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.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a freed prisoner from Tulkarm camp.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested the freed prisoner Ibrahim Muslim while he was working on his agricultural land in the western neighborhood of Tulkarm, and searched his private vehicle.

Dozens of citizens suffered from suffocation, Tuesday evening, during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the village of Burqa amidst firing bullets and poisonous tear gas bombs, which led to the outbreak of confrontations in the area, resulting in dozens suffering from suffocation.

In recent weeks, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs prevented three European foreign ministers from visiting Palestinian villages located in Area C in the occupied West Bank, according to what Israeli media reported, citing two European diplomats on Tuesday.

The two European diplomats reported that the foreign ministers of Ireland, Norway and Britain, who visited Israel in recent weeks, requested a tour of Palestinian villages in Area C, but they were prevented from doing so due to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ opposition to such a tour.

The two European diplomats said that Israel changed its policy against an internal political background, while sources in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that the reason for the decision was security.

Since its formation, Netanyahu's current far-right government has prevented Palestinian steps in Area C and has escalated the demolitions of homes and the displacement of village residents from their homes in these areas, claiming that Area C is subject to Israeli security and civil control in accordance with the "Oslo Accords."

The Parliament of Armenia voted on Tuesday on the decision to join the International Criminal Court. This step comes to increase the tension in relations between Yerevan and Moscow, especially after the military operation launched by Baku in Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended with the surrender of the separatists and the flight of the majority of the Armenian population after a dispute with Azerbaijan over the region that extended for decades.

Armenia's parliament approved on Tuesday joining the International Criminal Court after rapid deliberations on the move, which angered traditional ally Russia, and comes amid tension between Yerevan and Moscow against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's military operation in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

For its part, the Kremlin considered last week that Armenia's intention to ratify the statute of the Criminal Court was "very hostile" to Russia, especially since this judicial body, which is based in The Hague, issued an arrest warrant in March against President Vladimir Putin on charges of deporting Ukrainian children during... The war waged by Moscow against Kiev.

The ratification comes amid tension in relations between Yerevan and Moscow after the military operation launched by Baku in Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended with the surrender of the separatists and the flight of the majority of the Armenian population from the region after a dispute with Azerbaijan over the region that extended for decades.

As a result of rapid deliberations, the Armenian Parliament ratified the Rome Statute by a majority of 60 votes to 22.

Before the vote, the head of the Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee, Yegesha Kirakosyan, confirmed, "We are providing additional guarantees to Armenia" in the face of any potential threat to its territorial integrity from Azerbaijan.

He pointed out that the ratification of the Rome Statute would mean that any future invasion of the country's territory "will be (a matter) within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court," which will have a "deterrent effect" for any hostile party.

Armenia signed the Rome Statute in 1999 without ratifying it, citing a conflict between some of its provisions and its constitution. Since then, these obstacles have been removed.

The opposition parties, which hold 36 seats in the 107-seat parliament, protested the raising of this issue and withdrew from the beginning of the session.

The Armenian move came in light of recent tension with Russia, as Yerevan accused Moscow, which deploys peacekeeping forces in Karabakh, of abandoning it in the face of Baku and its operation that ended with the surrender of the Armenian separatists and their announcement of the dissolution of the unilaterally declared republic.

The Kremlin has previously denied these accusations.

Last week, the Russian presidential spokesman also criticized Armenia's intention to ratify the criminal court system.

Dmitry Peskov told reporters, “These decisions are very hostile to us,” adding, “We of course hope that these decisions will not have a negative impact on our bilateral relations,” recalling that Russia “does not recognize” the Rome Statute and is not among the countries that have ratified it.

Kirakosyan confirmed that Armenia proposed to Russia the signing of a "bilateral agreement" that would help allay Moscow's concerns about Yerevan's accession to the Criminal Court, without providing additional details.

Recent years have witnessed a rapprochement between Armenia and Western countries at the expense of its traditional alliance with Russia.

Moscow deployed peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh following the second war that Azerbaijan and Armenia fought over the region in 2020, which ended with Yerevan's defeat. However, these forces did not play a significant role during the lightning military operation launched by Azerbaijan last month in Karabakh, which ended with them extending full “sovereignty” over it with the surrender of the separatists.

On Tuesday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu praised the peacekeepers, thanking them for their “selflessness and professionalism that allowed new casualties to be avoided.”

The military operation, which lasted about 24 hours, led to the death of about 600 people.

The region witnessed a mass exodus after the fighting calmed down, as more than 100,000 of its Armenian residents fled towards Armenia, or about 85 percent of their total number, which was officially estimated at 120,000 people.

Since the fall of the Russian Empire, the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, with an Armenian majority, has formed part of the territory of Azerbaijan.

The separatists, with the support of Armenia, declared unilateral independence in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and established a republic that was not recognized by the international community. The region has been the subject of a dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia for more than three decades, and the two countries fought two wars over it, the first between 1988 and 1994, and the second in the fall of 2020.

Armenia also accused Azerbaijan of violating its territorial sovereignty in May 2021 to control part of the Karabakh region.

The Supreme National Committee for the Prisoner Movement announced, on Tuesday evening, that administrative prisoners in all occupation prisons will go on a hunger strike for one day tomorrow, Wednesday, in support of the prisoner Kayed Al-Fasfous, who is on a hunger strike for the 62nd day in a row.

This announcement came in light of the intransigence of the occupation courts and intelligence in responding to Al-Fasfous’s demands to stop his administrative detention.

The statement said that the prisoner movement in all its aspects 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 tomorrow will be the first step in support of him, which will not stop unless the demands of the prisoner Kayed are met.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli Public Prosecution in occupied Jerusalem filed an indictment in the city’s Central Court against Mohsen Halawani (38 years old), a resident of the city, for allegedly carrying out a ramming attack at the Qalandiya checkpoint two weeks ago, which led to the injury of a security guard at the place.

According to an indictment, Halwani had a knife that he was going to use in the operation, and when he noticed the presence of the security guard standing next to the road at the checkpoint, he decided to turn his vehicle and increase speed, hitting the guard, before moving back a few meters, apparently to try to run him over again, but he was controlled. And he was arrested.

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces set up military checkpoints around the city of Jericho.

Eyewitnesses reported that the occupation forces set up their checkpoints at the entrances to the city, including the eastern “Yellow Gate,” the southern “Jerusalem Street,” and the northern one leading to Al-Auja, while searching vehicles, which led to the obstruction of traffic in these areas, and almost a complete stop of vehicles leaving Jericho. Through these methods.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 9 teenagers from Tel Rumeida in the city of Hebron.

According to local sources, these forces arrested 9  teenagers from the Al-Tamimi, Miteb, and Shaheen families, between the ages of 8 and 13, as they were returning from their schools to their homes in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, and took them to an unknown destination.

The occupation forces intensified their presence and set up military checkpoints in the areas of Jabal al-Rahma, Tal Rumeida, Al-Shuhada Street, Al-Sahla neighborhood, and in the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque and the Old City, coinciding with a provocative march by settlers to celebrate Jewish holidays.

The Pentagon warned Congress that it was running out of funds to replace stockpiles of weapons sent to Ukraine, and was forced to slow down the supply of new generation weapons to the US military.

This warning comes after Congress passed a short-term funding bill to avoid a government shutdown that did not include the funds needed to continue fueling the proxy war in Ukraine.

According to the Associated Press, Pentagon Comptroller Michael McCord told House and Senate leaders that the US military has $1.6 billion remaining out of $25.9 billion authorized by Congress to replace weapons that have flowed into Ukraine.

“We have already had to slow down the process of replenishing our forces to hedge against an uncertain funding future,” McCord said in a letter to congressional leaders. “Failure to renew our military services in the required time could harm our military’s readiness,” the letter added.

The Pentagon also has about $5.4 billion remaining under what is called “presidential withdrawal authority,” which allows President Biden to ship weapons to Ukraine from U.S. military stockpiles. The $5.4 billion (mentioned) is what remains of the $6.2 billion that became available after the Pentagon claimed an “accounting error” that overvalued weapons sent to Ukraine freed up more money to spend on fueling the war.

McCord said the Pentagon has run out of money for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the administration to purchase weapons for Ukraine and is intended to provide more long-term support. Without new funding for the war soon, he said, the Pentagon will have to restrict the types of weapons being sent to Ukraine that are considered “critical and urgent now as Russia prepares for a winter offensive.”

The White House asked Congress to approve allocating an additional $24 billion to Ukraine, which brings total US spending on the war to about $137 billion. While some House Republicans who oppose the proxy war have made it difficult to approve more aid, a majority of Congress still supports the policy, and the $24 billion is expected to pass once it is put to a vote.

Today, Tuesday, dozens of armed settlers stormed the Old City, including the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the center of Hebron.

According to local sources, the settlers organized a provocative march that started from the vicinity of the Ibrahimi Mosque and reached the Osama bin Al-Mundhid School, which the occupation transformed into a religious institute for graduating rabbis and called it the “Beit Romano” settlement.

The settlers roamed the streets and alleys of the Old City to celebrate their Jewish holidays, and chanted racist, anti-Arab slogans, most notably “Death to the Arabs.” The occupation forces also obstructed the passage of citizens in the Old City, prevented them from reaching their homes, and closed a number of roads leading to the town.

Today, Tuesday, Israeli special forces kidnapped a young man from Nour Shams camp in the city of Tulkarm.

According to local sources, these forces were driving a vehicle with a Palestinian registration plate, stormed a store selling cell phones in the Western District, and kidnapped the young man, Muhammad Khaled Marzouk, who works there.

Six pro-Iranian fighters were killed as a result of an air strike, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights suggested was Israeli, on Monday night on sites in eastern Syria where fighter groups supported by Tehran are deployed.

After midnight, the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that two Syrian soldiers were injured as a result of another Israeli strike that targeted military sites near the city of Deir ez-Zor in the east of the country.

The Observatory reported that “six non-Syrian fighters were killed as a result of an aerial bombardment likely to have been Israeli that targeted, on Monday evening, three sites of pro-Iranian groups in an area near the city of Albukamal, near the Syrian-Iraqi border.”

Iranian and Iraqi forces and groups loyal to Tehran, including Lebanese Hezbollah, are deployed in a large area in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, especially between the cities of Al-Bukamal and Al-Mayadeen. The Observatory estimates the number of members of these groups at about 15,000 fighters.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense, for its part, reported other strikes that targeted sites in the same governorate.

It stated in a statement that around 23:50 (20:50 GMT) on Monday evening, “the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack on some of our armed forces’ positions in the vicinity of the city of Deir ez-Zor,” which led to “two soldiers being injured and some material losses occurring.” .

For its part, the Observatory counted the wounding of four members of the regime forces, two of whom were in critical condition.

According to the Observatory, military air forces and pro-Iranian groups are stationed at the targeted location.

Since the start of the conflict in 2011, Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in Syria, targeting regime forces positions and Iranian and Hezbollah targets.

It rarely confirms the implementation of strikes, but it repeatedly confronts what it describes as Iran's attempts to establish its military presence in Syria.

On September 14, two Syrian soldiers were killed as a result of Israeli bombing on Tartous Governorate in the west of the country.

Since 2011, Syria has witnessed a bloody, multi-faceted conflict, which has caused the death of more than half a million people, massive destruction of infrastructure, and the displacement and displacement of more than half of the population inside and outside the country.

The official spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, said that the administration of US President Joe Biden is committed to a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Miller said in his response to a question directed to him by Al-Quds.com correspondent, in his press conference at the US State Department, regarding whether the US administration, which continues to assert that “Ukraine has inspired the world in the fight against the illegal military occupation,” and whether the administration “The US believes that the Palestinians should be very inspired to fight the illegal occupation with the same kind of force and the same commitment,” as well as rely on an unlimited commitment to support from the United States and the rest of the world. “We are deeply committed to the two-state solution, as we have spoken many times.”

Miller added: "We are certainly taking steps that will improve the dignity and economic status of the Palestinian people, as well as reach a final two-state solution."

Miller's statements coincided with a call by the former US ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk, in a joint article with Zeid Raad Al Hussein, the former Jordanian ambassador to the United Nations, published by Foreign Affairs magazine (published on October 2, 2023),

Calling on US President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who are now holding talks about the possible full normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, to condition any agreement on completely thwarting the ambitions of Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich in the occupied West Bank.

The two former diplomats say: “This could be achieved by insisting that in exchange for establishing official relations with Saudi Arabia, Israel must transfer a large proportion of the remaining territory controlled by Israel in the West Bank (known as Area C) to the Palestinian Authority and freeze all expansion, halting all efforts to legitimize illegal outposts, and such formal commitments would effectively thwart the extremist push for annexation.But if the United States brokers a deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia and fails to stop Smotrich, it will give the Israeli right a green light to achieve "His extreme plan."

In a related issue, regarding the position of President Biden’s administration on forcing the occupation authorities to a Palestinian family to demolish two of its residential apartments in the Beit Hanina neighborhood, north of occupied Jerusalem, Miller said in his response to the question of the Al-Quds.com correspondent: “It is of utmost importance, as we said in the issue of "It is appropriate for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to refrain from taking unilateral steps that would exacerbate tensions and undermine efforts to advance a negotiated two-state solution. This certainly includes forced demolitions and the eviction of families from the homes they have lived in for generations."

President Mahmoud Abbas said, “When Israel says that it is celebrating its independence day, it has gained independence from whom? Who was occupying the State of Israel so that it celebrates the anniversary of its freedom from this occupation, this is a big lie.”

During his participation in the ceremony of the Eighth National Forum “Digital Life and Creativity,” which was held today, Tuesday, in Ramallah, President Abbas affirmed that America is the one occupying Palestine.

He added: "Compare this with what happened a few days before the war against women in your neighbors (i.e. Israel) because they are an impure gender and it is not permissible for them to walk with men in demonstrations."

During the so-called Yom Kippur Day a few days ago, Israel witnessed a state of tension after clashes broke out between demonstrators and worshipers in Tel Aviv over gender segregation.

In this context, President Abbas expressed his pride in the large portion of those working in scientific advancement in Palestine, most of whom are women and females, noting that females usually achieve first and superior ranks in high school and universities, and compared this to the treatment of women under the Israeli occupation.

Today, Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces detained an activist and three journalists at the Tayaseer military checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley.

According to local sources, these forces detained the activist in the Popular Resistance Committees, Ayman Gharib, along with three journalists: Hafez Abu Sabra, Mahmoud Fawzi from Roya Channel, and photojournalist Nasser Shtayyeh, while they were heading to the Jordan Valley through the Tayasir military checkpoint.

The sources indicated that the occupation soldiers raised weapons on them and detained them for two hours before allowing them to pass.