The Israeli occupation authorities officially issued an administrative detention order for a period of four months against the detainee Hanan Saleh Al-Barghouti (59 years old), from the town of Kober in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, and she is the sister of the prisoner, Nael Al-Barghouti, who spent a total of 43 years in the occupation prisons.

The Prisoners Club stated, in a statement, this evening, Thursday, that Al-Barghouti was arrested on the fourth of September, after she had recently received several threats from the occupation, during the raids that took place on her house several times, indicating that she suffers from several health problems, including pressure and diabetes.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities forced a Jerusalemite to demolish his shop in the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

According to local sources, the occupation authorities forced the citizen, Nafez Zaytoun, to demolish his shop, under the pretext of building without a permit.

The occupation authorities had notified, earlier today, the demolition of three houses in the town of Silwan, belonging to the citizens: Khaled Zaytoun, Jumaa Odeh, and Shehdeh Qweider.

On Thursday evening, settlers forced a shepherd to leave the pastures in the northern Jordan Valley.

According to local sources, settlers forced the young man, Ahmed Hussein Daraghmeh, to leave the pastures while he was grazing his cattle in Al Farisiya, in the northern Jordan Valley.

Today, Thursday, Al Quds learned from an informed source that the US President Joe Biden's administration believes that the Palestinian demands presented in the Riyadh talks are the maximum demands, which makes it very difficult for the administration to meet them at the present time, and that it is more useful for the Palestinians to make "more Reasonable" demands that  serves to stop the escalation, reduce violence, improve the daily lives of the Palestinians, and freeze unilateral steps (by the Palestinian and Israeli sides) that complicate the possibilities of reaching a two-state solution, which is the goal of the United States to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

On Thursday, the British BBC revealed that among the Palestinian demands in the event of a tripartite agreement that includes the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, includes more political and security control over the lands in the occupied West Bank and a financial increase of hundreds of millions of dollars to support The Palestinian Authority, which suffers from a significant shortage of financial resources.

A team of senior Palestinian officials in Riyadh — including Palestinian intelligence chief Majed Faraj and Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization — met Saudi national security adviser Musaed al-Aiban on Wednesday, according to Palestinian sources, to discuss Palestinian demands as part of any grand bargain. To reach it, and that was before any meeting with the American officials who went to Riyadh for the same purpose.

Multiple reports, statements and discussions have been reported in the American media and on the official press platforms in the White House and the US State Department since last July about the US efforts to reach a historic agreement to normalize Saudi-Israeli relations, in return for major security arrangements between the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and making Israeli concessions in the occupied Palestinian territories.

But the possibility of an agreement seems remote at the moment, as the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said on Tuesday: "We do not expect any announcements or imminent breakthroughs in the coming period."

There is speculation in Washington about a major American plan for the historic reorganization of relations in the Middle East, by resuming American shuttle diplomacy similar to the tours of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the seventies of the last century prior to reaching the Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel.

Experts believe that US President Joe Biden is likely to see the Saudi-Israeli agreement as a major foreign policy prize that he can present to voters before next year's elections.

In return for recognizing Israel, Saudi Arabia is said to be demanding US guarantees of access to advanced US weapons and a civilian nuclear program that includes uranium enrichment at home, which is controversial in Washington, where lawmakers from both parties oppose it.

According to experts, Israel, for its part, will benefit from trade and defense relations with the major Arab power, and more historical integration that it has always sought in the region, in the wake of other Arab normalization agreements reached in 2020.

Experts also believe that for any agreement to succeed, it must be seen as including major Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman needs to mollify his people — historically opposed to Israel and deeply sympathetic to the Palestinian cause.

At the same time, President Biden will also need to demonstrate that he has made significant gains for the Palestinians to gain support from his Democratic Party. Israel's current ultra-nationalist ruling coalition, which they see as exacerbating tensions in the West Bank and sparking unprecedented instability within Israel itself.

According to the BBC, a list of Palestinian demands in exchange for participation in the US-backed process was identified during a meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf last week in Amman, and according to what a Palestinian official told the network, the demands include: Transferring parts of the West Bank currently under full Israeli control (known as Area C under the Oslo peace accords of the 1990s) to Palestinian Authority rule; a "complete halt" to Israeli settlement growth in the West Bank; Resuming Saudi financial support to the Palestinian Authority, which has slowed since 2016 and stopped completely three years ago, to about $200 million annually; the reopening of the US Consulate in Jerusalem — the diplomatic mission to the Palestinians — that was closed by President Donald Trump, and the resumption of US-brokered negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians from where they left off under then-Secretary of State John Kerry in 2014.

In turn, an American official, commenting on the alleged Palestinian demands, said that he was not aware of this, and that "the administration's record shows that we are not talking about the content of negotiations that take place behind closed doors, and I only say that McGurk and Leaf's visit was arranged in advance, and it deals with bilateral Saudi-American relations."

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces detained three young men at a military checkpoint near the town of Ya`bad, west of Jenin.

Local sources said that the occupation forces detained the young man, Majdi Faisal Abu Sariya, from the Jenin camp, and the two young men, Ahmed Khalil and Qais Muhammad Zakarneh, from Qabatiya, for hours as they passed the "Dotan" military checkpoint, which was established on the lands of the town of Ya`bad, west of Jenin.

The occupation forces released the two young men, Zakarneh, after detaining them for long hours, and transferred them to the "Mabu Dotan" settlement, while they are still holding the young man, Abu Sariya, since the morning hours.

The Israeli occupation authorities continue to expand settlement roads in the West Bank, as part of their plan to increase the number of settlers in the West Bank to more than one million.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli "Ynet" website said that an agreement was concluded between the Israeli Minister of Transportation, Miri Regev, and the so-called head of the "Samaria Settlement Council," Yossi Dagan, to start work on doubling Road No. 505, which connects the settlements of "Ariel" and "Tapuah" in The depth of the occupied West Bank, at a cost of half a billion shekels, next summer, and that Street No. 5, which starts in the Tel Aviv area to reach the Fasayel junction in the main road in the Jordan Valley, is doubled at a cost of 1.5 billion shekels, as part of the Israeli plan to increase the number of settlers in the West Bank. Occupied to more than a million.

The plan includes doubling Road No. 5 and widening it, according to the site, which will turn it into the most important cross road, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in parallel with the legalization of dozens of random settlement outposts.

The website quoted Dagan as saying that "the road to a million in Samaria passes through construction, the preservation of national lands, and the most important is infrastructure and streets."

Today, Thursday, the Popular Front said, "The Israeli government's intention to 'legalize' three new settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, and to announce other plans, is a war crime that requires prosecution in all forums and the International Criminal Court."

The Popular Front added in a statement: "The occupation's continuation in building and legislating more settlement units on the lands of the West Bank and Jerusalem is a systematic policy aimed at seizing the land and isolating the cities and villages of the West Bank from each other through disjointed cantons that end the possibility of embodying Palestinian sovereignty over them."

The Popular Front considered that the occupying state is taking advantage of the official Arab normalization with it to continue this settlement policy and accelerate its procedures to impose the facts of its colonial occupation of Palestine.

It reaffirmed that confronting these Israeli policies is by adopting and strengthening the comprehensive resistance against the occupation, at the heart of which is the armed resistance that has proven its effectiveness and effectiveness in deterring it, leaving the path of negotiation with the occupation completely and resisting any calls to return to it.

Today, Thursday, violent clashes erupted between young men and the Israeli occupation forces in the town of Sebastia, in the city of Nablus.

According to local sources, these forces fired a barrage of poison gas bombs at the citizens.

Israeli security officials are calling for the exploitation of the ongoing contacts about a security-military deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia, which includes an agreement to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, in order to push for a security calm in the occupied West Bank, by offering “goodwill overtures and concessions” to the Palestinians, according to Haaretz newspaper. " today is Thursday.

Israeli security officials presented their position to ministers during deliberations on a possible normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia, at a time when the Israeli government and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have increased, and consider that agreements to normalize relations with Arab countries should be separated from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli security apparatus tried to absolve itself of responsibility for the security situation in the West Bank by repeating the claim that Netanyahu would have difficulty obtaining support from his government to advance a security calm, “as it is expected that ministers from the Otzma Yehudit and religious Zionist parties will oppose this, as well as a number of ministers from the Otzma Yehudit party.” Likud," according to the newspaper.

The newspaper quoted Israeli security officials as saying that at this time there are no understandings between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and that reaching an agreement between the two countries with the composition of the current Israeli government is almost impossible.

The newspaper added that Israel has not yet received clear Palestinian demands within the framework of US-Saudi-Israeli contacts, while the Palestinian Authority handed over a list of demands to Saudi Arabia, and requested that the latter present it to Israel in the framework of negotiations, and among the demands was the transfer of Area C in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority, and a construction freeze. In the settlements, the opening of the US consulate in Jerusalem.

And the "Walla" website had mentioned that a Palestinian delegation consisting of the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Director of General Intelligence, Majed Faraj, and the Palestinian President's Advisor, Majdi Al-Khalidi, had met with the US President's envoy to the Middle East, Bert McGurk, in Riyadh, last Tuesday.

According to the newspaper, it was the United States that linked contacts with Saudi Arabia with Israeli concessions to the Palestinians. Israeli security sources said that the US administration considers that it missed an opportunity by not trying to advance steps between Israel and the Palestinian Authority upon signing the "Abraham Accords".

The Israeli security sources added that the United States and Saudi Arabia are close to reaching preliminary understandings about the details of the agreement between them, and that they will not sign a defense pact that obliges the United States to stand by Saudi Arabia if it is attacked, but rather they will sign an agreement that establishes the United States' commitment to grant Saudi Arabia security assistance.

The Israeli security sources suggested that the United States would agree to the Saudi demand for a civilian nuclear program, provided that it is subject to international monitoring.

The Israeli security apparatus opposes Saudi Arabia's enrichment of uranium on its territory. On the other hand, US President Joe Biden considers that an agreement with Saudi Arabia will be an achievement on the eve of the US presidential elections. However, such an agreement requires the approval of two-thirds of the US Senate, while it is expected that a number of Democratic members of the House will oppose it, if it does not include achievements in favor of the Palestinians.

The corridors of the Association of East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Jakarta on Thursday, which will bring together Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, US Vice President Kamala Harris and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, provide an opportunity for rare talks amid tense relations between the three major countries.

The summit hosted by the Indonesian capital, Harris and Lee, gathers around the same table, a day after the Chinese prime minister warned the leaders of the 18 countries that the major powers should settle their differences to avoid a "new cold war".

The spotlight will be on the talks between officials of the world's two largest economic powers, in light of the tension between them on a range of issues, from the dispute over Taiwan to relations with Moscow, through the struggle for influence in the Pacific, days before the G20 summit in New Delhi.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared, "I ask... the leaders of the Southeast Asian Summit to make (from this meeting) a forum for strengthening cooperation and not for fueling rivalries."

For her part, Harris held private talks with Southeast Asian leaders during which they discussed "the importance of enforcing respect for international law in the South China Sea," according to a statement.

The ASEAN summit will be the first occasion for senior officials from the United States and Russia to gather, about two months after the last ASEAN meeting in July in Jakarta, which witnessed tension, during which Lavrov faced harsh Western criticism of his country over the invasion of Ukraine.

Joining the Southeast Asian leaders' meeting were Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, South Korean President Yun Sok Yul, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Albanese met his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the summit and confirmed that he will make an official visit to China "later this year", as Canberra seeks to improve relations with Beijing.

Addressing his summit partners, Indian Prime Minister Modi stressed the importance of "building a post-Covid world order based on law," calling for collective efforts for a "free and open" region in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Lavrov is expected to stress the dangers of expanding NATO's influence in the Asian region, according to what the Russian Foreign Ministry said during a briefing this week.

Although the ASEAN summit brings together some of the major powers in the world, its ability to settle regional and global differences remains limited, according to experts.

The analyst at the "International Institute for Strategic Studies" Aaron Connelly said that the participation of the major powers "is an indication of ASEAN's ability to bring together the parties, but we can say recently that the East Asian Summit has weakened, turned into a discussion forum."

And if Thursday's meeting involved a geopolitical dimension more than others, the major powers took advantage of the previous summits in Jakarta to consolidate their alliances and put pressure on the Southeast Asian bloc.

On Wednesday, the Chinese Prime Minister boarded the high-speed train, whose project was funded by China and is still in the experimental stage, heading from Jakarta to Bandung in Java, accompanied by a senior Indonesian official.

Kamala Harris met successively Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on the sidelines of the summit.
"The Vice President reaffirmed the United States' unwavering commitment to the Philippines and emphasized the role the US-Philippine alliance plays in ensuring that the Indo-Pacific remains free, open and prosperous," a statement read.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities notified the demolition of three homes in the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the occupation municipality delivered demolition orders for the homes of Jerusalemites: Khaled Zaytoun, Juma Odeh, and Shehdeh Qweider in the town of Silwan.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to close the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing for the export of products from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank and abroad for the third day in a row.

According to local sources, the daily losses of the various sectors operating in the field of export are estimated at half a million dollars due to the closure of the crossing, including losses resulting from the suspension of agricultural exports of about two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

Human rights organizations active in Gaza considered that the Israeli occupation’s decision to prevent the export of industrial and agricultural products constitutes a crime of collective punishment that includes farmers, merchants, and fishermen directly, in addition to stopping the export and marketing movement that harms a wide sector of workers in the fishing and agricultural sector, reaching about 60,000 families. .

The Prisoner Club said, "The Israeli occupation continues its crime against the prisoner, Asif Al-Rifai (21 years old), who has cancer, from the town of Kafr Ain / Ramallah, by arresting him and detaining him in the so-called (Ramla prison clinic), despite the constant risks to his life, and his urgent need for his family. Especially since the CT scans that were recently performed on him showed that his health was not improving.”

The Prisoner Club pointed out that the prisoner Al-Rifai began receiving treatment between (chemical and biological treatment) in March of this year, that is, about seven months after the date of his arrest on September 24, 2022, despite the confirmation of medical reports on the level of danger that he was facing the period of his arrest.

It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities detain more than 700 sick prisoners, including about 200 prisoners suffering from chronic diseases, including 24 prisoners, and detainees suffering from cancer and tumors of varying degrees, and today the case of the prisoner, Asif Al-Rifai, is considered the most difficult and severe.

Jordan condemned today, Thursday, the opening of Papua New Guinea's embassy accredited to Israel in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Sinan Majali, a spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, said, "The opening of the embassy is an unacceptable and condemned step, and is a flagrant and gross violation of international law and resolutions of international legitimacy."

He added, "Any procedures or decisions aimed at changing the status of the city of Jerusalem or its legal status are considered null and void and have no legal effect."

Diplomatic relations began for the first time between Papua New Guinea and Israel in 1978, nearly 3 years after the first gained its independence from Australia.

The Israeli occupation forces continue to close the gate built on the section of the separation and racial expansion wall, west of the village of Akaba, north of Tulkarm, for the eighth day in a row.

According to local sources, those forces closed the gate a week ago, without giving reasons, and prevented workers and farmers from reaching their agricultural lands behind the wall, which exacerbated their suffering, especially since they depend for their income on farming their lands, with the olive harvest season approaching.

The sources pointed out that the apartheid wall destroyed 2,500 dunums of the village's land, while the occupation forces imposed impossible restrictions on farmers to access their land.

The sources pointed out that the occupation forces placed concrete slabs and cement cubes along the wall from Akaba to the neighboring town of Qafin last year.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 4 citizens from the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the two young men, Amir Salaymeh and Muhammad Maragheh, and the two boys, Moamen Salaymeh and Youssef Qabbani, from the town of Silwan.

The head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Moayed Shaaban, said that the so-called "commander of the central region in the occupation army" issued a decision last night defining the scope of three random settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, in preparation for converting them into self-contained settlements that can be developed and expanded at the expense of Palestinian citizens land. 

Shaaban added, in a press statement, today, Thursday, that settlement expansion, control of Palestinian land and the imposition of new facts on the ground have become the most prominent headlines of the current occupation government, which is controlled and managed by the leaders of settler gangs.

And he indicated that two outposts are located in the south of Hebron governorate, namely Avigall and Ashhail, and the third is located in Jericho governorate, all of which are random and were established in 2001.

He pointed out that the occupation's last step came as an embodiment of the occupying power's decision to legalize 10 settlement outposts last February, and today it is taking measures to install them by adjusting their areas of influence, meaning that the occupation authorities decided to allocate other lands for the benefit of these outposts in order to expand them in the future at the expense of citizens' lands.

Shaaban recalled the seriousness of the occupation government's decision to reduce the steps of approving settlement plans, indicating that what we see today of a great acceleration in the issue of approving, consolidating and expanding outposts is a reflection of the recent occupation decision represented in providing expanded powers to the extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the issue of settlement expansion.

He warned that the next stage will witness other occupation attempts to control more lands and impose dangerous new facts on the ground, as long as the world practices double standards and remains silent in front of the full-fledged crime of occupation.

Shaaban called on all official and popular frameworks and national factions to expedite participation in the completion of a national strategy that strengthens the frameworks of popular resistance, as it is the most effective means of resisting and thwarting the occupation's plans.

The Prisoners Club held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the life and fate of the elderly detainee, Sheikh Saeed Nakhla (65 years) from the Jalazoun camp / Ramallah, who was re-arrested by the occupation at dawn today, Thursday, from his home in the camp, nearly four months after his release, after He spent about a year in his last administrative detention.

According to his wife, "a force from the occupation army stormed their house at dawn, and before arresting him, the occupation forces threatened him to abuse him.

The number of prisoners in the occupation prisons is about 5,200, including (35) female prisoners and about (170) children, while the number of detainees reached (1,264) administrative detainees until the end of last August.

Last night, a group of settlers burned perennial olive trees in the Tel Rumeida area in the center of Hebron.

According to local sources, the settlers burned three perennial olive trees in the Tel Rumeida area, which is located near the "Ramat Yishai" settlement, which is located on the citizens' lands.

The sources indicated that the people were able to control the fire, after the fire destroyed three perennial trees belonging to the Qanbi and Zahida families.

The practices of the occupation and its cadres in the West Bank are well known and exposed, and our people have suffered a lot, and are still suffering daily, from these practices that do not stop at a certain limit, and they affect people, trees, land, and everything related to aspects of life, but what happened in Hebron on the tenth of July The past, which was revealed by the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", is considered the pinnacle of savagery and inhumanity.

According to the report of the aforementioned newspaper, large forces stormed several houses in the city, and among them were some female soldiers who had lost all meanings of morals and humanity, including two who acted with five virtuous women from Hebron in a manner that contradicts all concepts of taste, morals and humanity, and cannot be explained or justified in any way. of forms.

These two female recruits, who had a ferocious dog with them, were forced to make him the despicable tool of threat. These two female recruits practiced bad manners and the presence of the frightening dog, pressuring these women to take off their clothes completely in front of the crying and screaming of children, while they see what they see of sad and painful scenes of mothers and sisters walking naked in front of them, under threat. The dog and female soldiers are not much different from these dogs.

This behavior aroused Palestinian, Arab and international resentment among all those who saw it or heard about it, and a women's protest took place in Gaza, and the Prime Minister, Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh, the abuse of our women calls for bringing the perpetrators to international justice, perhaps those who disregarded morals and human feelings and did what they did pay the price they must pay.

Our honorable and virtuous women are more honorable than anyone who tries to abuse them and force them to do abusive behavior. These virtuous women will remain a symbol of morality and honor, and the occupation and its recruits will remain naked internationally and morally. No matter how much the occupation tries, with all its forces and arrogance, to change reality in any way, it will never succeed, and its crimes and recklessness will impact its reputation and its reality with all evil and despicableness, not only before us but before the international community in general, and history is coming and it is the best witness..!

In the context of reading the new Israeli strategy towards the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967, which the writer here continues to present a reading of for the third week in a row, in light of what the current, most extreme right-wing Israeli government is doing, an indicative pause was made on how to market the Israeli settlement policy in this context. Lands before international forums, especially the approach of the right-wing forces in control of the reins of government, which claim that this settlement policy does not involve any forceful or high-density population transfer, and that it relies on the legal use of lands that are not privately owned. Accompanying this claim is an indication that it was agreed within the framework of the Oslo Accords that the settlement issue would be one of the issues of the permanent status negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel, and that until a final agreement is reached, it is assumed that nothing will hinder either party from carrying out planning and construction work in the areas under its control. control of each of them. It must be said that what Israel concluded from this process is that the settlements are not one of the sources of the conflict, which existed before the establishment of any settlement in the lands of 1967, and in its reading, its source lies mainly in “the attempt of the Arabs since 1948 to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel, and their continued attempts to eradicate and exterminate them.”

Another component of this Israeli strategy is that, as stated in many policy papers issued by think tanks that express the views of the ruling right, the current status quo between Israel and the Palestinians can be permanent.

According to one of them, this status quo, with its political impasse, is not the result of Israeli rejection or obstinacy, as some leaders, governments, and analysts in the West claim. He put forward "negative initiatives" aimed at defaming and undermining Israel's legitimacy and denying its character as a Jewish state. The same paper asserts that the coercive imposition of political solutions from one party, and from global organizations, international conferences, or foreign countries, is not the acceptable and desirable way to change the status quo. At the same time, in the absence of any currently in place and practical diplomatic tracks, the current status quo will surely remain constant and permanent.

As everyone knows, the status quo does not remain as it is, because the measures imposed by Israel unilaterally, as it has almost absolute control over those lands, contribute to its rapid change.

With regard to the arguments for this strategy around the world, perhaps the most striking thing in recent times is the attempt to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. In parallel, considering the tendency of some parties in the international community to link anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, as two phenomena of equal magnitude and strength, reflects a wrong and deceptive position. And as stated in one of the policy papers reflecting the positions of the Israeli right, anti-Semitism is a tragic phenomenon that has been directed only at Jews for thousands of years, and has resulted in numerous massacres, expulsions, mass torture and humiliations, and summary executions. And it caused the conversion of religion by force and coercion, the demolition of synagogues and cemeteries, the phenomena of slavery, the confiscation of property and others. This phenomenon culminated in the Holocaust. The aim of anti-Semitism was to push for the complete extermination of the Jewish people and their complete racial extermination.

As for the phenomenon of Islamophobia, its source, according to the same paper, is the fear of Islam in light of the fanatical fundamentalist movements and the terrorism they practice. But there is no philosophy in this that calls for the elimination and ethnic extermination of Muslims. In the same vein, right-wing Israeli governments have been working in recent years to regard anti-Zionism in the eyes of the governments of most Western countries as delegitimizing the State of Israel and an updated form of anti-Semitism.

Work must be done to expose the crimes of the occupation in Israeli prisons, and prisoners’ issues must be considered at the top of the political and diplomatic ladder of attention.

It must receive the priority that befits the struggle and steadfastness of our heroic prisoners in the occupation prisons and work in all areas of the international political, diplomatic and legal movement. Because the violations and crimes of the occupation authorities and their various agencies against the heroic prisoners in the occupation prisons have become a real catastrophe in light of the organized war led by the extremist government. The most recent of which was the aggressive, arbitrary measures and decisions taken by the fascist Israeli Minister Ben Gvir, especially his decision to reduce visits to the families of prisoners. Which is considered an extension of the open war of occupation against our people in general and against the heroic prisoners in particular, in flagrant violation of international law, international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and the understandings and agreements signed, and an attempt to undermine the achievements of the prisoner movement that it achieved through its long struggle.

The racist decisions of Netanyahu's government are decisions that reflect the gang mentality and criminality against heroic prisoners. It contradicts the most basic human rights laws and the Fourth Geneva Conventions. The oppressive occupation regime’s measures will not weaken the will of our male and female prisoners in the occupation prisons, and that the Palestinian people, in all their places of presence, will defend their male and female prisoners, and will confront all attempts to terrorize them, and that all occupation measures are invalid and cannot undermine the determination, will and insistence of the prisoners to obtain their rights and regain their freedom. .

The occupation government bears full direct responsibility for the escalation in Israeli aggression against prisoners, especially in light of the implementation of Ben Gvir’s racist fascist decisions. Clear positions must be taken by the Human Rights Council and all international organizations, especially the Red Cross, and the importance of condemning and rejecting these decisions, pressing for their abolition, and protecting the rights of prisoners acquired through international conventions and the struggles of our brave prisoners over many decades.

The rights of the prisoners and their sacrifices are not a favor on the part of anyone, nor are they subject to negotiation or concession. The disagreement that emerged within the ranks of the occupation government after the extremist Ben Gvir’s announcement of violating the right of prisoners to visit and reducing it is neither an acknowledgment of this right nor an acknowledgment of this achievement. Rather, it is about the timing and the mechanism for taking it, which confirms that the systematic war led by the occupation government is a comprehensive war aimed at undermining the will and determination of the prisoners in the occupation prisons, and it is not possible to compromise on the rights of the prisoners who confirm that this policy is like a flame that will burn whoever lit it.

The United Nations and its competent bodies and councils call for the necessity of action, especially by the Red Cross, and they must bear their responsibilities in pressuring the Israeli government to stop its assault on our heroic prisoners, and to take the necessary measures imposed by international law to force the occupying state to treat them as prisoners of war, and to release them immediately. . We must work with the international community and human rights organizations to ensure immediate intervention and oblige the occupation regime to comply with international law and relevant agreements, most notably the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Palestinian embassies and political and diplomatic missions must coordinate positions with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, form a legal and media working team, and follow up on positions on a daily basis, with the importance of media publishing statements issued by prisoners in occupation prisons in all international languages, and working to follow up on the concerns and issues of prisoners at all levels to expose these violations and mobilize the broadest front. An international organization supporting their cause and their rights to dignity and freedom.

Various Israeli politicians and personalities attacked a massive campaign of incitement against President Mahmoud Abbas, after publishing a video clip of him from a speech he delivered before the Fatah Revolutionary Council in its recent meetings in Ramallah.

President Abbas was talking about what is known as the "Holocaust" against European Jews, by Hitler, and he indicated that Hitler killed the Jews not because they were Jews, but because of their social status and usurious loans and others, and that they were not Semites, and had nothing to do with it, and that Hitler killed them because He (i.e. Hitler) considered that they were corrupting European society.

It is known that President Abbas holds a doctorate in political science, and his thesis was about the secret relations between Nazi Germany and the Zionist movement.

In response, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said that this statement expresses the true face of the Palestinian leadership, and just as Abbas blames the Jews for the Holocaust, he blames the Jews for all the problems of the Middle East, accusing President Abbas of spreading anti-Semitism and continuing to support Palestinian “terrorists”  to kill the Israelians.

Meanwhile, the leader of Yisrael Beytenu Party, Avigdor Lieberman, described President Abbas's statements as "scandalous and anti-Semitic speech," accusing President Abbas of being a staunch supporter of "terrorism," and that he is working to prosecute Israeli soldiers in international courts on charges of war crimes.

Lieberman added: "Abu Mazen also published a full doctoral dissertation on Holocaust denial, and today he proved once again that he is an extremist man, who is the sworn enemy of the State of Israel."

The Yad Vashem Museum, Israel's ambassador to Germany, and a number of its ambassadors in Europe also attacked President Abbas, accusing him of inciting against the Jews and denying "the truth of the Holocaust," according to their claim.

It was noted that the official government political level among the ministers of Benjamin Netanyahu's government did not comment until hours this morning on that issue.

The Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, said, on Thursday, that there is a state of concern in Israel about the possibility of accelerating the procedures in the International Criminal Court, and serious accusations against it of practicing the policy of apartheid in the West Bank.

According to the newspaper, senior officials and jurists specializing in international law have expressed their concern about this, especially after the statements of former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo that Israel practices apartheid in the West Bank, along with recent statements by right-wing government ministers, including statements by Itamar Ben Gvir about the right of Life for Israelis precedes the right of freedom of movement for Palestinians in the West Bank, and this only reinforces the hypothesis that Israel practices a policy of apartheid in the West Bank.

It is scheduled that the International Court of Justice in The Hague will soon publish a legal opinion on the legality of the occupation, while the International Criminal Court will investigate whether Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A senior Israeli political official attacked Pardo's statement, and said: "This is an exaggerated statement and gives space to Israel's enemies to attack it... The use of the word apartheid by a person who was the highest-ranking in the Israeli security apparatus causes us unnecessary harm, and we will pay the price for that in international legal courts." ...that is a totally unnecessary statement, and it's a shame to say."

The newspaper believes that Pardo's statements are not the only ones that will harm Israel, but rather the statements of the ministers of the current government, when he called on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to erase the village of Hawara, which comes under the powers granted to him related to civil administration and settlement, and the steps he is taking and viewed by the international community as an actual annexation. The West Bank aims to destroy the two-state solution.

And in the event that the Court of Justice in The Hague finds that Israel is practicing a long-term occupation in the West Bank, this will greatly complicate the situation from the legal point of view, and this may be considered an actual annexation of the West Bank, and this may entail clear international legal effects, including the imposition of sanctions on Israel And even put it into political isolation.

Israeli lawyers distributed messages on social networks warning soldiers serving in the West Bank not to travel abroad, for fear of being subjected to international legal prosecution and arrest in European countries and elsewhere on charges of war crimes.

The Central Bureau of Statistics said that illiteracy rates in Palestine are among the lowest in the world (2.2% among individuals 15 years and over) for the year 2022.

The Census indicated in a press release today, Thursday, on the occasion of International Literacy Day, that the illiteracy rate among Palestinian individuals aged 15 years and over in the 1948 lands reached 3.6% in 2017, according to the data of the Galilee Association (Rikaz).

The United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization "UNESCO" defines an illiterate person as a person who cannot read and write a simple sentence about his daily life.

While the illiteracy rate among individuals 15 years and over in the countries of West Asia and North Africa reached 19.5% in 2020, according to the data of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, at a rate of 25.1% among females compared to 14.2% among males. In the same year, the global illiteracy rate among individuals reached 15 13.3% years and over, with a rate of 16.7% among females, while the illiteracy rate among males (15 years and over) in the world reached 9.9%.

The data indicated a significant decrease in the illiteracy rate since 1997, as the illiteracy rate among Palestinians aged 15 years and over decreased from 13.9% in 1997 to 2.2% in 2022, and this trend of decline applies to both sexes, as the rate among males decreased from 7.8% in 1997 to 1.1% in 2022, while among females it decreased from 20.3% to 3.3% in the same period.

At the regional level, the rate decreased in the West Bank from 14.1% in 1997 to 4.2% in 2022, while it decreased in the Gaza Strip from 13.7% to 1.8% in the same period.

The distribution of illiterates varies according to age groups, as the age group 65 years and over recorded the highest rate of illiteracy, while the age group (30-44 years) recorded the lowest rate, and the illiteracy rate among the elderly 65 years and over reached 21.5% (about 39 thousand illiterate men and women ) in 2022, reaching 2.4% for the age group (45-64 years) (about 17 thousand illiterate men and women), and 0.7% for the age group (30-44 years) (about 7 thousand illiterate men and women), while this rate reached among young people (15-29 years) 0.6% (about 9 thousand illiterate men and women) in the same year.

The illiteracy rate in rural communities was 2.9% (about 15,000 illiterate men and women), 2.3% in camps (about 6,000 illiterate men and women), and 2.0% in urban communities (about 51,000 illiterate men and women) in 2022.

The Qatari Ambassador, Mohammed Al-Emadi, arrived last night in the Gaza Strip, on a visit that will last for several days.

During his visit to the Strip, Al-Emadi will meet with leaders of the "Hamas" movement and officials of government work in Gaza, and learn about the developments of Qatari projects.

Al-Emadi had met yesterday evening with Israeli officials before entering the Strip, to discuss developments in the situation in Gaza after the renewal of the limited protests at the border.

Today, Thursday, dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the strict protection of the occupation police.

The settlers made provocative tours inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.

Settler groups storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis, except for Friday and Saturday.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests in separate areas of the West Bank.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested the leader of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, Saeed Nakhla, and the Birzeit University student, the editor Anan Safi, after raiding their home in the Jalazoun camp, while Nashmi Abu Rahma and Luay Abu Rahma were arrested from the town of Ni'lin.

In Bethlehem, the editor, Wissam Al-Hasanat, Amer Daraghmeh, Suleiman Haitham Muzher, Muhammad Nader Suman, Taqi Al-Din Manasra, all from Dheisheh camp, were arrested.

While Ali Karim Asakreh was arrested from the village of Asakreh, east of the city.

In Nablus, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Muhammad Raed Maali, after storming his house in the town of Bita, south of the city.

Confrontations also broke out with the occupation forces in the Dheisheh camp, as a result of which a young man was injured by live bullets, and others suffocated with toxic tear gas.

Arab foreign ministers approved during a meeting today (Wednesday) the candidacy of Egyptian Khaled al-Anani as an Arab candidate for the post of Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during the period from 2025 to 2029.

The official spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, said in a post on the (X) platform that the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers approved the nomination of Dr. international positions.

UNESCO elections are scheduled to take place at the organization's headquarters in Paris in 2025.

On Wednesday, the United Nations called for an investigation into the incident of Israeli soldiers forcibly stripping five Palestinian women in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, during a raid on a residential building, Anadolu Agency reported.

"We will stand against any form of collective punishment," Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesperson, told reporters.

Palestinian groups condemned the Israeli female soldiers for forcing five Palestinian women to take off their clothes and threatening them with trained dogs in Hebron.

They protested the "unacceptable" violence practiced by the Israeli occupation soldiers against Palestinian women and demanded that the "guilty soldiers" be punished.