PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 10:08 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hebrew Channel: The Cabinet will allow the establishment of an industrial zone for the Palestinians

The Hebrew channel Reshet Kan reported, on Friday evening, that the Israeli Cabinet, the Cabinet, will study on Sunday the establishment of an industrial zone for the benefit of the Palestinians.


According to the Hebrew channel, this step is among the important economic steps that will be discussed for approval by the Israeli cabinet, to strengthen and strengthen the Palestinian Authority.


She indicated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be inclined to accept the security recommendation regarding economic concessions to the Palestinians.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 7:54 pm - Jerusalem Time

The resistance in Jenin told "Telqdus": the occupation did not achieve any of its objectives

The resistance sources in Jenin camp revealed that its fighting groups thwarted the goals of the Israeli aggression and inflicted heavy losses on the occupation, and dealt it a strong blow during all the battles it fought over the course of two days, denying the assassination or arrest of any resistance elements, stressing their full readiness to confront and confront in light of the threats to return for a fetus.


In a statement to "Al-Quds" Dot, Abu Muhammad, a member of the resistance, explained that the resistance formations began preparing and preparing since the declaration of the occupation a while ago, preparing for a second defensive wall campaign in Jenin and the camp, and they were keen to prepare and develop their capabilities and capabilities and arrange appropriate military plans to fight and inflict The occupation suffered real losses, as happened when it carried out its operation two weeks ago, when the resistance was able to detonate advanced explosive devices, which damaged 7 vehicles and caused casualties among the occupation soldiers.


He added: "All indications and field movements of the occupation confirmed that there was an imminent aggression and attack, so the resistance began to arrange its ranks and positions, and take precautionary and logistical measures and measures, and when the occupation launched the aggression by bombing, we were fully prepared."


The resistance fighter, Abu Muhammad, stated that the resistance tactic, distributing groups, dividing the camp, fortifying the entrances, alleys and streets, and helping and supporting the camp residents who refused to leave and supported the resistance, in addition to the solid and steadfast unity, contributed to the failure of the fierce attack in which the occupation mobilized its selected forces, reinforced by a thousand soldiers. The media campaign that accompanied the aggression, and the occupation's attempts to stir up panic and fear, shattered the rock of steadfastness, unity, the spirit of faith and conviction in our ability to confront and confront even despite the bombing and destruction.


The resistance fighter, Abu Ali, challenged the occupation to prove the success of his campaign, and said, "We faced the occupation with strength, determination, and steadfastness. The groups mastered the art of attacking, withdrawing, and evading, deceiving the occupation, and trapping it in ambushes. Its soldiers did not set foot on the camp's land, even in the shadow of the drones and warplanes. The resistance fought and confronted the occupation." In all locations, and did not retreat in all confrontations, and the battles continued at the entrances to Al-Dajm neighborhood for 12 hours and failed to storm it. ".


And he indicated that the resistance, with all its formations, ambushed the occupation soldiers in several ambushes and besieged them with locally manufactured bombs, which is considered one of the most important means of resistance and confronting the occupation, whose soldiers were trapped inside the patrols and were unable to advance towards the confrontation squares despite the cover and bombing of the planes, and the installation of sniper teams, and the occupation admitted killing a soldier and wounding last.


He stated that the resistance surprised the occupation with ambushes and violent confrontations, despite the bombing operations and the flight of more than 10 drones in Jenin, and said, "The occupation withdrew and did not achieve any of its goals in the operation, and in every incursion, the resistance will find itself on the lookout and able to thwart its tactics."


At the same time, the resistance sources denied the arrest of its members, and refuted the occupation's allegations about its success in arresting 120 wanted persons, and said, "All those arrested were civilians who were present in their homes normally, but the failure of the occupation prompted it to promote this fabricated news to deceive the Israeli public opinion, and to avoid any scandals, Two days after the raid and the use of its selected units, explaining that the occupation released a number of those it called wanted after hours of arrest.


The detainees' families confirmed this, and citizen Jamal Hassan told Al-Quds, "I was with my family in our house until the soldiers stormed it, and they arrested me and my three sons, while they were not wanted, and they transferred us to the interrogation center west of Jenin, and after our interrogation they released us."

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 6:50 pm - Jerusalem Time

Rajoub to "Al-Quds": There is no truth to the Israeli news about Jenin and its aim is to stir up sedition

The governor of Jenin, Akram Rajoub, denied, this evening, Friday, the news published in the Israeli media about the instructing of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, to the leaders of the security services to deploy their forces in Jenin and its camp, starting from Sunday.


In an interview with Al-Quds.com, Rajoub said that this news is incorrect and baseless, and falls within the programmed Israeli targeting plans against Jenin Governorate and its steadfast people.


Commenting on what was published by the Hebrew Channel 12, that President Abbas rebuked the leaders of the security services after what happened in Jenin with the leaders, Mahmoud Al-Aloul and Azzam Al-Ahmad, Rajoub said: “This is incorrect talk and there is no information from it, and we see that it is part of Israel’s attempts to stir up Confusion, strife, division, and striking the societal fabric of Jenin because of what it formed of national unity and struggle, and its danger lies in targeting the unbreakable Jenin, which refuses to surrender.”


And the Hebrew Channel 12 had attributed to sources in Ramallah that President Abbas instructed the security services to deploy their forces in Jenin and its camp, and reprimanded the leaders of the security services for their failure to provide protection for leaders Al-Aloul and Al-Ahmad after they were expelled from the funeral of the martyrs of the Israeli aggression.


The channel claimed that sessions were held for the committees and regions of the Fatah movement, with the security leadership, to demand that they take action against Hamas in light of its attempts to control the situation in the West Bank.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 6:41 pm - Jerusalem Time

Receiving the body of the martyr Alaa Qaisah in Hebron

The Israeli occupation authorities handed over, this evening, Friday, the body of the martyr, Alaa Qaisah, from the city of Al-Dhahiriya in Hebron.


According to the Civil Affairs, the body of the martyr Qaysa will be transferred to Dura Governmental Hospital, so that his immaculate body will be buried according to the arrangements of his family and relatives.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 5:30 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian killed by Israeli army gunfire near Ramallah

A Palestinian was shot dead on Friday by the Israeli military in the village of Umm Safa, north of Ramallah.


The Palestinian Health Ministry said that the man was wounded by live bullets in the chest. He arrived at the Istishari Arab Hospital in a critical condition, and doctors later pronounced him dead.



PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 5:07 pm - Jerusalem Time

Large crowds gather to mourn two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Nablus

Large crowds throned in Nablus to send off 32-year-old Hamza Maqbool and 34-year-old Khairy Shaheen, who were killed by Israeli occupation forces earlier on Friday.


The stream of Palestinians carried the deceased from Rafidia Governmental Hospital to the eastern cemetery, walking through the alleys of the Old City and chanting against the crimes of the occupation authorities.


Three other Palestinians were wounded in the raid of Nablus' Old City this morning.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 4:48 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian PM Shtayyeh: Israel pushing the PA to 'collapse'

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said on Friday that Israel's government is not just working to thwart a Palestinian state, but also "pushing the Palestinian Authority to collapse, and working to systematically weaken it."


Shtayyeh's comments came during a meeting with Oman's Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi and the Sultanate's Ambassador to Palestine Salem bin Habib Al-Amiri, which was also attended by the Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki.


He added that Israel is waging "several wars" against the Palestinian people: building settlements, killings and arrests, and an economic war on the Palestinian authority by siphoning off tax revenues.


In the absence of a political horizon, the Palestinian Authority is focussing its efforts to strengthen domestically in order to confront Israel's occupation, as well as conducting meetings with allies abroad to exert pressure on Israel. He also stressed the importance of holding elections, but that Israel must allow free and fair voting to occur across Jerusalem, as well as reconciliation between Palestinian factions. 


During the meeting, Shtayyeh stressed the importance of strengthening bilateral relations between Palestine and the Sultanate of Oman.  For his part, Albusaidi stressed his country's solidarity with the Palestinian people and their just cause.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 3:24 pm - Jerusalem Time

Injuries in separate clashes in the West Bank

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


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


In Nablus, dozens of citizens and solidarity activists were injured, during the suppression of the Israeli occupation forces, a march in Burqa, northwest of Nablus, against the settlers' return to the "Homesh" settlement, evacuated since 2005.


Local sources said that the occupation forces targeted the participants with bullets and tear gas canisters, which led to suffocation, and the burning of some trees and plants by the gas canisters.


The march started from the village of Burqa, with the participation of foreign solidarity activists, to demand the dismantling and removal of the settlement buildings built on the lands of Jabal al-Qubaybat, on which the "Homesh" settlement is established.


In Qalqilya, five civilians were injured when the Israeli occupation forces suppressed the weekly Kafr Qaddum march, east of Qalqilya.


Local sources said that the occupation army fired metal bullets and tear gas at the participants in the march, which was launched to condemn the ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people, which led to the injury of five citizens with metal bullets, and dozens of suffocation, who were treated in the field.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 2:33 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian dies after bomb accidentally detonated in Tulkarm

20-year-old Mahdi Al-Hilou died on Friday morning when an explosive device he was preparing was accidentally detonated in Tulkarm refugee camp.


The Tulkarem Battalion of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed the martyr as their own, and said he died preparing an explosive device.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 9:29 am - Jerusalem Time

Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid on Nablus

Two Palestinians were killed on Friday in an Israeli raid on the Old City of Nablus.


A special Israeli unit came under fire after they surrounded a house in the Old City. The troops called large military reinforcements, and went on arrest Palestinians from other houses.


Local sources identified the martyrs Khairy Shaheen and Hamza Maqbool. 


The Palestinian Red Crescent said that it treated one moderately injured man.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 9:26 am - Jerusalem Time

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian in Hebron

Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian man in the West Bank city of Hebron in a dawn raid on Friday.


Local sources identified the man as Badr Abu Aisha. Israeli troops stormed the house in the early hours of the morning, upturning the home and detaining Abu Aisha.

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 9:16 am - Jerusalem Time

UN chief condemns Israeli violence in the West Bank

Washington – The Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres condemned Israel's operation on Jenin in the occupied West Bank.


“As the occupying power, it has a responsibility to ensure that the civilian population is protected against all acts of violence,” he said in a press conference from New York.


“Israel’s airstrikes and ground operations in a crowded refugee camp were the worst violence in the West Bank in many years, with a significant impact on civilians,” Guterres said, adding that Israel stopped humanitarian workers and medical workers from reach the injured, as well as disrupting water and electricity services.


“I again call on Israel to abide by its obligations under international law, including the obligation to exercise restraint and to use only proportionate force,” Guterres said, adding, “The use of airstrikes is inconsistent with the conduct of law enforcement operations.”


While he said he understood Israel's "legitimate concerns" about security, he said an operation of this nature will only deepen "the cycle of violence."


He called on Israel to "abide by its obligations under international law,” he said. “The use of airstrikes is inconsistent with the conduct of law enforcement operations,” he said.


Twelve Palestinians were killed and over 200 were injured in the 48-hour operation. 

PALESTINE

Fri 07 Jul 2023 9:10 am - Jerusalem Time

IDF prepare home of West Bank shooter for demolition

In Qibya, west of Ramallah, Israeli occupation forces raided the family home of Ahmed Ghaidan who carried out Thursday's shooting attack in the settlement of Kedumim. 


An army engineering unit took measurements of the house in preparation for its demolition, in line with a long-standing policy of razing the family home of Palestinians who carry out attacks. 


Clashes subsequently broke out in the village between the occupation forces and dozens of Palestinians, who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the soldiers. One Palestinian was wounded in his foot by army gunfire.


PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 11:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli settlers attack ambulance carrying baby in West Bank

The Palestinian Health Ministry said that a baby and ambulance crew were attacked by settlers in the Qalqilya Governorate on Friday, in a revenge attack over the shooting of an Israeli soldier in the settlement of Kedumim.


The ambulance from Qalqilya Governmental Hospital came to collect the child, aged 1, who was already seriously injured after suffering head trauma, when settler threw stones at the ambulance, shattering the windows, the director of the hospital Dr. Ramez Abdullah said.


Palestinian Health Minister Dr. Mai al-Kaila said that such attacks have become commonplace, and blamed "international silence" for enabling them to occur.

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 11:42 pm - Jerusalem Time

Exposing the occupation's use of suicide planes in Jenin

On Thursday evening, it was revealed that the Israeli army used 6 suicide planes during its recent battle in Jenin.


According to the Hebrew website Ynet, these planes are of the "Maoz" type, which are owned by the ground forces.


These planes, which were manufactured by Israeli military industries "Raphael", contain a small amount of explosives.


According to the site, these planes were used to destroy control and control points, and laboratories containing dozens of explosive devices, and this was done so that they could be detonated safely from a distance.


The Israeli army does not rule out the use of these aircraft in the coming times to target armed human elements to eliminate them. As the site mentioned.


The delivery of these aircraft to the Israeli elite forces, which used them for the first time in the Jenin operation, has been delayed. They can roam alleys and enter buildings, be piloted independently by ground forces, and explode on targets with greater precision and more lethality.



PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 8:28 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli gov't to discuss how to strengthen Palestinian Authority, Hebrew media says

Israel's cabinet will discuss steps to strengthen the Palestinian Authority on Thursday, the public broadcaster Kan reported.


According to the channel, the security establishment had recommended the measures in light of the deterioration in the northern West Bank.


The report said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already established a team to formulate recommendations to provide relief to the Palestinian Authority before the Jenin operation.


A political source told the broadcaster that "it is in everyone's interest that the Palestinian Authority remain stable."




PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 8:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli forces, Palestinians clash near Ramallah

Clashes broke out between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces on Thursday evening in the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah.


According to local sources, occupation forces stormed the village and raided the house of the family of the martyr Ahmed Yassin Ghaidan, who killed an Israeli soldier in Kedumim earlier on Thursday. Israeli troops fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters at Palestinians. 


The same sources added that the Israeli army obstructed the work of the press crews, prevented them from covering the clashes, and forced the journalists to leave the vicinity of the family's house.

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 7:18 pm - Jerusalem Time

Palestinian injured in settler attack in Hawara

A Palestinian was injured in an attack by settlers on his vehicle in the town of Hawara, south of Nablus, on Thursday evening.


Hawara has been regularly targeted by Israeli settlers, witnessing one of the worst cases of settler violence in February. One Palestinian was killed, dozens were injured, and settlers caused widespread damage to property.


The official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, said that a group of settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones. One Palestinian suffered a hand injury after the windows of vehicles were shattered.

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 7:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel releases 66 Palestinians arrested in Jenin raid

Israeli occupation authorities released 66 Palestinian men on Thursday who were arrested during the invasion of Jenin Refugee Camp. Seventy others, however, remain in detention. 


Director of the Prisoners' Club in Jenin, Montaser Samour, told Al-Quds that the court released them during its session held in Salem camp, west of Jenin. Their release, he argued, shows that their detention was arbitrary and illegal from the offset.


He stated that the detainees were taken from their homes by the occupation during the raids and searches and used them as human shields, and after the failure of its aggression, it used the issue of their arrest to mislead and deceive the Israeli public opinion and present them as wanted persons, stressing the continuation of the efforts of the lawyers to release the rest of the detainees and return them to their families in Jenin camp.

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 6:55 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas claims responsibility for shooting attack in northern West Bank

Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for the shooting attack on Thursday at the settlement of Kedumim, near Qalqilya, which saw the killing of an Israeli soldier. 


The Al-Qassam Brigades issued a statement from the Gaza Strip mourning the martyr who carried out the operation, Ahmed Yassin Hilal Ghaidan, from the village of Qibya, west of Ramallah. He was shot dead by Israeli forces after carrying out the attack.


"This heroic operation comes as a quick response to the occupation's aggression against our people in Jenin refugee camp, and in response to the desecration of our sanctities and the ripping of the Holy Koran in the town of Urif," the Al-Qassam Brigades.


The attack, the statement said was intended to "tell the criminal Zionist minister Smotrich that Al-Qassam almost knocked on your door...Whoever sows murder and crime against our people will only reap death, terror and defeat," the statement said.


The far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who also hold a portfolio in a defense minister overseeing civil policy in the West Bank, lives in the northern West Bank settlement.

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 6:40 pm - Jerusalem Time

The New York Times: The results of the operation in Jenin are just illusions

The New York Times published a report by its correspondent in Israel, Isabel Kirchner, under the headline "Israel's Major Incursion into the West Bank Ended, But Has It Fixed Anything?" On Thursday, in which I stated that “the Israeli army announced on Wednesday morning (5/7) that it had ended its incursion into the West Bank city of Jenin with the aim of curbing attacks by armed Palestinians against Israelis; barely five hours later, some 40 kilometers away, bullets hit Fireworks were fired from a car carrying Palestinian license plates for the Israeli police, which caused damage, but no injuries.


According to the report, "The 48-hour military operation was one of the largest military operations in many years against armed groups in the occupied West Bank, and included deadly air strikes not seen in the region for nearly two decades, but few Israelis and Palestinians had illusions about its results, Saying that not long ago, the groups that lost weapons and fighters during the incursion will rebuild their ranks."


The report notes that three decades after the Oslo peace agreement raised hopes for the possibility of two states, a Palestinian and an Israeli, side by side, "the prospects for peaceful coexistence seem remote, and the main sources of Palestinian anger remain, including the occupation of the West Bank, which Dating back to the 1967 Middle East war, continued land encroachment by Jewish settlements, and a lack of economic opportunity, a Palestinian state seems more distant than ever, as radical members of the Israeli government reject any talks or political progress with the weak, divided, and incompetent Palestinian leadership. willing or unable to monitor the escalating hotbeds of rebellion.


According to the author of the report: “Israeli analysts said that the army achieved tactical success in Jenin, as it roamed the crowded refugee camp that the Israeli authorities described as a haven for militants and which, before the raid, had become a no-go zone for Palestinian security forces and, increasingly, for Israeli forces.” About a thousand soldiers, most of them special forces, discovered and dismantled explosives manufacturing laboratories, caches of weapons and explosives hidden inside buildings, under narrow roads, and even in holes under a mosque.


As Kirchner says, “The Palestinian Health Ministry said 12 Palestinians were killed during the operation; officials said Israeli security services detained and interrogated dozens, in some cases to obtain real-time intelligence; and one Israeli soldier was killed, possibly by mistake by a fellow soldier.” ".


The author ends her report by saying: “However, analysts said that the situation lacked any deeper strategy and could lead to more violence and revenge attacks, as Itamar Yar, former deputy head of the Israeli National Security Council, said, “The operation was relatively brief and limited, and this means that we have We are seeing similar activities "in the Jenin camp, although perhaps on a smaller scale."

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 6:13 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel identifies anti-missile fired from Lebanon

An preliminary Israeli investigation on Thursday evening found that the rocket launched from Lebanon was in fact an anti-tank missile, explaining why sirens and the Iron Dome system were not activated, according to Israel's Channel 12. 


It was originally believed that Katyusha rockets or mortar shells were fired toward Israeli territory earlier on Thursday. 


The Israeli army announced that it responded by firing artillery shells at the location where the rockets were launched.

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 6:05 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli occupation forces detain ex-prisoner in West Bank

Israeli special forces detained a former Palestinian prisoner from his workplace in Tulkarm on Thursday. 


According to local sources, undercover troops in a vehicle with a Palestinian registration plate raided a restaurant in the northeastern neighborhood of the city, and kidnapped 35-year-old Safi Imad Salameh, who works there as a security guard. His whereabouts are unknown. 

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 4:56 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli police arrest Palestinian worker in 48 lands

Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man from the West Bank town of Tamun at his his workplace on Thursday.


The director of the Palestinian Prisoners Club for the Tubas Governorate, Kamal Bani Odeh, stated that the Israeli police detained Ahmed Bassam Ahmed Bani Odeh from his workplace inside Israel. 

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 4:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israeli security guard killed in shooting attack in West Bank

An Israeli security guard was killed on Thursday evening in a shooting attack carried out near the West Bank settlement of Kedumim, between Qalqilya and Nablus in the West Bank. The Palestinian gunman was then "neutralized," according to Israeli media. 


Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported that a Palestinian carrying a weapon shot the security guard, killing him on the spot, before attempting to run over an Israeli soldier.


PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 4:01 pm - Jerusalem Time

Israel acquits cop who killed autistic Palestinian Eyad al-Hallaq in 2020

A district court in occupied Jerusalem acquitted the border policeman who killed the autistic Palestinian, Eyad al-Hallaq, in the Old City of Jerusalem in May 2020.  


32-year-old al-Hallaq was on his way to a school for people with disabilities when he was shot dead.


At the time, the Israeli authorities claimed that al-Hallaq was holding a suspicious object in his hand. However, this account was retracted and the officer was later indicted for reckless homicide. 


This is not the only recent case of the acquittal of an Israeli soldier or policeman over the killing of a Palestinian. Last month, Israel also closed the case against the soldier that bound and gagged 80-year-old Palestinian-American Omar Abdalmajeed As'ad from the village of Jaljalia, north of Ramallah, which resulted in his death last year.n 



PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 3:40 pm - Jerusalem Time

Hamas, Islamic Jihad calls for united front to confront Israel

Hamas and Islamic Jihad called on Thursday for the Palestinian people and different factions to reach a comprehensive national strategy to confront Israel. 


They described the unified plan as a "duty" and called on a meeting of secretaries-general of the Palestinian factions.


This comes after President Mahmoud Abbas held faction meetings to discuss Israel's large-scale assault on Jenin, with the two Islamist groups sitting out. 


"The occupation's plans to end the Palestinian presence in the occupied 48 lands, as well as the size of the risks, challenges and violations that our people are exposed to, oblige us to take action to confront this, in a way that responds to the aspirations of our people for liberation and return," the statement read.


"This achievement of the Palestinian resistance would not have been achieved without the unity of our people and its fighters in the field, which requires all of us to build and accumulate on this great achievement," it continued.


PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 2:21 pm - Jerusalem Time

Nine Palestinians killed, 1,800 arrested in Jerusalem in 2023

The Jerusalem governorate revealed that nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces and another 1,800 were arrested across the city during the first half of the current year 2023.


The Palestinians who were killed by Israel in the capital are 41-year-old Samir Aslan, a father of eight, 17-year-old Muhammad Ali, 22-year-old Youssef Muhaisen, 16-year-old Wadih Abu Ramoz, 21-year-old Khairi Alqam, and 32-year-old father-of-three Hussein Qaraqe’, 26-year-old Muhammad Al-Osaibi, 39-year-old Hatem Abu Najma, and 18-year-old Ishaq Al-Ajlouni.


While the Israeli occupation authorities are holding the bodies of 23 Jerusalemites, it has handed over the bodies of six Palestinians. These are Hatem Abu Najma, Wadih Abu Ramoz, Muhammad Abu Jumaa, Ashraf Halasa, Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali, and Muhammad Abu Kafia.


The governorate's statistics department also documented 1,800 arrests, including more than 208 children and about 56 women. 774 Palestinians were arrested in April, the highest number in a single month. 


While the occupation courts issued 192 prison sentences against Palestinian Jerusalemites, including 76 administrative detention orders.


The governorate also counted 181 demolitions and 19 bulldozing operations, including 40 self-demolitions. The occupation authorities charge fines if they have to raze buildings on the occupant's behalf.


It also added that the occupation government approved 23 settlement projects,including the approval of a new settlement near Qalandia, as well as $17 million tunnel-digging project under the Western Wall in occupied East Jerusalem.


The period also witnessed 128 attacks against Palestinian, including 29 physical assaults.


The department of statistics noted that 26,276 settlers had entered the Al-Aqsa compound, while almost half a million others had visited as tourists.



PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 1:44 pm - Jerusalem Time

Fatah centralism: The occupation has failed in the face of the greatness and resistance of our people

The Central Committee of the "Fatah" movement confirmed, on Thursday, that the attempts of the right-wing government and the extremist settlers to break the will of the Palestinian people's steadfastness, to resolve the conflict through the force of massacres and terrorism, and to destroy the idea of ​​a Palestinian state, have failed in the face of "the greatness of the struggle, resistance and struggle of our people and our fighters in the fields of honorable confrontation that our people register in front of all aggression". According to her statement.


Fatah Central said in a statement, "Our only contradiction will remain with the occupation and the Zionist subjugation project, and we will not be dragged behind the secondary contradictions aimed at diverting the compass of our national struggle, no matter how intense the conspiracy." According to the statement.


She added: "The efforts of the occupation and its collaborators and the pillars of the conspiracy against the Palestinian cause to strike at the unity and steadfastness of our people and the continuous targeting of the Fatah movement, the sponsor and protector of the Palestinian national liberation project, and insulting it, are nothing but an insult to the struggle of the Palestinian people, which protected the Fatah movement as its compass and did not submit to it." Great challenges, which alone does not satisfy the occupation and its clique." According to the statement.


It considered insulting the symbols of the movement as "a service to the efforts of the occupation and its collaborators," and aims to strike at the scene of the field and combat unity embodied by the Palestinian people in Jenin.

PALESTINE

Thu 06 Jul 2023 11:49 am - Jerusalem Time

Three prisoners face severe health conditions in the Negev prison

Today, Thursday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs published details of the health status of a number of prisoners languishing in the Negev Prison, after the commission’s lawyer, Fadi Obeidat, visited them.


The lawyer stated that the prisoner, Ahmed Azmi Hanatshe (24 years), has been suffering from a chronic disease, which is blood clotting, since he was 17 years old, especially after the first arrest in which he spent 20 months.


He also complains of clots spread all over his body, and a problem with the nerves, which led to a lung problem. Until now, no examinations have been conducted on him, although he was being treated at Alia Hospital and Jordan Hospital, and he received a lung vaccination every four years.


The prisoner had also suffered a fracture in the finger of his left hand, during the explosion of fireworks in a celebration he participated in before his arrest, and he was supposed to undergo surgery, but he was arrested, and then transferred to Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, where an X-ray was taken and the wound was replaced. .


Note that Hanatshe was arrested on 12/23/2022, and was transferred to administrative detention. This is the first extension of the prisoner for a period of six months, and ends on today 06/22/2023, and until this moment it is not known if it will be extended or not.


As for the prisoner, Ayman Ahmed Abu Arab (50 years), from Al-Amari camp / Ramallah, he suffers from a problem with the thyroid gland that affects him and makes him dizzy and persistent diarrhea, and he is not allowed to receive special treatment for that, despite his continuous demand for thyroid medication. From a previous injury to the right hand, he was supposed to undergo an operation on tendons and nerves, and medical reports were brought, but the prison clinic later informed him that there was no treatment for him.


It is reported that the prisoner was transferred to administrative detention under the pretext of having a secret file, and it was extended twice every six months, and the extension is supposed to expire on 06/28/2023, and there is no information about whether this extension is the last or not.


The prisoner, Issam Sami Sadouk (44 years), from Tulkarm, has been suffering from chronic colitis since 2012 and is receiving treatment. He had an endoscopy 14 days ago in Soroka Hospital, and he was informed of the need for an urgent CT scan.


Noting that Sadooq was arrested on 11/09/2002, and a 21-year prison sentence was issued against him.