At the meeting of the Central Council of the PLO, which approved the Oslo Accords in 1993, the majority of the members in attendance cursed the participants in the meeting, they cursed Oslo, and after speeches that lasted from 10:30 in the evening, in Tunis, the then temporary headquarters of the Palestinian presidency, until 1:30 in the morning, it was summed up. Abu Ammar responded to the critics of Oslo by saying: “This is just one of the disadvantages of Oslo. Oslo is much worse than that.” He asked someone from here (from Tunisia) how many kilometers to Jerusalem, and they replied: Not less than three thousand kilometers. He asked who is the closest to Jerusalem?? Is it Gaza and Jericho or Tunisia, Algeria, Cairo, Amman, Baghdad and Damascus??.
He said: “I am going to Gaza, and Jericho is the closest to Jerusalem. Whoever comes with me is welcome, and whoever remains in his position outside Palestine has freedom and movement.” And this is how Yasser Arafat did it.

There are many disadvantages of Oslo that can be observed, but what Abu Ammar achieved through Oslo is the second historical achievement for the Palestinian people. The first was the birth of the Liberation Organization in 1964 at the hands of Ahmed Al-Shugairi, and the launch of the armed struggle on 1/1/1965, which culminated in the Battle of Karama on 3/21. /1968 and the Jordanian-Palestinian partnership in victory over the Israeli enemy after the defeat of June 1967.

Abu Ammar's final achievement for his people is the Oslo Accords, which led to:
1- The dual American-Israeli recognition of: the Palestinian people, the PLO, and the legitimate political rights of the Palestinian people.
2- On the basis of this recognition, the following steps were taken:
a. Gradual Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian cities, starting with Gaza and Jericho first.
B. The return of the late President Yasser Arafat, along with more than 350,000 Palestinians, who returned to Palestine during the period from 1994 to 1999.
C. The birth of the Palestinian Authority within its homeland and its self-rule are a prelude to the establishment of the Palestinian state.
Dr.. The last and most important of which is transferring the entire Palestinian issue from exile to the homeland, thus shifting the conflict from outside Palestine to inside Palestine, using Palestinian tools in confronting the enemy of the Palestinians.

The Palestinians have no enemy, except one enemy: 1- The one who occupies their land, 2- Confiscates their rights, 3- Attacks their dignity.

The Oslo Accords were passed in the Israeli parliament with the votes of the five Palestinians: 3 from the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality headed by Tawfiq Ziad, and 2 from the Arab Democratic Party headed by Abdel Wahab Darawsha. Had it not been for the five Palestinian representatives, the Oslo Accords would not have been approved by the Israeli parliament, as the Labor Party is headed by Ishaq Rabin and the Meretz movement had 56 seats, and Likud, headed by Yitzhak Shamir, had 59 seats, which rejected and voted against Oslo, so the five Palestinian votes were the most likely.

The second Israeli battle against Oslo took place with the assassination of Rabin on November 4, 1994, and the fall of Shimon Peres to Netanyahu in the elections in May 1995.

Thus, the Israelis thwarted the Oslo Accords until Sharon came and reoccupied the Palestinian cities in March 2002, and Arafat was besieged and assassinated by Sharon at the end of 2004.

The occupation governments worked to practically abolish Oslo, and to confirm their control and occupation over all the cities and lands of the Palestinian Bank, with the exception of the district, which is the seat of the Authority and its president. It will remain so and allow a role for the Authority until the absence and departure of President Mahmoud Abbas, and then for every recent incident.

The Palestinians remember the Oslo Accords more than they remember the Second Intifada, which was the strongest expression of demolishing the illusions attached to this ill-fated agreement, and of the popular refusal to surrender.

The invocation of Oslo on its anniversary annually is due to the fact that this agreement is an unfinished process, meaning that Israel aimed, through it, and under its cover, to deepen the settler-colonial project and perpetuate hegemony over all of Mandatory Palestine. Only the Palestinian Authority, one of the outcomes of Oslo, is committed to it, specifically security coordination, which is the essence of this agreement. If we borrow Patrick Wolfe's common saying about colonialism, this agreement is "a structure, not an event."

This agreement has disastrous repercussions that will take perhaps an entire generation to be eliminated, to achieve salvation from the nightmare of colonialism, and to achieve liberation and return. The most dangerous of these repercussions: The fragmentation of the national movement, the occurrence of division, the dissipation of the national liberation project, and the undermining of the Palestine Liberation Organization, which has a dual historical function. As a tool of liberation and a gathering vessel for all the Palestinian people, at home and in places of refuge.

These repercussions are ongoing, resulting in continuous attempts to reproduce it and make it eternal. To clarify and add, to understand the factors for the sustainability of this agreement, what it protects and protects the ever-expanding colonial project is the emergence of a political-economic class, upon which the rule of the Ramallah Authority is based, and whose interests have become linked to the survival of this agreement.

Over the past years, this agreement/deal has been thoroughly analyzed and dissected by research centres, forums, magazines, analysts and others, and these institutions have hardly finished dealing with a new development in the Zionist settlement project, until they are surprised by another new development, to confront it in an attempt to understand it and anticipate its consequences. Israeli, Palestinian and international.

The latest of these developments is the most blatant version of colonial brutality, the so-called decisive plan, by its architect, the Minister of Finance and Minister in the Ministry of Defense, Bezalel Smotrich, which is being implemented on the ground, under the current right-wing settler coalition government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu.

On the Arab and global levels, this agreement allowed Israel’s unprecedented expansion in the Arab and global world, as new Arab regimes fell into the clutches of normalization and the security alliance. At the global level, the Palestinian cause has lost large, important countries such as China and India. The number of countries that recognized Israel after the Oslo Accords reached 165, up from 110 before Oslo.

Years passed after the suppression of the second intifada, which was dominated by almost complete Palestinian submission, and which ended with thousands of martyrs, wounded, and detainees. During this very bad period, the Palestinian security forces were re-engineered, at the hands of the American General, Leith Dayton, to consolidate their function as a protector of Israeli security, by preventing and suppressing resistance. Money also flowed from donor countries, whose goal was to protect the authority and not to liberate the West Bank and Gaza Strip from occupation and settlement, or popular economic development.

This money played a role in linking the authority and its dependent and distorted economy to the neoliberal system, and in providing comfort for the occupation to practice oppression, expansion, theft, and siege at a small cost. This resulted in profound social, economic and moral transformations, which strengthened poverty on the one hand, and grew a middle class with the ability to consume and a wealthy segment, which distanced people from the mentality of struggle and resistance.

Resistant reaction

In recent years, specifically the last decade and a half, initiatives to appeal the Oslo Accords and what it represents, and what results from it on a daily basis, of brutal colonial practice against the land, people, and history, have been renewed and even intensified. These are independent popular initiatives. The living forces of the Palestinian people wrote verses of resistance and steadfastness on many occasions.

These initiatives, which take different and diverse forms, from cultural, to popular and armed resistance, in addition to civil resistance on international arenas, people’s arenas, played an important role in reviving hope among broad popular groups, and new groups crystallized, especially vital ones, such as youth, Freed from the shock of the defeat of the second intifada. These groups, especially the most aware, educated, and courageous, are currently undertaking the recovery of the narrative and regaining awareness of one Palestine, one people, and one destiny, but in the face of major internal and external challenges, and many dangers.

Important opportunities have arisen and are emerging for these generations, and their vanguards, in their resistance to the Zionist and colonial project, which generated an official apartheid system, represented by the issuance of successive reports about Israel as an apartheid regime that practices crimes against humanity.

Israel has created the reality of a single state, ruled by an apartheid system, which has contributed to re-exposing its settler-colonial reality, a system that is inconsistent with the era of democracy and human rights. All of this contributed to reviving the authentic Palestinian liberation project, which includes Palestine between the sea and the river, on the ruins of the colonial apartheid system.

Now comes the crushing, unprecedented internal crisis that is ravaging the Israeli entity, revealing its blatant contradictions and its horizontal and vertical divisions. But in order for this division to transform from a dispute over the form of the state, and between the desire to restore Jewish colonial democracy and abandon its colonial Jewish democracy, to a struggle for democracy between the sea and the river, that is, abandoning the colonial apartheid system and its privileges granted to the Jews, we need a qualitative shift. It is true in our thinking, our organisation, our vision of liberation, our performance and the way we manage the conflict. This is the greatest challenge facing vital segments of our people, whether young or old, men and women, individuals and institutions. "About Arabs 48"

Anyone who observes artist Dr.'s drawings cannot Alaa the caricature shot except the acknowledgment that the owner of this brush and imagination is in fact a doctor and thinker whose opinions extend beyond the lines and colors of the pen in the form of artistic paintings documenting current and historical events and facts in the Palestinian political, humanitarian and struggle scene under occupation, and similar to them in the Arab and Islamic arenas.

Dr. Alaa Al-Laqta is a distinguished person who thinks with his brush, and presents his opinion in the form of a painting or paintings that summarize all the explanations and contemplations, reaching the viewer’s mind as a concentrated dose of awareness, with which the viewer of the painting does not need a deep analytical reading that may be right or wrong.

The paintings of the Palestinian doctor Dr. Alaa Al-Laqta, in its political and humanitarian contexts, is of the “avoidable plain” category, where the person reading it feels - with a closer look - that he is in front of an international philosopher and thinker who scatters his ideas and spreads them through his brush of resistance to the occupation, which is an echo of his conscience burdened with pain, national concern, and the bleeding of the Palestinian wound, so that It reaches all minds, and touches the hearts of the simple and the educated, and the visions do not differ regarding the intended meanings and dimensions behind it.. The goals of the intention that Dr. wrote. Alaa Bayaraa is what you see on paper, as internalized by the artist with the brush and colors, and there is nothing other than the feelings and emotions that the eye captures in its first and quick reading.

I have heard the name Dr. Alaa Al-Laqta since he was a student in Romania during the 1990s, where one of my relatives was studying with him in medical school there, and then I followed his drawings in more than one magazine and newspaper here and there. Perhaps what attracted me to him was his artistic creativity, and his expressions that surpassed all the articles I was writing, so I used the splendor and thought contained in them to decorate the pages of the books that I was publishing, especially the series (The Man is a Position), which consists of ten parts, and contained within its covers the widest hospitality. Of these drawings, which amounted to more than 200, their meanings and ideas matched the objectives of the political analyzes published in those articles.

Dr. was Alaa is always generous and generous. He did not receive a fee from me for these artistic paintings. He considered all of this to be a gift from him to the homeland, and offered it as an “ongoing charity” and a deed in the balance of his good deeds.

When I was putting the final touches to my book (Perish and Do not Depreciate...Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa in the Palestinian Struggle Scene: Father Manuel Muslim as an Example), I asked Dr. Alaa wanted to draw with his brush a picture of Father Manuel that expressed this meaning, and the response came with a wonderful painting of Father Manuel in a scene of a knight who puts a war hood on his head in preparation for confronting the enemies. The hood was the Dome of the Rock, which made Father Manuel even more proud of his positions defending Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa.

In 2009, I met Dr. Alaa in Cairo at one of the hotels in the Heliopolis district (Radsun Blue) during my official visit there, for the purpose of meeting a high-level European delegation that aimed to open a dialogue with the Hamas movement, and meet some of its political leaders.
Dr. was Alaa - at that time - was residing in Nasr City, so it was an opportunity to get to know him more, and to exchange conversations with him about politics and literature, and how he came from the world of medicine, solutions, and the surgeon’s scalpel to the media space and the painter’s brush. It was an enjoyable meeting, as no one who saw the man and interviewed him was like anyone who heard about him, as I truly found in him a person who combined kindness, humility, and nobility of behavior, and who possessed the quality of literature that allows us to say: “He had a miracle in his morals.”

How many times did he honor us with drawings that we requested from him in particular. He was as generous in his giving as the sending wind, as he helped us with his brush, which blessed more than one of our intellectual works and the frontispiece of a book.

Dr. Alaa is an authentic Palestinian artist. Today he stands deservedly on the ladder of international fame. Many of his paintings, which exceeded ten thousand paintings, made their way to many newspapers and magazines in the Arab and Western arenas. His name is in the Palestinian imagination alongside the creative artist Naji Al-Ali (may God have mercy on him). And others who rose in the world of art, such as Samir Mansour, Imad Abu Eshteiwi, Muhammad Sabana and others, although each of them took a different artistic approach in their expressions of the Palestinian situation against the occupation.

He gave Dr. Alaa Al-Laqta depicted Palestinian oppression under occupation, a scene in which he exposed Israel’s crimes and aggressive violations against humanity, and gave the Palestinian child, the Palestinian prisoner, the Palestinian woman, and the Palestinian resistance their right to the spectacle of heroism and the epics of struggle, whose images captured the Arab and Islamic mentality, and were embodied through the keffiyeh, the aqal, the stone, and the slingshot, the manifestation of the struggle scene. The Palestinian and his widespread presence in regional and global arenas, as a fighter for freedom and self-determination... The stone in the hands of his children is one of the tools of his struggle against the occupiers, and the flag that his youth raises high is also a message of challenge to the aggressor’s army and a declaration card for the identity of his country, Palestine, and the sheikh strikes with his slingshot and the resistance with his bullets. It is also a message to the worlds: No, we will not be complacent.

With every Palestinian event, we were waiting to see his artistic painting with eagerness and passion, wondering: What did Alaa’s brush draw?! How many times have we tweeted our admiration at him, saying: How wonderful you are, Alaa. You have hit the nail on the head with the truth, and you have preceded all of us in conveying it to the old and the young, to the person of sound mind and to those who are even consciously poor.

In fact, there are many in my country who have engraved their names with their sacrifices, and left behind more than one fingerprint and trace behind them with their blood, while you have left, with the ink of your pen and the pigments of your studio, artistic paintings that live with us in our consciences, are immortalized on the pages of books, and decorate the walls of offices and library spaces. You are for your people, through your giving, an icon and a snapshot. In the highest.

Due to the wide acclaim and acceptance of his caricatures, they are widely circulated by social media pioneers, and therefore his Facebook account was closed more than once, but he succeeded in finding other media channels and outlets, so that his interaction with the Palestinian and Arab masses continued in his struggle. uninterrupted.

Indeed, God knows best, Alaa.. How many compliments and compliments you have received, for the beauty of those caricatured expressions, which were always (pain) a cure for the evil. One suffices to watch the reactions of social media activists and their beautiful comments to these cartoons expressing the groans and pain of the Palestinians, as a result of the injustice and betrayal of those in their Arab neighborhood or those who were supposed to represent the voice of human conscience and the free world.

Today, O Palestinian refugee, your pen travels from one country to another; From Romania to Egypt to Bahrain to Kuwait to Turkey, and despite all this easternization and Westernization, the appearance of your feather remains the most wonderful and has the deepest impact on the souls of your followers. Your arrow reaches where you intended and the target was with this “resistance feather.”

Yes; Resisting bullets have their share of the reward and their entitlements from the liberation project, but the soft power represented by the artist’s brush also has its share of the same thorn.

Truth and without compliments, Dr. Alaa Al-Laqta, with his brush and paintings, is like drones flying far away and killing the occupation. This resistance brush has contributed to transferring our oppression to the world, and Israel has not been able to market its accusations of extremism and terrorism against his pen.

Aside from the artist’s brush, there is Alaa the human being with a kind word and high morals, a son of the camp who is full of manliness and chivalry and speaks out about what he truly sees and people do not underestimate their things. We have always known him to be loyal to his fellow artists in mentioning and praising him, appreciating their efforts in the context of Palestinian patriotism.

Disagreements within the Israeli government have become more public than ever before, with its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ignoring the voices of far-right ministers and their demands, in contrast to what was happening in previous times when their demands were met.

It seems that Netanyahu is trying to maintain his political standing, at least vis-à-vis the United States, in the hope of obtaining an invitation to visit the White House.

This new crisis comes against the backdrop of a report published in Al-Quds.com, and reported by various Hebrew, Arab and international media, about the Palestinian Authority receiving weapons, equipment and armored vehicles from the United States, with American support, Jordanian mediation, and with the approval of the right-wing Israeli government.

After publication in Al-Quds.com, Hebrew media later confirmed the news through Israeli security sources.

Sources close to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is the minister responsible for civil administration in the Army Ministry, said he was very angry at the news of the Palestinian Authority handing over weapons.

The sources said that Smotrich will hold a special session today to discuss this, as reported by Hebrew Channel 7.

While his brother, in a tweet to him, called for the dissolution of the Israeli government.

A WhatsApp group for ministers in the Israeli government witnessed a sharp and angry discussion, in which the ministers demanded clarifications, stressing that the issue had not been presented for a vote or discussion.

Commenting on this, Netanyahu's office said that only armor was transported and there were no weapons, which was confirmed by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant.

Previously, yesterday, Netanyahu ignored a new request from the Minister of the so-called National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, in the cabinet session, to issue orders to tighten the conditions of detention of Palestinian prisoners, especially with regard to reducing family visits to them from twice a month to once.

This prompted Ben Gvir to invite members of his party to a special meeting to discuss their next steps in light of ignoring their demands and implementing Ben Gvir’s own policies that he had promised to implement during the election campaign.

Yesterday and in recent days, Ben Gvir entered into a public controversy with Netanyahu regarding this issue, and Netanyahu asked him to stop these provocations.

According to the Reshet Kan channel, Ben Gvir decided to go to the Knesset to vote on a resolution related to tightening the conditions of detention of Palestinian prisoners.

Today, Wednesday, dozens of students suffered from suffocation after the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Anata, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources in the town, the occupation forces stormed the town and positioned themselves around the school complex, and fired stun grenades and toxic tear gas at it, causing dozens of students to suffer from suffocation.

This Wednesday morning, the head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners’ Affairs Authority, Qaddoura Fares, called on the international community, with all its formations and components, to intervene immediately and seriously to save the life of the prisoner Ahmed Manasra, who is being subjected to a crime that contradicts all human and moral values.

 Ahmed will be brought before the Israeli occupation court today, where he has been living in solitary confinement for two years, and is going through a difficult and complex health and psychological condition, and his continued detention poses a real threat to his life, especially since over the past eight years of his detention, all methods of torture and abuse have been practiced against him.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Ahmed Manasra from Jerusalem has been detained since 2015, after the occupation police claimed that he carried out a stabbing attack, and he was sentenced to thirteen years.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Wednesday, that the Israeli police fear that the Minister of the so-called National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, will be handed a traffic violation against him, including a fine.

According to the newspaper, over the past nine months, the Israeli police have been avoiding issuing Ben Gvir traffic violations, especially after spotting him last January while on board his vehicle without wearing a seat belt.

The traffic violation, including a fine, was handed over to Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, who thought he should be handed it over, but has so far avoided doing so.

A senior Israeli police officer said: Simply put, they are afraid of him.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, the Israeli police did not respond for ten days to their repeated requests to respond to the case.

According to Israeli law, a passenger who sits in the back seat without a seat belt is subject to a fine of 250 shekels, and a deduction of 4 traffic points. An exception is made for those who are on a mission, but Ben Gvir was in a routine situation, and the evidence of this is the presence of his son next to him, who took the video. His father was without a seat belt twice, the first time in January, and the second time last May.

Ben Gvir was previously convicted of 78 traffic violations, and had his driving license revoked in the past.

The number of Palestinian victims, as a result of torrential floods in eastern Libya caused by the recent hurricane, has risen to 23.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, they were officially informed by the embassy in Libya and the General Consulate in Benghazi of the death of the family of citizen Nasser Attia Dohan, consisting of 5 individuals, and the family of citizen Mahmoud Ahmed Shamiya, four of his brothers and his mother.

Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ahmed Al-Deek, said that the ministry is following a real disaster and has confirmed information about the loss of dozens of Palestinian families.

The Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom reported, on Wednesday, that the ambassadors of the European Union countries, Canada and Australia asked the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in recent weeks to allow Palestinians who hold citizenship from that country to enter “Israel” under special treatment similar to that of Palestinians who hold American citizenship.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, this step means granting tens of thousands of Palestinians the freedom to come to “Israel” without any restrictions, noting that the unusual request came against the backdrop of the pilot program within the American visa exemption program, which has allowed Palestinians since last July. Those holding American citizenship who live in the West Bank and Gaza can enter the Green Line areas.

According to the newspaper, the Israeli Foreign Ministry made it clear to those parties that changing such an option was “out of the question.”

The newspaper notes that the Shin Bet refuses to provide facilities for Palestinians who hold foreign nationalities to enter “Israel.”

Since yesterday evening, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces have tightened their military measures in and around Nablus Governorate.

Since yesterday evening, these forces have continued to completely close some checkpoints and prevent the movement of citizens and vehicles through them, while imposing strict measures on movement through other checkpoints.

It also continues its intensive deployment in the town of Huwwara and at the Beita Junction.

This morning, the occupation forces prevented shop owners from opening their shops in Hawara.

At dawn and Wednesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a group of citizens in various areas of the West Bank.

These forces arrested the two young brothers, Jawad and Majdi Al-Kazha, after storming their homes in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.

Also arrested from the same town were the freedman Shaddad Al-Arda, brother of the prisoner Mahmoud, and the young man Ahmed Abu Zaid.

In Tulkarm, the young man, Muhammad Ammar, was arrested after his house in the town of Qaffin was stormed.

The occupation forces also carried out raids in various areas of the West Bank, without any arrests being reported.

A number of citizens suffered from suffocation, Tuesday evening, during confrontations that broke out with the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

Local sources said that the occupation forces fired poisonous tear gas canisters towards unarmed citizens, causing a number of them to suffocate due to gas inhalation. They were treated on the field.

On Tuesday evening, Israeli occupation forces arrested four brothers from the city of Tubas, while they were passing through the Huwwara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.

The director of the Prisoner's Club in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, reported that the occupation arrested the brothers Khaldoun, Firas, Hamed, and Muhammad Yousef Khaled Daraghmeh, while they were passing through the Huwwara checkpoint.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the United Kingdom to recognize the State of Palestine, support its full membership in the United Nations, and provide aid to Palestinian institutions.

Shtayyeh pointed out, during his meeting with British Foreign Minister James Cleverly, today, Tuesday, in his office in Ramallah, in the presence of the British Consul General in Jerusalem, Diane Corner, that “due to the deteriorating situation on the ground and the demographic factor, if action is not taken today, tomorrow will be too late.”

He said, "The United Kingdom bears a moral and historical responsibility towards the Palestinian people, and must be a positive player in realizing the rights of the Palestinian people and finding a political solution that meets their aspirations."

The Prime Minister explained that “in light of this deteriorating situation on the ground, the two-state solution is fading and being violated on a daily and systematic basis, and it will become difficult to implement it,” calling on the United Kingdom to protect the two-state solution, by engaging seriously and at the highest levels in the political process alongside the United States and society. International, to create a political horizon with the aim of ending the occupation and embodying the Palestinian state.

Shtayyeh added: "Israel and Palestine should not be treated equally. There is an occupying state, and a state and people under occupation. We call for a reconsideration of British policies and for its discourse to be consistent with its belief in the two-state solution and international law."

The Prime Minister reviewed developments in the internal situation and moving forward with the reform agenda at all levels, which contributes to strengthening the steadfastness of our people and providing them with the best services.

Shtayyeh called on the United Kingdom to call on Israel to abide by the signed agreements, allow elections to be held in all Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, and put pressure on Israel to release the martyrs whose bodies are being held, and the martyrs of the Numbers Cemetery.

He also called for taking measures to implement Security Council resolutions, especially Resolution 2334, which was supported by Britain, and stipulates the cessation of all Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.

For his part, the British Foreign Minister affirmed his country's belief and commitment to the two-state solution and continued support for building Palestinian institutions.

On Tuesday evening, Israeli occupation forces detained two young men east of Tubas.

Human rights activist Arif Daraghmeh said that the occupation detained the activist in the Popular Committees, Ayman Ghaib, and a young man (whose identity was not known) at the Tayasir checkpoint, east of Tubas.

Two settlers were injured, on Tuesday evening, in a new shooting attack that took place south of Nablus.

According to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, the shooting was carried out from a speeding vehicle towards a settlers' vehicle near the Beita roundabout, which resulted in two settlers being slightly injured after glass was thrown at them.

It indicated that one of them was injured by a glass shard in the head, and his condition is minor.

The Israeli army said that it had begun a hunt for the perpetrators of the attack.

The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) unanimously adopted a draft resolution on the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls, confirming the previous decisions of the committee, and keeping the status of the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls on the List of World Heritage in Danger, in addition to the Hebron and Battir resolutions.

This came during the forty-fifth session of UNESCO, held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine welcomed the decisions of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at its forty-fifth session, and its adoption of decisions regarding the preservation of world heritage of exceptional value in Palestine, unanimously and without a vote.

It thanked the sisterly Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for its efforts in submitting the Jerusalem Resolution, and working to maintain consensus in the resolution to keep the Holy City, the capital of the State of Palestine, on the World Heritage List, which is in danger, in addition to the special annex to the resolution that talks about Israeli violations of the provisions of UNESCO conventions, and the impact of the measures. Israeli practices on heritage sites, and its attempts to falsify history, culture, and education.

It stressed that attempts by Israel, the occupying power, to falsify history and culture will fail, and that Palestinian diplomacy will thwart all their attempts to destroy our heritage, culture and history, and all attempts to replace facts on the ground with myths and outdated narratives.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed the importance of the city of Jerusalem and preserving it from distortion or destruction, as it is the true beacon of religions and the historical, heritage and civilizational gateway to the world, with its Muslims and Christians.

It stressed the need to implement UNESCO resolutions, including sending a permanent representative to occupied Jerusalem, to monitor the violations and Judaizing and destructive measures carried out by Israel, the occupying power, through which it seeks to obliterate its historical, cultural and religious landmarks or change the status quo.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanked the member states of the World Heritage Committee for their consensus to keep the city of Hebron on the list of World Heritage in Danger, especially in the face of the threat of the occupation that is trying to destroy heritage sites, the Noble Mosque of the Patriarchs, and the Old City, in addition to the practices and crimes of settlers.

In the same context, the Jordanian government appreciated the unanimous adoption by the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) of a draft resolution on the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls, confirming the Committee’s previous decisions.

The official spokesman for the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sinan Al-Majali, said that the adoption of the resolution came as a result of Jordanian diplomatic efforts in coordination between Jordan, the State of Palestine, and the Arab and Islamic groups in the organization.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on Tuesday on a rare visit abroad during which he will meet President Vladimir Putin, amid warnings from Washington about a possible arms deal to support Moscow's war in Ukraine.

The two leaders are expected to discuss in particular "sensitive topics" in the coming days, according to what RIA Novosti reported, quoting Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Kim left Pyongyang on Sunday evening on an armored train, making his first trip abroad since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. On his last trip abroad, he met Putin in Vladivostok in 2019.

Kim will meet Putin in an undisclosed location in the Far East of Russia this week, RIA Novosti quoted Peskov as saying. But the Russian authorities did not specify the place and time.

However, Russian media showed footage showing Kim being received at the Khasan train station near the border, with the participation of an official delegation and a guard of honor.

According to the governor of the Primorsky region, Oleg Koymyakko, the North Korean leader met during this stop with the Russian Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Alexander Kozlov.

"A visit of this level is a good message about developing... direct communication with our colleagues in North Korea," he wrote via Telegram.

Putin, who is currently in Vladivostok to attend the annual economic forum that ends Wednesday, was not asked about the North Korean leader's visit, despite the lengthy question-and-answer session.

The Russian President merely said that he would soon visit the Vostochny space base, which is a thousand kilometers away from Vladivostok, but he refused to say what he intended to do there.
"I have a proper program there, and when I get there you'll know it," he said.

Peskov confirmed to Russian media that Putin and Kim's meeting will discuss "sensitive" issues without heeding "American warnings."

Washington fears that Moscow will obtain weapons for its military operations in Ukraine from North Korea, which is itself subject to sanctions because of its nuclear and missile programs.

"In building our relations with our neighbors, including North Korea, what matters to us are the interests of our two countries, not Washington's warnings," Peskov said.

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7. He called on those affiliated with the security services to always side with their national cause, support and support the resistance, and protect their people from the invasion of the occupation.
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11. Various Hebrew, Arab and local media reported on the news, citing Al-Quds.com, amid condemnation from some members of the Knesset on the extreme right of their government’s approval of this.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Tuesday that he supports the start of impeachment proceedings against US President Joe Biden.

McCarthy told Congress, "I ask a committee in the House of Representatives to begin formal procedures for impeachment" of Biden, noting that the Democratic president "lied" to the American people about his son's controversial actions abroad.

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis' envoy to Ukraine for peace, Cardinal Matteo Zupi, will visit Beijing this week.

He stated that the visit, which lasts from Wednesday until Friday, "represents an additional step within the framework of a mission that the Pope wanted to support humanitarian initiatives and search for ways that could lead to a just peace."

The statement did not mention the war in Ukraine.
The 86-year-old Pope asked Zoppi, head of the Italian Episcopal Conference, in May to lead a peace mission seeking to stop the war.

The cardinal went to Kiev in June, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Three weeks later, he went to Moscow, where he met with the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Affairs, Maria Lvova Belova, who is wanted by the International Court of Human Rights on charges of illegally transporting Ukrainian children to Russia.

In July, Zoby met with US President Joe Biden, with whom he discussed the Vatican's humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

Matteo Zoppi (67 years old) was elected president of the Italian Episcopal Conference last year, and belongs to the Catholic Society of Sant'Egidio, which specializes in diplomacy and peace efforts.

China is a major international ally of Russia, but at the same time it has intensified its diplomatic activity with Ukraine and avoided providing full military support to Moscow.

The Pope repeatedly calls for peace in Ukraine, although he attracted criticism in the first months of the Russian invasion in February 2022 for avoiding describing Moscow as the aggressor.

A Palestinian citizen sustained bruises on Tuesday as a result of settlers beating him in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the settlers attacked the citizen, Iyad Ragheb Salah, while he was in the Al-Masoudiyah area of the village lands, and beat him and threw stones at him, which led to him suffering bruises throughout his body.

The Israeli Cabinet decided, on Tuesday evening, that no changes would be made to visits by Palestinian prisoners.

The Council referred discussion of this issue to the session to be held next month.

The Minister of the so-called extremist National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, had decided to reduce visits to prisoners from twice a month to only once.

The Prisoner's Club confirmed today, Tuesday, that the Israeli occupation authorities will hold a court session tomorrow, Wednesday, for the prisoner Ahmed Manasra, who is isolated in the "Ayalon" prison.

Khaled Zabarqa’s lawyer stated that the court will be held at 8:30 a.m. in Ramla, at the request of the prison administration to consider the matter of extending his solitary confinement, noting that his current isolation order expires on September 18 of this month.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Manasra was isolated for nearly two years in solitary confinement cells, which worsened his psychological and health condition over time. Despite all the efforts made by the legal team to release him, in addition to international demands, the occupation insists on his crime by detaining him in prison. Harsh and difficult conditions.

The death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to rise dramatically, with 10,000 missing, according to what the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warned on Tuesday.

The organization's official, Tariq Ramadan, told reporters in Geneva, "We do not have final figures" for the number of deaths currently, but he explained that "the death toll is huge and may reach thousands," while he confirmed that "the number of missing people has reached about 10,000 people."

He expressed his hope that more accurate numbers would be reached later Tuesday.

Speaking from Tunisia, Ramadan said, "The humanitarian needs far exceed the capabilities of the Libyan Red Cross and the capabilities of the government."

He continued, "For this reason, the government in the east launched an appeal for international aid, and we will launch an urgent appeal soon as well."

Storm "Daniel" struck eastern Libya on Sunday afternoon, especially the coastal towns of Jabal Akhdar (northeast) and Benghazi, where a curfew was announced and schools were closed.

Experts described Storm Daniel, which also struck parts of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria in recent days, killing at least 27 people, as "extremely severe in terms of the amount of water that fell within 24 hours."

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities notified the demolition of 3 homes within a week, and the cessation of work and construction on 14 others in the village of Al-Duyouk Al-Tahta, west of the city of Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces distributed demolition notices within 7 days for three houses, and others to stop work and construction, for houses that were built decades ago and were inhabited, and others newly built, under the pretext of not having a license.

The sources indicated that the new notices raise the number of homes threatened with demolition in the village to 50 homes.

Israel has announced that it will "facilitate travel" through its entry points for Palestinian Americans from the blockaded Gaza Strip, as part of its efforts to meet US conditions for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), but human rights groups in the United States dispute that this claim represents real reciprocity.

According to a statement by the US Embassy in Israel, those registered in the Palestinian population registry in Gaza have new procedures for entry and exit into and transit through Israel in the short term, as of the afternoon of September 11. However, the embassy’s website clarifies a number of conditions related to entry procedures.

For example, a US citizen and Gaza resident who has spent more than 50 percent of the past five years in Gaza (as the Israeli government has confirmed) can apply for a permit to enter Israel through the Erez crossing, and if they are outside Gaza at the time of application, they can Apply for entry through any international port of entry.

Among those US citizens residing in Gaza who have spent more than 50 percent of the past five years outside Gaza, they can enter Israel with their US passports and without a business or tourist visa for 90 days, including transiting through Israel to and from the occupied West Bank.

But American citizens cannot use their American passports to cross from Israel into Gaza.

Chris Habibi, director of national government affairs and advocacy at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), commented that the process is now beginning to address the needs of Gazans to some extent, “but from what I can tell, it feels like a continuation of the separate and unequal system they are putting in place.” ".

Habibi added in a press statement that the process for Americans from Gaza is very complex, and has created additional levels of access in what was already a multi-level system for Palestinian Americans.

“Even within Palestinian Americans from Gaza, there are different rules depending on how long you have lived in Gaza over the past five years,” Habibi said.

And then, if a Palestinian-American from Gaza (a resident of Gaza) wants to know where they will end up [within those levels], the information that Israel is requesting from them is very aggressive. "I mean, we're talking about pay slips," which is an intrusion into the smallest private matters.

The US Visa Waiver Program allows foreign visitors to stay in the United States for up to 90 days without a visa, with the same privilege for US citizens in participating countries. Israel has long sought to join the initiative.

Last July, US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who was visiting Washington, signed a “reciprocity agreement” to allow American citizens the ability to enter Israel freely.

Also last July, the United States announced that it would monitor Israel and the treatment of Americans entering the country over a period of six weeks, and then it would make a decision on whether or not to allow Israel to enter the visa waiver program by September 30.

If Israel succeeds in meeting the American conditions, the implementation of the visa exemption program will enter into force in November of this year.

But many experts on US policy on Israel and Palestine have raised concerns that Washington is rushing to assess it without proper scrutiny.

A website is attributed. any. To Aya Ziada, director of advocacy at Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP Action), implementing new entry procedures near mid-September does not leave enough room for an effective trial period.

Ziada told Middle East Eye: “Although the overall trial period for the Visa Waiver Program was short and ineffective enough not to determine whether Israel would reverse decades of discrimination, the inclusion of Gaza demonstrates how rushed and ineffective this entire process is.” .

She added: “They were not included from the beginning, and including them 19 days before the final decision was made is absolutely irresponsible on the part of the United States.”

AJP Action argues that the current terms of the Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the United States leave plenty of room for loopholes to signal genuine reciprocity on the part of Israelis that “ensures that Palestinian Americans continue to be treated differently from other travelers.”

“Although it became easier for Palestinian Americans to enter Palestine and the occupied territories during the trial period, they were not treated equally during the visa exemption trial period,” Ziadeh said.

The World Food Program warned Tuesday that 24 million people were at risk of starvation as a result of shrinking funding and prompted it to significantly reduce rations in many operations.

A statement from the United Nations organization said that "an additional 24 million people may suffer from emergency hunger during the next 12 months, an increase of 50 percent compared to the current level."

The organization said, according to the statement, that it is struggling to meet the growing global needs for food aid at a time when it is facing the highest rate of funding shortages in its history this year, at more than 60 percent.

The statement reported that "contributions to the World Food Program decreased for the first time ever, while needs are steadily increasing."

UN program experts estimate that this will have dire consequences, as for every 1 percent reduction in food aid, more than 400,000 people face the risk of falling into emergency levels of hunger.

UNDP Executive Head Cindy McCain said that providing more funding is necessary.

She stressed in a statement that, “If we do not receive the support we need to avoid more disasters, the world will undoubtedly witness more conflicts, more unrest, and more hunger.”

"Either we fan the flames of global instability, or we work quickly to extinguish them," she continued.

The United Nations Program estimates the number of people facing acute food insecurity at 345 million people around the world, at the third stage of the five-stage food security vulnerability classification.

The program explained that this number includes 40 million people who have reached emergency levels of hunger, or the fourth stage in the classification, which prompts them to take desperate measures in order to survive and not be exposed to the risk of death due to malnutrition.

He described "the food aid provided by the World Food Program as a necessary lifeline, and often the only thing to prevent them from being exposed to famine."

However, the agency said it has already had to make massive cuts in nearly half of its operations, including in hotspots such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Haiti and Syria.

In Afghanistan, the United Nations Program was forced in May to reduce the number of beneficiaries by 66 percent, at a time when the country is witnessing one of the worst humanitarian crises, with about 22.8 million people - more than half of the population - facing severe food insecurity, and the danger of Malnutrition: Three million children.

In July, aid was cut off from 45 percent of aid recipients in Syria and a quarter of those registered on the World Food Program's lists in Haiti.

The program was also forced, according to what he reported, to reduce nearly half the number of beneficiary cases in Somalia, affecting 4.7 million people when the organization’s response to famine there reached its maximum limit last year.

The program's experts fear that a humanitarian "cycle of doom" will form, when the United Nations is forced to "save only those who are starving, at the expense of mere hungry people."

McCain insisted there was "only one way out of this."

“We need to fund emergency operations to feed the hungry today while at the same time investing in long-term solutions that address the root causes of hunger,” she said.

“Our common goal must be to end the vicious, unsustainable and costly cycle of crises and responses,” she added.

Today, Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance announced another achievement within a month this year in terms of cases filed against the Palestinian National Authority and the Liberation Organization in American courts.

The Finance Ministry added in its statement that a decision was issued by the US Court of Appeals in favor of the Palestinian Authority in dismissing two cases, namely (Sokolow) and ((fuld), which will spare the Authority from paying about 1.7 billion dollars to compensate American families or those who hold American citizenship, claiming responsibility for it and the organization. Operations carried out during the past years.

The decision of the US Court of Appeals on the two cases came after the law firm contracting with the Palestinian Authority and government fought a legal battle and a series of pleadings that took place over the years, in light of the amendment to the ATCA FIX law and the US administration’s support for the plaintiffs’ position.

The plaintiffs in the Sokolow case had demanded financial compensation from the Palestinian Authority and the PLO, alleging their involvement in operations that took place in Jerusalem between 2001-2004. The value of the compensation amounted to $1.1 billion, as the US Court of Appeals made its final decision to dismiss the lawsuit despite The other party has continued to plead and appeal without interruption since 2016.

With regard to the “FULD” case, it is one of the cases filed against the Authority and the PLO since 2020, alleging their responsibility for carrying out operations during the year 2018, as the plaintiffs amended their original allegations in the case despite the fact that the new American law targets the Authority and the PLO, and the amount of compensation requested is 600 million dollars.

The Ministry of Finance praised the efforts of the team of lawyers and their success to date in refuting 32 court rulings and dropping cases filed against the State of Palestine with no less than $6.2 billion in judicial claims.

It is noteworthy that these cases were re-registered and pleaded after the plaintiffs were able to obtain laws from the US Congress that support their position under the Promoting Security and Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act. By winning these two cases, Palestine has achieved its fourth victory in the American courts since the beginning of the year.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man after he was shot with live bullets on the Al-Marajat Road, northwest of Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the young man Mazen Ayman Samrat (22 years old) from the village of Al-Duyouk, after they shot him on the Al-Marjat Road at dawn today, without knowing his health condition until this moment.