Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, confirmed that the Judaization measures and settlement incursions taking place in occupied Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque necessitate intensifying calls for Rabat and mobilization there, and confronting these daily incursions, and standing firmly against the occupation’s continued prevention of reconstruction and restoration of the mosque 11 days ago.

Today, Saturday, Al-Rishq said: "The Palestinian action required at this current moment is to take all possible urgent policies to stop the recurrence of what happened from the settlers' seizure of the homes of Jerusalemites, and their fears of seizing dozens of others, and solidarity with the symbols of Jerusalem, and the Zionist demands represented by their deportation." their occupied city.

He pointed out that the threat to the Holy City has reached the point where the occupation offered a new settlement project to build a settlement in Jerusalem that will cut off its neighborhoods, in conjunction with the continuation of the policy of demolition and the prevention of construction for Jerusalemites, as well as its planning to build a large settlement on the lands of the town of Beit Safafa, southeast of Jerusalem, in addition to its approval To build thousands of settlement units in the settlements of "Gilo" and "Pisgat Ze'ev".

The member of the political bureau of Hamas stressed that these aggressive projects require a unified Palestinian position, supporting the resistance and supporting the presence of Jerusalemites, calling for more Arab and Islamic positions to protect Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa from the imminent dangers of Judaization.

Well-informed Israeli sources have confirmed that a record rise has occurred in settlement activity, and it has reached, as confirmed by these reliable sources, the limit of establishing about 13,000 Israeli housing units in the West Bank during the six months of this year! And this year was recorded as the year with the most settlement expansion. Settlement seems to be the only sector encouraged by all official government institutions, and works with all its capabilities to encourage and expand it, without any regard for any other factors.

Settlement constitutes the first factor on which the State of Israel is based, from the first year of its establishment until today, tomorrow and the entire future. Settlement means, frankly and completely, confiscating the land and displacing its people, in order to establish settlements. There is no room for settlement expansion, which has not stopped since the establishment of Israel except at the expense of our land, our rights, and our future.

And we, the Palestinians, the owners of the land, ancestors and grandfathers, and since the beginning of history, we will never give up our land, and we will never give it up, no matter how arrogant the force becomes at the time of the occupation, and no matter how expanding its ambitions that never stop, and no matter how arrogant it increases, the land remains for us and we are its owners and the people have the right to control it and build our future on it And no matter how much they try to falsify history and steal our rights, the next one is ours and the land is ours, and they and their expansionist ambitions will surely disappear.

US-Israeli relations are deeper than the current crisis between the two sides!!

These days, the crisis between the Israeli government and Washington is escalating, to the point that the United States extended a visit invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog, while no similar invitation was directed to Prime Minister Netanyahu. Indeed, Washington explicitly says that Israel does not meet the conditions for exemption from the American entry visa. And that an American delegation will arrive in Israel within days to discuss this issue.

The American-Israeli relations are among the most important relations between any two countries in the world, and the bond between them is stronger than any other ties. Despite this, the diplomatic crisis between them is escalating, and the issue is related to the government and not to the State of Israel, of course, because these relations are among the strongest possible between any two countries in the world.

An American delegation is scheduled to arrive in Israel soon to discuss this crisis between the two countries, and specialized observers in this regard expect that an agreement will be reached to restore things to what they are in a short period, and the tension and cold relations between these two countries, which have close relations, cannot continue. from the strongest possible.

Soldiers and officers from the Israeli Special Yamam Unit admitted that many of the wanted individuals belonging to the "Black's Den" groups that are active in Nablus preferred to resist and clash in many cases before being liquidated.

This came in a video report broadcast by Hebrew Channel 12, last night, on the activities of the Special Force, which constituted an important factor in the assassination of many resistance fighters in the past few years.

According to the Hebrew channel, these groups are funded by the "Hamas" movement and that many of the movement's activists belong to it.

An Israeli officer from the Yamam unit said that sometimes it was easy to reach the whereabouts of the wanted persons inside the Old City of Nablus, and those wanted who were being liquidated were surprised, pointing out that some of them were fighting for a short or longer time, but in the end they were either liquidated or killed. arrest them.

And he confirmed what was published by Palestinians through surveillance cameras, that Al-Yamam Special Forces were disguised in civilian clothes to reach places where the wanted persons were hiding, to start operations against them.

At dawn on Saturday, the Israeli occupation forces carried out a campaign of raids in separate areas of Nablus.

Eyewitnesses reported that a large force of the occupation army stormed the town of Kafr Qilil, which witnessed limited confrontations between those forces and dozens of young men.

Other forces stormed the villages of Madama and Azmut, without any arrests being reported.

Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation forces suppressed the weekly sit-in in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood against plans for forced displacement, and arrested a citizen.

According to local sources, those forces beat the participants in the vigil and arrested a citizen.

The participants in the vigil raised the Palestinian flag and banners condemning the occupation's plans to forcibly displace the residents of the neighborhood from their homes, in favor of settlement associations.

US Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) said on Wednesday that she has no plans to attend Israeli President Isaac Herzog's upcoming joint address to Congress, citing ongoing tensions between the Israeli government and the Palestinians.

Omar said in a tweet to her on Twitter: "It is impossible for me to attend the speech of the joint session of a president whose country imposed a ban on my entry while depriving (MP Rashida Tlaib) of the ability to see her grandmother."

The Somali-origin MP, the only veiled member of the US House of Representatives, indicated that the United States should not invite the head of a government that prevented her and fellow MP Rashida Tlaib of Palestinian origin (Democrat from Michigan) from visiting their country.

Omar said in the tweet, “Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s speech comes on behalf of the most extreme right-wing government in Israel’s history, and at a time when the government is publicly vowing to ‘destroy’ Palestinians’ hopes for statehood – essentially driving a nail into the coffin of peace and a two-state solution.

In her tweet, Omar added recent issues and concerns with the country and its government, noting the attempt of far-right members of the government to push legislation that would restructure the Supreme Court. She also hinted that she recently declined an invitation to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to Congress last month because of his government's human rights record.

"The United States can and should use its diplomatic tools to communicate with the Israeli government, but giving the current government the honor of a joint televised speech sends the wrong message at the wrong time," Omar said.

A number of progressive lawmakers are expected to boycott Herzog's speech at the joint congressional session, including Representative Rashida Tlaib.

Herzog, who has been president since 2021, is scheduled to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 19 while he visits Washington to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Israel's founding.

Protest demonstrations were organized today, Friday, against crime and its aggravation in Arab society, and the complicity of the Israeli police, and their failure to fight it, in Umm al-Fahm, Tamra, and the town of Fureidis, in the occupied territories.

Dozens of residents of the city of Umm al-Fahm and the Wadi Ara region participated in a Friday prayer, which was held in the municipal market square in the city, after which the participants went to the new police station, where they protested against the police's complicity in the fight against crime, calling for solutions.

The participants in the demonstration raised banners calling on the police to find solutions and take immediate action in the matter of rampant crime in Arab society.

The prayer and demonstration came at the invitation of the Fahmawi Coalition to combat violence and crime rampant in the city.

In Tamra, dozens of the city's residents participated in a stand under the slogan: "The country's gift to confront violence," in front of the Al-Rahma Mosque.

The participants chanted slogans denouncing the complicity of the police, and raised slogans such as: "Arab blood is not cheap."

Israeli occupation forces detained four Palestinians and set up a military checkpoint at the southern entrance to the West Bank city of Jericho.

According to local sources, Israel troops stationed at the checkpoint stopped Palestinians' vehicles and checked their identity cards.

Several Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank on Friday. 

Local sources reported that Palestinians were suffocated by tear gas on Friday during clashes with the occupation in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, and Beita, to the city's south. 

In Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, Israeli forces cracked down on a protest against the appropriation of dozens of dunams belonging to the village. One Palestinian suffered a foot injury from a stun grenade while dozens of others were suffocated by tear gas, according to local sources.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the strict military measures imposed by Israeli authorities at the entrances of the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

The Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem, the custodian of the holy mosque, estimated that about 35,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Israeli forces stopped worshippers at the gates of compound and checked their ID cards.

On Friday, the Council of Parents of Students of Jerusalem Schools expressed its rejection and denunciation of what happened in the Israeli Knesset session regarding the distortion of Arab schools in occupied Jerusalem, and the slander and accusation of teachers through a play arranged and fabricated by extremists, by broadcasting a video that does not represent anything from the truth, and its aim Fighting the Jerusalem teacher, our Jerusalem schools, and our Palestinian curricula, and seeking to close them or control them.

In a statement, the federation called for the announcement of the name of those who were identified as one of the students of Jerusalem schools, stressing that his words were lies and slander against schools and teachers.

And hold the responsibility of harming our schools and teachers to those who seek to strike and control education in Jerusalem.

He appreciated the position and role of Dr. Ahmed Al-Tibi, who was present at that session, and his stance and defense of our teachers and schools, and his response, with word and true image, to the occupation and the extremist government.

The council expressed its rejection of the policy of constantly threatening Jerusalem schools to close, withdraw licenses, stop financial support, or permanently storm schools.

He also expressed his refusal to Judaize education in the schools of Jerusalem by imposing the Israeli and distorted curricula on the previously existing schools, calling for the opening of new schools in Jerusalem that we need and this falls within the municipality’s responsibilities to provide them and not for the Israeli curricula only, and to prevent and disrupt the opening of new schools or to give licenses to build schools that teach Palestinian curricula. As stated in the text of the statement.

He affirmed his refusal to continue the municipality and its Ministry of Education to Judaize Palestinian curricula books and distribute them to schools in Jerusalem by deleting units that do not appeal to them and replacing them with units that simulate the Israeli narrative and teachings under the pretext of incitement.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned the Palestinian Authority security services' arrest of journalist Akil Awawdeh on Thursday and called for his immediate release.

In a statement, the Syndicate considered Awawda's arrest "a serious violation" of freedom of expression"

Awawda's arrest came against the backdrop of his criticism on his Facebook page of the Palestinian Authority's campaign of arrests against political activists in the West Bank.

The group also welcomed the release of journalist Ahmed Al-Bitawi after his week-long detention.

The killing of 34-year-old Alaa Marei in the Galilee town of Fureidis has taken the death toll of Palestinian citizens of Israel in crime-related homicides to 123 for the year so far. 

Marei, who was the assistant to the head of the local council in Fureidis, was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday morning.

On Thursday, in the city of Tira, 25-year-old Samer Azzam Nasser was also shot dead.

According to Makan, the Arabic-language branch of Israeli public broadcaster, seven Palestinians have been killed in the crimewave since Tuesday. 

On Friday, the Israeli army decided to demolish the home of a child's family, claiming that he was trying to carry out an attack at the Shuafat checkpoint in occupied Jerusalem on February 13, 2023, which led to the death of a soldier.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, the commander of the so-called home front signed an order to demolish the house belonging to the family of the child Muhammad Zalbani in Shuafat camp.

The child Zalbani tried to stab an Israeli soldier, but another soldier fired at him, and the bullets hit another soldier who was killed on the spot.

Israeli occupation forces arrested two Palestinians on Friday in Hebron and Jerusalem.

According to local sources, Israeli troops detained Yahya Badr after storming his home in the Jabal Al-Sharif area of Hebron. 

In Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces detained Suhaib Samreen, a resident of Al-Thawri neighborhood in Silwan, won his way to Al-Aqsa Mosque for dawn prayers. 

On Friday, Israel also fired tear gas in the town Sebastia, northwest of Nablus. This came after soldiers stormed the town at around midnight, according to local sources. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that 20 people suffocated from the gas, including an elderly woman.

Israeli occupation authorities prevented a community activist from the Palestinian town of Shuafat, north of occupied Jerusalem, from entering the West Bank on Thursday. 

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that Israeli authorities handed Nasser Abu Khudair an order barring him from entering West Bank, restricting his freedom of movement and vocation inside Jerusalem, as well as stopping him from communicating several political figures in Jerusalem.

Abu Khudair has spent 16 years in Israeli prisons. 

Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian man, Abdul Aziz Jalal Hoshiyeh, at the Qalandia military checkpoint on Thursday. 

Israeli troops also stormed the Al-Salam suburb and Shuafat refugee camp, northeast of Jerusalem, which led to clashes with the residents. No injuries were reported.

During a summit held today (Thursday) in Cairo, the leaders of Sudan's neighboring countries stressed the importance of a political solution to stop the conflict in Sudan, and agreed to form a ministerial mechanism to develop practical and implementable solutions to stop the fighting and reach a comprehensive solution to the Sudanese crisis, according to the closing statement of the summit, which was read by the Egyptian president. Abdel Fattah Sisi

Washington –  President Joe Biden's administration denied on Thursday that they are reconsidering the United States' relationship with Israel due to the actions of the far-right government.

U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller responded to The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's op-ed claiming that it was "inevitable" that such ties would be re-evaluated by stating that "there was no talk of any kind of official re-evaluation. The United States and Israel share special bonds, and our enduring commitment to Israel's security is unwavering."

While noting their "shared democratic values and common interests," Miller added that "we have our differences and our concerns, and we've talked about how we raise those differences and concerns with them privately, and we've seen the president and others in this administration talk about these differences publicly."

Miller also maintained the Biden administration's commitment to the two-state solution, even though more and more commentators, including Friedman, has thrown its viability into question.

Thomas Friedman's article entitled "The U.S. Reassessment of Netanyahu's Government has Begun"  argued that "Biden team sees the far-right Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, engaged in unprecedented radical behavior — under the cloak of judicial “reform” — that is undermining our shared interests with Israel, our shared values and the vitally important shared fiction about the status of the West Bank that has kept peace hopes there just barely alive."

Perhaps the battle of Jenin camp a few days ago will enter history as the moment of qualitative transformation of the accumulations that continue in the awareness and struggle of the Palestinian people since 2015. There is no exaggeration in comparing it to the Battle of Dignity that took place in March of 1968 and represented the first victory over the Israeli army, which was mired in its resulting arrogance. For his overwhelming victory in the June 1967 aggression.

The qualitative transformation here is not limited to the fact that Netanyahu, his huge army and his fascist government, have failed miserably in achieving their goals of breaking the resistance of the Jenin camp and liquidating the resistance fighters and their popular base, but also in the transformation of the popular incubator of the resistance in the Jenin camp into a general Palestinian incubator in all of historical Palestine. .

In its aggression against the Jenin camp, whose area does not exceed half a square kilometer, with a large population density of sixteen thousand refugees who were displaced by the Israeli ethnic cleansing during the Nakba in 1948, Israel used more than a full brigade of one thousand six hundred soldiers with armored vehicles, tanks, Apache helicopters and missiles. And entire swarms of military marches and a massive intelligence system failed.

As the director of the Al-Jazeera channel in Ramallah, Walid Al-Omari, said, Israel was able in the past with this amount of army and equipment to occupy an entire country, but it was unable to break the Jenin camp, and its forces withdrew while dragging the tails of disappointment, after translating its hatred into total destruction. The camp’s infrastructure, including roads and streets, electricity and water networks, health facilities and hundreds of homes, dared to fire live bullets and tear gas at hospitals, attacked teams and ambulances, shot journalists, and left wounded people bleeding to death without allowing medical teams to reach them .

Nevertheless, Israel failed to arrest or liquidate the resistance fighters, and failed to destroy the structure of the resistance and incurred losses until the moment its forces left the camp.

Perhaps the most important features of the qualitative transformation witnessed by the past days in Palestine are represented in a number of points:
First: the involvement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian youth in the activities of the resistance in all its forms, until it became impossible to distinguish between the professional resistance fighters and the thousands of youth participating in the resistance, and thus the armed resistance turned, in fact, into a part of a comprehensive popular resistance.

Second: Strengthening the conviction of the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian people, in light of the frenzied settlement expansion, and Netanyahu's declaration of his intention to eradicate the idea of ​​an independent Palestinian state, that there is no way but resistance and struggle as an alternative to the failed negotiations approach and the miserable Oslo agreement, and betting on external parties.

Third: Israel can no longer confine the resistance to specific foci, such as the Jenin camp and the old town of Nablus, and the Nur Shams camp in Tulkarm. Rather, Israel received resistance responses to its aggression against Jenin from Hebron, Ramallah, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip. In other words, the resistance has become a general Palestinian phenomenon for the people. The entire Palestinian, regardless of where he is.

Fourth: For the Palestinians, all illusions about the possibility of obtaining international protection, or influential international official positions against Israeli fascism, have ended, in light of the United States and Britain declaring their support for the Israeli aggression and what they called "Israel's right to self-defense," and the suspicious silence of the European Union, which is unable to formulate a policy. It is independent of its own, and the realization deepens that the solution lies in self-reliance, self-organization, and resistance to occupation, and not waiting for the help of others. Palestinian official calls for international protection have become a popular joke, as a pretext to escape responsibility.

Fifth: The overwhelming popular anger has deepened against security coordination and all its ideology, which was born with the Oslo Accords, and which imposes on the security services the duty to protect the occupiers, while they are unable to protect themselves and their people from these occupiers themselves.

The popular question was: Why do the security services not confront the occupation forces that pass by their headquarters in their invasion of the Jenin camp, and why do they not participate in confronting the settlers' terrorist attacks against the Palestinians, as happened in the second intifada?

Therefore, the call to end security coordination with the occupation in practice, not formally, permanently and not for a temporary period, has become a comprehensive popular demand, such as the demand to stop all forms of political arrests and the release of all political detainees and a number of them from the resistance fighters.

Sixth: The door to achieving national unity was opened wide, through popular pressure on the official and factional Palestinian leaders to rise to the level of the militant unity created by the resistance fighters on the ground.

This popular pressure resulted in the Palestinian Authority calling for a meeting of the secretaries-general of the Palestinian forces, which it welcomed. In parallel, demands escalated that this meeting not be just a formality for taking pictures, or to ease popular pressure on the Palestinian Authority, which had previously committed its biggest mistake by canceling the elections in 2021.

It became clear that what is required before the meeting is to confirm the readiness to adopt the option of resistance and struggle in all its forms and to abandon an approach that resulted in complete failure after its launch with the signing of the Oslo agreement thirty years ago, and to be ready to agree that we are not in a stage of compromise with the Zionist movement with all its components, but rather in a stage of struggle and struggle And resistance to changing the balance of power in favor of the Palestinian people. The most important indicator of seriousness in calling for the meeting of the general secretaries is the willingness to form a unified national leadership based on a national strategy of resistance, and the immediate release of all political prisoners.

Seventh: The Palestinian people valiantly thwarted the Israeli strategy’s intrigues and attempts to stir up strife, which focus on separating the people from the resistance, separating the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, deepening the rift and division between the Fatah and Hamas movements, and inciting the Palestinian forces against each other. Events have proven that the Jenin camp was not left alone, but formed A point of polarization for integrated and unified struggle action.

Eighth: In conclusion, the Israeli aggression against the Jenin camp had completely opposite results to what Netanyahu had planned, as the escalation of repression, killing and settlement, and the announcement of the annexation and Judaization program of the West Bank only led to an escalation of the Palestinian resistance and the rise of a Palestinian youth generation that is more resolute, determined, daring, skilled and committed to the resistance than For freedom and dignity.

Will the leaders rise this time to the level of this valiant generation and the level of its struggle unity?

The visit made by President Mahmoud Abbas and a number of officials to the city and camp of Jenin is a historic visit with all meanings and standards because it bears several meanings and indications, the most important of which is that Jenin and its camp are not alone and that the Palestinian leadership is with them in confronting the occupation and its crimes against people, trees and stones, which make humanity cry, if it is. There is a world in the world, specifically Western countries with a colonial past, and a humane America, but it is non-existent when it comes to the Palestinians and the practices and crimes of the occupation against them, as we find that these countries support the occupation by all means and means and prevent it from being prosecuted, for these crimes that it commits daily.

Also, this historic and successful visit came to tell Jenin and its camp that you are icons of struggle, steadfastness, and resistance, and that the leadership and the people are one in defending the land and the human being, and that the fate of the occupation is to disappear.

This visit raised the morale of our heroic people in Jenin and its camp and gave them a strong push forward, especially with the families of the martyrs and the wounded and the owners of the houses that were demolished and swept away by the occupation. The best it was, as the president said.

The visit is also a message to the brutal occupation that the Palestinian leadership is with the people and will not abandon it, that they are one unit, and that unity is the right way to confront and defeat the occupation, which I believe is a wide gap between the people and the leadership, and if the leadership, headed by the president, tells the occupation that we are with the people and will not We abandon him, no matter how hard the odds are, and no matter how much the occupation tries to tarnish the image.

While we welcome this historic visit, which will usher in a new era between the leadership and the people, we hope and even call on the President to repeat this visit to other governorates, especially since the President praised Nablus and its camps and all Palestinian cities, villages and camps.

Such visits raise the morale of the people, and confirm the cohesion of the leadership and the people in facing the challenges and crimes of the occupation. Rather, they increase the people's determination to stand firm on their land, and as the President said in his speech to the masses of Jenin and the people of the camp who gathered to receive him and demanded support for the resistance in all its internationally approved forms. and expanded to include all governorates.

Our people in all the provinces are awaiting the tours and visits of the president and the leadership to strengthen relations between the masses and the leadership, and not to leave any gaps between them because the occupation takes advantage of this to suppress our people and carry out aggressive operations on cities, villages and camps.

Will this visit to the city of Jenin and its camp be the beginning of presidential visits and tours to other governorates, which are being attacked by the occupation forces and herds of savage settlers?

We hope that we will not be disappointed and that these visits and tours will continue to support the citizens and the families of the martyrs and the wounded.

The Israeli military is concerned about attempts to launch rockets from the northern West Bank into nearby Israeli settlements and towns, according to the newspaper Israel Hayom.

While the rockets that have been tracked up to this point are primitive, Israel believes that Palestinian organizations have clear intentions to emulate the "Gaza model" in the West Bank, the tabloid said. 

The army identified four attempts to launch missiles in the last two months. Although the rockets were initially rough-and-ready, the quality and range of each missile seemed to improve. 

Yitzhak Gershon, a reserve officer in the Israeli army and former commander of the West Bank division, who led a raid on a missile manufacturing plant in the northern West Bank during the Second Intifada, said he is "unsurprised" by the new attempts.

The newspaper said that the army did not know which group was behind the rocket fire, but noted that another major operation - similar to the two-day onslaught on Jenin - is likely to take place. 

The army is also weighing installing a special warning siren system similar to that of Gaza border towns around northern West Bank settlements. 

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic informed Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday night that Belgrade would send a new ambassador to Tel Aviv within the next month.

The move ends a three-year standoff between the two countries, after Serbia downgraded its ties with Israel over its recognition of Kosovo, which Belgrade does not consider as a separate country, the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom reorted.

Kosovo opened an embassy in Jerusalem as part of a deal brokered by then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2021.

Cohen praided the Serbian president's decision to restore the "important relations" between the two countries.

Israel's Tax Authority has informed Amnesty International that it was considering stripping it of tax benefits over its support for boycotting Israeli settlement product, he newspaper Haaretz reported on Thursday. 

The government is looking to hold the human rights organization's branch in Israel responsible for the calls by Amnesty International to impose an embargo on Israeli weapons and to boycott goods made in Israel's West Bank settlements. 

The newspaper noted that Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has led a seven-year campaign against the organization, and had pressured his predecessor Avigdor Lieberman to cancel these tax benefits.

Smotrich's office declined to comment on whether he was involved in the move. 

The boycott law, which was passed in the Knesset in 2011, allows the finance and justice ministers to impose restrictions on any association or institution that called for boycotting settlements or Israel. These include depriving them of tax benefits, barring them from participating in government tenders, or outright cutting their public funding. 

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Thursday, that the head of the Israeli General Security Agency, the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, tried to convince Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich not to cancel the budget allocated to encourage the integration of Palestinian students residing in Jerusalem into Israeli academic institutions, in preparation for approving the extension of the five-year plan for the development of the East. Jerusalem, which will be presented to the government next Sunday, with its near completion after approval in 2018.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, this plan is related to the areas of education, vocational training, learning Hebrew, transportation and infrastructure, and one of its biggest items is related to encouraging the integration of Palestinians into Israeli higher education institutions, as Haaretz reported.

According to the draft of the new plan, the budget for this item was supposed to be 450 million shekels, of which 250 was supposed to come from the budget of the Planning and Budget Committee, and the rest from the Ministry of Finance, and it includes the budget for scholarships and preparatory courses for students, but Smotrich and senior officials in the Ministry Finance oppose this and prefer to allocate money in other items of the plan.

The Jerusalem municipality, the Jerusalem Ministry, and the Shin Bet began pressuring the Finance Ministry to keep the clause as it is. The Shin Bet explained to Israeli Finance Ministry officials that encouraging higher education among Palestinians reduces the motivation to commit attacks. As part of this campaign, Barr spoke with Smotrich about This issue, and sources familiar with the details said, that the decision has not been taken yet, and the plan will be submitted for government approval without this clause.

Israeli occupation forces launched carried out a wave of arrests of Palestinians across the West Bank on Thursday morning.

In the village of Qibya in the Ramallah district, Israeli troops arrested four men, as well as another Palestinian in the nearby town of Birzeit.

In a separate operation in the Nablus Governorate, two former prisoners were also detained - one on Amman Street and another in the town of Awarta. There were separate reports of resistance fighters firing toward Israeli troops in Nablus, with no injuries reported. 

In the town of Sa'ir near Hebron, another ex-prisoner was arrested during an Israeli raid on his home. 

UN experts warned on Wednesday that Israel's policy of forced evictions in Jerusalem "may amount to the war crime of forcible transfer" in light the shadow of the eviction of the Ghaith-Sub Laban family from the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. 

"Concerted efforts to evict Palestinians from their homes in Occupied East Jerusalem may amount to forcible transfer. Forcible transfer is a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime,” said Ajith Sunghay, Head of Office of OHCHR in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The statement said that the recent incident was "part of a wider pattern of evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem," including the Salem family from the Um Haroun portion of Sheikh Jarrah in March and the Shehadeh family from Batan al-Hawa, Silwan.

"These families are among some 150 Palestinian families – totaling around 1000 people – across East Jerusalem and its surrounding Palestinian neighbourhoods who are living under the threat of eviction and forcible transfer due to discriminatory laws and state collusion with settler groups," they added.

The Ghaith-Sub Laban family, who lived in the home under protected tenancy since 1953, were evicted in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Israeli settlers immediately moved in their home. 

The UN office ended by reiterating "international law requires Israel to end all forced evictions and forcible transfers. The UN Human Rights Office in the OPT urges the Israeli Government to end all discriminatory evictions of Palestinians in Occupied East Jerusalem and to urgently provide an effective remedy to the Gheith-Sub Laban family for the human rights violations they suffered today."

The Israeli army announced, on Wednesday evening, that it used non-live fire tools to remove a group of people who approached the security fence on the border with Lebanon.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, the vandalism of the fence was prevented by that group, whose identity is unknown.

He affirmed his determination to defend "Israeli sovereignty". like he said.

According to identical sources, these are members of Hezbollah, and gas bombs were fired at them, which led to their injury.

On Wednesday evening, a settler's vehicle was damaged by gunfire near Qalqilya.

According to the Israeli Army Radio, the vehicle suffered minor damage, after it was fired upon by a speeding Palestinian vehicle.

It indicated that the Israeli army forces were carrying out combing operations in the area.

Washington – U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said on Wednesday that U.S. President Joe Biden's administration calls on Israel not to evict the Palestinians of the West Bank hamlet of Masafer Yatta.

Responding to Al-Qud's Washington correspondent, Miller said in his daily press conference that "it is very important for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to refrain from unilateral steps that exacerbate tensions and undermine efforts to advance a negotiated two-state solution,” explicitly extending this to demolitions and evictions.

Israel had declared the twelve village of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills, an area of around 30,000 dunams, as a closed military zone in the early eighties. The declaration of "firing zone 918" did not impinge on the lives of the Palestinian communities, who continued to cultivate their land, until a sudden military eviction of 700 residents in 1999.

The establishment and expansion of settler farms on Palestinian land has cranked up the pressure on authorities to carry out further evictions. 

Last year, an Israeli court ruled to evict the population of Masafer Yatta in what would be the single largest expulsion of Palestinians since 1967. Although the ruling has yet to be implemented, the army has conducted more training activities in the area, and demolitions and arrests have become more common.