Palestinians and human rights activists in the United States of America demanded that the US President, Joe Biden, and his Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, investigate and condemn the Israeli occupation army's use of American weapons in the attack it launched on the city of Jenin two days ago, which left 6 martyrs and dozens of wounded.

The Palestinians base their demands on "video clips" documenting the occupation army's use of the famous American "Apache" helicopter to bomb sites in the city and the use of other American weapons to attack citizens there, which is a violation of the Foreign Assistance Law and the amendment of the "Leahy Law", according to which it is prohibited The US government should provide military assistance to foreign military units that violate human rights with impunity.

The Israeli army announced, on Wednesday morning, that its forces have continued, since the dawn hours of the day, to storm the homes of the perpetrators of the Eli operation, the martyrs Muhannad Shehadeh and Khaled Sabah, in the village of Urif, near Nablus.

In a statement, the Israeli army indicated that its forces took measurements of the homes of the perpetrators of the operation yesterday, which killed 4 settlers.

He stated that his forces carried out a campaign of raids in the village, and searched several homes of those associated with the perpetrators, and arrested 3 Palestinians.

The death of the child, Sadeel Ghassan Naghniyeh (14 years), at dawn today, Wednesday, as a result of her serious head injury, during the Israeli aggression on Jenin camp the day before yesterday.

The child, Naghniyeh, was staying in the intensive care unit at Jenin Governmental Hospital and receiving treatment.

The national and Islamic forces mourned through loudspeakers the child, whose martyrdom raised the number of martyrs to 7, while 21 are still in serious condition in hospitals.

Last night, the US State Department said that it will continue to work with Israel and the Palestinian Authority to strengthen steps towards de-escalation.

The US State Department condemned the operation that took place in the Eli settlement, and expressed concern about the "continuation of violence" in recent weeks.

Before and after midnight, settlers set fire to Palestinian vehicles in separate areas of the West Bank.

According to local sources, several vehicles were set on fire in Al-Laban Al-Sharqiya, Nablus district, after a massive attack by settlers on the village, with the protection of the occupation army.

In a similar incident, other vehicles were set on fire in Al-Laban Al-Gharbia, Ramallah, and shops in the village were attacked.

Settlers also attacked citizens' homes in the town of Kafr al-Dik, Salfit district, causing damage.

Two young Palestinians were killed late on Tuesday night in an explosion in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.

According to local sources, the two martyrs are Muhammad Jamal Hashash and Alaa al-Hafnawi, both of whom are between the ages of 17 and 18. 

 Preliminary reports such that the deaths came as a result of an accidental detonation of an explosive device.

Just before midnight, the Hebrew website Ynet published accurate details about the shooting attack at Eli settlement, which killed 4 settlers and wounded 4 others, and killed two Palestinian youths, Hamas activists.

And while a Palestinian called the operation "holy revenge" that came a day after the Jenin massacre, the Hebrew site described the operation as one of the worst attacks in recent times, describing it as a "massacre".

Step by step, this is how the website recounted the details of the operation that began at 15:55 (3:55 in the afternoon) Occupied Jerusalem time, Muhannad Shehadeh (25 years old) and Khaled Sabah (24 years old), from the village of Urif near Nablus, arrived at the station. They were driving a black Chevrolet, and they had two M16 rifles and two knives.

At 16:00 (4 in the afternoon), the two perpetrators got out of the vehicle, recognized a settler who was at the gas station and shot him, then he fled into the hummus restaurant at the same station, and one of them entered the restaurant and opened fire in every direction, killing 3 Settlers in the place are Nachman Shmuel Mordov (17 years old) from the Ahiya outpost near Ramallah, Elisha Antman (17 years old) from Eli settlement, a student of the Bnei Akiva Jewish religious school, and Harel Masoud (21 years old) from the Yad outpost near Ramallah .

At 16:02 (4:02 in the afternoon), Ofer Firman (64 years old), from Eli settlement, who was trying to refuel his vehicle, was killed. After that, the two perpetrators tried to flee, one of them in Sabah fled towards an area outside the station, while he ran Shehada towards the gas station entrance.

Upon hearing the sound of gunfire, the Israeli forces began arriving at the scene, before a security guard who was injured in the operation, and another settler, managed to eliminate Shehadeh at the gas station.

At 16:10 (4:10 in the afternoon), a settler from Itamar settlement arrived at the station to refuel, and when he heard the shooting, he tried to find a hiding place for him, and when the second port in the morning was returning to the gas station, he seized a Toyata car belonging to the settler He escaped with it, used it, and drove it north.

At 16:15 a.m. (4:15 a.m.), when the forces arrived at the scene and realized that the situation was tragic, it immediately became clear that one of the perpetrators had escaped, and the fact that he had used a settler’s vehicle after it had been seized facilitated the task of the forces, who had succeeded in observing him with intelligence since the moment he escaped.

Large forces were summoned and began imposing a siege on Nablus and its surroundings, while at the same time a special unit from Shin Bet operations and another military force were carrying out the task of tracking the second port, and they were on a continuous intelligence monitoring mission for the fleeing vehicle.

At 17:45 (5:45 PM), Sabah arrived in the vehicle he seized in Nablus, and apparently tried to continue towards Jenin, which is a haven for many terrorists, but near Elon Moreh settlement, he recognized a checkpoint set up by the Israeli army. As a result, he decided to leave the vehicle where it was, and took a Palestinian taxi.

Shortly after, the vehicle was located, in which the gun in which the operation was carried out was found.

At 18:20 (6:20 in the afternoon), the pursuit ended 30 km from the place of the operation. The "Tequila" team from the Shin Bet Operations Unit specialized in assassination operations, which was called after the attack, succeeded in pursuing the perpetrator and following him closely all the way. Close to him, until I managed to liquidate him after he entered Tubas by taxi.

An Israeli security official said that what happened in the attack did not happen for a long time, starting with the shooting inside the gas station and the restaurant and the result that the operation caused, until the two perpetrators were eliminated within two hours, one of them in the heart of a Palestinian village.

The head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, vowed this evening, Tuesday, that the Israeli occupation would carry out more operations after the operation that was carried out today, which killed 4 settlers.

In a press statement, Haniyeh praised the operation of Eli settlement, and its martyrs who carried it out, praising the resistance fighters' response to the aggression of the occupation and settlers, and called on them for more operations.

Haniyeh said in a message addressed to the occupation: "We say to the enemy, this is the first rain, and what awaits you is more and more disgraceful, and that it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom, and God is with you and helps you against the criminals and murderers." As stated in the text of his statement.

The citizen, Nasser Saleh Sinan (55 years), died today, Tuesday, of serious wounds he sustained about a month ago, by the occupation bullets in Jenin.

According to Al-Quds.com correspondent, Sinan was wounded by shrapnel from a live bullet in the head, on the twenty-second of last May, as a result of which he died this evening.

Israeli settlers and soldiers launched a series of revenge attacks against the Palestinians in different areas of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening, after four Israeli settlers were shot dead earlier in the day. 

Hawara – the northern West Bank town which suffered a settler pogrom earlier this year –  was again attacked. Settlers attacked Palestinian homes on the outskirts of town, south of Nablus, and set another vehicle on fire at the site.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, dozens of Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation in the Nablus Governorate. Part of an ambulance crew was also targeted by tear gas from the occupation army.

One minor was injured as a result of being assaulted by a settler, near the entrance to the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, south of Nablus, while another was injured from a fall after being chased by the Israeli forces near Azmut junction.

Settlers also vandalized Palestinian vehicles near Ramallah and the Jordan Valley, as well as throwing stones at vehicles at cars on Al-Maarajat Road, located west in the Jericho Governorate.

Local sources reported that a number of settlers gathered in several areas around the governorate, namely: Ain Ayoub near the village of Ras Karkar to the west, the intersection of the town of Al-Taybeh and the entrance to the village of Kafr Malik to the east, and the entrance to the town of Turmusaya to the north, and attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones, without any injuries or material damage reported.

Israeli occupation forces also imposed further restrictions on freedom of movement for Palestinians, tightening measures at the Hamra military checkpoint in the Jordan Valley,  while also setting up a temporary military checkpoint at the southern entrance to the town of Al-Khader in the Bethlehem Governorate and another checkpoint in the town of Janata in the east. They also closed the main and only entrance to the village of Marah Rabah, south of the governorate, and prevented entry or exit from the village.

A Hamas delegation headed by Ismail Haniyeh, head of the movement's political bureau, met on Tuesday afternoon with Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi.

According to a Hamas statement, during the meeting, the two sides discussed political developments in Palestine and at the regional and international levels.

Haniyeh praised the Iranian role in the Palestinian cause and its support for the steadfastness and resistance of the Palestinian people and the positions of the Iranian president, especially his speech during the International Quds Day festival.

During the meeting, Haniyeh gave an explanation of the overall situation in Palestine, especially the behavior of the occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Jerusalem and in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and its plans to divide it in time and space as a prelude to controlling it, pointing to the escalation of the spirit of resistance and jihad in the West Bank and the state of steadfastness and popular embrace of it with what stands In the face of the settlement plans Judaization. As stated in the statement.

He also reviewed the consequences of the blockade on Gaza and the resulting humanitarian situation in the medical, educational and humanitarian fields, and called for concerted efforts to completely end the blockade on the Strip and strengthen the steadfastness of our people in it.

For his part, the Iranian president affirmed Iran's continuation as a leader and government in his country's firm policy of standing by the resistance and the Palestinian people. He also praised the positive and unitary performance of Hamas in its sponsorship and support for all resistance factions.

The Urban Planning and Disaster Risk Reduction Center at An-Najah National University has completed the first package of the "Cities of Tomorrow" project, entitled (Future Visions).

The project mainly aims to influence decision makers to draw up urban policies and systems that will plan future expansion areas and empty areas in Nablus. So that it is safe and takes into account disaster risk reduction standards.

This package was implemented in the presence of a team from the International Organization of Cities of Tomorrow, with the participation of the Palestinian team and a wide range of representatives of the local community.

The business package was inaugurated by Dr. Saed Al-Khayyat, coordinator of the scientific centers at the university, who emphasized the great role played by these centers in communicating the latest findings of the world in terms of knowledge and science, and even applying it on the ground.

For his part, Prof. Dr. said: Jalal Dabeek, leader of the Palestinian Team for Tomorrow’s Cities and Director of the Urban Planning Center, said that it is time to stop improvising reactions regarding disaster risks in Palestine, and the need to move from a reactionary method to prior action, explaining that this project would push towards making decisions today To reduce the risk of disasters that are likely to occur after thirty years.

In turn, Dr. Jamal Dabeek, an expert in disaster risk modeling, asked important questions, including: What would happen if the earthquake that occurred in 1927 in Nablus were repeated now? And what could happen if the same earthquake was repeated in 2050? What is the extent of the damage that will happen? What is the size of the losses in lives and property?

He reviewed the potential results if planning remained in place as it is now for the coming years, and compared it to the best scenario that could occur and reduce losses if other decisions were taken today that take into account the standards of disaster risk reduction.

While Dr. Karim El-Gohary from University College London reviewed maps of Nablus, especially for the expansion areas under study, pointing out that more than 60% of the areas that will become part of the city in the future are still empty, and here is an opportunity to take readiness.

The main phase of the first business package included holding workshops in two phases. The first was to train the Palestinian team for Cities of Tomorrow and conduct experimental simulations over two consecutive days.

As for the second, it also took place over two days, and included inviting representatives from the local community from several sectors that were carefully selected to represent all segments of society in Nablus, such as the elderly, women, youth, people with disabilities, residents of buildings, representatives of civil society institutions and others. The Palestinian team also had a pioneering experience through He invited a community group of children under the age of twelve, who sat side by side in a workroom next to adults and went through the same process, but with an output commensurate with their age.

Brainstorming and dialogues took place within each community group, and each group had a facilitator and a blogger to document all the observations and opinions that came out of them, and a planner who translated ideas into drawings on maps in order to reach different future visions for areas that had not yet been built, and a group of Options and policies that chart paths for the sustainable development of the city in the future.

Technical information about the risks threatening the expansion areas was collected to be fed into subsequent packages in models that simulate different development visions to reach possible risk scenarios.

This project consists of several packages of work related to social aspects, policy-making and planning, starting with drawing future visions from the perspective of societal groups. These visions have been translated through the preparation of detailed spatial plans according to geographic information systems, followed by the stage of building future scenarios through simulation work. For the state of the studied areas and what they will be like after 30 years, and then exposing them to several potential risks and conducting an assessment of the risks resulting from all possibilities, and coming up with a comparison of urban losses or gains if the current planning situation continues for the next thirty years as it is now or if the modified future scenarios are followed. , which leads to providing a supportive environment for decision-makers, to reach the conclusion that the decisions and policies that are followed today will reap their fruits for the people of tomorrow.

A cornerstone of the Cities of Tomorrow project is the development of a decision support environment (TCDSE) that goes beyond traditional risk models to one that places co-production of knowledge at the heart of risk-informed decision-making.

Last May, Nablus joined the International Cities of Tomorrow system, making it the first Arab city and the fifth country in the world to join this global system.

The cities of tomorrow provide opportunities to bring together different points of view between urban planners and residents, to combine the experience and vision of citizens, and policy actors, and to build effective cooperation relationships with the aim of sparing people the risks of disasters, and working to provide a new integrated approach to planning and decision-making that takes into account the risks that surround it. about the cities of tomorrow.

The importance of these workshops comes due to the massive expansion of the city of Nablus and the increasing number of its population. Numerous risks such as earthquakes, landslides, floods and fires will increase, and thousands of people may be sentenced to suffering for decades from the scourge of risks unless planning is made today for these future threats.

A terrorist was killed and the leader of a terrorist cell was arrested to carry out assassinations in a qualitative operation of the security forces in Syria in the vicinity of the city of Sheikh Maskin in Daraa countryside (southern Syria), according to what the Syrian official media reported today (Tuesday).

The Syrian News Agency (SANA) quoted an unnamed security source as saying, "The leader of a terrorist cell was arrested to carry out the assassinations, and another terrorist from his group was killed and their weapons were confiscated in a qualitative operation carried out by the security forces in the vicinity of the city of Sheikh Maskin in Daraa countryside."

The source said, "The cell members had carried out 3 terrorist operations during the past week, which resulted in the killing of two policemen and one of the army. They were carrying out the operations on a motorcycle to facilitate movement between agricultural lands."

It is noteworthy that the Syrian army was able to control the province of Daraa in southern Syria in 2018, according to settlement agreements sponsored by Russia, which stipulate that the armed groups that controlled the villages and countryside of Daraa hand over their weapons to the Syrian army, and whoever refuses will be deported to northern Syria.

Despite this, Daraa is still witnessing a state of security chaos in some areas, and members of the army and police in Syria are targeted, in addition to targeting responsible figures in the Syrian state, by shooting them or targeting them with explosive devices.

The Director General of Hajj and Umrah at the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Adel Al-Sawalha, said, "Hajj Misbah Musa, 77, lost his traces last Friday, in the Holy Mosque of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia."

He added: "Haj Musa finished performing Umrah on Thursday evening, and went to the hotel as usual, then he was seen again at nine in the morning on Friday, leaving the hotel, and his traces disappeared after that."

Sawalha confirmed that Haj Musa did not suffer from any diseases and was in good health.

He pointed out that since the loss of Hajj Musa, contact has been made with the "colonized office of Palestine," where a personal photo of "Haj Musa" and a copy of the visa were sent in order to search and investigate him in more detail, and contact was made with the Palestinian embassy, ​​and a crisis cell was formed in the Palestinian mission to follow up on his loss.

"We may stop working next September if we do not obtain additional resources from member states, and we need $300 million to continue our work until the end of this year," said the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees "UNRWA", Philip Lazzarini, today, Tuesday.

"We are facing a real and serious crisis, and our ability to provide services will come to an end, and the situation is getting worse for Palestinian refugees," Lazzarini said at a press conference in Beirut.

He stressed that the suffering of UNRWA continues in light of the international disregard and the absence of a political solution in the Palestinian territories.

He pointed out that the financial crisis in UNRWA began about ten years ago, when the Palestinian cause lost its priority.

The Follow-up Committee of National and Islamic Forces condemned the policy of political summons, prosecutions and arrests in the West Bank, which affects our people from political activists and from the student movement in universities, and denounced this behavior that is rejected and condemned nationally.

The Committee affirmed that the exercise of public freedoms by the Palestinian citizen is the lowest of the rights guaranteed to our people in all Palestinian regions without restrictions or measures outside the Palestinian law, and that it must not be violated or diminished under any circumstances.

The committee demanded the security services in the West Bank to immediately release all the detainees among our people, calling on all national forces, factions and components in the West Bank to sign a charter of honor that prohibits and criminalizes this nationally condemned behavior.

A number of residents of the occupied Syrian Golan were injured, during the suppression of the Israeli occupation forces, a protest march against attempts to seize their agricultural lands, and the establishment of circuit breakers and power "turbines" on them.

The occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas, which led to several injuries among the residents, and prevented them from reaching their lands.

The occupation forces brought additional military reinforcements, and besieged the agricultural areas on which they intend to set up wind turbines, while hundreds of residents of the occupied Syrian Golan confronted them, who headed to the Hafayer area, east of the village of Masada.

New "massive" Russian attacks targeted Kiev and the cities of Lvov and Zaporizhia overnight, according to the Ukrainian military authorities, who did not report any immediate casualties.

The Civil and Military Administration in Kiev wrote via Telegram, "A new heavy air attack on the capital," noting that about twenty explosive drones were launched on the city from different directions.

"There is no information about casualties or destruction so far," she added, noting that the state of alert lasted for more than three hours.

The Ukrainian Air Force said in the morning on Telegram that anti-aircraft defense had destroyed "32 out of 35" drones launched by Russia during the night, adding that they were targeting the Kiev region "mainly".

However, Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat lamented the operational "lack of capabilities" needed to "protect" the entire Ukrainian territory from Russian air strikes that have intensified in recent weeks, as Ukraine launched the first phase of its counter-offensive.

"There is a lack of air defense capabilities..." Ignat told Ukrainian television.
In Lvov, in the west of the country, the head of the local administration, Maksim Kozitsky, wrote via Telegram that drones had hit a "vital facility," without giving further details. No injured were recorded.

The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed at a later time that the Ukrainian air defenses shot down 28 of the 30 drones sent by Russian forces towards Ukraine during the night.

The military administration in Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine indicated that the city and its surroundings had been subjected to "heavy attack" on civilian targets. According to preliminary information from the Staff Command, seven "S-300" missiles were fired towards Zaporizhia and its suburbs.

"After a tumultuous night, the situation in Zaporizhia has become stable. With God's help, no injuries were recorded and no residential building was damaged," wrote the Secretary-General of the city's municipal council, Anatole Kortev, via Telegram.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that the city of Jerusalem with its sanctities is under great danger, and a campaign of Judaization by the Israeli occupation, which requires us, as Palestinians and Arabs, to unite ranks, and to make a unified political and media effort, directed to the countries of the world to defend it.

Abu Rudeineh's statements came during an international symposium held on the sidelines of the Conference of Arab Ministers of Information, which will be held in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, tomorrow, Wednesday, and deals with the role of the media in supporting the cultural identity of Jerusalem. Morocco has Jamal Al-Shobaki, and a large number of Arab ministers, researchers, and intellectuals.

He stressed that there is an Israeli campaign to falsify history through a misleading narrative that tries to falsify the facts, but the Palestinian narrative is stronger, and the need is necessary for a joint Palestinian and Arab effort to convey the Palestinian narrative to the world, and without Jerusalem there will be no Palestinian state, as it is the gateway to heaven and the cradle of religions.

Abu Rudeineh stressed that Jerusalem is greater than all of us, and it is the most important for the Palestinian cause and leadership, and its top priority, stressing the leadership's keenness on joint Arab action, in order to carry out an intensive media campaign supported by the Arab countries, to support the justice of our cause, and to establish the identity of Palestine.

He pointed out that the city of Jerusalem is witnessing a very accelerated Judaization campaign by the Israeli occupation, and that our people are standing firm on their land, clinging to their rights, and will not give them up.

He wondered: How can the Arab media, alongside the Palestinian media, serve Jerusalem and its sanctities, and preserve its history and its Palestinian, Arab, Islamic, and Christian identity?

Abu Rudeineh explained that we need to put in place mechanisms to activate the decisions taken in the previous councils of Arab information ministers through a media campaign. Jerusalem today is in danger, and it needs all Arab political and media efforts to protect it and defend its sanctities, history and cultural heritage.

He said that the Israeli occupation, since its establishment, has been carrying out excavations at the bottom of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, to search for any evidence of a Jewish presence there, but it has not succeeded in that, because Jerusalem is Arab, Islamic and Christian.

Abu Rudeineh added that Jerusalem is facing, in addition to Judaization, a campaign of forced displacement of its original Palestinian population, and the occupation forces are demolishing homes and displacing the holy ones from their homes, leaving them without shelter, as is happening in the neighborhoods of: Sheikh Jarrah, Shuafat, Al-Isawiya, and other neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

And he stressed the need to find an Arab voice with the US administration as well, because it is the only one capable of curbing Israel, noting that the current administration has expressed positive positions with the two-state solution, stopping settlements, preserving the historical situation in Jerusalem, and preventing the displacement of residents, but all of that remained slogans. It was not implemented, and only expressed its annoyance and condemnation of the continuous Israeli aggressions against our people.

Abu Rudeineh concluded: Israel deals with itself above the law, and it is actually outside international law, and we went to Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh and agreed to freeze settlements, but after two days they announced new settlement units, and this proves that they do not want calm, which calls for stances obligated to comply with international laws.

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On Tuesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their military measures in the vicinity of several cities in the West Bank.

According to local sources, the occupation forces closed the Hawwara and Za'tara checkpoints in front of those leaving the city of Nablus, the "Al-Murabaa" hill gate, and the Deir Sharaf roundabout to the west.

The same sources added that the Beit Furik checkpoint, east of Nablus, was closed in both directions, amidst a gathering of settlers, and prevented the residents of the towns of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan from reaching their homes, and the vehicles present were attacked with toxic tear gas bombs, which led to the injury of a number of citizens, as well as the Surra checkpoint, which is undergoing thorough inspection. And a suffocating crisis for the outsiders.

In turn, the Red Crescent's ambulance and emergency director in Nablus, Ahmed Jibril, said that settlers attacked an ambulance at the Beit Furik junction, forcing its crew to retreat.

In the same context, the occupation closed, with iron gates and military checkpoints in the city of Salfit, the entrances to the towns and villages of Derastia, Marda, Kafr al-Dik, and Kifl Haris.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces impeded the movement of citizens in those towns and villages, and prevented them from reaching their places of residence.

While the occupation forces closed the military checkpoint established at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh in both directions, which caused a suffocating traffic crisis.

The same sources added that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint on the main street adjacent to the town of Ein Yabroud, northeast of Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, and on the street adjacent to the village of Kafr Malik to the east.

The Iraqi authorities decided on Tuesday to postpone the date of the provincial elections from November 6 to December 18, 10 years after they were held for the last time, according to an official statement issued by the Council of Ministers.

The statement indicated that "the Council of Ministers sets December 18 as the date for holding the provincial elections for the year 2023, in compliance with the ministerial platform adopted by the government, and approved by Parliament last October."

The authorities did not justify the reasons for postponing the poll.
These elections include 15 provinces out of 18, as there are three provinces within the autonomous Kurdistan region that are not included in the elections.

This will be the first local provincial council elections to take place in Iraq since April 2013, during which the lists of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki topped the results. Prior to that, provincial council elections were held in 2009 only.

It was scheduled to take place in 2018, coinciding with the parliamentary elections at the time, but it was postponed more than once.

In the wake of unprecedented popular protests that reached their climax in the fall of 2019, the Iraqi parliament voted at the time to dissolve these councils and to vote to end their work, which is among the demands of the demonstrators.

Part of the opposition and civil society see these councils as a breeding ground for corruption.

Earlier, Representative Alaa Al-Rikabi, head of the Extension bloc emanating from the 2019 protests, objected to the return of the councils. At the time, he told Agence France-Presse, "The Iraqi people in general view the experience of the provincial councils as a failure, and it was one of the doors to corruption and did not produce anything."

According to the Iraqi constitution, the provincial councils have wide powers, as they are not subject to the control or supervision of any ministry or entity not linked to a ministry, and they have broad administrative and financial powers.

Settlers attacked, on Tuesday evening, the village of Burin, south of Nablus, and assaulted citizens' vehicles.

Local sources reported that a number of settlers attacked houses on the outskirts of the village, where the residents confronted them, adding that settlers attacked citizens' vehicles with stones, on the road linking Hawara and Qalqilya.

The Libyan authorities announced that they had deported on Tuesday to Nigeria, in coordination with the International Organization for Migration, 165 Nigerian migrants, more than half of them women and children, as part of a voluntary return program implemented by the international organization.

Libyan authorities have "deported 165 illegal immigrants to Nigeria" on a special flight, Colonel Haitham Belqasim, spokesman for the Libyan Anti-Illegal Immigration Agency, told AFP.

He explained that among the deported immigrants were "90 women and nine children."

These women and their children were placed in a room at the headquarters of the Anti-Migration Agency in Tripoli, under the guard of policewomen who monitored the distribution of meals, drinks and travel necessities to them by the staff of the International Organization for Migration.

The migrants were deported from Tripoli's Mitiga International Airport on board a private Libyan airline, Al-Buraq.

According to Belkacem, "Other flights are scheduled to be organized next week to Nigeria."

Last week, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya expressed its concern about the "arbitrary detention" of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers in Libya, calling on the Libyan authorities to stop these measures and treat migrants with "dignity" and "humanity".

The security services in western and eastern Libya launched massive campaigns to arrest irregular migrants, and arrested thousands of them in different cities.

The United Nations says that migrants are arrested in an "arbitrary" manner and are often subjected to "killings, enforced disappearances and torture" or even to "slavery, sexual violence, rape and other inhumane acts."

The Libyan authorities deny these accusations, stressing that they do not resort to violence and that all migrants receive the necessary services and care for them in detention centers.

Since the fall of the Muammar Gaddafi regime in 2011, Libya has been mired in political divisions and conflicts.

Two governments are competing for power in the country: one that controls the west of the country and is based in Tripoli and headed by Abdul Hamid al-Dabiba and formed in early 2021, and another that controls the east of the country and is headed by Fathi Bashagha and appointed by Parliament last March and supported by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar.

This evening, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men from Jericho, at the Hawara military checkpoint, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces arrested Sharif Abu Laila and Diaa al-Fakhouri, residents of Aqabat Jabr camp, south of Jericho, while they were passing through the checkpoint.

Russian authorities said that four people were killed and others injured Tuesday in an explosion at a gunpowder factory in central Russia, speaking of an accident.

Russian news agencies quoted the local branch of the Russian Emergencies Ministry as saying, "An explosion occurred in the building of a gunpowder production plant in Tambov," a town about 400 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

"At the moment we have information about four dead and wounded" in the blast, she added.
According to the governor of the Tambov region, Maxim Egorov, the explosion that caused a fire was quickly brought under control, caused by a "human factor".

"I can state unequivocally that this is not an assault," he wrote on Telegram, as there have been several drone attacks and acts of vandalism in Russia since the offensive began in Ukraine in 2022.
"Unfortunately, there are dead," he added, without giving an exact toll.

"There is no threat to the factory workers or to the residents of the surrounding areas," he said, adding that the factory was operating "normally... and production has not been suspended."

With the conflict in Ukraine, weapons and ammunition production plants are operating at full capacity in Russia.
Accidents regularly occur in Russian factories due to poor compliance with safety rules and the aging of some facilities.

The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevy, ordered this evening, Tuesday, to intensify the operations of his forces in the West Bank, following the killing of 4 settlers near the Eli settlement near Ramallah.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, Halevy instructed to intensify arrests as needed in the West Bank.

He also ordered, following an assessment session, to reinforce the military forces, especially in the northern areas of the West Bank.

In a mourning notice, Hamas claimed Muhannad Shehadeh and Khaled Sabah, the two gunmen who killed four Israeli settlers   near the settlement of Eli, near Ramallah, as members of its military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades.

Shehadeh previously served in Israeli prison, the Hamas statement added.

Hamas praised the operation as a "natural response" to the massacre in Jenin, where six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on Monday, and plans to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Hamas stressed the right of the Palestinian people to defend themselves by all possible means.

The Prisoners' Club held the occupation prison administration fully responsible for the fate of the prisoner Shadi al-Amouri (42 years) from the Jenin camp, after he was transferred to interrogation and isolation recently.

The club pointed out that the Occupation Prisons Administration transferred the prisoner Al-Amouri to interrogation on the 15th of last May, and later transferred him to solitary confinement in the cells of "Nafha" prison.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner Al-Amouri entered yesterday his 22nd year in the occupation prisons, and he has been detained since 2002, and is sentenced to life imprisonment and 20 years, and he has been suffering for years from the policy of depriving him of visits, noting that he lost his mother in 2010, and was deprived of saying goodbye to her.

The policy of solitary confinement is one of the most dangerous policies pursued by the Occupation Prisons Administration against prisoners, and it is one of the consistent policies, which it escalated, especially after the heroic Operation (Freedom Tunnel), compared to the past ten years.

Two Palestinian gunmen were killed after they shot dead four Israeli in a shooting operation on Tuesday evening in the settlement of Eli near Ramallah.

Israel's emergency services, Magen David Adom, reported that the four settlers were killed at the scene, while four others were injured and transferred to Beilinson Hospital for treatment.

According to a preliminary investigation, at least two Palestinian gunmen arrived at the scene in a vehicle and opened fire toward a hummus restaurant, and then opened fire toward a gas station as well. 

One of the gunmen was neutralized and the other fled, apparently in a seized vehicle. 

After a two-hour manhunt, the Israeli army announced that they had shot him dead.

The shooters were identified as Muhannad Faleh Shehadeh and Khaled Sabah, Hamas activists from Urif in Nablus.

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Crowds of Palestinians gathered in Jenin on Tursday to mourn 48-year-old Amjad Aref Jaas, who succumbed to gunshot wound from the Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank city.

The funeral procession departed from Rafidia Hospital in Nablus and headed toward the refugee camp in Jenin. The crowd chanted slogans denouncing the occupation and its continued aggression against the Palestinian people. 

The funeral procession marched toward the martyr's family home in Jenin refugee camp, where his family gave a last farewell to his body before it was transferred to the Grand Mosque for a funeral prayer and then buried. 

Amjad Jaas' son, Wassim, was one of 10 Palestinians killed in a separate raid by Israeli occupation forces in January.