ARAB AND WORLD

Wed 12 Jul 2023 4:27 pm - Jerusalem Time

The United Nations Human Rights Council adopts a resolution condemning the burning of the Qur'an

On Wednesday, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning acts of religious hatred such as the burning of the Quran, even though several countries considered it endangered freedom of expression.


The decision was issued after an urgent discussion requested by Pakistan on behalf of a number of OIC countries after the burning of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden.


The resolution was approved by 28 members of the Council out of 47, including China, Ukraine and most African countries, while seven members abstained and twelve voted against, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.


The resolution condemns "any advocacy and display of religious hatred, including recent activities, overt and deliberate, that have led to the desanctification of the Qur'an" and calls on states to adopt laws that allow them to hold accountable those responsible for such acts.


It requests the United Nations to identify countries that do not have such legislation and to organize a round table of experts to discuss the issue.


Pakistani Ambassador Khalil Hashemi saw it as a balanced text that does not point fingers at any country.


However, a number of Western countries expressed during the debates their opposition to the anti-blasphemy laws, and at the same time strongly denounced the burning of the Qur'an in Sweden.


The United States, the European Union and Britain called for a vote against the resolution.


"We regret having to vote against this unbalanced text, but it contradicts positions we have long taken on freedom of expression," said US Ambassador Michele Taylor.


Some Latin American countries, including Mexico and Honduras, abstained, arguing, like Western countries, that more time needed to be spent on negotiating and reaching a consensus.


Before the vote, Mexico affirmed that "any expression of criticism of religions does not in itself constitute incitement to violence and discrimination."


On June 28, an Iraqi refugee in Sweden burned pages from the Koran in front of the largest mosque in Stockholm during Eid al-Adha.


The Swedish police had allowed the assembly during which pages of the Koran were burned, but later opened an investigation into "incitement against an ethnic group" because the burning took place in front of a mosque.


This incident sparked a chain reaction in the Islamic world.

PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 2:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

The Shin Bet claims: 6 Palestinians who carried out attacks in Ramallah were arrested

The Israeli General Security Service, the Shin Bet, claimed that it had arrested 6 Palestinians who were active as a cell in the Ramallah area, and carried out several shooting operations recently, especially in the Wadi Shilo settlements, without injuries.


According to a statement by the Shin Bet, they were arrested from the village of al-Mughayyir, and they are Abdullah al-Haj Muhammad, Ibrahim al-Na'san, Majed al-Na'san, Ayoub al-Na'san, Abd al-Karim Abu Alia, and Muhammad al-Hajj Muhammad.


The agency claimed that the arrest operation, which was carried out with the help of the Israeli army, took place shortly after they carried out attacks, and during interrogation they confessed to carrying out a series of operations.


The Shin Bet claimed that during their interrogation, they admitted that they had bought weapons from an arms dealer in Jenin, and that they were in contact with activists from Gaza in order to obtain funding for their activities.

PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 1:17 pm - Jerusalem Time

Prisoners Authority: Jerusalemite prisoner Hussam Matar suffers from a difficult health condition

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners Affairs stated in its report issued today, Wednesday, that the Jerusalemite prisoner

Hussam Matar, 38, from Jabal al-Mukabber in Jerusalem, suffers from a very difficult health condition.

He retreats day after day, amid deliberate and deliberate medical negligence, aimed at killing him slowly and torturing him physically.

And psychologically.


According to the commission’s lawyer, Moataz Shqeirat, after visiting Matar, who is in the isolation of Ohli Kedar, the prisoner Matar

He began to suffer from health problems since 2010, and his condition worsened due to the lack of early diagnosis.

Failure to receive appropriate treatment, and continuous procrastination in conducting the required examinations and analyzes.


He added that the prisoner, Matar, suffers from 3 discs in the back in paragraphs 1-5, pressing on the nerve, which affects the

He also suffers from pain in the neck and joints, especially the knees, without conducting examinations to find out the cause of the pain. He indicated that he has been suffering from varicose veins in the right foot since 2010. He also moved to the left foot. Matar conducted the first examination for varicose veins after 13 years of pain. His interior and exterior have sagged and an operation cannot be performed.


He also suffers from pain in the head and eyes (sister), and he is waiting for a MRI scan in the month of 11/2023.


He indicated that he complains of dizziness, shortness of breath, imbalance, and blurred vision.

Suddenly, he also suffers from high blood pressure and irregular heartbeat, in addition to cholesterol and fluid retention.


It is mentioned that the prisoner is married and the father of two children, and he was arrested on 19/10/2007, and he was subjected to an investigation.

He endured 50 days in Al-Mascobiyeh, before the occupation courts sentenced him to life imprisonment

Al-Hayat, and in June 2013, while he was in Ashkelon prison, he went on strike.

He remained open for food for three consecutive months, and the prison administration imposed penalties on him

Many of them are the denial of visitation and isolation.


In January 2023, the Israeli occupation forces demolished the house of the prisoner and his brother.

consisting of two apartments in Jabal Al Mukaber, inhabited by 6 individuals, including women and children, who have become homeless without

Shelter, in implementation of the policy and decisions of the Israeli racist cabinet, which decided to accelerate

Procedures for the demolition and closure of the homes of the perpetrators of commando operations.

PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 12:52 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel indicts settler who tore up Holy Koran in West Bank

Israel's State Prosecutor filed an indictment against a man who was filmed ripping up a copy of the Holy Koran during a settler rampage in the West Bank village of Orif. 


According to the Hebrew news site Ynet, 30-year-old Dor Oved from the extremist outpost of Yitzhar was indicted for "terrorist" acts.





PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 12:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

'We are here to stay:' President Abbas visits Jenin after Israeli invasion

In the shadow of tensions with other Palestinian factions, President Mahmoud Abbas stressed "the unity of the Palestinian people" against Israeli aggression in a heavily guarded visit to Jenin on Wednesday.


A week after the end of Israel's largest raid on a West Bank city in two decades, which left 12 Palestinians dead and widespread destruction in its wake, Abbas hailed Jenin refugee camp as "an icon of struggle and steadfastness."


Palestinian parties in the Gaza Strip, led by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, condemned the Palestinian Authority's "political" arrests of its activists in the northern West Bank since the operation. In the last two years, Abbas' command in the cities of Jenin and Nablus has ebbed, with Islamist and local organizations filling the vacuum. 


Arriving on a Jordanian military helicopter from Ramallah, Abbas was welcomed by Palestinian officials and a large crowd. He was flanked by Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization Hussein al-Sheikh and intelligence chief Majed Faraj. 


Palestinian security forces were deployed across the area to safeguard the delegation. 


After reaffirming that Jerusalem is Palestine's capital and the right of return for all Palestinians, Abbas told the crowd: "We must get rid of the occupation, and tell them: Leave us alone. We are here to stay!"


"We are one Palestinian Authority, one state, and one law...we will remain one, and everybody who works toward unity and security is welcome," he added.


He thanked countries that were involved in the reconstruction efforts, especially Algeria and the United Arab Emirates. 


After the initial address, Abbas' convoy left to Jenin Refugee Camp, where he will lay a wreath at the martyr's cemetery. A throng of Palestinians has already gathered to greet the president on his arrival. 


PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 11:56 am - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian Prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi faces abuse, daily searches of his cell

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said that prisoner Zakaria Zubeidi – an icon of the second Intifada and one of the six inmates who broke out of Israeli prison in 2021 –  has been subjected to abusive practices, including solitary confinement and handcuffing as wardens conduct a daily search of his cell at 1 A.M. 


Quoting his lawyer Moataz Shqairat on Wednesday, the commission said that 47-year-old from Jenin Refugee Camp has faced "inhumane conditions" in Ohalei Kheidar detention facility in the southern city of Be'er Sheva.  


After the jailbreak in 2021, Israeli occupation authorities rearrested the six prisoners and sentenced them to an additional five years in prison and 5,000 shekel fines. Prisoner rights groups have reported that they have faced a range of abuses, from solitary confinement to medical neglect.

PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 11:36 am - Jerusalem Time

UN: Israel demolished 38 buildings, injured 1,310 Palestinians in two weeks

Washington – Israeli authorities demolished and confiscated 38 buildings, including 14 homes, and injured 1,310 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem from June 13 to July 4, the UN reported on Wednesday. 


The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Palestine said the demolitions have displaced 48 Palestinians, including 22 children, and have impacted the livelihoods of more than 8,000 others. It added that Israel justified the demolitions by stating that the Palestinians did not have building permits.


Twenty three of the buildings were in Area C of the West Bank, which is under Israeli civilian and military control, OCHA stated. Six of the buildings were provided by international donors in response to previous demolitions, including Hammamet Al-Maleh in the Jordan Valley and the Ein Al-Hilweh-Umm Al-Jimal communities in the Tubas Governorate.


Israeli occupation authorities also demolished 15 residential buildings in the city of Jerusalem, including a building in Al-Thawri neighborhood, which resulted in the displacement of two families comprising 14 members, including six children, according to OCHA. Eleven owners demolished their own buildings in order to avoid hefty enforcement fines.


OCHA stressed that punitive demolitions are a form of collective punishment and are illegal under international law.


1,310 Palestinians, including at least 103 minors, were also injured across the West Bank over the same two-week period, including 105 from live fire. The OCHA report also showed that settlers injured 19 Palestinians and damaged Palestinian property in 46 incidents over four consecutive days, between 20 and 24 June, in parts of the northern and central West Bank.


In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces opened fire on at least 21 occasions, near the border fence with the Strip or off the coast.

OPINIONS

Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:18 am - Jerusalem Time

Open, organization and power

Nabil Amr

Nabil Amr

Opinion Writer

If Fatah was an iron ideological party, it would have melted and become extinct, as many parties have become extinct.


If it were one unified faction, the phenomenon of its spread in all fields and squares, and even directions, would not have emerged, agreeing and different.


Had it been unified behind the option of armed struggle until liberation, Yasser Arafat and his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, would not have gone to the parallel option, which is negotiations. I say “parallel” because it is the euphemism for “alternative,” even if it is temporary.


It has been like this since its inception and through all the stages of its growth and leadership of the Palestinian stage since the first shot, to the present day. It was the sure guarantee of national unity through its transformation of the "Liberation Organization" into a combative frontal framework within which all Palestinian forces coexisted or antagonized, regardless of their programs and even their associations and whatsoever. A battle that was fought inevitably, either in defense of the revolution or imposed on it, but it was "some of each" even though it is the largest, the greatest potential, and the widest spread among the Palestinians, the Arabs and the world, which made President Abdel Nasser declare that the Palestinian revolution was found to remain, and many Arab and world leaders followed suit.


In an objective observation of the course of history, and the growth and atrophy of political entities, the reality of the situation shows a fundamental difference between what was and what is now between Fatah at the time of the revolution and Fatah at the time of power.


Yasser Arafat led the experiment fraught with danger, while he was aware of the difficulty of marrying the military option with political action. And as soon as an option falters, there is an alternative to it, and when the strong military presence of the revolution in Lebanon was liquidated - for example - it could be compensated by opening important doors for politics.


Despite all the pitfalls, defections, and expulsions from the arenas, the world found no choice but to knock on the door of the PLO, its leader Fatah and its leader Yasser Arafat, in order to make the major international attempt to solve the Middle East issue a success, with a comprehensive recognition that the Palestinian cause is its center and the strongest factor influencing its paths and outcomes.


Yasser Arafat was excluded from the Madrid conference, and the irony is that those who were excluded due to Israel’s desire, the Americans, the godfathers of the process, were aware of the fact that the excluded is the most influential of those present in the course. stronger than those present.” It produced another track, the Oslo track, whose secret chapters were led wholesale and in detail by Arafat and Abbas.


In view of Arafat's central and historical position in both fighting and politics, the founding scholar of the "Historic Peace" project saw that no one is able to manage his affairs except Arafat, and there is no room for the success of the difficult experiment unless he is the one who carries it out on its soil.


Arafat returned to the homeland, and from the early days he discovered the fragility of the agreement on paper in the face of the rigidity of the obstacles to implementation. The relationship with the Palestinians will be built, progress and retreat on a security basis wrapped in a thin political membrane, and the difference between those at the decision-making table and those in the opposition is just one vote, and so that it does not appear as if there are no differences in this regard between the government and the opposition in Israel, i.e. between Likud and Labor. The Likud was more clear in expressing its understanding of the new relationship with the Palestinians, which is security without any cover, then economic, just to keep the politician away.


The Liberation Organization and Fatah were at their strongest when Yasser Arafat and his leadership found "Fatah and the Organization", but when he returned home to engage in the challenges and difficulties of implementing what was agreed upon in Oslo.


The organization appeared to be devoid of its most important components, and the authority over some parts of the country became the objective place for the Palestinian situation as a whole.


It is obvious that the PLO will be harmed by its merger with the authority, and the Palestinians, who are scattered everywhere inside and outside the homeland, will be harmed by the repercussions resulting from this merger.


If the matters that were formulated on paper had found a way to be applied on the ground, it would have been possible to coordinate complementary relations between the authority and the organization. on its land.


The organization is, in fact, Fatah first, and what happened provides Fatah with an effective margin of independence from power, as long as it occupies its presidency and all presidencies emanating from it, and as long as the functional and political infrastructure is basically Fatah.


Voices appear from time to time trying to show that Fatah is different from the authority, and that the options of the authority do not necessitate Fatah, but that seems far from reality. In my estimation, there is a possible, albeit difficult, way out of this comprehensive impasse, in which Fatah, the organization, the authority and the people share. And all factions. It begins with Fatah first, according to the principle that if Fatah is reformed, the state of the nation will be reconciled, and it must reunite its children who have been separated for a long time and have gone far. The elections are even working from the moment to win them through the ballot box. This is how the beginning should be without delay. An article by Dr. Ibrahim Abrash that he recently published and which I transmitted with passion and interest and on a large scale on all communication platforms, including Fatah platforms, spared me from many details.

OPINIONS

Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:18 am - Jerusalem Time

The Netanyahu government and the story of strengthening the Palestinian Authority

Dr.. Hani Akkad

Dr.. Hani Akkad

Opinion Writer

A large military operation carried out by the occupation army in Jenin a few days ago began with bulldozers to crush the infrastructure in the camp and destroy the water, sewage, electricity and telephone networks and burn homes and apartments. The occupation turned the Jenin camp into a desert unfit for life. There is no army that respects the rules of battle. It does this in cities, except for the occupation army, which did that. Thousands of camp residents were forced to leave at night. They left their homes under the bombardment of planes, poison gas bombs, bullets, missiles, and the roar of planes. The occupying power sent all its equipment to the camp, all formations The special forces, the ground forces, the Shin Bet, and the intelligence all failed to reach the resistance brigades, which excelled in confronting the occupation, and inflicted heavy human and material losses on them. The occupation army did not achieve any goals in the Jenin camp except to sabotage the camp. It seems that the occupation wanted to carry out a military operation that it considered a surgical operation to stop the progress of the resistance in Jenin before its strength increased and it became impossible to confront it, but it failed and returned with more failure and weakness in its security and military system, and it failed In closing the way for the growing resistance in the West Bank, and Netanyahu failed to use this process to persuade the Israelis and the opposition to stop the protests and demonstrations in the main streets of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Afula, Hadera, Netanya, Rehovot and many Israeli cities, the process failed and Netanyahu failed to satisfy the settlers and their leaders who were It is still inciting to invade the northern West Bank and occupy some cities such as Jenin and Nablus, but Netanyahu knows that it is a risky adventure, the failure of which will inevitably lead to the fall of Netanyahu's government and his going to prison.
The Biden administration was angry with the Netanyahu government for this act and this failure, which it considered would lose the authority's ability to govern and will hasten its collapse, especially after the occupation government's scheme behind the operation was exposed by striking the relationship between the Palestinians with each other and the rhythm between the Palestinians and their authority, which the Netanyahu government describes as a sick man who does not work with him any medications. Two days ago, (Joe Biden) described the Netanyahu government as the most extremist government since the government of (Golda Meir), and that in this government there are ministers he saw as the most extremist in his life, and they are part of the problem in the West Bank. The Netanyahu government called for the cabinet to convene the cabinet to discuss the relationship with the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the failure of the scenario of entrapment between the Palestinians and the deepening of the division, enabling the Fatah movement to redress the scene, unite the resistance effort with the Jenin battalion, unite all the resistance forces in the camp and the city, and prepare for the next confrontation with the occupation.

It seems that the occupying power wants to satisfy the Biden administration, at least to ease the American anger towards the Netanyahu government, by granting the Palestinian Authority some imaginary facilities that were announced by the government and rejected by the two ministers (Ben Gvir) and (Bezalel Smotrich), and nothing will be achieved because the Netanyahu government linked it to stopping the leadership The Palestinian authorities have decided to prosecute the occupying state before international courts and to stop the incitement to the occupation in the Palestinian media and curricula, as if Netanyahu, with some facilities, wants to put more shackles on the necks of the Palestinians and the Palestinian leadership. ) Nothing will be achieved from it, because it is impossible for the Palestinians to accept stopping the prosecution of Israel for its crimes, just as it is impossible for the ministers of extremism to allow that, especially Finance Minister Smotrich.

Netanyahu's failure in Jenin means that he will fail to stop the resistance in Nablus, Tulkarem, Balata or any other city. This is how it appeared to him that with some empty facilities for the authority he could lure the authority to restore relations with the occupying state to play a security role in the Palestinian territories by preventing any military operations targeting the occupation army and its settlers. Israel must understand that this has become a thing of the past, and it is Israel that has brought the scene in the West Bank to such a degree that we are now saying that the occupying power has a plan to dismantle the Palestinian Authority and replace it with regional rulers who work directly with the so-called civil administration in the West Bank.

The Palestinians know the goal of the occupying state in terms of any facilities today, and they know that the occupying state will not offer any political solutions or initiatives at this stage, because a political solution and ending the conflict with the Palestinians are not among the strategies that the government of extremism believes in, and they are fully aware that it is the Netanyahu government that has worked over the years to undermine The Palestinian Authority as the bridge that connects the Palestinians to the state, and the stage is ripe for the destruction of this bridge. Therefore, we have seen how Israel has weakened the authority by piracy on the Palestinians’ money, which threatens the bankruptcy of the authority, and we have shown how the occupying state has undermined the sovereignty of the Palestinian Authority in the cities of the West Bank and is doing everything it does to make it an authority without authority. And we still see how the Netanyahu government plans to expand major settlements in the West Bank and resolve the issue of Jerusalem and the West Bank in favor of the settlement project, annexation, and the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over more than two-thirds of the lands of the West Bank.

The story of strengthening the presence of the authority with some economic facilities by the occupation government is a scandalous story that will not come for free. Believing it means opening the way for the occupying state to implement the plan of decisiveness led by this extremist government and its basis is to get rid of the power for the sake of dangerous alternative scenarios. Perhaps this story today necessitates the Palestinian leadership A set of effective measures through which the occupation government confuses and embarrasses the international position that does not depart from the square of condemnations and expressions of concern about what the Netanyahu government is doing to the Palestinians for the purpose of creating a trend for positive intervention in the conflict and obliging the occupying state to stop all these extremist plans and stop the escalation in the West Bank, whether military or settlement, and accept return For negotiations on the basis of the resolutions of international legitimacy and the relevant references, what the Palestinian leadership must do now is to return to the decisions of the Central Council of 2018 and implement them fully and announce immediately the activation of the decision to form a unified national leadership to lead the confrontation with the occupation and repel the expected invasions again, which will not end, but will escalate within The next phase.


OPINIONS

Wed 12 Jul 2023 10:16 am - Jerusalem Time

Jenin deserves all the support and assistance

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

Jenin Governorate, with all its towns and villages, deserves all appreciation and respect, because it constitutes a fortress of steadfastness and confronting the occupation with all its practices and attacks that have never stopped. The city was exposed, a short time ago, to a wave of attacks by the occupation army, which targeted the city and the neighboring camp in ways that are contrary to all human rights and international norms.


It is scheduled that President Abu Mazen will go to the city this day to see directly its conditions and the suffering of its people, and the government has approved the formation of a technical committee for the reconstruction of the city and its camp. It exists, and the president's mere visit to the city, inspecting its conditions, and seeing its needs, is a positive step, and we hope that it will lead to meeting the needs of the governorate, not just the city. There is the neighboring camp and several towns and villages belonging to the governorate in general, which are in dire need of support and assistance.


The President's visit to the city and the Reconstruction Committee, whose formation was approved by the government, are steps that everyone expected, and it is hoped that this visit and the committee will lead to taking the necessary positive action and taking the necessary measures, because Jenin deserves all the support and backing, not only the city, but the entire governorate with all its towns and villages. And tens of thousands of citizens who live in it and constitute a center of entitlement, duty and a national cause of the first degree.


The Technical Committee, in particular, is required to study the conditions of the city and the governorate in general and to take the necessary and required measures to fulfill the needs of this governorate, which is patient and steadfast with all the measures required, just as the president’s visit to the city today constitutes the broadest and largest move, and it will not be a mere formal visit. Certainly, but it is a positive and obligatory step and a primary responsibility of the first order.


It is hoped that Mr. President's visit to Jenin will be the first step towards touring the rest of the country's governorates, learning about the needs and demands of citizens, and working to meet that with all necessary means and capabilities. This is a responsibility of the first degree for the Palestinian leadership.

PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 8:49 am - Jerusalem Time

Gallant vetoes a law on the bodies of martyrs

The Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom reported, on Wednesday morning, that the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, vetoed the promotion of a bill that would prevent the return of the bodies of Palestinian martyrs who are being held.


Likud MK Eliyahu Ravvivo sought to present the bill to the Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs next Sunday, and it was put on the agenda, but in light of Gallant's strong objection to the proposal, it was withdrawn, and it will not be brought to a vote.

The bill provides for the detention of the body of any Palestinian who carries out an attack and burial in the cemetery of numbers, while leaving the discretion of the Israeli prime minister alone to decide the return of the bodies for special considerations.


The newspaper pointed out that the draft law enjoys wide support from the coalition and the opposition, and previously submitted similar projects.


Sources familiar with the details told the Hebrew newspaper that Galant told government coalition officials that the law would not achieve its goals and would only lead to igniting the situation.


While Gallant's office said that the detention of corpses does not affect "terrorist organizations", except in exceptional cases related to "Hamas terrorists" and we are preparing for such cases, and therefore there is no need for this law. According to his words and expression.

PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 8:28 am - Jerusalem Time

A new bill in the Knesset aims to harm the PA economically

The Hebrew newspaper, Haaretz, reported, on Wednesday morning, that a group of members of the Israeli Knesset for the government and opposition coalition parties are promoting a draft bill that would allow so-called "terror victims" to file compensation claims for the attacks they are subjected to.


According to the newspaper, the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee in the Knesset approved yesterday the draft law in first reading, indicating that this law will seriously harm the already shaky Palestinian Authority economy.


The draft law stipulates that those "affected" by the Palestinian Authority's funds can be compensated as it "encourages terrorism" and pays the perpetrators of the attacks a lot of money, considering that "civil damage" claims are an effective tool for creating an economic deterrent force against "terrorist financing".


This project comes in light of the Israeli cabinet's approval of a general framework that guarantees preventing the collapse of the PA and working to stabilize it, which was discussed by the committee in the Knesset yesterday, and the possibility of obtaining compensation from frozen funds was discussed.


It was decided to conduct further discussions to approve the draft law in the second and third readings, in preparation for presenting it to the General Assembly for approval.

PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 8:14 am - Jerusalem Time

118th Palestinian citizen of Israel killed in crime epidemic

30-year-old Kundi Kanaana was shot dead on Wednesday morning in the Kafr Qara, the latest victim in the wave of homicide in the Palestinian community of Israel.


Israel's public broadcaster Kan said that Kanaana was shot by a group of unidentified people. He was killed on the spot. 


The killing takes the death toll in the Palestinian community in Israel to 118 for 2023, compared to 55 at the same point last year. 



PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 8:03 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel injures, arrests Palestinians in raids across occupied West Bank

Several Palestinians were detained and injured in a series of raids on Wednesday morning by Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank.


Israel has carried out dawn incursions into the West Bank on a recurring basis in the last year. In the early hours of Wednesday, troops entered Nablus to carry out arrests, and they were met with gunfire from resistance fighters. 


The Palestinian Red Crescent in Nablus said that five Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation and that the soldiers attacked an ambulance, which had its windshield broken. The troops arrested three ex-prisoners.


Israeli occupation forces also arrested a young man from Nur Shams refugee camp, after shooting at his vehicle near the town of Bala', east of the city. They also arrested another Palestinian from a western neighborhood of the city.


In Aqabat Jabr refugee camp in Jericho, Israeli occupation forces arrested three Palestinians after storming the camp.


In Dheisheh refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, Israeli occupation forces injured a man with live ammunition during a raid on the camp. They blew off the doors of several houses and arrested three other Palestinians. 


They also arrested a man east on Qalqilya, two others Anata in occupied Jerusalem, and another man in the town of Kobar north of Ramallah. Another Palestinian from Nablus was arrested while in his workplace in the 48 territories (Israel).


PALESTINE

Wed 12 Jul 2023 7:50 am - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian President Abbas visiting Jenin on Wednesday

President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Jenin on Wednesday morning to examine the conditions of the Palestinian people after Israel's two-day long military operation.


President Abbas will arrive at Jenin refugee camp at around midday, where he will be received by Palestinian officials and a crowd of citizens. 



PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 9:03 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian President Abbas' wife transferred to Ramallah hospital

The wife of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was transferred to the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah on Tuesday evening. 



PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 8:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli occupation forces detain three Palestinian at military checkpoints

Israeli occupation forces detained three Palestinian men as they passed through checkpoints in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. 


The director of the Captive Club in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, stated that occupation forces arrested 20-year-old Islam 'Atef Zayed Bani Odeh from the town of Tamoun as he passed through the Hawara checkpoint, while his brother Miqdad, was also detained and is being held at the checkpoint.


In the same context, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the young man, Osama Nasser Salah, the brother of the two Palestinian martyrs, while he was passing through the Al-Jit military checkpoint near Qalqilya.

PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 5:33 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian factions in Gaza condemn 'political' arrests in the West Bank

Seven Palestinian factions, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, condemned the wave of "political" arrests against political leaders, activists and ex-prisoners by the Palestinian Authority across the occupied West Bank.


The factions panned the "serious violation of law" and called on the Palestinian Authority to "immediately stop practicing this policy" and to "immediately release all political detainees."


The joint statement added that the Palestinian Authority's actions "do not contribute to creating a positive atmosphere ahead of the call to hold a meeting of the general secretaries to achieve national unity in the face of the project to annex the West Bank and judaize Jerusalem."

PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 5:23 pm - Jerusalem Time

'Cannot be compared to Ukraine': Biden admin spokesman dismisses question on Palestine occupation

Washington – U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller evaded a question about whether the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves against Israeli aggression. "The situation cannot be compared to what is happening in Ukraine," he told Al-Quds' correspondent. 


The question came after Miller noted that 500 days had passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and that the Ukrainians faced this invasion and occupation "with courage." 


Saeed Erekat, Al-Quds' correspondent in Washington, told Miller that 20,475 days have passed since Israel's "very brutal occupation" of Palestinian territory began.  


Erekat continued: "Unlike the Ukrainians, the Palestinians are not given the right to self-defense...They are confronted with Apache helicopters, weapons supplied by the United States...Do you think the Palestinian people in Jenin have the right to defend themselves?"


Miller immediately dismissed the comparison to Ukraine and refused to answer the self-defense question directly.


"The United States does not believe that these two cases are similar," Miller said in his response. 


However, he was willing to assert that Israel's right to defend itself: "We support Israel's security and right to defend itself against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist groups. At the same time, it is necessary to take all possible steps to protect civilians from harm and facilitate humanitarian supplies and reconstruction for the residents of Jenin, such as restoring water and electricity services."


PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 4:46 pm - Jerusalem Time

Almost 80 demonstrators detained in mass protests in Israel against judicial overhaul

Seventy nine demonstrators were detained on Tuesday in mass demonstrators against the plan to weaken the judicial system, led by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.


According to the Hebrew news site Ynet, people were arrested in the "day of disruption" in clashes with police. 


For more that six months, Israelis have held weekly protests against the legislative package that will dramatically shift the balance of power in the country toward the executive. 


The rare midweek protest was sparked by the first vote on cancelling the so-called "reasonableness standard" that allows judges to act as a backstop against certain government decisions. 


The rallies across the country drew tens of thousands of people, including thousands who were able to reach Ben-Gurion International Airport and disrupt the entrance and exit of passengers.


The police, on their part, have responded much more violently to the latest wave of protests, with social media flooded with clips of violent manhandling and even physical attacks.



ARAB AND WORLD

Tue 11 Jul 2023 1:06 pm - Jerusalem Time

Increasing calls for negotiation and investigation of "war crimes" in Sudan

Calls increased to find a solution to the widening conflict in Sudan with the approaching completion of its third month, while Human Rights Watch called on Tuesday the International Court of Justice to investigate "war crimes" committed in the Darfur region.


The Quartet of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development in East Africa (IGAD) had called on the two parties to the conflict to conclude an "unconditional" ceasefire agreement, after the failure of several similar attempts over the past months.


The army boycotted the meeting, which was hosted by Addis Ababa, and reiterated its demand that Kenya be removed from the presidency of the committee, accusing it of "lack of neutrality" in the conflict.


Since its outbreak on April 15, battles have continued between the army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, with no prospect of calm. Experts believe that the two former allies chose to proceed with a war of attrition that would only stop with a military victory for one of them at the expense of the other, although no party has achieved significant gains since the start of the war that change the field data.

The US ambassador to Khartoum, John Godfrey, warned that "a military victory for either of the two conflicting parties ... will cause unacceptable human costs and damage to the country."


The diplomat, who left the Sudanese capital with the start of the fighting, like most foreigners, said in a statement that it was necessary to "reach a negotiated way out of the crisis."


He stressed that this cannot mean a return to "the status quo that existed before April 15," when Al-Burhan and Daglo seized the reins of power after overthrowing civilians in a military coup.


Godfrey's remarks came ahead of meetings expected to be held by US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, with Sudanese and regional officials.


These meetings come the day after a meeting held by the Quartet, consisting of Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and South Sudan, to which the two parties to the conflict called. The army boycotted the meeting because of its failure to meet its demand to remove Kenya from chairing the committee, as it accuses her of supporting the Rapid Support Forces.


The IGAD committee called on the two parties to an unconditional cessation of hostilities, stressing that it would ask the African Union to discuss the possibility of deploying the East African Standby Force (ISAF) with the aim of "protecting civilians" and ensuring the arrival of aid.


In addition, Kenyan President William Ruto requested a "humanitarian zone with a diameter of 30 km around Khartoum to facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid" needed by more than half of the country's population.

Mediation initiatives, whether from IGAD or others led by Washington and Riyadh, did not succeed in finding grounds for understanding.


And the United Nations warned at the end of last week that Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world even before the outbreak of the current battles, is on the verge of a "comprehensive civil war" whose repercussions will affect the entire region.


The conflict has killed more than 2,800 people and forced more than 2.8 million people to flee, more than 600,000 of whom have sought refuge in neighboring countries, most notably Egypt and Chad, according to data from the International Organization for Migration.


The rest of the population, whose total number was estimated at about 45 million people before the start of the fighting, suffers from a lack of food, services and energy sources, while reports continue of cases of looting, sexual violence and the intensification of ethnic conflicts, especially in the Darfur region (west).


Over the past weeks, witnesses in Khartoum and Darfur have given horrific accounts to AFP of the abuses, accusing in particular the Support Forces and allied Arab groups of being behind them.


On Tuesday, Human Rights Watch reported that "several thousand Rapid Support fighters" and its allies attacked the town of Misteri in Darfur in late May.


In a lengthy report, she explained that they besieged the town, which has an estimated population of 46,000, using "motorcycles, horses and pick-up trucks," and opened fire on "those who tried to flee."


It quoted witnesses as saying that the attackers looted "all day long the residents' property, as they stole livestock, seeds, money, gold, phones, and furniture... After looting the houses, the attackers set them on fire."


It indicated that the attacking forces "executed at least 28 members of the Masalit ethnicity and killed and wounded dozens of civilians," one of the most prominent non-Arab ethnic groups in West Darfur.


The organization quoted witnesses as saying that the attackers "pursued people seeking safety in schools and the mosque," and "repeatedly attacked classrooms in search of men and carried out field executions against those they found."


The organization considered that "many of these violations committed in the context of the armed conflict in Sudan amount to war crimes," calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate these attacks.


"The mass killing of civilians and the complete destruction of the town of Misteri demonstrates the need for a stronger international response to the widening conflict," said Jean-Patset Gallupin, researcher at the organization.


The court is investigating grave violations committed in Darfur during a conflict that began in 2003 and spanned nearly two decades, leaving nearly 300,000 dead and 2.5 million people displaced, according to the United Nations.

PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 12:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli threats to liquidate the resistance in Jenin camp

The Israeli drones did not leave the skies of the Jenin camp, despite the withdrawal at dawn on Wednesday after the two-day aggression. In front of the great Israeli failure to achieve the goals of the campaign led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in liquidating the resistance, destroying its infrastructure, assassinating its leaders and every rebel fighter, and challenging the resistance and its exit. Al-Alani, after only hours with its equipment, equipment, and weapons to lead the funeral processions for the martyrs of the aggression, during which 12 martyrs were martyred, the Israeli security service "Shin Bet" officers returned to target the families of the wanted persons and young men in general in the camp, by arresting them and subjecting them to investigation and pressure to reveal the resistance fighters on the one hand, and sending messages On the other hand, in Arabic on their cell phones, some of which include threatening phrases, and others that demand cooperation and provide information, all of which are signed by the "Israeli officer", who left numbers to contact him.


The families of the resistance fighters stated to Al-Quds.com that immediately after the Israeli withdrawal, and their children escaped arrest and assassination despite the drones bombing the camp with more than 35 missiles, they received warning messages directly on their cellular devices, which included a threat to return to bomb their homes and assassinate their children, but they refused. Cooperating with them and responding to them, but in a form of defiance, the resistance fighters sent the officer a reply in which they said: "We are waiting for you, come to the camp, and we will bury you and your planes."


The resistance fighter Abu Abdullah said, in relation to the martyr leader in the Jenin Battalion, Abdullah al-Husari: "After the resistance broke their power and thwarted their aggression, they returned to using the threat method, and this is evidence of bankruptcy. Their threats will not intimidate us, and our decision is our battle is continuous and open."


He added, "The army, its leadership, and intelligence have become a mockery after the heroic camp battle. We do not fear their planes and bombardment, and we are ready to confront them, while we are in the field."


After 4 days of his arrest and interrogation, the young man, Muhammad Salem, told Al-Quds.com, after his release, that a whole team of intelligence officers had been prepared by the occupation at the operation follow-up point near the Al-Jalama checkpoint, another in Salem detention camp, and a third in a prison. Megiddo”, they detain the camp youth who were arrested from their homes during the aggression, and subject them to interrogation and threats.


He added, "They crucified me and detained me in the sun for an average of 6 hours a day, after which an interrogation session, intimidation, and threats of arrest if we did not cooperate with them in reporting our information about the resistance fighters."


Salem continued: "For two days, I was only allowed to eat once every evening, and during each investigation, the officer informed me that my detention would be long if I did not cooperate, and I told him every time, I have no information, and my arrest is arbitrary, and I will return home against your will."


Hours after his release from Megiddo prison, without charge or trial, and upon his arrival home, Muhammad received a threatening letter, the same message reached Abu Azzam from the camp, in which the intelligence officer wrote, “For your sake, and for your family’s sake, if you have information about wanted persons and weapons.” So he sent a message on the number,” and the intelligence officer left his number.


He added, "These are open methods, and they will not deceive us. They want to cover up their failure and the failure of the agents and their plans, but there will be no one in the camp to cooperate with them. How can we cooperate with the enemies of our people, the murderers of innocents and heroes?"


The position of the citizen Abu Abd al-Rahman, a freed prisoner who spent 5 years in the occupation prisons during the second intifada, did not change.


In turn, the activist Nidal Mousa said: "These are burnt, old and new methods, and they only reveal the weakness and defeat of the occupation and the intelligence and the shock they were subjected to from the recent Jenin earthquake. It is clear that they are bankrupt and want to search for any way to strike the popular incubator of the resistance, which will undoubtedly be unsuccessful ".


While the released prisoner, Jamal Abu Hatem, said: "The occupation is facing a crisis and a catastrophe after losing the battle of the camp, and it wants to search for a way to rescue it. It abused civilians and the families of the wanted, and practiced repression and failed. Will such methods pass and succeed? The answer is known even to a child."


In response to the messages, a number of activists in the camp did not hesitate to respond to them, and to send messages to the same number, including what the resistance fighter Abu Alaa wrote, "We do not cooperate, and there is no one who cooperates with us, be bold and come with us to the Jenin camp, and you will find the appropriate response for free." No one can scare us, the time for fear is over.”


PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 11:55 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel arrested 130 Palestinians in Jenin invasion

The Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that the Israeli occupation detained 130 Palestinians in its lethal raid on Jenin refugee camp. 


The commission's lawyer, Shereen Al-Iraqi, gave the figure after visiting Megiddo prison. She added that several were transferred to administrative detention and that some prisoners had been injured during the raid.


Twelve Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured in the largest Israeli operation in the West Bank since the Palestinian uprising twenty years ago. 

PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 11:48 am - Jerusalem Time

The Israeli forces of oppression storm the "Negev" prison

Today, Tuesday morning, the Israeli forces of repression stormed Section 4 of the Negev Prison, and transferred the 50 prisoners held there to the other sections, in addition to conducting extensive searches.


The Prisoner's Club stated that the prisoners of Section (4) recently carried out protests, rejecting the prison administration's delay in transferring the prisoner Raed Badwan to the prison clinic, after he suffered a deterioration in his health condition.


The Prisoner's Club pointed out that the raids are considered one of the most prominent fixed policies pursued by the occupation prison administration against the prisoners, with the aim of striking any state of "stability" and imposing more control and oversight on them, and this extends to prejudice the organizational structure that is the basis for managing the detention life of the prisoners.


It is noteworthy that the occupation prison administration escalated the abuse of prisoners during the raids, and witnessed its peak in 2019, when the most violent raids were recorded in more than ten years.


From the end of last year until the beginning of this year, many raids were recorded in several prisons, during which the repressive forces abused the prisoners, isolated their leaders, vandalized and destroyed their possessions, and confiscated many of their writings.

PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 11:23 am - Jerusalem Time

Israel planning new settlement in the heart of occupied Jerusalem

Israel's occupation authorities are planning to establish a large settlement to wedge between Palestinian towns in occupied East Jerusalem, Haaretz reported on Tuesday. 


According to the Israeli newspaper, 450 settlement units are set to built on 12 dunums (12,000 square metres) in between the villages of Umm Lisun and Jabal Mukaber in occupied East Jerusalem. The plan also calls for the establishment of a wall around the settlements.


Historically, settlements established in occupied East Jerusalem have come at the cost of Palestinians, either encroaching on private land or requiring the displacement of Palestinians altogether. 


The settlement of 'Givat Hashaked,' for example, was built on lands from the neighbourhoods of Shorafat and Beit Safafa, and blocks their ability to expand naturally. 


OPINIONS

Tue 11 Jul 2023 10:21 am - Jerusalem Time

After Jenin .. Palestine to where?!

Jamal Zaqout

Jamal Zaqout

Opinion Writer

The strategy of the Ben Gvir-Smotrich government led by Netanyahu and its top priority is the annexation of most of the West Bank, isolating the main cities in disjointed cantons in the north, middle and south of the West Bank, in addition to the Gaza Strip canton, which is becoming more entrenched day after day. In order to achieve this strategy, it continues its bloody aggression against our people, their land, and their sources of life and livelihood. This government, which seeks to implement the so-called biblical law, which considers historical Palestine to be the Promised Land and the base for "Greater Israel" capable of imposing its full hegemony over the region, is trying to contain the internal objections that erupted in the face of the so-called judicial amendments, which resolve Israel's identity and reduce it to a state. theocracy. It realizes that to the extent that these amendments spark fundamental contradictions within that society about the nature of governance and the identity of the state, the permissibility of the blood of Palestinian citizens, the destruction of their homes and ways of life, the annexation of their lands and the expansion of settlements narrows the division gap within it, and it also prolongs the survival of this government and its ability to The continuation of the misinformation that the successive governments of Israel, since the Nakba, have been claiming about the so-called "democracy of the state" at a time when it arose on the usurpation of Palestine, and racial discrimination against the Palestinian minority that remained steadfast on its land.

Annexation: the title of the war against our people

From this angle, we must look at what happened in the Jenin camp, and what is happening in the old town of Nablus, and in other Palestinian cities, towns, and villages, in terms of daily killing operations carried out by the Israeli occupation forces, which aim primarily to terrorize the Palestinian people, and in a desperate attempt to subdue the ember of their stubborn resistance , and his determination to reject the occupation, and to resist his plans for annexation and liquidation in which the occupation government is racing against time to dictate it on the ground, and in fact it reminds us of the terrorist crimes carried out by the Zionist gangs to displace and expel the Palestinian people from their land on the eve of the Nakba in 1948.

It is noteworthy that, in a manner similar to black comedy, the government of the trio "Netanyahu - Smotrich - Ben Gvir" is carrying out these murders with the support of the American administration under the pretext of what is called "strengthening and empowering the Palestinian Authority" and mowing what some call "poisonous weeds" under the cover of what is known With the understandings of Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh, that is, the liquidation of the rebels against those plans, which it cannot do. All of this is done under the cloak of security coordination, which no longer has any function other than protecting the security of the occupation and settlement, and not affecting its ability to implement its plans, which no longer accept interpretation, to uproot the mere thought of ending the occupation and extracting an independent Palestinian state. Once again, this is being done in coordination with the American intelligence services, whose administration has been talking about the two-state solution as an empty slogan without practical or political content, and its sole concern is to expand the state of normalization with the Arab countries without any price, especially with regard to the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The question in people's hearts is: How can the Palestinian Authority and the dominant trend of its ruling party take a gray and ambiguous position, and even put itself in the face of the will of national steadfastness expressed by the Jenin camp, the old town of Nablus, and many other camps and sites? without realizing this dominant leadership of power; The Palestinian people, who have provided it with one opportunity after another since its inception, in order to, firstly, avoid internal conflict, and secondly, may these forces that dominate the divisive scene reverse their course and submit to the will of their people for unity and resistance. However, it has become clear that the people's patience has run out and they are convinced that the danger is clearly affecting not only the future of their ability to extract their rights, but also threatens their existence and their ability to remain in this country.

Rising up in the face of aggression

In the face of the defeat of June and the completion of the occupation of Palestine, the battle of dignity constituted a strategic turning point that enabled the Fatah movement and the Palestinian resistance factions to take the initiative to lead the march of the revolution. Also, in the face of the results of the war on Lebanon and the forces of the Liberation Organization and their evacuation from the northern front lines, the major uprising exploded. It is obvious today, and in light of this fascist aggression, that the centers of resistance in its various forms will explode, especially in the absence of a national strategy that unites the resistance in the service of national goals. What is new this time is that these centers of resistance are emerging from the rubble of division and the state of collapse or near collapse that characterizes the national movement, and in light of the authority’s adherence to its security commitments that put it or almost in confrontation with its people, and at the expense of the popular incubator that was launched since the Battle of Dignity and the steadfastness of Beirut. And the great uprising. Also, in light of the Hamas movement's efforts to conclude the so-called long-term truce that perpetuates the separation and isolates Gaza from its historical role as a lever for the national movement and the preservation of the unified identity of our people.

Tragedy Repeated: A Black Comedy

Is history preparing itself for this black comedy that the Palestinian people paid for with their blood, sacrifices and land? Will the national movement led by "Fatah al-Karama" remain locked in its crisis to mourn its march, sacrificing the march and sacrifices of tens of thousands of martyrs, on the altar of the illusion of peace and the mirage of the divisive conflict over "alleged legitimacy" with the Hamas movement, which constitutes the other tragic aspect of the concept of governance and power under the spears of occupation and the armistice? Long-term the other side of security coordination and both are free.

People's impatience

The popular reactions that followed the battle of Jenin camp are like the last bell and the red light that should ignite the senses and responsibility of everyone, regardless of their circumstances, and perhaps their departure from the traditions of our people, especially during the funerals of the martyrs, but it reflects the impatience of the people, and the extent of their need to review the process of erosion. And the reasons for the isolation experienced by the national movement and its main forces, and the entire dilapidated political system.

The final test: the government of unity and steadfastness

The last test is what will result from the possible meeting of the secretaries-general, which Egypt announced its hosting at the end of this month, especially in terms of the extent of the ability to come out of such a meeting with a unified national position that cuts with the causes of collapse and disintegration, and leads to a national road map that embodies the need of the Palestinian people And the status of his national cause to end the division immediately, and to announce the formation of the transitional government of "unity, steadfastness and national salvation", which must include everyone and put them before their responsibilities, which means stopping separatist loose ends in Gaza, and the threats of the stick and security solutions in the West Bank, and the dangers they warn of. An almost existential strategy, restoring the position of the inclusive national institutions at the level of the organization and authority as a prelude to restoring the trust and constitutional rights of the people, enabling them without equivocation or manipulation to elect their national leadership within the framework of the Unified Liberation Organization and restore its frontal character as the only legitimate representative of our people and the leader of its liberation struggle, and rebuilding a function And the role of the National Authority according to the priority of steadfastness and the ability to survive and face the imminent dangers. This is the practical test away from the media consumption and waste of time. As for continuing to prevaricate and failed bets, abandoning the requirements of national responsibility, and the struggle over the legitimacy of representation under the wreckage of what was left behind by the devastating division, it no longer deceives anyone and is gradually being uttered by the people. This time has passed, the overwhelming majority have realized their way to freedom.

OPINIONS

Tue 11 Jul 2023 10:20 am - Jerusalem Time

Jenin and its camp said you have neither a house nor a garden with us

Rasim Obeidat

Rasim Obeidat

Opinion Writer

The name of the aggressive operation launched by the entity state on July 2, 2023 against Jenin and its camp, the stronghold of the Palestinian resistance, is "House and Garden". This name was chosen accurately and not absurdly, according to the new theory of aggression applied by the entity state, "limited combat days." Instead of a battle between two wars...the name means that all the Palestinian lands are a biblical Talmudic land that the citizens of the entity state have the right to roam, hike, dance and sing in freely "Saddah Maddah", as if it does not belong to the people of the owner of this land by land, sea and air..... the invaders They chose this name and said that their forces go out on combat days to any arena that poses a threat to its existence, its army, and its settlers... days that they determine its ceiling in terms of time and space, so that matters are under control, by preventing the expansion of the battle beyond the specified place and not to procrastinate in time for a longer period, so as not to Things exploded in a wider way, bringing in the intervention of other arenas... In light of the estranged regional and internal changes, the entity's government and army were looking for a field victory to compensate for their strategic failure, under the illusion that the Jenin camp, which did not kneel, neither in what was known as the Defensive Wall / 2002 operation, nor in any other operation Known as the Breaking Waves, February 2022. Perhaps this time, in light of a weak, fragmented, and non-unified Palestinian situation, the collapse of the official Arab system, American and British support, and the world’s preoccupation with the Ukrainian war, it may provide an opportunity to defeat the resistance in Jenin and its camp..using a very huge military force in display Unprecedented muscle.... Where a camp does not exceed an area of ​​half a square kilometer, it mobilizes more than a thousand soldiers, a hundred and fifty armored vehicles and machinery, and elite forces from Maghlan, Iguz, Al-Daffan, Al-Yasam, Al-Yamam, and others, not to mention the drones, helicopters, warfare, and the latest means of technology and espionage ... ..


This broad display of muscle was intended to suggest to the settlers and to the public of the entity-state that the Palestinian resistance exists in one city and one camp and can be liquidated in one blow... We realize that it is different from this media goal to raise the morale of the settlers, and the security, political and settlement objectives of this military operation. That it has goals to save Netanyahu and his government from the internal dilemma in light of the demonstrations that continue and expand for the twenty-seventh week, against the backdrop of the explosion of the amendment of judicial legislation to the deep crisis of the entity state that extends to November 1995. The entity around the identity of the state, takes the ideological and cultural aspects..


This "invasion" with these huge forces... could not break into 1/3 of the camp, and the Palestinian resistance met it in every alley and street in the camp with intense and dense resistance, using ambushes, side bombs and large firepower, in an expression of the period of development and expansion of the Palestinian resistance's military capabilities And the armament and industrialization, despite all the siege, and its maneuvering and tactics capabilities.... Resistance said that the camp of the martyrs, prisoners, and the wounded, and there is no room for mentioning the names, the camp and city of the heroes of Operation "Freedom Tunnel" September 2021, will not fall and will not raise the white flag, there are men who breastfed milk The lions, and they have determination and will, and they are not trembling or terrified, and they do not beg for the protection of those who are the enemies of our people and the partners of the entity’s state in the aggression against our people and their resistance, and they are not looking for special interests, they are looking for a homeland and a return to a land that has been displaced and expelled from it...


The army of the entity used all its brutality and barbarism in destroying the streets of the camp, razing its land, and expelling, displacing, and abandoning, in the widest process of ethnic cleansing, 3,000 citizens of the camp's residents in "Prova" for what is coming in new battles that will be waged against our people, where expulsion, uprooting, and displacement will take place on a broader and more comprehensive basis. ...these displaced and forcibly expelled from the camp, and the enemy wanted to sever the relationship between them, they and the rest of the camp's residents with the Palestinian resistance as an incubating environment for it...they said with one voice, our homes are the sacrifice of the resistance...perhaps the message left by the owners and residents of one of the houses whose residents were forced To evacuate it, to the heroes of the resistance, that we left you with sufficient supplies and a sum of cash, and the house is at your disposal, I sacrifice it for you, and I do not regret its bricks and stones, expresses the depth of the connection and relationship between the popular incubator and the resistance.

The entity, as usual, said and will say that it has achieved the desired objectives of this operation, as is the case in previous operations in Gaza, Nablus, Jenin, and other cities and governorates of the homeland... These objectives do not exceed residential buildings, infrastructure, health and medical centers, hospitals, schools, and defenseless civilians who are supposed to be provided with security and protection. In international and humanitarian law, if there is such a law, but there are those who deliberately stand by the entity’s state and protect it from any decision or international punishment that may be taken or imposed on it for its rude and shameless violation of international law, and keep it as a state above the law, and describe its killing of innocent citizens, destruction and sabotage, It is the "right to self-defense"..Despite all this exposure of the partnership between this colonial state, led by America, the collapsing Arab official system and colonial Britain, there are Palestinians who still bet on the West and adhere to the illusion of the so-called two-state solution and live in a political coma An unprecedented disconnect from reality.

Yes, Jenin and the Jenin battalion, along with all the resistance factions and factions, and the popular incubator, and with it all the masses and free people of our people along the breadth and areas of the homeland, have triumphed over this aggression and thwarted all plans to bring Jenin and its camp and its resistance to heel... And the entity has reproduced the failure of its restoration of the deterrent force in a more comprehensive and broad manner, and Jenin and its camp will produce Its deterrence formula, as it was produced by Gaza combined with its factions, and by the Islamic Jihad movement alone... Jenin and its camp send a message to all the defeated and deserted, that whoever possesses the will and challenge is capable of creating steadfastness and victory... The state of the entity in the coming days will work according to my theory of "security actions behind the lines" The enemy has days of fighting on the lines to compensate for the failure in the foreign regional and internal conditions, and the entire resistance axis must prevent it from achieving its goals... Inevitably, it will choose the arenas that it will harass, and the West Bank with its cities, Gaza, and perhaps Lebanon will be an arena for these harassing operations, but it seems that the era of Its rapid victories and the transfer of the battle to the land of the "enemy" are over, and it is entering a stage of defeats and an existential threat.

ARAB AND WORLD

Tue 11 Jul 2023 10:18 am - Jerusalem Time

An American-Israeli accused in New York of promoting China and mediating the sale of Iranian oil

On Monday, the US Department of Justice announced charges including secret political lobbying and arms trafficking against an American-Israeli analyst who had previously accused US President Joe Biden's son of corruption.


A statement from the Department of Justice said that federal prosecutors in New York charged Gal Loft, who heads a think tank outside the US capital, with engaging in "multiple and serious criminal schemes."


Luft had previously alleged that President Biden's family was involved in corruption, prompting Republican politicians to view the charges against him as an attempt to intimidate a key witness.


According to the prosecution, Luft "violated US foreign agent registration laws in an effort to promote Chinese policies by working through a former high-ranking US government official."


In addition, Luft "was a broker in dangerous arms deals and Iranian oil (...) and told numerous lies to law enforcement agencies to cover up his crimes," according to the statement.


The prosecution stated that Loft was arrested in February in Cyprus on US charges, before he managed to escape after being released on bail pending extradition procedures. He is still at large and the Ministry of Justice is requesting information on his whereabouts.


In a video released by the New York Post last week, Luft said that in 2019 he provided evidence to US Justice Department and FBI officials regarding what he alleged were the Biden family's financial dealings with the CFFC.


Republican Senator Ron Johnson accused the US government of a cover-up.


Johnson told Fox News recently that Luft "has a wealth of information. But they never followed up on it," adding, "Instead they arrested him in Cyprus to silence him."


And as Biden intensified his efforts to be re-elected as president for a second term in 2024, Republicans in Congress accused his family in May of collecting more than $ 10 million from dealings with Chinese and Romanian companies, despite the weak evidence they presented.


These accusations are part of an old campaign to target Hunter Biden, the president's son from his first marriage.


Republicans accuse Hunter Biden of exploiting his father's influence when he was deputy to Barack Obama in order to strike deals in many countries.

OPINIONS

Tue 11 Jul 2023 10:16 am - Jerusalem Time

To elevate the political leaders to the field unit level

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

What is remarkable is that the field unity between all the national and Islamic action factions is embodied daily in confronting the occupation forces and herds of settlers in clear coordination and work side by side, which is supported by the masses of our people, who represented the popular incubator for this field unit, which was embodied in defending the resistance fighters in Jenin And its camp, Nablus, Tulkarem camp, and many camps, towns and villages, especially the popular resistance, which is on its way to expand to include all parts of the occupied land in light of the settlement expansion and the attacks of herds of settlers who wreaked havoc on the land and with the protection of the occupation forces, and even with their participation in many cases and by encouraging these herds to commit Abominations.


While the political and geographical unity is still in its state of fragmentation and partisan and personal interests prevail over the supreme national interest, although the Palestinian issue is going through its most difficult and delicate stages as a result of the attempts of the occupying state and settlers to resolve the conflict in its favor through the use of brute military force in the belief that such a force can achieve The desired goal or goals are taking advantage of the internal Palestinian situation, which only pleases the enemies, but it is unlikely that you will succeed in that as long as our people stand firm on their land and confront the occupation forces and herds of settlers with bare chests except from faith and insistence on the departure of the occupation through the willingness to make more sacrifices for the sake of Achieving this goal, which everyone must unite around, especially since most countries of the world reject this occupation, and if they do not take practical steps to force the occupier to leave the Palestinian land, this refusal can be employed and exploited in the course of the Palestinian national struggle on the path to defeating and expelling the occupation.


The time has come for political leaders to rise to the level of field unity embodied and embodied by our people and their vanguard of youth who believe in their national cause and are keen to achieve their goals and dreams of leaving the occupation.


Will the political leaders take their role, achieve political and geographical unity, and develop a unified program of action to face the challenges and strengthen the steadfastness of our people on their land to continue confronting the attacks of the occupation forces and the rising herds of settlers, which aim to politicize them and work to deport them from their land, or will they remain as they are of fragmentation and the primacy of personal interests over Supreme National?


Tomorrow is close to his watch, and the meeting called for by President Abbas in Cairo for the secretaries-general of the factions is the one that will resolve matters, and that if the situation remains as it is now, these leaders will bear responsibility for it, and that history will not be merciful to anyone, and that our people will also hold accountable everyone who fails to act under his command. Various pretexts. Serious and realistic work is the way to salvation, not wagers on this and that, and what scratched your skin like your nail.


Let these political leaders rise to the level of field unity to achieve more achievements on the road to defeating the occupation.

PALESTINE

Tue 11 Jul 2023 9:51 am - Jerusalem Time

Prisoners of "Ofer" prison take protest steps

Today, Tuesday, the prisoners in Ofer Prison decided to take protest steps against the prison administration's measures.


According to the Prisoners’ Club, among the steps are closing the departments and announcing the dissolution of the regulatory bodies today as a preliminary step, in protest against the daily inspections, the procrastination in delaying the entry of the prisoners’ families during the visit, the great shortage of clothes, and the daily penalties against them.


The club pointed to the state of overcrowding inside the sections (the crossing), with the increase in the number of new detainees, and the failure to provide them with basic needs.