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.

The United States continues to boycott far-right ministers in the Israeli government.

According to the Hebrew Channel 13, the US embassy will organize a traditional party every year on the occasion of the Hebrew New Year, and it has extended invitations to most Israeli government ministers, but it has not extended any invitation to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and ministers from their two parties.

And the channel indicated that the US embassy did not invite Ben Gvir because of his controversial statements, which recently caused a great uproar about the settlers' right to life and the right to freedom of movement of Palestinians in their areas, just as Smotrich was not invited because of his economic policies towards the Palestinian Authority.

She indicated that during the American Independence Day they were not invited.

In response, the US embassy said that the invitations were extended to ministers who have close working relations with the embassy.

The head of the Council of Advisors in Morocco (the second chamber of Parliament), Al-Naam Mayara, canceled a visit that was scheduled for tomorrow to "Israel" at the head of a parliamentary delegation.

According to Reshet Kan channel, the cancellation of the visit came because he was exposed to a sudden health crisis, which brought him to a hospital in Jordan, where he arrived on Tuesday, in preparation for his arrival to Tel Aviv, and Ramallah, later, which was scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday.

Al-Naam had received an invitation from Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to visit Tel Aviv and meet Knesset members and Israeli personalities.

Mayara and his accompanying delegation were scheduled to conduct field visits, meetings with United Nations officials, and talks with parliamentary and government officials in Amman, Ramallah and Tel Aviv.

Mayara is the first prominent Moroccan political official to visit Israel, since the two countries announced on December 10, 2020, the resumption of their diplomatic relations after they were suspended in 2000.

This evening, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces set fire to lands in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah.

According to local sources, these forces fired flares in the vicinity of the village, causing the burning of areas of the citizens' lands.

The sources pointed out that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Burqa, and checked the citizens' personal cards and searched their vehicles, which caused a suffocating traffic jam.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the Mediterranean Parliament to invite its member states to recognize the State of Palestine, in order to protect and preserve the two-state solution, in light of the destructive Israeli measures for it and for any opportunity to establish a Palestinian state.

This came during his reception of a delegation from the Mediterranean Parliament, today, Wednesday, in his office in Ramallah, in the presence of the Secretary of the National Council, Fahmy Al-Zaarir.

Shtayyeh called on Parliament to put pressure on Israel to abide by the agreements signed with it, and to allow elections to be held in all Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem.

He pointed out that Israel is waging several wars against us, a war on geography by seizing lands in favor of settlement expansion, a war on people and demography through daily killings and arrests, a war on money through unfair deductions from our money, and a war on the narrative.

The Prime Minister stressed that our people are victims of international double standards, by not applying international law and UN resolutions and not imposing sanctions on the Israeli occupation for its violations and measures against us.

Shtayyeh said: "It is not possible to continue with the current deteriorating situation in light of the existing political vacuum, in addition to the destructive Israeli measures to the two-state solution, and continuing with it means sliding towards one state with an apartheid regime in reality and Israeli legislation."

The Parliament of the Mediterranean (PAM) is an international organization founded in 2005 by the national parliaments of the countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region, and is the legal successor to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean, launched in the early 1990s.

Today, Wednesday, a secret security debate was held in the Israeli Knesset on the deteriorating security situation in the West Bank.

According to Kan Hebrew Radio, the debate was held by the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, headed by Knesset Member Paulie Edelstein, with the participation of representatives of the Shin Bet and the Israeli army.

Israeli intelligence officers from the Shin Bet provided secret information about the security situation in the West Bank, while representatives of the army provided an overview of the defensive and offensive plans.

They also discussed preparations to deal with any attacks that might occur during the upcoming Jewish holidays.

On Wednesday, an Emirati plane made an emergency landing in Malaysia after it was en route from Dubai to Singapore.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the plane had 12 Israelis on board.

Israel does not have any diplomatic relations with Malaysia, which prevents Israelis from entering its country.

She indicated that throughout the event, which lasted 5 hours, the publication of any information about the event was censored in order to preserve the lives of Israelis.

Today, Wednesday, the Prisoners Club reported that, for 35 days, the two detainees, Sultan Khallouf and Kayed Al-Fasfous, have continued their open hunger strike, in rejection of their administrative detention, amid great pressures they face from the Israeli occupation.

The former head of the Israeli Central Intelligence Agency (Mossad), Tamir Pardo, said today, Wednesday, in statements to the American Associated Press, that Israel implements an apartheid regime in the occupied West Bank.

Pardo has become 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 regime in South Africa that ended in 1994, to join 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 forces arrested, this evening, Wednesday, the mother and sister of the perpetrator of the stabbing attack in occupied Jerusalem.

Those forces stormed the house of the perpetrator of the attack, Basem Ayad Lafi, in Jabal Al Mukaber, and arrested his mother and sister.

The boy, Lafi, had carried out a stabbing attack in Bab al-Khalil area in Jerusalem, injuring two settlers, one of them seriously.

Human rights experts at the United Nations said on Wednesday that the conviction issued by the Israeli judiciary against the former director of the American relief organization "Word Vision" in Gaza and his imprisonment violate international law, calling on the Hebrew state to release him immediately.

The four independent experts described the proceedings that led to the conviction of Muhammad al-Halabi of World Vision last year as “full of flaws,” and said his conviction and long prison sentence were “flagrant violations of the right to a fair trial.”

Al-Halabi was sentenced to 12 years in prison in August 2022, after he was found guilty of transferring millions of dollars and tons of steel to the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave.

Al-Halabi, who was arrested in June 2016 and charged in August of that year, denied any wrongdoing. The review commissioned by World Vision found no evidence that he had used any of the charitable funds for another purpose.

UN experts, including the two special rapporteurs on the situation of rights in the Palestinian territories and on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism, noted "the lack of evidence against him presented in open court."

They also highlighted the "extensive use of secret evidence, closed hearings, restricted access to his lawyers, the severe restrictions placed on a lawyer to prepare his defense, and the failure to try him without undue delay."

These experts, who are appointed by the UN Human Rights Council but do not speak for the UN, also condemned the treatment to which he was subjected during six years of pre-trial detention, including solitary confinement and forced confessions.

They also said that he was subjected to ill-treatment that may amount to torture, noting that he was beaten so severely that he lost hearing in one of his ears.

In convicting and imprisoning al-Halabi, the experts said, Israel has not achieved its purported goal of deterring any terrorist act. Instead, by doing so, Israel is violating international law and exacerbating the coercive environment for Palestinians under occupation, by using 'counter-terrorism' legislation to silence Palestinians who They work in the legitimate field of human rights and humanitarian work, and they will be fined and punished.”

The experts added that the appeal hearings in Al-Halabi's trial were repeatedly postponed, and that the Israeli authorities refused to provide the necessary files to prepare for the appeal.

They said that Israel acted in "flagrant disregard of the right to a fair trial, which expressly guarantees that the accused will be tried and heard without undue delay, at all stages of criminal proceedings."

They added that "such clearly unfair measures may render his detention arbitrary under international human rights law."

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed today (Wednesday) that the agency urgently needs $190 million to maintain the basic services it provides until the end of the year.

In his speech at the opening session of the 160th session of the Arab League Council at the level of foreign ministers, which started earlier today at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo, Lazzarini stressed that achieving peace and finding a final and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue is the way to a permanent and final solution to the plight of refugees.

He said the agency needs another 75 million to maintain essential food supplies for the people of Gaza.

He added that the Palestinian refugees need education and job opportunities, and to be close to the global labor markets even if they live in Gaza, and they look forward to a more prosperous future.

Lazzarini pointed out the need for the Palestinians to get out of the status quo, which has ended, to a good path in which there will be a long-term solution.

He called on the Arab ministers to place the Palestinian refugees at the top of the priorities of Arab political action, stressing that this is the way to achieve hope in a Middle East in which peace lasts.

UNRWA was established as a United Nations agency by a decision of the General Assembly in 1949, and it was mandated to provide assistance and protection to Palestine refugees registered with it in the Agency’s fields of operations, namely the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, until a just and lasting solution to their plight is reached.

UNRWA helps refugees realize their full potential in human development through the qualitative services it provides in the areas of education, health care, relief and social services, protection and camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency aid.

UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.

The Israeli occupation authorities notified, this evening, Wednesday, to stop work and construction of a large number of homes, facilities and agricultural roads in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, west of Salfit.

The mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan, Ibrahim Asi, said that the occupation forces stormed the western, northern and southern regions of the town, and delivered 23 notices to houses and facilities, agricultural rooms, agricultural roads, and a waste dump.

He explained that the notifications included stopping work and construction in these buildings, under the pretext that they are located in areas classified (C).

He pointed out that the total number of notifications that have been delivered since the end of 2022 until now has reached nearly 100 notifications in the town.

Today, Wednesday, the Arab Ministerial Committee charged with taking action to confront illegal Israeli policies and measures in the occupied city of Jerusalem held its seventh meeting at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.

The meeting was chaired by the Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, in the presence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Malki, and the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, prior to the convening of the 160th regular session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the level of foreign ministers.

The committee listened to the briefing given by Minister Al-Maliki on the illegal Israeli policies and practices in the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the prejudice to its status and its existing legal and historical status, and the aggression against Islamic and Christian sanctities, foremost of which is the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and attempts to divide it temporally and spatially, and the increase in the frequency of its incursions and excavations. Below it, the escalation of home demolitions campaigns, the targeting of Palestinian citizens by killing, arrest, deportation, forced displacement, confiscation of property and lands, and the approval of settlement projects in the city of Jerusalem, which aim to change the face of the city and distort its Arab identity and character according to systematic Israeli colonial settlement plans.

In his briefing to the Ministerial Committee, Al-Maliki warned that these illegal Israeli practices and policies would undermine the foundations of peace and stability in the region, calling for Arab and international action to protect the city of Jerusalem and preserve its legal and historical status, including not opening missions. diplomacy in it or transferring it to it, which violates international law and United Nations resolutions related to the city of Jerusalem.

In turn, Minister Safadi presented the developments of the Israeli abuses and violations in Jerusalem, the work efforts of the committee since its sixth meeting, the contacts it made following the repeated incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif by the Israeli government minister and groups of Israeli settlers under guard and the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, and the moves taken It was carried out by member states with internationally influential states to confront the Israeli violations that target occupied Jerusalem, its people, and its Islamic and Christian sanctities.

At the end of its work, the committee called for organizing visits by the committee to influential countries and regional and international organizations in the international community in order to work to mobilize supportive positions for Palestinian rights and shed light on Israeli violations and practices.

And it demanded action at the legal level and holding the Israeli occupation authorities accountable for their violations and crimes in the city of Jerusalem.

The Ministerial Committee called for entrusting the League's missions and ambassadors of the member states of the Committee to take action in influential countries and organizations around the world to expose the illegal practices of the Israeli occupation authorities in the city of Jerusalem, and to take deterrent international stances towards them.

It also called for assigning the Secretary-General, in coordination with the member states of the Committee, to initiate the development of the necessary mechanisms for the Committee's movement in accordance with the contents of this statement and based on the decision to establish it.

In their interventions, the ministers affirmed that East Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state, rejecting any attempt to detract from the right to Palestinian sovereignty over it, and any unilateral measures that affect the legal status of Jerusalem, and the need to adhere to the principle of a just and comprehensive peace conditional on the end of the occupation, and the embodiment of the independent and sovereign Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital. occupied territories on the lines of June 4, 1967, on the basis of the two-state solution, and in accordance with international law and the Arab Peace Initiative.

The meeting also affirmed that the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Qudsi Al-Sharif, with its entire area of 144,000 square meters, is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that the Department of Endowments for Jerusalem and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque of the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites is the legal authority with exclusive jurisdiction to manage all the affairs of Al-Quds Al-Sharif. , and organizing access to it, and expressed their support for the Hashemite Custodianship over the Arab, Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, which His Hashemite Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein undertakes in protecting these holy sites and preserving their Arab, Islamic and Christian identity, and the existing historical and legal status in them.

The ministers also praised the continuous efforts made by King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Chairman of the Al-Quds Committee, to defend Al-Quds Al-Sharif, and noted the projects being implemented by Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency, the executive arm of the Committee under the supervision of His Majesty, to establish the Jerusalemites on their land and support their steadfastness.

The Committee includes in its membership: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its capacity as chair of the current Arab Summit, the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, the State of Palestine, the State of Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Republic of Tunisia, and the State of the United Arab Emirates, in its capacity as the Arab member of the Security Council, and the Secretary General of the League of Arab States.

The seventh meeting of the committee comes based on the decision of the League of Arab States Council No. (8660) issued on (11/5/2021) on the extraordinary session regarding the Israeli aggression against the occupied city of Jerusalem and its people, including the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, which decided to form An Arab ministerial committee to move and communicate with the permanent members of the Security Council and other internationally influential countries.

The Agricultural Development Association "Agricultural Relief" signed agreements to benefit 20 beneficiaries from the intervention of establishing water harvesting ponds "phase two", with the participation of community protection committees in the targeted areas, which are Al-Shawka, Mawasi, Khan Yunis, Khuza'a, Al-Zannah, and Al-Sarij.

This comes within the project "Enhancing the Resilience of Small Farmers and Communities Affected by Natural Hazards and Multifaceted Crises in the Gaza Strip" in partnership with the German Diakonie Foundation "DKH" and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ.

Agricultural Relief stated that this intervention aims to mitigate the effects of water scarcity, the depletion of the aquifer capacity, the deterioration of water quality, and the high percentage of salts and nitrates in it, especially in the most vulnerable southern communities.

Relief attaches great importance to water harvesting ponds, as they contribute to providing a fresh water source and increasing storage space by collecting rainwater in agricultural ponds, which reduces the percentage of withdrawal from the aquifer water, which increases productivity and profitability for farmers by reducing costs related to providing quantities of water. In addition to providing an opportunity for agricultural diversification by cultivating crops that they were not able to grow previously.

It is noteworthy that these interventions came in response to community plans that were previously prepared in marginalized areas and those least able to face disasters. With the aim of raising the state of readiness of farmers to respond and prepare for risks.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two children from the town of Al-Isawiya, north of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the child Kamal Ghanem Mustafa and the child Bisan Yusef Obaid.

Today, Wednesday, two settlers were injured in a stabbing attack in the Bab al-Khalil area in occupied Jerusalem.

According to Magen David Adom, one of the injured was in serious condition.

The Hebrew channel Reshet Kan reported that the Israeli police arrested the perpetrator after pursuing him.

Jake Sullivan, US President Joe Biden's national security advisor, said in a press conference that he does not expect a breakthrough at the present time in the talks that the United States is conducting regarding the normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Sullivan said that the issue of the normalization agreement will be only one of the issues that will be raised during the visit of the White House official for Middle East affairs, Brett McGurk, to Saudi Arabia this week and in his planned meetings there with the envoys of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Sullivan indicated that the talks that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken held (in his phone calls on Tuesday) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not result in an imminent breakthrough regarding a "normalization agreement" between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

In turn, US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel confirmed the visit of Deputy Assistant to the President (Biden) and National Security Council Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, Brett McGurk, to Saudi Arabia "to conduct routine consultations on a range of regional and bilateral issues," and that Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Lev Also, the US Special Envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, will be accompanied by McGurk.

Patel said in his daily press briefing that this visit had been scheduled for a long time and that "Brett McGurk will visit Bahrain before the (Bahraini) Crown Prince's visit to Washington next week as well."

The administration of US President Joe Biden focuses in its policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on expanding normalization between more Arab countries and Israel, as it appointed, last July, the former US ambassador, Dan Shapiro, as an “envoy to the Abraham Accords,” instead of appointing an envoy to the peace negotiations that were interrupted nine years ago. Years.

In turn, the famous New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, warned both Washington and Riyadh against granting the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia, arguing that this would push Israel towards the abyss.

Friedman explained that the Israeli government will never be able to be a stable ally of the United States or a partner of Saudi Arabia, at the present time, "because it is an unnatural government."

The article comes amid increased diplomatic activity to reach a security agreement between Riyadh and Washington that includes a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel in exchange for initiatives for the Palestinians.

Today, Wednesday, President Mahmoud Abbas received, at the presidential residence in the city of Ramallah, Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Michael Martin and the accompanying delegation.

President Abbas briefed the guest minister on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, and the continued aggression of the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people, their land and their sanctities.

The President stressed that the continuation of the unilateral actions of the Israeli occupation authorities, in addition to the continuation of settler terrorism, contributes to the tension of the atmosphere and dragging the region into the square of escalation and violence, the results of which no one can predict, which requires effective international intervention to stop the deterioration and implement the resolutions of international legitimacy.

President Abbas praised the level of bilateral relations between the two countries, stressing the aspiration of the State of Palestine to strengthen and develop these relations in the interest of the friendly Palestinian and Irish peoples, appreciating the support provided by Ireland in the field of scholarships for Palestinian students.

The President stressed the importance of the role that Ireland can play through its membership in the European Union, to provide support for the political process in accordance with international legitimacy, and urged Europe to support the Palestinian endeavor in the United Nations in order to obtain full membership in the United Nations, in order to prepare the atmosphere for a political horizon that ends The Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 1967 borders.

In turn, the Irish minister affirmed his country's firm position in support of achieving a political settlement on the basis of international legitimacy and the two-state solution.

He pointed out that Ireland will continue to provide support to the Palestinian people, especially in the field of scholarships for Palestinian students.

The meeting was attended by a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ziyad Abu Amr, Palestinian Sharia Judge Mahmoud al-Habash, and the President of the Presidential Court, Intisar Abu Amara.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces delivered demolition notices in the Sawwana neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces stormed the neighborhood and handed a number of residents notices to demolish their homes

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces detained two girls at the Hawara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, the occupation forces have been holding the two girls for nearly two hours, and their identities are not yet known.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli police arrested a Jerusalemite citizen on his return from traveling through Lod Airport in Tel Aviv.

According to local sources, the Israeli police stationed at Lod Airport arrested Muhammad Abd Darwish on his return from travel.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said, on Wednesday, that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing the policy of the Bennett-Lapid government to avoid holding Hamas in the Gaza Strip responsible for the attacks in the West Bank.

According to the newspaper, the Hamas leadership in Gaza is an active partner in efforts to ignite the situation in the West Bank.

The newspaper considered that placing responsibility on Hamas in Gaza requires measures in the Strip, but the current government has avoided that so far.

She said: Israel still allows about 18,000 workers to enter from the Strip to the Green Line, which is the price of calm and stability that it pays to Hamas, but at the present time it also involves ignoring the dangerous activities of the movement directed at the West Bank.

And I considered holding Netanyahu responsible for what is happening to Iran as the easiest option to blame it, especially since there is not much to be done against it anyway.

She pointed out that Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah are constantly seeking to ignite the situation in the West Bank and are trying to smuggle explosive devices in various ways, in an attempt to turn the recent wave of attacks into more deadly ones.