Activists in the US state of Minnesota organized a protest stand calling for the withdrawal of investments in the state's pension funds from Israeli companies and arms companies that deal with Israel.

And the state capital, St. Paul, witnessed a vigil in the Capitol Building, demanding that Governor Tim Walz and the state Board of Investments, during their annual meeting, withdraw all state funds from companies that benefit from the Israeli apartheid system.

Activists raised Palestinian flags and banners condemning Israeli apartheid, and others in solidarity and support for the Palestinian people.

The state invests more than $800 million in public pension funds in companies that benefit from Israel's apartheid regime, such as Lockheed Martin, Israeli arms company Elbit Systems and others.

During the meeting, members of the campaign gave public testimony to the audience, including the testimony that indicated that the state had invested its pension in companies profiting from war crimes in Palestine.

The state has invested its pension in companies profiting from war crimes in Palestine, said teacher Anne Kerstead, adding that while Minnesota teachers are engaged in training on increasing racial justice in our schools and communities, the state is supporting Israeli apartheid.

She noted that Palestinians do not enjoy the same political or cultural rights as Jews, so our pensions should not be invested in companies that benefit from the occupation of Palestine.

And she continued, "Apartheid is a mistake in the United States, it was a mistake in South Africa, and it is a mistake in Palestine."

On Monday morning, Israeli political officials claimed that the meeting that took place between Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush was coordinated at the highest levels between the two sides.

And the website of the Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, quoted those sources, which it described as official, that Cohen had traveled in particular to Rome to meet al-Mangoush in an official guest house affiliated with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that the meeting was not accidental, the Libyan foreign minister did nothing behind the back of the Libyan Prime Minister. And the announcement of the meeting was agreed upon, to be published at the latest on Tuesday.

The sources claimed that the interest of the Tripoli government in linking up with Israel aims to open the doors for Libya in the West and buy legitimacy from Western countries, and this interest appears to have not changed.

The Israeli officials admitted that they do not know what will happen after the recent events and the referral of Minister Mangoush for investigation, and what are the consequences of the current crisis, especially after the Libyans take to the streets.

Previously, the Associated Press reported that the Libyan prime minister was aware of the meeting and contacts that took place with the Israelis in recent months, and he gave a green light to normalization with Israel, but he was afraid of the popular reaction, and that the contacts were focused on trying to persuade Libya to join normalization and the Negev normalization conference.

This morning, the leader of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, and his ally, Benny Gantz, attacked Foreign Minister Cohen, for publishing the meeting. He described the leak as an irresponsible act that would harm Israel, pointing out that Cohen is a person who has no background in diplomatic work and is not fit to be foreign minister.

While Gantz said, this meeting will affect the secret and public relations with other countries, especially with which Israel does not have official relations.

Today, Monday, the comprehensive strike took place in the city of Sakhnin, in the occupied interior, in protest against the murder of the young man, Ali Khairallah Abu Saleh, and in rejection of the spread of violence and crime and the failure of the Israeli police to deter organized crime and criminals.

Since the beginning of August until now, 20 people have been killed in shooting crimes committed in the Palestinian community within the lands of 1948, in light of the failure of the Israeli police to do their work to limit this phenomenon.

Today, Monday, the so-called Israeli Border Guard forces announced that they arrested 3 Palestinian youths who tried to infiltrate from the security wall surrounding occupied Jerusalem.

The Hebrew Kan radio station revealed, on Monday morning, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage are angry with the current Israeli government and they are boycotting senior Israeli officials. The second man in Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, refused last month to receive a phone call from a senior Israeli official, and said: "We expect Netanyahu to express his support for Ukraine and come to Kiev."

I addition to that, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry organizes visits by ambassadors from various countries of the world to the country in recent weeks, and to hold meetings with senior officials, including Zelensky, but the Israeli ambassador in Kiev was not invited to such visits and meetings. The Ukrainian President's believes Israelis not helping Kiev enough.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Monday, that the Israeli security services, especially the Shin Bet security service, warned the political echelon against escalating relations with the Druze community against the background of building turbines in the northern Golan.

According to the newspaper, the security concern stems from the fact that the possibility of things escalating into large-scale acts of violence is very likely, and that the expected damage to such an event would be dangerous to Israel's security.

According to the newspaper, the Druze's anger is not only because of the turbine construction work that is currently frozen and is expected to be resumed again, but frustration and anger are wider than that project, which has been accumulating for years, in addition to anger over the killing of 4 people in the village of Abu Sinan a week ago, and the increase in crimes. Killings in Druze villages, in addition to the nationality law, in addition to their feeling of persecution due to the measures taken to limit construction in their villages and other things.

Israeli warplanes put Aleppo International Airport out of service after striking the runway on Monday night, official Syrian news agency SANA reported. 

The runway will be closed for repairs, according to an announcement by the aviation authorities. 

All the planes have instead been transferred to Damascus or Latakia airports.

The Hebrew Kan radio station reported, on Monday morning, that the Israeli government, upon the recommendation of the Shin Bet, has frozen a new facilitation plan for the Gaza Strip, under the pretext of "punishing" Hamas for standing behind a series of attacks from the West Bank , in addition to the movement's decision to return to confrontations at the security fence. According the plan, the number of permits was supposed to reach 20,000, 

The head of the Libyan National Unity Government, Abd al-Hamid al-Dabaiba, suspended his foreign minister, Najla al-Mangoush from work, after the announcement on Sunday of a meeting between her and her Israeli counterpart in Rome last week .

Dabaiba's government said in a statement, on Sunday evening, that it had decided to suspend Mangoush from "working as a precautionary measure" provided that she will be "referred to investigation" before a committee headed by the Minister of Justice.

The Libyan Foreign Ministry described what happened in Rome as an "accidental meeting", but the news of the meeting led to popular protests in several Libyan cities. The political dispute erupted on Sunday, after the announcement of the Israeli Foreign Ministry in a statement, that the foreign ministers of Israel and Libya met last week in the first diplomatic initiative of its kind between the two countries.

The statement pointed that Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Libyan counterpart in the Tripoli-based government, Najla al-Mangoush, spoke during a meeting in Rome hosted by Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Taiani.

However, the Libyan Foreign Ministry confirmed on Sunday that Al-Mangoush refused to hold any meetings with any party representing the Israeli entity, and said that what happened in Rome was "an unofficial and unprepared casual meeting during a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister, and it did not include any discussions, agreements or consultations." And it added that the foreign minister affirmed "Libya's constants towards the Palestinian cause in a clear and unambiguous manner."

The Libyan Foreign Ministry accused Israel of giving what happened the nature of the meeting or talks.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry statement quoted Cohen as saying that the two sides discussed "the importance of preserving the heritage of Libyan Jews, including the restoration of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in the country." There was no immediate confirmation from Rome of the meeting.

News of the meeting sparked protests in some Libyan cities and also prompted the issuance of a letter from the country's Presidential Council asking for clarification and called on the unity government to clarify the truth about Mangoush's meeting with the foreign minister of the "Israeli entity," according to a correspondence confirmed by a spokeswoman for the Presidential Council. The letter said that this development "does not reflect the foreign policy of the Libyan state and does not represent the Libyan national constants, and is considered a violation of Libyan laws that criminalize normalization with the Zionist entity." And it demanded that the government, in the event that the meeting was proven, "take the most severe penalties in accordance with the laws and procedures in force in Libya."

Protests erupted in the streets of Tripoli and its suburbs on Sunday evening, rejecting normalization with Israel. The protests spread to other cities, where young men blocked roads and burned tires, waving the Palestinian flag.

Like a number of other North African countries, Libya has a rich Jewish heritage. But during the decades of rule of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, thousands of Jews were expelled from Libya and many synagogues were destroyed.

Libya has been witnessing chaos since the fall of the Muammar Gaddafi regime in 2011. The country is currently ruled by two competing governments, one in the west headed by al-Dabaiba and the other in the east headed by Osama Hammad, commissioned by parliament and supported by Khalifa Haftar.

A number of citizens were injured and a number of others were arrested, at dawn and Monday morning, in a campaign of raids carried out by the Israeli occupation forces in separate areas of the West Bank.

According to Al-Quds.com correspondent in Jenin, 4 civilians were injured, one of them seriously, after the occupation forces opened fire on them near the town of Ya`bad.The occupation forces arrested 3 of the injured, while the fourth, who was seriously injured, was transferred to Ibn Sina Hospital.

In Nablus, large forces stormed the Balata camp amid armed clashes with the resistance fighters, and raided several houses, before they arrested the young men, Ezz Marshoud, Makram Masoud, and Tamer Masoud, while the editor, Kifah Al-Jaghoub, from the town of Beita, was arrested.

In Ramallah, the young man, Ayham Al-Barghouti, was arrested after a special force surrounded his family's home in the town of Beit Rima, while the two young men, Ahmed Saleh and Abdul Majeed Saleh, were arrested from their homes in Aroura, and the two brothers, Ali and Ayser Al-Hajj Muhammad, were arrested from Al-Mughayer.

In Bethlehem, the two young men, Yazan al-Harimi and Mustafa Hijazi, from Aida camp, were arrested.

Meanwhile, the editor, Majed Miteb, from Hebron, was arrested.

Sunday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a girl, Rima Abu Al-Foul, a resident of the occupied interior, in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, and took her for interrogation at Al-Qishla Detention Center in the Old City of the city.

Three members of the US House of Representatives made a rare visit Sunday to an area in northern Syria controlled by Turkish-backed opposition factions, according to a team from Agence France-Presse at the scene.

Joe Wilson, Victoria Spartz and Dean Phillips visited a hospital in the city of Azaz (Aleppo Governorate) coming from Turkey via the Bab al-Salama border crossing, where they were greeted with a banner reading "Welcome to Free Syria", surrounded by the flags of the Syrian revolution.

"The aim of the visit is to see the reality in the liberated areas," said Yasser al-Hajji, a public relations official in the Turkish-backed interim government.

The deputies met orphans due to the war that has killed more than half a million people since 2011, before the visit was shortened for security reasons, according to what one of their escorts told AFP.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham controls about half of the area of the province of Idlib (northwest) and adjacent areas in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia and Hama.

There are also other less influential opposition factions, supported by Türkiye to varying degrees.

The director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdel Rahman, indicated that "to avoid causing controversy in the United States, they did not go to Jendires, in the areas controlled by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham."

Despite declaring its affiliation with al-Qaeda, Washington still classifies the organization as a "terrorist" organization.

Abdul Rahman added, "Members of Congress wanted to evaluate the work of the interim government, in order to study the possibility of sending humanitarian aid through Bab al-Salamah instead of Bab al-Hawa," which is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Representative Joe Wilson said Friday on the X platform (formerly Twitter) that "those who seek normalization and strike deals with (Syrian President) Bashar al-Assad are dealing with death itself."

He had also expressed support for the anti-government protests in southern Syria.

He pointed out via X that the protests "inspire the world and show that there is no future or stability for Syria under the Assad regime."

On Sunday, the American representatives met with the director of the "White Helmets" organization, the civil defense in the areas controlled by the opposition and jihadist factions in and around Idlib, Raed al-Saleh.

"The meeting touched on the importance of continuing cross-border aid in light of the growing humanitarian needs after the catastrophic devastating earthquake," which struck Turkey and Syria in February, killing tens of thousands, said a statement by the White Helmets on platform X.

The organization also indicated that the two sides discussed "the popular movement taking place in the Syrian regions, the importance of confronting attempts to float the Assad regime and impunity for the atrocities it committed, and the need to strengthen accountability and hold perpetrators accountable."

Under the United Nations mechanism established in 2014, Bab al-Hawa is the only gateway for aid to enter northwestern Syria from Turkey, without the permission of the Syrian government.

On July 11, this mechanism, which Damascus denounced as a violation of its sovereignty, was not extended before the United Nations announced in early August an agreement with the Syrian regime that would allow the delivery of aid for a period of six months through the Bab al-Hawa crossing.

A number of citizens were injured, this Sunday evening, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces, after they stormed the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh affirmed that the siege and occupation measures against Nablus and the rest of the governorates aim to reoccupy the West Bank, referring to the efforts and contacts that are taking place at the international level to put pressure on Israel to lift its siege and stop all its measures and attacks.

This came during his meeting, this Sunday evening, in his office in Ramallah, with the institutions and activities of Nablus Governorate.

It was revealed, on Sunday evening, that the thwarting of the arms smuggling operation from the Jordanian border at the end of last July, which was described at the time as unusual, contained Iranian-made explosive devices.

According to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, these devices were apparently on their way to armed cells in the West Bank, or they were on their way to other cells inside Israel that were apparently recruited to carry out attacks.

The channel indicated that the Shin Bet is still investigating the smuggling attempt.

These developments come in light of the continuous Israeli accusations, at the political and security level, of Iran trying to ignite the situation in the West Bank and financing armed cells there to carry out attacks.

Today (Sunday) Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, launched the master plan for the Kingdom's logistics centers.

The plan aims to develop the infrastructure of the logistics sector in the Kingdom, diversify the local economy, and strengthen the Kingdom's position as a leading investment destination and a global logistics center, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

The Saudi Crown Prince stated that the launch of the scheme comes as an extension of a package of ongoing initiatives, in accordance with the objectives of the National Strategy for Transport and Logistics Services, with the aim of developing the logistics sector to support economic growth and develop local, regional and international connectivity to international trade networks and global supply chains.

The plan includes 59 centers with a total area of more than 100 million square meters, including 12 logistics centers for the Riyadh region, 12 logistics centers for the Makkah Al-Mukarramah region, 17 logistics centers for the eastern region, and 18 logistics centers in the rest of the Kingdom’s regions, where work is currently underway in 21 centers, provided that All centers will be completed by 2030.

The centers will also enable local industries to export Saudi products with high efficiency, as well as support e-commerce to facilitate linking between logistics centers and distribution centers within the regions, cities and governorates of the Kingdom very quickly, in addition to providing high traceability and facilitating the issuance of licenses to practice logistic activity, especially after the launch of the unified logistics license. And granting licenses to more than 1,500 local, regional and international logistics companies.

It is noteworthy that last April, the Kingdom jumped 17 ranks globally in the logistics index issued by the World Bank, as it advanced to 38th among 160 countries in the international ranking in the logistics efficiency index.

The Kingdom is working to reach the list of the top 10 countries in the world in the logistics performance index by 2030.

Among the logistics projects, what the Kingdom announced last March to establish a new global center for procurement and logistics services in Saudi Arabia by 2025, which is a partnership project between Saudi Aramco and the global logistics company DHL.

Last April, the Saudi Crown Prince announced the launch of four new economic zones in the Kingdom, distributed in Riyadh, Jazan, Ras Al-Khair, and King Abdullah Economic City, north of Jeddah, to enhance many sectors, especially the logistics sector, as it provides various incentives to encourage investment, including allowing 100% foreign ownership. .

Several Palestinians were suffocated by tear gas on Sunday in a joint attack by settlers and the Israeli occupation forces on the West Bank village of Madama, south of Nablus.

Footage from the Israeli human rights NGO Yesh Din showed settlers from the infamous outpost of Yitzhar descending to Palestinian land accompanied by the IDF soldiers, who in turn fired tear gas toward the Palestinians. 

Saudia Arabia's non-resident ambassador to Palestine, Nayef bin Bandar Al Sudairi, met with senior Palestinian officials in the Jordanian capital of Amman on Sunday.

Al-Sudairi met with Hussein Al-Sheikh, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the head of the Palestinian intelligence services Major General Majed Faraj, and the Palestinian President's Advisor for Diplomatic Affairs Dr. Majdi Al-Khalidi.

The two countries discussed strengthening bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Palestine. 

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces seized a bulldozer in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya.

According to local sources, these forces seized a bulldozer belonging to Ahmed Salim, while he was working in reclaiming land between Azzun and the village of Asla, under the pretext of working in areas classified as "C".

Libya's Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush has fled the country to Turkey after mass protests erupted over her meeting with Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen in Rome, the first ever meeting between high-ranking representatives from the two countries.

The two countries held the "historic" meeting under the auspices of the Italian foreign minister to discuss the possibility of establishing relations between the two countries and the possibility of Israel providing humanitarian assistance to Libya, according to Channel 12 News in Israel.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said that Hamas "appreciates the official and popular Libyan position of rejecting the Libyan foreign minister's meeting with the foreign ministry of the Zionist entity.”

Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad said that they are “confident that the fraternal Libyan people do not accept such meetings, and they are a free people who reject normalization and will not be politically blackmailed or compromised on their firm position on the Palestinian cause, despite the harsh internal conditions that Libya is going through."

Cohen said that Libya's size and location make the establishment of diplomatic relations of "great importance and enormous potential for the State of Israel."

He added that he is holding a series of similar meetings in a bid to persuade other Middle Eastern countries to normalize ties with Israel.

Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf on Sunday to discuss the Palestinian cause and the ongoing crisis in Syria. 

The discussions came during an official visit by Leaf to Amman, according to the Turkish Anadolu news agency.

Leaf also added that the meeting was intended to "strengthen cooperation" between the two countries, building on a memorandum of understanding signed between the Kingdom of Jordan and the United States last year.

On his part, Safadi extended his gratitude for the U.S.' ongoing support for Jordan and its development process, economic challenges and the refugee crisis.

Last year, Washington agreed to provide financial assistance to the Kingdom of $1.45 billion per year from 2023 to 2029.

The national campaign to recover the bodies of the martyrs detained by the Israeli occupation, the institutions of prisoners and the various activities of the Nablus governorate, and the families of dozens of martyrs, called on international bodies and human rights organizations to put pressure on the occupation government to close this file and release the bodies of the martyrs.

This came during a national event organized by the campaign, along with the rest of the institutions, in Martyrs' Square in the center of Nablus, today, Sunday, to commemorate the National Day for the Repatriation of the Martyrs' Bodies, which falls on August 27 of each year.

The event included the laying of dozens of symbolic coffins in Martyrs' Square. Each coffin was wrapped in the Palestinian flag and the name of a martyr from the Nablus governorate was written on each coffin, whose bodies are still being held by the occupation, and their number is (75 male and female martyrs).

Palestinian statistics indicate that the occupation authorities are still holding the bodies of 398 Palestinian martyrs, including the bodies of 11 prisoners, 14 children, and 5 women, including 142 bodies in refrigerators, and 256 in the number graves, while the number of missing persons is 75 since The beginning of the occupation.

The participants in the event raised banners affirming that the detention of the bodies of the martyrs in the morgues and numbers graves is an international, human and moral crime committed against their families and a clear violation of the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, Qaddoura Musa, said in his speech during the event that "the criminal occupation state is a coalition of a group of racist gangs, and it is shameful for a country recognized by the United Nations to continue to detain the bodies of Palestinian martyrs."

In his speech on behalf of the national campaign, the director of the Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid, Issam Al-Arouri, affirmed the determination of our people to continue the struggle for the liberation of the bodies of our highest possessions (the martyrs).

He added: "The occupation has closed the door to negotiation regarding the bodies of the martyrs and turned this file, in a compound crime, into a material for bargaining and trading," stressing that there is no law in the world that allows trading in the issue of the bodies of the martyrs except in the occupying country.

For his part, Muzaffar Thouqan said in a speech on behalf of the National Committee for Supporting Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners in Nablus, "The right to retrieve the bodies of the martyrs is a legitimate right of our Palestinian people," stressing the importance of struggle by all means to recover their bodies.

He added, "This file is a national struggle issue that must remain alive in the conscience of our people."

In turn, the mother of the martyr, Saed Al-Koni, told Al-Quds.com that her son was martyred on 9/25/2023, when the occupation forces shot him while he was riding a motorcycle in Jabal Al-Tur (the southern mountain in the city of Nablus).

She added: "The body of her son was burnt by the bombs that the occupation fired at him, and that they found his amputated hand at the place of his martyrdom, and that the family buried the hand in one of the city's cemeteries, while the rest of the body is still with the occupation and they do not know anything about it."

And called on President Mahmoud Abbas and human rights organizations to transfer the file of the martyrs whose bodies are withheld by the occupation to the International Criminal Court.

Maha Rawajbeh, the sister of the martyr Bilal Rawajbeh, who was martyred about 3 years ago at the Hawara military checkpoint, said, "The occupation claimed that Bilal was martyred, but we are not sure of that because we have not seen his body or received it yet."

"We want real bodies for our martyred children instead of these symbolic coffins."

Today, Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man, Muhammad al-Fayed, from the Jenin refugee camp at a military checkpoint and stormed the town of Arraba and villages south of Jenin.

The Assistant of the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Nations and its specialized organizations, Omar Awadallah, announced that preparations are underway for an upcoming visit by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, in late September, and the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, British lawyer Karim Khan, next October, to the State of Palestine.

Awadallah said in an interview with "Voice of Palestine" radio today, Sunday, that the Palestinian issue will be present during the monthly meeting of the Security Council and the quadripartite meeting, in addition to a special meeting for Resolution No. 2334, referring to the preparations for the next session of the next General Assembly, in which many issues will be presented including discussing the revival of the peace process.

And he indicated that the justification of Netanyahu's office in response to what Ben Gvir said that his wife and children are the most entitled to move between the settlements among our people, will not deceive the world that has come to know that the occupation government is an apartheid system and a group of terrorists to deport our people.

Regarding the opening of an embassy by the Republic of Sierra Leone in Jerusalem, Awadallah explained that work is underway directly with it through constant movement, to urge it to back down from this decision.

Today, Sunday, settlers uprooted dozens of olive trees and destroyed an agricultural room in the town of Tuqu', east of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, a group of settlers uprooted about 40 olive trees in the wilderness area, east of the town, belonging equally to Samir Mahmoud Jibril and Samih al-Amor, and destroyed the doors of a sheep-breeding barn, an agricultural room, and barbed wire.

It is noteworthy that settlers have recently escalated their terrorist attacks on citizens and their property in the wilderness area, attacking citizens, vandalizing their property and uprooting their trees.

The forces of repression, the so-called (Al-Alimaz) units, stormed Room No. (81) in section (13) in (Nafha) prison today, Sunday morning, and launched extensive searches.

The Prisoners Club said that this section holds the prisoners who were recently transferred from (Ashkelon) prison to (Nafha) prison.

The Prisoners Club pointed out that the prisoners of (Ashkelon) who were transferred to (Nafha) were subjected to abuse, and their possessions were vandalized and destroyed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened on Sunday that the deputy head of the Hamas' political bureau and the head of its operations in the occupied West Bank Saleh al-Arouri will pay "a heavy price," after accusing him of standing behind several recent Palestinian shooting attacks. 

In the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu said that "Whoever tries to harm us, who finances, who organizes or stands behind terrorism against Israel will pay a heavy price."

Referring to the disappearance of Hamas leaders in anticipation of Israel's targeted assassinations, Netanyahu said: "He and his comrades know very well why he was hiding."

"Hamas and Iran's agents in the region are well aware that we will fight by all means against their attempts to create terrorism against us, whether in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, or anywhere else," he added.

Israeli occupation authorities on Sunday released the father and brother of the Palestinian who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Hawara two weeks ago.

Israel accuses Osama Issa Bani Fadl of carrying out the attack, which left two settlers dead in the northern West Bank town.

Hawara has been a flashpoint for settler violence in recent months, witnessing one of the worst grassroots pogroms in the West Bank in February that left one Palestinian dead, dozens more injured, and widespread damage to property. 

On Sunday morning, Israeli occupation forces arrested Issa Bani Fadl and his son Muhammad in a raid on their home. 

The forces have already mapped their home in preparation for demolition over the Osama's alleged involvement in the shooting attack. 

The Jerusalem Governorate warned of a new policy adopted by the Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinian students, by preventing them from reaching their universities.

And the Jerusalem Governorate stated, in a press statement today, Sunday, that the occupation authorities removed the two students, Baraa Hatem Fiqha from Tulkarm Governorate, and Batoul Iyad Dar Asi from the city of Ramallah, from Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem, under the pretext of practicing union work inside the university, which means depriving them from continuing their university education, in a systematic racist policy against education and its institutions in Jerusalem.

It added that this racist decision comes at a time as education in Jerusalem is fought against, and millions of dollars are allocated for the sake of Israelization  and Judaization it, as the Minister of Finance in the extremist occupation government, Bezalel Smotrich, announced several days ago during his disclosure of the five-year plan to Judaize Jerusalem and education there, while The occupation authorities provide facilities to attract Palestinian students, especially Jerusalemites, to study in its affiliated schools and Hebrew universities.

The Governor described this decision as "racist," considering what is happening as a blatant and unacceptable interference in our national universities, where we are proud of practicing student union work, that is guaranteed by the Palestinian constitution, and our national educational institutions are keen on it.

He called on international human rights and human rights institutions in the world, especially UNESCO, to denounce and reject this decision, and to put pressure on Israel, the occupying power, to retract it, and all decisions related to the Judaization of education in Jerusalem, especially since international conventions, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention, that stipulates the freedom of peoples under occupation to choose their curricula and teachers, in line with their customs, traditions and religions, without interference by the occupying power.

The statements of the extremist and racist Israeli Minister of National Security, in which he said that his right and the right of his wife and children to move in the West Bank, which he claims is Jewish, is more important than the right of Arabs to move, and that his right to life comes before any right of the Palestinians, indicating that this is the existing reality, were met with wide criticizing reactions, whether by the United States or the European Union.  As statements that reflect hateful racism and are tantamount to a call to continue committing crimes against our people, whether by the occupation forces or herds of settlers supported by these forces and by the Israeli government led by Netanyahu, which is one of the the most hateful government against all Palestinians.

These reactions are positive and confirm the nature of the Israeli entity, which is based on committing massacres and atrocities against our people, their land, property and sanctities within the framework of its attempts to force our people to leave, either voluntarily or through ethnic cleansing that it has carried out and is still carrying out, and which it is preparing to expand by seizing any opportunity. To achieve this goal, especially since the leaders of the occupation have declared more than once and on every occasion that Jordan is the state of the Palestinians, that their place is in Gaza or Jordan, and that they have no right to the West Bank, even though the entire world, including USA, the main supporter of the occupation, considers it an occupied territory.

However, what is more important than the condemning and critical reactions is taking practical steps against the racist occupation, especially since the prime minister of the occupation tried to justify and defend the statements of the extremist and racist security minister, which requires taking practical steps to curb this unbridled Israeli racism.

America and the European Union know and witness the extent of this racism and the crimes committed against our people, and this is what prompts us to say that only American and European criticism of these statements is not enough, and more work is required because they are the ones who established the occupying state and continue to support it at the expense of our people.

And if America and Europe are serious about their criticism of racism, then they must do more than that, because it has become only a dust in the eyes, while their support is continuous and at all levels, militarily, economically and diplomatically, and they prevent Israel from being brought to the International Criminal Court to be tried for the crimes against our people of murder, oppression and terrorism. Settlement expansion to increase the number of settlers, etc. are crimes and violations that humanity condemn.

The time has come for the unity of the national ranks to confront this abhorrent racism, which will lead to an increase in hostility between the Palestinians and the Israelis and will explode the region sooner or later, and everyone must shoulder their responsibilities before it is too late.