The Palestinian Prisoners Club confirmed that the administrative detainees, Anas Shadid, Mahmoud Talahmeh, and Abdullah Abido from Hebron, have suspended their open hunger strike, which lasted for (15) days, in rejection of their administrative detention.

The Prisoners' Club said that the step to suspend the strike came after promises they received to set the ceiling for their administrative detention, pointing out that after they suspended the strike, they were transferred from the cells of Ofer Prison to the general sections of the prisoners.

The Captive Club stated that, over the course of 15 days of their strike, the Prisons Administration carried out abusive measures against them, and the first of these steps was to transfer them to the cells, put pressure on them, and hold them in harsh and difficult conditions. It also transferred them for several days to the isolation of (Ayalon-Ramle) prison. .

The Captive Club stated that the three detainees' strike was a new cry in the face of the unprecedentedly escalating crime of administrative detention, as we have not witnessed such an increase in the number of administrative detainees since 2003.

The Captive Club pointed out that the detainee, Shadid, was arrested three times previously, and all his arrests are administrative, and the total years he spent in the occupation prisons are three years, and during these arrests he carried out two strikes, the first for 90 days in 2016, and the second for 25 days, noting that He has been detained since March 22, 2023, and an administrative detention order has been issued against him for a period of 6 months. During this period, his lawyer filed an appeal against his administrative detention order, but the court rejected the appeal.

Likewise, the detainee Talhameh, a lawyer and former prisoner who spent two and a half years in the occupation prisons, was subjected to interrogation more than once, noting that he is married and the father of two children, and he has been detained since March 22, 2023, and an administrative detention order was issued against him for a period of 6 months, and during this period his lawyer filed an appeal. against his administrative detention order, but the court rejected the appeal.

In addition, the detainee Abido is a former prisoner who spent a total of 5 and a half years in the occupation prisons, most of which are under administrative detention, and the occupation had rearrested him in May 2023, and he is married and the father of five children, and an administrative detention order was issued against him for a period of four months.

On Sunday afternoon, the Israeli government approved the establishment of the "Ramat Erbil" settlement in Lower Galilee, which was described as an "illegal town", which means legalizing it to turn it into a settlement.

And the Minister of the Negev and the Galilee in the Israeli government, Yitzhak Wasserlev, considered that this step is very important for settlement in the Galilee, noting that this is the first time that settlement construction in that area has been approved in 25 years.

He thanked the settlers who live in that "town" in difficult circumstances - as he said - considering this step as fulfilling the promise that he, along with other ministers, had made to the population.

According to Haaretz newspaper, since last year, 4 families of settlers have been living in this settlement, in temporary buildings, "caravans," noting that last December, two buildings were evacuated from them, and the evacuation of the rest was prevented after a court in Tiberias agreed. At the request of its residents to give them a deadline, but the day after the eviction, other caravans were put in place.

On Sunday, Hamas described the repeated Israeli bombing of Syria as "terrorism" and "bullying", and that it comes as an extension of the continuous aggression against the nation.

Hazem Qassem, Hamas spokesman, said in a brief statement, "Syria has the right to defend itself by all means to confront the aggression, and all the living forces of the nation must unite in confronting the occupation's aggression and put an end to its terrorist behavior." like he said.

Israel launched raids on targets in Homs, while Syria fired an anti-missile, which landed in the town of Rahat in the Negev.

On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant approved a recommendation from the Chief of Staff of his forces, Herzi Halevi, the Air Force commander and senior officers, to purchase a third squadron of F35 aircraft from the United States.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the number of the squadron of these aircraft of the same type will increase to 75.

He noted that the new deal will cost $3 billion.

Israeli-American discussions are underway to try to complete a new deal to buy new F15 aircraft.

The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements said that the Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu rewards settler terrorism by launching a new wave of construction in the settlements.

In its weekly report, the National Bureau confirmed that the State of Israel does not value the international reactions condemning its settlement activities and the terrorist practices of settlers against Palestinian citizens, their homes, properties, and crops in the Palestinian countryside, and it turns its back on the international community because it considers that what is issued by its countries is nothing more than lip service. While it evaluates all the weight and gives all attention to the settlers and their settlement project in the West Bank, and rewards them for their terrorist practices with more construction in the settlements that it has established throughout the length and breadth of the West Bank, contrary to international law and international legitimacy decisions.

In this context, the approval of the "Supreme Council for Planning and Building" of the Civil Administration in the occupation army comes last week on the construction of 5,623 new settlement units in the West Bank, and this includes depositing plans for the construction of 4,291 new settlement units in an advanced stage of planning and construction stages with the occupation authorities prior to issuing tenders. To implement construction projects.

The aforementioned council decision also includes submitting 1,332 building plans for approval after holding a session to hear objections before final approval and preparation of tenders, in addition to approving 1,000 new settlement units, more than what the government had approved earlier in the “Eli” settlement on the lands of The villages of Al-Sawiya, Al-Laban Al-Sharqiya, and Qaryut, south of Nablus, as well as the retroactive approval of 3 settlement outposts located on the outskirts of Eli, which are Hayovel, Nof Harim, and Balgi Maim.

According to the data available to the National Bureau, the distribution of construction according to the Israeli plan indicates 359 settlement units in "Elkana", 381 in "Rivava", 29 in "Givat Ze'ev", 42 in "Carmiel" and 7 in "Harmesh", in addition to 4915. A settlement unit in an advanced stage of planning and construction ahead of issuing tenders for the implementation of construction projects, including: 1,563 in “Eli”, including 347 in the “Balge Maim” outpost and 407 housing units in the “Hayovil” and “Nof Harim” outposts, 98 in "Ariel" and 714 in "Givat Ze'ev"; 340 in Ma'ale Adumim, 312 in Beitar Illit, 310 in Adora, 264 in Etz Ephraim, 152 in Ma'ale Amos, and 78 in Asfar.

The decision of the occupation authorities came as a circumvention of the international community and a promise that Netanyahu had made to himself in the name of his government to the US administration on the twenty-second of last March that his government would not establish new settlements in the northern West Bank, after the American protest against the Knesset’s approval of a bill to cancel the decision Separation from four settlements in the north of the West Bank that were dismantled in 2005, as part of an approach to legitimize many random outposts established by hilltop youth organizations and other Jewish terrorist organizations, in contravention of even the approval of Israeli governments.

Netanyahu's statements came after the United States summoned the Israeli ambassador in Washington to a consultation session on Israeli law, in a move that the Hebrew media described as "unusual and rare".

It is known that the number of settlers, according to official Israeli statistics, reached about 450,000 settlers in the West Bank, excluding Jerusalem, at the end of the year 2021, distributed as follows: about 36% of them are Haredim, and 35% are religious Zionists, while secularists make up about 29% of this total. .

And these settlers reside, according to the follow-up of the National Office for the Defense of the Land, in 158 settlements that have grown alongside and on the margins of more than 200 settlement outposts, and they are all settlements and outposts, under the influence of local or regional councils. One million dunams, or what constitutes 15% of the area classified as Area C, or about 2.9% of the area of ​​the West Bank, while its vital area covers Area C as a whole.

The approval of the Supreme Council for Planning and Building in the civil administration run by the leader of religious Zionism appears to be a reward for the Jewish terror organizations operating in the settlements. These organizations stem mainly from the ideological settlements controlled by religious Zionism, which constitute 35 percent of the total settlements established by the occupation throughout the West Bank. And its breadth and depth as well, and occupies the tops of mountains and hills.

In addition to all this, 37 commercial and industrial establishments out of 200 in the Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood, northeast of the Old City in occupied Jerusalem, are facing the threat of demolition in favor of a huge settlement project, which the occupation authorities call the “Silicon Valley” project, which was announced in early 2020, and it will be implemented on the ruins. The industrial area in the aforementioned neighborhood.

Through the project, the occupation aims to transform the Palestinian neighborhoods close to the walls of the Old City and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque into a technological, industrial and commercial center, and an area of ​​attraction and settlement investment at the expense of the lands and interests of the Jerusalemites.

The danger of the project, if implemented, stems from the fact that it is located in the area between Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the Old City, where settlement outposts are spread, and out of fears that it will be used as a basis to expand the circle of those outposts within the Palestinian neighborhoods, especially if the outpost of "Siddik Shimon" extends in the neighborhood towards the east and reaches to Wadi al-Jawz.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli District Committee rejected last week the objections submitted by the owners and tenants in the industrial zone in Wadi Al-Jouz to the "Silicon Valley" project. And that the project was approved in isolation from the social, economic and cultural needs of the residents of East Jerusalem, and that it is not feasible or financially beneficial to the local residents and real estate owners, and that its effects will be disastrous for their interests, after about 40 business owners, workshops and shops in the area have already received eviction orders upon approval of the project.

In its rejection of these objections, the District Commission claimed that the project was built on the foundations that ensure the development of the area and its transformation from an unregulated area with its uses such as garages and light industries to a hotel commercial use, advanced technology and large investments.

The cost of the project is 2.1 billion shekels ($600 million). It allocates 250,000 square meters of real estate to high-tech companies, in addition to another 100,000 square meters distributed between shops and hotels, in complete disregard for the needs of the indigenous population.

Rising terror
On the other hand, and according to the sequence of events, settler fires circulate freely in the villages and towns of the Palestinian countryside. From Hawara, Jalud, and Al-Mughayer a few weeks ago, to Turmusaya and Umm Safa in the last week, Jewish terrorist organizations carry matches to light more fires, which are fires set by organized groups. Dozens and hundreds are embarrassed to complete the role that the occupation army cannot, due to political considerations, play.

It is noted here that these organized groups no longer pay much attention to criticism of their criminal behavior and practices, after they moved from working in secret cells to working in organized groups in broad daylight as in the darkness of the night, and began publishing their posters on the Israeli military checkpoints scattered in the West Bank, calling for To take revenge on the Palestinians, without the soldiers of those checkpoints moving a finger.

Not only that, but they started setting up tents in open areas, as happened recently between Deir Sharaf, Sebastia, and Cyrenaica on the road linking the cities of Nablus and Tulkarem, and attacking farmers and shepherds as if they were a parallel authority or auxiliary to the soldiers at the checkpoints without being intercepted by the occupation army.

The widely circulated newspaper "Yedioth Ahronoth" in Israel commented on these publications, that there is a direct relationship between ministers in Netanyahu's government with settlers who carry out mass attacks on Palestinian villages and towns in the West Bank.

Contrary to the repeated Israeli allegations that the perpetrators of the attacks are minor settlers, and therefore are not arrested and prosecuted, the newspaper report made it clear that the perpetrators are adults and armed with a firearm, and that the scope of the mass attacks they carry out has been increasing in recent weeks.

The Minister in the Ministry of the Army and the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, had said that the administrative arrests against settlers are a very cruel and undemocratic measure, and its use against settlers and not against other groups is severe discrimination, and the collective punishment that is carried out in the "Ateret" settlement is cruel, knowing that the army Close the settlement gate no more.

Smotrich, as he did at the moment of the barbaric attack on the town of Hawara, incited against the Palestinians in the town of Umm Safa, describing it as the town from which the Arab rioters came out in recent days. Ben Gvir also launched an attack on the leaders of the security services, accusing them of suppressing the settlers during their terrorist attacks. Over the past week, settlers carried out more than 85 terrorist attacks in Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, according to an Israeli security official.

The Ynet website revealed last week that these settlers from the "Hills Youth" terrorist organization are in direct and continuous contact with ministers and Knesset members, especially from the Religious Zionist Party headed by Smotrich, and the "Otzma Yehudit" party headed by Ben Gvir.

It has become clear that the transfer of powers in the Ministry of Defense to the additional Minister Smotrich has begun to bear fruit for them, as law enforcement activities against illegal Jewish construction have been reduced to a minimum, and the occupation government has approved shortening the procedures for approving construction in the West Bank, and has concentrated it in the hands of Smotrich, and the outposts. The recently built buildings will not be evacuated despite their illegality, even according to the laws of the occupation authorities. They were not affected by the statements of Prime Minister Netanyahu declaring that the illegal occupation of lands is "unacceptable and must be stopped immediately." outward only.

As for Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and Struck, they are not preoccupied with idle talk, but focus on the field. Ben Gvir travels to the field in "Avitar" to encourage the "hilltop youth" to move forward, and Smotrich rebukes his critics and refuses to compare Arab "terrorism" with civilian counteractions to settlers. While Struck escalates the situation by talking about an Israeli "Wagner" invading the occupation army.

In such an atmosphere, and under the pressure of Minister Smotrich and representatives of "religious Zionism" in the ruling coalition, Netanyahu instructed to examine the so-called allegations of using excessive force against settlers who carried out terrorist attacks targeting Palestinians in the West Bank during the last week, and this was an additional indication of the escalation of pressure from the Zionist movement. Religious, who enjoys influence and wide powers in the ruling coalition to push the Israeli security services to unleash the unruly settlers in the occupied West Bank.

The rise of the strength of the religious Zionist parties and the Jewish power has reached a point that prompted the Israeli Minister of Settlement and National Missions, Orit Struck, to liken the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, the Inspector General of the Police, and the head of the Shin Bet to the Russian military "Wagner" group that rebelled against the Russian government, against the background of the statement of the leaders of the security services. Joint against settler attacks.

The voices of the religious Zionist movement in Netanyahu's government are louder to harm the occupation security services by claiming to "suppress" the settlers during their attack on the town of Umm Safa in the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, during which they burned the homes and vehicles of Palestinian citizens and fired live bullets at their homes and facilities.

Further, settlers expelled, a few days ago, the commander of the Ramallah region in the Israeli army, Eliaf El-Baz, when he arrived at the house of settler Harel Masoud, who was killed in a shooting attack at the "Eli" settlement, and prevented him from entering the house inside the "Yad Binyamin" outpost, and pursued him to Outside the settlement, they insulted him and described him as a traitor, murderer, and coward, holding him responsible for the operation and the security failure, and that the four settlers who were killed in the operation were killed because of his failure, in an indication of brutal incitement by political figures who encouraged extremist elements in the settlements and outposts to act against the law, according to Israeli government sources. , in a clear reference to the extremist ministers Smotrich and Ben Gvir.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz said, on Sunday, that since the authority to approve the demolition of illegal buildings in the West Bank was transferred to the extremist minister, Bezalel Smotrich, the Civil Administration does not evacuate or demolish any illegally built Israeli buildings, except in a limited number and exceptional cases. .

And the Hebrew newspaper indicated that it obtained data showing that the pace of enforcement operations against illegal construction by settlers has decreased significantly since the installation of the current government.

It quoted sources familiar with the details, that since Smotrich assumed responsibility for the settlement file in the Ministry of Defense, there has been a significant change in the actual enforcement procedures to prevent the evacuation of buildings.

The data shows that during the whole of 2022, the rate of demolition of illegal structures erected by settlers was about 25 per month, while only two enforcement operations were carried out on average between January and May of this year.

The newspaper notes that the current official in charge of the settlement administration in the Ministry of the Army, whose authority is under Smotrich, is the extremist Yehuda Eliyahu, who, with Smotrich himself, founded the far-right Regavim organization that wages an open war against Palestinian construction in the West Bank.

Various sources said that there are reports about illegally built buildings with the aim of evacuating them, but the administration tends not to agree to this except in exceptional cases, such as if there is an immediate security need for that, or related to private land.

During the past few months, there were several cases in which forces came to demolish buildings or prevent the construction of buildings, but after the intervention of the political level, especially Smotrich, those forces withdraw without executing orders.

The Hebrew newspaper says that even before the transfer of powers to Smotrich, the enforcement of the law against illegal Israeli construction in the West Bank was weak, and the Civil Administration was mainly focused on demolishing Palestinian buildings.

She refers to old data, which shows that out of 187 orders to demolish new buildings issued from 2019 to the end of 2020, 159 of them were for Palestinians, and only 28 for settlers. Flowering settlements and some legalized.

Senior officials in the US administration, who visited Tel Aviv in recent weeks, warned Israeli officials during closed talks about the continuation of the government's policy with regard to the West Bank, and its impact on undermining relations between the two sides.

And according to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz, political and security authorities believe that legalizing settlement outposts and allowing their establishment and doubling settler violence will not only harm relations between Israel and the Gulf states, and the chances of “establishing relations with Saudi Arabia, but it will also harm cooperation with the United States, and this may affect the issue of granting a visa exemption.” to its lands.

The newspaper quoted those sources as saying that the United States is very concerned about the manifestations of settler violence against the Palestinians, including those who hold American citizenship. Ministers and members of the coalition and the government, which was interpreted as intended to encourage more attacks.

The United States also expressed its anger at the decision to close the investigation file into the circumstances of the martyrdom of the Palestinian elderly citizen, Amad al-Asaad, after he was detained by an Israeli military force near Ramallah, as Washington expected to prosecute the soldiers involved in the event.

Today, Sunday, the so-called Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislative Affairs will hold a session to discuss a draft law that would grant the so-called Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, the authority to impose criminal administrative detention orders, in a move targeting Palestinians inside.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, Israel Hayom, this law submitted by Knesset member Tzvika Fogel, from the Ben Gvir party, stipulates that arrest warrants are issued with the approval of the public prosecutor or any of the legal advisors, and their period ranges from six months to one year only.

The newspaper says that these are unprecedented powers, through which Ben Gvir wants to take them for himself, under the pretense of the powers of the Israeli army minister to sign administrative arrest warrants to prevent "terrorism", a tool that Ben Gvir and his party members often criticized strongly.

The law allows the extremist bin Ghafir to restrict the movement of any person, prevent him from leaving his place of residence, or even travel abroad, ban his presence in a specific area, or compel him to live in a specific area.

The Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom revealed, on Sunday, that during an evaluation session held by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Saturday of last week, in the wake of the developments in the fighting between Russia and Ukraine, and the rebellion of Wagner forces, a secret decision was taken in that session aimed at preparing for a dramatic expansion of Jewish immigration from Russia to Israel.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, because of the sensitive situation and the decisions taken at the time in the aftermath of the attempted rebellion, he asked the ministers in the government not to comment on the matter at all.

According to the newspaper, because of the Russian weakness, this necessitated a recalculation of the security track in the issue of those entitled to immigrate from Russia's Jews to Israel, who number about half a million.

She indicated that since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian battle, about 60,000 Jews have emigrated from Russia, and it is expected that the migration will expand to at least 100,000.

Last night, resistance fighters in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank shot down an Israeli occupation army drone.

The resistance fighters fired heavily at the drone, which was carrying out photographing and monitoring operations for the resistance fighters and other targets in the Jenin camp.

The Jenin Battalion of the Al-Quds Brigades, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, declared joint responsibility for its downfall.

At dawn on Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested Amir Hariz, after storming his home in Hebron.

An Israeli military force raided the house of the young man's family, searched it thoroughly and tampered with its contents, before conducting field investigations, arresting him and taking him to an unknown destination.

After midnight, Israeli planes launched air strikes on Syrian targets in the city of Homs and its northern countryside, central Syria.

The Syrian army said that the Israeli bombardment, which was carried out from northeastern Beirut, caused only material losses, and that there were no human casualties, indicating that its forces confronted it with anti-missiles and shot down some Israeli missiles.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the Israeli attack targeted ammunition depots belonging to Iranian armed groups operating in those areas.

Simultaneously, an explosion was heard in different parts of Palestine, to show that one of the Syrian anti-missile exploded in the air and parts of it fell in the city of "Rahat" in southern occupied Palestine.

According to the Israeli Arabic-speaking Makan Radio, the remnants of the missile did not cause any injuries, but it caused minor damage to some homes.

The Israeli army announced that its forces attacked the Syrian air defense battery from which the missile was launched, and nearby targets.

Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Commission for Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, is considered one of the most prominent Palestinian struggle figures who fought the battle against the Israeli occupation for many years. He lived through the revolution in many of its important stations.

Abu Bakr died, today, Saturday, as a result of an unfortunate traffic accident south of Nablus, after returning from a greeting celebration that he himself supervised for the children of prisoners in the occupation prisons.

Who is Abu Bakr?

Qadri Omar Muhammad Abu Bakr was born on January 10, 1953, in the town of Bidya, west of Salfit, where he received his primary and preparatory education, while his first arrest was during the secondary school period in 1974, which he finished in the occupation prisons, before he was released. He obtained a bachelor's degree in political science from Beirut Arab University in 1991.

In 1968, Abu Bakr became a member of the Fatah movement, then he received military training in its camps in Jordan, and the camps of the Palestine Liberation Army in Iraq. Including 17 years and was deported to Iraq.

In 1986, he was appointed director of the office of one of the leaders of the Palestinian revolution, Khalil Al-Wazir, for several years, and in 1996 he returned to the West Bank.

In 2009, he was appointed as a member of the Administrative Committee of the National Authority for Military Retired, and assumed responsibility for the Israeli file and archive after his participation in the Sixth General Conference of the Fatah movement, and continued until the Seventh Conference in 2016, to be chosen as a member of the Movement’s Revolutionary Council, and in 2018 he was appointed Chairman of the Authority. The Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and in 2019 he was granted the rank of minister, and he was granted membership in the Palestinian National Council.

While he was in the occupation prisons, Abu Bakr published two books in collaboration with others: the book “Palestinian Detainees from Repression to the Revolutionary Authority” and the book “Management and Organization of the Captive Palestinian National Movement.” He also published “This is My Identity” in 1979, and “Interrogation Methods.” Israeli Intelligence", 1980, and "How do you confront the interrogator?" 1980, and "From Repression to Revolutionary Power", 1992.

Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs, died today, Saturday, as a result of a terrible traffic accident that occurred near the town of Jama'in, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, the accident occurred between two vehicles, one of which belonged to Major General Abu Bakr, who died instantly at the scene, accompanied by his escort.

The editor, Bassem Sawan, and his wife, who were from two mothers, one of the villages of Qalqilya, died.

Abu Bakr was returning from Ramallah after he supervised a celebration for the children of the children of prisoners in the occupation prisons, in the presence of President Mahmoud Abbas.

Ziyad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad, said that what is happening today in terms of the resistance and its development in the West Bank corresponds to the directives of what he described as "His Eminence, the leader," referring to the so-called leader of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Ali Khamenei.

Al-Nakhala added in an interview with the Iranian Al-Wefaq newspaper: “When His Eminence called on the leader to arm the West Bank, he placed his hand on a very sensitive area with regard to the conflict with the enemy, and based on this directive, which had a great impact on the morale level and the interest of the concerned brothers, and with cooperation Everyone has developed programs for that,” noting that weapons were smuggled into the West Bank and others were purchased from the Israelis themselves to arm the resistance groups there.

And he continued, "There was a great focus in order for the West Bank to move from a state of coexistence and calm, to a state of resistance that we see today, and of course all of this coincides with the directives of His Eminence the leader, and during our last meeting with him in Tehran, he renewed the call for that and for the development of work in the West Bank."

He pointed out that his movement worked to form different resistance brigades in the West Bank areas and arming them, noting that it supported groups from the "Fatah" movement.

He said, "We benefited from opening up to the bases of the Fatah movement, and there are segments that oppose the settlement and the authority, and have influence in the West Bank. We decided to open up to these segments, support them, and arm them. Their presence helped extend the state of resistance, and these segments oppose in one way or another the Palestinian Authority, and they have become siding with the resistance, and we We strive to help everyone as much as possible."

Al-Nakhala praised the Iranian support for the resistance, realizing at the same time the importance of not exaggerating in what it provides financially, saying: "There are those who think that Iran provides hundreds of millions of dollars a month, but I say with the least capabilities, a state of resistance has been created in Palestine, and therefore we must not exaggerate with the aid." economic introduction.

Regarding the joint operations room of the resistance in Gaza, al-Nakhala stressed the need not to exaggerate in describing it, pointing out that its aim is coordination according to need and not as it is described as a command, control and control center.

He considered that the firing of rockets from southern Lebanon about two months ago carried a moral message to support the resistance in Palestine.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has the right to exercise its sovereignty over the lands of the West Bank.

This came as part of the response of Yossi Fox, the Israeli government secretary and prime minister, in an official letter sent in the name of Benjamin Netanyahu to the Adalah organization, which complained to his office last March about the cabinet's decision to legalize 9 outposts.

Fox responded with the message on behalf of Netanyahu: Jordan illegally seized the lands of the West Bank at the end of the mandate, and it was not legitimate, and it did not have sovereignty over those areas, and therefore Israel legally owns the lands, and has the right to sovereignty over them.

He added, as reported by the Hebrew website Ynet, "These lands are the cradle of the history of the Jewish people and an integral part of the Land of Israel," noting that the outposts were legalized legally and based on legal advice from the security establishment.

And he continued in his message on behalf of Netanyahu: Jordan illegally seized the lands of the West Bank at the end of the British Mandate, and the countries of the world considered it occupying these lands between 1948 and 1967, and therefore what was established for it had no legitimacy.

He pointed out that the outposts that have been legalized fall within the jurisdiction of the regional councils of West Bank settlements, and that they are "state lands."

Regarding Adalah's consideration that this is a violation of international law, Fox replied on behalf of Netanyahu: "I would like to point out that the right of international law for the Jewish people is well established in the mandate document that was unanimously approved by the League of Nations at the Remo Conference in 1920, which was based on the Balfour Declaration, and was Determining these areas to re-establish a national home for the Jewish people, and there is recognition of the right of the Jewish people to this land, and these matters were confirmed in the Lausanne Treaty of 1923, and the San Francisco Conference in 1945, and at that time the proposals of the Arab countries to exclude the mandate were rejected, and it was confirmed that it is a land Israel and its historical right, and therefore these rights of the Jewish people have not and will never be confiscated.

Fox also rejected in the reply letter that this constituted a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the regulations appended to the Hague Convention, saying: "It will become clear in the end that Jordan was not a legitimate sovereign, while the laws of military occupation are applied only in the occupied territories of a legitimate sovereign state, However, Israel practically applies the humanitarian provisions of the treaty to the Arabs in the West Bank to respond to their rights, and in any case, it must be emphasized that the decision is consistent with the law in force in the West Bank, according to the rulings of the High Court of Justice, because according to what was stated in the government's decision, it is It is about the legalization of settlements on state land or with the consent of the land owners, not the confiscation of private property, and this is based on a written mandate that establishes the right of the Jewish people to the land, and this right can never be revoked."

Fox concluded in his message on behalf of Netanyahu: "Israel does not occupy lands, but owns its lands according to the law, and this decision does not change the customary law in force in the West Bank and in accordance with international law."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates called on the international community to put pressure on the occupying power to dismantle the organized and armed terrorist settler militias and dry up their funding sources.

In a press statement today, Saturday, the Foreign Ministry expressed its surprise at what was reported by the Hebrew media regarding warnings of the formation of terrorist armed militias for settlers in the West Bank, especially since these militias exist, exist and operate with the support and protection of the Israeli occupation army, and now from ministers in the Netanyahu government.

She indicated that she had repeatedly warned against the occupation state planting and spreading outposts of armed settler militias and their terrorist elements in the West Bank, and the growth and spread of the influence of these militias and the dangers of expanding their attacks on defenseless Palestinian civilians, their homes and properties in their areas of residence or on their vehicles on the roads.

And she emphasized that settler terrorism is a direct result of state terrorism, which oversaw its diversification and generalization through all its arms extended inside the occupying state or in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Foreign Ministry called on the international community to put all settler organizations on terrorist lists.

Britain, Australia and Canada called on the Israeli government to reverse its decision to approve the construction of new settlement units in the West Bank.

On Monday, June 26, the Israeli occupation authorities approved the construction of 5,623 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank.

"The continued expansion of settlements constitutes an obstacle to peace and negatively affects efforts to achieve a negotiated two-state solution. We call on the government of Israel to reverse these decisions," the foreign ministers of Britain, Australia and Canada said in a joint statement published by Reuters.

Last June, the Israeli government also approved granting the racist Israeli minister, Smotrich, the authority to initially approve any plans for settlement construction and to reduce the procedures for deepening and expanding settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

On Saturday, Hamas considered the statements of the Israeli Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, in which he supports settler terrorism, as a new confirmation of the participation of all political levels in the occupation government in the escalating terrorist practices of settlers against the people of the West Bank, and encourages them to escalate their Nazi aggression against the Palestinian people.

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a press statement, "These statements reveal the scale of fascism and racism of the Zionist Minister Smotrich, who demanded before that the erasure of the town of Hawara, and that these terrorist tendencies are adopted by all components of the extremist Zionist government." like he said.

He added: The international community will continue to be required to take a real and practical position on this black terrorism practiced by the occupation and its settlers, and not be satisfied with the shy media stances.

A twenty-seven-year-old man was seriously wounded by gunfire, in a crime committed in the city of Nazareth, late Friday evening.

According to the details, the young man was shot while he was near a shop in the eastern neighborhood of the city, and the young man was taken to the "English" hospital in a private car.

A 30-year-old man was seriously and "unstable" injured, as a result of being shot in Jisr al-Zarqa, just before midnight on Friday.

A medical staff provided the young man with first aid and transferred him to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, to complete his treatment.

The death toll since last Tuesday, on the eve of Eid al-Adha, has reached 5, as 3 people were killed in shooting crimes committed in the cities of Rahat in the Negev, Shefa Amr, and the town of Kafr Kanna, on Tuesday evening, and 5 others, one of them a boy, were injured in 4 crimes. Others were committed in Taybeh, Tira, Iksal, and Kafr Qara.

On Wednesday, two people were killed by gunfire in a crime committed in Shfaram, on the first day of Eid, so that the city witnessed the killing of 3 of its people in two murders, within less than 24 hours. The two victims of the double murder in Shfaram are Muhammad Khalidi (35 years old) and his father Omar, who is 61 years old.

The other dead in the three crimes committed last Tuesday are Amir Sawaed, 23, who was killed in Shfaram, Hassan Yaqoub Abu Latif (25 years), who was killed after being shot in Rahat, and Ashraf Abu Nasser (30). years old), who was shot in Kafr Kanna.

Thousands of Arabs demonstrated in the city of Haifa, last Saturday, to condemn the murders and the police's complicity with criminal gangs.

Israel's far-right Finance Minister, who also holds a defense portfolio related to the West Bank, came out on Friday in support of settlers who have carried out attacks in the West Bank.

In a message published on Channel 7, Smotrich expressed his refusal to describe settler violence as "terrorism," and criticized the use of administrative detentions against them. Four settlers have been detained without trial, even though hundreds have carried out attacks on Palestinian villages and towns in recent days.

Smotrich described the youths who carry out such attacks as "dedicated and patriotic," and called on the army to do more to protect settlers. However, he also called on settlers to respect the army's authority and to avoid attacking IDF soldiers. 

Today, Friday, a number of civilians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces, in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya.

Local sources reported that the clashes erupted after the start of the weekly anti-settlement march, and resulted in the injury of 7 citizens with metal bullets, and dozens of suffocation with toxic tear gas. They were treated in the field.

South Africa's Minister of Public Service and Administration Noxolo Kiviet broke down in tears during her Friday visit to Turmus 'Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, which was rampaged by settlers almost two weeks ago. 

Accompanied by the Governor of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, Laila Ghannam, Kiviet was taken to the family home of  27-year-old Omar Qattin, who was killed during the rioting. She also heard from the mayor, Lafi Shalabi, as well as several Palestinians who experienced one of the worst evenings of settler violence in history.

Besides Qattin, dozens of Palestinians were injured, while property and crops were vandalized.

Kiviet expressed her "shock" that such events are happening in 2023. "The experiences of people here are horrific, traumatizing, and sad, particularly for people who came from South Africa and lived in similar circumstances," said the minister while stressing the similarities between the previous south-African government and the current Israeli government regarding terrorism," she said.

“What is happening in Palestine depicts what occurred in South Africa in terms of racism and racial and religious segregation. That is why we are paying this visit to support residents, offer our condolences, and stand by them," the minister added. 

She stressed the need to implement UN resolutions and called for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, noting that violence will only lead to violence, and that everybody is entitled to live in peace.

Israeli settlers burned down crops in the village of Al-Tuwani in Masafer Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills.

The settlers of Chavat Ma'on – an extremist outpost built on Palestinian land – set more than 10 dunams of wheat, barley, and olive trees ablaze, causing extensive damage. According to local sources, the land belongs to Fadel Rabei.

The settlers also released their sheep to graze on the village's lands and vandalized the property of Palestinians who responded to this attack. 

Today, Friday, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued an updated list of companies and institutions operating in settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.

The Office of the High Commissioner stated in a statement that this came based on the decision of the Human Rights Council, which requested the High Commissioner to issue a list of companies operating in the settlements, since their work is illegal.

He added, "The former High Commissioner, Bachelia, issued in 2020 a list of 112 violating companies operating in the settlements, which were supposed to be updated annually, but the issuance of the update was postponed, and with the issuance of the new list, 97 companies still carrying out their activities in the settlements were included."

He explained that 15 companies were removed from the list after it informed the Office of the High Commissioner to stop its activities in the settlements, referring to the recommendation of the fact-finding committee to investigate the repercussions of settlements on the political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people, and the companies' activities include various areas of work that violate the law according to international standards. .

For his part, the Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine in Geneva, Ambassador Ibrahim Khreishi, welcomed the statement issued by the High Commissioner, and his issuance of an update to the list of companies.

He pointed out that the State of Palestine will submit a resolution to the Human Rights Council at the current session, in which it calls on the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to provide financial and logistical resources to the Office of the High Commissioner, to implement the mandate of the Council to update the list annually, on the basis of adding new companies that have undertaken activities in settlements, and removing companies. which ceases its activities.

Khreishi called on brothers and friends to support this trend, and the need to stop dealing with settlements and their products, and to stop all activities with them, as they are illegal and in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the guiding principles on business and human rights.

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

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 40,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid the spread of the occupation forces in the streets of the city and the vicinity of the mosque, where they were stationed at its gates, and stopped the worshipers and checked their identity cards.

A Palestinian woman died in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Friday after a bus carrying pilgrims from the Gaza Strip was involved in an accident. 

56-year-old Ibtisam Al-Shanti was travelling on the bus near Aisha Mosque in the At-Tan'im neighborhood in the city of Mecca, a few days ago, when the accident occurred. 

She was in a serious condition until her death was announced last night.

The Palestinian Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs announced that Al-Shanti will be buried in Mecca.

The Palestinian Authority has so far refused to take any measures to help Israel in Jenin and Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz.

Following a long period without communication, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently spoke with senior Israeli officials. Sources who were privy to the conversations told that newspaper that Abbas does not intend to take any action to support Israel in Jenin and Nablus.

Long overseeing security coordination with Israel, the Palestinian Authority believes it has no reason to help the far-right government, which has rejected any political negotiations and have actively worked to bury the two-state solution, especially through accelerated settlement expansion, the newspaper explained.

Haaretz suggested that Israel is still willing to carry out a military operation in Jenin, regardless of coordination with the Palestinian Authority. 

While the development of missiles and explosive devices in the area could be the spark for such an operation, Haaretz also pointed to the recent use of armed drones as a possible alternative to a full-scale operation. 

Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian from Tubas on Thursday night while he was returning from Jordan.

The director of the Palestinian Prisoners Club in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, identified the detainee as Tariq Iyad Bashir Abdel Razeq, 22, from Tubas.

Data from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs showed that the average monthly settler attacks against Palestinians during 2023 amounted to 95.

According to that data, as reported in Haaretz newspaper, on Friday morning, 3 attacks are recorded daily, including on Saturdays and holidays.

The data indicates that from the beginning of this year until the twenty-sixth of this month, hundreds of settlers participated in about 570 different attacks, and about 160 of them ended with physical injuries, one of which led to the death of a Palestinian, and the occurrence of various actual injuries that do not include trauma and anxiety.

And in the past year 2022, 71 attacks were recorded on a monthly average against Palestinians, as 849 different attacks were carried out, resulting in the injury of 228 Palestinians. It is almost the same as in the year before 335.

The Hebrew newspaper pointed out that these numbers recorded this year are not final, especially with settlers doubling their attacks in the last two weeks, and that these data do not include settler harassment of Palestinians, which did not result in injuries to lives and property, such as blocking roads, threats, shooting in the air, and encroaching on lands, springs, etc.

Haaretz says: The phenomenon of Jewish violence against Palestinians in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) is much wider than what is expressed in the existing statistics, and it is certainly much broader than what can be deduced from the reports in the Israeli press.

She added: The rioters enjoy the support of their supporters in the current government, and the aim of these attacks is to seize the private and public lands of Palestinians in the West Bank, at a faster rate than allows for institutionalized appropriation measures such as confiscation.