After midnight, Israeli planes launched air strikes on Syrian targets in the city of Homs and its northern countryside, central Syria.

The Syrian army said that the Israeli bombardment, which was carried out from northeastern Beirut, caused only material losses, and that there were no human casualties, indicating that its forces confronted it with anti-missiles and shot down some Israeli missiles.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the Israeli attack targeted ammunition depots belonging to Iranian armed groups operating in those areas.

Simultaneously, an explosion was heard in different parts of Palestine, to show that one of the Syrian anti-missile exploded in the air and parts of it fell in the city of "Rahat" in southern occupied Palestine.

According to the Israeli Arabic-speaking Makan Radio, the remnants of the missile did not cause any injuries, but it caused minor damage to some homes.

The Israeli army announced that its forces attacked the Syrian air defense battery from which the missile was launched, and nearby targets.

Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, is considered one of the most prominent Palestinian struggle figures who fought the battle against the Israeli occupation for many years. He lived through the revolution in many of its important stations.

Abu Bakr died, today, Saturday, as a result of an unfortunate traffic accident south of Nablus, after returning from a greeting celebration that he himself supervised for the children of prisoners in the occupation prisons.

Who is Abu Bakr?

Qadri Omar Muhammad Abu Bakr was born on January 10, 1953, in the town of Bidya, west of Salfit, where he received his primary and preparatory education, while his first arrest was during the secondary school period in 1974, which he finished in the occupation prisons, before he was released. He obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from Beirut Arab University in 1991.

In 1968, Abu Bakr became a member of the Fatah movement, then he received military training in its camps in Jordan, and the camps of the Palestine Liberation Army in Iraq. Including 17 years and was deported to Iraq.

In 1986, he was appointed director of the office of one of the leaders of the Palestinian revolution, Khalil Al-Wazir, for several years, and in 1996 he returned to the West Bank.

In 2009, he was appointed as a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Authority for Military Retired, and assumed responsibility for the Israeli file and archive after his participation in the Sixth General Conference of the Fatah movement, and continued until the Seventh Conference in 2016, to be chosen as a member of the Movement’s Revolutionary Council, and in 2018 he was appointed Chairman of the Authority. The Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in 2019 he was granted the rank of minister, and he was granted membership in the Palestinian National Council.

While he was in the occupation prisons, Abu Bakr published two books in collaboration with others: the book “Palestinian Detainees from Repression to the Revolutionary Authority” and the book “Management and Organization of the Captive Palestinian National Movement.” He also published “This is My Identity” in 1979, and “Interrogation Methods.” Israeli Intelligence", 1980, and "How do you confront the interrogator?" 1980, and "From Repression to Revolutionary Power", 1992.

Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, died today, Saturday, as a result of a terrible traffic accident that occurred near the town of Jama'in, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, the accident occurred between two vehicles, one of which belonged to Major General Abu Bakr, who died instantly at the scene, accompanied by his escort.

The editor, Bassem Sawan, and his wife, who were from two mothers, one of the villages of Qalqilya, died.

Abu Bakr was returning from Ramallah after he supervised a celebration for the children of the children of prisoners in the occupation prisons, in the presence of President Mahmoud Abbas.

Ziyad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad, said that what is happening today in terms of the resistance and its development in the West Bank corresponds to the directives of what he described as "His Eminence, the leader," referring to the so-called leader of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Ali Khamenei.

Al-Nakhala added in an interview with the Iranian Al-Wefaq newspaper: “When His Eminence called on the leader to arm the West Bank, he placed his hand on a very sensitive area with regard to the conflict with the enemy, and based on this directive, which had a great impact on the morale level and the interest of the concerned brothers, and with cooperation Everyone has developed programs for that,” noting that weapons were smuggled into the West Bank and others were purchased from the Israelis themselves to arm the resistance groups there.

And he continued, "There was a great focus in order for the West Bank to move from a state of coexistence and calm, to a state of resistance that we see today, and of course all of this coincides with the directives of His Eminence the leader, and during our last meeting with him in Tehran, he renewed the call for that and for the development of work in the West Bank."

He pointed out that his movement worked to form different resistance brigades in the West Bank areas and arming them, noting that it supported groups from the "Fatah" movement.

He said, "We benefited from opening up to the bases of the Fatah movement, and there are segments that oppose the settlement and the authority, and have influence in the West Bank. We decided to open up to these segments, support them, and arm them. Their presence helped extend the state of resistance, and these segments oppose in one way or another the Palestinian Authority, and they have become siding with the resistance, and we We strive to help everyone as much as possible."

Al-Nakhala praised the Iranian support for the resistance, realizing at the same time the importance of not exaggerating in what it provides financially, saying: "There are those who think that Iran provides hundreds of millions of dollars a month, but I say with the least capabilities, a state of resistance has been created in Palestine, and therefore we must not exaggerate with the aid." economic introduction.

Regarding the joint operations room of the resistance in Gaza, al-Nakhala stressed the need not to exaggerate in describing it, pointing out that its aim is coordination according to need and not as it is described as a command, control and control center.

He considered that the firing of rockets from southern Lebanon about two months ago carried a moral message to support the resistance in Palestine.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has the right to exercise its sovereignty over the lands of the West Bank.

This came as part of the response of Yossi Fox, the Israeli government secretary and prime minister, in an official letter sent in the name of Benjamin Netanyahu to the Adalah organization, which complained to his office last March about the cabinet's decision to legalize 9 outposts.

Fox responded with the message on behalf of Netanyahu: Jordan illegally seized the lands of the West Bank at the end of the mandate, and it was not legitimate, and it did not have sovereignty over those areas, and therefore Israel legally owns the lands, and has the right to sovereignty over them.

He added, as reported by the Hebrew website Ynet, "These lands are the cradle of the history of the Jewish people and an integral part of the Land of Israel," noting that the outposts were legalized legally and based on legal advice from the security establishment.

And he continued in his message on behalf of Netanyahu: Jordan illegally seized the lands of the West Bank at the end of the British Mandate, and the countries of the world considered it occupying these lands between 1948 and 1967, and therefore what was established for it had no legitimacy.

He pointed out that the outposts that have been legalized fall within the jurisdiction of the regional councils of West Bank settlements, and that they are "state lands."

Regarding Adalah's consideration that this is a violation of international law, Fox replied on behalf of Netanyahu: "I would like to point out that the right of international law for the Jewish people is well established in the mandate document that was unanimously approved by the League of Nations at the Remo Conference in 1920, which was based on the Balfour Declaration, and was Determining these areas to re-establish a national home for the Jewish people, and there is recognition of the right of the Jewish people to this land, and these matters were confirmed in the Lausanne Treaty of 1923, and the San Francisco Conference in 1945, and at that time the proposals of the Arab countries to exclude the mandate were rejected, and it was confirmed that it is a land Israel and its historical right, and therefore these rights of the Jewish people have not and will never be confiscated.

Fox also rejected in the reply letter that this constituted a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the regulations appended to the Hague Convention, saying: "It will become clear in the end that Jordan was not a legitimate sovereign, while the laws of military occupation are applied only in the occupied territories of a legitimate sovereign state, However, Israel practically applies the humanitarian provisions of the treaty to the Arabs in the West Bank to respond to their rights, and in any case, it must be emphasized that the decision is consistent with the law in force in the West Bank, according to the rulings of the High Court of Justice, because according to what was stated in the government's decision, it is It is about the legalization of settlements on state land or with the consent of the land owners, not the confiscation of private property, and this is based on a written mandate that establishes the right of the Jewish people to the land, and this right can never be revoked."

Fox concluded in his message on behalf of Netanyahu: "Israel does not occupy lands, but owns its lands according to the law, and this decision does not change the customary law in force in the West Bank and in accordance with international law."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called on the international community to put pressure on the occupying power to dismantle the organized and armed terrorist settler militias and dry up their funding sources.

In a press statement today, Saturday, the Foreign Ministry expressed its surprise at what was reported by the Hebrew media regarding warnings of the formation of terrorist armed militias for settlers in the West Bank, especially since these militias exist, exist and operate with the support and protection of the Israeli occupation army, and now from ministers in the Netanyahu government.

She indicated that she had repeatedly warned against the occupation state planting and spreading outposts of armed settler militias and their terrorist elements in the West Bank, and the growth and spread of the influence of these militias and the dangers of expanding their attacks on defenseless Palestinian civilians, their homes and properties in their areas of residence or on their vehicles on the roads.

And she emphasized that settler terrorism is a direct result of state terrorism, which oversaw its diversification and generalization through all its arms extended inside the occupying state or in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Foreign Ministry called on the international community to put all settler organizations on terrorist lists.

Britain, Australia and Canada called on the Israeli government to reverse its decision to approve the construction of new settlement units in the West Bank.

On Monday, June 26, the Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 5,623 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank.

"The continued expansion of settlements constitutes an obstacle to peace and negatively affects efforts to achieve a negotiated two-state solution. We call on the government of Israel to reverse these decisions," the foreign ministers of Britain, Australia and Canada said in a joint statement published by Reuters.

Last June, the Israeli government also approved granting the racist Israeli minister, Smotrich, the authority to initially approve any plans for settlement construction and to reduce the procedures for deepening and expanding settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

On Saturday, Hamas considered the statements of the Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, in which he supports settler terrorism, as a new confirmation of the participation of all political levels in the occupation government in the escalating terrorist practices of settlers against the people of the West Bank, and encourages them to escalate their Nazi aggression against the Palestinian people.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a press statement, "These statements reveal the scale of fascism and racism of the Zionist Minister Smotrich, who demanded before that the erasure of the town of Hawara, and that these terrorist tendencies are adopted by all components of the extremist Zionist government." like he said.

He added: The international community will continue to be required to take a real and practical position on this black terrorism practiced by the occupation and its settlers, and not be satisfied with the shy media stances.

A twenty-seven-year-old man was seriously wounded by gunfire, in a crime committed in the city of Nazareth, late Friday evening.

According to the details, the young man was shot while he was near a shop in the eastern neighborhood of the city, and the young man was taken to the "English" hospital in a private car.

A 30-year-old man was seriously and "unstable" injured, as a result of being shot in Jisr al-Zarqa, just before midnight on Friday.

A medical staff provided the young man with first aid and transferred him to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, to complete his treatment.

The death toll since last Tuesday, on the eve of Eid al-Adha, has reached 5, as 3 people were killed in shooting crimes committed in the cities of Rahat in the Negev, Shefa Amr, and the town of Kafr Kanna, on Tuesday evening, and 5 others, one of them a boy, were injured in 4 crimes. Others were committed in Taybeh, Tira, Iksal, and Kafr Qara.

On Wednesday, two people were killed by gunfire in a crime committed in Shfaram, on the first day of Eid, so that the city witnessed the killing of 3 of its people in two murders, within less than 24 hours. The two victims of the double murder in Shfaram are Muhammad Khalidi (35 years old) and his father Omar, who is 61 years old.

The other dead in the three crimes committed last Tuesday are Amir Sawaed, 23, who was killed in Shfaram, Hassan Yaqoub Abu Latif (25 years), who was killed after being shot in Rahat, and Ashraf Abu Nasser (30). years old), who was shot in Kafr Kanna.

Thousands of Arabs demonstrated in the city of Haifa, last Saturday, to condemn the murders and the police's complicity with criminal gangs.

Israel's far-right Finance Minister, who also holds a defense portfolio related to the West Bank, came out on Friday in support of settlers who have carried out attacks in the West Bank.

In a message published on Channel 7, Smotrich expressed his refusal to describe settler violence as "terrorism," and criticized the use of administrative detentions against them. Four settlers have been detained without trial, even though hundreds have carried out attacks on Palestinian villages and towns in recent days.

Smotrich described the youths who carry out such attacks as "dedicated and patriotic," and called on the army to do more to protect settlers. However, he also called on settlers to respect the army's authority and to avoid attacking IDF soldiers. 

Today, Friday, a number of civilians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces, in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported that the clashes erupted after the start of the weekly anti-settlement march, and resulted in the injury of 7 citizens with metal bullets, and dozens of suffocation with toxic tear gas. They were treated in the field.

South Africa's Minister of Public Service and Administration Noxolo Kiviet broke down in tears during her Friday visit to Turmus 'Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, which was rampaged by settlers almost two weeks ago. 

Accompanied by the Governor of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, Laila Ghannam, Kiviet was taken to the family home of  27-year-old Omar Qattin, who was killed during the rioting. She also heard from the mayor, Lafi Shalabi, as well as several Palestinians who experienced one of the worst evenings of settler violence in history.

Besides Qattin, dozens of Palestinians were injured, while property and crops were vandalized.

Kiviet expressed her "shock" that such events are happening in 2023. "The experiences of people here are horrific, traumatizing, and sad, particularly for people who came from South Africa and lived in similar circumstances," said the minister while stressing the similarities between the previous south-African government and the current Israeli government regarding terrorism," she said.

“What is happening in Palestine depicts what occurred in South Africa in terms of racism and racial and religious segregation. That is why we are paying this visit to support residents, offer our condolences, and stand by them," the minister added. 

She stressed the need to implement UN resolutions and called for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, noting that violence will only lead to violence, and that everybody is entitled to live in peace.

Israeli settlers burned down crops in the village of Al-Tuwani in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills.

The settlers of Chavat Ma'on – an extremist outpost built on Palestinian land – set more than 10 dunams of wheat, barley, and olive trees ablaze, causing extensive damage. According to local sources, the land belongs to Fadel Rabei.

The settlers also released their sheep to graze on the village's lands and vandalized the property of Palestinians who responded to this attack. 

Today, Friday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued an updated list of companies and institutions operating in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Office of the High Commissioner stated in a statement that this came based on the decision of the Human Rights Council, which requested the High Commissioner to issue a list of companies operating in the settlements, since their work is illegal.

He added, "The former High Commissioner, Bachelia, issued in 2020 a list of 112 violating companies operating in the settlements, which were supposed to be updated annually, but the issuance of the update was postponed, and with the issuance of the new list, 97 companies still carrying out their activities in the settlements were included."

He explained that 15 companies were removed from the list after it informed the Office of the High Commissioner to stop its activities in the settlements, referring to the recommendation of the fact-finding committee to investigate the repercussions of settlements on the political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people, and the companies' activities include various areas of work that violate the law according to international standards. .

For his part, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine in Geneva, Ambassador Ibrahim Khreishi, welcomed the statement issued by the High Commissioner, and his issuance of an update to the list of companies.

He pointed out that the State of Palestine will submit a resolution to the Human Rights Council at the current session, in which it calls on the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to provide financial and logistical resources to the Office of the High Commissioner, to implement the mandate of the Council to update the list annually, on the basis of adding new companies that have undertaken activities in settlements, and removing companies. which ceases its activities.

Khreishi called on brothers and friends to support this trend, and the need to stop dealing with settlements and their products, and to stop all activities with them, as they are illegal and in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the guiding principles on business and human rights.

Thousands of worshipers performed Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation forces at the gates and entrances of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 40,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid the spread of the occupation forces in the streets of the city and the vicinity of the mosque, where they were stationed at its gates, and stopped the worshipers and checked their identity cards.

A Palestinian woman died in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Friday after a bus carrying pilgrims from the Gaza Strip was involved in an accident. 

56-year-old Ibtisam Al-Shanti was travelling on the bus near Aisha Mosque in the At-Tan'im neighborhood in the city of Mecca, a few days ago, when the accident occurred. 

She was in a serious condition until her death was announced last night.

The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs announced that Al-Shanti will be buried in Mecca.

The Palestinian Authority has so far refused to take any measures to help Israel in Jenin and Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz.

Following a long period without communication, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently spoke with senior Israeli officials. Sources who were privy to the conversations told that newspaper that Abbas does not intend to take any action to support Israel in Jenin and Nablus.

Long overseeing security coordination with Israel, the Palestinian Authority believes it has no reason to help the far-right government, which has rejected any political negotiations and have actively worked to bury the two-state solution, especially through accelerated settlement expansion, the newspaper explained.

Haaretz suggested that Israel is still willing to carry out a military operation in Jenin, regardless of coordination with the Palestinian Authority. 

While the development of missiles and explosive devices in the area could be the spark for such an operation, Haaretz also pointed to the recent use of armed drones as a possible alternative to a full-scale operation. 

Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian from Tubas on Thursday night while he was returning from Jordan.

The director of the Palestinian Prisoners Club in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, identified the detainee as Tariq Iyad Bashir Abdel Razeq, 22, from Tubas.

Data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs showed that the average monthly settler attacks against Palestinians during 2023 amounted to 95.

According to that data, as reported in Haaretz newspaper, on Friday morning, 3 attacks are recorded daily, including on Saturdays and holidays.

The data indicates that from the beginning of this year until the twenty-sixth of this month, hundreds of settlers participated in about 570 different attacks, and about 160 of them ended with physical injuries, one of which led to the death of a Palestinian, and the occurrence of various actual injuries that do not include trauma and anxiety.

And in the past year 2022, 71 attacks were recorded on a monthly average against Palestinians, as 849 different attacks were carried out, resulting in the injury of 228 Palestinians. It is almost the same as in the year before 335.

The Hebrew newspaper pointed out that these numbers recorded this year are not final, especially with settlers doubling their attacks in the last two weeks, and that these data do not include settler harassment of Palestinians, which did not result in injuries to lives and property, such as blocking roads, threats, shooting in the air, and encroaching on lands, springs, etc.

Haaretz says: The phenomenon of Jewish violence against Palestinians in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) is much wider than what is expressed in the existing statistics, and it is certainly much broader than what can be deduced from the reports in the Israeli press.

She added: The rioters enjoy the support of their supporters in the current government, and the aim of these attacks is to seize the private and public lands of Palestinians in the West Bank, at a faster rate than allows for institutionalized appropriation measures such as confiscation.

Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinians and raided several areas across the occupied West Bank on Friday.

Hamza Hammad and Muhammad Abu Jarada, the two men from the al-Am'ari Refugee Camp near Ramallah, were detained by Israeli forces while they were passing through the Jaba checkpoint, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Israel's occupation army also raid several other areas of the West Bank, including the villages of Barqa, Sebastia, Deir al-Hatab, Burin, and Salem. 

In the town of Ya`bad, south of Jenin, several Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation after violent confrontations broke out with the occupation forces.

In Burin, also near Nablus, occupation forces fired tear gas, stun grenades, and bullets toward Palestinians. 

The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, decried the "abhorrent racism" of the burning the Holy Quran in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on Thursday. 

The president's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said, "The president expressed his denunciation and deep disgust at this racist crime, which would fuel feelings of hatred between peoples and nations." 

The president called for "the language of tolerance and dialogue," instead of the "abhorrent racism."

Manchester City received £30 million from an undisclosed source in the United Arab Emirates a decade ago to cover up sponsorship payments, a leaked UEFA report has revealed.

The 2020 report, which was never published, was made public in an investigative report aired on Sky on Thursday.

Manchester City are yet to respond to the most recent allegation. 

The revelations come after the most successful season in the club’s history, winning an unprecedented treble of the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League. Under Pep Guardiola, the club have also won the domestic league five out of the last six seasons.

In February 2023, Manchester City were charged with over 100 breaches of financial fair play regulations from 2009 to 2017. The club has denied all the charges. 

The Premier League has submitted evidence to an independent commission, though no ruling has yet been reached.

The £30 million payment is now expected to be part of this investigation.

The possible punishments if they are found to have breached rules include point deductions, fines, or even suspensions.

UEFA had banned Manchester City from European contests for two seasons in 2020, but they had the decision overturned by the  Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Sheikh Mansour, the Vice President of UAE, took over Manchester City in 2008. Through a significant outlay, he has managed to transform City into one of the world’s elite football clubs.

Washington – U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced on Thursday the appointment of former U.S. ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro as President Biden's personal envoy to expand normalization agreements between Israel and the Arab world. 

"Pleased to announce former U.S. Amb. Daniel Shapiro is joining@StateDept_NEA as Senior Advisor for Regional Integration. Dan will support U.S. efforts to advance a more peaceful and interconnected region, deepen and broaden the Abraham Accords, and build the Negev Forum," Blinken wrote on Twitter. Al-Quds.com had previously reported that Shapiro's appointment to this position was imminent. 

Despite recent stand-offs between the Biden administration and Netanyahu's far-right government, the appointment testifies to a continued commitment from the Biden administration to striking a deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

It also comes as previous signatories to the Abraham Accords seem to have cooled their ties with Israel over the recent escalation against Palestinians.

Also on Thursday, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, said last Saturday that Riyadh envisions Israel as part of an “integrated Middle East” in line with the Vision 2030 project in her country, and also wants to see “a prosperous Israel” and "a thriving Palestine," the princess said in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell at the Aspen Festival of Ideas.

The princess's remarks came amid continued speculation about a normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

 “We don’t say normalization, we talk about an integrated Middle East, unified [as] a bloc like Europe, where we all have sovereign rights and sovereign states, but we have a shared and common interest," she added. 

“So that’s not normalization. Normalization is you’re sitting there, and I’m sitting here, and we kind of coexist, but separately. Integration means our people collaborate, our businesses collaborate, and our youth thrive.”

Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Thursday night.

Diaa Muhammad Saleh Al-Ghoul, from Jenin Refugee Camp, was arrested at the Za'tara checkpoint, south of Nablus, after occupation forces stopped his vehicle.

Israeli forces also arrested Muhammad Qatash, from Aqabat Jabr camp in Jericho, while he was traveling to Jordan through the Al-Karama Crossing to the West Bank.

Washington – U.S. congressional leaders announced on Thursday that Israeli President Isaac Herzog will address a joint meeting of Congress on July 19, "to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel and to reaffirm his country's special relationship with the United States," according to the U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

"The world is a better place when America and Israel work together," said McCarthy, a Republican from California who is a staunch supporter of Israel.

McCarthy delivered a speech in the Israeli parliament last May, the first time in 25 years that the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives addressed the Knesset.

This visit comes against the backdrop of tense relations between the Biden administration and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is yet to receive an invitation to the White House.

President Joe Biden's team has recently condemned Israel's decision to approve over 5,000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, as well as the recent spate of attacks by settlers on Palestinians. 

A 2-year-old girl was killed in a trampling accident in Al-Dhahiriya town, south of Hebron, on Thursday.

The police's spokesman, Colonel Louay Arziqat, stated that the the child was accidentally treaded on in the yard of the house by one of her relatives. The child was subsequently transferred to Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron with serious injuries.

Arziqa added that the Public Prosecution Office was informed and that the police are investigating the accident.

Several Palestinians suffered from suffocation from tear gas inhalation during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Tura al Gharbiya, west of Jenin.

Local sources stated that the confrontations erupted after Israeli troops stormed the village, adjacent to the apartheid wall. Several Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation, and many had their vehicles stopped and searched.

The people of Tura al Gharbiya are subjected to almost daily-incursions by the Israeli occupation forces, restrictions on freedom of movement from spontaneous checkpoints, and other provocations.

Several Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces on Thursday in Urif, southwest of Nablus, as they beseiged a home in the village and interrogated the residents. 

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, five Palestinians were treated for tear gas inhalation, while occupation forces also assaulted the a crew of Palestinian broadcast journalists and broke a camera.

Israeli occupation forces also raided another home in Einabus, a village south of Nablus. 

Israeli occupation forces issued a travel ban on Thursday against Sheikh Ekrima Sa'id Sabri, the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the former Grand Mufti. 

According to local sources, an Israeli intelligence officials came to Sheikh Sabri's house and handed him a travel ban for a month. The Israeli authorities have the power to extend the ban at their will.

Sabri was appointed as the Grand Mufti by Yasser Arafat in 1994, and served in the position until 2006. 

He has been arrested by Israel several times. 

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Thursday that there has been a marked decline in visits by senior Israeli officials to Arab countries in light of the escalation in the occupied West Bank.

In the six months since Benjamin Netanyahu established his government, the number of visits by Israeli government officials to Arab countries has plummeted, in comparison with the previous government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid.

Netanyahu has only visited one Arab country, Jordan. Bennett, meanwhile, visited the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Egypt over the same timescale. Bennett's visit to the UAE was the first of its kind for an Israeli prime minister, while his visit to Egypt was the first in a decade.

The current Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, made his first in office to Sudan, and has since visited other Islamic countries such as Turkey, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, but has not made an official visits to any Arab country. 

This contrasts with his predecessor, Yair Lapid, who visited the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco. His trip Bahrain was the first official visit by an Israeli minister to a country that signed a normalization deal with Israel in 2020.

Former Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz also visited Morocco and Bahrain during the first six months of the previous government's term, while the current minister, Yoav Gallant, has not visited any of the Arab countries since he assumed office, though he has met with ministers from Bahrain and the UAE on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, which took place. held last February.

Last week, Morocco announced that it would postpone the convening of the Negev Forum - an annual meeting between Israel and Arab states - in response to Israeli construction in the settlements.

Haaretz pointed out that the deteriorating situation with Palestinians has cast a shadow over Israel's relations with the Arab countries, which directly prompted Netanyahu to postpone his visit several times.