Investigators in the Netherlands have arrested a man and his daughter on charges of sending five million euros ($5.4 million) to Hamas in breach of European Union sanctions, the public prosecutor said Monday.

The 55-year-old man and his 25-year-old daughter, from the town of Leidschendam near The Hague, were arrested on June 22 on suspicion of providing "extensive financing" to Hamas, according to the Public Prosecution Office.

Investigators found the money during house searches in Leidschendam and a commercial headquarters in Rotterdam, and confiscated a bank balance worth about 750,000 euros, according to the Public Prosecution Office.

And it stated that "the Public Prosecution Service is suspected of having sent funds in the amount of approximately 5.5 million euros to groups linked to the Hamas organization."

"They are also suspected of participating in a criminal organization whose goal is to support Hamas financially," it added.

It is suspected that the man and his daughter, who are currently under arrest, had ties to an institution that replaced a sanctioned organization that was sending money to Hamas, according to the prosecution.

She stated that the investigation was opened after reports of unusual financial dealings and after press reports spoke of an event to collect funds in Europe for Hamas.

The European Union included Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, on its blacklist of terrorist groups after the September 11, 2001 attacks that targeted New York and Washington.

While a lower court of the European Union removed Hamas from the list in 2014, the bloc's supreme court reinstated it in 2017.

The pilgrims began to pray and supplicate at Mount Arafat near Makkah Al-Mukarramah since dawn on Tuesday, at the peak of the Hajj rituals, which are expected to record record numbers this year in very hot weather.

The nearly two million pilgrims spent the night in air-conditioned camps in the Mina Valley, seven kilometers from the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest city for Muslims.

And in the early hours of Tuesday morning, they headed to the Arafat area, to perform the greatest pillar of the Hajj.

And they will stay all day in the same location, praying and supplications and reciting the Holy Qur’an, and many of them will ascend Mount Mercy and sit among its rocks.

After sunset, the pilgrims head to Muzdalifah, halfway between Arafat and Mina, to sleep in the open air, before stoning the Jamarat begins on Wednesday, the first day of Eid al-Adha.

The Egyptian teacher, Tasneem Gamal, 35, still cannot believe that she is among the pilgrims this year, after previous attempts failed.

The young woman, who lives in the Kingdom, said, "I cannot describe my feelings, I live with great joy." Jamal, who came with her friends, benefited from the Saudi authorities' decision to cancel the requirement for a man to accompany women.

The Hajj season is being held this year without any restrictions in terms of numbers or ages of pilgrims, after three years of organizing a limited Hajj due to the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.

The Hajj is usually one of the largest annual religious gatherings in the world, and it is among the Five Pillars of Islam, and every Muslim who is able to perform it must do it at least once.

In 2019, about 2.5 million Muslims from all over the world participated in the rituals. However, the outbreak of the Corona virus forced the Saudi authorities to significantly reduce the numbers, so only 60,000 citizens and residents participated in it in 2021, compared to a few thousand in 2020, and 926,000 pilgrims in 2022.

Pilgrims perform rituals, many of them outdoors, despite the sweltering heat.

The National Center of Meteorology predicted that temperatures in Makkah would range between 43-45 degrees during the day during the Hajj season.

The authorities set up many health facilities and mobile clinics, equipped ambulances, and deployed 32,000 paramedics to meet the needs of the pilgrims. She warned the pilgrims against exposure to "sunstrokes".

At Mount Arafat, pilgrims wept as they prayed, holding umbrellas in preparation for the rising temperatures later in the day.

Before heading to Arafat, the American engineer, Ahmed Ahmadine, 37, expressed his happiness that "God chose him from among millions" of Muslims to perform the Hajj.

He continued enthusiastically, "I try to focus on praying for my family and friends, and praying because it is an opportunity that will not be repeated."

And on Wednesday, the pilgrims participate in the stoning of the Jamarat, the last of the most important rituals - which in past years have led to deadly stampedes - before heading to the Grand Mosque in Mecca to perform the "farewell circumambulation" around the Kaaba, on the first days of Eid al-Adha.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stressed the need not to politicize the file of the return of Syrian refugees, during his meeting with Martin Griffiths, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, according to what the Syrian official media reported on Monday.

And the Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported that President al-Assad stressed the need not to politicize the file of the return of Syrian refugees to the country, pointing out that the safe return of Syrian refugees is the supreme goal of the Syrian state. And he added, explaining that it is related to providing the necessary requirements for the reconstruction of damaged buildings in the villages and cities to which they will return, and the rehabilitation of service facilities in all its forms.

He also stressed the need to implement early recovery projects necessary for their return.

In the same context, he indicated that the Syrian state institutions have taken many necessary measures for the return of the refugees, as they are working to secure what supports their stability after their return to the country in light of the available capabilities.

At the same time, the President discussed with Griffiths mobilizing the necessary efforts to support early recovery projects related to the return of Syrian refugees and their requirements, and keeping the refugee file within its humanitarian and moral framework.

For his part, Griffiths presented to President Al-Assad the international organization's plan of action for the next stage in supporting early recovery projects in Syria, and mobilizing the necessary efforts to help secure appropriate conditions for the return of refugees.

The United States announced that it would stop funding scientific research with Israeli academic institutions in the West Bank, taking a new step away from the policy of the Jewish state in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The decision by President Joe Biden's administration reverses a step taken by former President Donald Trump's administration that rejected the broad international consensus that Israel has illegally occupied the West Bank since 1967.

The new guidance to US government agencies states that “engaging in bilateral scientific and technological cooperation with Israel in geographic areas administered by Israel after 1967 and still subject to final status negotiations is contrary to US foreign policy,” State Department spokesperson Matthew said. Miller.

The spokesman stressed that the United States "highly values ​​scientific and technological cooperation with Israel," adding that the restrictions imposed on funding scientific research in the West Bank "reflect the long-term American position."

The decision particularly affects Ariel University, a major academic institution established in 1982 on the lands of a then-new settlement in the West Bank.

Members of the Republican Party quickly attacked the decision.

In this regard, Senator Ted Cruz criticized what he described as "anti-Semitic discrimination" against Jews in the West Bank, saying that the Biden administration is "morbidly obsessed with undermining Israel."

As for David Friedman, the US ambassador to Israel under Trump and supporter of Ariel University, he accused the Biden administration of adopting the proposals of the Boycott Israel movement.

But the Joe Biden administration says it opposes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which calls for cutting ties with Israel as a whole, not just the settlements.

Under Mike Pompeo, Trump's secretary of state, Washington has taken action in favor of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including allowing its products to be labeled "Made in Israel."

The Biden administration has returned to the old American position calling for a two-state solution and criticizing settlement expansion.

Washington has stopped making any substantial efforts in the peace negotiations, considering that the prospects for their success are very slim under the rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the most right-wing government in Israel's history.

Israeli police arrested six protesters against the judicial overhaul following a demo in front of the home of Justice Minister Yariv Levin in the city of Modi'in.

The demonstrators closed off the entrance to the street with barbed wire and rubber tyres, leading to friction with the police.

The judicial overhaul was partially suspended during ongoing negotiations between the government and opposition, but looks set to go full steam ahead. The whip of the government coalition, Ofir Katz, has asked ministers and coalition lawmakers not to travel abroad between July 10 and July 26, to ensure they are present to vote for bills related to judicial reforms.

Last night, settlers expelled the commander of the Ramallah region in the Israeli army, Eliaf El-Baz, upon his arrival at the house of settler Harel Masoud, who was killed in a shooting attack at the Eli settlement.

The settlers prevented Al-Baz from entering the house inside the Yad Binyamin outpost, and expelled him from there while chasing him outside the settlement, insulting him and describing him as a traitor, a murderer, and a 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.

The family of the dead settler said that they were not aware of the arrival of the district commander, and that they deplored the event and would arrange another visit for the officer.

Various Israeli political parties, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, condemned this attack, while military sources accused unspecified political parties of being the reason for encouraging settlers to such policy and incitement.

The sources said, "This is a direct result of the brutal incitement in recent days by political figures who encouraged extremist elements in the West Bank to work against the law," in a clear reference to the extremist ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.

Last night, the US State Department expressed its deep concern over Israel's decision to develop thousands of new housing units in the occupied West Bank settlements.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said, in response to a question from Al-Quds.com correspondent during the daily briefing, regarding Israel's announcement, "We are similarly concerned about reports of changes to Israel's settlement management system that accelerate planning and approval of settlements." "It was a long-standing policy. The United States opposes such unilateral measures that make the two-state solution more difficult and (settlement) as an obstacle to peace."

Miller said, "We call on the government of Israel to fulfill its commitments made at the Sharm el-Sheikh forum and return to dialogue aimed at de-escalation," adding that "from the point of view of the United States, it is important to continue declaring our position publicly and clearly," stressing that "our views on this matter It's very clear and we'll continue to make it public."

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

The approval includes depositing plans for the construction of 4,291 new settlement units, in an advanced stage of the planning and construction stages of the occupation, prior to issuing tenders for the implementation of construction projects.

It also includes submitting 1,332 building plans for approval after holding a session to hear objections, before final approval and preparation of tenders.

And according to what was reported by the Israeli media, 1,000 new settlement units, more than the occupation government approved last week, have been approved. They will be built in the “Eli” settlement built on citizens’ lands south of Nablus, to be added to the plans, according to an agreement between the Prime Minister of the occupation, Benjamin. Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

An Israeli soldier was killed, last night, after being shot with a bullet during training inside a military base in the Negev, south of occupied Palestine.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, the training has been stopped and an investigation has been opened into the circumstances of the incident.

The Israeli occupation forces injured and detained several Palestinians, including a journalist, in dawn raids across the West Bank on Tuesday. 

The most significant operation was in the city of Nablus, with troops entering the city from several areas. They were met by resistance from organized groups and from other young Palestinians. Two men were injured and evacuated to Rafidia Hospital, according to the Red Crescent. 

The occupation forces arrested six citizens from Nablus, including the journalist Muhammad Mona, as well as Baha Taqtouk, Khalil Marshoud, Majd Al-Nouri, Hamza Al-Jaruf, and Hamza Jaara.

Israeli forces also stormed Dura, near Hebron, and raided the house of Hamas prisoner Rizk Rajoub.

A number of citizens were injured, this evening, Monday, in attacks by settlers, south of Nablus.

According to local sources, settlers attacked citizens' vehicles with stones near the village of Douma, which led to smashing the windows of a vehicle belonging to a citizen of the village of Qusra, and injuring two of its passengers, who were treated in the field.

In the same context, local sources reported that settlers chased a vehicle near the town of Jamma'in, south of Nablus, and sprayed its passengers with pepper gas, causing them to burn their eyes.

The Captive Club said in a statement issued today, Monday, that the detainee, Muhammad Ahmed Dandis (25 years), suspended his open hunger strike, which lasted for nine days, in rejection of his administrative detention, and this came after promises to set the ceiling of his administrative detention.

The Captive Club indicated that Dandis has been detained since last March, and this is the first arrest he has been subjected to.

Today, Monday, the prisoner, Walid Daqqa, returned the medicine to the occupation administration in the Ramla prison clinic, in protest at the deprivation of his right to communicate with his family.

According to a statement issued by the campaign to release the prisoner Walid Daqqa, the prisoner Daqqa refused to delay the prison administration in "making communication arrangements", despite the critical health condition he suffers from.

The statement also indicated that the prisoner, Daqqa, refused to have his contact at the expense of his fellow prisoners.

Today, Monday, the Occupation Supreme Court demanded from the Prisons Administration an updated report on the mental health status of prisoner Ahmed Manasra, after deliberations that lasted about an hour.

Lawyer Khaled Zabarga said that the court granted the prison administration 20 days to submit the report, and in light of that, the court will take its decision regarding his solitary confinement case.

Zabarga confirmed that the petition submitted by the defense staff came after new indications indicating a new deterioration in the psychological condition of the prisoner Manasra, who has been facing isolation for more than a year and a half, and today he is being held in isolation in (Ramla) prison.

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

The approval includes depositing plans for the construction of 4,291 new settlement units, in an advanced stage of the planning and construction stages of the occupation, prior to issuing tenders for the implementation of construction projects.

It also includes submitting 1,332 building plans for approval after holding a session to hear objections, before final approval and preparation of tenders.

And according to what was reported by the Israeli media, 1,000 new settlement units, more than what the occupation government had approved last week, have been approved. They will be built in the “Eli” settlement built on citizens’ lands south of Nablus, to be added to the plans, according to an agreement between the Prime Minister of the occupation, Benjamin. Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces uprooted olive trees in the Khallet al-Qattan area, east of Bethlehem.

According to local sources, the occupation forces uprooted about 70 perennial olive trees, over 20 years old, planted on an area of ​​3 dunums, located near "Khalayel Al-Louz" and belonging to Youssef Obayat.

Russia is scrambling to demonstrate that life has returned to normal as security measures imposed during the Wagner Group insurrection are lifted, an unprecedented crisis that the West said exposed the fragility of Vladimir Putin's regime.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who was not seen during the rebellion of Wagner's archenemy, Yevgeny Prigozhin, appeared on television again Monday in a video clip as he inspected soldiers in Ukraine.

And the authorities announced the lifting of the "counter-terrorism operations system" that gives security forces expanded powers in the Moscow region and Voronezh, south of the capital, where Wagner units entered and an exchange of fire took place.

It was a measure taken "in the absence of threats to the lives" of the residents, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, thanking the residents for their "calmness and understanding."

President Vladimir Putin has not appeared again in public since a televised speech on Saturday accusing Prigozhin of "stabbing Russia in the back".

Prigozhin, a billionaire who was an ally of Putin, ended his rebellion on Saturday evening in exchange for immunity for him and his men, after mediation by the Belarusian president.

Since then, there has been no news of him while the Kremlin said he would go into exile in Belarus, which was not confirmed by the latter.

Nor is the whereabouts of Prigozhin's 25,000 men known: are they at their bases in Ukraine? Or in bases in Russia?

Despite the authorities' announcement Monday that life would return to normal, the Wagner Group's rebellion between Friday evening and Saturday evening shocked Russia.

For 24 hours, Prigozhin's forces seized many military sites in the strategic city of Rostov (southwest) and crossed 600 kilometers towards Moscow without encountering significant resistance.

Prigozhin was seen for the last time, Saturday, inside an SUV leaving Rostov, amid the cheers of a group of civilian youths who approached his car window to shake hands with him after his men withdrew from the Russian military headquarters.

Although the insurgency ended as quickly as it began, this crisis represents the biggest challenge Vladimir Putin has faced since he came to power in 1999.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Sunday that this crisis "exposes the real cracks" at the top of the pyramid of power in Russia.

He added, "But the presence of someone inside challenging Putin's authority and directly questioning the reasons for which he launched this attack on Ukraine is something that struck him very strongly."

European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Monday that what happened during the war shows that the war against Ukraine leads to "a crack in the Russian authority and affects its political system."

"Of course, it is not a good thing to see a nuclear power like Russia in a state of instability. This must be taken into account," he added.

"What is happening in Russia shows that it is more important than ever to support Ukraine," he added.

Borrell was speaking ahead of Monday's meeting of European foreign ministers in Luxembourg, where they are set to confirm their agreement to allocate 3.5 billion euros to finance arms supplies to Ukraine and military missions abroad.

"Putin has dealt a severe blow, which will have important consequences for the regime," said independent Russian analyst Tatiana Stanovaya.

In announcing his rebellion, the Wagner commander promised to "liberate the Russian people", targeting in particular his sworn enemies, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov, whom he accuses of sacrificing thousands of men in Ukraine.

Gerasimov has not been seen in public since the crisis, but scenes of Shoigu inspecting troops in Ukraine broadcast on Russian television Monday are intended to give the impression he is still in charge.

In the scenes, Shoigu appears quietly listening to a report presented by a general, studying geographical maps, or even taking a helicopter to inspect Russian positions.

It was not possible to independently verify the date these photos were taken.

In Ukraine, many analysts argue, the crisis in Russia could weaken Russian forces on the ground and work in favor of Kiev forces, who have been waging a difficult counteroffensive for several weeks.

Ukraine's Deputy Defense Minister Gana Malyar announced Monday that the Ukrainian army has made modest gains by capturing 17 kilometers of additional territory from Moscow's forces, or 130 square kilometers, since early June.

An Israeli military spokesman said, on Monday, that his forces are checking a video clip posted on Palestinian social media platforms of an attempt to launch two rockets from Jenin.

A video clip bearing the name of the Al-Qassam Brigades, "Al-Ayyash Brigade", showed the preparation and launch of two missiles, and it was placed next to one of the missiles before it was launched, claiming the operation on Monday.

The Hebrew channel, Reshet Kan, quoted the Israeli spokesman as saying that this process is being verified.

This is the third time within a month that rockets have been attempted from the West Bank, as shown in previous videos.

On May 24, the Israeli army confirmed an attempt to launch a missile at the Shked settlement, and that it had found a missile launcher and explosives in the area.

And that the platform was fake, and that the missile was made of cardboard and had fireworks inside. As claimed at the time.

And after the assassination of the leader of the Islamic Jihad, Tariq Ezzedine, a liberated prisoner from Jenin, deported to Gaza, and he was assassinated on the ninth of last May, the head of the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, came out in a conference and revealed that a cell behind which Ezzedine was standing, which he recruited to manufacture missiles, had been thwarted. From Jenin, to launch them towards Israel, and he said that we will not allow Afula or Shked to be turned into a target for launching rockets from Jenin.

Bar was referring to an incident that took place on the 18th of last April, when a force of Duvdevan, paratroopers, and border guards entered the heart of the Jenin camp and arrested 3 Islamic Jihad activists, Abdul Karim Ibrahim Jaradat, his brother Ahmed, and their cousin. Amjad Jaradat, for manufacturing several missiles.

On Monday, the Israeli army announced that a drone had been shot down during a routine activity in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli army said there was no fear of any information being leaked.

On Monday, an Israeli military court confirmed a sentence of two life imprisonments, and an additional 30 years, against the prisoner Zaid Amer, a resident of Nablus.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the court ordered the prisoner, Amer, to pay 3 million shekels in favor of the families of the settlers who were killed in an operation in which he participated in the Itamar settlement near Nablus in 2015.

Today, Monday, the Captive Club said, "4 administrative detainees from Hebron governorate have been continuing their open hunger strike in the cells of (Ofer Prison) for nine days, in rejection of their administrative detention. years), Abdullah Muhammad Abido (36 years old), and Muhammad Ahmed Dandis (25 years old).

The club pointed out in a statement that the detainee Shadeed 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 is a lawyer and a former prisoner who spent two and a half years in the occupation prisons, and was subjected to interrogation more than once, noting that he is married and the father of two children. He has been detained since March 22, 2023, and an administrative detention order was 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.

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. The occupation rearrested him in May 2023. He is married and has five children. An administrative detention order was issued against him for a period of four months.

Alongside them, detainee Dandis continues his hunger strike, noting that he has been detained since March 23, 2023, and this is his first arrest, and an administrative detention order has been issued against him for a period of 6 months.

In this context, the Prisoner's Club confirms that the strike of the four detainees comes with the continued escalation of the crime of administrative detention since last year, and during the current year, the number of administrative detainees, according to the latest data, reached 1083 detainees, including 17 children and three female prisoners.

At least 14 people were killed in battles in the vicinity of the police headquarters in Khartoum, which may change the control of the Rapid Support Forces over the data in the Sudanese capital, according to a former army officer.

On Sunday evening, two and a half months after the start of the war between the army, led by Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the support forces announced in a statement, "Victory in the battle for the presidency of the Central Reserve."

"The Rapid Support Forces, after taking control of the headquarters of the Central Reserve Forces and the Awad Khogli camp, seized large quantities of vehicles, weapons and ammunition," it added.

"The RSF's control of the central reserve, if it continues, will have a significant impact on the battle in Khartoum," a retired army officer, who asked not to be named, told AFP.

And the same source continued, "The location of the reserve presidency south of Khartoum makes it control the southern entrance to the capital, and the Rapid Support Forces, with its presence in the reserve and its main camp in Taiba, south of the reserve, and its control over the Yarmouk Military Industries Factory, has become a major threat to the leadership of the Armored Corps in al-Shajara, which is one of the tools of the army's superiority."

Even if the Rapid Support Forces later lose this strategic location, the videos broadcasted by its propaganda apparatus show its men seizing large stocks of weapons and ammunition, which makes it able to continue for a long time in the war of attrition that broke out on April 15th.

Since the beginning of the conflict, the Rapid Support Forces have not announced any losses in the violent battles in which artillery is used, while their positions are subject to air raids by the army.

However, an army source said the RSF had "exceeded 400 dead" in the battle for control of the headquarters.

Since its outbreak, the battles have killed 2,800 people, according to the non-governmental organization ACLED, and 2.5 million Sudanese have been internally displaced or sought refuge in neighboring countries, according to the United Nations.

However, the toll is likely to be much higher because neither of the warring parties has issued official statements about their losses, and many corpses are still scattered in the streets of Khartoum or Darfur in the west of the country at the border with Chad, where the fiercest confrontations are taking place.

On Sunday, "14 deaths, including two children," were recorded in the vicinity of the Reserve Forces headquarters, according to the Violations Documentation Office, which is trying to organize rescue operations and transfers to the few hospitals that are still in service in the area.

The same source added, "The number of injuries reached 217, of whom 147 underwent surgery, and the number of severe and critical injuries reached 72."

Since the start of the war, two-thirds of hospitals and health institutions have become out of service after some of them were bombed, while others were occupied by belligerents, or they are stuck in the middle of battles. Those still on duty have to cope with acute shortages of medicine and prolonged power and water cuts, while many health care workers have fled or perished in the war.

The battles also continue in Nyala, the largest city in South Darfur, where at least 12 civilians were killed on Sunday, according to a doctor who pointed out that a large number of wounded and dead were not counted because the battles prevented the possibility of movement.

During the night, residents of Nyala reported heavy artillery shelling. "The shells are falling on civilian homes," one of them told AFP.

And every day brings a new number of people to flee to escape the battles and acts of sexual violence and widespread looting.

In all, 2.2 million Sudanese have been displaced within their country, while half a million others have sought refuge in neighboring countries.

Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strok, of the Religious Zionist Party led by Bezalel Smotrich, likened the Israeli security leaders to being Russian Wagner mercenaries that recently rebelled against Russian President Vladimir Putin before backing down after an agreement between the two sides.

The Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevy, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar issued a joint statement describing the settler attacks as "terrorist."

"What is this, Wagner's power? Who are you? Are you Wagner's power?" Stroeck said in an interview with Haredi radio station "Kol Berma".

And she considered what is happening as "a disgrace to Israel," noting that these leaders are aware of the current government and are prohibited from issuing any statements that contradict its policy as they please. As reported in the Haaretz newspaper website.

She added: "The heads of the security establishment failed not only by publishing a joint declaration, but also by defining the settler riots as national terrorism."

Later, the Israeli minister apologized for comparing the security leaders to being part of Wagner's force, but said that she would not back down from objective criticism.

"With all due respect, I really appreciate the chief of staff, I really appreciate the commissioner, I really appreciate the chief of the Shin Bet, everything is fine, they work day and night for Israel's security, but they are not the ones who are supposed to teach us morals," she said.

She added: "The role of the heads of the security establishment is to deal with terrorism."

Stroke's remarks sparked widespread Israeli reactions, rejecting them.

Today, Monday, settlers set up tents in the lands of Deir Sharaf, west of Nablus.

The official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, said that settlers set up tents in the Sahel area between Deir Sharaf, Sebastia and Cyrenaica, on the road connecting the cities of Nablus and Tulkarem, under the protection of the occupation army.

He added: The settlers pursued farmers and shepherds in the area, and prevented them from being there at gunpoint.

It is a complete and integrated front, the like of which has not happened in any time and place, nor on all the fronts on which Israel has fought since the beginning of its wars with the Arabs that were burning for days to fade for years, and which were the wars of a well-armed organized army that called itself the "Invincible Army".

The "complete and integrated" front that ignites in the narrowest arena of conflict on the face of the earth, says many writers, intellectuals, researchers, and even active and retired military leaders that it deserves the description of the "impossible front" or "the front that has no hope of resolution."

The secret word lies in the fact that its final results are not determined by the victory of an army over an army that opposes it. The Israeli army in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza swims in a sea of ​​water filled with people, whose waves are deep-rooted hatred for occupation and a waste of dignity, and when the strongest army in the world faces a sea of ​​this kind, where does it come from with the ability to decide?! What is the most difficult war that an army is forced to fight in a sea that does not belong to it?

Israel is engaged in a war with the Palestinians, the outcome of which has become hopeless, as there is no weapon left that has not been used in it. Warships besieged the Gaza Sea, conventional air forces and drones pounded fixed targets, assassinated leaders and individuals, and Apache helicopters entered the line, killing young boys. As for the foot and mobile ground forces, they are distributed over every square meter of the land of the West Bank and the encirclement of Gaza. The last government decision was to double their numbers and mechanisms to guard hundreds of military checkpoints, which engage in daily clashes with every Palestinian who moves from one city to another, and sometimes from one neighborhood to another.

The most powerful and newest army

Who owns F-35s other than the world's newest Israeli army? Incidentally, NATO itself does not have them. This army has a militia numbering in the tens of thousands, and part of it is officially declared and called "undercover" and the broader part that is said to be unofficial is the armed settlers, who perform their direct combat role under the auspices of the "Defense Army", and what happened in Hawara is not the only example, and what happened in Turmusaya, where destruction and burning is only a sample.

Despite all this military and armament density, the militarization of millions of Israelis is still in full swing, and whenever a commando operation takes place in a city or settlement, the rate of purchase of weapons rises to more than six hundred percent, "and this is an official statistic."

In order to strengthen the direct military front, there is the settlement, which is not used in a "traditional" way for housing, but rather a deliberate military deployment so that no Palestinian looks out of the window of his house except to see a heavily armed settlement. Settlement entered directly into the military front, specifically in the field of sanctions, deterrence, and revenge, as after the dangerous operation that was carried out by two Palestinian youths, in which four Israelis were killed and a number of people were wounded, it was decided to establish a thousand settlement units in the place!!!

The "complete and integrated" front that Israel prepared to subjugate the Palestinian people, who number in the millions on their land, and which is rightfully called the impossible front, achieved one indisputable result, which is to give birth to many fronts on the other side. A front of resistance fighters with the weapons available to them, and a front embodied by the power of life, whose creativity has overcome all barriers, and it is more like a war of shadows that baffles those who pursue it.

We are now in the graduation season of thousands of university students, thousands of secondary school students, thousands of professionals, and thousands of musicians on the latest “hi-tech” technology. Palestinian cities, villages, and ruins will expand and expand, and they will connect to each other, so that the West Bank connected to Jerusalem appears as an architectural and human bloc, and if the occupation can torture it, it will not be able to swallow and digest it. Here we can point to the fundamental failures of Israel in dealing with the Palestinians beyond the Green Line, and what the Banu Maarouf are doing now is part of a multicolored palette.

This is the case.. here.. where the "complete and integrated" Israeli front is, which after all this mobilization, spending, killing, and blockade, really deserves to be called "impossible," and it is, indeed, as a testimony of reality.

The question is: What is left for Israel to do more than it has already done?

The Palestinian people are no longer subjected to crimes of murder, assassination, wounding, war, demolition, house bombing, arrest, land confiscation and Judaization by the Israeli security forces, but have recently begun to be exposed to the crimes of house burning and desecration of mosques and churches in broad daylight by herds of settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

And while the repeated settler attacks on defenseless Palestinian citizens and their property in Jerusalem and the West Bank, especially in the villages and towns that are located in the areas under Israeli security responsibility (B + C) according to the Oslo Accords, are part of the Israeli army's campaign known as the breakwater, which the army was Its implementation began about a year and a half ago, but at the same time it constitutes crimes described in accordance with international laws and norms and principles of human rights.

In addition to considering these crimes as clear indications of the failure of the Israeli security establishment to achieve its stated objectives of the Breakwater campaign, which is evident in the army allowing these flocks of settlers to commit these crimes under its protection and supervision, they are also considered as irrefutable evidence of the fascism and racism of Zionist settler colonialism. For Palestine and its partners from the West, which continues to protect and support Israel and guarantee its evasion from condemnation and sanctions, which makes this West an actual partner in these crimes.

And since it is no secret to the youngest observers of the scene that the West's protection of the perpetrators of these crimes against the defenseless Palestinian people makes it easier for them to carry out more of them, which seems clear in the series of crimes carried out against the Palestinians and their property in the West Bank, at least since the beginning of this year.

After the Hawara Holocaust on Sunday, corresponding to 26/2/2023, with the protection of the army and the support and encouragement of the Minister of Finance and the Minister in the Ministry of Security, Bazelil Smotrich, which corresponds completely and completely with the “Night of Broken Glass” according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, when groups of German Nazis came under the protection of the police. By burning and destroying Jewish shops and synagogues in 1938 following the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a Jewish youth, larger groups of settlers, with the protection of units of the army, set out on the Turmusaya crematorium last Wednesday corresponding to 6/20/2023, but with the support and blessing this time from The Israeli Minister of National Security, Ben Gvir, accepted Smotrich’s partner in the current government, which means that more holocausts and crimes will be carried out by the settlers and the army against the Palestinians in the coming days as long as the world that claims liberalism, democracy and justice does not take the initiative to provide the necessary protection for the Palestinian people, as it hastened and took the initiative to provide what is necessary From the support of the people in Ukraine against the Russian aggression against Ukraine according to the rhetoric of the West.

While these crimes show the weakness of the international community and its institutions in providing protection to the Palestinian people from the increasing settler crimes in the West Bank, they reveal at the same time the shortcomings of the security provisions included in the Oslo Accords, which are considered the legal basis for the Palestinian security establishment. The task of the Palestinian security services is to maintain internal security and public order, and it forbids Palestinians, individuals and groups outside the security services, to own weapons, even for self-defense purposes.

This seems clear in the texts of Articles No. (A/3, 8) of the Declaration of Principles document known as the Oslo Accords, which was signed in September 1993 in the American capital, Washington, between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the government of the State of Israel, where the first article stipulated {. …the Palestinian police (security services) shall ensure public order}, while Article 2, which was mentioned under the title of public order and security, stipulates that “in order to ensure public order and internal security for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Council (i.e. the Authority) will establish a police force strong, while Israel will continue to assume the responsibility for defending external threats, as well as the responsibility for the overall security of Israelis for the purpose of protecting their internal security and public order."

Article No. (XIV), i.e., Article No. (14) of the Transitional Phase Agreement, which was signed in 1995, in Cairo, assumed the task of controlling the explanation and interpretation of the articles contained in the Declaration of Principles Agreement, in four paragraphs, including: “It is prohibited for any armed force to operate in the West Bank, except for the Palestinian police and the Israeli army.” It also defined the functions, functions, structures, equipment, and theater of operations of the Palestinian police.

The facts on the ground, three decades after the agreement, especially in the West Bank, show that the Israeli negotiator has restricted the Palestinians with unfair provisions, as the articles regulating the security services were devoid of any reference to self-defense, and left the task of defending the Palestinians to the Israeli army, and most importantly, they denied the basic pillars that The concept of order is based on them, and the interpretation of public order is confined to the hands of the Palestinian police or the Palestinian security that is restricted by the terms of the agreements, which contradicts the concept of the idea of ​​public order, which all legal scholars see as representing a set of basic principles, philosophical ideas and supreme values ​​that represent the political, economic, social and cultural system. On which the state and society's perception of these systems is based.

The foregoing shows that there is a Palestinian necessity to deviate from these unfair clauses against the Palestinians in the signed agreements, especially since Israel has violated and disregarded them and allowed settlers and other Israelis to carry weapons and use these weapons to carry out crimes against the Palestinians, as is happening daily in Jerusalem and the West Bank. In addition, the transitional period has ended for more than two decades, and the most important thing is that the Palestinian Authority, which was established according to these agreements, has become a state according to Resolution No. (19/67) issued by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012.

Based on that, I argue at the end of this article that the quickest and safest step to deviate from these articles lies in adopting the draft constitution of Palestine to be the basis upon which the state under occupation is based with all its institutions, especially the security establishment. Here, the Palestinian debate and dialogue must focus.

Republican leaders who claim to put country before party must now rise up with their fellow Democrats and together save the country from far-right Republicans before it's too late. These Republicans have surrendered their souls and their conscience to Trump – a wannabe, criminal, and corrupt dictator who flouts the rule of law and is willing to burn the country down just to regain power.

I still find it hard to comprehend the sinister plans that Republican leaders in the House and Senate concoct just to retain power at any cost to the country and its future. Republicans are terrified of the changing demographics of this country. Many demographers have concluded that by 2045 whites will become a minority in the country, as Hispanic Americans, blacks, and Asians who vote overwhelmingly Democratic will become the dominant majority. In fact, the Republican Party is already the minority party and its numbers will continue to shrink with the demographic evolution.

Yes, if presidential elections are truly free and fair and not skewed by the deeply unequal representation created by the Electoral College that gives outsized sway to the less populous states, another Republican president is unlikely to set foot in the White House. This is why the Republican Party will resort to any means, no matter how racist and corrupt, to manipulate the elections in order to change the results in its favour.

Instead of adapting to the demographic realities facing the United States and developing new social and economic policies and programs to meet the new challenges and attract more Hispanic and Black voters to their ranks, the Republican Party chose to turn to ultraconservatism and white supremacy to protect itself.

Voter suppression
As of December 15, 2021, 32 bills have been passed in 17 states that interfere with the administration of elections, which will result in criminal and civil penalties for election administrators and government officials. Florida, Georgia, and Virginia set up electoral fraud law enforcement units after the 2020 elections, though none of these states had widespread fraud. The GOP election commissioner from Wisconsin bragged about the state's efforts to suppress voting against black and Latino voters. And a new Arizona law passed in March 2022 requires notarized proof of citizenship in order to vote. And in 2021, restrictions passed in Florida and Georgia added barriers to voting by mail, restricting the use of ballot boxes, and more. And at the federal level, the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 in favor of an Ohio law that removes individuals from voter rolls if they do not vote within a two-year period, even if they are still eligible to vote.

Charges and convictions against Trump
Other than enacting these new laws and rules to sway election results in favor of whites, Republicans need a brazen, bigoted populist leader like Trump who is openly a white supremacist and will do anything to regain power. Indeed, not for the love of Trump who is despised by a growing number of Republican leaders, but for the millions who follow him and who have been willfully misinformed and still bask in his lies, with the GOP holding on to the votes the party needs to win the election.

The fact that Republican leaders cling to such an unsavory character is simply mind-boggling. But to understand how corrupt the Republican Party has become and how far its popularity has plummeted by following this irredeemable criminal, a quick look at Trump's character and misdeeds will tell the whole sad story.

This year alone, Trump has faced multiple indictments and civil lawsuits. In April, he was indicted on 34 felony counts of first-degree falsification of business records (all related to payments to Stormy Daniels to conceal facts). The following month Trump was found responsible for the sexual assault of E. Jean Carroll in 1996. That month he was charged with 37 criminal counts of mishandling classified documents, and in October a civil lawsuit was filed against Trump for overestimating the company's assets and his own. fraudulently. And last December, the Trump Organization was found guilty of 17 counts and fined $1.6 million over a 15-year tax fraud scheme. In November 2016, Trump settled a lawsuit against Trump University and paid $25 million over allegations of fraud.

In addition, there are still other ongoing investigations against Trump that are likely to lead to new indictments, including in Fulton County, Georgia, where Trump attempted to illegally overturn the result of the 2020 election. He is also being investigated about his role behind the rebellion of January 6, 2021. None of the above can, in fact, come as a shock. He is the only president in American history to have been impeached twice - first in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and second in 2021 for insurrection related to January 6 (in which 57 senators voted to convict him, including 7 Republican, a vote shy of the 60 votes needed to remove him from office). A man's empty narcissism simply knows no bounds: every time he opens his mouth, he brings shame upon the United States.

More troubling, however, is that Trump embodies the darkness of nihilism. He is the embodiment of the Angolan worldview, which is only concerned with the self, and which values ​​nothing but self-aggrandizement. The fact is that he is a pathetic creature, whose moral decay and people's hatred of him should be a warning to all that a life which is pursued only for power and privilege is a life which necessarily leads to dishonor and disgrace.

The Moral and Political Bankruptcy of the Republican Party
Even more disappointing, the majority of Republicans continue to defend Trump. Instead of acknowledging the overwhelming evidence against him, they choose to follow him blindly, insisting that his troubles are a politically motivated witch hunt when in reality it is these Republicans who are haunted by their fear of never gaining power again.

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, the leading Republican in Congress (third in line for president, no less) had the savage audacity to tweet in response to Trump's latest indictment: "Every American who believes in the rule of law and I stand with President Trump against this grave injustice." . McCarthy reveals through this tweet that he supports Trump's criminal behavior and has little interest in the rule of law and the future of this great nation. Like his master, he is a shameless liar and hypocrite, and he is a disgrace to the position of Speaker. Unfortunately, this is the man who stands at the head of the Republican Party.

The most terrifying aspect of criminal Republican behavior that must be emphasized is that the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents could endanger the national security of the United States, the security of our friends and allies, and the safety of the United States military, including human sources and the continued viability of sensitive intelligence-gathering methods. This is the highest level of moral and political bankruptcy for the Republican Party, and it is nothing short of a betrayal of the United States and the commitment every Member of Congress swears to uphold to protect America from enemies foreign and domestic.

It is a fact that the Republican Party has become nothing but an organization dedicated to destroying the last vestiges of decency in this country. This is not the party of Lincoln that chose to preserve the Union at all costs, but rather the party that chose to destroy itself and worship Satan, like Trump, who will not stop exploiting the Republican Party, just as the party exploits it to regain power. It is the horror of this symbiotic relationship that poses the greatest threat to America today, and it must be stopped.

Not only has Trump completely corrupted the spirit of this nation, but he represents and epitomizes the moral, epistemological, and spiritual decay of America. It is the most visible symptom of our ruin as a country that values ​​truth, justice, the rule of law and the light of reason.

If the GOP continues down this perilous path, it will be political suicide and they have Trump to thank for the demise of the party as we know it.

The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz reported, on Monday, that the US embassy in occupied Jerusalem did not invite Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to the official ceremony it will hold on the third of next month on the occasion of commemorating the American Independence Day.

According to the newspaper, many ministers and members of the Israeli Knesset were invited, some of whom are younger than Smotrich and Ben Gvir.

The newspaper pointed out that the embassy also refrained from inviting other members of the religious Zionist parties (Smotrich's party) and the Jewish Power (Ben Gvir's party), as well as members of Noam's party.

Choosing not to invite members of these parties to the traditional ceremony, the paper says, joins the administration's unspoken policy in Washington of not cooperating with religious Zionism and Jewish power.

In response to Haaretz's question, the US embassy replied that only government officials who work with it were invited to the party.

The official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said, "The establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital is the only solution to achieve security and stability."

This came in response to the statements of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he said, "Israel must block the way for the Palestinians' aspirations for an independent state for them."

Abu Rudeineh added, "The Palestinian state exists and is recognized by more than 140 countries, and it only needs the end of the occupation to embody its independence."

And he continued: "The occupation is more important if it thinks that it can perpetuate this occupation by continuing the aggression against the Palestinian people, and escalating the policy of killing, settlement, land theft and other aggressive actions that violate international legitimacy resolutions, including Resolution 2334."

Abu Rudeineh stressed that Netanyahu's statements show the world the true Israeli intentions that reject international legitimacy and international law, and that there is no Israeli partner who wants to achieve peace based on international legitimacy.

He said, "The State of Palestine is an observer member of the United Nations and in many international and international institutions, and has received international recognition for that."

Abu Rudeineh called on the international community, especially the US administration, to intervene and hold Israel accountable for its actions and words that contravene international legitimacy, and to compel it to abide by what international legitimacy recognized against the Palestinian people, by embodying the establishment of its independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital on the 67 borders, so that the region can enjoy stability and peace.

Today, Monday, the Captive Club said that the crime of torture and ill-treatment constitutes one of the most prominent systematic and consistent crimes that the Israeli occupation authorities pursue against Palestinian prisoners and detainees, through various policies, methods, and tools, as the occupation authorities have worked to devise methods and policies over the past decades. , to target the prisoners physically and psychologically, and this crime took a major place in the prisoners’ narration of the detention experience.

The Captive Club added, on the occasion of the International Day against Torture, which falls on the 26th of June of each year, that since the beginning of this year and with the escalation of the level of resistance against the occupation, the occupation authorities have escalated the practice of torture, at its various levels, in an attempt to undermine the state of continuous resistance. Aside from a number of crimes, this was accompanied by a ban on meeting a lawyer, as it also escalated the issuance of banning orders from meeting with lawyers, in addition to the long periods of investigation, some of which exceeded more than a month, on a continuous basis, and did not exclude any of the categories (women, children, the elderly, and the sick) including the wounded.

The Captive Club added that the systematic torture policy is no longer limited to the well-known concept of torture in accordance with international law, as we find that the occupation agencies at their various levels have created modern methods and tools for torture operations, and although this concept was associated with the investigation period, this does not mean that The only station where the detainee faces torture.

The joint statement issued by the Israeli security services the night before last about the attacks of herds of settlers on Palestinian towns and villages and the resulting burning of homes and cars and shooting at citizens and injuring many of them, although it came to sow dust in the eyes and to defend the settlers before the world that had to To denounce these acts that constitute war crimes, and out of concern for the reputation of the occupying state in the world, especially since recently this world began, albeit timidly, to be embarrassed by the crimes of the occupation and the herds of its settlers, which took a new dimension in aggression, murder and unparalleled criminality. This statement is in spite of all that And others, but it is a clear and explicit admission that what they have done and are still doing against the Palestinians is an act of national terrorism, which requires a pause and accountability for its perpetrators, especially since these attacks and crimes would not have taken place without the support of the occupation forces for them and at the behest of the political authority, specifically by the ministers of the racist right Extremist and hostile to all that is Arab, Palestinian and non-Jewish.

However, despite this statement recognizing settler terrorism, no action was taken against those who led the attacks and committed atrocities and crimes against our people. None of them were arrested, nor were the weapons they owned and used against towns, villages and citizens withdrawn, which confirms that this statement is The truth is to show the world that the occupying state is a state of law, and in fact it is far from that, especially when it comes to the Palestinians.

This matter has become exposed to the whole world, that the occupying state, instead of protecting the Palestinians under its occupation, is working to push the settlers and the occupation forces to carry out crimes against them, but this world, especially America and Western countries, prevents the implementation of any sanctions against the occupying state, and it suffices at best to issue Statements calling on the occupying state to prosecute and hold accountable the perpetrators of crimes among the settlers and the occupation forces, and this is what calls for the occupation to issue such a joint statement that considered the settler crimes as national terrorism to cover up, while these security services and others are the ones that drive the flocks of settlers with the participation and protection of the occupation forces deployed in the West Bank To carry out these crimes against humanity, if there is a humane society that defends the truth.

The policy of double standards with which America and the colonial West deal is responsible for the crimes that happen to our people, and it is time to put an end to this bias towards the occupation side, and this will only happen through our people imposing their presence on the world by continuing their national struggle in order to restore their full rights Patriotism in return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.

In the face of the attacks and crimes of settler herds, our people have the right to self-defense, and to use all internationally and internationally approved means to put an end to the aggression and occupation and its departure from the Palestinian land.

The Palestinian side, represented by the leadership and the factions, must strengthen the steadfastness of our people and not stand by as a spectator to the attacks and crimes committed against them. In the end, it is right to say that from your mouth I condemn you, you brutal occupation.