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.

Today, Tuesday, a number of citizens were injured, and two young men were arrested during the Israeli occupation forces’ raid on Al-Qaryoun neighborhood in the Old City of Nablus.

According to the Red Crescent, 12 citizens were injured by live bullets, including a serious injury to the chest and abdomen, and dozens suffocated as a result of the occupation forces firing tear gas, 7 bruises, and another injury by rubber bullets.

The Israeli army claimed that the detainees are wanted by its forces for being behind recent shootings.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned, in the strongest terms, the heinous crime committed by the occupation army against the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 12 martyrs, most of them children, women and unarmed civilians, in addition to dozens of wounded, including serious injuries.

In a statement today, Tuesday, the ministry considered that it is an extension of the occupation's open war against our people and their just and legitimate national rights, and a continuation of the Israeli government's attempts to export its crises to the Palestinian arena and resolve them at the expense of the rights of our people, and a clear Israeli attempt to perpetuate the logic of brute military force in dealing with the issue of our people as an alternative to solutions. peaceful political conflict.

The ministry held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for this aggression and its consequences on the conflict arena, as a dangerous escalation that threatens to explode it completely.

The ministry called on the international community to intervene urgently to stop the aggression against our people, stressing that a negotiated political solution to the conflict is the only way to achieve security and stability in the arena of conflict.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 12 citizens from Ramallah and Hebron.

According to local sources, those forces stormed the village of al-Mughayyir, raided several houses, and arrested the two young men, Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Basit Abu Alia and Aboud Nayef Abu Alia.

Meanwhile, similar forces arrested, late yesterday evening, the young man, Mustafa Omar Saleh, from the village of Arora, north of Ramallah, while he was passing through the Atara military checkpoint, north of the city.

In Hebron, Muhammad Amin Al-Zughair, Raed Nabil Abdel-Karim Al-Shaarawi, from Hebron, and the seven brothers: Raed, Muhammad, Salem, Yasser, Yahya, Mohie, and Zakaria Ismail Abu Fanar from the town of Yatta in the south, were arrested after raiding and searching the homes of their families.

The competent governmental authorities in the Gaza Strip announced, on Tuesday morning, the suspension of school hours in various parts of the Strip, after the Israeli aggression, which left more than 12 martyrs.

UNRWA also decided to suspend studies in its schools.

Various universities announced the suspension of working hours.

It was decided that work in government institutions would be part-time.

While the Israeli occupation authorities announced a series of security measures and increased security alert in anticipation of an escalation in rocket fire from the resistance.

And according to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, it was decided to push reserve forces, and it was also decided to push for strengthening the "air defense" forces, and opening bomb shelters in most Israeli regions.

It was decided to divert air traffic to and from Lod Airport, Ben Gurion.

On Tuesday morning, 3 leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, were killed after targeting their homes in separate areas of the Gaza Strip.

The three martyrs are Jihad Ghannam, Khalil Al-Bahtini, and Tariq Ezz Al-Din.

Jihad Ghannam (62 years old) is considered one of the most prominent leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades, and he is also considered one of the most wanted persons since the Al-Aqsa Intifada that broke out at the end of 2000.

Ghannam supervised many military operations during the Intifada alongside the martyr Muhammad Sheikh Khalil, one of the brigades' leaders, and these operations led to the killing of many Israeli soldiers and settlers during the presence of settlements in the Gaza Strip.

Ghannam continued to lead the Al-Quds Brigades for long periods and was responsible for many military, administrative and other files, including logistics.

His brother Ziyad was martyred in 2007, and he was his companion who was supervising the preparation of martyrs, to carry out the operations that were supervised by Jihad, Ziyad Ghannam, and Muhammad Sheikh Khalil in the southern region of the Gaza Strip.

Many of his nephews and sisters were martyred in various operations, including assassinations and others by carrying out operations against Israeli targets.

Ghannam supervised the development of missile manufacturing in the Al-Quds Brigades, accompanied by another leader, Khaled Mansour, who was martyred in another Israeli aggression last August.

Israel attempted to assassinate Jihad Ghannam several times, the last of which was in Operation "Saif al-Quds" in May 2021.

Ghannam is considered the most prominent figure in the Al-Quds Brigades, and he is in direct relationship with the Secretary General of Islamic Jihad, Ziyad Al-Nakhala, and has a distinguished and direct relationship with Akram Al-Ajouri, the Commander-in-Chief of the Al-Quds Brigades, who is a member of the movement's political bureau, and lives abroad, and he was also subjected to Israeli bombing. In 2019, coinciding with the assassination of Bahaa Abu al-Ata, a leader in the Saraya in Gaza.

Khalil Al-Bahtini

Khalil al-Bahtini (44 years old) is considered one of the most prominent leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, and his star shone as a political activist in the movement. He was in direct relationship with many of the Brigades’ leaders during the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, including Bashir al-Dabash, Moqlad Hamid, Aziz al-Shami and others. His military activity became clearer and greater after the withdrawal The occupation of the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Al-Bahtini formed many active groups within the Al-Quds Brigades, especially those that supervise the development of missiles, and was in direct relationship with Bahaa Abu Al-Atta, who was assassinated in 2019, and with Tayseer Al-Ja’bari and Khaled Mansour, who were assassinated last August.

After the martyrdom of Al-Jabari, he supervised the Al-Quds Brigades in the northern region of the Gaza Strip, and was responsible for firing rockets from that area.

Tariq Ezzedine

Tariq Ezzedine is considered one of the most prominent leaders of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, and his star shone brighter after his liberation in the "Wafa'a al-Ahrar" deal, according to which 1,027 prisoners were released, in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, in 2011.

Ezzedine suffered from a serious health problem and received treatment outside the Gaza Strip, until he recovered and returned to the Strip, to be elected within the first elected political bureau of the Islamic Jihad in 2018, and he was also elected to the political bureau in its second session a few months ago.

Israel accuses Ezzedine of being responsible for the Islamic Jihad's military action in the West Bank and supervising the attacks from there, as well as transferring funds and weapons, especially to the Jenin Brigade.

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas political bureau, said on Tuesday that the assassination of the leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, with a treacherous operation, will not bring security to the occupier, but rather more resistance.

Haniyeh added, in a press statement, "The enemy made a mistake in its estimates and will pay the price for its crime."

He continued, "Only resistance will determine the way to inflict pain on the treacherous enemy."

He continued, "The aggression targets all of our people, and the resistance is unified in confronting it."

Well-informed Palestinian sources revealed, at dawn on Tuesday, that the leaders of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, who were assassinated at dawn by the Israeli army, were preparing to travel, accompanied by a delegation from the movement's political bureau, out of the Gaza Strip.

The sources told Al-Quds.com that the assassination of the Jihad leaders took place at a time when members of the movement's political bureau were going to Cairo and from abroad to hold internal and external meetings.

According to the sources, the leaders of the brigades who were assassinated were going with the delegation of the Jihad leaders to Egypt, which informed them yesterday that they could travel from Cairo to abroad.

The sources indicated that the leaders of the brigades had been hiding for a while, and after receiving permission to prepare for travel, they went to their families to say goodbye before they were bombed inside their homes at dawn.

The Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip killed 12 citizens, including 3 leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, they are Jihad Ghannam, Khalil al-Bahtini, and Tariq Izz al-Din.

Thirteen civilians were killed and more than 20 were injured, at dawn on Tuesday, as a result of Israeli raids that targeted several targets in the Gaza Strip.

According to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, its crews evacuated the martyrs and the wounded from the areas of aggression, noting that among the martyrs were 4 children and 4 women.

The Israeli army announced that it had carried out Operation Defensive Arrow against the leadership of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, in addition to targeting a series of sites for the production and storage of weapons and military equipment, as well as military sites for Jihad.

The operation targeted the Secretary of the Military Council of the Al-Quds Brigades, Jihad Ghannam (62 years), at his home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

It also targeted the commander of the northern region in the Al-Quds Brigades, Khalil Al-Bahtini (44 years old), a member of the Political Bureau for the West Bank and the released prisoner in the Gilad Shalit deal in 2011, Tariq Ezzedine, a resident of Jenin.

Many citizens were killed, including family members of the targeted children, women and others.

The Israeli army accused the three martyrs of being responsible for a series of attacks from Gaza, and directing many attacks from the West Bank.

The Islamic Jihad movement mourned its martyrs, threatening the occupation with a harsh response.

“Oh, UNRWA, the interest of students and patients is above any consideration.” With these words, a large number of residents of Askar camp in Nablus, during a protest they organized today, Monday, in front of the office of the UNRWA director in the camp, expressed their dissatisfaction with the continuation of the strike by the UNRWA workers union. , which doubled the size of the suffering experienced by the people of the Palestinian camps.

It is noteworthy that all health and educational facilities and UNRWA relief aid distribution centers in the refugee camps in the West Bank are still out of order for the third month in a row, which prompted the popular committees, institutions and activities of the old and new Askar camps to invite the people to this vigil.

The families and their children participating in the vigil raised banners denouncing the agency's reductions, and calling for stopping this strike in order to obtain their minimum rights to education, treatment, and live in dignity, especially in light of the difficult conditions that all our people suffer from.

The head of the People's Committee for Services in the old Askar camp, Majid Abu Kishk, told Al-Quds.com: "We reject the agency's policy of cuts against the Palestinian camps and their workers. The strike is in the most difficult times and the darkest conditions we are going through in the West Bank, leaving our children in the streets without schools, as well as the Palestinian Authority, which has not moved a finger since the start of the strike.

Abu Kishk added that the protest came late because the steps of the strike were not clear, stressing that they are with the union's demands, but they are against the timing of the strike, and they do not want to take any step against the union.

He expressed his concern as a result of the decline in the role of UNRWA, which is considered the only witness to the Palestinian Nakba since its establishment in 1949, saying: "We are living one Nakba after another, and this strike is a big problem that has befallen us, as the school year is almost over and we have a large educational loss." Not to mention the general health and environmental problems in the camp.

He stressed the need for the agency to provide educational compensation for about (2,500) male and female students in the basic stages in its schools in the event that the strike is lifted in the coming period, in addition to providing treatment to one thousand nine hundred cases suffering from chronic diseases in the camp.

The citizen, Rawand Salehi, expressed her dissatisfaction with this situation in which the people live in the Askar camp in particular and the Palestinian camps in general, indicating that she registered her daughter in a private school to complete the first grade and avoid her absence from the education system at that important stage.

Salehi said, "I had to enroll my daughter, knowing that many parents will not be able to transfer their children to other schools, due to the deterioration of their living conditions. I confirm that we are all with the agency's employees, but the strike affected us in the camps, so we hope that it will stop because we are the victims." .

The deputy secretary of the Fatah movement in the camp, Ahmed Abu Saada, explained, "We in the refugee camps remain under the framework of the agency until our return, and we do not want to strip it of its responsibilities because it is the only witness to the tragedy of our people in the Palestinian camps."

About seventeen thousand people live in the old Askar camp, over one square kilometer, where there is overcrowding, deteriorating living conditions, not to mention unemployment - according to Abu Saada - and it was the duty of "UNRWA" to meet all their needs, while it is working to reduce them little by little.

Abu Saada added, "The agency worked to reduce the number of teachers in schools, which led to overcrowding in classrooms with students. It also stopped providing the families with food supplies, as well as material assistance. We do not want to relieve them of their duties towards us until we return to our cities and villages from which we were expelled."

For his part, Jamal Shatara, the head of the Lod Charity Association, who is among the families participating in the protest, said: "We want to deliver messages to all the conflicting parties that shutting down schools and all facilities in the camp is not in the interest of our children or our camps, and we are the only concern for the students to return to their schools, And stay away from this ignorance policy.

Shatara continued: "We are not against the Union, but we are against the ignorance of our children and we refuse to let them remain in the streets because the best place for them is in schools, and this is a year of their lives without education, and the only losers are the people of the camps, and the interest of our students is above all considerations, so we call on all camps others to claim their rights.

It is worth mentioning that the Union of Arab Workers of the Agency has been trying for years to obtain a number of demands, during which it took several protest steps, but UNRWA is procrastinating in achieving their demands, as the latter claims that it is suffering from a financial crisis resulting from the failure of the funding countries to fulfill their commitments. Which led to its inability to provide its services to the Palestinian refugees as required.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh stressed the importance of international solidarity visits with the aim of supporting our people and our cause, and creating more partnerships and twinning projects between the Palestinian local government bodies and their counterparts in the countries of the world.

This came during his reception, today, Monday, in his office in the city of Ramallah, a delegation of French local authorities that have twinning relations with their Palestinian counterparts, participating in the activities of the Fifth Conference on Palestinian-French decentralized cooperation held in Ramallah, in the presence of the French Consul General, Rene Trokaz, and the Governor of Jenin Akram Rajoub, and the Palestinian Ambassador to France, Hala Abu Hasira.

The Prime Minister stressed these visits to Palestine in order to witness the facts and conditions on the ground, "The Israeli practices and measures towards our people amount to apartheid, according to what was mentioned by many reports of international institutions recently."

He praised the joint cooperation between France and Palestine, noting that all forms of French support for Palestine are consistent with the Palestinian national priorities, and that the French local bodies are among the first to establish twinning relations with their Palestinian counterparts.

The prime minister called on French local authorities and the French people to urge decision-makers in France to recognize the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, with Jerusalem as its capital.

Shtayyeh said: "Today we are facing a new regime in Israel based on more measures towards our people, by changing the rules of fire, as the occupation forces have killed approximately 110 of our people since the beginning of the year, and storm daily into Palestinian areas and holy sites, and continue to detain corpses." The martyrs are in refrigerators and tombs of numbers.

Yesterday evening, Monday, the Israeli occupation police closed a number of roads leading to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem.

According to local sources, a resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood told Al-Quds correspondent that the occupation forces closed these roads to secure the settlers’ storming of the place in celebration of the Hebrew “Torch Day”.

The sources added that the occupation police set up several barriers at the entrances to Sheikh Jarrah, to prevent the arrival of vehicles and to secure settlers’ incursions into the “tomb of Shimon al-Siddiq.”

It is mentioned that in order for the extremist Jews to create rituals for this grave, they began to repeat the rituals of the “Feast of the Flame” at it in the context of their endeavor to insert the biblical narrative on the geography of occupied Jerusalem and obliterate the Palestinian presence.

Ceasefire negotiations between the two warring parties in Sudan, which are being held in Jeddah, have not made "much progress," a Saudi diplomat told AFP on Monday, while fighting continues Monday in Khartoum.

Since the outbreak of the confrontations on April 15th, the Sudanese capital has been witnessing a state of chaos resulting from the battles between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hemedti".

In response to a Saudi-American initiative, the two military commanders sent their representatives to the city of Jeddah on Saturday to hold talks that Washington and Riyadh described as "initial talks."

"The negotiations have not made much progress so far," a Saudi diplomat told AFP. He added, "A permanent ceasefire is not on the table. Each side believes that it is able to resolve the battle."

Kholoud Khair, founder of the Confluence Advisory Center in Khartoum, believes that the presence of representatives of the two sides in Jeddah is “mostly a kind of rapprochement with the Saudis and Americans, rather than using this platform reliably to reach an agreement.”

For the fourth week in a row, the five million residents of Khartoum stayed in their homes in light of the scarcity of water and food resources, amid panic and confusion from stray bullets.

"We hear the sounds of aerial bombardment coming from the market area in the city centre," a resident of southern Khartoum told AFP.

The Sudanese army stated earlier that its delegation to the negotiations "will only talk about the armistice and how to properly implement it to facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid."

For its part, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations are trying, in the city of Port Sudan (east) on the Red Sea, to negotiate the delivery of aid to Khartoum and Darfur, where hospitals and humanitarian aid stores have been bombed or looted.

And on Sunday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, arrived in Jeddah with the aim of meeting representatives of the two parties to the conflict, but his role in the negotiations is not yet clear.

A spokeswoman for Griffiths said Sunday that he is seeking to discuss humanitarian issues related to Sudan.

A second UN official told AFP on Monday that Griffiths "requested to join the negotiations," noting that his request had not yet been approved.

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a meeting on May 11th to discuss the "impact" of the confrontations in Sudan "on human rights".

Experts believe that the war may drag on with the inability of either side to resolve it on the ground.

And the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday that the Saudi monarch and crown prince directed the King Salman Relief Center to "provide various humanitarian aid worth $100 million" to provide relief, humanitarian and medical assistance to the displaced.

The battles that have been going on for more than three weeks have resulted in 750 dead and 5,000 wounded, according to the data of the Armed Conflict Location and Facts (ACLED), in addition to the displacement of 335,000 people and 117,000 refugees to neighboring countries.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry affirmed that Egypt has received "since the beginning of the crisis more than 57,000 Sudanese brothers, in addition to its contribution to the evacuation of more than four thousand foreign citizens."

The United Nations reported that 30,000 Sudanese fled to Chad and 27,000 to South Sudan.

The Jeddah talks come after a series of Arab and African regional initiatives, especially by the eastern countries of the continent through the IGAD Development Organization, which did not bear fruit.

The African Union is also seeking calm between the two parties, especially as it exhausted the last cards of pressure on Sudan by suspending its membership in 2021, after Al-Burhan, supported by Daglo, carried out a military coup in which civilians were removed from power.

Experts believe that there is a discrepancy in the support of regional powers for the two parties to the conflict in Sudan, as the UAE appears to be on the side of Dagalo, in contrast to Egypt, which supports the army, while Saudi Arabia stands at the same distance from the two generals.

Khair told AFP that the absence of Cairo and Abu Dhabi from the Jeddah talks dampens hopes of reaching an agreement, noting that the Egyptians and Emiratis "cannot only negotiate a cease-fire, but also make it (the agreement) stand."

On Monday, Shoukry went to Chad and met Chadian President Mohamed Idriss Deby to consult on "supporting ceasefire efforts and dealing with the humanitarian crisis facing the Sudanese people as a result of the ongoing fighting," according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

Shukri is scheduled to go to South Sudan to meet President Salva Kiir for the same matter.

During an emergency meeting Sunday of Arab foreign ministers at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo, which dealt with developments in the Sudanese file, the League's Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that negotiations between the two parties to the conflict "deserve support, and I repeat my appeal to hold on to this opportunity."

Aboul Gheit warned that the current conflict would turn into "a first round of war that would divide Sudan into rival regions and turn it into a battleground that threatens its existence."

The "Unified Teachers' Movement" announced on Monday evening the resumption of the strike again, due to what the movement indicated was the government's failure to fulfill its obligations towards teachers, and the non-disbursement of what was deducted during the 80-day strike.

In a statement, the "Teachers' Movement" confirmed the resumption of the strike from the morning queue, with proof of presence, a fingerprint/signature, and leaving at any time the teacher wants for all stages except for the Tawjihi, where dealing with the Tawjihi is limited to giving class lessons only.

Al-Hirak called for a boycott of the general secondary exams (Tawjihi) in terms of monitoring and correction in the event that the demands were not met before the start of the exams, and a boycott of all training courses and office and administrative work issued by the Ministry of Education, including penalties and the (Eschool) program.

And the "teachers' movement" announced the cancellation of accepting the initiative of the Central Committee represented by Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub, and returning to square one. While Al-Hirak indicated that it provided an opportunity for the initiative of the Central Committee represented by Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub, which failed before its implementation began.

The "teachers' movement" called on all government sectors, parents, clan notables, and all the Palestinian people to the central sit-in in front of the Muqata'a in Ramallah, next Thursday corresponding to 11/5/2023, at 11:00 a.m., to demand the full payment of the salary, and to appeal to the President To provide protection for the government sector from the great risk of leakage resulting from the policy of deduction from salaries, and its inadequacy in the first place, as the most recent of which was the submission of some teachers of their resignation as a result of the irregularity of the salary and the disparity in the percentages of its disbursement and deduction from it.

The movement called for not dealing with the General Union of Teachers, and not affiliating with it in any way until it is democratized in a way that guarantees teachers the freedom to run and vote for all levels and formations.

The movement emphasized the continuation of protest activities until legitimate demands are met. By democratizing the union with clear texts that do not accept interpretation and interpretation, and guaranteeing every teacher who is at work the freedom to run and vote for all formations of the union, cancel all financial and administrative penalties, return the deductions deducted from teachers’ salaries, and pledge not to prejudice any male or female teacher on the background of the strike and past and current activities.

Likewise, the payment of the 5% bonus previously agreed upon with its retroactive effect from the date of 1/1/2023, with the remaining 10% fixed on the salary slip by a legal text binding on the government to disburse it before the end of this year, and calculating the years of contracts for purposes of retirement and grades for male and female teachers who were employed in 2016 to date.

The "Hirak" called on honorable parents not to send their children to schools until the teacher obtains his rights, and for the students not to go to schools if they were asked to do so, and the "Hirak" said: "We will not give one class (except for the Tawjihi) without fulfilling the legitimate demands," as he pointed out. Al-Hirak” indicated that the elected Democratic Teachers Union will ensure the fulfillment of the rest of the teachers’ demands, as it will receive them from the Al-Hirak when it is formed.

On the 26th of last month, the "teachers' movement" announced the freezing of the strike until the tenth of next September, and the return to regular working hours in schools in the West Bank, after assurances it received about compliance with the signed agreements, and setting a time limit for the payment of the financial bonus dues that it demands. .

The demands were met by the initiative of the Central Committee of the (Fatah) movement, represented by the Secretary of the Committee, Lieutenant General Jibril Rajoub, with the same specifications requested by the “movement” after the movement’s amendments to it by adding a time limit to it, and ensuring that no male or female teacher is subjected to any future sanctions against the backdrop of this round of strike and activities. And canceling all penalties and deductions issued against teachers who practiced activities in this human rights tour immediately.

The teachers are calling for the implementation of an agreement concluded, in May 2022, between the government, the General Union of Teachers and the "teachers' movement", sponsored by many institutions and personalities, and the strike stopped after that, but the protests and strikes have returned since February 5, 2023, to demand the implementation of that initiative. It stopped on the twenty-sixth of last month.

The agreement included 5 clauses: returning discounts to teachers, professionalizing education, issuing a teacher protection law, working to “democratize the union”, and depositing a 15% bonus for the nature of work on the salary slip, starting from the first month of the new year 2023.

Palestinian officials warned today (Monday) of the danger of the Israeli "flag march" scheduled to be held in the coming days, entering the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem.

The warnings came in the wake of what was published by the Hebrew radio yesterday (Sunday) that the march of the flags, scheduled for May 18, will pass through the Bab al-Amoud area, which has an Arab majority, and there is no intention to change its normal route.

Israel annually celebrates the Flags’ March on what is known as “Jerusalem Unification Day” after it took control of the east of the city after the 1967 war. Palestinians were injured.

Ahmed Al-Ruwaidi, advisor to the Palestinian Presidential Court, told reporters in Ramallah that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants, by allowing the flag march to enter the Arab neighborhoods, to show that he is the sovereign in the city of Jerusalem.

Al-Ruwaidi considered that conducting the march in the Damascus Gate area represented "a provocation to the feelings of the Palestinians and an escalation of the field conditions" in the city, holding the Israeli government fully responsible for that.

Al-Ruwaidi stressed that the Palestinian leadership rejects the establishment of the march in form and content, considering that it would not have passed without the intense security force in Jerusalem, noting that Palestinian contacts are taking place with various international parties to pressure Israel to change the course of the march.

In turn, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, considered that the march of the flags and the mobilization of the largest possible number of settlers to enter the Arab neighborhoods and shout slogans against the Arabs, and the accompanying incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, are "provocative and aggressive" steps.

Hussein told the official Voice of Palestine radio, "We condemn, denounce, and reject the march of the flags, and all these steps are not accepted by the Palestinian people in any way," stressing that Al-Aqsa Mosque is "a private Islamic place for Muslims alone, and no one participates with them, and it is a place of worship for Muslims alone." ".

Hussein added that any "aggression against Al-Aqsa Mosque bears all the consequences of the occupation," calling on the international community and Arab and Islamic countries to confront the march of flags and all measures in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The flag march in 2021 caused military tension between Israel and the Palestinian armed factions, led by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which lasted for 11 days and led to the deaths of 260 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

In this regard, Hamas spokesman Abd al-Latif al-Qanou considered that the march of flags in the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem "cannot change reality, reverse the facts, or falsify history."

Al-Qanou said in a statement that Jerusalem will remain the capital of "our desired Palestinian state, and we cannot allow the Zionist occupation to pass plans to Judaize Al-Aqsa Mosque and the city through division, sacrifices, flag marches, or Talmudic rituals."

Al-Qanou stressed that the Palestinian people continue to "defend the identity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and continue their revolution to thwart any attempt to extend control and impose Zionist sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa."

The Palestinians want to declare the eastern part of Jerusalem, which includes Al-Aqsa Mosque, the capital of their future state, while Israel insists that Jerusalem, which annexed the eastern part of it in 1967, be unified and its capital.

Today, Monday, the Council of Ministers adopted a plan to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, as part of a series of activities and the participation of the masses of our people on this occasion.

The following are the most prominent items of the plan approved by the Council of Ministers, in coordination with the Supreme National Committee for the Commemoration of the Nakba:

- Inviting the masses of the Palestinian people and their official, civil, popular and private institutions to participate in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, according to the approved program, and to actively participate in the central return march in Ramallah, which will start on Monday, 15/5/2023, at 12:30 in front of The tomb of the late martyr Yasser Arafat, all the way to Al-Manara Square, where the Central Return Festival is located.

- Suspension of staff working hours at 12:00 noon, to enable them to participate in the central return march in Ramallah on Monday, 15/5/2023.

- Assigning the Ministry of Education to allocate the school radio and read the central statement to the students in the morning assembly on Monday, corresponding to 5/15/2023, and to include activity and art classes and open days starting from the date of May 10 to talk about the Nakba and its repercussions, and the participation of scout teams in the central return march.

- Assigning the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs to circulate to mosque preachers that a lesson and a sermon on Friday, corresponding to 12/5/2023 be devoted to talking about the Nakba and its repercussions on our people, and the pain and suffering that befell them in the homeland and diaspora for 75 years, and sounding the whistle of mourning from the mosques’ speakers, for a period of 75 years. A second number of the years of the Nakba, and assigning the Supreme Council of Churches to ring church bells, at midnight on Sunday, corresponding to 14/5/2023, and at noon on Monday, corresponding to 15/5/2023 at exactly one o’clock in the afternoon, and an invitation to participate in the march through the unified call to prayer.

- Assigning the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates to direct a circular to the embassies and representations of the State of Palestine abroad, to organize special activities and events on the occasion of commemorating the Nakba.

- Assigning the Minister of Local Government to circulate to local bodies to actively participate in the events held, especially the central return march in Ramallah on Monday 5/15/2023, and to run buses from all regions for this purpose.

Requesting heads of government departments to personally participate with employees in the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, especially the central return march, on Monday, 15/5/2023, at 12:30 noon.

- Assigning the ministries of: Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research, Endowments and Religious Affairs, Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Local Government, Interior, and Information, each in its own capacity, to issue circulars for organizing activities for this anniversary, and to actively participate in the central return march in Ramallah on Monday corresponding to 15/5/2023, and to participate in the digital campaign on social media platforms in particular.

The Council of Ministers also decided, in its session held in the city of Ramallah, headed by Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, to form a community dialogue committee, and with state employees, to enhance communication with individuals and institutions, and to form a ministerial committee to study the procedures for appointing and empowering people with disabilities in public office, and providing Recommendations to the Cabinet.

The Council also decided to form a committee to prepare a draft legal aid system, in addition to the final referral of a number of projects in the electricity and water sectors.

He ratified the cooperation agreement in the field of higher education and scientific research between the government of the State of Palestine and the government of the Republic of Tajikistan, and referred a number of legislations for study by the competent authorities.

O our brave people and people, salute steadfastness and steadfastness

The captive movement was surprised this morning by a fierce attack by the Zionist forces of repression against Raymond Prison. It targeted the Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, comrade and fighter leader Ahmed Saadat, and a number of leaders of the Popular Front, under the pretext of directing cells to resist the occupation from inside prisons and having information about these cells.

We in the Supreme National Emergency Committee of the captive national movement deny these malicious accusations, and consider them flimsy and unfounded justifications behind which the occupation wants to find a cover to target the life of the leader Ahmed Saadat and his comrades.

We affirm that the Supreme National Emergency Committee is in permanent session to follow up the developments of the attack against the leaders and comrades, in order to study the necessary and appropriate steps to confront this frenzied attack and this barbaric aggression, and to put an end to the miserable attempts of the occupation to export its failure in confronting our people abroad to the prison arena by taking revenge on the prisoners. insulation.

Freedom for the prisoners, glory for the martyrs, and victory for our people

The occupation stipulated that Sheikh Ikrima Sabri must attend a new investigation and not communicate with media channels, according to his lawyer, Khaled Zabarqa.

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation authorities released Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the condition that he attend a new investigation and not communicate with Arab media channels.

Yesterday, Sunday, the occupation intelligence summoned Sheikh Sabri for interrogation in Al-Maskubiya prison in occupied Jerusalem.

Sheikh Sabri's lawyer, Khaled Zabarqa, told reporters: "Sheikh Ikrima Sabri was released on the condition that he commit to appearing for an upcoming investigation and prevent him from communicating with 3 media channels, namely Al-Manar, Al-Aqsa and Al-Mayadeen."

The occupation authorities had previously raided Sheikh Sabri's house and summoned him for interrogation more than once, and in the past prevented him from entering Al-Aqsa for specific periods.

In statements made by Sheikh Sabri prior to being subjected to investigation, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri confirmed that the summons handed to him by the Israeli occupation and the interrogation of him for his role in supporting Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa "aims to silence mouths," stressing the need to raise the Palestinian voice to reach the whole world.

He explained that it is not the first time, as from time to time he is summoned for interrogation, on charges of "incitement" and delivering public speeches and press statements.

He pointed out that this is the policy of the occupation in dealing with the Palestinians, in an attempt to muzzle mouths and silence the Palestinian voice, adding: "We speak about our legitimate right and do not back down from it."

He called on the Palestinian masses in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the interior, to travel to Al-Aqsa Mosque and intensify the bonds in it in defense of the mosque and protecting it from the occupation’s plans.

Zabarga said that the occupation intelligence summoned Al-Aqsa preacher for interrogation this morning, against the background of his statements, activities and speeches on the mosque, Jerusalem, and national and religious constants.

He explained that the extremist Jewish groups, which have become part of the right-wing occupation government, are putting pressure on Sheikh Sabri and pursuing him, with the aim of silencing his voice defending Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, and preventing his speech and statements from reaching our Palestinian people.

Sheikh Sabri (85 years) is one of the legal personalities in Jerusalem, and an important religious reference. He is the head of the Supreme Islamic Authority in the occupied city. He is active in a religious and social role, and has been persevering in exposing the occupation's plans against Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem.

Zabarqa stressed that "the summoning of Sheikh Sabri indicates that the occupation police, its intelligence, the enforcement authorities, and the occupation's prosecution have adopted the point of view of the extremist Jewish groups and their incitement campaign against Al-Aqsa preacher."

He added, "Extremist groups incite Sheikh Sabri to kill, which poses a real threat to his life and health, since the incitement falls on the ears of terrorist groups that have become practicing organized terrorism against all that is Palestinian."

He pointed out that Sheikh Sabri is directly and constantly subjected to arbitrary Israeli persecution, while at the same time holding the occupation government fully responsible for his life.

Today, Monday, the League of Arab States commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nakba and the Day of the Prisoner, in the presence of a number of representatives of the member states of the League, Arab and foreign ambassadors accredited to Egypt, and a number of official figures and heads of Arab missions and international organizations.

The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said, "Today we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, this painful memory for the Palestinian people, and indeed for the Arab nation and for all the free people of the world, which recalls the terrible tragedy that befell the Palestinian people as a result of the occupation of their land and their displacement unjustly, aggression and terror by committing a series of crimes and massacres." hideous".

Aboul Gheit added, in his speech delivered by the Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories at the Arab League, Saeed Abu Ali, "In days like these in 1948, the world witnessed one of the worst and most horrific tragedies that humanity is exposed to, as more than 800,000 people were displaced." Palestinians from their villages and cities, and 531 towns and villages were completely destroyed, with the commission of ethnic cleansing crimes by Zionist gangs committing more than 70 massacres against the Palestinians, which led to the death of more than 15 thousand Palestinians during that period, while the number of Palestinian and Arab martyrs reached since the Nakba in 1948 until Today, about 100,000 martyrs as a result of the continuation of this Nakba, and its episodes continue until the present day, with the continuation of the occupation, which began in 1967, and the crimes it commits against the Palestinian people through settlement, theft of land and resources, the uprooting and displacement of the population, and the destruction of all aspects of the life of the Palestinian people, in a miserable attempt to undermine their resolve. And his insistence on taking away his rights and freedom.

He said, "The international community bears a great responsibility in the need to confront the extreme tendencies of the Israeli right-wing government, which does not miss an opportunity to ignite the situation, inflame feelings, and push matters to the brink of an abyss in the occupied territories, and rejects the two-state solution and works to undermine it through its settlement projects and storming the mosque." The blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and seek to divide it temporally and spatially, and all peace-loving forces must stand together to put an end to these extremist tendencies and dangerous practices of the occupation government.

He stressed, "The crimes that have been committed and continue to be committed do not fall under the statute of limitations no matter how long it takes, and the mechanisms of international justice must be activated in prosecuting the Israeli officials for their crimes and bringing them to account, and here the responsibility lies with the International Criminal Court in the need to expedite its procedures to achieve this goal and end the stage of impunity." We also affirm that the international community, its bodies and organizations, foremost of which is the Security Council, must assume its full responsibilities in following up and implementing its decisions, doing justice to the Palestinian people, ending the Israeli occupation, and establishing an independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

For his part, a member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Head of the Refugee Department, Ahmed Abu Holi, said that the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba carries a message of affirmation that the Arab League will remain the Arab incubator to protect and defend the rights of the Palestinian people, especially the right of return of Palestinian refugees and the release of our prisoners from the Israeli occupation prisons.

Abu Houli stressed, in the speech of Palestine, that this memory was recognized by the United Nations in a Palestinian and Arab political and diplomatic victory, indicating that its commemoration in the General Assembly Hall for the first time in seven and a half decades constitutes recognition by the United Nations of the Nakba and the Palestinian tragedy that befell the Palestinian people in the year 1948, and an acknowledgment of the Palestinian narrative based on the right, that the Palestinian has been the owner of this land from time immemorial, that the occupying Jews are transients, and that the struggle of our people continues until the restoration of its legitimate rights.

Abu Houli said: "75 years have passed since the Nakba, and the Palestinian tragedy is still continuing, and our people are still looking forward to returning to their homes, to their cities and villages, to take their place among nations like the rest of the peoples of the earth, and a just solution to the Palestinian cause is still far away, as a result of Israel's insistence since its inception to reject Obedience to the resolutions of international legitimacy, some of which constituted the basis and condition for its establishment and recognition by the international community, and the continuation of its policies based on imposing the legitimacy of the fait accompli as an alternative to international legitimacy. Return and continue its racist crimes by demolishing homes, building settlements, seizing lands, Judaizing Jerusalem, and seeking to pass their scheme by imposing temporal and spatial division.

He called on the Arab, brotherly and Islamic countries, in these difficult circumstances, to continue to mobilize international support to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative, to support the struggle of our people and their valiant popular resistance, and to support the International Relief Agency financially to enable it to overcome its complex financial crisis, to ensure the continuity and preservation of its services for what it represents. An embodiment of international responsibility towards the Palestinian refugees, and a living witness to the Nakba and the tragedy of the Palestinian cause.

For his part, the head of the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs, Qadri Abu Bakr, called for the need to keep the issue of prisoners and detainees on the agenda of the Arab League, to give it the attention it deserves, to contribute to the development of documenting violations and crimes of their own, and to work with all concerned parties to provide protection for prisoners and detainees from Israeli oppression and injustice.

Abu Bakr stressed, in his speech, the necessity of contributing to the internationalization of the issue of prisoners and detainees, and introducing it to the whole world, with the aim of forming a supportive incubator for them and their just causes in light of the dangerous Israeli escalation.

He called for holding an international conference under the auspices of the League of Arab States, similar to the conference of the Republic of Iraq in 2012, and creating pressure on international institutions to assume their moral, humanitarian and legal responsibilities and upgrade their role to actual action.

Abu Bakr called for the media to contribute to issuing publications, studies, films and visual productions, and to give them a wider space in the Arab media to influence public opinion in a way that serves the cause of our prisoners, and the need to form a committee of Arab experts and specialists, to support the rights of prisoners and enhance their legal status as freedom fighters, and to discuss ways to support them through mechanisms. and international bodies available.

He also demanded the need to address the issue of prisoners and detainees in Arab universities within graduation projects and postgraduate research, and to include it in extracurricular activities, especially in national and Arab events related to Palestine, and to allocate scholarships in Arab universities, especially for freed prisoners and their children, and to activate the Prisoners’ Fund, which was approved by the League of Arab States conference. In Iraq, to which the sisterly Republic of Iraq contributed two million dollars, which were allocated for productive projects for the liberated prisoners.

Likewise, Abu Bakr Talib demanded the allocation of scholarships in Arab universities, especially for the freed prisoners and their children, stressing the need to activate the Prisoners Fund, which was approved at the Arab League conference in Iraq, and the Republic of Iraq contributed two million dollars to it, which was allocated for productive projects for the freed prisoners, and to help them integrate into society.

He stressed that the occupation has arrested more than a million Palestinians since 1967, and about 4,900 Palestinians are still detained in 23 prisons, detention centers and detention centers, all of which, except for "Ofer" prison, are located in the territories occupied in 1948, including 31 girls and women, 160 children and nearly 1,000 detainees. There are more than 700 prisoners suffering from various diseases, including 24 cancer patients, and the most dangerous of them today is the case of the two prisoners, Walid Daqqa, who has been detained for more than 37 years, and Asif Al-Rifai, who is still detained. There are 554 prisoners serving life sentences, in addition to the elderly.

Abu Bakr said that the Palestinian prisoners are subjected to organized crimes, their psyches and internal content are attacked, they are deprived of their most basic daily rights, they are fought by deprivation of water and food, and they are left prey to diseases that have infiltrated their bodies through medical crimes, and their families are harassed, their homes are targeted, their property is seized, and their property is deliberately humiliated while visiting their children. .

For his part, Egypt's permanent representative to the League of Arab States, Ambassador Muhammad Orfi, said that commemorating the Nakba and the Palestinian Prisoner's Day in the Arab League is very important. grievance and man’s usurpation of the right of his fellow man.”

Jordan's ambassador to Egypt, its permanent representative to the Arab League, Amjad Al-Adayleh, affirmed that the commemoration of the Nakba provides certain evidence of the grievance of the Palestinian people, their adherence to their right, and the survival of their just cause, which sits at the top of international issues, and the central issue of the Arab and Islamic nations, whose solution is not relinquished. Just and comprehensive, it ends the occupation, abolishes apartheid, stops settlements, and restores the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, foremost of which is the right to self-determination and the inadmissibility of seizing land by force.

In turn, Algeria's ambassador to Egypt, its permanent representative to the League of Arab States, Hamid Shabira, affirmed his country's absolute solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli occupation prisons, calling on the international community to activate international mechanisms to protect prisoners and preserve their rights in accordance with the relevant agreements and treaties in the face of the serious violations of the occupation forces against them. .

The representative of the Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Cairo, Sahar Al-Jubouri, confirmed that the agency is committed to providing services to refugees, but the conditions of refugees registered with it are getting worse in all five areas of operations, as there are one million refugees living on food aid and living under occupation and the ravages of repeated war. .

The event featured live testimonies from a number of prisoners' families about the conditions of their detention, the brutal and inhumane practices and torture they are subjected to during their arrest and interrogation, the policies of deliberate medical neglect, and the denial of visits, food and medicine.

The Swiss President of the International Football Association (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, will visit the Palestinian territories next week for the first time since assuming his position, as confirmed by the President of the Palestinian Federation, Jibril Rajoub, on Monday.

Rajoub said during a press conference held at the headquarters of the city of Bethlehem that the visit, which will coincide with the Palestinians' commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, will represent an opportunity to present several sports and youth activities to commemorate the occasion and is organized by the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports.

"The event is sporty, but it has a political significance," added the head of the Palestinian Federation.
And he added, "Our mission is to present ourselves in front of the international sports figures that we are a people with its own civilization and history... and to communicate impressions that we are capable and ready to build a democratic state, and on top of it is our sports culture."

According to Rajoub, the visit includes naming the name of the late Brazilian player Pele at Al-Khader Stadium, south of Bethlehem, and the Palestinian and Jordanian Olympic teams will play in a friendly match.

The visit of the President of FIFA is his first to the Palestinian territories since he took office, and the second for the President of the Football Federation, as he was preceded by his Swiss predecessor, Joseph Blatter.

Infantino will be accompanied on his visit, which will focus on Bethlehem (south), three members of the FIFA Council, who are the Egyptian Hani Abu Raida, the President of the Saudi Federation, Yasser Al-Mishal, and the President of the Qatar Football Association, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani.
According to the president of the Palestinian Federation, "if circumstances permit," a visit will be arranged for the international sports delegation to one of the Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank occupied by Israel since 1967.

Rajoub hoped that "this visit would be a good beginning," as it coincided with a speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations (on May 15) on the anniversary of the Nakba, which, according to Rajoub, "recognised the Nakba and put it on its agenda" for the first time this year.

On May 15 of each year, the Palestinians commemorate the Nakba, which occurred in 1948, when more than 760,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes during the war that followed the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel.
And the Israelis celebrate a day before the anniversary of the founding of their state.
Palestinian sports, especially soccer, have witnessed remarkable development since Rajoub took over its administration in 2008, although he came to office from a security and political background.
These developments included the adoption by the International Federation of the Palestinian home stadium inside the West Bank within the framework of the international and Asian championships, after the Palestinian national team was replacing its home stadium in the stadiums of neighboring Arab countries.

Ceasefire negotiations between the two warring parties in Sudan, which are being held in Jeddah, have not made "much progress," a Saudi diplomat told AFP on Monday, while fighting continues Monday in Khartoum.

Since the outbreak of the confrontations on April 15th, the Sudanese capital has been witnessing a state of chaos resulting from the battles between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, known as "Hemedti".

In response to a Saudi-American initiative, the two military commanders sent their representatives to the city of Jeddah on Saturday to hold talks that Washington and Riyadh described as "initial talks."

"The negotiations have not made much progress so far," a Saudi diplomat told AFP. He added, "A permanent ceasefire is not on the table. Each side believes that it is able to resolve the battle."

For the fourth week in a row, the five million residents of Khartoum stayed in their homes in light of the scarcity of water and food resources, amid panic and confusion from stray bullets.

"We hear the sounds of aerial bombardment coming from the market area in the city centre," a resident of southern Khartoum told AFP.

The Sudanese army stated earlier that its delegation to the negotiations "will only talk about the armistice and how to properly implement it to facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid."

For its part, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations are trying, in the city of Port Sudan (east) on the Red Sea, to negotiate the delivery of aid to Khartoum and Darfur, where hospitals and humanitarian aid stores have been bombed or looted.

And on Sunday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, arrived in Jeddah with the aim of meeting representatives of the two parties to the conflict, but his role in the negotiations is not yet clear.

A spokeswoman for Griffiths said Sunday that he is seeking to discuss humanitarian issues related to Sudan.
A second UN official told AFP on Monday that Griffiths "requested to join the negotiations," noting that his request had not yet been approved.

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a meeting on May 11th to discuss the "impact" of the confrontations in Sudan "on human rights".

Experts believe that the war may drag on with the inability of either side to resolve it on the ground.

And the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday that the Saudi monarch and crown prince directed the King Salman Relief Center to "provide various humanitarian aid worth $100 million" to provide relief, humanitarian and medical assistance to the displaced.

The battles that have been going on for more than three weeks have resulted in 750 dead and 5,000 wounded, according to the data of the Armed Conflict Location and Facts (ACLED), in addition to the displacement of 335,000 people and 117,000 refugees to neighboring countries.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry affirmed that Egypt has received "since the beginning of the crisis more than 57,000 Sudanese brothers, in addition to its contribution to the evacuation of more than four thousand foreign citizens."

The United Nations reported that 30,000 Sudanese fled to Chad and 27,000 to South Sudan.

The Jeddah talks come after a series of Arab and African regional initiatives, especially by the eastern countries of the continent through the IGAD Development Organization, which did not bear fruit.

The African Union is also seeking calm between the two parties, especially as it exhausted the last cards of pressure on Sudan by suspending its membership in 2021, after Al-Burhan, supported by Daglo, carried out a military coup in which civilians were removed from power.

Experts believe that there is a discrepancy in the support of regional powers for the two parties to the conflict in Sudan, as the UAE appears to be on the side of Dagalo, in contrast to Egypt, which supports the army, while Saudi Arabia stands at the same distance from the two generals.

During an emergency meeting Sunday of the Arab foreign ministers at the headquarters of the Arab League in Cairo, which dealt with the developments of the Sudanese file, the League's Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that the negotiations between the two parties to the conflict "deserve support, and I repeat my appeal to hold on to this opportunity."

Aboul Gheit warned that the current conflict would turn into "a first round of war that would divide Sudan into rival regions and turn it into a battleground that threatens its existence."

The European Union canceled the diplomatic reception that was scheduled in Tel Aviv to celebrate Europe's Day, which falls on the ninth of May, because of its objection to the participation of an Israeli official.

The federation said in a statement, today, Monday, that it canceled the concert "because we do not want to provide a platform for someone whose views contradict the values that the European Union represents."

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the father of a martyr from Jenin camp, while he was passing through a military checkpoint that they had set up on Jenin-Nablus Street.

They arrested Amin Zaidan Khazim, the father of the martyr Nidal Khazem, after the soldiers stopped the vehicle he was traveling in, along with the leader of the "Fatah Movement" Jamal Huwail, Muath Estiti and Issa Huwail, where they were detained and later released.

Today, Monday, the freed prisoner Ataf Alyan continues her strike and sit-in in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Al-Bireh, to demand the recovery of the body of the captive martyr Khader Adnan, and the martyrs whose bodies are being held.

Captive Elyan, born in 1962, is a fighter and a released prisoner, and the first female prisoner to engage in an individual strike against administrative detention, and she carried out several strikes during the periods in which she was detained in the occupation prisons, with a total of 14 years of detention.

At least eight people were killed Sunday when an SUV ran a red light and plowed into a group of people waiting for a bus outside an immigrant reception center in Texas, police said.

Law enforcement said it was treating it as an accident for now, although a witness told AFP that the driver yelled insults at the group before speeding away.

Police spokesman Martin Sandoval told AFP the gray vehicle "ran a red light and hit multiple people" at around 8:30 am (1330 GMT) in the border town of Brownsville in the far south of the state.

He added that seven people were killed and "about ten" others were wounded. And US media reported later that a person died of his injuries in hospital.

Witness Luis Herrera, who was injured in the arm, told AFP it was "surprising".
"A woman passed a car and warned us to get off the road," he added.

"It was just a matter of moments," the 36-year-old Venezuelan said. "The killer came in the car, pointing at us and insulting us."

Herrera then described the driver as speeding with all his might.

Meanwhile, witnesses held the driver, who Sandoval said was taken to hospital, until police arrived. He has now been charged with reckless driving.

Sandoval had told a local ABC affiliate that "it is likely that other charges will be brought against him at a later time," without clarifying what these charges are.

Until late Sunday evening, the police did not identify the driver, while a press conference is expected to be held on Monday morning.

Sandoval explained that the authorities have opened an investigation into whether the accident was intentional or not.

"We are looking (into it)," he told AFP.

The victims were among a group of 25 people waiting at a bus stop, according to Victor Maldonado, executive director of Ozanam, a shelter across the street from where the accident occurred.

He described a horrific scene, as there were body parts along the street.

Madonado told AFP that the witnesses were "very shocked", adding that it was "very tough".

Maldonado added that the shelter is open 24 hours a day, where "we house people from Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, China and Ukraine - and many Venezuelans."

Sandoval indicated that at least some of the victims were immigrants, but he did not confirm whether all of them were.
"It is something we are investigating with the border police," he said.

This tragedy comes as the US authorities prepare Thursday to lift the federal measure for immigrants, which was imposed under former President Donald Trump and allows border guards to deport immigrants without even accepting their asylum applications.

The authorities fear an increase in the number of illegal immigrants entering the United States, with the expiration of this procedure.

Also, this incident occurred the day after a shooting killed at least eight people in a Texas mall, in the latest mass shooting to rock the country.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said today, Monday, that it is following up the increase in cases of intestinal infections in Nablus governorate since the beginning of this month.

The Ministry added in a statement, "The preventive medicine and environmental health teams in the Nablus Health Directorate conducted an epidemiological investigation as is the practice in such cases, and took samples from the drinking water networks and sources in the governorate, the last of which was on 7/5/2023, which showed safety." Drinking water conforms to specifications and is free from any bacterial or chemical contaminants.

And she continued: "By studying the infected cases, the symptoms shown on the injured, and the results of laboratory tests, it appears that the majority of these cases are caused by viral infections, which are active in this season every year at a varying pace and intensity, and cause infection and transmission from one person to another in different forms and methods."

The Ministry indicated that the vast majority of these cases, which were referred to emergency departments and clinics, were simple cases that were treated and left without any complications, and did not require hospitalization.

The Ministry of Health called on honorable citizens to adhere to personal prevention measures, not to be drawn into rumors and to take information from official sources.

The Captive Club held the Occupation Prisons Administration fully responsible for the fate of the Secretary-General of the Popular Front, Ahmed Saadat, the captive leader Ahed Abu Ghulami, and the captive leader Walid Hanatsheh.

And the club confirmed in a statement that, until this moment, it did not know the destination to which they were transferred, indicating that the prisoners carried out initial protest steps represented in delaying the procedure (security check and number), until the destination to which they were transferred was revealed.

He called for the occupation intelligence not to circulate the story of the allegations it published today, calling for waiting for the results of the efforts of the lawyers as well as the prisoners in order to be allowed to visit them and check on them and convey their story.

It is noteworthy that the leader Saadat has been detained since 2006, and he is sentenced to 30 years in prison, and the prisoner Abu Ghulamy has been detained since 2006, and he is sentenced to life imprisonment and five years, and the prisoner Hanatsheh has been detained since 2019, and he is still arrested, knowing that he is a former prisoner who spent years before his arrest the current one, and he was subjected to severe torture after his arrest in 2019.

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It is worth mentioning that the forces of repression stormed this morning my sections (5,7) in (Raymond) prison, and removed the three leaders from the prison, accompanied by extensive searches.

Today, Monday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on UNESCO to intervene to prevent the Israeli occupation authorities from establishing a settlement site adjacent to the village of Sebastia, whose establishment would cause severe damage to the historical site in the village.

In his speech at the beginning of the government session, in Ramallah, Shtayyeh called on our people in all their places of residence, supporters of justice and freedom, and those in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their cause, to go out next Monday, the fifteenth of May, to the squares and squares to demand an end to the injustice against our people, and to affirm their rights. inalienable rights, foremost of which is his right to self-determination, freedom and return.

He said, "This session comes with the completion of preparations for the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, which falls on next Monday, and will be revived for the first time in the United Nations General Assembly with the participation of President Mahmoud Abbas."

He expressed his hope that this would constitute a promising start for a broad and effective international action against the war of extermination and ethnic cleansing practiced by the Israeli apartheid regime against our people.

He added, "The invasions, the expansion of settlements, and the attempt to seize the Hebron municipality building, all of these violations are nothing but a continuation of the Nakba series that extends from 1948 to the present day, and today Israel uses databases for discriminatory surveillance against us, to identify the faces of our people through checkpoints, and this is a racist measure." from first class".

In another matter, Shtayyeh said: "Yesterday, I was honored to receive the guest of Palestine, the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East and the Supreme Head of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the world, who is visiting Palestine 58 years after the last visit by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs to Palestine, at the invitation of President Mahmoud Abbas." .

In another context, Shtayyeh offered condolences to the family of education and his family, Dr. Muhammad Awwad, one of the pillars of the Ministry of Education, who died yesterday in an unfortunate traffic accident.

The cabinet will discuss issues related to people with disabilities, legal aid for the poor, environmental issues, the central water station in Gaza, issues related to the protection of personal data, and combating violence against women, in addition to financial and political reports.

The Ministry of National Economy said that the Precious Metals Directorate in the ministry stamped 721 kg of gold last month.

The Directorate stated in a statement issued today, Monday, that its revenues as a result of the process of stamping gold jewelry bearing the Palestinian stamp “Dome of the Rock” amounted to approximately 803 thousand shekels, a slight change compared to the same month of 2022, which amounted to 873 thousand shekels.

The average price of an ounce of gold for the month of April amounted to 1965 dollars, an increase of 3% over the same month of last year.

The Directorate indicated that last year it stamped about 17.75 tons of gold, an increase of 93% from the average, compared to the previous five years, while the total revenues collected as a result of the stamping process amounted to 17.77 million shekels.

The Precious Metals Directorate annually stamps about 10 tons of gold jewelry, while around 577 factories, workshops, and shops work in manufacturing and selling precious metals, employing 3,000 manufacturers and merchants, and are subject to the supervision and inspection teams of the Precious Metals Directorate.

The Directorate called on citizens to obtain an invoice containing details of the item, caliber, weight, statement, item price, total price, currency, and the name of the shop when buying gold, and to verify the Palestinian stamp on the jewelry, in addition to the type of jewelry industry (local or foreign).

The head of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, Tayseer Al-Hamidi, revealed that the losses incurred by the agricultural and tourism sectors in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, as a result of the Israeli blockade, which lasted 16 days and was lifted on Sunday, amounted to about 300 million shekels.

Al-Hamidi told Al-Quds.com: "The repeated blockade, since the beginning of this year for four times, has incurred the mainstay of the economy in Jericho, namely the tourism and agricultural sectors, with great losses, as a result of which tourist places were damaged, as well as crops, which are the two tributaries of the economy in general in Jericho."

According to Al-Hamidi, the losses of the tourism sector amounted to more than 220 million shekels, including hotels, transportation and tourist places, and about 70 million shekels for the agricultural sector, especially the watermelon and melon season.

Al-Hamidi pointed out that the siege, which lasted intermittently for about a month, had a general impact on Ariha and its economy, as people experienced many types of suffering.

Yesterday, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces lifted the siege imposed on Jericho and the Jordan Valley, after 16 days of tightening the checkpoints at its entrances, but the barriers, iron gates, and cement cubes that the occupation forces erected are still present, and the military measures and soldiers at the checkpoints have been removed.

During the siege on Jericho, which the occupation forces imposed in whole or in part four times since the beginning of the year, following shooting operations targeting Israelis, and the subsequent siege and incursions into Jericho, especially the Aqabat Jaber camp, south of the city, nine young men were killed from the camp, and the occupation forces continue to detain the bodies of seven of them. Dozens were injured and about a hundred were arrested during these raids, forty of whom were from Aqabat Jaber camp.