The Prisoners and Ex-Detainees Affairs Authority revealed today, Tuesday, citing its lawyer, Heba Agbariya, that the young prisoner, Muhammad Salaymeh (16 years old), from the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem, was severely beaten during his arrest by the Israeli occupation forces, and he was arrested from the center of the country in Noon hours.

The Commission said in a statement: “There were confrontations between young men and the occupation soldiers in the town, and suddenly a number of undercover agents attacked him, threw him to the ground, and began beating him hysterically with their hands, feet, and iron-soled shoes all over his body and head. Then they tied his hands and blindfolded him.” They continued to beat him, and a soldier choked him by the neck.”

She added: "Al-Shebl Salaima suffered severe pain throughout his body as a result of the beating he was subjected to during his arrest. He complains of very painful pain in his left foot and he was unable to move it, in addition to suffering a deep wound in his hand and a broken nose."

The Commission continued: “Three of the undercover agents dragged him to the ground and violently threw him into their car, where one of them grabbed him by the neck and hit his head on the car’s steel several times. Then he was transferred to a nearby army camp and they put him there, after which he was transferred to the postal police and put him in a room.” They forced him to kneel, despite the severe pain in his knee. They interrogated and interrogated him, but the prisoner Salaima was unable to answer questions due to his difficult health condition. Then the investigator called an ambulance, and when the paramedics arrived, they entered the investigation room and there they provided him with initial treatment. They merely provided first aid to the prisoner, despite his urgent need for immediate treatment.”

She continued: “The investigation continued and he was interrogated three times on the same day, then he was transferred to the Al-Maskobiyya interrogation center, and he remained there for 8 days. It was one of the most difficult days of his life due to the terrible pain in his knee, as it later became clear that the knee joint had moved from its correct place.” He tried more than once to explain to the jailers that he needed treatment and that he was suffering a lot, but they did not care about him.”

The authority indicated that after eight days, he was transferred to home detention. He remained in home detention for approximately 3 months, after which he was transferred to actual detention, and was transferred to “Damoun” prison, the Cubs section.

Minister of Jerusalem Affairs Fadi Al-Hidmi said, “The occupied city of East Jerusalem is witnessing a major Israeli settlement escalation, on the eve of the occupation’s municipal elections.”

Al-Hidmi, Australia's representative to Palestine, Ambassador Edward Russell, during the meeting held at the ministry's headquarters in Al-Ram, today, Tuesday, presented the dangerous developments taking place in the occupied city, as a result of the Israeli escalation at all levels.

He pointed out that the candidates for the occupation municipal elections, which will be held next month, are using settlements as "fuel" for their electoral propaganda.

He touched on the occupation municipality’s approval of the establishment of 3,500 settlement units within the framework of a new settlement that also includes 1,300 hotel rooms south of Jerusalem, and its decision to establish a new settlement that includes 384 settlement units on the lands of Abu Dis, Shiyah, and Ras al-Amud, and the imminent construction of thousands of other settlement units in many settlements within the city of Jerusalem. ".

Al-Hidmi called for rapid international action to stop Israeli violations that not only destroy the chances of a two-state solution, but are also a violation of international humanitarian law.

The two parties agreed to continue communication in the next stage to follow developments.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday considered his former American counterpart, Donald Trump, a victim of "politically motivated persecution" against the backdrop of his candidacy in the 2024 US presidential elections against Democratic President Joe Biden.

“It is politically motivated persecution by his rival,” Putin said during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, located in the Far East of Russia, considering that this reflects “the rot of the American system.”

The United States confirmed late Monday that it had agreed to transfer $6 billion in Iranian assets frozen in South Korea to a special account in Qatar, as part of an agreement concluded with Tehran in August to release prisoners.

This financial settlement was announced on August 10 as part of an agreement between Tehran and Washington, mediated by Qatar, to release American prisoners detained in Iran, and Iranians detained in the United States.

As part of the agreement, Iran transferred five Americans from prison to house arrest in a guarded hotel before transferring them to Qatar to be released upon transferring the frozen Iranian funds.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken informed Congress that he had moved forward with a major part of the agreement, signing a waiver that would protect the banks participating in the transfer process from US sanctions.

A US State Department spokesman said that the transfer process "is an essential step in ensuring the release of these five American citizens."

The administration of Democratic President Joe Biden confirmed that Iran will be able to use the funds only to purchase food, medicine and humanitarian goods, which the Islamic Republic, which has been hostile to Washington since the Islamic Revolution overthrew the pro-Western Shah in 1979, opposes.

The spokesman, who requested anonymity, added, "We have not lifted any of our sanctions on Iran, and Iran will not receive any relief from the sanctions."

He continued, "We continue to confront the Iranian regime's human rights violations, its destabilizing actions abroad, its support for terrorism, and its support for Russia's war against Ukraine."

In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani confirmed on Monday that Iran will be able to buy “any good not subject to US sanctions,” not just “medicines and foodstuffs.”

Kanaani said in a press conference, "We hope that the transfer will be completed in the coming days and that Iran will have full access to its assets."

He added, "We are optimistic that the prisoner exchange will take place soon."

The official IRNA news agency reported that the United States would release five Iranians within the framework of this agreement.
The five Americans remained detained in Iran for approximately eight years, and all of them are of Iranian origin, but Tehran does not recognize those holding dual citizenship.

Sources said earlier that they expected the five Americans to be released in mid-September.

Iran raised the $6 billion involved in the agreement by selling its oil to South Korea, an ally of the United States, which froze these funds after the Donald Trump administration imposed sanctions with its unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear agreement.

The US State Department spokesman said, "As we said, no money will go to Iran directly and no taxpayer money will be used in this operation. The money frozen in South Korea is Iran's money."

Biden assumed the presidency of the White House hoping to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, under which Iran promised to restrict its controversial nuclear activity in exchange for sanctions relief.

But the months-long talks did not produce as much fruit as expected, partly due to Iranian demands for the complete lifting of sanctions that were not directly related to the nuclear program.

Biden himself was seen in video recordings during an election campaign late last year saying that the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program was “as good as dead,” at a time when Iran was seeking to quell massive protests led by women against the backdrop of the death of the young woman Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, after she was arrested by police. Morality in Tehran for not complying with the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic.

The operations to transfer the frozen funds and release the prisoners may coincide on the first anniversary of her death, at a time when Biden and his Iranian counterpart, Ibrahim Raisi, are attending the annual United Nations General Assembly in New York, but they are not expected to meet.

Republicans opposed to Biden continued their attack on the latter, considering that he agreed to pay a “ransom” to a country that Washington classifies as a sponsor of terrorism.

Republican Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Mike McCaul said the money transfer “creates a direct incentive for adversaries of the United States to take hostages in the future.”

He added, "The American administration is showing weakness that further exposes Americans and freedom-loving people around the world to danger."

The Biden administration admitted that it was making difficult decisions, but stressed that its priority was to free American prisoners and that the money transferred was actually Iranian.

The group of Americans expected to be released includes businessman Siamak Namazi, who was arrested in 2015 and accused of espionage based on what his family calls ridiculous evidence, such as his previous connections to American research centers, environmental activist Murad Tahbaz and investor Imad Sharqi, in addition to two others who preferred not to disclose their details. Their identities.

Three detainees in Israeli occupation prisons continue their open hunger strike, in light of the deterioration of their health condition.

The Prisoners' Club said that the health condition of the striking detainees, Sultan Khalouf, Kayed Al-Fasfous, and Maher Al-Akhras, has deteriorated over time, and despite this, the prison administration has not dealt with any of their demands.

He noted that the striking detainees had previously gone through long strikes, which had a real impact on their health conditions.

Al-Zaghari called on all international human rights institutions, led by the United Nations, to pressure the occupation to immediately release them and end the crime of their arrest.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces assaulted a 17-year-old Palestinian girl after storming a number of citizens’ homes in the Arab Al-Malihat community on Al-Ma’rajat Road, northwest of Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces assaulted the girl after storming the residence of her father, citizen Musa Suleiman Kaabneh.

The myth that Israel is the first democratic state in the Middle East no longer deceives anyone, and it is no longer the most law-abiding, most respectful of human rights, the principles of international humanitarian law, and the resolutions of international legitimacy. All of these empty allegations that Israel has adhered to since its establishment until now cannot be believed by anyone.

Occupying the lands of others, persecuting another people, usurping their right to freedom, independence, self-determination, and controlling all their human and natural resources cannot be consistent with the principles of democracy, freedom, progress, and human civilization. In addition, the establishment of the occupying state on the ruins of another people and their lands, using violence and aggression and committing war crimes against the occupied people, cannot be consistent with the principles and charters of the United Nations.

Since the establishment of Israel, the occupying regime for many decades, it has practiced the worst types of aggression, oppression and abuse against the Palestinian people, committed unprecedented war crimes against them, and established an apartheid regime in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The fact that Israel is a state of occupation and apartheid is no longer a fact confirmed by the international community system, the United Nations bodies, its human rights organizations, the peoples of the world, its parties, organizations, and leaders alone. Rather, Israeli officials, intellectuals, and academics acknowledge the reality of the racism of the existing regime in the State of Israel, including the former president. To the “Central Israeli Intelligence Agency” (Mossad), Tamir Pardo, who said last Wednesday, September 6, 2023, in statements to the American “Associated Press” agency, that Israel is implementing a system of apartheid in the occupied West Bank.

Pardo became the latest former Israeli official to conclude that Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank amounts to apartheid, in reference to the apartheid system in South Africa that ended in 1994. He joins a growing list of retired Israeli "security officials" who confirm the practice of The occupation authorities are an apartheid regime against the Palestinians. The Israeli occupation state has established a complete system of apartheid in the Palestinian territories, including racist and discriminatory laws, and has transformed the occupied Palestinian territories into ghettos and closed prisons in which it arrests the Palestinian people and imposes severe restrictions on them that prevent them from freedom of movement and mobility, and grants the settlers the right to priority in life, rights, and movement without any conditions or conditions. No restrictions, as the extremist racist Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, called for several days ago.

Hundreds of academics said that Israel's long-term occupation of Palestinian territories had resulted in an "apartheid regime," and called for equal rights for all, whether in one or two states. This came in a petition signed by about 417 academics from Israel, the United States, and other countries until Monday, the seventh of last August, under the title “The Elephant in the Room.”

Among the signatories of the petition are American academics from Yale, Harvard, Chicago, Michigan, Washington, and Princeton universities, as well as university professors from Britain and Germany. This is in addition to Israeli academics from the universities of Tel Aviv, Hebrew, Haifa, and Ben Gurion in Israel.

The petition drew attention to the direct link between “Israel’s recent attack on the judiciary and Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories where millions of Palestinians live,” especially since demonstrations and protests have been continuing for weeks against the right-wing Israeli government’s insistence on passing a set of judicial amendments that the opposition describes as “turning Israel into a dictatorship.” .

The petition also stated: “The Palestinian people lack almost all basic rights, including the right to vote and protest. They face ongoing violence.”

She added: “This year alone, Israeli forces killed more than 190 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and demolished more than 590 buildings. Settlers burn, loot and kill with impunity.”

She pointed out that "without equal rights for all, whether in one state, two states, or another political framework, there is always the risk of dictatorship." She said: “There cannot be democracy for the Jews in Israel as long as the Palestinians live under the apartheid regime,” and added that “the ultimate goal of judicial reform is to tighten restrictions on Gaza, deprive the Palestinians of equal rights outside and inside the Green Line, and annex more lands.” And the ethnic cleansing of all territories under Israeli rule.”

Israeli and international human rights organizations have said on more than one occasion in recent years that “Israel applies an apartheid system.

Since its establishment on the ruins of the Palestinian people, Israel has embodied a colonial-settler occupation regime that is unique in its kind on the global level. It usurped the land of the Palestinian people with aggression, force and violence. It displaced the Palestinian people from their land and denied the existence of this people, in violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. It established its usurping, occupying state on the land of Palestine, and established a racist regime that practices violence and tyranny against the Palestinian people, and imposes racist laws to subjugate the Palestinian people, with the world’s recognition, and even with the approval and acknowledgment of Israeli officials themselves, and the countries of the world and its free peoples who believe in democracy and human rights must move to boycott. This racist regime, and the imposition of sanctions on it, so that the occupying state and its racist settler-colonial system will fall, and so that the Palestinian people can enjoy security, peace and self-determination in a free and sovereign state on the land of their homeland.

30 years ago, part of the Palestinian political movement was optimistic about the outcome of the Oslo Accords. Whoever was fifty years old in 1993 is eighty years old today, and some of them are experiencing disappointments in optimism. The entire Judaization project and attempts at Israelization throughout historical Palestine could not have become anything other than what it is, a system of apartheid, and the undermining of the foundations of the “two-state solution.” The matter did not appear suddenly, as former Mossad official Tamir Pardo admits.

When the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was besieged, about 10 years had passed since Oslo. It seemed that the matter would not be higher than the ceiling of a “self-governing authority,” and with an intense recall of the practices of the former apartheid regime in South Africa. The most that the Zionist-Talmudic project has in store is to improve the status of “cantons” (and perhaps isolated emirates), while sweeping away settlements, to include everything without exceptions, giving free rein to its terrorist groups, and targeting the future of the Palestinians of the 1948s, to suppress any Palestinian liberation aspirations in the future.

What is more dangerous is calling upon the experience of black people in South Africa to oppress the “population” to prevail in Palestine, with trivial arguments about “terrorism” and “peace,” and with the mouthpieces of Arab printers engaging in marketing. This is in addition to a Zionist public relations attack on most continents, in the face of clear Arab retreat.

All of this is understood by the Palestinian movement and the street. The Oslo bottleneck does not exclude anyone. All the awareness that arises from Zionist apartheid, and the efforts of the international boycott movement (BDS), requires that the Palestinian national movement, in all its shades, stand up to the fact that neither individuals nor programs are at the level of resistance to apartheid. The state of stagnation and stagnation, with all the division and internal and regional retreat that this entails, creates frustration, instead of benefiting from the enormous energies of Palestinian youth, at home and in the diaspora. When was the last time the Palestinian street experienced a true exercise of democracy of choice and the manifestation of its will in its institutions and political movement?

The state of awareness of the reality of the apartheid state requires a different vitality in order to accumulate what the international movement has accumulated towards dismantling and ending apartheid in South Africa in 1994 irreversibly.

In other words, and there is no need to be afraid to admit it, postponing a serious stance on the future of the national liberation program, so that it does not grow old with those in charge of it, means more wasted time and effort. The Palestinian people, who have resisted and resisted the Zionist project for three-quarters of a century, know their priorities, understand the tools of their struggle, and have the right to say their decisive word in determining the fate and future of their liberation.

In the meeting that brought together Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian in Beirut with the leadership of Hamas and Islamic Jihad on 8/31/2023, the leadership of the two factions stressed “not to back down from resistance operations in the West Bank, as a priority at this stage.”

Therefore, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have priorities, which are to continue the resistance activity, with Iranian support, in confronting the colonial forces on the territory of the Palestinian West Bank, which is the case with the rules of the Fatah militant movement and their options.

But the deep question they ignored and evaded is: What are the priorities for the Gaza Strip?? What is the program of the Hamas movement in managing the Gaza Strip, which it has governed alone since the “military decision” that it implemented in June 2007, and which it still adheres to its results and imposed on the people of Gaza until now??

The Hamas movement is working to develop its military capabilities to confront the colony’s aggressions and attacks. This is a correct choice, perhaps it will be able to reach the equation of mutual deterrence that the Lebanese Hezbollah achieved between itself and the Israeli colony’s forces.

But what is the priority of the people of Gaza who suffered woe, hunger and oppression, after they made the colony and its forces suffer what they did and forced Sharon to leave after dismantling the army bases and removing the settlements from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and they paid the price for their enemy’s campaigns and repeated attacks since the end of 2008, passing through all the bloody years that They have passed, and the last of them will not be the aggression of August 2022, and the aggression of May 2023. What are the necessary priorities for them to restore their dignity??

The priority required of the Hamas movement is to provide dignity and partnership to the people of the Gaza Strip in managing their institutions, and their right to choose through the ballot boxes, as long as national unity is no longer a realistic demand, no matter how necessary it may seem to talk about it, because the agreements, statements, meetings, and mediations have not yielded any results to end the division. The last of which was the Palestinian El Alamein meeting on 7/30/2023, which provided the president, who lost his mandate, with the “political legitimacy” that he obtained with the presence of all the factions and their approval of his position, stature, and presidency, and provided the Hamas movement with recognition of its partnership, existence, and necessity.

Hamas's priority is to bear the responsibility of holding municipal elections, professional and labor unions, and university student councils in the Gaza Strip, similar to what the Fatah movement is doing in the West Bank.

The Hamas movement’s sole management of the Gaza Strip is a recorded political shame, and its agreements with the colony through the “security truce” are no less bad than the “security coordination” agreements between Ramallah and Tel Aviv. The colony, through its bilateral agreements with Ramallah alone, and with Gaza alone, Another party, aiming to achieve two goals:

1- Providing security. 2- Continuing the Palestinian division and nourishing it with the financial and service facilities it grants, and ensuring the continued exclusivity of the Hamas movement in managing the Gaza Strip, and that this exclusivity and Hamas dominance over the people of the Strip remain??

It seems that the boiling of the Palestinian cauldron will reach the point of explosion, as the entity state, with its extreme right-wing government and its Jewish fascism, believes that the circumstances and the regional, international and local environment are favorable for it to resolve the conflict with our Palestinian people by force, and therefore it is escalating its comprehensive war on our people, annexation, Judaization and a settlement “tsunami”. And unleash all the herds of settlers, so that they can practice all forms of their thuggery, orgy, and attacks on the villages and towns of our Palestinian people, and these orgies, thuggery, and arrogance receive care and protection from the influential people in the right-wing government of Jewish fascism, and so that they are praised and applauded, and their arrest and trial are prevented, as happened. In the crime committed by two settlers against a resident of the village of Burqa - Nablus, the young man Qusay Mutaan, last August, these crimes are expanding and continuing, and these herds of extremist and fascist groups will baptize the Temple groups, Ben Gvir, Smotrich, Yitzhak Varslav, Shuli Muallem, Yehuda Glick and other leaders of extremism and fascism. To employ them in the upcoming Al-Aqsa battles, which the entity’s state policy towards is based on converting it into a Jewish place of worship. This policy is represented by Jewish fascism, led by the fascist Ben Gvir, the minister of what is known as Israel’s National Security, who has stormed Al-Aqsa three times since the formation of this government in December. The second, May and July of the current year, and the upcoming Jewish holidays are expected in the current months of September, the current Hebrew New Year (16 and 17), Yom Kippur on the 25th of the same month, and the Feast of Sukkot, which extends from 1-7/ Next October, these three holidays will be used by all followers of Jewish fascism, in order to create a fundamental breakthrough in the status and condition of Al-Aqsa Mosque, enabling the imposition of Jewish sovereignty and hegemony over it, and the transition from the Islamic era to the Jewish era through policies of religious replacement, and the use of Every religious and “national” occasion, to realize the dream of establishing the alleged Temple in place of the Dome of the Rock Mosque, waiting for the coming of the Messiah the Savior to build the Temple, and to consecrate Al-Aqsa as a place of Jewish worship.

These intense symbolic meanings are what make the Zionist right, in its various positions in government, security, courts, and Temple groups, see it as a goal worth insisting on.

It is expected that in the next three Jewish holidays, the Talmudic and Torah groups will not only strive to blow the trumpet inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, practice the rituals of epic prostration, enter most of the intruders wearing the white robes of priests, and bring Passover plant offerings of palm fronds, willow branches, and dried citrus fruits, but These incursions will focus on carrying out incursions from several of Al-Aqsa’s gates, especially at Al-Isbat Gate, the main controlling entrance to Al-Aqsa and the Old City, as it is the backbone of its trade and economy. Most of their goods are entered by Jerusalemites through it, so when it is controlled, this means Killing the commercial and economic movements there. The other door that will be focused on in the raids is the Hatta Gate. Controlling it allows the settlers to communicate with the settlement outpost, “Beit Al-Muadhamiyah,” which was seized in the deal to leak the Bab Al-Khalil properties, the Petra and the Imperial Hotels” / 2004.

The other explosive factor in the situation on the Palestinian level is the continuous targeting of our people’s prisoners in the entity’s prisons, where the fascist Ben Gvir sought and continues to seek to turn their lives in the prisons of his entity’s state into hell, especially after the “Freedom Tunnel” operation, in which six of our heroic people’s prisoners were able to free themselves, with an operation that penetrated all security and electronic control devices, and damaged the entity’s security system in its central nerve, and confirmed that the will and determination of the Palestinian fighter is stronger than all security, electronic and construction precautions and fortifications, an operation that reflected itself positively on the morale and psychology of our heroic prisoners, and as a response to this operation. And besieging its repercussions on the captive movement, the fascist Ben Gvir launched a comprehensive war against our heroic prisoners. Every day he introduces and enacts a new law or takes a new decision to tighten the noose on them. From enacting a law and approving it on the first reading in the Knesset imposing the death penalty on the prisoner who kills soldiers and settlers. To withdraw many of the achievements and gains that were made with blood, sacrifices, and martyrs, by making the prisoner visit to residents of the West Bank once every two months, instead of once a month, and setting the shower hours for prisoners in the section to one hour, as well as the times for hot water, and preventing the mixing of Fatah and Hamas prisoners in the sections. Imprisonment, charging the prisoners with the costs of treatment and surgical operations, reducing the period of respite, preventing prisoners from cooking in the rooms, reducing the types and quantities of goods in the prison “cantina”, practicing policies of oppression, abuse, provocation and continuous inspections day and night, and expanding the scope of the policy of isolation and continuous transfers. Prisoners on a large scale, as well as the policy of medical neglect, and the attempt to break the prisoners’ “strategic” weapon of open hunger strikes, by not accepting the demands of the prisoners, and leaving them on strike to death without providing them with treatment, as happened with the prisoner, the martyr leader, Khader Adnan, who was left to breathe his last. In his cells after 86 days of open hunger strike last May. Ben Ghafir also sought to dismantle the organizational structures of the factions.

Ben Gvir and his extremist government will escalate their targeting of the captive movement and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. These are among the issues in which they are in a hurry to resolve the conflict, because they have great value in the depth of the conscience and conscience of our people. These issues directly affect every Palestinian home, as they are the focus of consensus among all political components and components. Religious, societal and popular, and therefore the escalation of targeting by the entity state and its extremist thugs, will push towards an explosion of the situation, an explosion in its repercussions, that will go beyond the borders of the two issues, affecting all Palestinian arenas, and perhaps if things get out of control, the entity will find itself facing multiple fronts, Especially in the case of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Al-Quds axis said after the “Saif Al-Quds” battle, in May 2021, and after the ten-hour battle last April, against the backdrop of the attack on the men and women stationed in Al-Aqsa, and the continuous incursions into it in the holy month of Ramadan, that tampering with the fate of Al-Aqsa is equivalent to... A regional war, and with the approaching of the Jewish holidays, for which Talmudic groups are mobilizing and continue to incite their groups and supporters to carry out the largest storming operations into Al-Aqsa, under the slogan “Return to the Temple Mount,” things are likely to explode in a large and widespread manner, especially if the storming operations take place from more than one door. These groups succeeded in imposing the facts of temporal and spatial division, and transferring Al-Aqsa Mosque from a purely Islamic mosque to a shared holy place through religious replacement policies.

The battle is coming and the Palestinian cauldron will explode, and neither all forms of normalization with the official Arab regime nor the continuation of security summits will succeed in preventing this cauldron from exploding. The entity’s government and its political vehicles have nothing to offer our people except legitimizing and perpetuating the occupation, and economic and financial aid in exchange for security services and calm.

Today, Tuesday, settlers seized a house belonging to the Idris family in the Al-Qarmi neighborhood in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

Residents living in the neighborhood were surprised by the sounds of settlers storming the house, guarded by the Israeli occupation forces, changing the doors and placing iron protections on the windows and the roof of the house.

The residents informed the Idris family that the settlers had stormed their house, so they came to the place and verbal altercations took place between them, the settlers, and the occupation forces.

Muhammad Saleh Muhammad Idris confirmed that the house has belonged to the family since 1979, and he has the documents proving ownership of the house in which his mother and sister currently live.

He explained that the settlers took advantage of his mother's hospitalization for about 10 days, so dozens of them stormed the house.

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces notified to stop construction on a house under construction and seized a concrete pump and mixer in the village of Al-Maasara, south of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, these forces notified a one-story house under construction to stop construction, which belongs to the Palestinian citizen Ibrahim Hassan Zawahra, under the pretext of not having a license. They also seized a concrete pump and mixer.

The Israeli political and security cabinet meets on Tuesday morning to hold a security discussion about the Israeli army’s preparations for a war on several fronts at the same time.

According to the Hebrew Kan radio, the cabinet meeting will discuss several scenarios related to a comprehensive war on several fronts that Israel may be exposed to in light of Iranian attempts to create a front from several regions against Israel.

According to the radio, the security level will present several scenarios to the ministers about the expected picture of the next war.

Security discussions will also be held on some issues.

The United States and the European Union issued condemnations on Monday of an Israeli plan to build a settlement inside a Palestinian neighborhood straddling the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The condemnations from Washington and Brussels were issued as the Jerusalem District Planning Committee convened to advance the plan onto the final stages of approval before construction can begin in the coming months. During Monday’s hearing, the district committee agreed to advance the project, but asked those behind it to address some minor concerns before the panel would reconvene a second time to approve the plan through the “deposit” stage of planning.

Asked for comment on the development during a press briefing, State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said, “Our views have been clear and consistent: The expansion of settlements undermines the geographic viability of a two-state solution, exacerbates tensions, and further harms trust between the two parties.”“We strongly oppose the advancement of settlements and urge Israel to refrain from this activity. We take the issue very seriously, as it impinges on the viability of a two-state solution. We raise it at the highest levels on a consistent basis,” he added.

The District Planning Committee convened shortly after US Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf arrived in Israel Monday to brief government officials on her talks in Riyadh about a potential normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia. That deal is expected to require major Israeli moves to advance a two-state solution — a framework that as Miller stressed, is hampered by projects such as the one in Abu Dis.

A spokesperson for the EU said in a separate statement that its long-stated position on settlements, including construction in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, is that it is “illegal according to international law and a major obstacle to achieving a two-state solution.”

“The EU has consistently made it clear that it will not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 lines, including in Jerusalem, other than those agreed upon by the parties,” the spokesperson added, urging Israel to cease construction beyond the Green Line.

The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said on Tuesday that the airport revealed by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant, which is being built on the Qalaat Jabour mountain in southern Lebanon, 20 km from the border, is currently being prepared by Iran to use drones to attack Israel.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, the larger plan is to create an alternative axis for smuggling weapons from Syria after the Israeli army was able to thwart smuggling operations with precise air strikes for more than a decade, within what was known as “between the wars.”

The newspaper indicates that what prompted Iran to establish the airport was its knowledge that Israel would not attack Lebanon, considering that Hezbollah is a deterrent factor, and the idea was to establish an airport in a fortified area that would help strengthen its efforts in the region to smuggle and carry out attacks, and for it to be close to the border so that drones could arrive quickly. To Israel and carry out attacks.

It is likely that this is not the only base that the Iranians established with Hezbollah in the region.

On Tuesday morning, the Israeli Supreme Court, with its entire expanded and unprecedented bench, which includes 15 judges, is considering the petitions submitted to it requesting the cancellation of the Basic Law reducing the “argument of reasonableness.”

Hebrew media described this event as a “historic day” and could be the beginning of a prolonged constitutional crisis.

The expected session begins at nine o'clock this morning, and will last about six and a half hours. As reported by the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

The judges will first hear the position of a representative of the Knesset, followed by two others, one representing the Israeli government and the other the government’s legal advisor. Each of them will be allocated an hour to present his arguments, and then the court will listen to the positions of the petitioners.

The proceedings of the session will be broadcast live on the website of the Israeli judiciary.

The court is expected to issue its decision on the petitions no later than the end of this year.

Yesterday evening, the President of the Supreme Court, Judge Esther Hayut, rejected a fourth request to recuse herself from considering these petitions.

Yesterday evening, thousands of Israelis participated in a demonstration organized in front of the headquarters of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, against the judicial changes plan.

Similar demonstrations are scheduled to be held today in several regions.

At dawn and Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests and raids in several areas in the West Bank.

Those forces from the Bethlehem Governorate arrested 9 citizens, including 6 from the town of Tuqu’, namely: Fad Al-Baden, Ikrimah Al-Amour, Hussein Al-Amour, Qassam Al-Amour, Muhammad Al-Amour, and Mahmoud Al-Amour.

While Muhammad Abu Ajima from Dheisheh Camp, Karim Zawahra, and Muhammad Abu Fraiha from the governorate were arrested.

In Tulkarm, the editor, Mahmoud Abu Dhiyab, Mustafa Odeh, and his son Ahmed, were arrested after storming several homes in the southern area of the city.

While the young man Muhammad Ribhi Abu Al-Zein was arrested from Rummana, west of Jenin, while the young men Taqi Abu Ubaid, Hassan Al-Saadi, and Sheraa Al-Hindawi, all from Jenin, were arrested as they passed through a pilot checkpoint near Nablus.

The young man, Amir Mansour, was arrested from the town of Biddu, northwest of occupied Jerusalem.

The Israeli army claimed, on Tuesday, that it had thwarted the smuggling of explosive devices from the Jordanian border in the Jordan Valley last evening.

According to a statement by the Israeli army, in cooperation with the police, the smuggling of a bag containing 6 explosive devices was thwarted yesterday, and it was transferred to the security forces for treatment and investigation.

It said that its forces are working to thwart any attempt to smuggle weapons aimed at harming the security of Israelis.

A number of citizens suffered from suffocation, Monday evening, during confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces, in the Arroub camp, north of Hebron.

According to local sources, confrontations broke out at the entrance to the camp, during which the occupation forces fired stun grenades and toxic tear gas, causing a number of citizens to suffer from suffocation, and they were treated in the field.

Informed Palestinian sources revealed, Monday evening, that the Palestinian Authority received via Jordan a group of armored vehicles and weapons to support the Palestinian security services, especially the “Preventive Security” and “National Security” services, as well as the police.

The sources told Al-Quds.com that these armored vehicles and weapons will be used in what they said was “enforcing law and order” in areas under Palestinian security control.

It indicated that the armored vehicles were obtained by the Authority from the American side through the Jordanian mediator, with the approval of the right-wing Israeli government, in which ministers from the extreme right participate, with the aim of strengthening the capabilities of the Palestinian security services in confronting the Palestinian armed cells stationed in Jenin and the city of Nablus.

The sources said that the Palestinian Authority confirmed to various parties, through the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Hussein Al-Sheikh, who many parties believe is preparing to succeed President Mahmoud Abbas, after his departure, and during meetings he held with the American side more than once, that the Authority is unable To confront those cells that are densely spread in Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarm, which are the hottest areas in the West Bank, and where the occupation forces also find difficulties in storming them without forces supported by air and land.

The sources indicated that the American side understood the demands of the authority in this regard and worked to provide it with the necessary equipment, whether armored vehicles or modern automatic weapons equipped with lasers for use in raids and clashes with armed cells, especially in Jenin, which is considered the fiercest governorate in the confrontation, specifically the camp that includes experienced fighters. Since the first intifadas in 1987 and the second in 2000.

President Mahmoud Abbas chaired a series of extensive security meetings at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah during the last two weeks, and asked them to strike with an iron hand against all armed cells that, in his opinion, are working to destroy the national project, weaken the authority, and show it to the American and European sides that it is powerless.

On Sunday, Hussein Al-Sheikh held a meeting with the Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, Ayman Al-Safadi. Sources confirmed to Al-Quds.com that it comes within the framework of new arrangements in the region, and that Jordan is a key partner in them.

Armed groups in Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarm have recently accused the Palestinian security services of arresting their active members who resist the occupation and target Israeli military sites.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Monday evening that expanding settlements harms the chances of reaching a two-state solution.

In his daily conference, Miller believed that this contributes to tensions in the region, calling on Israel to stop these actions.

This comes at a time when Maariv newspaper reported earlier today that the Israeli Planning and Construction Committee will consider a plan to build 400 settlement units in occupied Jerusalem.

On Monday evening, the Journalists Syndicate expressed its anger and strong dissatisfaction with the statements of the head of the Doctors Syndicate, Shawqi Sobha, against some journalists, which were contained in his press conference today, demanding that he immediately apologize to the press body and to the journalists who were insulted.

In a conference held today, Sobha attacked some journalists, describing them as yellow journalism, and treated other journalists known for their high professionalism arrogantly and in a professorial manner, which is rejected by the Journalists Syndicate and the entire journalistic body. As stated in her statement.

The Syndicate confirmed that it is the authority and body that receives any professional complaints against any journalist, and it is the one that examines and decides on the professionalism of any journalist and any behavior of journalists and media outlets, and that the head of the Doctors Syndicate cannot be an arbitrator or judge in professional cases that are not within his jurisdiction.

The union confirmed that it will follow this case until the end, and will not allow journalists and their dignity to be harmed by any party.

More than a million people demonstrated on Monday evening, in front of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, against the controversial judicial reform project, on the eve of a hearing to consider appeals submitted against one of the main points of this project, according to what journalists at Agence France-Presse reported.

The demonstrators chanted, raising Israeli flags, "Democracy! Democracy!"

Michael Telias, 42, a professor of neuroscience, told AFP, "We are here to try to stop the attempts of this corrupt government to turn Israel, a liberal democracy, into a fascist regime."

Since the Israeli government announced this judicial reform project in early January, Israel has witnessed one of the largest protest movements in its history.

His opponents demonstrate every Saturday evening in Tel Aviv in particular, and in several Israeli cities.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hold an extraordinary session on Tuesday in the presence of the 15 judges of this court to consider the appeals submitted against the “reasonableness argument” clause in the reform project approved by Parliament last July.

"We hope that the Supreme Court will reject this proposal, which has no purpose other than to abolish any form of authority that it is supposed to have," Tilias added.

While the media is talking about a reconciliation agreement between the government and the opposition to move forward with judicial reform, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he is working to “achieve a national consensus that will restore the balance between the three authorities.”

Earlier, far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced that he opposes any "surrender."

He said in a video clip published by his office, "I support dialogue, but against surrender. This reform is important for the State of Israel."

For his part, opposition leader Yair Lapid warned on Sunday of “a settlement proposal that is too good to be true.”

According to the government, the reform aims in particular to restore balance between powers by reducing the powers of the Supreme Court in favor of Parliament.

For their part, opponents of the reform fear that the proposed amendments will undermine Israeli democracy.

On Monday evening, Israeli occupation forces closed the main entrances to the city of Jericho.

According to local sources, the occupation forces set up a number of military checkpoints at the entrances to the city, stopped citizens’ vehicles, especially those leaving the city, searched them, and forced them to take bumpy roads.

The same sources added that the occupation forces closed the road between the town of Al-Auja and the city of Jericho.

Vice President of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Abdullah Al-Zaghari, said that there are great and mounting fears about the fate of the detainees on hunger strike, namely: Kayed Al-Fafsous, Sultan Khalouf, and Maher Al-Akhras, especially since their strike comes in light of the presence of a right-wing fascist government, which previously assassinated Sheikh Khader Adnan. After 86 days of strike, we do not rule out that the crime will be carried out again against those currently on strike.

Al-Zaghari added that what is happening against the hunger strikers is a crime, in which all the occupation forces participate, which continue their intransigence and refuse to even deal with their demand to end their arbitrary detention, despite the deterioration of their health condition, especially since the striking detainees had previously gone through long strikes, which affected actually affects their health conditions.

Al-Zaghari called on all international human rights institutions, led by the United Nations, to pressure the occupation to immediately release them and end the crime of their arrest.

It is noteworthy that the detainees Kayed Al-Fafsous and Sultan Khalouf have continued their hunger strike for (40) days in rejection of their administrative detention, and the detainee Maher Al-Akhras has continued his strike for (20) days, as the occupation authorities filed an indictment against him yesterday, and extended his detention until Thursday.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant claimed on Monday evening that Iran is establishing a new airport in the Qalaat Jabour mountain area in southern Lebanon, 20 kilometers from the border of northern occupied Palestine.

Gallant said at a conference of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy at Reichmann University that this airport is being built with the aim of attacking Israel, showing aerial and satellite images of the location of the airport, and the Iranian flag and the Hezbollah flag flying in the place.

Gallant said: “The land is Lebanese, the control is Iranian, and the destination is Israel.”

He sent a message to Hezbollah and Lebanon, in which he said: “If we reach a conflict, we will not hesitate to use the deadly force of the Israeli army... Hezbollah and Lebanon will pay a heavy and painful price.”

He considered that Iran currently represents the greatest threat to Israel, regional stability, and the global order, pointing to its efforts to try to reach a military nuclear capability, which are closer than ever before.

The Israeli Defense Minister accused Iran of carrying out a geographical and ideological takeover of the countries of the region and encouraging "terrorist" attacks around the world. According to him.

According to him, the Iranian goal is to create a war of attrition against Israel on all its borders, while at the same time continuing to develop and equip nuclear weapons, considering that these efforts affect every country in our surroundings.

He touched on what are described as Hezbollah's provocations on the northern border, saying: "The repeated provocations by Hezbollah on the northern border are an arrogant and dangerous act, with Iranian encouragement."

He sent a threatening letter to the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, in which he said: “He wants to portray himself as the defender of Lebanon, but in reality he is making Lebanon and its citizens hostage to serve Iranian and Shiite interests... If he miscalculates, he will become destructive to Lebanon.”

He also claimed that Iran is trying to build a front against Israel from various borders, and has recently been working from the joint Jordanian-Iraqi border with the aim of controlling it, including exploiting this to smuggle weapons to the West Bank, and that Hamas and Jihad in the Gaza Strip are increasingly involved in the Iranian axis of evil. According to him.

A former senior Mossad official said Monday that a warning issued by spy agency chief David Barnea to Iran a day earlier was in fact aimed at making it clear to the United States that Israel has the freedom to act, even in the heart of Tehran.

Haim Tomer, a former Mossad chief of intelligence and operations, additionally claimed that Barnea’s comments carried the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Barnea did not threaten the Iranians. He is a serious enough person to understand that that has no meaning. He made a threat to the Americans,” Tomer told Radio 103FM in comments cited by the Walla news site.

 “Barnea is expressing harsh criticism of the current US administration,” Tomer said. “He is telling the Americans that he has freedom of action, and that he is not interested in what they do in Tehran, or about the nuclear issue.”

Barnea on Sunday warned Iran’s leaders that they would pay a direct price, even if they were deep in the Iranian capital, should any Israelis or Jews be harmed in what he said was an ongoing, significantly stepped-up, state-organized Iranian terror effort worldwide.

Tomer said he believed that Barnea would not have sent such a message to Washington with his speech if he did not have the backing of the premier.

“Barnea would not speak like that on a public stage without receiving permission from the Prime Minister’s Office,” Tomer said. “I have no doubt that the prime minister supported this strong speech.”

Washington is thought to oppose actions that could embroil the region in war, especially as it pursues a diplomatic deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, but has remained mum following suspected Israeli sabotage attacks inside Iran in the past.

Tomer said he believed Barnea to be “frustrated” by the growing contacts between the US and Iran, while Washington “isn’t working to restrain the Iranians.”

Speaking at an annual conference of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism Policy (ICT) at Reichman University in Herzliya, Barnea said on Sunday that the Mossad and its allies in the international intelligence community have foiled 27 Iranian attacks against Jews and Israelis abroad over the past year.

“The squads that were captured, the weapons that were seized together with them, all had clear targets,” he said, noting that the attempts occurred “all over the world, in Europe, Africa, the Far East and South America.” A number of attacks or suspected plots against Jewish or Israeli targets in Europe, Latin America, Asia and elsewhere over recent decades have been attributed to Iran or its proxy groups, including a scare in Turkey last year that saw Israeli visitors encouraged to go home.

“The time has come to exact a price from Iran in a different way,” Barnea said.

“Harming Israelis and Jews in any way — by proxy, by Iranians, or by Iranian weapons smuggled into Israel — will lead to activity against the Iranians who sent the terrorists and also against the decision-makers, from the ground operators to the commanders who approved the operation, to the highest echelon, and I mean that,” he said.

“These prices will be exacted with great precision in the depths of Iran, in the heart of Tehran,” Barnea warned.

Hebrew Public Radio said that, starting today (Monday), Israel allowed Palestinians from the Gaza Strip who hold American citizenship to enter its territory and travel through its airports, as part of Israel’s preparations to join the visa exemption program for the United States of America.

The radio indicated that, as of today, Israel has allowed residents of the Gaza Strip who hold American citizenship and do not pose a security threat to enter its territory with B2 tourist visas and travel through its airports.

The radio added that this step comes within the framework of the experimental plan undertaken by Israel in response to the demands made by the United States of America to accept Israel into the visa exemption program.

On July 20, Israel began facilitating the entry and exit of Palestinians who hold American citizenship from the West Bank to its territory and travel across its borders and airports abroad, as part of the conditions for joining the American visa exemption program.

The trial period for Israel's compliance with American conditions ends on September 30.
According to the radio, the number of Palestinians who hold American citizenship in the Gaza Strip is estimated at more than 500 people.

The radio said that during the trial period, Palestinians who hold American citizenship in the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of the Hamas movement, will be allowed to leave via buses to Jordan and then abroad, after they had been excluded from the trial period, before Israel returns and includes them in the trial due to American pressure.

According to the radio, Israel will allow Palestinian Americans living abroad to visit their first-degree relatives in Gaza once a year for a maximum of 90 days.

In addition, the radio said that 15 members of the US Senate sent a letter to US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in which they informed him that Israel would not be able to meet the US conditions regarding the visa exemption program.

The senators pointed out that Israel subjects Palestinians who hold American citizenship to two stages of security scrutiny, which it does not follow with the rest of the travelers through its airports. It also does not allow an American citizen who lives in the Palestinian territories to enter its territory by car or even rent a car upon his arrival at the airport. Ben Gurion International Airport outside the coastal city of Tel Aviv in central Israel.

With the arrival of the twenty-second anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States, the United States is still nursing its wounds from these deadly attacks on symbols of finance, trade, and the extraordinary American military power in the destruction of the World Trade Center in the heart of New York City, and the building of the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon, near... The American capital, at the hands of 19 terrorist kidnappers, when Americans woke up on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, to the news that the United States had been subjected to four coordinated terrorist attacks carried out by the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, which was headed by Osama bin Laden.

The United States commemorated the 22nd anniversary in several places in the United States, most importantly Washington, D.C., and New York, for the most powerful attack on United States territory in the history of its existence, which claimed the lives of three thousand Americans, as the hijackers deliberately crashed two planes into the upper floors of the North and South towers of the World Trade Center complex. In New York, and a third plane at the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) building in Arlington, Virginia.

As for the fourth plane, which was most likely trying to head to the Capitol building or the White House, it crashed in a forest in Pennsylvania, after a fight broke out between the plane’s passengers and its hijackers.

More than two decades after those attacks, at a staggering cost of $8 trillion and the death of nearly 5 million people (around the world), the horror of the events and their repercussions still haunts Americans, who lost a large portion of their personal freedoms because of the attack.

Although the overt conflicts in the "global war on terror" have subsided with the US departure from Iraq and Afghanistan, experts say that many of today's political tensions and unrest can be traced directly to the forces at work during the NATO-led global war. Counterterrorism funding continues to flow with few restrictions, strengthening the global security forces and military industry. The ongoing escalation of coups in West Africa also highlights the dilemma of Western aid that supports military institutions at the expense of civilian rule.

In the Global North, counter-terrorism experts, having rebranded themselves as totalitarian security experts, are calling for a tougher approach to confronting China and Russia.

Likewise, in Central Asia, global networks and organizations have created a development aid industry that does not always align with the needs of people on the ground, but buzzwords like “terrorism” and “security” have become music to the ears of international donors. Meanwhile, in places as diverse as Nepal, the ripples of the global war on terror can be felt directly with the revival of Gurkha training institutes, once used by coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, but now at the disposal of private security companies.

Beyond its military footprint, the global war on terrorism has produced a draconian wave of invasive security logics and legal frameworks. From the United Kingdom and France to India and Indonesia, countries have invoked their own “9/11 moments” in the wake of domestic terrorism incidents, revealing a series of repressive laws that remain in place. These decrees have allowed for prolonged detention without trial, and widespread violations of privacy that require the surrender of freedom for the sake of security. Central Asian and Middle Eastern leaders, despite their authoritarian tendencies, have also recast themselves as indispensable to the US-led security architecture, taking advantage of the spirit of the global war on terrorism to suppress domestic dissent.

Even in Latin America, which appears far from the epicenter of 9/11, governments have weaponized these legal tools against a wide range of perceived adversaries, including civil society and grassroots organizations, while Muslims around the world remain in the crosshairs, even as the repercussions wane. The events of September 11.

As for the promoters of conspiracy theories, they are still circulating stories and allegations that appeared from the first moments of the attacks, blaming different centers, countries, and institutions. Among these theories, one said that the World Trade Center Towers fell as a result of deliberate explosions in their foundations and not because of the collision of the two hijacked planes. The collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper in the vicinity of the Twin Towers, helped spread many conspiracy theories. . This building, which houses the offices of the CIA, the Department of Defense and the Office of Emergency Management, collapsed hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers without being hit by a plane or being directly targeted.

But in 2008, a three-year investigation by the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded that the tower collapsed due to intense, out-of-control fires that lasted for nearly seven hours, started by debris from the fall of the nearby north tower.

There have also been widespread claims that “jet fuel cannot melt the steel girders” that make up the Twin Towers, suggesting that they may have been demolished with explosives. But according to an official report, the planes that hit them caused significant damage to the support columns of both towers and dislodged the fire-resistant materials.

In addition, the fire temperature reached 1,000 degrees Celsius in some parts, causing the steel beams to deform and the two buildings to eventually collapse.

The Union of Fishermen's Committees said, Monday evening, that the two fishermen who were arrested this morning by an Israeli naval force off the coast of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, were injured.

The Union explained that Munib Ashkentana will be released in the coming hours, injured by a number of rubber bullets in the back.

He stated that the fisherman, Nafez Ramadan Salah, will be kept in the occupation hospitals to receive treatment.