who are increasingly clinging to their land and rights, but rather in their leadership, which has become impotent and worn out due to its division.

As I write these lines, the Palestinian leadership is preparing to hold its meeting to discuss what is happening in Jenin and its camp. What will it take in terms of decisions and directions other than condemnation and denunciation, in a way that enhances its steadfastness in the face of aggression? After it has always threatened to freeze the security cooperation relationship with Israel, while, at the same moment, it assures the US administration of its commitment to coordination and security cooperation, for fear that its interests will be threatened by awarding this agency bid to Hamas, which is ready for tempting bids to obtain it.

The Palestinian people are fed up with that rehearsal, which has become like a drowning man who repeats the claim of drowning, and when he fell into it, no one came to save him, because his credibility had preceded his death. As for what the trio of criminals, Netanyahu and his two partners, Smotrich-Ben Gvir, do not realize is that the Palestinian people do not have the luxury of surrender, and that Netanyahu and Gallant should summon the retired army generals since the great popular uprising to learn from them the Palestinian lesson, as they were all surprised by the genius of this stubborn people with their wisdom. And his toughness and the length of himself in a battle that will not end except with freedom and self-determination. And the Palestinian leadership on both sides of the division must realize that the only way to confront this war and its goals is unity, democracy, and strengthening the steadfastness of the people, otherwise it will be impossible for the situation to remain.
The people will remain, and the occupation and division will vanish.

OPINIONS

Tue 04 Jul 2023 10:30 am - Jerusalem Time

Organized crime...another war on our people

Rasim Obeidat

Rasim Obeidat

Opinion Writer

Organized crime that expands, develops and expands among our people inside the Palestinian territories - 48 - and whose number of dead and victims reached more than 107 citizens until the beginning of July, which is also expanding and spreading in the West Bank and the city of Jerusalem, and it is not the product of an internal phenomenon, rooted among our people Inside - 48 - nor the sons of our Palestinian people in general, but rather it is the result of a systematic policy practiced by the entity state to destroy and dismantle the societal and national structures of our Palestinian people, this people whom the entity state failed to subjugate, subjugate, dissolve and integrate into the society of the entity state, and "blow up" And destroying the characteristics of its national and cultural existence, as it succeeded in crystallizing itself into a national minority that has its own national, cultural and educational characteristics, and engaged in the struggle against the entity’s state, to preserve its existence as a people with national and national rights.

Despite the establishment of the state of the entity in the enactment and: “constitutionalization” and “legitimization” and “legitimization”, racist laws, its mission is to prevent the Palestinian self from developing, and to preserve its cohesion as a unified people, and not as population groups, as the entity wanted it, Muslim, Christian, Druze, Circassian, Bedouin, etc., and artificial Aramaic and other identities, but this people did not disappear or "evaporate" and will not give up their national and political rights.

The entity viewed the existence of our people in the Palestinian interior - 48 - as a demographic bomb and a cancerous gland that must be eradicated by legal and illegal means, as it is the antithesis to the purity and survival of its Jewish state. Containment and dismantling led to the destruction of the basis and pillars of our Palestinian society, but when this entity felt that all its policies, procedures, and practices did not succeed in realizing this dream, especially after the gift of the Eternal Land Day on March 30, 1976, in which the Arab masses rose up in defense of their land in the Galilee, Also, working to overthrow the "Prawer" Judaization project for the Negev, June / 2013, and participating in the October 2000 donation as well as the April 2021 donation, in defense of Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah, and their success in forming a leadership framework for them, the "Higher Arab Follow-up Committee", in which most of them are involved Arab partisan and societal components, the entity concluded that it is a plan to get rid of the Arabs of the interior - 48 - and dismantle them socially and nationally, it must be by penetrating the walls of their "societal and national fortifications...

It is very important to point out here that the state of the entity worked to transform the Palestinian interior -48 -, especially after the signing of the Oslo catastrophe agreements of September 1993, and after the liberation of southern Lebanon in May 2000 into a dump, as it moved its collaborators there. They are the ones who formed the backbone of the Israeli security apparatus, the Shin Bet, to play the main role in dismantling and destroying the societal and national structures and structures of our Palestinian people, in exchange for securing protection for them, condoning their crimes and preventing their arrest and trial or filing indictments against them.

They have expanded the circle of their criminal and extortionary activities, imposing bribes and royalties, and providing them with money and weapons. The half a million weapons that are in the hands of the Arab community are multiplied by ammunition, the bulk of which is obtained from the bases of the entity’s army, and their money market has become run by tens of billions, and they have taken control. They control commercial, economic and real estate institutions, and they also now control the implementation of projects and bids in the Palestinian villages and towns there, and even some bids related to the security apparatus of the entity state, and in light of the intensification of the state of boiling among the masses of our Palestinian people, and the fear that those masses will explode in the face of the entity state, due to its inaction and complicity In those crimes and covering up the perpetrators, where those who shoot at Jewish individuals, institutions or property, the entity’s police and security services work day and night, and mobilize all their energies and capabilities to arrest those who carry out these acts, and if 94% of the criminal shooters are Arab citizens Only 4% of them opened criminal files. This reflects and puts a big question mark on the fact that the Israeli Shin Bet, when asked to participate in the fight against crime in the Arab sector, said that he would agree to that in return for not revealing his methods, means and source of information before the judiciary. entity state, he realizes that this will reveal his cooperation and connections with those criminal gangs.

In light of the intensification of the wave of boiling, anger and popular protests in the Arab community, against these crimes and against the state of the entity, which the masses of our people accuse of providing them with weapons, as only 19 weapons were collected out of half a million weapons in their hands.

In light of this embarrassment, part of those criminal gangs transferred their work center to the countries with which the entity state has normalized its relations, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Turkey, and it began to supervise and manage its criminal work and activities from there.

All the solutions proposed by the entity's state to solve this problem are not feasible, whether the involvement of the "Shin Bet" in investigations regarding organized crime and the elimination of its system, or an increase in the number of police stations in Arab villages and towns, or giving Ben Ghafir emergency powers to carry out administrative detention operations against Those involved in crime and the establishment of what is known as the National Guard or the formation of a committee to combat crime headed by the Prime Minister. There is a systematic policy aimed at reaching the Arab community to make young people and the middle class think of emigration and leaving under the pressure of crime, or to resort to the entity’s state to protect it and engage in its projects and plans. The National Guard and others. It was not established to combat crime, but in order to fight the patriotic and nationalistic tendencies of our people at home -48 - and to stave off the dangers of their participation in an upcoming uprising or war. Likewise, we are aware that the organized crime that is practiced against our people there is being worked on to export it to the West Bank and Jerusalem. Where gangs and mafias are spreading, the West Bank and Jerusalem are flooded with drugs, clan and tribal disputes are fueled, and suspicious weapons are provided. Villages and towns of the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Therefore, the settlers' war against our people in the West Bank and Jerusalem, the formation of what is known as the National Guard gangs, and the organized crime inside the Palestinian interior -48-, has one goal: the expulsion, displacement and uprooting of our people and control of their land.

OPINIONS

Tue 04 Jul 2023 10:29 am - Jerusalem Time

Which authority does Netanyahu want to save, and which successor does he intend to install?

Egyptian Hani

Egyptian Hani

Opinion Writer

Media and political sources reported that the Netanyahu government is studying ways to strengthen the authority and prevent it from collapsing, and that President Mahmoud Abbas is studying the idea of ​​appointing a deputy for him in response to external pressures. In order to fill the gap that exists after the dissolution of the Legislative Council; This will create a constitutional vacuum in the event of a vacancy in the position of the president, especially after the president's age.


According to the Basic Law of the Authority, the Speaker of the Legislative Council holds the position of President for a period of sixty days until presidential elections are held, and this is what happened after the assassination of the late President Yasser Arafat; Rawhi Fattouh replaced Arafat until Mahmoud Abbas was elected president.


According to informed sources, the formation of the new Constitutional Court comes in the context of preparing for the transitional period. Where there are several jurisprudences that include the appointment of a vice-president by choosing a specific person or by virtue of his position as vice-president, and this needs to pass a law allowing the creation of the position of vice-president, or authorize the unelected Central Council - which replaced the elected Legislative Council, as it was delegated illegally With the powers of the National Assembly - by resolving this issue, by authorizing the Speaker of the National Assembly or the President of the Constitutional Court to fill a vacancy in the position of the President in the transitional period for a temporary period until elections are held, which the internal and external parties, and the occupation in particular, will not allow to be held, unless the results are guaranteed.


eroded legitimacy


Despite the importance of the law, it is not the law that is decisive, but rather the balance of power, internal wills, and external interventions to decide on an issue of the size of the succession of the president. This is for a simple reason; Because all the legitimacy of the Palestinian institutions eroded.


On the one hand, the date for the formation of a new National Council was due long ago, and everything that happened in the past period, including the appointments of new members and the exclusion of old members, some of whom were illegally established in the organization, including the election of members of the Executive Committee from the Central Council, not the National The organization’s statute also provides for the election of the head of the National Fund, which there is a clear provision that he must be elected directly by the National Council, and there is a loss of political quorum due to the boycott of the founding factions of the organization, and the failure to invite important factions such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad and legal personalities, in addition to not taking into account The representativeness of the organization for the Palestinians wherever they are, in addition to the loss of the agreed-upon national program after the approved programs, especially the Oslo program, reached a dead end, as well as the lack of national reconciliation that could provide temporary legitimacy until presidential, legislative and national council elections are held, and institutions are reconfigured accordingly. National foundations, democracy and true partnership.


On the other hand, no presidential and legislative elections have been held since 2005 and 2006, respectively, and this delegitimizes what is in place. Where the solution is not to appoint a vice president, but rather this procedure will make matters worse. Because it will open the door to external interference and the struggle for succession more about who will be the vice president, and is it a position monopolized by the Fatah movement or a Palestinian matter, and is it confined to the controlling group, or does it include the national whole and other people, such as Marwan Barghouti, whom the polls give him a clear majority over Any other contender in the presidential election?


The position of Vice President is the beginning of the countdown to the term of President Mahmoud Abbas


Of course, the president does not welcome the idea of ​​a vice president so far, at least, for two reasons: First, because it opens the door to the fiercest competition for succession under the president’s term, and the lack of a candidate capable of deciding. Secondly, and most importantly, the president's realization that the countdown to his term will start from the moment he appoints a deputy, as this will encourage local, regional and international players, and the Israeli player who played and plays a very important role, to transfer power, especially since there is a kind of weakness, if not a leadership vacuum. There is no effective leadership role. The president's performance in recent years has been dominated by the strategy of staying and waiting, and this has contributed to the weakening of the authority.


Path change required


What the PA, the organization, and the Palestinians all need is a radical change of path by the circles, forces, and individuals affected by the approved path, after the path (indeed, the approved paths) has reached the catastrophe we are living through, and after Israel has moved from the program of creeping annexation, gradual nibbling, and the creation of facts on the ground. , as a prelude to imposing the Israeli solution, to the program of rapid conflict resolution, accelerated annexation, displacement and Judaization.


No to appointing a vice president, as it means keeping the disastrous situation as it is, and keeping the Palestinian decision in the hands of or at the mercy of the occupation, which now controls everything. Perhaps Netanyahu's new statements about uprooting the idea of ​​a Palestinian state, and ending the Palestinians' aspirations for its establishment, do not reflect fundamental changes to the original position, but rather mark the beginning of a new phase in which the Israeli government seeks to impose the Israeli position on annexation on everyone, including the Palestinians, Americans and others, and push them to abandon Talking about and demanding a two-state solution, and accepting or coexisting with the Israeli solution that is being implemented, which does not accommodate more than self-rule (within two or three or more authorities) under Israeli sovereignty.


Netanyahu's talk about strengthening power is absurd


Netanyahu's talk about strengthening the authority and preventing it from collapsing and bankruptcy is absurd and meaningless. The occupation, with all its aggression, assassinations, house demolitions, displacement, settlement expansion, suffocating siege, dismemberment, racial discrimination, as well as the storming of territories, including Palestinian cities In a way that completely abolishes the differences between areas (A), (B) and (C) ... it exposes the authority and marginalizes its role more and more, including killing the peace process and the two-state solution, and deducting clearing funds under the pretext that the authority pays the salaries of prisoners and the families of martyrs, and claims after All this is because he wants to help the authority financially, and prevent it from collapse and bankruptcy.


The Oslo authority is dead, and a new authority is about to be born


The authority that arose after Oslo, and was part of a political process, negotiations, and mutual commitments, no matter how dysfunctional it was, and aspired to be a stage on the way to the state, died long ago, and the authority that Netanyahu wants to maintain and reproduce is the new functional authority that is an organic part of Israeli security It does not engage in negotiations with it, but conditions and dictates are imposed on it, and it does not express the national identity and rights of the Palestinian people, but rather separate individuals and groups who are rewarded with crumbs and facilities, in return for betraying the interests and aspirations of their people, and therefore it is not required to appoint a vice president to head this new authority, but what is required A new-style authority that is part of its people's battle against the occupation and for national liberation.


And when Netanyahu disagrees with ministers in his government because they want to dissolve the authority, as it expresses national identity, and replace it with local administrations and authorities that are separate from each other, he does not want the Oslo authority as bad as it is, but rather a limiting authority par excellence, and he wants the succession struggle not to lead to the collapse of the authority that serve the interests of Israel.


The director redefining and renewing the national project


The way out of this deep Palestinian impasse is not a new agreement of unity between the factions similar to the previous agreements. The Palestinians need much more than that, to revive the national project, redefine it, and renew it, in light of the new circumstances, risks, realities, emerging experiences, available opportunities, and regional changes. The international community, and whoever undertakes this task is the one who holds the key to salvation and is able to lead the Palestinian people. So, it is necessary:


First: That the Palestinians renew their adherence to their national project after reformulating it, and know who they are exactly, where they stand, what they want now, and in the medium and long term, and what can be achieved at this stage, and how can this be done?


Second: The forces, institutions, and individuals that believe in reviving the national project, the choice of resistance, the unity of the people, the cause, the land, and the historical narrative, by taking the initiative, moving to impose the will and interests of the Palestinians, and blocking the path to hostile plans, including the installation of a caliph, leadership, and authority that is completely dependent on the occupation that perpetuates the current fait accompli and transforms it. to a final solution.

OPINIONS

Tue 04 Jul 2023 10:25 am - Jerusalem Time

A war of aggression failed by all accounts

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

The widespread aggression carried out by the occupying power against Jenin and its camp, and the massacres it commits against our people there, including cold-blooded killings, house demolitions, razing streets and infrastructure, and the use of aircraft, armored vehicles and various mechanisms, is tantamount to a war of aggression taking place in front of the eyes and ears of the whole world, especially the Arab and Islamic world and in front of the side The Palestinian Authority and factions are all satisfied with issuing statements of denunciation and denunciation, and statements calling on citizens to stand firm, confront, and protect the resistance, while they do not provide citizens with the minimum requirements for steadfastness.


The occupation state used all kinds of weapons in its aggression, as if it considered Jenin and its camp a state. This, if anything, indicates the weakness of the occupying state that uses these weapons, including the air force, against a city and a camp with a limited population.


On the other hand, in addition to the weakness of the occupation side, it is terrified of the strength of the resistance, although it possesses only a few hand weapons, but it has the will and determination, and the masses around it, to reject the occupation that practices crime against our people in the occupied Palestinian territory, and the herds of settlers who would otherwise be protected The occupation army is theirs when they were able to wreak havoc on the land.


Which country is this that uses aviation and various military equipment to invade a camp?! It is a country that is not confident in itself and its capabilities, although it is a country that possesses equipment and strength comparable to many countries of the world, including Arab and Islamic countries.


It is a country that is not reassured about its existence forever, and therefore we see it carrying out what it is doing in terms of aggressive wars and massacres in an attempt to establish its existence, but it has not yet understood the experiences of the peoples who gained their independence from the colonial yoke, that the peoples are not defeated and that the occupation is destined to disappear.


What the occupying state is doing in terms of crimes against humanity, which are war crimes by all international standards and criteria, cannot bring it peace, and it cannot resolve the conflict for it, which it believes that Palestinian weakness enables it to do so, but these ideas and beliefs are just pipe dreams, the Palestinian people He cannot be defeated and he cannot raise the white flag or leave the lands of his fathers and grandfathers. On the contrary, since then he is more faithful, steadfast and steadfast than the previous generations. Likewise, subsequent generations will also be more steadfast and make sacrifices until the end of the occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.


In the face of the will of confrontation and popular steadfastness, the Palestinian side should not be satisfied with issuing statements of denunciation and denunciation and resorting to America and the international community, most of which do not move a finger and many of its countries, led by America and others, support this Israeli entity, but rather work on the unity of the national ranks and end the devastating division and develop a strategy Unified work and re-consideration of the national project and work to embody it on the ground. The aggressive war against Jenin and its camp will fail abjectly in the face of the will of our people there, which cannot be defeated or softened.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 10:01 am - Jerusalem Time

Haaretz: Operation in Jenin will not change reality

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said, on Tuesday, that the ongoing military operation for the second day in Jenin will not fully achieve its goals of eliminating the resistance.


The newspaper believed that the leaders of the right-wing parties in the Israeli government and their supporters in the Knesset and the settlements should reduce their expectations about the results of the military operation.


The newspaper says: The senior officials of the security establishment have no illusions that this process will bring about a fundamental change in the security reality, and that the aim of the process at the present time is to strike the armed cells, making it difficult for them to carry out attacks.


She pointed out that there is an Israeli need to end the operation relatively quickly for fear of involvement in other arenas, as it is likely that rockets will be fired from Gaza in the event that the number of Palestinian martyrs increases, and it is expected that revenge attacks will be carried out in the West Bank and inside the Green Line.


In another report, Haaretz said that the current process in Jenin and the pictures received from there indicate that it will bring up a Palestinian generation that does not see any other horizon.


She said that after the end of the process, the Israelis will return to normal, and they expect the Palestinians to do the same, lick the wounds, bury the martyrs, and move forward, and no one will care about the future or think about a scheme for calm, because in Israel they want to establish a reality in which the Palestinians get used to living under Israeli occupation and control, their civil affairs run by a weak Palestinian Authority, and from time to time they embark on a limited military operation that receives resounding silence from most of the international community and especially from Uncle Sam in Washington.


And she adds: The issue of controlling the Palestinians does not concern the decision-makers, and for them, the Palestinians do not deserve a horizon, and the youth among them must come to terms with the current situation.


She pointed out that the current generation in Jenin are those who did not live through the battle of 2002, or were born during it, and this generation lives in a state of despair and anger in light of the continuation of the Israeli operations and the Palestinian division, and for the Israeli public opinion, the image of victory may have been achieved, but every act of This prepares for more rounds of fighting and bloodshed.


And she concluded: Israel may be able to bring about a kind of limited calm, but the pictures from Jenin will be another fertile ground for the growth of another generation that does not see a horizon.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 9:33 am - Jerusalem Time

Dozens of settlers storm Al-Aqsa

On Tuesday morning, dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the strict protection of the occupation police.


The settlers made provocative tours inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.


Settler groups storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis, except for Friday and Saturday.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 8:48 am - Jerusalem Time

Injuries and arrests in raids and confrontations in the West Bank

Many citizens were injured and arrested, last night and Tuesday morning, during raids and confrontations that took place in several areas in the West Bank.


According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the editor Uday Bani Odeh from Tammun, and the young man Majed Aidi from Al-Fara'a camp, south of Tubas.


Meanwhile, Muhammad Daoud Shusha (25 years old), Alaa Tariq Hamamreh (24 years old), and Anas Za’oul (24 years old) were arrested after raiding and searching the homes of their families in the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem.


A young man was wounded by the occupation forces' bullets, during violent clashes that erupted at dawn at the southern entrance to the city of Jericho.


Local sources reported that a young man was wounded by live bullets in the Al-Qadam area and was taken to the hospital for treatment.


The occupation forces closed the entrance to the vehicles of the citizens entering the city and prevented them from passing completely.


Other forces also closed the iron gate leading to al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of al-Bireh, and prevented citizens' vehicles from passing through, forcing them to take detours to reach their jobs.


The entrance to the town of Beita, south of Nablus, was also closed with earthen mounds.

PALESTINE

Tue 04 Jul 2023 8:27 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel's Jenin invasion: Death toll rises to 10

Jenin – On Tuesday morning, the body of Udai Khamaysa was found in the agricultural land inside Jenin refugee camp, bringing the death toll from Israel's large-scale invasion to 10 on its second day.


According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 100 people have been wounded, and 20 of them are in a serious or critical condition.


In one of the most major raids on a West Bank city in over a decade, Israel launched an aerial bombardment on Sunday night before some 2,000 troops entered the camp with the aim of weeding out militants.


The army continued to destroy homes and infrastructure on the second day. 


Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli army, told the public broadcaster Kan that they arrested 120 wanted men out of around 160. He said the operation is targeting 10 other areas in the camp. Five laboratories for manufacturing explosives were also destroyed. 


1,500 Palestinians left the camp to avoid the fighting, he added. 


In a separate statement, the Israeli army claimed that it destroyed an underground weapons storage facility, two control centers, and that they detonated a large explosive device found in the city. They also said that the confiscated a large amount of weapons.





PALESTINE

Mon 03 Jul 2023 10:48 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian President Abbas calls for UN intervention on Jenin

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Tuesday on the United Nations and the international community to intervene to compel Israel to stop the displacement of the residents of Jenin refugee camp.


President Abbas condemned the "crime" against the residents of the camp, who were uprooted in 1948 and then faced the Israeli invasion of Jenin in 2002.


He also criticized the "double standards" of the international community, who have created a culture of impunity for Israel.

PALESTINE

Mon 03 Jul 2023 10:41 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation evacuates the homes of dozens of families in the Jenin camp, in preparation for their demolition

Last night, the occupation forces expelled dozens of families from their homes in Jenin camp, with the continuation of the aggression and shelling, which raised the infection rate to more than 8 injuries.


Al-Quds.com correspondent reported that he saw dozens of families leaving the camp from the entrance to the Al-Hussan area, including women, the elderly and children, and they arrived at Jenin Governmental Hospital, the closest point to the besieged camp.


The citizen, Maysoon Nashrati, told Al-Quds.com that the intelligence officers called them and asked them to leave and evacuate their homes immediately because the planes would bomb them. “The soldiers stormed our house and destroyed its contents and assaulted us and our parcels. Where are we going and where is the Arab and Islamic nation, may God take revenge on them?”


The displaced people of the camp headed towards the city hospital, amidst feelings of discontent and anger at their expulsion, and the citizen Abu Muhammad said, “Today everyone has failed us and abandoned us, and the resistance must review its options. We heard a lot of talk, and enough is enough.”


This is the second time that Israel has displaced the people of the camp from the Nakba, as it used the same method during the battle of Jenin camp, during which it destroyed the camp after its legendary steadfastness.

PALESTINE

Mon 03 Jul 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

A pause in Umm al-Fahm to condemn the aggression of the occupation on Jenin

Dozens of residents of Umm al-Fahm and the Wadi Ara region, inside the 1948 lands, demonstrated this evening, Monday, to condemn the ongoing Israeli aggression against the city of Jenin and its camp.


The participants in the vigil, which came at the invitation of youth from Umm al-Fahm, raised the Palestinian flag and chanted slogans against the aggression, and others in support of the people of Jenin and its camp.


They called for an end to the continuous Israeli aggression against Jenin since the dawn hours, which resulted in the death of a number of martyrs and the injury of dozens, in addition to the destruction and destruction of the streets and infrastructure, and the siege of the camp residents in their homes.

PALESTINE

Mon 03 Jul 2023 9:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

Updated: Injuries in clashes in several areas of the West Bank

A number of citizens suffocated as the Israeli occupation forces suppressed, on Monday evening, demonstrations in several areas of the West Bank.


The occupation forces suppressed a march at the northern entrance to Bethlehem, after firing tear gas and stun grenades at it, causing a number of them to suffocate.


Clashes also broke out in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, where the clashes concentrated in the Um Rukba area, south of the town, during which the occupation forces fired bullets, stun grenades and tear gas, without any injuries reported.


Eight civilians suffocated from tear gas, during clashes that erupted at the Hawara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.


In the city of Al-Bireh, a march was launched towards the Israeli military checkpoint established at the northern entrance to the city, which led to clashes, during which the occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters, without any injuries reported.


In Ramallah, clashes erupted with the occupation forces at the entrance to the villages of Nabi Saleh and Aboud, northwest of the city, during which stun grenades and tear gas were fired at the citizens, without any injuries reported.


In the north of occupied Jerusalem, clashes erupted near the Qalandia military checkpoint.


According to local sources, young men set tires on fire near the military tower of the checkpoint at the entrance to the camp, and threw stones at the soldiers, while the occupation army fired gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets at them, without any injuries reported.

PALESTINE

Mon 03 Jul 2023 9:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu: We are changing the equations against "terrorism"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Monday evening, that his government is working to bring new equations against "terrorism".


Netanyahu repeated his old statements by saying: "There is no sanctuary for terrorists, neither in Gaza, nor in Jenin, nor in Tehran, and we will reach out to anyone who tries to harm us, and his blood will be spilled."


He added, "There are no safe places for those who try to kill us. Their place is either the grave or the prison, and whoever sends terrorists will have their blood spilled."


He pointed out that the operation in Jenin will continue according to the required need.