A Palestinian man was shot dead in a crime-related homicide in the city of Kafr Qassem on Wednesday night.

According to the Hebrew news site Ynet, the man was from the occupied West Bank and was 32-years-old.

At dawn and Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests among citizens in separate areas of the West Bank.

In Bethlehem, Muhammad Diriyeh and Amjad Thawabteh, from the conservative town of Beit Fajjar, were arrested.

The editor, Ahmed Sharara, was arrested from Aida camp, north of Bethlehem, and Ashraf Abu Sarhan, from Al-Ubaidiya, east of it.

The young man, Laith Sharbaji, from Nablus, was arrested.

Israeli forces arrested a young Palestinian for allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack inside the settlement of Kiryat Arba, near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday.

According to Hebrew tabolid Israel Hayom, the Palestinian man was arrested due to "suspicious" behaviour just a few dozen meters away from the home of the far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.

A 19-year-old Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded by live fire in clashes that emerged with Israeli occupation forces at Joseph's Tombs on Thursday morning, after they had secured the entrance of hundreds of settlers to the holy site.

Armed Palestinian resistance shot toward the occupation forces, while other youths threw stones and firebombs.

The martyr was identified as Badr Sami Al-Masry, and thousands of people gathered in Nablus to mourn him/

Medical sources said that he was shot in the chest, and that doctors were unable to save his life. 

The same sources said that at least one other person is in serious condition. At least 65 others suffered from tear gas inhalation, including a baby, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. 

The Red Crescent also said an ambulance had its windshield destroyed by rubber bullets, while other medical staff were obstructed from reaching the wounded.

The Polisario Front, which is seeking, with the support of Algeria, to establish an independent state in Western Sahara, considered that Israel's decision to "recognize Morocco's sovereignty" over this disputed region has "no value."

The Sahrawi "Ministry of Information" said in a statement published by the official Algerian News Agency, "This decision, from Israel or others, has no legal or political value."

The statement added that the Israeli decision "will only increase the determination of the Sahrawi people to continue their national struggle on various fronts."

On Monday, the Moroccan royal court announced that the Hebrew state had decided to "recognize Morocco's sovereignty" over the territory of Western Sahara, referring to a message in this regard sent by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu's office confirmed to AFP the contents of the letter.

In its statement, the Polisario warned of "the serious repercussions of the Israeli-Moroccan alliance, and the endeavor to exploit the war in Western Sahara to implement joint subversive security and military agendas aimed at destabilizing the security and stability of the North African region and the Sahel in general."

The front denounced "the Zionist entity's recognition of Morocco's alleged sovereignty over Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa," stressing that "this 'non-event' par excellence constitutes a new step within the framework of the lowest and most heinous kind of barter."

And she considered that this recognition "does not constitute any gain for the Moroccan occupying state, but rather a clear condemnation of it by confirming the alliance of the two discordant states, the military occupiers of Western Sahara and Palestine."

She also believed that the Israeli decision "carries with it mockery and disregard for the feelings of millions of the brotherly Moroccan people who hold Palestine and Jerusalem in their hearts."

Western Sahara is a former Spanish colony, Morocco controls 80 percent of its territory and proposes to grant it autonomy under its sovereignty, while the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia al-Hamra and the Valley of Gold "Polisario" calls for a referendum on self-determination.

The Israeli decision in support of Rabat came in the context of continued tension between Morocco and its neighbor Algeria, which severed diplomatic relations with the Kingdom in the summer of 2021.

At the heart of these tensions is the dispute over Western Sahara, over which Morocco and the Polisario Front have been locked in a dispute since 1975.

The Kingdom of Morocco and Israel have been working to strengthen their relations since their normalization in late 2020 through a tripartite agreement, which also included the United States' recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

On Wednesday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a royal invitation to visit Morocco.

According to Netanyahu's office, he received a message from Moroccan King Mohammed VI, which included his invitation to visit Morocco to open new horizons in the relationship between the two sides.

The Moroccan monarch thanked Netanyahu for the latter's government's recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

This evening, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young man from the village of Zabuba, west of Jenin.

According to local sources, these forces arrested Omar Majdi Obeidi while he was passing through the "Dotan" military checkpoint established on the lands of the town of Ya'bad.

Washington – Met by raucous applause, Israel's President Isaac Herzog dubbed "Palestinian terror" a "moral disgrace" and said that it "undermines any future peace" in a historic address to a joint session of U.S. Congress on Wednesday.

Invited by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Israel's president waxed lyrical about the "shared values" between Israel and the U.S., and drew attention to his father Chaim Herzog's own address to Congress during his presidency in 1987. 

In the first part of his speech, Herzog addressed Iran's nuclear program, which he described as "a threat to the region and beyond." 

"Allowing Iran to become a nuclear threshold state, either through omission or diplomatic commission, is unacceptable," he said, and called for the “Israel and the United States to act forcefully together.”

“The world cannot remain indifferent to Iran’s call to wipe Israel off the map," he added.

Despite the warm reception from both parties, the speech was boycotted by five Democrats, including Palestinian-American Representative Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 

The speech also comes in the shadow of a major bipartisan motion to declare that Israel is not a "racist state," after Rep. Pramila Jayapal from the Democratic Party backtracked on her comments describing Israel in these words. 

Herzog praised Israel's cooperation with Egypt and Jordan, and the "warm peace" of the Abraham Accords with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco. He also said that he "prays" for peace with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

After speaking at length about normalization agreements, Herzog turned to the Palestinians. The president said that he hopes that Israel will “one day make peace with our Palestinian neighbors,” and claimed that “over the years, Israel has taken bold steps toward peace and made far-reaching proposals."

"However, true peace cannot be anchored in violence," Herzog said. “Palestinian terror against Israel or Israelis undermines any future peace," he said.

He also condemned Hamas for holding the bodies of Israeli soldiers.

Israel's president also commended U.S. President Joe Biden's plan to combat antisemitism, but also pushed the conflation between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. "Questioning Jewish people's legitimate right to self-determination is not diplomacy, it's antisemitism," he added.

Biden and Herzog met on Tuesday to discuss "key issues of mutual concern, including enhanced coordination to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and Iran’s growing defense partnership with Russia.  They noted the strength of the U.S.-Israel relationship, based on the bedrock of shared democratic values, and discussed the need for a consensus-based approach to the judicial reform package."

The judicial overhaul has been one of the main causes of a rupture between the U.S. president and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Earlier in the week, the two held a phone call after which Netanyahu said that he had been invited to the White House, though no official date has been set. 

In his speech, Herzog said that Israelis going through a “heated and painful debate…revisiting and renegotiating the balance of our institutional powers in the absence of a written constitution.”

However, he described the fierce division as the “the clearest tribute to the fortitude of Israel’s democracy.”

"As president of Israel I am here to tell the American people that I have great confidence in Israeli democracy, although we are working through sour issues, just like you...Israel has democracy in its DNA," he added.

The White House readout on Biden and Herzog's meeting also said that the U.S. President "reiterated his commitment to maintaining a path for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the best avenue to a lasting and just peace, and to providing Israelis and Palestinians equal measures of freedom, prosperity and security.  The President stressed the need to take additional measures to improve the security and economic situation in the West Bank and prevent acts of terrorism."

In a letter to the European Union, Lebanon condemned today (Wednesday) a decision of the European Parliament that supports keeping Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and called for launching a constructive and comprehensive dialogue between Lebanon and the European Union on the issue of Syrian displacement.

This came according to the official Lebanese National News Agency, in a letter sent by the Foreign Minister of the Lebanese caretaker government, Abdullah Bouhabib, to the Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.

In his message, he stressed "the need to launch a constructive and comprehensive dialogue between Lebanon and the European Union on all files, especially the Syrian displacement file, which has begun to pose a threat not only to the Lebanese social structure and economic stability, but also to the continued existence of Lebanon as an entity."

In his letter, Bouhabib also expressed "Lebanon's adherence to its rights and responsibilities in facilitating the safe and dignified return of displaced Syrians to their homes, especially to safe areas, in line with the principles of international law, and in a manner that does not contradict the Lebanese constitution, which stipulates that Lebanon is not a country of asylum."

He pointed out, "The need for the international community to work to address the causes of Syrian displacement, as stated in the European Parliament's decision, and to accelerate early recovery, including securing basic infrastructure and social services in Syria, in order to facilitate the return of the displaced."

He reaffirmed Lebanon's readiness to launch a dialogue with the European Union aimed at drawing up a road map for the safe and dignified return of the displaced Syrians to their country.

He encouraged "to proceed with the idea of ​​forming a comprehensive administrative advisory mission affiliated with the European Union to discuss the urgent needs of the Lebanese public sector and the provision of basic services."

Bouhabib expressed his hope for "launching a comprehensive and constructive Lebanese-European dialogue covering all fields, particularly the sensitive issue of the displaced."

Last Wednesday, the European Parliament issued a resolution supporting keeping Syrian refugees in Lebanon, expressing "concern about the escalation of anti-refugee rhetoric by Lebanese political parties and ministers."

The resolution urged Lebanon to "refrain from deportation, imposing discriminatory measures and inciting hatred against Syrian refugees" in the event of any action regarding immigration.

Following its issuance, the decision received negative reactions and criticism from Lebanese officials and parties, considering it an "interference in the internal affairs" of Lebanon.

And the Lebanese caretaker government confirmed on June 13 that the Syrian refugees in Lebanon must return to their country in coordination with Syria and the League of Arab States, provided that it is a dignified and safe return in line with international resolutions, especially Resolution 2254.

The government emphasized direct coordination with Syria through a ministerial delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the membership of the Ministers of the Displaced, Social Affairs, Labor, Culture, Tourism, Agriculture and Information, the Secretary General of the Supreme Defense Council, and the Director of Public Security.

The Lebanese General Security had previously implemented a plan for the safe and voluntary return of the displaced, in coordination with the Syrian authorities, which included, between 2017 and 2019, about 540,000 refugees, but work on this plan stopped with the outbreak of the Corona pandemic.

The Lebanese General Security estimates the number of Syrians residing in the country at two million and 80 thousand, who constitute social, economic and security pressures on the country, which has been facing since the end of 2019 an acute economic and financial crisis.

Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian man near the West Bank city of Jericho on Wednesday.

According to local sources, Israeli troops set up a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to Jericho, and stopped the vehicle of Hussam Abu Dahouk, from Aqabat Jabr refugee camp, to arrest him. 

The official spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said that stopping settlements and ending the Israeli occupation of the land of the State of Palestine is one integrated package to ensure the achievement of peace, security and stability in the region.

Abu Rudeineh's statements came in response to statements issued by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which denied the settlement freeze by saying, "There will be no and there was no freeze."

Abu Rudeineh added that without changing the Israeli policy that seeks to annex, expand and perpetuate the occupation, the entire region is at a dangerous historical and strategic crossroads.

He continued: What is required is pressure on Israel in a practical and immediate manner, away from statements and sayings, and obliging it to implement the decisions of international legitimacy, foremost of which is the cessation of settlement activities that violate international law, especially Resolution 2334, because the conditions on the ground can no longer tolerate more condemnations without result.

The official spokesman for the presidency confirmed that all the projects that the occupation is trying to implement to sustain the occupation will not achieve anything with the steadfastness of the Palestinian people on their land, and with the strong Palestinian efforts on the international arena, which showed a weakness in Israel’s ability due to its disregard for international legitimacy and international law, stressing that the official Palestinian position is clear. Its basis is the national constants, international legitimacy and the Arab peace initiative.

Jenin – Minister Nasser Qatami, adviser to the Prime Minister for Arab and Islamic Funds Affairs, said that the Palestinian Authority will "do everything necessary" to reconstruct Jenin refugee camp. 

This comes a fortnight after Israel's two-day onslaught, the most extensive invasion of a West Bank city in two decades, resulted in the killing of 12 Palestinians, the injury of dozens of others, and widespread damage to infrastructure and property.

Following his visit to the camp, Qatami told Al-Quds "We have never stopped supporting the Jenin Governorate and its camp, which constitutes a symbol of steadfastness and confrontation, and the Jenin Governorate as a whole deserves all our support and assistance."

He added that the Palestinian Authority "does not have a ceiling" when it comes to financial support for the camp, and that they are willing to do "everything necessary in order to restore the situation, and to ensure it will be veven better than it was before." 

Qatami also condemned the Israeli occupation for "forever seeking to destroy our infrastructure and besiege our people."

Mohammad Sabbagh, the head of the People's Services Committee of the Jenin Refugee Camp, extended his appreciation for the solidarity with the camp, and the efforts made to rebuild the homes and infrastructure. 

"This is confirmation that the camp is not alone in this battle to defend the rights of the Palestinian people and their just cause," Sabbagh said. 

"We can build through it a new vision that brings together all Palestinians under one banner, which is the cause of Palestine and the liberation of our people," he added.

The governor of Jenin, Akram Rajoub, stressed that completing the reconstruction process and implementing it as soon as possible, in line with the instructions of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Pointing to several tours and visits from Arab and international organizations, Rajoub said that the Palestinians of Jenin "value the efforts of all those who stood by the Jenin camp and after this violent attack carried out by the Israeli war machine," and that that "all the Arab peoples and the free people of the world support this resistance to get rid of occupation."

Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday that he will present a motion to the cabinet to limit the activities of the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli Army Radio. 

Smotrich, who also oversees the settlement portfolio in the Defense Ministry, said that he would seek to classify some of the Palestinian Authority's pursuits as "hostile political activity."

After Israel's two-day invasion of Jenin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would ensure that the Palestinian Authority wouldn't collapse, though he did not offer any concrete steps for respite to the beleaguered authority. 

In an update to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, Smotrich said that his decision is driven both by financial considerations and part of his campaign against the Palestinian Authority attempts to "seize" land in Area C of the West Bank, which is under Israeli civilian and military control according to the Oslo Accords.

In the same Knesset committee, the Israeli military commander of the occupied West Bank confirmed that 95% of building permit requests by Palestinians in the Area C of the West Bank are rejected.

There is a wide debate in Israel about what is described as the “crisis of the relationship with the American administration.” The debate, especially on this point, is not entirely objective, due to its investment in the crisis in the internal debate between the forces fighting over power and influence.

And given that the American presence in Israeli life has a strong influence on public opinion, each of the parties to the conflict is keen to accuse the other of misconduct towards Israel's first and last ally.

The opposition accuses the government of provoking the US administration, by neglecting the common values ​​on which the strategic relationship with the superpower was built. In this context, the government proceeds with judicial reforms that the administration has reservations about. Likewise, the presence of extremist elements in the government that embarrasses the US administration with its “language and behavior,” and narrows the margins for defending Israel.

As for the government... it defends its policies, by exaggerating its claim of independence from American policies and positions, to the extent that many of its ministers and writers showed contempt for it, and called for its challenge not only in Israel but also within the United States itself... and this matter has reached an extreme level. Explicit talk about alternatives, by developing relations with other countries, with which the United States is not satisfied.

Netanyahu is the blatant headline of the current crisis, and given his realization of the strength of American influence on public opinion in Israel, he attaches an almost fateful weight to the American disapproval of his coronation by the White House, and his willful neglect of shedding a revealing American light on the head of state who was invited to Washington.

A shrewd politician like Netanyahu realizes the significance of the president's call as a factor of heavy pressure on him and his coalition.

Netanyahu also realizes that it is an American taming project and not a decisive boycott, and he lost his balance when the Biden administration put him under conditions that he could not meet, in order to open the doors of the White House in front of him, and the most difficult of these conditions is giving up the hard-line ministers who are the basis for his survival in his position.

As well as abandoning judicial reforms, and this is what Netanyahu considers the end of his term as prime minister now, and in the future.

By scrutinizing the location of the Palestinian issue in the American-Israeli crisis, and even the dispute with the administration regarding it seems secondary, and it can be described as “marginal” in terms of influencing the general course of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. America, which does not stop criticizing settlement policy, and excessive abuse of the Palestinians It does not propose serious solutions to the root of the problem, insofar as it manages a crisis through which Israel understands that it has a free hand in continuing its "Palestinian" policy... In the sense that the American position on this issue in particular is easy to contain and empty it of any actual influences.

In a lengthy article by Mr. Dennis Ross, who is one of the most important American experts on the Palestinian-Israeli issue, and what is broader, i.e. the Middle East issue, I noted an accurate and detailed diagnosis of the reality of the Palestinian-Israeli crisis, but what he saw as a way out of it was to reproduce the experience of Salam Fayyad "Reformist" and called on President Abbas to assign him, or someone like him, to head a new government.

America, the official administration and the experts in its orbit, do not come close to the fact that the Palestinian-Israeli situation will not be dealt with by bureaucratic formulas, as its basis is political and there is no choice but to deal with it politically. On the political horizon”, which shows that the only global force that can be relied upon to influence Israeli policies towards the Palestinians affects adaptation to reality, and this is what the Israelis desire and depend on.

The current Israeli-American crisis should be read not from the angle of an American objection to ministers in a government, nor from the angle of objection to excessive Israeli behavior that abuses the Palestinians, but rather from a deeper and broader angle, which can be summarized very succinctly: “Different administrations are an almost daily matter. However, it is not permissible for him to touch the basis of the strategic relationship between the two countries.” Note: The recent phone call between Biden and Netanyahu was done to contain Netanyahu's reaction to procrastination in his invitation and to give the president an opportunity, and Netanyahu will be invited finally, and Biden will continue his conservative position on judicial reforms, and thus he has retracted in the matter of the visit and has not retracted in other contentious matters This satisfies Netanyahu and does not satisfy his opponents.

The occupation, in various ways and means, does not stop destroying and demolishing public buildings and official institutions in all regions and locations, and therefore the reconstruction of what the occupation destroys is considered an important and obligatory basic issue, and it has the best response to this abhorrent occupation.

Among the last examples that the government has taken, but not the last, is the approval of the report on the reconstruction of Jenin and its camp, as well as the damages resulting from the storming of Nablus and other cities and towns, as well as the result of the attacks of settlers who not only confiscate lands and displace their people, but also carry out large-scale demolitions whenever they can in Various locations, especially in areas where they plan to establish settlements or expand existing ones.

The settlers' arrogance and attacks are generally done with the support and encouragement of the occupation government, which is primarily building settlements, confiscating land and displacing residents in most parts of the West Bank.

And if the government cannot prevent the occupation from these heinous practices, then it plays another important and useful role in which it responds to the practices of this occupation, which does not know a law and does not respect rights, when it decides to rebuild what was destroyed or destroyed by the occupation.

The latest example of this situation is the adoption by the government in its last session of the report on the reconstruction of Jenin and its camp and the repair of damages resulting from the storming of the city of Nablus and the town of Umm Safa, as well as directing instructions to the competent authorities led by the Ministry of Local Government to coordinate efforts and ensure the speedy reconstruction. He also formed another committee to remove obstacles And the obstacles that the occupation places in front of reform projects, road construction, and similar measures.

The occupation, with its military force, can certainly put various obstacles and obstacles, but it certainly cannot and will not be able, on any given day, to break the will of our people and their aspiration for the future and to build the state that it calls for and works for, and if they demolish a house, we will build a hundred houses, and if they destroy a street, we will We will build dozens of streets, and therefore they will certainly not break the will of our people nor their adherence to their right to a decent life and the freedom that they call for.

Last night, the settlers of "Harmish" west of the town of Ya'bad, south of Jenin, kidnapped a freed prisoner from the town of Qabatiya.

According to local sources, a number of settlers kidnapped the freed prisoner, Maher Sati Abu al-Rub, from Qabatiya, after assaulting him while he was passing near the settlement on the main street linking Jenin and Tulkarm near Ya`bad, and he was handed over to the occupation forces present in the place.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Office instructed the heads of security services to work to facilitate the entry of American citizens residing in the Gaza Strip into Israel, as he pushes for Israel's entry in the U.S. visa exemption program.

According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, security officials have raised concerns about the risks of such a step. Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet, has held talks on this issue with senior U.S. officials.

Netanyahu's office has made it clear to security officials that meeting the criteria from the visa waiver program is a top priority for the administration, Haaretz said. 

The policy is an attempt to meet the condition of equal treatment of any American citizen at Israel's land and air borders.

Israel's security at its borders is known for strenuous and invasive security processes against people of Palestinian origin. 

Last week, Israel published a new procedure that would ease restrictions imposed on the movement of Palestinians who hold American citizenship when entering Israel, as well as when crossing into the West Bank.

While Americans living in Gaza Strip are treated more strictly, the new procedure does not detail their ability to enter and exit Israel freely during their stay. It does, however, guarantee that they enter through the Allenby Crossing on the Jordanian border, and they will be required to request permission to do so from Israel and the Palestinian Authority before at least 45 days before their travel dates.

Israel's security establishment fears that lifting restrictions on movement will be abused by "hostile actors," Haaretz says.

Today, Wednesday, work in the health system in "Israel" will be suspended for two hours, as part of the protest activities against the plan for judicial changes.

The Medical Syndicate announced that the strike would begin at 8:30 am.

Work will be done according to the system used in emergencies. Disruptions are likely, but prior appointments for treatment are not expected to be cancelled. As reported by the Israeli Arabic-speaking Makan Radio.

Yesterday, several demonstrations were organized in various parts of "Israel", against the plan for changes in the judicial system.

In Tel Aviv, demonstrators blocked the axes of Ayalon and Namir Road, and the Israeli police dispersed them using water cannons and cavalry.

The so-called Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, arrived at the scene, where protesters greeted him with boos, describing him as a terrorist.

And the Knesset Constitution, Law and Judiciary Committee ended, at dawn today, the voting process, after long hours, on more than twenty-seven thousand reservations submitted by the opposition to the bill to reduce the argument of reasonableness, and they were all rejected.

Next week, the Knesset plenary will vote in the second and third readings on this bill.

The Israeli occupation forces launched, at dawn and Wednesday morning, a campaign of arrests among citizens in separate areas of the West Bank.

This morning, large forces of the occupation army stormed the Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, amid raids on citizens' homes.

Those forces arrested at least 4 young men, including Wissam Abu Salim and Khalil Abu Alia.

The young man, Mustafa Damasah, was arrested after storming his house in the Al-Balou’ area in Bethlehem.

In Tulkarm, the young man, Zaki al-Dasouki, was arrested after storming his house in the southern neighborhood of the city.

While the young man, Ihab Al-Khawaja, was arrested after storming his home in the town of Nilin, west of Ramallah.

The young man, Montaser Al-Sheikh, was arrested after storming his house in the town of Biddu, north of occupied Jerusalem.

Washington – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted on a symbolic resolution on Tuesday reaffirming full support for Israel in an implicit rebuke of Democrat Pramila Jayapal's comment that Israel is a "racist state."

The representative from Washington caused a firestorm on Saturday by describing Israel as a "racist state" at a convention in Chicago. She walked back the comment the following day, limiting her description to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. 

412 lawmakers voted in favor of the Republican-backed resolution, with only nine Democrats opposing. 

"The State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state, Congress rejects all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia, and the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel," the resolution said.

Representatives Jamal Bowman (New York), Cory Bush (Missouri), Andre Carson (Indiana), Summer Lee (Pennsylvania), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York State), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Ayanna Presley (Massachusetts), Delia Ramirez (Illinois) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) all voted against, while Betty McCollum (Minnesota) abstained. Jayapal herself, however, voted in favor of the resolution. 

The vote came as Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with U.S. President Joe Biden, ahead of his address to Congress on Wednesday. Some progressive lawmakers, including Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and Omar, have said that they will boycott the speech. 

In an address to the House, Tlaib called Israel "an apartheid state," citing reports by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem.

"The decisive vote by House Democrats in support of the Israeli decision demonstrates once again our strong commitment to the State of Israel and its right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people," said House Minority Leader Representative Hakeem Jeffries.

Two Syrian soldiers were injured in the late hours of Tuesday night as a result of an Israeli attack around the capital of Damascus.

According to a statement by the Syrian army, the aerial bombardment was launched from the northern occupied Golan Height, and that missile defense systems managed to intercept most of the missiles. 

The Syrian army added that there was material damage on top of the two injuries.

Videos and photos on social media showed fires raging in several locations around the capital, including damage to homes. 

Israel has not confirmed that it carries out military action in Syria, though it is understood to target Hezbollah. Local sources said that attack was directed at Iranian facilities in the suburb of Qudsaya and the villages of al-Assad and al-Saboura in the western countryside of Damascus.

On Tuesday evening, new details were revealed about US President Joe Biden's conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to the reliable Israeli political reporter, Barak Ravid, Biden told Netanyahu that his country's administration is looking with concern at the expansion of settlement construction in the West Bank.

Ravid quoted American and Israeli sources familiar with the content of the conversation as saying that Netanyahu had assured Biden that there would be no promotion of more settlement plans and that the Supreme Council for Planning and Building would not convene until the end of this year.

Biden also warned that the escalation of the situation in the West Bank would not serve the chances of normalization with Saudi Arabia, and Netanyahu also demanded the implementation of Cabinet decisions regarding the strengthening of the Palestinian Authority.

Commenting on this, Tzachi Hanegbi, head of the Israeli National Security Council, said that there would be no halt to settlement construction, and Netanyahu did not pledge to Biden to do so, but he stressed that there would be no new declaration of construction in the settlements.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Tuesday evening, that his government will not allow Iran to develop what he described as "terrorist fronts" on the borders with Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria.

Netanyahu added in his remarks during a ceremony, "We will stand firmly against these attempts, and we will continue to oppose Iran's possession of a nuclear arsenal, with uncompromising force."

He pointed out that his forces are constantly developing defensive and offensive capabilities against anyone who tries to harm the Israelis, threatening to liquidate them, whether from one front or several fronts.

On Tuesday evening, a Palestinian youth was killed as a result of a new shooting crime in the occupied territories.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the dead man was Mahran Araysi (33 years old), and he was shot several times while he was in the al-Rina neighborhood in Nazareth.

The site's correspondent indicated that the dead man was the son of the deputy mayor of Nazareth, Muhammad Araysi, who lost his other son, "Ruwaid" last Ramadan, and his nephew, Abdul Qadir Hani Araysi, was killed in a similar crime a week ago.

The Hebrew website Ynet revealed, on Tuesday evening, that the newly outgoing US ambassador to Israel, Tom Nidis, was one of the mediators who coordinated the phone call between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to the Hebrew site, the idea of ​​making the call appeared during the American Independence Day celebration that took place about two weeks ago, and Nidis then raised the possibility of making the call, and Netanyahu said he would be happy with that.

The site indicated that since then the ambassador held talks to coordinate them, and the call was supposed to take place last Saturday, but it was postponed due to Netanyahu entering Sheba Hospital after suffering from a health problem.

In the context, an Israeli official said that Biden confirmed twice during the call that took place yesterday that he would meet Netanyahu soon at the White House.

Hamas warned, on Tuesday, of the continued settler storming of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative Talmudic prayers that permeate it in its courtyards, in the context of the occupation’s attempts to Judaize and its plans to divide it temporally and spatially.

In a statement, Hamas affirmed that the Palestinian people and all their living forces will not allow these plans to pass and will defend Al-Aqsa and the sanctities by all available means. Al-Aqsa was and will remain the title of our cause and part of our religious and political faith. as she said.

And she praised the stationed in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, calling on all Palestinians to intensify the mobilization and bond in it, calling on Arab and Islamic countries to take effective action at all official and popular levels to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and their legitimate struggle until the liberation of their land and sanctities, and in the forefront of which is the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first qiblah of Muslims.

Washington – Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib announced Monday that she will join other Democratic lawmakers in boycotting Israeli President Isaac Herzog's speech to a joint session of Congress this week.

Representative Tlaib wrote on Twitter, "In solidarity with the Palestinian people and all those who have been harmed by Israel's apartheid government, I will be boycotting President Herzog’s joint address to Congress."

"I urge all Members of Congress who stand for human rights for all to join me. #BoycottApartheid," she added. 

Tlaib joins Ilhan Omar, Jamal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in boycotting Herzog's speech. The group of lawmakers supports conditioning U.S. aid to Israel on respect for Palestinian human rights.

The Michigan representative has held a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba in the Senate building, and has worked to advance a U.S. investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May of last year in Jenin. 

In 2019, Tlaib and Omar were barred from entering the occupied West Bank due to their calls for the boycott of Israel. 

According to the White House, U.S. President Biden will host President Israel Herzog at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, before he addresses Congress on Wednesday. Herzog's three day visit will also include visits Capitol Hill and the United Nations.

The Palestinian Deputy Housing Minister in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday that around 2,000 housing units that were razed in the latest onslaught by Israel have yet to be reconstructed.

Jawad Al-Agha said in a press conference that the damage amounts to $100 million, while another 90,000 partially damaged homes required an additional $106 million for reconstruction. 

In addition, Al-Agha said that surveys in the Strip found that 45,000 other houses are "unsuitable" for living.

Successive Israeli attacks has widened social gaps and plummeted several Palestinian families into poverty, the deputy minister said.

Al-Agha called on the Arab and Muslim contries, international institutions and other donors to "urgently intervene" to provide relief for the affected families and to help rebuild the enclave. He also called on the Palestinian Authority to leverage their standing with the donor community to gather funds for relief efforts.

The Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United Nations and Specialized Agencies, Omar Awadallah, said that the International Criminal Court has launched an electronic platform to allow Palestinians to file complaints against Israelis who have allegedly committed war crimes.

In an interview with Voice of Palestine radio on Tuesday, Awadallah explained that this platform will allow Palestinians to submit photo and video evidence to the court, and that this should also serve as a deterrent against Israel. 

In the same interview, B'Tselem spokesman Karim Jubran stressed the importance of documenting the crimes committed by the occupation forces in the International Criminal Court. He encouraged Palestinians to submit evidence of any incident that they have faced, as there is no statute of limitations. 

On his part, the director of Al-Haq Shawan Jabarin said that this process will exert "more pressure on the [Israeli] Public Prosecutor's Office," and force its hand in dealing with the incidents. 

On Tuesday, the Israeli prosecution filed an indictment against a 17-year-old boy from Jenin.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the detainee stabbed an Israeli in Bnei Brak, in retaliation for the operation carried out by the Israeli army in Jenin camp.

Investigations revealed that he entered Bnei Brak inside "Israel" without a permit, accompanied by his brother.