On Saturday, two citizens were killed, and 7 were wounded, by Israeli forces’ bullets, after they stormed Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.

According to the Ministry of Health, the two martyrs are Sa’ed Jihad Shaker Mashah (32 years old) and Adnan Wassim Yousef Al-Araj (19 years old).

According to the Red Crescent, there are among the wounded, two cases described as serious.

Special forces stormed the camp and surrounded a house, before military reinforcements arrived.

The occupation forces withdrew from the camp without knowing the fate of those inside.

On Saturday, Hussein Sheikh, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO, called on the United States, the international community, and the Arab countries to work to pressure the occupation authorities to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip.

In his statements, the Sheikh also demanded international and humanitarian institutions to intervene quickly to open the crossings with the Gaza Strip and transfer the injured for treatment.

The Sheikh saluted the steadfastness and steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of the Israeli war machine.

Two young men were killed, hours apart, in two new murders in the occupied territories.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the young man, Muhammad Zaarourah, in his twenties, was killed and wounded, along with another, when they were shot by unknown persons, at dawn on Saturday, in Kafr Manda in the Lower Galilee.

The young man, Osama Marwat (24 years), was killed on Friday evening, when he was shot in the city of Nazareth.

This brings the death toll to 68 since the beginning of this year.

The Israeli occupation authorities' ban on introducing more means of ventilation and air conditioning into prisons compounds the suffering of the prisoners in the summer, and the summer heat becomes a collective punishment practiced against the prisoners, in clear violation of their most basic rights.

insistence on suffering

The occupation authorities continue to prevent the introduction of additional fans for prisoners, and prevent the installation of air conditioners in prisons, especially those located in areas with high temperatures and humidity, in parallel with poor ventilation and overcrowding, which causes additional suffering to prisoners, the head of the Palestinian Prisoners Club, Qadura Fares confirms to "Quds." dot com.

Fares says: "The lack of good ventilation and the presence of an overcrowding in the number of prisoners, and the lack of sufficient fans, and therefore this means affecting the prisoners and causing suffering for them, especially the sick prisoners."

According to Fares, the Israeli occupation authorities continue not to respond to the repeated demands for additional fans or the installation of air conditioning, especially in prisons that are located in nature and bad weather conditions. To increase ventilation and expand windows, but Israel does not respond to anyone, even international institutions that do not put pressure on Israel.

An international right

The prisoners have the right, according to Helmi Al-Araj, director of the Center for the Defense of Liberties and Civil Rights "Hurriyyat", in an interview with "Al-Quds" .com, to have appropriate means and living conditions as the most basic rights guaranteed to them by international humanitarian laws and international agreements, but what is happening is preventing the means of cooling and ventilation In the summer, or heating in the winter, it causes them health, psychological and physical suffering, and Israel may use it as a collective punishment against the prisoners.

Al-Araj indicates that in light of the climate change we are experiencing, and in light of the overcrowding and lack of proper ventilation, the prisons become very hot in the summer, and the prisoners need additional fans or means of air conditioning, as those fans that already exist are at the detriment of the prisoner, but they are also few. .

Al-Araj believes that in light of the high heat, every prisoner needs a fan on his own! This means an increase in the cost for the prisoners, and is an annoying matter in light of the overcrowding, bearing in mind that finding means of ventilation or heating is required by the occupying state according to international laws, not by the prisoner.

Heat and cold is a punishment!

The weather conditions, from the summer heat or the bitter cold in the winter without proper air conditioning, have become an additional punishment imposed by the Israeli occupation state on the prisoners, Helmy Al-Araj confirms.

According to al-Araj, the lack of means of cooling or ventilation causes additional suffering to the prisoner, especially from the sick, especially those who suffer from asthma or sinuses, and in light of insufficient ventilation, and in light of overcrowding, the suffering increases, and what is happening is collective punishment of prisoners that affects their lives.

Al-Araj indicates that Israel benefits from overcrowding in prisons economically, because reducing overcrowding means that it requires the presence of additional departments or prisons, and this means other financial budgets, which Israel does not want, noting that the issue of overcrowding in prisons may rise to the level of torture. Psychology of the prisoner.

Al-Araj notes that the failure to provide a suitable living environment for the prisoner explains the reasons for the increase in diseases among the prisoners, including serious and chronic diseases, which are suffering whose causes are complex, the most important of which is neglect and the failure to create a suitable living environment for the prisoners, in contravention of human rights and international agreements.

The Israeli army announced, on Saturday morning, that its forces were subjected yesterday to an anti-tank missile fired from the northern Gaza Strip.

An Israeli military spokesman claimed that the missile landed in an open area in the cover, causing a fire.

He indicated that there were no injuries or damages.

For the fifth day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces continue their aggression against the Gaza Strip, while the resistance is still responding to it, by firing rockets at the settlements and cities bordering the Strip, and at times extending the oil slick to Tel Aviv and occupied Jerusalem.

During the night hours, Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids on separate targets in the Gaza Strip.

Those planes destroyed two houses in Gaza City, one of which belonged to the father of the martyr Bahaa Abu al-Ata in al-Shujaiya neighborhood, and the other belonged to the Muhanna family in the Yarmouk area.

It also launched raids on agricultural and vacant lands in separate areas, causing several injuries.

Here is a direct and updated follow-up to the aggression on the Strip:

- 3 injuries in Israeli shelling near Al-Awda Towers in the northern Gaza Strip.

- The resistance launches a missile salvo.

- The occupation bombed a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

- The occupation bombs empty lands in the northern Gaza Strip.

- The resistance launches a new missile salvo.

- The occupation bombed a house for the Salmi family in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

- The occupation bombs lands in separate areas of the Strip.

- The occupation destroys a house in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

- Damages in the yard of a settler building in Netivot by resistance missiles.

- A young man was injured in an air strike on a motorcycle in Rafah.

- The occupation bombs lands in separate areas of the Strip.

- The occupation bombs two houses for the Al-Shinbari family in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The occupation bombed a house in Bir al-Na'ja, in the northern Gaza Strip.

- 3 injured as Iron Dome missiles hit citizens' homes in Rafah.

- Two injured in the bombing of a house in the town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

- Occupation aircraft destroy a house in Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

- Two injured in the bombing of agricultural lands in the northern Gaza Strip.

- The resistance is bombing Ashdod, Ghan is annihilating, and Netivot.

- The resistance launches a missile salvo at Ashkelon.

The resistance threatens to launch rockets.

A warplane bombards empty lands in several areas of the Gaza Strip.

- A warplane destroys a house for the Kafarneh family in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip.

- The occupation destroys a house in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.

- Occupation planes bomb agricultural land near Qlibo hill, north of the Gaza Strip.

- The resistance fires several rockets towards the town of Sderot.

- Occupation aircraft bombed agricultural land east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

- Occupation aircraft bombed land north of the town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

- The resistance launches several missiles towards the settlements bordering the southern Gaza Strip.

- Occupation aircraft bombed land east of Gaza City.

Iron Dome attempts to counter several missiles fired from the northern Gaza Strip.

On Friday evening, the Israeli occupation forces assassinated Iyad al-Hassani, the most prominent leader of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in the Gaza Strip, after bombing an apartment in the al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City.

After his assassination, some Hebrew media described him as one of the most important figures assassinated since the beginning of the current round.

Iyad al-Hassani, a resident of al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, at the age of 54, left the camp in recent years and lived in al-Karama, northwest of the city. He is a refugee from the town of Hamama, near Ashkelon.

Iyad al-Hassani was persecuted by the occupation as a young man during the first intifada, during which he was injured, and was arrested for short periods before he was released. With the establishment of the first military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, which was called the "section", he participated in the establishment of some of its groups alongside his companion. The founder of those forces, the martyr Mahmoud Al-Khawaja.

Al-Hassani supervised the preparation of the martyr Ali Al-Amawi, one of the elements of the “section” of the military wing of the Islamic Jihad at the time, to carry out an operation in the city of Ashdod in 1994, using a primitive weapon, which led to the killing of two Israelis at the time near a bus station.

In 1995, he was involved in a limited way in preparing the famous Beit Lid bombing operation, which was carried out by the martyrs Anwar Sukkar and Salah Shaker, residents of the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of at least 25 Israelis.

In 1996, he was directly involved in preparing the martyr Ramez Obeid, the perpetrator of the Dizengoff bombing, which killed 13 Israelis at the time.

Since 1995, he has become openly persecuted by the Israeli occupation forces and has become a pursuer for them, before he was arrested by the Palestinian security services upon assuming power in Gaza along with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

With the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada at the end of 2000, Al-Hassani participated in establishing the first cells of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement.

He supervised the management and leadership of various military groups that were confronting the Israeli incursions into the cities and camps of the Gaza Strip. He also supervised a series of shooting operations against settlers and the occupation forces near the settlements, in one of which led to the killing of settlers in 2002, and at that time the martyr Munir Abu Mustafa was martyred, and the unit that carried out the killing was supported. officer near Netzarim at the end of the same year.

Over the years, Al-Hassani continued to lead active military groups in different areas of the Gaza Strip, until he became a member of the Al-Quds Brigades structure within its military council, and responsible for its special operations.

Al-Hassani traveled outside the Gaza Strip several times, and he was in direct contact with important figures from the "axis of resistance" in the region, especially the Lebanese Hezbollah, as sources confirm to "Al-Quds" dot-com.

During his struggle, Al-Hasani was subjected to two assassination attempts by the Israeli occupation, and his nephew and one of his assistants for several years, Ramah Fayez Al-Hasani, who announced his death in 2011 after a mysterious explosion in a vehicle he was driving in the center of the Gaza Strip, was martyred. His family then accused the occupation of killing him.

Al-Hassani has a brother, Muhammad, one of the first local Islamic Jihad leaders in Gaza City, and he is a liberated prisoner who was released in the Gilad Shalit deal in 2011, after spending more than 24 years in the occupation prisons.

The streets of the Gaza Strip were almost empty of pedestrians, and institutions and shops closed their doors, with the exception of bakeries and some food stores, which were partially opened, with the intensification of the exchange of missile shelling between Israel and the Islamic Jihad Movement.

Schools and universities have been suspended in Gaza, and government institutions are operating at a minimum according to the emergency system.

Only the horns of ambulances and civil defense can be heard in the various regions of the Gaza Strip, which is inhabited by 2.3 million people, as most of them refrain from leaving their homes for fear of the continuous Israeli warplanes raids.

And the mutual shelling between the armed Palestinian factions and the Israeli army was renewed today (Friday) after a calm that prevailed on both sides of the border for about 12 hours.

Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that the Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids targeting agricultural lands and residential houses in several areas in the north, center and south of the Strip, without causing any injuries, except for material damage and destruction in the targeted places.

Clouds of white smoke were seen in the sky of Gaza as a result of rocket fire from separate areas of the Strip, at a time when flames and black smoke rose over the Strip as a result of the Israeli raids.

The intensive raids came in the wake of the sound of warning sirens this afternoon in the city of Jerusalem for the first time since the start of the current round of tension between Israel and the armed Palestinian factions from Gaza at dawn last Tuesday.

In a statement, the Israeli army announced that it had monitored the launch of two rockets from Gaza towards the Judean Mountains (outskirts of Jerusalem), one of which was intercepted by the David's Sling system, and the second by the Iron Dome system, while the Israeli emergency and ambulance services did not announce any injuries.

The Hebrew public radio also said that for the first time since the outbreak of the current round of escalation, sirens sounded in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, due to the firing of rockets.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, said in a brief statement, "The Palestinian resistance launches a focused missile strike in two phases towards occupied Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the enemy's cities and settlements, in response to the assassinations and the continuation of the aggression against the Palestinian people."

In light of the current tension, Palestinian Tareq Ziyad, 30, refused to open his restaurant for the fourth day in the Sheikh Radwan area, north of Gaza City, despite receiving many orders via phone calls from his customers.

"The atmosphere of war is controlling us, and there is no room for us to think about working under fear," Ziyad told Xinhua.

"The priority is to try to reduce the intensity of what is happening to our children who are terrified of what is going on around them," he added.

The same applies to the elderly Abu Al-Abd Saeed, who with his sons kept their home in the town of Jabalia and closed their shop selling electrical appliances.

"There is currently no safe place in Gaza. Terror is spreading among everyone, and the bombing may target anyone (...) We hope that the war will end so we can return to our work," Saeed told Xinhua.

In turn, the Palestinian Asmahan Hassan, who is in her mid-thirties, sat with 4 of her children and her husband in one room, fearing that their house would be bombed nearby.

Asmahan told Xinhua that the situation in Gaza "is not (not) normal, and fear prevents us from even thinking of leaving the house."
The current round of tension began at dawn on Tuesday with sudden Israeli raids, killing 13 Palestinians, including three military leaders in the Islamic Jihad movement, which responded midday Wednesday by firing hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, a step adopted by the joint room of the Palestinian factions that includes the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements.

And the Israeli army spokesman, Avichai Adraei, announced in a statement today that 973 rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel during the current round, last Tuesday.

Adraei added that 296 rockets were intercepted, while the army attacked 254 targets in Gaza.

And with every Israeli raid and anti-missile launch, the feeling of terror and anxiety is perpetuated by the residents of the Strip, which intensifies every evening.

With the onset of darkness, the mutual shelling increases, which results in the sound of huge explosions that spread fear and panic even more, at a time when Israeli reconnaissance planes are flying at low altitude in the sky of the Strip.

Since the beginning of the current wave of tension, Israel has kept the (Kerem Shalom/Kerem Shalom) crossing, the only commercial outlet for the Gaza Strip, and the (Beit Hanoun/Erez) checkpoint, designated for the movement of individuals, workers and merchants from Gaza.

The Palestinian Businessmen Association in Gaza estimated that the direct and indirect financial losses of the local economy amount to nearly 50 million shekels (one dollar equals 3.6 shekels) per day due to the closure of the aforementioned crossings.

Human rights and civil society circles in Gaza have warned of a humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the tightening of the blockade of the Strip, especially the imminent depletion of fuel needed to operate the only power plant, which threatens to exacerbate the deficit in the provision of electricity.

Faced with the difficulties of the humanitarian situation, the Palestinian factions are betting on the continuation of popular support for them in their confrontation with Israel, although some residents express their anger at the repeated rounds of escalation.

Last night, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, called on the residents of the Strip to climb the roofs of the houses in conjunction with opening the loudspeakers in the mosques to shout “Allah is Greater” and applaud in support of the firing of rocket-propelled grenades.

Activists on social media circulated video clips of families on the roofs of their homes, interacting with the missile barrages that emanated from several areas in the Strip simultaneously.

Yesterday (Thursday), an Israeli was killed and 6 others were injured from the city of Rehovot, in central Israel, near the capital, Tel Aviv, for the first time since the outbreak of the round of tension, after a rocket fired from Gaza hit the building in which he resides.

On the roof of the house of the Palestinian Ali Baroud, in the center of Gaza City, the family of the man in his sixties celebrated the firing of rocket barrages from the city's outskirts towards Israel.

He also heard prayers on a large scale through loudspeakers in a number of mosques in Gaza in support of the rocket barrages fired by the Palestinian factions.

Baroud, 62, told Xinhua while he was staring at the sky, waiting for a new batch of missiles to be launched. .

The man has four children and 17 grandchildren, all of whom live in a four-storey house in the center of Gaza City, which has been damaged in previous times as a result of Israeli raids on targets of the armed factions adjacent to it.

A number of Baroud's sons said as they left the roof of the house, "Despite all our suffering, we will not stop supporting the resistance because we are facing an occupation that is aggressive against us, occupying our land and besieging us."

Yesterday, the Israeli army killed the commander of the missile unit in the Islamic Jihad Movement and his deputy in two separate strikes in Khan Yunis, and continued its attacks on homes and agricultural lands in the Strip, raising the total death toll to 31 during four days of tension.

Palestinian Omar Hamdan, a taxi driver before transporting his customers from Rafah to Gaza, told Xinhua, "It is true that I support the resistance, but the escalation is not necessary (necessary). It is repeated twice or thrice a year."

Hamdan added, "We want to have a decent life without frequent wars and terror surrounding us."

And Israel stopped the cease-fire talks with Gaza after firing rockets towards Jerusalem, according to what the Hebrew public radio reported today, according to a high-ranking Israeli official.

On Friday evening, two young men were seriously wounded by Israeli occupation forces' bullets in Al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron and Bethlehem.

The Ministry of Health stated that the young man was hit with a live bullet in the abdomen, and was taken to Al-Ahly Hospital for treatment.

The camp witnessed clashes between the occupation forces and the young men after they went out in a pro-Gaza march.

While another was wounded by live bullets from the occupation in the abdomen, I arrived at the Arab Society Hospital from the Rachel's Dome area in Bethlehem, and was admitted to the operating rooms.

The Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziyad al-Nakhala, said that the resistance in the field is in excellent condition and continues to confront the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip until the attacks stop and the occupation accepts the Palestinian conditions.

This came during a phone call between Al-Nakhala and Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian, during which they discussed the latest political and field developments in Palestine and the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Abdullahian strongly condemned this aggression and the targeted assassinations of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement, the targeting of residential neighborhoods, the killing of innocent Palestinians, especially women and children, and the clear violation of human rights by this false regime. as described.

In this phone call, Abdullahian praised the Palestinian people and their resistance against these attacks.

The State of Palestine agreed with the Kurdistan Regional Government to sign an agreement of bilateral understandings between the two countries soon, and to exchange experiences for the benefit of the two peoples.

This came during the talks of the delegation of the State of Palestine, which includes the Minister of Social Development, Ahmed Majdalani, and the National Economy, Khaled Al-Osaili, with the Minister of Trade and Industry of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Kamel Muslim, and the Minister of Investment, Muhammad Shukri, with the aim of developing and strengthening bilateral cooperation relations between them.

Majdalani said during the meeting, which was held in the presence of the Palestinian Consul General in Erbil, Nazmi Hazouri, and the official of the Arab Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Fayez Abu Al-Rub, "The State of Palestine welcomes the opening of economic cooperation and investment relations with the Kurdistan Region and the exchange of experiences."

He added that despite the occupation's obstacles, there is a development in the fields of industry and an opportunity for joint cooperation between the two parties.

In turn, Al-Osaili briefed the officials of the Iraqi Kurdistan government on the volume of investments in the State of Palestine, the openness of the Palestinian economy to the world, and work to develop the economic structure and industry in Palestine.

He praised the relations between the two sides and the aspiration towards more cooperation in the economic fields.

The delegation stressed the importance of strengthening and developing bilateral relations and opening areas of joint work.

In turn, Ministers Musallam and Shukri welcomed this Palestinian visit, stressing the depth of relations between the two sides and the aspiration for the broadest bilateral cooperation, praising the Palestinian experience.

The Palestinian delegation also briefed the Minister of Foreign Relations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Safin Mohsen Diziyi, on the latest political developments and the continued barbaric aggression of the occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip, and all the unilateral measures that undermine the opportunity for peace in the region.

The delegation conveyed the greetings of the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, and Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh. During the meeting, which was held in Erbil, in the presence of Consul Hazouri, they also discussed ways to strengthen and develop bilateral relations in various fields, and deepen relations between the Palestinian and Kurdish peoples.

The delegation put the Minister of Foreign Relations in the picture of the developments in the Palestinian land and the measures of the fascist occupation government that is blowing up the situation in the region and that under the current Israeli government there is no horizon for the political process, as it adopts a program to support settlements and undermine the Palestinian Authority.

Majdalani called for besieging the fascist occupation government, as it carries the settlement program, in addition to displacement and ethnic cleansing, calling on the countries of the world not to deal with this government unless it adheres to the resolutions of international legitimacy.

For his part, Osaily reviewed the difficult economic conditions that the State of Palestine is going through, and that the occupying state is fighting economic development in the State of Palestine, and imposing measures that impede growth and development, especially in areas classified (C), in addition to the occupied city of Jerusalem, which suffers from Judaization projects.

He pointed out that among the channels used by the occupation to deprive our people of their human right to development and undermine the foundations of the Palestinian economy is the seizure of land, water and other natural resources, narrowing the space available for choosing and implementing public policies, imposing restrictions on the movement of people and goods, destroying assets and the productive base, and expanding Israeli settlements. The fragmentation of local markets, the isolation of the Palestinian economy from international markets, and its forced dependence on the Israeli economy.

In turn, the official of foreign relations in the territory of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Sven Mohsen Diziyi, welcomed this visit, which confirms the depth of relations and the importance of developing them.

Deputy Spokesperson for the US State Department, Vedant Patel, said that the US government has accepted the findings of the Israeli occupation authorities' investigation and was endorsed by the US Security Coordinator, General Michael Finzel, closing the file on the Israeli occupation authorities' crime in the circumstances of the assassination of Palestinian-American journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh.

Patel said, in response to a question by Al-Quds.com reporter, about the level of the investigation regarding Shirin's murder: "Let me say a few things about this matter: First, we condemned Shirin's murder when it happened a year ago and we condemn it today as well. And we continue to do so." Pursue accountability to ensure steps are taken to prevent similar tragedies in the future, and we continue to engage when it comes to the rules of engagement not only with our Israeli partners but with others in other areas where journalists may find themselves in harm's way. We continue to stress the importance of accountability when it comes to killing her."

Patel added, "The findings from the Israeli military as well as the findings we discussed last summer from the US security coordinator continue to indicate that there was no intent to kill in this tragic incident, which we continue to condemn. But I think that's an important part of this." to remember him."

Regarding the ambiguity of the American position, Patel said, "The circumstances surrounding her killing for us, and for our pursuit of accountability, there is a continuation of working with our Israeli partners, with partners around the world, and partners in places where journalists find themselves in harm's way, and discussing these important issues." This is the form of accountability before us, and we will continue to work on these matters," practically closing the file on holding accountable those responsible for Shirin's killing.

When asked by the correspondent of "Al Quds" dot com, regarding what the ministry says to the family of Sherine Abu Aqelah, where are we in this process? And whether there is further investigation planned in this case by the United States of America or if it will end, Patel said: "Shereen's family has gone through something tragic, something horrible, which is the loss of a member of her family. Losing a family member in any way is nothing short of incredible." It's tragic, and sad, and unfortunate, and heartbreaking, and so I'm not going to get into that from here. What I reiterate again is that the United States will continue to pursue accountability, and continue to work with our partners in the region, with Israel, on the rules of engagement, and the steps that are being taken to ensure that that doesn't happen. That again."

It is noteworthy that while the United States called for "accountability" for the killing of journalist Sherine Abu Aqleh last year, Washington's position on the incident is tainted with contradictions, as the US government's definition of "accountability" has changed over time, as has its position on the need for an independent investigation into the killing. Abu Aqleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces a year ago.

Meanwhile, an alleged US investigation into the incident has not been confirmed, prompting questions from critics about whether President Joe Biden's administration values press freedom and accountability.

Today, Friday, Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, received a call from Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian, who conveyed a message of solidarity and standing by President Ibrahim Raisi on the side of the Palestinian people and their resistance, praising the steadfastness of Gaza and the heroism of its resistance in the ongoing confrontation with the occupation. According to a statement by Hamas.

Haniyeh expressed his thanks for the call and his appreciation of Iran's position and Raisi's message, assuring him that "the enemy bears responsibility for what is happening because of the crime of assassinating leaders and targeting civilians in their homes."

Haniyeh stressed that "the resistance is unified in the field and in political support."

Governorates - "Jerusalem" dot com - A number of citizens were wounded by live bullets, rubber-coated bullets, and suffocation, during clashes that erupted with the occupation forces in the governorates of the West Bank, today, Friday.

Local sources said that a number of citizens suffocated with tear gas today, Friday, during clashes with the occupation in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and Beita, to the south.

In Qalqilya, a young man was wounded with live bullets in the foot, two others with rubber-coated metal, and dozens suffocated, today, Friday, during the Israeli occupation army’s attack on the participants in the weekly anti-settlement march in Kafr Qaddum.

The media spokesman in the Qalqilya region, Murad Shteiwi, said that the occupation soldiers fired live bullets at the participants, wounding a 21-year-old with a bullet in the foot, after which he was transferred to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.

He added that the occupation army also fired metal bullets, wounding two young men, in addition to tear gas suffocation, including women and children who were treated in the field.

The march started from the Omar Bin Al-Khattab Mosque, with the participation of hundreds of townspeople, to denounce the occupation’s crimes against our people and its aggression against the Gaza Strip, during which the participants chanted angry national slogans.

A leader in the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, and his companions were killed, and several others were injured, on Friday, as a result of a series of air strikes that it is still carrying out in separate areas of the Gaza Strip.

Aircraft raids targeted a residential apartment in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, north of Gaza City, killing Iyad al-Hassani, a prominent leader in the al-Quds Brigades, and his companion, Walid Abdel-Al, and wounding 6 others.

The raid caused great damage to the apartment and a fire engulfed parts of it.

The occupation planes also bombed and destroyed 7 other houses in Rafah, Khan Yunis, Deir al-Balah, Beit Lahiya, and the Fallujah area in Jabalia.

The Israeli warplanes bombed several lands in separate areas of the Strip.

While the resistance continued to fire rockets and mortars towards the occupation sites, settlements and cities.

Crowds of people mourned, on Friday afternoon, the body of the martyr Uday Riad al-Louh (26 years old) in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The funeral procession started in front of the Al-Shuhada Mosque, amid the cheers of the participants in the procession, condemning the crimes of the Israeli occupation on the Gaza Strip, which continues for the fourth day in a row.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine had mourned the martyr Uday al-Louh, stressing that it would continue on the path of resisting the occupation until the liberation of all of Palestine.

Al-Louh was martyred yesterday evening in an Israeli raid near Al-Dawa Mosque, north of the camp.

Today, Friday, large Palestinian crowds mourned the body of the martyr Ghazi Youssef Shehab (66 years old) in Tulkarem.

The funeral procession departed from Al-Israa Hospital in Tulkarem with military ceremonies, to Nur Shams camp, where he was given a farewell look by his family.

The mourners prayed for the martyr Shihab in the Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq Mosque, to be carried on the shoulders towards the camp cemetery and buried there.

Shehab was shot in the abdomen by the Israeli occupation yesterday, after he left his house on his way to work, during the storming of Nour Shams camp, and he was transferred to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus due to the seriousness of his condition, after which he rose to a martyr due to his injury.

Today, Friday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said, "The strikes of the resistance, which hit the depths of the Israeli entity, are nothing but a small precursor to what it has prepared for this confrontation that it is waging in defense of our people in all areas of its presence."

And she added in a statement: "This enemy has no solution, except to stop its aggressive campaign against the Gaza Strip, and the unified resistance of our people will continue, expand and escalate in all arenas."

Pointing out that the occupation was the one who started this aggressive, criminal campaign against the Gaza Strip, Al-Shaabi said: "But the resistance forces have long prepared to confront it, and they are fully prepared for a long confrontation in which the unity and integration of the resistance forces and the struggle of the Palestinian and Arab masses in all arenas are deliberate."

She added, "The heroes of the Al-Quds Brigades and its leaders, and all the heroes of the resistance in all its formations, are our flesh, blood, and bone. We are not talking about partnership or coordination between the forces of resistance only, but about the blood of all the heroes of the resistance that mixed in the arenas of confrontation against the enemy."

The Popularity affirmed that the forces of resistance combined did not and will not waste the blood of a single Palestinian, and the enemy will know what their unity means in all arenas of confrontation. according to the text of the statement.

Tens of thousands performed Friday prayers at the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict military measures imposed by the Israeli occupation forces at the gates and entrances of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 40,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The occupation forces deployed in the streets of the city and the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, stationed at its gates, stopped the worshipers, checked their identity cards, and prevented dozens from entering the mosque.

Thousands of citizens performed the dawn prayer in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the restrictions imposed by the occupation and the strict military measures imposed by its forces.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said, "The resistance is carrying out its duty unifiedly in defending our Palestinian people in the face of the continued aggression of the occupation."

Qassem stressed in a statement today, Friday, that the Israeli occupation will not succeed in breaking the will of the resistance, or the steadfastness of our people in the Gaza Strip by escalating its terrorism. According to him.

He pointed out that all experiences have proven the impossibility of the occupation's victory in the battle of wills with our Palestinian people.

Ihsan Ataya, a member of the political bureau of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine and its representative in Lebanon, said on Friday that the Al-Quds Brigades are managing the current battle with competence at the level of control and control, despite its loss of martyr leaders, and they have no problem with the timescale of this battle.

Ataya confirmed in an interview with Al-Quds.com that the resistance in Gaza imposes and proves the power equations that it established years ago, noting that "the political level that manages the talks is keen to prevent the enemy from achieving its goals, and will not agree to a cease-fire at any cost." .

In response to a question about whether the coming hours will bear a declaration of a cease-fire, Attaya said that the talks are still ongoing, and all possibilities are open, pointing out that the Israeli occupation is begging for a cease-fire from the mediators, at a time when the resistance feels comfortable on the ground and temporally, even on the political level.

He said: "The enemy cannot put pressure on the resistance in Gaza as it did in previous battles, because it realizes the price it will pay in the event of expanding the confrontation, which will be met by the expansion of the fire pit by the resistance, and the occupation will not bear a long-term confrontation, so the longer we extend the time period, the more it hurts it." More, and therefore the first response was the psychological warfare that made the enemy await this response for a whole day, or even more, and its movement was paralyzed, and the settlements in the Gaza border became empty, and all of this is an achievement recorded for the resistance and its effective tactics.

Attaya added, "The current problem is with the Israeli occupation, which always reneges on understandings and does not fulfill promises, and no one in this world can oblige it to what it declares its commitment to, and this problem exists with the enemy," noting that the resistance in this round imposed its strength and was able to strengthen the deterrence equation. An important style and tactic in managing the battle.

Regarding the conditions of resistance, the member of the Political Bureau contented himself with referring to the most prominent of them, which is stopping assassinations and obligating the occupation to this condition, indicating that dialogues are still ongoing about guarantees, and despite that, "the enemy does not believe in his side, breaks his promises, and does not abide by his pledges, and we are aware of that, but this does not stop us." To continue our battle on various levels, and to make every effort to achieve our goals, and our leadership manages this battle on the military and political levels with great strength, wisdom and sophistication.

And he considered that talking about calm and a cease-fire and delving into the details of the talks taking place at this stage confuses public opinion, which is asking us for more, and that it is important to focus on the achievements of the resistance and its ability to inflict losses on the ranks of the occupation, and the state of confusion it caused.

In response to a question about the failure of the Secretary-General of Islamic Jihad, Ziyad al-Nakhala, to the Egyptian invitation, and the absence of any comment from him since the beginning of the tour to the media, Ataya said: "The assessment of the situation is up to the Secretary-General."

Regarding what was rumored about the visit of an Egyptian delegation to Lebanon, Ataya implicitly denied this, and said: “There are media mouthpieces in the Zionist entity working to confuse, mislead and broadcast inaccurate information, and many interact with it through the means of communication, so it is important that our level of awareness rise in our battle.” media and politics to benefit from in the coming rounds.

On Friday, Israel announced the cessation of truce talks after the Palestinian resistance bombed occupied Jerusalem with missiles.

The Hebrew channel Reshet Kan quoted an official political source as saying that Egypt had been informed to stop the talks.

Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested an activist from Ain al-Sultan camp in Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces stormed the camp and arrested Khamis Eid Khamis Jahalin, 34, a member of the Fatah Organizational Zone, after raiding and searching his house.

Samer's salary, a soldier in the Lebanese army, is no longer enough to provide him with the basic needs of his house, so he found the solution to work as a mechanic in addition to his military service, hoping to secure a better life for his young family amid the economic collapse ravaging the country.

Samer is one of the thousands of members of the army and security forces in Lebanon who are now practicing a second profession, to compensate for the low value of their salaries after the deterioration of the value of the national currency, although the military regulations prohibit this and their violators are subject to penalties.

However, in light of the economic collapse and the lira’s loss of nearly 98 percent of its value, the leadership of the military and security forces turns a blind eye to the issue, in order to allow its members to secure what the bankrupt state is unable to provide.

Samer, 28, who asked to use a pseudonym, told AFP, "The military establishment knows that we are working, but it turns a blind eye, because the soldier can no longer bear it."

Eighty percent of the population in Lebanon lives below the poverty line.

And the young man, who is currently working in a car repair shop run by his uncle in the city of Tripoli (north), one of the poorest cities on the eastern basin of the Mediterranean, added, "If we had not done that, everyone would have fled and not a single member of the army would have remained."

Samer, a father of a young child, joined the military when he was 19 years old, thinking that he would “guarantee his future,” with the continuity, medical care and social advancements offered by the job in the public sector in Lebanon, but the crisis turned his life upside down.

He explains, "My salary was equal to 800 dollars before the crisis, today I only get a hundred dollars," with the temporary increases and measures that were approved to support salaries.

Every week, Samer spends three days in his military service, and works for another three days in the workshop. However, his intake is "less than enough to provide food, drink, diapers and milk".

With the authorities unable to contain the crisis and the repercussions of the collapse of the lira, Qatar began in the summer of 2022 to provide financial support to the army in the form of financial assistance of $100 to its members for a period of six months.

And the United States took the same step, as it started last month, in coordination with the United Nations Development Program, to provide financial assistance in the amount of one hundred dollars per month over a period of six months to the members of the Internal Security Forces, provided that this applies to the army as well.

But in a country where inflation is huge and the exchange rate of the lira changes daily, aid makes no difference.

"At the end of the month, I don't even have a thousand pounds left with me," Samer says.

The economic collapse has put all sectors, including the army and security forces, in front of several challenges, most notably continuing to secure basic needs such as food, medicine, fuel, maintenance of equipment, and maintaining medical care at its level.

Since the beginning of the crisis, the army leadership has relied on austerity in its budget. For example, meat has been reduced from the military meals. Then, in 2021, it launched helicopter tours for civilians, in return for a fee.

After he tried to reconcile his military service with working as a waiter in a well-known restaurant near Beirut, Ahmed decided to flee the army and devote himself to his work.

"I grew up loving the military uniform. I still love it, but we suffocated," Ahmed, 29, a pseudonym, told AFP. Ahmed has spent ten years at the Foundation.

"I left the army because I found that there was no hope of survival," the young man explains, adding, "I felt as if I was living in the gutter. I only got better when I fled."

And after his military salary did not exceed the threshold of fifty dollars a year and a half ago, he now earns 450 dollars from his work as a waiter. Today, he is eagerly awaiting the birth of his first child.

The fields in which the soldiers work are varied, such as restaurants, bakeries, agriculture, hairdressing, taxi driving, construction, and even as private security personnel.

The army command did not respond to AFP's questions on the matter.

The same suffering applies to the security forces, whose situation appears to be more difficult than the military institution, which receives aid from several countries, most notably the United States, to confront the economic crisis.

A security source told AFP, "The Internal Security Forces turn a blind eye to the members' doing jobs aside, because there are no other solutions. The state is unable to improve their salaries and all the burdens, even school fees, are now in dollars."

"We are trying to help them as much as possible, but even the one hundred dollars provided by the United States is not sufficient in light of the current situation," he added.

The budget allocated for the treatment of security personnel is no longer sufficient, with the high cost of hospitalization, and hospitals receiving financial allowances in dollars.

The salary of Elie (37 years), a member of the Internal Security Forces and father of three children, today does not exceed the threshold of 50 dollars today, so he only joined his father to help him in the agricultural work, to provide additional income, albeit a little.

"The worst thing about it is that there is no doctor anymore, and if I break my leg during my shift, I have to bear the cost of treatment," Elie says.

"Simply put, our situation is abysmal," he adds.

The economic crisis, according to what Dina Araqji, a researcher at the Control Risks Center, explained to AFP, affected "the ability of the security services to work appropriately and the morale" of their members.

With the disregard for security and army personnel practicing other professions, the agencies' ability to "respond to the country's internal security needs is under threat," she says, in a country witnessing political division and stagnation affecting the work of all institutions.

Today, Friday, a young man was wounded by a settler's gunfire near Silwad, east of Ramallah.

According to local sources, the settlers stormed the "Shaqara" area located between the towns of Silwad and Deir Jarir, which led to clashes between them and a number of young men who confronted them.

One of the settlers opened fire at the young men, wounding one of them with a live bullet in the side. After that, he was taken to the Silwad town emergency center.

The Israeli occupation forces immediately stormed the area to provide protection for the settlers.

Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said, on Friday, that the residents of the Gaza border, after each tour, are left alone to face psychological and mental trauma without the attention of the Israeli governments.

According to the newspaper, the residents of the cover who suffer from severe psychological conditions, after each round, are forced to travel long distances to Tel Aviv and other places in order to receive psychiatric treatment, and sometimes they wait for months to get it.

She pointed out that there are no mental health clinics in the Gaza Strip that provide services in light of the continued firing of rockets by the resistance in Gaza.

She pointed out that the "Al-Sumoud" centers for providing psychological support do not stop during and after the rounds receiving calls, which increase from time to time, and their number increases with each round.

An Israeli poll published by Maariv newspaper, on Friday, revealed that the Likud party, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, was able to bridge the gap from the "national camp" led by Benny Gantz, after the round of fighting in Gaza.

According to the poll, if the elections were held these days, the Likud party would win 27 seats, instead of the previous 25, while Gantz's party lost 4 seats to 31 now.

While the There is a Future party led by Yair Lapid will win 17 seats without change, while it was noted that the left-wing Meretz party will win 6 seats after it failed to cross the threshold of votes achieved in the recent elections as well as the latest polls to enter the Knesset, while its former ally, the Labor Party, collapses and is no longer crossed. threshold.

41% of the Israelis believe that Gantz is more suitable to head the government, while 38% believe that Netanyahu is more suitable, after 33% believed that in the poll last week.

Fifty-five percent expressed their confidence in Netanyahu's rule in managing the current round of fighting, compared to 39% who do not trust him, while 86% of the government coalition voters trust Netanyahu, while 66% of his opponents do not trust him.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated the number of people who entered Ethiopia to flee the current situation in Sudan at 18,000.

"The people who arrived from Sudan to Ethiopia through the border town of Metema have exceeded 18,000," the agency said in its latest update on the situation on Thursday, adding that so far more than 440 people have entered Ethiopia through the Kermuk border crossing in Benishangul, Ethiopia, in Gumuz region.

She noted that new arrivals were also reported at the Pagak / Bubier border crossing in the Gambella region of Ethiopia for the first time since the start of the conflict in Sudan.

Figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs showed that the arrivals were of 60 nationalities, most of them Ethiopians, Sudanese and Turks.

Sudan has witnessed bloody armed clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the capital, Khartoum, and other areas since April 15, as they accuse each other of igniting the conflict.

The German company "Adidas", which specializes in sports equipment, intends to sell part of the "Yeezy" sports shoes that it manufactured in cooperation with the controversial rapper Kanye West, and donate the proceeds to non-governmental organizations, according to what the head of the group announced Thursday.

Last October, Adidas was forced to end its cooperation with West, after his anti-Semitic remarks, which prompted it to search for a solution for thousands of Yeezy sneakers, which had achieved great success over the years.

"We have been trying for four months to find a solution to the stock of Yeezy sports shoes, as burning the goods is not a solution," Adidas President Bjorn Golden said during a general meeting of the group.

He added, "After discussing with various non-governmental organizations and many organizations that were harmed by West, they all confirmed that getting rid of the shoes is not the most appropriate solution."

"What we're trying to do right now is sell some of the Yeezy shoes and donate the proceeds to organizations that help us and have also been affected by West's comments," he added.

And he added, "We do not yet know when and how we will accomplish this task, but we are working on it."

Logically, the rapper, known as Ye, is supposed to get a percentage of the sales.

At the end of March, the remaining stock of Yeezy shoes at Adidas was valued at 500 million euros, while its sale is likely to generate 1.2 billion euros.

The United States of America and Britain are not satisfied with providing all kinds of military, political, diplomatic, scientific, and economic support, and much, much more. Rather, they have delayed issuing a statement condemning the occupying state for its aggression on the Gaza Strip, which led to martyrs, injuries, and the demolition of homes, in addition to the blockade it imposes. The Gaza Strip has been affected for more than 16 years and closed the crossings, which led to a shortage of foodstuffs, and the rescheduling of electricity distribution due to the non-arrival of the necessary materials for the production of electric power, which was reflected on the citizens who face all of this, in addition to the crimes committed against them under the guise of And under the pretexts of eliminating the leadership and elements of the Islamic Jihad, which seems to be bothering the occupying state because of its hostility towards it and the crimes committed by the occupation army and settler herds in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Although the occupying state was the one that initiated the aggression against the Strip, the United States of America and Britain do not see that the occupying state is escalating its attacks on the Palestinians, which threatens security and peace not only in the region but also in the world as a whole, due to the explosion of the situation in Palestine and thus in the region. It will have repercussions on the whole world.

Likewise, the United States of America and Britain do not care about the Palestinian civilians who were martyred during this Israeli aggression, among whom are children, women, and the elderly. With the exception of issuing statements of denunciation and denunciation that do not stop the brutal aggression and do not hold the occupying power accountable for these crimes against humanity, which are war crimes in all meanings and measures.

And instead of the two states, America and Britain, forcing the occupying state to stop its crimes that affected people, trees, and stones, by virtue of the support they provide to it, their position in the Security Council encourages the occupying state to continue its massacres against our people, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, so why double standards and support for the murderer? Continue killing?

What is required of all Arabs and Muslims is to define a clear position on America and Britain and to stop dealing with them, as long as they support the entity's state in aggression against our people.

The time has come for a firm stand against America and Britain, which do not recognize the State of Palestine, and impede the punishment of the occupying power before international courts, especially before the war crimes court that it is committing against our steadfast people. Our people will remain a thorn in the side of America, Britain and the occupying state, and these crimes will not deter them from continuing their national struggle until the full realization of their national rights to the state and independence and the departure of the occupation from their land without return.

The positions of America and Britain are unfair, and our people will not forget them and will not forgive them, no matter how long or short the time is.