PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 11:22 am - Jerusalem Time

Barbaric and arbitrary arrest of two Palestinians , Kamal and Qedidat

Today, Tuesday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs monitored the barbaric and arbitrary beating of prisoners Qusai Kamal and Ahmed Qedimat during their arrest by the occupation forces.


In its report, the Commission mentioned, quoting her lawyer, Jacqueline Al-Fararjeh, during her visit to the "Etzion" interrogation center,

The prisoner Qusai Kamal (20 years) from Aqabat Jaber camp / Jericho, the occupation forces stormed his house in the morning, broke its contents, and severely beat him. Two months ago, Kamal was shot in the abdomen and foot while he was walking with crutches. He was hit on his injured foot and stepped on it, after which he was transferred to Ofer prison to be interrogated and interrogated. He had a court last Thursday and his detention was extended for 72 hours in order to transfer his file to administrative detention.


And the authority continued: “With regard to the prisoner Ahmed Qedimat (22 years) from the city of Hebron, who was arrested at the Al-Ja’beh checkpoint in the morning while he was going to work, where the occupation forces brutally assaulted him, threw him to the ground and beat him on his head, back and shoulder with rifle butts, causing It caused him injuries to the face and led to blood filling his face, and he was not provided with any treatment later.”


It is noteworthy that the prisoner has not been investigated or interrogated, and he has a court next Wednesday.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 11:17 am - Jerusalem Time

PA : detainees movement capable of countering Ben Gvir's illigal decisions

Today, Tuesday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs affirmed that the prisoners movement inside the Israeli occupation prisons is becoming more united, cohesive, and solid, to confront Israeli political and military extremism, which is led by the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir.


The commission said: "Given the details of the visit to the "Nafha and Raymond" prisons by its lawyers, Youssef Mattieh and Sherine Iraqi, it can be said that the prisoners movement, despite all the difficulties and abusive measures, is able to stand firm to break all the retaliatory decisions issued by Ben Gvir, and that this round of confrontation will have only one slogan, which is to break this hater and expose his madness and insignificance.


It explained that Ben Gvir's intentions to implement more than 20 decisions he issued to the prison administration would be sufficient to detonate the situation internally and externally, specifically, and that it was not a mere coincidence, but rather came after consultations from the extreme right, which seeks to establish itself on the Israeli political and partisan arena, through Such decisions are immoral and inhumane.


The Commission demanded a clear international stance towards this Zionist madness, and that this silence should not continue because it encourages this gang to further extremism.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 10:54 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel prevents director of "Bisan" center from traveling abroad

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation authorities prevented the executive director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Abi al-Aboudi, from traveling for the third time in a row.


The occupation authorities summoned Al-Aboudi for investigation while he was at Al-Karama crossing, and informed him of the travel ban.


The occupation authorities had prevented Al-Aboudi from traveling to Amman last year for a participation to which the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia invited him to expose the practices of the occupation, and prevented him before that from traveling on a tour to the United States and Mexico, to participate in an international conference of civil society organizations.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 10:32 am - Jerusalem Time

Settlers burn two tents and steal sheep east of Ramallah

At dawn today, Tuesday, a group of settlers burned two tents and stole a number of sheep in the town of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah.


According to local sources, the settlers burned two tents belonging to the citizen, Setan Thaer Awadeh, in the "Al-Marah" area near Deir Dibwan, destroying everything in them.


The sources pointed out that the settlers stole four heads of sheep before they withdrew from the place.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 10:09 am - Jerusalem Time

Prisoner Nazir Dar Ahmed suffers "worrying" health condition

Today, Tuesday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs published details of the difficult health condition of prisoner Nazir Dar Ahmed (21 years) from Ramallah, after the commission’s lawyer, Youssef Mattia, visited him in Ofer prison.


The prisoner, Nazir, has been detained since May 08, 2022. During his arrest, he was hit with 25 bullets distributed in the intestines, abdomen, and colon. He suffers from severe pain, vomiting, and stomach bloating, in addition to severe back pain that prevents him from standing and walking sometimes, unless he is given a needle. particular.


There are still two bullets in his back pressing on his spine.



OPINIONS

Tue 05 Sep 2023 10:06 am - Jerusalem Time

Targeting Jerusalem schools and students

Al-Quds op-ed

Al-Quds op-ed

Opinion Writer

Targeting Jerusalem schools and students is not a new thing. This targeting has been going on in full swing since the occupation of the city in 1967 until today, but what is new is that this targeting is currently witnessing a fierce attack aimed at imposing the false Israeli curriculum on the city’s schools, and preventing these schools from teaching the Palestinian curriculum under allegations This approach contains incitement against the occupying state, while the truth is completely different.



The fierce attack targeting schools and students is part of the occupying state's attempts to Israeliize education in the city. Especially after America recognized, through the former US president, that Jerusalem is the capital of the occupying state, in clear defiance of international resolutions that consider the city occupied. The occupying state does not have the right to impose the false Israeli curriculum on the city’s schools, and the occupying state’s claims that the Palestinian curriculum is inciting, are false and baseless. The schools of the occupying state in particular, and the religious and Talmudic schools in particular, are the ones that incite the killing of Palestinians, describe them as strangers, and falsify history and facts. The Israeli curriculum, which it is working to forcefully impose, aims to obscure the awareness of Palestinian students, and make them believe in the false Israeli narrative, which claims the right of the Jews to the country, and that the Palestinians have no right to it. Although the Palestinians are an extension of the Canaanites who founded this country, lived in it, and built a civilization without which human history has surpassed it.



For example, but not limited to, as part of this fierce attack on schools and students, the occupation police and forces yesterday searched the bags of students from two schools located inside the sanctuary of the Holy Mosque, confiscated Palestinian books, and prevented the students from carrying them. This is a clear challenge to international laws and norms, in addition to the terror they are doing to students, especially young ones, in an attempt to intimidate them and prevent them from carrying and studying the Palestinian curriculum, which is a normal curriculum that teaches them the true Arab, Islamic and Christian history of the city, and that Jerusalem is Palestinian and Arab since its founding by the Canaanites, as well as other sciences and the Islamic religion, from which the Israeli curriculum was removed from what contradicts the falsification carried out by the occupying state.



The occupying state also aims to intimidate and induce schools to force schools in Jerusalem to teach the Israeli curriculum. It threatens not to renew the licenses of these schools and to close them if they do not teach the Israeli curriculum. In this context, it attempted to open schools that teach the Israeli curriculum, but the parents’ refusal to do so will prevent the passage of this plan.



A few days ago, in this context, the occupation forces confiscated the Palestinian curriculum books from a car that was transporting them to Jerusalem and arrested the driver to terrorize him and prevent him in the coming days from carrying the Palestinian curriculum books.



This fierce attack, especially the attempts of the occupying state to impose new teachers and replace teachers who teach the Palestinian curriculum and threaten to expel them from their jobs, will have negative repercussions on students, schools and teachers, unless the Palestinian side moves at all levels to stop the Israeli violations and targeting of education in Jerusalem. And not being satisfied, as is happening now, with issuing statements of denunciation and calling on the world to intervene, while this world only recognizes the strong, and we have the power. But the continued political and geographical division is what weakens us, and the occupation will exploit it for the benefit of its threatening plans and the Israelization of education.

OPINIONS

Tue 05 Sep 2023 10:05 am - Jerusalem Time

Smotrich and Ben Gvir light matches

Fathi Ahmed

Fathi Ahmed

Opinion Writer

This time, the prisoners movement is on the agenda of Itamar Ben Gvir, after he issued a decision regulating the visits of prisoners once in two months, as well as rationing the "canteen" purchases and meals provided to the prisoners. The tightening policy pursued by the extremist Ben Gvir is inconsistent with international law related to the rights of prisoners. It was remarkable the statement of the Israeli National Security Council when it asked the government and all relevant parties not to deal with the decision of the Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, to reduce visits to the families of Palestinian prisoners, once every two months instead of once a month. Former Israel Police Commissioner Shlomo Ahronshki said last Saturday that National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is a person who sets fires wherever he goes.


The dimensions of the event, represented in the enactment of arbitrary laws against the prisoners, go beyond their morale. If we go back in time, we will find more arbitrary measures against the prisoners than today, and despite that, the prisoners withstood under the sticks of the jailer and his brutal methods of extracting confessions from them. The path that follows today, Ben Gvir and others have to suffocate the Palestinians inside prisons. It is nothing but a deficiency complex for this extremist Minister of Internal Security in the occupation government. Ben Gvir had nothing to offer through which he could eliminate the pride of the Palestinian people other than these practices that do not discourage the Palestinian from his right to defend his usurped land and sanctities.


There were similar observatories of Zionist extremism. The frequent visits of religious Zionists to Al-Aqsa Mosque, led by the Minister of Internal Security, is another story in the agenda of Zionist religious extremism. Hundreds of incursions into Al-Aqsa within a year, and tens of thousands of settlers who stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, is nothing but paving the way Towards a religious war, the aim of which is to hasten the exodus of the Christian according to their belief. Things are moving towards the unknown. A racist fascist government is making its way in the middle of a dark world. He does not care what this handful of settlers are doing in the sanctuaries and against the captive movement inside the prisons of Zionist oppression. He does not care. This hypocritical world, with what the so-called youth of the hills are doing day and night against defenseless Palestinians while they are safe in their homes, on the roads and olive groves, is a war against stones, people and trees. 


Despite the world's insistence on stopping settlements, this file was entrusted to the largest extremist, Yiselel Smotrich. Smotrich will establish a "Settlement Department" within the Ministry of Defense and put at its head the former head of the Settlement Council for the Binyamin area (the area between Ramallah and Nablus). The department is responsible for organizing everything related to settlements, whether in terms of expansion on the land, or in terms of implementing the "equal citizenship" project, which aims to improve civil and administrative services for settlers to equate them with Israeli citizens inside Israel. The religious Zionist party is committed to settling all settlements and removing construction restrictions in the settlements. He emphasized that "things in this region should be managed like any other region in Israel.


From the foregoing, it appears that there is agreement between Ben Gvir and Smotrich regarding the Israelization of the West Bank and its transformation into a Zionist entity. Each of them has its own program in the end, that aims to achieve the goal related to increasing the number of settlers in the West Bank to one million settlers, during the next five years, and this requires Zionist religious extremism at a very high level, and this is what we are seeing today through the increases in settlement units and the release of freedom for the hilltop youth, who are killing Palestinians as well as narrowing the means of life for prisoners.


The international system is not a single system with one face, but rather a multifaceted system.


It is something like the genetic components of a person that are reflected on the surface in facial features, skin color, hair color and nature. Israel has always been detonating its bombs in the face of the Palestinian people in front of the world. What we are used to is the policy of double standards, which is one of the worst sins of the human mind, which claims to be civilized.


In any case, the rights of prisoners guaranteed by international institutions cannot be ignored. That is why we await the response of the countries of the world regarding Ben Gvir's law, depriving Palestinian prisoners of family visits every two months. The question is, can international institutions dissuade Ben Gvir from the decision to reduce prisoner visits? We are waiting for what they will do. It will have to intervene to dissuade Ben Gvir and others from their crimes against the Palestinian people.

OPINIONS

Tue 05 Sep 2023 10:00 am - Jerusalem Time

The Palestinian position on the Saudi-Israeli normalization

Hani Al Masri

Hani Al Masri

Opinion Writer

The Palestinians do not disagree, despite their many walks of life, backgrounds, and differences, that the normalization of any Arab or friendly country, before and without at least ending the occupation and embodying freedom and independence for the State of Palestine, supports the occupation government and encourages it to continue implementing its plans to achieve the rest of its goals, which revolve around the establishment of “Israel.” "Grand" from the river to the sea, with the smallest possible number of Palestinians. In order for this to be achieved, we need to confiscate the land, settle it, and Judaize it, and expel its residents and gather them in ghettos separate from each other, until a suitable opportunity is available to displace those who did not immigrate to escape the hell of occupation, and in search of opportunities for a decent living.

But the Palestinians, and here I specifically mean the leaders, forces and political elite, disagree on how the normalization of more countries can be prevented, and on the reaction to this normalization when it occurs. Differing opinions on normalization There is an opinion that normalization is a betrayal of the Palestinian cause and the highest Arab interests, and it must be dealt with on this basis in a way that imposes a rupture.

 

Another opinion is that the hardline position on normalization in the absence of the Arab project and the spread of normalization isolates the Palestinians and weakens them despite their weakness. Therefore, normalization must be dealt with on the basis that politics is the art of the possible, and if it cannot be prevented, it can be dealt with to reduce its harms and multiply its benefits. There is a third opinion that stands in the distance between the two positions. On the one hand, he believes that normalization is a betrayal, and that accepting it, coexisting with it, or covering it up helps it happen more quickly and annex new countries, but without necessarily meaning a firm rejection of normalization means breaking with the normalizers. Because this position isolates the Palestinians, there is a difference between agreeing to normalization, even by covering it up, and rejecting it while maintaining relations at a certain level with the normalizers. With the aim of influencing them and preventing them from continuing to descend further and further down this path. We must not forget that normalization between leaders and governments does not extend to the people. There is sweeping Arab popular rejection in various Arab countries that have normalized, are on their way to normalization, or are rejecting it. This requires continued interaction and coordination with forces and movements that reject normalization. Because the bet is on her and the future is hers.

 

We also noticed that the Palestinian leadership dealt differently with the countries that normalized. It boycotted Egypt after the peace treaty, and was at the forefront of the front of steadfastness and confrontation. Then it went beyond this position and described the Arab Emirates as treason when it normalized. It was merciful towards Moroccan normalization, and now it seems More compassionate and willing to engage in the process from the beginning, as it deals with the possibilities of Saudi normalization. This reflects the deterioration of the Palestinian position in light of the division and loss of compass and vision after the adopted strategies reached a dead end, based on several issues, including the need of the Saudi rulers for Palestinian cover due to Saudi Arabia’s historical status and its future ambitions to play a global leadership role.

The Palestinian leadership takes a position opposite to its traditional positions, as it does not want to repeat its position towards the UAE, and on the one hand, it is betting on the impossibility of normalization now due to the obstacles that stand before it, and this is a good thing, as it is not easy to achieve normalization under the current Israeli government, and thus gain Saudi Arabia, Saudi aid to the authority that was cut off some time ago has resumed, and there is news that it will resume. On the other hand, if normalization occurs, it will be present in light of a Saudi promise that the Palestinian issue will be present without clarifying how, and here the seriousness and complexity of the matter appears.

 

It is noteworthy that the Hamas movement dealt differently with regard to the normalization of Morocco, when a delegation headed by Ismail Haniyeh visited Morocco after normalization, and met with Prime Minister Saad Eddine Othmani because he belongs to a Brotherhood party, and this weakened its principled position on normalization. A Palestinian delegation to Riyadh and a position between two ceilings. News agencies and many media sources indicated that a Palestinian delegation will leave for Saudi Arabia to discuss the Palestinian demands that were previously presented to Riyadh, which are based on two levels and two ceilings at the same time: the first is principled or ideal, as it is described, and it demands that it adhere to it. Israel joined the Arab initiative before Saudi normalization with it, and the other was described as realistic, trying to reproduce the past and the bad experience of the Oslo Accords under conditions worse than before.

 

This appears in the talk about an initial commitment to the Arab initiative (and this is rejected by the Americans, as was shown in the meeting that was described as tense that was held in the Jordanian capital between a Palestinian delegation and the American official Barbara Leaf, and of course rejected by Israel) to be achieved during a transitional period that will last for several years, and it is natural for it to begin. Those seeking normalization within the realistic ceiling that will become the maximum of the Palestinian position, provided that the deal being negotiated includes provisions and steps regarding settlement, such as freezing it and not establishing new settlements, in addition to expanding the powers of the Authority in Area C, and returning to the Israeli government’s commitment to previous agreements. , especially with regard to Jerusalem, opening the American consulate in Jerusalem and the PLO office in Washington, strengthening the authority militarily, security-wise and economically, and international recognition of the State of Palestine.

 

Refuting the leadership’s position on Israeli-Saudi normalization. The leadership’s position can be refuted with the following: 


First: Betting on not concluding the deal does not constitute sufficient proof of the validity of the position; It is true that it is unlikely to reach a deal quickly, but the issue does not only extend to two possibilities without a third: either the success of the deal or its failure. Rather, there is a third possibility that is still the most likely, which is that the qualitative breakthrough will not happen now, but that gradual steps will be taken on its way, for there actually is. Various Saudi-Israeli relations, military, security, technological and economic, are taking place constantly, many of them under the table, and many times above it, and Emirati, Bahraini and Moroccan, especially Bahraini, normalization cannot happen without a Saudi green light. In this context, there are sources that confirm that Riyadh has taken the decision to make a strategic peace with Israel, and that the search is now on the conditions, details, and appropriate time. Also, the danger of the option of betting on a settlement does not begin if it is achieved, but rather since falling captive to this illusion that wastes time and efforts, and causes fragmentation and the division. Since the birth of the illusion of a negotiated settlement after the October War, decades have passed in which the settlement has not been achieved, and the issue has become at its worst stage, and is vulnerable to liquidation under the name of settlement. 


Second: The success of the deal, with Palestinian cover, without Israeli commitment to the Arab initiative, especially the establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders; It means participating in settling the issue, even if it involves agreeing to the fourteen points that the media reported were Palestinian demands. Major mistakes committed by the Palestinian leadership: This situation brings us back to the major and strategic mistakes that the Palestinian leadership committed on the eve and after the Oslo Accords, and is still committing them in a worse way than before, despite the disastrous results resulting from them, which are:


First: imagining the possibility of reaching a settlement with the Zionist entity that achieves the limit. The minimum Palestinian rights, through negotiations, concessions, and proof of good conduct and merit; This is because the Zionist movement and its embodiment tool, Israel, have proven a million times that it is not ready to change its radical program, characteristics, and racist settler-colonial formative nature, and does not accept compromise solutions, and what sometimes appears in the programs of Israeli governments as flexibility, differences in programs, or a willingness to negotiate, is a change in methods and forms of dealing. There are plans to achieve the same goals, which are “Greater Israel” with a large Jewish majority.


Second: Negotiations do not depend on the intelligence, experience, and abilities of the negotiators, as this is a secondary thing that may improve or make the matter worse. Because the outcome of negotiations depends mainly on the balance of power and the factors and variables affecting them, it is not possible to achieve at the negotiating table what cannot be achieved with your strength on the ground. Therefore, if the balance of power is imbalanced against you, it is never appropriate for you to negotiate.

 

Third: The negotiations are supposed to be based on an agreed-upon final goal and a clear and binding reference, such as international law and United Nations resolutions. As for engaging in negotiations for the sake of negotiations; That is, the woman herself, as happened before and may happen later, it is a negotiation controlled by the strong party, and even if contents are agreed upon in favor of the weak party, the strong party does not adhere to them when implemented. As we have noted, not all Israeli governments have adhered, in varying forms, to what they signed in Oslo, starting from the government of Yitzhak Rabin, which signed the agreement and violated the Israeli commitments in it, to the governments of Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ehud Olmert, which go beyond the Israeli commitments in Oslo, and demand full fulfillment of the commitments. Political, security, and economic, all the way to the governments of Naftali Bennett and Benjamin Netanyahu, which clearly embrace the establishment of “Greater Israel.”

 

Fourth: One of the biggest mistakes committed by the Palestinian negotiator is that he started the negotiations from a low ceiling, and not as he should have adhered to the higher ceiling until the enemy was ready to reach a settlement. Rather, he acted every time by starting with a low ceiling, and then lowering his ceiling continuously without compensation from the occupation. It also appeared that the Palestinian negotiator gave up his highest negotiating ceiling from the beginning, as we noticed in what happened, especially by beginning to recognize Israel’s right to live in security and peace without Israeli recognition of any of the Palestinian rights. The Rabin government recognized the PLO, and the protocols of the meeting that were approved in it. Oslo Accords finally published; It indicates that the establishment of a Palestinian state was not on the cards for Rabin and Peres, and that the Israeli concessions made in Oslo were too many. Because it gives up Israeli land and rights in exchange for Palestinian promises that are not guaranteed to be adhered to.

In this context, when the holder of the ideal and realistic ceilings begins, he will begin in practice with the realistic ceiling, and will end with something less, to accepting what the Israeli government is proposing with some formal improvements, which is limited self-rule in exchange for a commitment to perform a security role to protect the occupation. We must not discount the fact that there are American, European and Arab efforts that have been made and will be made to convince Netanyahu to make an amendment to his government, and to include Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid or one of them instead of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir. This, if it happens, will increase the possibility of concluding the Saudi-Israeli deal without fundamentally raising the possibility of it. 


From the ceiling of the Israeli position on Palestinian rights, a new Israeli government will be a more flexible form, but it will fundamentally adopt the content of the same Israeli position seeking annexation, Judaization, and displacement. We must remember that the Palestinian and Arab position began with adopting the liberation and return program until the June defeat, then Khartoum’s Nos (no reconciliation, no recognition, and no negotiations) based on the slogan of removing the effects of aggression and forgetting the Nakba of Palestine, to accepting negotiations, leading to the conclusion of the individual Camp David Accords and the Oslo Accords. And Wadi Araba, to propose the Arab Peace Initiative, which represented a concession on the origin and roots of the conflict that began in the year 1948 and not in the year 1967, and this was not for the sake of its adoption by Israel, which on the second day of its Arab approval launched a massive aggression against the Palestinians, but rather for compensation from Saudi Arabia and the Arabs.


To the Americans, the September 11 bombings were carried out by Saudis and Arabs, and after that the Arab initiative was turned upside down from complete withdrawal in exchange for normalization and complete peace, to normalization with Israel without its withdrawal or even its commitment to withdraw from the occupied territories. Rather, it increased intransigence and extremism, revealing its plans. Aggression and racism like never before.

 

The position required: Normalization of any Arab, Islamic, or friendly country without ending the occupation is a betrayal of the Palestinian cause, and must not be accepted, dealt with, or covered up, especially in light of the Kahanist government that rules Israel, but this requires deepening relations with the Arab peoples, and does not mean estrangement. With the countries that normalized, and which can normalize, given that the rupture cannot prevent normalization from occurring, and its harms are greater than its benefits, but it means making the utmost efforts to convince them not to normalize, and if they normalize, work to link the continuation and improvement of relations between them and Israel and the cessation of aggression. Settlement, racism, ending the occupation, and changing the Israeli position on Palestinian rights, and not accepting the matter even before it happens.

 

We have an example of this represented by the “cold peace” that Arab countries established with Israel, such as Egypt and Jordan. Despite the necessary rejection of normalization and work to stop and cancel the signed agreements, there is a difference between normalization and trade-off.

 

Here, it is not true that politics is the art of the possible; That is, accepting reality as it is, but it is the art of achieving the best possible; That is, dealing with reality in order to achieve the maximum possible and achieve it, and change it and not perpetuate it. Of course, if the Palestinian position had been unified and effective, and based on a comprehensive vision and based on a national and realistic program capable of dealing with reality in order to change it and not surrender to it, the matter would have been different, and normalization could have been stopped, especially since Israel is going through an unprecedented crisis, and that the region and the world They change, and we must change in order to have an impact and achieve what we want, not for the change to come at our expense.

 

ARAB AND WORLD

Tue 05 Sep 2023 9:42 am - Jerusalem Time

United Nations "concerned" on confrontations with Eritreans in Israel

On Monday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed its "concern" about the "high number" of injured people during riots last weekend in Tel Aviv involving Eritreans and requested an investigation.


The High Commissioner said on the "X" platform that it was "concerned about the high number of wounded during demonstrations in which Eritrean opponents participated, especially in Israel."


"It is vital to conduct investigations, avoid hate speech, particularly by the authorities, and respect the principle of non-refoulement," she stressed.
A spokeswoman for the UNHCR told AFP in an email to other demonstrations by Eritreans in Switzerland and Norway, "but in Israel there were a large number of injured."


The clashes erupted on Saturday after hundreds of Eritreans gathered in front of a hall in Tel Aviv where an event in support of the regime was supposed to be held, organized by the Eritrean embassy in Israel.


The Israeli police considered the gathering an unauthorized demonstration and ordered the street to be cleared. Clashes took place, leaving about 140 injured. Among the wounded were about 12 Eritrean asylum seekers who were hit by live bullets fired by the police.


The police indicated that 49 were wounded in their ranks.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his country is considering deporting about 1,000 Eritreans who participated in the riots, saying that what happened crossed the "red line".


Eritrea has been ruled by President Isaias Afwerki with an iron fist since the country's official declaration of independence in 1993. It is one of the most isolated countries in the world and ranks very low in global rankings of press freedom, human rights, civil liberties and economic development.


According to statistics released in June, the number of Eritrean asylum seekers reached 17,850, most of whom came to Israel irregularly from the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula years ago, and a large number of them settled in poor neighborhoods in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 9:39 am - Jerusalem Time

Occupation army arrests two young Palestinians, from Jerusalem

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men from the town of Kafr Aqab, north of occupied Jerusalem.


According to local sources, these forces stormed a number of neighborhoods at dawn, and arrested Ahmed Mahlous and Amjad Shaheen.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 9:18 am - Jerusalem Time

Settlers storm Islamic shrines in Awarta, Nablus

Hundreds of settlers stormed, at dawn today, Tuesday, Islamic shrines in the village of Awarta, southeast of Nablus.


According to local sources, the settlers stormed the village of Awarta under the protection of the Israeli occupation army, and performed Talmudic rituals at the religious shrines in the village.


The sources pointed out that large forces of the occupation army stormed the village prior to the storming and raided several houses in it, and snipers climbed the roofs of the houses to ensure the protection of the settlers until the storming ended at 3:30 in the morning.


The occupation forces also wreaked havoc on the houses that were raided and detained the residents for several hours.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 9:09 am - Jerusalem Time

PA spokesman holds America responsible for Israeli aggressions

The official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, held United States responsible for the return of the policy of storming Palestinian cities and killing, the latest of which was the Israeli aggression at dawn today, Tuesday, on the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarem, which led to the death of a young man and the great destruction of the infrastructure.


In a statement, Abu Rudeineh warned against what the Israeli occupation authorities are doing of killing policies and incursions into Palestinian cities, villages and camps that lead matters to a dangerous dead end.


Abu Rudeineh said: "The continuation of these aggressive policies against our people and our land, and the continued storming of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque by the Jewish extremists under the protection of the occupation army, in addition to the settlers' terror and attacks on our people and other unilateral measures, will have very dangerous repercussions for everyone."


He called on the American side to intervene immediately to stop the continuous Israeli aggression, and not to be satisfied with the policy of statements that do not change anything on the ground, indicating that the situation is about to explode as a result of the dangerous Israeli escalation.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 9:06 am - Jerusalem Time

General strike in 48 territories to protest escalation of crimes

Today, Tuesday, the Arab community in the occupied territories launched a general strike to protest the killings and the inaction of the Israeli police.


Public utilities, service institutions, and shops in Arab towns closed their doors in response to the decision of the Follow-up Committee for the Arab Masses, which was approved the day before yesterday, Sunday, in the municipality of Kafr Qara, declaring a general and comprehensive strike, provided that schools join after the third session, so that local popular marches begin in Arab cities and villages. .


The Follow-up Committee called for adherence to the general strike, "in light of the continued escalation of the cycle of crime and violence in the occupied interior, and the exposed official complicity, to make our society drown in a state of terror and blood, and to count the dead and injured victims."


It emphasized that "our strike reflects the collective national position against the ongoing crime and the government's support for it, in order to stop what is happening and ensure a safe life and a better future for our children and the emerging generations."

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 8:43 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli decision to deduct about 30 million shekels from Palestinian clearing funds

The Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom revealed, on Monday morning, that the Israeli Ministry of Finance, led by the extremist Bezalel Smotrich, managed to uncover a legal loophole that makes it possible for the first time to collect money for electricity consumption, as a prelude to recovering the debts accumulated by the Palestinian Authority for the areas of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.


According to the Hebrew newspaper, this legal loophole, which will turn into a legal scheme that will be adopted as an official decision, will allow the authority’s funds to be deducted monthly from the clearing house, similar to the money that is deducted from the electricity allocated to the Gaza Strip.


The debts of the Palestinian Authority over several years amount to two billion shekels, as Israel faces difficulties in collecting the debts. As the paper says.


It pointed out that Smotrich instructed, in a meeting that took place 3 months ago, to solve the problem radically, and after an examination, a legal solution was reached under the “implementation” law that was issued in the wake of the Oslo Accords, which allows debts to be deducted from the clearance funds of the Palestinian Authority, which is under the control of Smotrich.


It points out that one of the obstacles facing the possibility of recovering debts is that the entity that supplies electricity to the Palestinians in East Jerusalem is the Jerusalem Electricity Company, and without proving its relationship with the Palestinian Authority, debts cannot be recovered from it. However, Smotrich’s office was able to prove the relationship between them, and showed that 19% of the company's shareholders are local authorities affiliated to the Palestinian Authority, and 7 out of 18 members of its board of directors are members on behalf of the municipal authorities.


The newspaper indicated that after this was reached, Smotrich signed for the first time a clearing of the electricity bill to deduct it from the Palestinian Authority's funds.


It is expected that the monthly discount will reach from 20 to 30 million shekels per month, which will be transferred to the Israeli Electricity Company.


This does not include the two billion shekels debt, which Smotrich must settle in agreement with the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, given that this is a political event in which the Americans may intervene in order to save the Palestinian Authority and prevent its economic collapse, as the newspaper says.


PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 8:07 am - Jerusalem Time

Occupation army arrests dozens of Palestinians pretexting of arms trafficking

On Tuesday morning, the Israeli police announced that it had carried out a secret operation using a "secret agent", during which it arrested more than 32 Palestinians from Jerusalem and some areas of the West Bank, whom it accuses of arms trafficking.


It claimed that these weapons were used in criminal operations, as well as for security use.


It indicated that the operation was carried out in several stages, during which dozens of different weapons were seized.


It indicated that it had confiscated large sums of money from those arms dealers.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 7:50 am - Jerusalem Time

Occupation army launches campaign of arrests in West Bank and Jerusalem

The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Tuesday morning, a campaign of arrests against a group of citizens in separate areas of the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.


According to local sources, these forces arrested 4 citizens from Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, they are: Sabr Al-Taweel, Abdo Al-Bawab, Uday Hamdan, all from Al-Amaari camp, in addition to two students at Birzeit University, Amjad Salameh from Al-Jalazoun camp, and Majd Hajjaj from Al-Bireh.


The young man, Wael Al-Jamal, was arrested from Hebron.


While Raed Muhammad Hamdan and Salah al-Din al-Jamzawi were arrested from Anata, east of occupied Jerusalem.

PALESTINE

Tue 05 Sep 2023 6:41 am - Jerusalem Time

Young Palestinian killed, one wounded by occupation army in Tulkarm

A young man was killed, and another seriously wounded, on Tuesday morning, as a result of being shot by the Israeli occupation forces, after they stormed the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.


Medical sources said that Ayed Samih Abu Harb, 21, died of a bullet wound to the head.


It indicated that another young man was seriously wounded by a bullet to the head.


Large forces stormed Nour Shams camp, with the participation of several military bulldozers, which leveled the infrastructure and destroyed several vehicles.


The camp witnessed violent clashes between the occupation forces and the resistance groups, which detonated several explosive devices with the occupation mechanisms.


The Israeli aggression extended to the outskirts of Tulkarm camp, which also witnessed violent clashes.


It was decided to suspend school hours in the two camps.

PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 10:10 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers assault a citizen in Hebron

On Monday evening, settlers assaulted a citizen in Khirbet al-Halawa in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.


According to local sources, the settlers of a settlement outpost established in the area last month, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces, severely beat the citizen, Ismail Ahmed Ismail Abu Aram, while he was returning to his home in Khirbet al-Halawa, and stole his medicines, his donkey, and his purchases.

PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 9:45 pm - Jerusalem Time

"Hamas" and "Jihad" warn Israel after army forced 5 Palestinian women to strip naked

The "Hamas" and "Islamic Jihad" movements considered, this evening, Monday, the reports revealed that the occupation forces forced 5 women to strip naked, as a violation of the sanctity of Palestinian homes.


In a statement, Hamas said that this behavior reflects an entity that has deviated from norms and values.


It added, "The occupation forces' violation of the sanctities of homes and the disclosure of the veil of our people's silks is a crime and a dangerous escalation, for which the occupation will pay the price with more blows from our heroic resistance." according to its expression.



PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 9:32 pm - Jerusalem Time

Occupation army arrests young Palestinian woman in Jerusalem

On Monday evening, the Israeli police arrested a young Palestinian woman in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.


According to Israeli police allegations, the young woman tried to carry out a stabbing attack, but no injuries were reported.



PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 8:03 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel halts exports from Gaza at key crossing, says explosives found

On Monday evening, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant decided to stop exporting goods from the Gaza Strip to Israel, including the West Bank.


The decision was taken after an assessment session held following Israeli security allegations of thwarting the smuggling of explosive materials from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.


According to an official Israeli statement, the explosive materials, consisting of several kilograms, were detected and described as high-quality. They were smuggled through the lining of some clothes in a shipment of clothes consisting of 3 trucks.


the statement claimed. That those explosives were on their way to what it described as "terrorist elements," noting that an investigation has been opened into the incident.


He pointed out that the normal return of work to exports will be subject to an assessment of the situation.

PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 7:59 pm - Jerusalem Time

First in months...Abbas receives a phone call from Blinken before his delegation heads to Saudi Arabia

Today, Monday, President Mahmoud Abbas received a phone call from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during which they reviewed the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and ways to strengthen bilateral relations.


During the call, President Abbas stressed that what the Israeli occupation authorities, forces and settlers are doing, who practice terrorism, contributes to undermining the two-state solution and destroys all chances of achieving peace, calling on the US administration to accept the endeavor of the State of Palestine to obtain full membership in the United Nations by a decision of the Security Council. , ending all sanctions imposed on the Palestinians due to US laws, and building normal relations between the US administration and the State of Palestine, including reopening the US consulate in Jerusalem and an office for Palestine in Washington, and restoring the direct aid program.


On the other hand, President Mahmoud Abbas stressed the need to compel the Israeli occupation authorities to stop all their aggressive practices and unilateral Israeli actions, to abide by the signed agreements, and to focus on the political horizon.


President Abbas affirmed that the State of Palestine will continue its endeavor at the level of the United Nations in order to obtain full membership in the United Nations, and to implement the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Arab peace initiative, by ending the Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine with its capital, East Jerusalem, on the 1967 borders.

PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 6:34 pm - Jerusalem Time

Biden's advisor meets Abdullah II to calm concerns about potential normalization deal

The American Axios website stated, on Monday evening, that Brett McGurk, senior advisor to US President Joe Biden for Middle East affairs, will visit, after Saudi Arabia, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, to meet King Abdullah II.


According to the American website, the Jordanian monarch is concerned about the huge US deal it is leading to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.


Jordan fears that this deal comes at the expense of the kingdom and its responsibilities towards the Palestinians.


According to the site, US Secretary of State Barbara Leaf, who will arrive with McGurk to Saudi Arabia and Jordan, will hold talks in Israel.


On her second visit in a few weeks, Leaf will meet with Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and other officials.


The same site had previously stated that a Palestinian delegation would meet with McGurk and Saudi officials, in order to discuss Palestinian demands within the framework of a huge deal for normalization between the Kingdom and Israel under American auspices.

PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 5:48 pm - Jerusalem Time

Occupation transfers hunger striking detainee, Sultan Khalouf, to Ramla Prison Clinic

The Palestinian Prisoners Club said that the occupation prison administration transferred the administrative detainee who has been on hunger strike for 33 days, refusing his administrative detention, from the cells of (Al-Jalama) detention center to the (Ramle prison clinic), amid a continuous deterioration in his health condition.


The Prisoners Club confirmed that great fears are increasing over the fate of the detainee Khalouf and the detainees on hunger strike, with the passage of time and the occupation's refusal to deal with their demand.



PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 5:32 pm - Jerusalem Time

PA Cabinet instructs Foreign Ministry to promote prisoners cause internationally

Today, Monday, the Council of Ministers decided to follow up the suffering of the prisoners and their conditions with the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, and instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates to follow up the matter internationally.


The Council of Ministers devoted its weekly session, which it held in Ramallah, headed by Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh, to the issue of prisoners, and to take the necessary decisions to strengthen their steadfastness and work to release the sick, the elderly, women, and children among them.



PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 5:08 pm - Jerusalem Time

Haaretz: In an outrageous incident: Israeli soldiers force Palestinian women to strip naked!

The Hebrew newspaper, Haaretz, reported, on Monday, that an Israeli military force forced 5 Palestinian women to strip naked inside their home, after storming it in Hebron.


According to the newspaper, 50 soldiers stormed the house of the "A" family (we reserve the right to reveal the family's name), in the southern neighborhood of Hebron, on the tenth of last July, at 1:30 in the morning of that day, and the soldiers were accompanied by sniffer dogs. .


According to the newspaper, under the threat of using sniffer dogs to devour the bodies of the Palestinian women, they were forced in front of their children to strip naked in front of the Israeli soldiers.


In the aftermath of the psychologically traumatic incident for the family members, it was revealed that the soldiers stole gold jewelry and money from the house.


The women's family went to an Israeli police station in Kiryat Arba settlement and denied the theft, before they were contacted the next day and asked to receive the gold, which the soldiers allegedly thought was bullet ammunition, while the money was not returned.


The newspaper published full details of the painful night that the family lived through.


Manal Al-Jabari, a human rights activist in the Israeli left-wing B'Tselem organization, says that she has recently documented 20 such cases, and there is a clear increase in forcing Palestinian women to strip naked at gunpoint and using sniffer dogs.


Al-Ja'bari indicated that the Palestinian women who were subjected to this experience refuse to be interviewed and talk about it, but the members of this family who were exposed to this incident spoke in detail about what happened.


Al-Quds apologizes for publishing the details of that painful night, due to the tragic reality that women who have been traumatized so far have been exposed to.


The Israeli army claimed that the operation aimed to search for a weapon found inside the house, and it was necessary to conduct the search, which took place in a separate room without the use of any cameras.

ARAB AND WORLD

Mon 04 Sep 2023 4:27 pm - Jerusalem Time

"Israel" opens its embassy in Manama

On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen inaugurated a permanent headquarters for the Israeli diplomatic mission in Manama, which serves as a full embassy.


According to Reshet Kan, the opening ceremony took place in the presence of Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif Al-Zayani, and Bahraini and Israeli personalities.


Cohen arrived yesterday in Manama, where he was received by Al-Zayani.


Cohen held several meetings with Bahraini officials, including Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and they discussed bilateral relations and the challenges facing the regional situation.


In a related context, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, James Marape, arrived in Tel Aviv, on a visit that will take several days.


Marabi will open an embassy for his country in occupied Jerusalem, according to the Hebrew website Ynet.


This will be the fifth embassy to move to Jerusalem after the United States, Guatemala, Honduras and Kosovo.


PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 4:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

Occupation forces arrest young Palestinian from ,Al-Khader, Bethlehem

Today, Monday, an "undercover" Israeli special force arrested a young man from the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.


According to local sources, a special unit of the occupation forces stormed the Umm Rukba area, south of the town, and kidnapped a young man from a vehicle without knowing his identity.

PALESTINE

Mon 04 Sep 2023 3:03 pm - Jerusalem Time

Clashes with occupation north of Hebron, Suffocation, injuries reported

Dozens of citizens were injured today, Monday, after the Israeli occupation soldiers targeted citizens' homes in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.


According to local sources, the occupation soldiers, stationed at the entrance to the town, prevented the passage of a citizen's funeral to the town's cemetery, and fired stun grenades, toxic gas and rubber bullets at the mourners and the citizens' homes, which led to suffocation.


The sources pointed out that the clashes broke out with the occupation forces after the attack on the mourners.


UNCATEGORIZED

Mon 04 Sep 2023 2:33 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas: Occupation will not succeed in breaking the will of Jenin camp

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said, "The Jenin camp will remain the fortress of resistance, and the occupation will not succeed in breaking its will, but rather the revolution in all of the West Bank will break the will of the occupier."


In a brief statement, Qassem saluted the fighters of the resistance factions who fought fierce clashes with the Israeli occupation forces in Jenin camp.