Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a wounded young Palestinian from the town of Zababdeh, south of Jenin.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the wounded young Palestinian, Ammar Farah Hassan Al-Far (24 years old), after raiding his house and tampering with its contents.

It is noteworthy that the detainee Ammar was injured by Israeli occupation bullets three months ago, which led to the amputation of part of his leg, and he is still receiving treatment.

Turkish security forces today (Wednesday) arrested at least 37 people suspected of having links to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party and "neutralized" two others, as part of anti-terrorism operations, according to the Turkish Interior Minister.

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerli Kaya said on the social media platform “X” that “two terrorists who were being searched for under an arrest warrant were neutralized when they tried to escape across the border in the Ağrı province in the east of the country.”

The Turkish authorities usually use the word “neutralize” in their statements to indicate that the aforementioned “terrorists” surrendered, were killed, or were arrested.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces stormed the village of Jalboun, northeast of Jenin, amidst the firing of stun grenades and toxic tear gas. Settlers also carried out orgies near the homes of citizens in the village, forcing the male secondary school there to suspend classes.

According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the village, fired tear gas and sound bombs in the village center square towards the citizens, and are still seizing the house of one of the citizens, which they turned into a military barracks for the fifth day in a row.

The sources explained that the occupation forces placed barbed wire and fired tear gas bombs at citizens and school students approaching the house adjacent to the boys’ school, indicating that classes were not scheduled today.

The sources added that dozens of settlers from the “Merav” settlement, built on the village lands, adjacent to the homes, carried out a provocative march along the wall, carried out orgies, chanted racist slogans against Arabs, and performed Talmudic rituals under the protection of the Israeli occupation army.

Today, Wednesday, a group of settlers, accompanied by Israeli occupation forces, stormed the “Dar Al-Dharb” archaeological site in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit.

According to local sources, a number of settlers stormed the area amid strict military measures by the occupation forces, closing the site and the roads leading to it.

Today, Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces closed shops in the center of the town of Huwwara, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, the occupation forces forced shop owners to close them, amid an intense deployment of the occupation army on the main road in the town.

The Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs said that the attacks by Israeli extremists on Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem are tantamount to a declaration of religious war.

Jerusalem Affairs added in a press statement on Wednesday, “The extremist settlers are desecrating the occupied city of Jerusalem and its sanctities and blatantly attacking Muslim and Christian worshipers and with the protection of the occupation police.”

She continued: "In no way can we accept the justifications for celebrating Jewish holidays to religiously persecute Muslims and Christians, whether through the hateful raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque or attacks on churches and Christians."

She pointed out that the attacks on Muslims and Christians and their sanctities in Jerusalem have not stopped since the Israeli occupation in 1967, but their pace has increased significantly in recent years, specifically since the formation of the current Israeli government.

She said: “Right-wing Israeli extremist groups, supported by the occupation government, use Jewish holidays as a cover to desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque through raids and the performance of Talmudic rituals, in an attempt to create a new reality in the mosque that undermines the existing historical and legal status of the mosque from its foundations.”

She added: "What is happening in Al-Aqsa Mosque is the implementation of what is called temporal and spatial division, where worshipers are prevented and are attacked by beatings and arrests, at a time when extremists' storming of the mosque and performing their Talmudic rituals in and around it is facilitated."

She continued: "We renew the call for immediate international intervention to stop the incursions, provocations and attacks into Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings and to respect the historical and legal status existing in the mosque as it was on the eve of the occupation in 1967 and not as the right-wing Israeli government wants."

The Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs also condemned the increasing frequency of attacks by Israeli extremists on church property and on Christians, local and foreign, in the city of Jerusalem.

She said: "These attacks would not have increased without the right-wing incitement and the silence of the occupation police and their turning a blind eye to them."

She stressed that "the Israeli extremist right-wing groups and movements are pushing, with their words and actions, a religious war that we do not want, and the Israeli government will bear responsibility for its repercussions."

Senator Ben Cardin, the new chairman of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, blocked military aid to Egypt worth $235 million due to Cairo's human rights record, in a move that comes after the judiciary brought corruption charges against his predecessor, Bob Menendez, in a bribery case linked to Egypt.

The Democratic senator said in a statement that he informed Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that he would not release these funds unless Cairo made “tangible progress in the field of human rights.”

He added, "I believe it is necessary that we continue to hold the Egyptian government and all governments accountable for their human rights violations."

Cardin stressed that aid will continue to be withheld from Egypt “if it does not take concrete, purposeful and sustainable steps to improve the human rights situation in the country.”

The Senator specifically called on the Egyptian authorities to issue an amnesty to a larger number of political prisoners, whose number is estimated at 60,000 in this country.

He also demanded that Egypt undertake significant reforms in pre-detention procedures and provide more space for the political opposition, civil society and independent media.

The US State Department announced last September that it had agreed to provide military aid to Egypt for the next year worth $1.215 billion, despite Washington's concerns about human rights in the Arab country.

The action taken by Cardin relates to $235 million, the release of which Congress had linked to progress in the field of human rights.

This is the third year in a row that President Joe Biden's administration has waived some restrictions imposed by Congress on annual military aid allocated to Egypt.

The Democratic administration agreed to these concessions despite Biden's pledge to make human rights a basic pillar of US foreign policy.

Egypt has become a major beneficiary of US military aid since its historic decision in 1980 to become the first Arab country to normalize its relations with Israel.

The military aid package consists of an unrestricted part worth $980 million.

The other part, worth $235 million, is contingent on Egypt making progress in the field of human rights, and this is the part that Senator Cardin blocked.

Blinken did not acknowledge that Egypt met these conditions in order to benefit from this amount, but he nevertheless refused to deprive it of this money on the grounds of protecting American national security interests.

However, Blinken withheld another sum of $85 million from Egypt and linked his release to Cairo’s release of political prisoners.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi launched a “national dialogue” with the opposition that he suppressed after coming to power, and in April 2022 he began releasing political prisoners.

But "the pace has slowed significantly" this year, according to what a US official said.

According to this official, who requested to remain anonymous, Egypt has witnessed an increase in “politically motivated arrests.”

"We had very difficult conversations with the Egyptians about our concerns about human rights at all levels," he added.

There are thousands of political prisoners in Egypt currently.

The Presidential Pardon Commission released a thousand people in one year, but “three times that number were arrested” at the same time, according to non-governmental organizations.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces detained the director and teachers of the Shaab al-Buttam Mixed Basic School at the entrance to the village of al-Tuwanah in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

According to local sources, the occupation forces detained for an hour and a half the director of Shaab al-Batm Mixed Basic School, Arif Abu Karsh, and a number of school teachers at a military checkpoint they set up at the entrance to the village of al-Tuwanah, east of Yatta, and searched their vehicles and checked their ID cards.

It is noteworthy that Shaab Al-Buttam Mixed Basic School is one of the schools of challenge and steadfastness, and more than 50 students receive education, and the occupation authorities had notified it of its demolition in early August of last year.

The day before yesterday, the occupation forces obstructed the arrival of teachers and students to 27 schools east of Yatta, south of Hebron.

Hebrew Radio Kan reported on Wednesday morning that the so-called Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, repeated his request to reduce visits to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

According to the Hebrew Radio, this came during his visit to Gilboa prison.

The channel indicated that Ben Gvir promised to transfer this request again to the Israeli mini-cabinet.

Ben Gvir stormed the prison, accompanied by Israeli repressive forces, and they used sound bombs amid a widespread search of the prisoners’ rooms.

Today, Wednesday, settlers, protected by Israeli occupation forces, stormed the vicinity of the Solomon’s Pools tourist area, south of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, a number of settlers stormed the vicinity of the third pool, specifically the Al-Atan area, and spread out in the area.

The sources added that citizens tried to confront the settlers and confrontations broke out with the occupation forces.

It is noteworthy that the Suleiman Pools tourist area and the surrounding area have been subjected to violations by the occupation forces and settlers for some time, the last of which occurred three days ago.

Hardly a day goes by without the occupation and the settlers taking the lead, seizing land, expanding settlements, and harassing our patient and steadfast people. On the other hand, what we hear most of the official Arab reactions is condemnation and denunciation, waiting for new settlement and the repetition of these condemnations, and all these millions remain... Arabia, the vast lands, and the enormous wealth, are like someone who has no power or strength.

Jewish extremists repeatedly and permanently storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is the first of the two qiblahs and the third of the Two Holy Mosques. Despite this, the Arab and Islamic responses in general do not go beyond condemnation and denunciation, and our people and virtuous women remain at the forefront, defending with all their capabilities and abilities their sanctities, their land, their rights and their future.

Yesterday, hundreds of Jewish extremists stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, led by the extremely extremist and racist Glick, on the occasion of the celebration of the third day of what they call “Throne Day.” The Israeli police attacked the men and women stationed in Bab al-Silsilah and arrested a number of them, and they were the ones who tried with all their abilities to defend Al-Aqsa, its squares, and the land. And the future.

Prime Minister Dr. said. Muhammad Shtayyeh said that there is an Israeli attempt to annex the areas called (C), even though they are an integral part of the Palestinian territories, but this justification will not prevent the occupation from seizing them, because East Jerusalem and all parts of the West Bank are Palestinian lands, and despite this, occupation and Judaization are colonial acts that do not stop. .

The government has formed a ministerial committee to consolidate sovereignty over Area C and has allocated 100 million shekels for Jerusalem hospitals through funding from international partners. This committee will discuss following up on investment issues in Palestine, especially in government lands, and attracting Palestinians in general and immigrants in particular for this purpose.

Palestinian steadfastness is very important and influential, but it remains less than what is required, because its financial capabilities are limited, especially with the many difficulties practiced by the occupation. The Arab role, with all its financial capabilities, social capabilities, and enormous geographical locations, remains the first, effective, and influential factor, and our steadfastness remains our strongest weapon in every situation. We are steadfast and adhere to all rights..!!

Saudi Arabia today, as a leading country in the Arab and Islamic worlds, is perhaps more aware than others of the importance of taking the reins of the region towards “peace” and “development,” but not at the expense of the rights of the Palestinian people, which is what His Highness the Crown Prince confirmed in his recent interview with the American Fox News channel, saying, “ “There is no peace with the Israelis at the expense of the Palestinians.”

In continuation of last week’s article, “Efforts to Revitalize the Peace Process in the Middle East,” I find it important to review what was stated in the Saudi Council of Ministers (last Tuesday), which was chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which stated, “The Council looks forward to the contribution of efforts to revitalize the peace process.” The peace initiative launched by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the League of Arab States, and the European Union, in cooperation with the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, to achieve security and stability in the Middle East region, through the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the decisions of legitimacy. International and Arab Peace Initiative. The extremist right-wing Israeli government, led by its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, must say that one of the political rules regulating the world of politics today is based on the principle of “violence begets violence” and “peace begets security, stability, and prosperity.” According to this principle, I read much of what the Western and Israeli press wrote on the face of it. In particular, they see Israel today as a historic opportunity and an Arab political climate supportive of the just peace process. Provided that the bleeding of recent developments on the ground is stopped. Our need today to revitalize the peace process is based on a coordinated approach to encourage all parties to implement political and reform transformations, and to address the main factors that fuel the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. I will be more clear: resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict is a fundamental interest of the entire region, and this will only be achieved with a two-state solution and the existence of an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors. The meaning of the previous context is that a lasting solution must be achieved on the basis of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, the Madrid Principles including land for peace, the road map, the agreements previously reached by the two parties and the Arab Peace Initiative. If an agreement is reached to end the conflict once and for all, the door will open to deepen and strengthen cooperation between all countries in the region. Although the previous meeting held in New York, on the sidelines of the work of the United Nations General Assembly in its 78th session, headed by Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Saudi Foreign Minister, and in the presence of representatives of about 70 countries and international organizations, has nothing to do with the final status negotiations, it is considered a factor. Motivating the return of the parties to the conflict to the path of the peace process, giving a realistic vision of what the situation could be like in the Middle East region, and benefiting everyone - without exception - from the security, political, economic and social benefits that prevail on the map of the region. It is a goal that everyone desires, and it is an opportunity for makers. The Israelis' decision to accept the facts and not be stubborn towards the ideas of the extreme right, which is losing its legitimacy at the internal Israeli and international levels.

Saudi Arabia today, as a leading country in the Arab and Islamic worlds, is perhaps more aware than others of the importance of taking the reins of the region towards “peace” and “development,” but not at the expense of the rights of the Palestinian people, which is what His Highness the Crown Prince confirmed in his recent interview with the American Fox News channel, saying, “ "There is no peace with the Israelis at the expense of the Palestinians."

I conclude with a very important article written by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Vice-President of the European Commission for a stronger Europe in the world, and published in the first quarter of this year, in which he mentioned some main points, in which he stated: “Many will fall.” of victims every week in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, and millions live in fear and despair, while the world's response is limited to many statements and few measures. In order to succeed, we must first be honest with each other and with ourselves... When the Israelis depend on their state and their army, The Palestinians have no such recourse. This huge disparity in the ability to control one’s destiny is evident at every checkpoint, and these facts constitute obstacles to peace. May you be well.

Still... there is a wide-ranging discussion about the issue of Saudi-Israeli normalization, and this discussion is not devoid of the Palestinian issue. Is it essential to the matter of normalization? Or is it less than that?

Saudi reassurances to the Palestinians in direct meetings and in official statements indicate that the solution according to the Arab Peace Initiative, and towards the two-state solution, is at the heart of the process, and this is supported by American statements at several levels to this effect.

However, Israel has another statement through which it seeks to show that the Palestinian issue is not essential to the process. Many have even considered it a burden on normalization. There is a discussion about how to get rid of it!!

Given that the normalization process is still within the framework of negotiations between the three concerned parties, prior estimates of the results remain mere judgments, and this raises for discussion a fundamental question in return, which is: Is the issue a burden on Saudi Arabia or an asset? The instigators, who are pushing for Saudi abandonment of it, have gone so extreme as to consider the Palestinian people a heavy burden on the Kingdom, and that the financial and political support it provides to this people is unnecessary, and that the Saudi people are more deserving of it. The peak of the extremes in this direction was an article published in the form of a letter to Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the conclusion of which is: It is in the Kingdom’s interest to bypass the Palestinian issue and go to normalization with Israel without it, with justifications that included an insult to the people and their sacrifices with what was portrayed as being merely offered to them. Charitable work is met with disobedience and denial!

Saudi policy towards the Palestinians, from the beginning of their catastrophe until the beginning of talk about normalization with Israel, was an objective policy dictated by the political, moral and moral interests of the major state. If this is considered a waste and misplaced support, then this is a matter that entails a grave insult to the Kingdom, as if it is improvising its policies, in a way that contradicts the interests of its people. The Kingdom has white hands towards the Palestinians that cannot be denied, nor should it be underestimated. The Palestinians have a contribution to building, which the Kingdom does not deny from the beginning of its founding until Our days...

King Salman, may God prolong his life, was directly responsible for supporting the Palestinians, their people, cause and revolution. He never dealt with the Palestinians as beggars or interlopers, but rather dealt with them with all respect and responsibility, opening the doors of the Kingdom to them to work and to contribute with their Saudi brothers in all fields. Fate wants the file of Saudi-Israeli normalization to be opened while King Salman is in his position and position, and his son appointed by him leads with great efficiency the most important internal Saudi change and development process, and with the same importance runs an effective policy at the regional and global levels.

What happens in closed rooms remains the property of those sitting there, until the conclusions are officially announced, either by agreement or separation.

An issue that must be paid attention to, before the final announcement, is that what is said through the media, especially by Israel, is not objective, but rather directed to serve its agenda based on the principle of taking a lot in exchange for giving a little, without being separated from the desire to offer nothing!

It is consistent with the Israeli agenda in this direction. Some voices, albeit few, promote the idea that the Palestinian issue is a burden on Saudi Arabia, which it must get rid of by going ahead with the normalization process, even if it requires removing the issue from the agenda. It is said to justify this that it is a difficult and complex issue. And that adhering to it prevents the achievement of special Saudi interests, which is the fundamental reason, as they say, for the idea of ​​normalization at all.

This makes us put the Palestinian issue in the bilateral and tripartite normalization negotiations currently underway, in its rightful weight and place, and greatly harms the Kingdom in considering it a burden that must be eliminated, as it is, in fact, a card of heavy caliber, with which the Kingdom is armed in a way that provides it with strength in addition to its own, integrated strength. With its Arab, Islamic and international alliances, which it sees as a fundamental issue that it puts much more pressure on than it is pressured on, the Kingdom that has the Arab Peace Initiative is not alone in taking a position different from the positions of its Arab and Muslim brothers, and it does not contradict the international consensus related to the Palestinian issue, but rather works in harmony with it. In accordance with its political and moral determinants and the clear texts of its decisions in this direction.

While the Kingdom places the Palestinian issue at the heart of its agendas, it is a modern state that makes its policies using modern means as well. It realizes the historical and strategic significance of the fact that it is working on a settlement that it is satisfied with, its Arab and Palestinian brothers, and the entire world are satisfied with.

A settlement for a long-term tragedy and an opponent who is committing the most heinous crimes against the Palestinian person, his rights and his property, in a way that badly affects his present and future.

The Kingdom's story with the Palestinians is its story with all the peoples to whom it has provided so much over the decades. It suffices us, and even satisfies us, the always declared Saudi interpretation of the Kingdom’s relationship with the Palestinian issue, as all the kings said, “They are acting in accordance with the will of the founder, King Abdul Aziz, may God have mercy on him, towards Palestine, its cause, and its people.”

The Kingdom, which occupies its true position in international life, as a fundamental power, realizes the importance of the Palestinian issue, and does not see it as a burden on it, and everything Saudi Arabia does contradicts that.

In a historical precedent that has never occurred since the founding of the United States, the US House of Representatives voted to dismiss its Republican Speaker, Kevin McCarthy (from California).

The Council voted by a majority of 216 representatives, including all Democratic members of the Council, and six Republican members, compared to 210 representatives, all from the Republican Party, who voted to oppose McCarthy's impeachment.

Meanwhile, Patrick McHenry (from North Carolina) was appointed interim President of the Council, until another candidate from the Republican Party is chosen. The position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives comes third at the top of the American ruling political pyramid, after the President and Vice President.

The action came after Republican Representative Matthew Gates (from Florida), who represents the far-right faction of the party, on Monday submitted a memorandum “declaring the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives vacant.”

A day after McCarthy relied on Democratic votes to keep the government funded for at least 45 days, Representative Gaetz, who submitted the memo, said Sunday that he would not back down from his resolve.

“I think we need to move forward with new leadership that can be trustworthy,” Gaetz said on CNN, adding, “Look, the one thing everyone has in common is that no one trusts (Council Speaker) Kevin McCarthy.”

It is noteworthy that Representative Gaetz had managed to secure a group of about 20 representatives who forced McCarthy to go through 15 rounds of voting last January before he was elected Speaker of the House, during which they obtained concessions, including changes to the rules to allow any member of the House of Representatives to call. To vote to remove the Speaker of the Council, which is exactly what they did.

According to experts, had it not been for this concession, McCarthy may not have been able to secure his position in the first place after 15 rounds of voting at the beginning of Congress’ work last January.

Former Representative Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, in 2015 took the measure against then-House Speaker John Boehner, also a Republican, but Boehner resigned before the vote was called.

On Saturday, McCarthy's adoption of a bipartisan agreement to avoid a US government shutdown led to a Republican rebellion in Florida.

The Washington Post believes that the Democrats played a major role in expelling McCarthy, explaining that they actually considered voting with a majority to help McCarthy retain his position, but in the end they decided not to do so, and every Democrat present voted against McCarthy.

For those who voted against McCarthy, the newspaper explained that it was a strange alliance that included eight far-right Republicans and all the Democrats in the House of Representatives present.

Today, Wednesday, the repressive forces of the Occupation Prisons Administration, led by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, stormed Section 3-1 of Gilboa Prison and began hitting sound bombs and conducting searches in a group of rooms.

According to the Prisoners' Club, the prison administration has closed the sections until now, and a state of tension prevails in the prison.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Wednesday, that Minister in the Israeli Defense Ministry, Bezalel Smotrich, excludes the legal advisor responsible for the West Bank within the Military Prosecutor’s Office, and refrains from inviting him and the commission’s officers to any sensitive discussions regarding settlement construction in the West Bank.

According to the newspaper, Smotrich takes the opinion of the Deputy Legal Advisor in the Ministry of the Israeli Defense Forces, who is a settler, researcher and former lawyer in settlement forums. He is responsible for the settlement issue in the Ministry, along with a group of legal experts working in the Ministry’s settlements administration.

In recent months, they have taken several controversial decisions that Smotrich took regarding expanding settlements, despite the opposition expressed by the legal advisor to the Military Prosecution.

Even before Smotrich's arrival, the Legal Advisory Board in the Military Prosecutor's Office was the legal authority that determined everything related to the compliance of the civil administration and Israeli army officers in the West Bank with the rules of international law and Supreme Court rulings.

Although it was agreed with the formation of the current government that legal advice would be provided by the same body, none of its members have been invited for months, as decisions are made only by Smotrich and his men, some of whom lack legal experience in the international laws of war.

The Labour Party’s commitment entails extending an invitation to the head of the General Delegation of Palestine, allowing them to present their credentials as an Ambassador to New Zealand.

This action would align New Zealand with the prevailing sentiment observed at the United Nations, where 139 out of 193 member states have already recognized Palestine’s sovereignty.

Advocacy organizations like Justice for Palestine and Alternative Jewish Voices have expressed their support for this commitment.

In the 2020 election, the Labor Party secured half of the total votes, resulting in a significant boost in its representation in the House of Representatives, with a total of 65 seats.

This historic win marked the first time since 1996 that a single party had obtained enough seats to govern without a coalition.

Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement of her resignation in January and her successor, Chris Hipkins, assumed the role of party leader and prime minister.

Hipkins held a meeting with Izzat Salah Abdulhadi in February, who serves as the head of the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

While New Zealand has not officially recognized Palestine as a sovereign state, it has consistently condemned the Israeli occupation.

Additionally, New Zealand has been a strong advocate for the two-state solution.

Justice for Palestine spokesperson, Neil Ballantyne, said:

“It’s great to see the Labour Party joining the Green Party in making a commitment to recognize Palestine if elected. In doing so they are continuing Aotearoa New Zealand’s tradition of taking independent and principled stances on foreign policy issues from nuclear free to standing up against apartheid.”

“We have faith that just as ordinary New Zealanders were not prepared to stand by in silence while the South African government maintained an apartheid regime, we will not be silent while Palestinians suffer similar indignities and will reward those politicians who are taking this courageous stance,” he continued.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported on Wednesday that Qatar has not yet decided whether it will increase economic aid to the Gaza Strip, as part of moves aimed at calming tension in the Strip.

According to the newspaper, the Hamas movement recently sent letters to Qatar demanding increased support for the residents of the Gaza Strip.

The newspaper quoted a source familiar with the talks as saying that there has not yet been any decision regarding the possibility of Qatar increasing its financial aid, stressing that the issue is under discussion.

The source expected that Israel would soon announce a significant increase in the workers’ quota, gradually over a period of time.

Meanwhile, another source familiar with the negotiations said that Israel will not announce an increase in the number of workers in the near future.

According to the newspaper, these moves aim to prevent escalation with the Gaza Strip in light of the economic hardship faced by the residents of the Strip.

An Israeli source told the Hebrew newspaper that the violent demonstrations on the border fence were a step aimed at obtaining economic benefits, and did not indicate any desire on the part of Hamas to enter into a military conflict.

The newspaper says: In "Israel" they believe that the recent deterioration in Gaza does not indicate a decline in deterrence against "Hamas", but rather a dramatic indication of the severe civilian distress in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli sources say that since Operation Guardian of the Walls (Saif al-Quds), Hamas has maintained almost complete restraint.

On Wednesday, prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons went on a one-day hunger strike, in support of prisoner Kayed Al-Fafsous, who is on a hunger strike for the 63rd day in a row.

According to the Prisoner's Club, the administrative prisoners in the occupation prisons took this step, in light of the intransigence of the occupation courts and its intelligence services in responding to the demands of Al-Fasfous, to stop his administrative detention.

The club indicated that the 1,280 prisoners from Ofer prison, from all factions, will go on strike along with the administrative detainees.

A statement by the Supreme Emergency Committee of the Prisoner Movement, published yesterday, said that the prisoner movement in all its sects and in all prisons will not stand idly by and will not allow what happened with the martyr Khader Adnan to be repeated under any circumstances.

The prisoner movement warned the occupation and its intelligence against harming the life of prisoner Kayed Al-Fasfous, holding him fully responsible for his safety.

She pointed out that the strike step will be the first step to support him and that it will not stop unless the demands of the prisoner Al-Fasfous are met.

On Wednesday morning, settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in successive groups, amid calls to intensify the storming to commemorate the so-called “Throne Day.”

A group of settlers were seen performing “epic prostration” inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa, dressed as priests.

Previously, large forces of the occupation police stormed the courtyards of the mosque to secure the settlers’ incursions, as some members of those forces were seen removing some of the stationed people from inside it.

The occupation forces deployed heavily inside the Old City since the early hours of dawn in preparation for securing the settlers’ incursions, as they obstructed worshipers’ access to the mosque.

On Wednesday, the Israeli police raised the state of alert among its forces in the city of Jerusalem.

According to the Seventh Hebrew Channel, the state of alert will continue until the late evening hours, due to the large march that will be organized under the name “Jerusalem March,” which will be held on the occasion of the so-called “Sukkot Festival.”

The Israeli police expected that tens of thousands would participate in the march, noting that it had taken measures to close many streets in the city and raise the state of alert to prevent any security incident.

US President Joe Biden used his executive powers granted to him by the US Constitution to lift the reservation of $75 million that had been reserved by an American congressman as aid to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that he would provide the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) with $75 million that Congress had allocated as assistance to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The US State Department's decision came as a result of an intense campaign that lasted for three years in the United States to demand that members of Congress release allocations that the US administration had committed to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

Wisconsin Congressman Andre Carson led a campaign to collect signatures of members of Congress on a letter addressed to Congressmen Jim Risch, from Idaho, and Chip Roy, from Texas, asking them to lift a ban they put in place to prevent the delivery of $75 million, which is part of donations allocated by the US administration. To finance the programs of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

On Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests among citizens in various areas of the West Bank.

These forces arrested 4 citizens from Nablus, including university student Muhammad Al-Quqa, Nader Khabisa, his son Ahmed, and Amjad Awad Dhiyab from the town of Beita.

Meanwhile, the citizen Zain al-Din Abu Arra was arrested from the village of Aqaba near Tubas.

In the south of the West Bank, 4 citizens from Hebron were arrested: editor Samer Dababsa from Yatta, Ismail Al-Masalma from Beit Awa, editor Ammar Abu Maria from Beit Ummar, and Adel Jaber from the governorate.

The occupation forces stormed several areas of the West Bank cities, amid limited confrontations in some of them.

A large military force raided an exchange shop in the town of Turmus Ayya, Ramallah district.

A child was hit in the head with a rubber-coated metal bullet, Tuesday evening, during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces in the city of Hebron.

Director General of Alia Governmental Hospital, Tariq Al-Barbarawi, said that the child, Yazan Nadi Abu Qweider (13 years old), arrived at the hospital with a metal bullet wound to his head, which led to a fracture of the skull and a brain hemorrhage. He was subsequently admitted to the operating room, describing his condition as stable.

Local sources reported that confrontations broke out in the southern area of Hebron, during which the occupation forces fired metal bullets and poisonous tear gas bombs at the citizens.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation authorities’ prevention of three European foreign ministers from visiting Palestinian villages located in Area C in the occupied West Bank, under flimsy pretexts and pretexts that have nothing to do with international law or the agreements signed.

The Ministry considered, in a statement, Tuesday evening, that this arbitrary Israeli decision is an extension of the occupation’s encroachment on the occupied Palestinian land, and a continuation of the reversal of the signed agreements, and falls within the framework of the open war of occupation and operations of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian presence in all its forms, in Jerusalem and all the classified areas. C, in blatant injustice to the negotiated final solution issues as stated in the agreements, noting that the occupation authorities are destroying any components, facilities or homes of Palestinians in those areas, including those funded by Europe, with the aim of stealing and allocating those lands that constitute the majority of the West Bank’s area. Operations and expansion of colonial settlement in the territory of the State of Palestine.

The Ministry considered that “this decision is a diplomatic scandal, and the European Union, its institutions and countries must strongly condemn it and not pass it by without ignoring it, because of the real dangers it poses to the opportunity to implement the principle of the two-state solution, especially since this Israeli position is illegal and illegitimate and does not fall within the powers of the occupying authority.” And remaining silent about it encourages the occupying state to continue annexing the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”

The General Union of Algerian Workers yesterday held a gathering in support of and solidarity with Palestine and calling for lifting the siege on Gaza.

According to Anadolu, the gathering was organised in cooperation between the General Union of Algerian Workers and the Palestine Reconstruction Foundation.

Hundreds of Algerian people and unionists along with Palestinian Ambassador to Algiers Fayez Abu Aita attended the gathering. Amar Takdjout, head of the General Union of Algerian Workers, said the bloc “has been supporting Palestine since independence and will continue supporting it until the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza is lifted and all Palestinian people get their freedom.”

The General Union of Algerian Workers is the oldest and largest union in the country, and it has about 2.3 million members. Israel has imposed a stifling siege on the Gaza Strip since 2006 and has carried out several wide-scale wars that claimed thousands of lives and wounded tens of thousands in addition to causing unprecedented damage to residential buildings and infrastructure.

The French judiciary decided on Tuesday to reconsider on November 21 the appeal submitted by the French cement company Lafarge to challenge the charge of endangering Syrian employees and complicity in crimes against humanity during the Syrian conflict between 2021 and 2014.

The Court of Cassation, the highest judicial body in France, which was scheduled to rule on this case on Tuesday, wants to re-examine the evidence after the defense raised a legal point related to endangering the lives of others, according to a decision seen by Agence France-Presse.

It is suspected that during the years 2013 and 2014, the company, which has now become a subsidiary of the Holcim Group, paid, through its Syrian branch, “Lafarge Cement Syria,” millions of euros to jihadist groups, including especially the Islamic State, and to intermediaries, in order to continue operating its cement factory in Syria in the Jalabiya area. At a time when the country was engulfed in war.

Lafarge kept its Syrian employees working in the factory until September 2014, while it had evacuated its foreign employees in 2012.

Regarding Syrian employees, the parent company, Lafarge SA, clarified that “only Syrian law applies to the employment relationship.” However, it stressed that endangering the lives of others cannot be based on violating the obligation of caution stipulated in a foreign law, but exclusively on French law.

As part of a judicial investigation that began in 2017, the parent company, Lafarge SA, was charged in 2018 with complicity in crimes against humanity, financing a terrorist project, and endangering the lives of others.

Although the Court of Cassation finally ratified in 2021 the indictment for financing a terrorist project, the defense of the French group can still hope to obtain a suspended sentence for the other two crimes.

The Prisoner's Club confirmed that the Supreme Court of the occupation rejected the request to release administrative detainee Khaled Al-Nawabit (45 years old) from the town of Burqa in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, despite his difficult health condition, as he has been suffering from severe heart problems since before his arrest, and his health condition has worsened as a result of his continued detention. Administrative.

The Prisoner's Club added, in a statement, Tuesday evening, that detainee Al-Nawabit is one of hundreds of sick prisoners facing the crime of medical negligence (slow killing). Since his arrest about a year ago, arbitrarily and without "charge," the occupation prison administration has delayed in conducting the necessary medical examinations. for him.

He stated that, in furtherance of their crime, the occupation authorities issued a second administrative detention order against Al-Nawabit last May, for a period of 6 months, and it is supposed to end next November. In addition, the occupation courts played their role in consolidating the crime of his administrative detention by translating the decisions of an intelligence agency. Occupation (Shin Bet).

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said, “Whoever believes in the two-state solution must recognize the State of Palestine, and we hope that Germany, one of the protectors of human rights, and on the occasion of the celebration of German Unity Day, will recognize the independent State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, and submit a review to the International Court of Justice on the nature of occupation and consider it invalid.” Legal and illegal, and placing sanctions on settlement products and boycotting them.”

This came during his speech at the celebration of German Unity Day, today, Tuesday, in Ramallah, in the presence of Germany’s representative to Palestine, Oliver Ovtscha, and a number of official and legal figures, ambassadors, consuls, and representatives of countries accredited to Palestine.

Shtayyeh called on Germany and all friendly countries to put pressure on Israel to allow elections to be held in all the Palestinian territories, pointing out that it is unreasonable for Israel to hold 5 elections in the last 4 years and deprive us of our right to do so.

The Prime Minister conveyed greetings and congratulations, on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, to the leadership of Germany and the German people on the occasion of the National Day, “German Unity Day.”

He added: "We do not forget the will and courage of the German people in destroying and removing the wall and barriers in Berlin. The political will of the people cannot be defeated, which put an end to the division of Germany, and positioned Germany as a success story among the first developed countries."

He said: “The headquarters of the presidency, the government and its institutions are temporarily located in the city of Ramallah on the way to our capital, Jerusalem, and the wall around Jerusalem is temporary, and with the will of our people, the wall will be removed just as the Berlin Wall was removed. Barriers were placed in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip was sieged and isolated to separate our people from each other.” ".

He continued: "The Palestinian leadership, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, and we are behind him, are making every effort to end the chapter of division and embody national unity, on the path towards ending the occupation."

The Prime Minister added: “Successive occupation governments practice the most heinous forms of sanctions and violations against our people, as they continue to detain the bodies of 140 martyrs in refrigerators, and there are more than 5,000 prisoners in the occupation prisons, and the presence of more than 750,000 settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories illegally and unlawfully.” “In violation of international law, international legitimacy resolutions, and the United Nations.”

He said: "We are victims of the occupation and our land is a victim of settlement. This current Israeli government is reoccupying the West Bank through daily raids on Palestinian cities, villages and camps, killings, arrests, and raids on holy places and Al-Aqsa Mosque. We saw the Israeli Prime Minister raising the historic map of Palestine on the United Nations platform as a The State of Israel, which indicates that it is a government that does not believe in the two-state solution and seeks only to destroy it.”

Shtayyeh praised the continued German support for Palestine and the two-state solution, as Germany is the largest single supporter since the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority, and this support covers all sectors in all the Palestinian territories, in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

He added: "There is a lot that we can learn and benefit from Germany's experience. Unity, justice and freedom belong to Germany and to Palestine."

For his part, the representative of Germany said: “Germany has been and remains a steadfast partner to our Palestinian friends, and we remain committed to the two-state solution and the establishment of an independent, democratic and united Palestinian state, and we will continue to be one of the main cooperation partners to support infrastructure, economic development, vocational training, or Local governance and building the institutional foundations of the future state.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday that since the beginning of July 2023, 13 Palestinian families including 84 individuals (44 children and 40 adults) have been displaced from Masafer Yatta.

OCHA considered this to be part of the increasing restrictions imposed by Israeli forces on the movement of these families, as it is the main reason behind their displacement.

Until recently, 13 population centers in Masafer Yatta, located in the south of the West Bank, housed 215 Palestinian families, comprising about 1,150 people. These gatherings are located within an area of 18 percent of the West Bank that the Israeli authorities declared “firing zones” and designated for military training. The people who were displaced from their communities during the past three months represent about 7 percent of its population. As stated in the UN report.

He added: Over the years, and increasingly since May 2022, the Israeli authorities have imposed movement restrictions, confiscated property, demolished homes, and conducted military training in Masafer Yatta. Together, these practices contributed to creating a coercive environment that forced residents to move out.

The restrictions imposed on movement have become more severe over the past three months, as Israeli forces operating from a recently established military base patrol the area more frequently and impose further restrictions on people’s movement and their ability to access markets and basic services and transport fodder and other inputs for livestock. On which families depend.

These forces also confiscated vehicles used by residents, and two schools in the area reported that 24 students dropped out this year, including students whose families were deported in this coercive environment and others who fear the unsafe journey to their schools. In one incident, in September, Israeli forces stopped teachers on their way to school and threatened to confiscate their vehicle if they took it again.

Since March 2023, one of the residential communities in Masafer Yatta, Khirbet Bir al-Ad, has been devoid of its residents following the displacement of the last two families there. In this case, members of these two families cited escalating settler violence as the main reason that prompted them to leave. This community has become one of four Palestinian population centers that have been completely empty in the West Bank since 2022.

Humanitarian organizations and donors are still providing assistance to the population centers in Masafer Yatta to meet their basic needs. However, over the years, Israeli authorities have hampered these efforts by issuing demolition or “stop work” orders, confiscating vehicles and equipment, and imposing physical restrictions on access to land and the entry of humanitarian workers. A project launched in May 2023 to provide emergency shelter was forced to stop its work after the Israeli authorities confiscated rehabilitation materials.

Forcible transfer of civilians from or within the occupied Palestinian territory is prohibited under international humanitarian law. As Ocha says.

The United Nations called on the Israeli authorities to stop all coercive measures, including movement restrictions, planned evictions and demolitions, and military training in residential areas.