An Israeli political source said, on Sunday evening, that the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by Hamas, will not benefit from the decision to develop the gas field off the coast of the Strip.

The website of the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom quoted the source as saying that as long as there is no tangible progress in the issue of the Israeli prisoners and missing persons, Hamas and the Gaza Strip will not benefit from the development of the gas field.

The source pointed out that all the Israeli security services gave their approval to develop the field 23 years after its discovery, without clarifying how the profits will be prevented from being converted into payments as salaries for those carrying out the operations that the Palestinian Authority continues to pay the money to.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced this afternoon that it had instructed the competent authorities to start developing the gas field, in coordination with Egypt and the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli government is trying to search for options of economy in exchange for security in order to buy calm or at least reduce the attacks and security threats emanating from Jenin.

According to the Hebrew Channel 12, in a report published on its website, the unit of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Palestinian Territories is currently trying to increase the number of Palestinians allowed to enter Jenin to shop, especially since the city is considered a shopping empire for them.

She pointed out that about 10,000 vehicles of internal Palestinians entered Jenin during the weekend (Friday-Saturday), amid expectations of an increase in numbers with the advent of Eid al-Adha, which Israel will seek to exploit.

According to the channel, the Israeli Government Action Coordinator Unit is studying options to encourage a series of economic relief for Jenin, which may contribute to stability, and work to promote civil activities for this, including the direct transfer of goods from the governorate to Israel, as is happening with some governorates in the West Bank. .

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying to appear before his cabinet ministers with a strong stance and talking about his intention to move forward with judicial reforms, the weekly session of his government witnessed a campaign of shouting and insults among a group of ministers.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the Minister of Education, Galit Distel Atbarian, entered into a heated discussion with the Minister of Intelligence, Gila Gamliel, before he moved into a state of shouting and insults.

Gamliel said that the coalition agreements kept the Likud busy from important issues, while Atbarian called on her not to interfere and remain silent, describing her as a "backward" that no one in the Likud likes, and that she is just a "stone in the coalition's shoe."

Later, Atbarian wrote via Twitter, that Gamliel had arrived late for the government meeting as usual, and started telling everyone to show that she is a person and she is the only one who has solutions. "A stone in the shoes of the coalition," and because of that she screamed again, and then leaked what happened in the meeting to reporters, and I stand behind every word I said that she was "a stone in the shoes of the coalition and her behavior is embarrassing and disturbing."

Later, Netanyahu said he spoke to the two ministers and made it clear to them that he was not ready to accept such behavior.

The explosive session also witnessed an exchange of accusations in loud voices between the ministers of the Jewish Power Party, led by Itamar Ben Gvir, and Shas, against the backdrop of postponing the rabbinical elections.

The Independent Commission for Human Rights, the Board of Grievances, said today, Sunday, that it is following up on the security services' summoning and arresting dozens of citizens affiliated with the Hamas movement.

In a statement, the commission indicated that most of them were released while more than 30 citizens are still detained by the security services. It is contrary to reality and that most of them are covered by unfounded criminal charges, but rather directed as a pretext for continuing detention. As stated in its statement.

And she considered that the continued summons and arrests on the basis of political affiliation, the delay in implementing court decisions and the mistreatment of detainees constitutes a violation of citizen rights and a crime punishable by law, and requires the relevant authorities, led by the Public Prosecution, to intervene immediately to stop these violations and immediately release detainees from the security services. .

The Independent Commission for Human Rights called for the immediate release of detainees against whom release decisions have been issued by the courts, and for the cessation of summons and arrests on the background of political orientations.

The authority called on the Public Prosecution to issue directives to the relevant authorities to immediately release and take the necessary measures to punish the violators.

• And she demanded to be allowed to play her role in visiting the detainees without restrictions or delay to see their conditions.
• And she stressed the need for judicial authorities not to extend detention except in necessary cases, and for detention to be a last resort, and to seriously investigate allegations of torture and ill-treatment.

On Sunday, the spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said that the leadership will study its options to define the relationship with Israel, hold it accountable, and prosecute it legally in international courts.

In an interview with the official "Voice of Palestine" radio station, Abu Rudeineh stressed, commenting on the Israeli government's decision to accelerate the stages of settlement growth in the West Bank, that settlements are illegal and contrary to international law.

He added: "Settlement construction and failure to meet the rights of the Palestinian people will not bring security, peace and stability to the region."

The spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency warned that these new settlement decisions are tantamount to playing with fire and increase tension and escalate the situation on the ground, noting that this matter is no longer acceptable under any circumstances.

He called on the US administration to assume its responsibilities and take urgent action to stop such settlement decisions, which threaten to explode and escalate the situation.

Today, Sunday, the Israeli court in Ramle postponed deciding on the decision of the prisoner Daqqa’s eligibility to appear before the “Early Release Committee,” provided that the court judge issues his decision within a week of its date.

It is noteworthy that the prisoner, Daqqa, has completed his 37-year "life" sentence since March 24, 2023, but he is still arbitrarily detained after adding two years to his sentence in 2018, on the pretext of his attempt to help the prisoners by contacting their families.

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to implement the gas field development project off the coast of the Gaza Strip, known as (Gaza Marine).

According to what was stated in a statement by Netanyahu's office - as reported on the seventh Hebrew channel - this comes within the framework of the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Egypt and in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority.

He pointed out that the implementation of the decision will be subject to coordination between the Israeli security services, through conducting direct negotiations with Egypt, and coordination with the authority, in a way that guarantees the security and political interests of Israel.

Today, Sunday, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Hussein Al-Sheikh, announced the boycott of the meeting of the Higher Economic Committee with the Israeli occupation, which was scheduled to be held tomorrow.

Al-Sheikh said, through his Twitter account, that this decision came after the Israeli government decided to accelerate the stages of settlement growth in the West Bank and authorized its Finance Minister Smotrich to ratify this.

He added that the Palestinian leadership will study a number of other measures and decisions for implementation related to the relationship with Israel.

Today, Sunday, an Israeli court issued an 8-year prison sentence against the young man, Mustafa Awwad, from Tamra, in the occupied territories.

The ruling was issued by the Israeli court, under the pretext of the participation of the young man, Awwad, in the events of the Gift of Dignity in May 2021.

The Israeli government is scheduled to approve, on Sunday, a dramatic decision aimed at shortening and abbreviating the process of obtaining building permits in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, allowing the construction of more settlement units there.

This step, if approved, aims to reverse the situation that has existed for more than 25 years, through which construction will be strengthened without the approval of the political level, basically, at every stage of it.

And according to the Hebrew channel Reshet Kan, the approval of the political level will no longer be required to submit construction plans to the Supreme Council for Planning and Building, neither at the filing stage nor at the project verification stage.

Instead of the approval of the Israeli prime minister and his army minister, on each of the planned steps, which include 4 or more different approvals and years of discussions, the initial approval of the planning permit will be under the authority of the minister in the Ministry of Defense in Bezalel Smotrich, and this was within the coalition agreement when forming the government. Between the Likud and the religious Zionist party.

The channel says that since Smotrich entered the Ministry of the Army, as its second minister, more housing units have been approved than in any full year so far.

During this week, the construction of 4,570 settlement units will be approved, of which 1,332 units are in the final stages, amid expectations that thousands of additional units will be approved by the end of this year, especially since it was decided to convene the Supreme Planning Council once every 3 months with the aim of approving housing units.

Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights organization, said, "This decision is dramatic and destructive, and aims to allow settlement construction without recognition in the West Bank, and to make any opposition to this construction irrelevant. The decision, if accepted, will leave Smotrich's supporters the ability to promote expansion and settlement establishment without any Oversight, and we call on every party opposing the annexation of the West Bank to intervene immediately to thwart the decision that will allow full annexation in the near future.

A new 72-hour truce entered into force in Sudan on Sunday morning, on the eve of a conference to coordinate the humanitarian aid needed by about half of the country's population.

The army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, had previously concluded, most of the time with Saudi-American mediation, more than one truce since the outbreak of the conflict between them on April 15, but it was not fully adhered to on the ground.

However, the two sides have largely adhered to the recent 24-hour truce, which took place at the end of last week. Witnesses confirmed to AFP at the time that the truce provided a calm that they had not experienced since the start of the fighting, but that the battles resumed immediately after the end of the cease-fire agreement.

The new truce took effect at 6:00 local time (0400 GMT). An hour after it began, witnesses in Khartoum told AFP that the situation was still "calm".

And residents in the capital expressed their desire for the cease-fire agreements to be longer.

Hanaa Hussein, who lives in central Khartoum, said, "Our problem is that the days following the armistice are very harsh, as if the fighters want to compensate for the days of the armistice."

For his part, said Sami Omar, who lives in the suburb of Omdurman, north of the capital, "We want a comprehensive cease-fire."

He added, "The truce is not enough for us to return to life. They may stop fighting, but the Rapid Support Forces will not leave the houses (which its members have taken control of), just as passing through the checkpoints is difficult during the fighting days."

On Saturday night, Saudi Arabia and the United States announced "the agreement of representatives of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces to cease fire in all parts of Sudan for a period of 72 hours, starting from June 18-21."

The statement confirmed that the two parties pledged that they would "refrain from movements, attacks, the use of warplanes, drones, artillery bombardment, reinforcement of positions, or resupply of forces," and they would allow "freedom of movement and the delivery of humanitarian aid throughout Sudan."

The army confirmed its approval of the armistice, but indicated that "we will deal with a decisive response to any violations committed by the rebels during its validity period."

The support forces affirmed their commitment to "what serves the purposes of the humanitarian truce, especially facilitating the delivery of aid (...) and opening safe passages for citizens."

Riyadh and Washington called on the two parties to the conflict to "consider the great suffering of the Sudanese people, and the need for full commitment to the ceasefire and the cessation of violence."

The declared truce coincides with a conference to coordinate the humanitarian response, which will start Monday in Geneva.

According to United Nations estimates, 25 million people, more than half of the estimated population of 45 million, need assistance in a country that was considered one of the poorest countries in the world even before the conflict.

The fighting caused a shortage of food and basic services. Medical sources confirm that three-quarters of the hospitals located in combat zones are out of service.

Saudi Arabia, which chairs the conference in partnership with other countries and parties, announced that the conference aims to "announce pledges to support the humanitarian response to Sudan and the region."

The United Nations indicated earlier this month that its humanitarian response plan had received only 16 percent of the required funding.

"Out of the total $2.6 billion needed for the humanitarian response this year, we have received only 400 million," said spokesman for the Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric.

The announcement of the new truce came on a day that witnessed an escalation in air and artillery bombardment of various areas in Khartoum, while violence in the Darfur region in the west of the country prompted an increasing number of people to flee to Chad.

The Resistance Committees, which are popular groups that have been active in providing support since the start of the conflict, reported that neighborhoods in southern Khartoum, including Mayo and Yarmouk, were bombed by the army on Saturday.

In a statement, it announced "the death of 17 civilian victims, including five children," and the injury of others, and "the destruction of 25 homes."

The Rapid Support Forces accused the army of attacking "a number of residential neighborhoods" in the south of the capital with air strikes, which led to "dozens killed and injured."

Witnesses in Khartoum confirmed to AFP on Saturday that the intensity of the aerial bombardment had increased in the past two days.

The conflict has killed more than 2,000 people, according to the latest figures from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED). However, the actual numbers may be much higher, according to relief agencies and international organizations.

Likewise, the battles caused the displacement of more than 2.2 million people, more than 528 thousand of whom sought refuge in neighboring countries, according to the International Organization for Migration.

More than 149,000 people crossed into Chad on the border with the Darfur region, where the situation is of growing concern, especially in El Geneina, the center of West Darfur state, one of the five states of the region.

Earlier this week, the United Nations warned that what the region is witnessing may amount to "crimes against humanity."

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived Sunday morning in Beijing, on a visit that is the highest by an American diplomat since 2018 and aims to try to ease bilateral tensions.

And at a time when much progress is not expected due to the many points of contention, the goal remains to work to start a diplomatic thaw and maintain a dialogue to "responsibly manage Sino-American relations," according to the US State Department.

Time is running out because next year is the deadline for holding elections in both the United States and Taiwan, which China considers one of its provinces that it wants to re-annex by force if necessary.

Blinken is spending two days in the Chinese capital as part of this visit, which was originally scheduled for February, but was suddenly canceled at the time, after a Chinese balloon flew over American territory, which Washington considered to be for "espionage" purposes, while Beijing confirmed that it was a meteorological vehicle that deviated from its course.

While Blinken was heading to China, US President Joe Biden downplayed the balloon incident, saying, "I don't think the (Chinese) leaders knew where it was, what was inside it, or what was going on." "I think it was more embarrassing" for Beijing, he told reporters on Saturday, "than it was intentional."

Biden hopes to meet again with President Xi Jinping "in the coming months" with the aim of "talking about our legitimate differences, but also about areas where we can agree." The two presidents had a long and friendly meeting in November 2022 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

The two leaders are likely to attend the next G20 summit in September in New Delhi. Xi is invited to San Francisco in November when the United States hosts the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.

Speaking in Washington before his departure, Blinken wanted to sound somewhat optimistic. He said this two-day visit should "open direct lines of communication so that our two countries can responsibly manage our relationship, including by addressing some challenges and bad perceptions and in order to avoid miscalculations."

He added that "intense competition requires continuous diplomacy to ensure that it does not turn into a confrontation or conflict" because "the world expects the cooperation of the United States and China."

Blinken was speaking at a news conference alongside his Singaporean counterpart, Vivian Balakrishnan. The latter described the Sino-American relationship as a "challenge of the century," saying, "The rest of the world will watch you. We hope, and I believe, that you will be able to manage your differences."

Taiwan represents the most thorny issue between the two powers. Beijing carried out historic military maneuvers around the island in August in response to a visit to Taiwan by then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as part of an Asian tour.

Before Blinken's visit, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the United States should "respect China's core concerns" and cooperate with Beijing.

"The United States should abandon the illusion of dealing with China from a position of strength. China and the United States should develop relations based on mutual respect and equality, and respect their differences," he added.

Blinken's visit is the first by a US Secretary of State to China since a visit in October 2018 by his predecessor, Mike Pompeo, who later pursued a strategy of confrontation with Beijing in the last years of Donald Trump's presidency.

Since then, the Biden administration has maintained this hard line and gone further in some areas, including by imposing export controls aimed at limiting Beijing's purchase and manufacture of advanced chips "for military applications".

But the US administration wants to cooperate with China on key issues such as climate. Blinken's visit also comes at a time when part of China is experiencing a heat wave, with a new record temperature recorded in mid-June.

For Danny Russell, a former senior State Department official, each side has an interest in this visit: China hopes to avoid new US restrictions on technology and any new support for Taiwan. The United States, for its part, wants to prevent any incident that could lead to a military confrontation.

"Blinken's short visit will not solve any of the big problems in the US-China relationship, and not necessarily the small ones either. Nor will it prevent either side from pursuing their competitive agendas," Russell said.

"But his visit could revive much-needed direct dialogue and send a signal that the two countries are moving from rhetoric of anger in front of the media to more sober talks behind closed doors," he added.

The threats of the occupation to launch a large-scale military operation in the northern West Bank to uproot the resistance operations carried out by the Palestinian groups, especially in Nablus, the Balata and Askar camps, and in Jenin and its camp, where these operations are worrying not only the occupation authorities represented by the Ministry of the Army, but also the flocks of settlers, as they targeted many Among the operations of the Palestinian groups are the flocks of settlers in response to their attacks on the citizens and their committing war crimes in Hawara, where the burning of houses, cars and other crimes that affected people, trees, stones and sanctities.

In the belief of the occupying state, the threat of this operation, which it announces on every occasion, is to stop this phenomenon, that is, the phenomenon of the resistance groups. On the contrary, any operation of this kind will be confronted by these groups, and if the occupying state succeeds in this goal This is unlikely, as many young men will join these groups as a tribute to the martyrs and to tell the occupation that our people will continue to struggle until they fully achieve their national goals of return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

In fact, this occupation threat and intimidation carries with it other goals, which is to embarrass the Palestinian Authority, and even weaken it and pressure it to take serious action against these groups on the grounds that they, or most of them, are in the areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority, without any consideration that the occupation forces violate these areas on a daily basis. By ignoring all the agreements that prevent the occupation forces from invading and storming these areas.

Also, among the objectives of this threat and intimidation is to satisfy the settlers who are pressuring the government and the army to carry out this operation, in the belief that such an operation can end the resistance in the West Bank so that they can multiply their attacks and crimes against our people, their land and property, and the expansion of settlements and the establishment of other settlements on the ground. Palestinians as a prelude to annexing it after it is done according to their mistaken belief that our people will surrender and leave their land, as in the years of the Nakba and Naksa.
If such a process takes place, things will become more complicated and exacerbate the already growing state of hostility as a result of the daily crimes committed by the occupation forces and herds of settlers, who are responsible for what is happening in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

The occupation must think a million times before taking this step, which will threaten the security of the region and may lead to war, especially since the region is on the crater of a volcano as a result of the occupation violations that threaten an explosion whose extent cannot be predicted and the conditions that may result from it that will affect the occupation side as well.
And our people, in any case, must not rule this out by the occupation, and confront that by continuing steadfastness, because steadfastness is what worries the occupation and prevents the implementation of its liquidation plans, although such threats do not frighten our people.

China is the first foreign country to send an official invitation to the PLO and to host Ahmed Al-Shugairi. China recognized the organization as the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and granted its office in Beijing all the diplomatic privileges granted to foreign embassies, which helped strengthen the organization's standing internationally.

The history of Palestinian-Chinese relations dates back to 1965, when China was the first non-Arab country to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization, preceded by its declaration of support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to liberation and return. As a reward for the liberation movements in the world and their support for the Palestinian armed struggle against colonialism. On March 17, 1965, a Palestinian delegation headed by the late Ahmed Al-Shugairi made an official visit to Beijing and held talks with Xuan Lai, then Chinese Prime Minister. He announced the establishment of a representative office for the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beijing. On November 20, 1988, following the declaration of independence, the People's Republic of China announced the recognition of the State of Palestine and the establishment of diplomatic relations with it.

In its infancy, the PLO paid more attention to military and political issues than diplomatic ones; In 1968, the Political Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization became the central department for foreign diplomatic work. The establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization dates back to 1959, when Egypt submitted a proposal to the Council of the League of Arab States, but the decision to establish the PLO by the League of Arab States came out in 1963. In 1964, a general Palestinian conference in Jerusalem announced the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Ahmed Al-Shugairi was elected president of the organization. In 1969, Yasser Arafat, leader of the Fatah movement, was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. In 1974, the Arab Summit recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as the "sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" in all places of its presence, and the United Nations subsequently granted it observer status under a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. The year 1974 witnessed a milestone for Palestinian diplomacy at the United Nations, as dozens of resolutions were adopted, including Resolutions 3237 and 3210, which affirmed the status of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole representative of the Palestinian people. February 1989 The PLO obtained recognition from 94 countries, and during the session of the UN Security Council in 1989, Palestine was granted the right to raise a point of order and speak on its behalf in an issue related to the Palestinian situation or the Middle East.

Between 1974-1982 the organization was engaged in diplomacy centered on gaining international recognition as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and this period witnessed an increasing reliance on diplomatic work as a major direct tool for the political struggle. The Non-Aligned Movement accepted the PLO as a full member in 1976. The Organization of African Unity granted the PLO observer status. In 1977, the PLO established the Department of National and International Relations, charged with working with human rights organizations, non-ruling political parties, and all NGOs working for peace.

China was the first foreign country to host the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1965). It agreed to establish a diplomatic mission for the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beijing. After 6 years, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, made his first public visit to the Soviet Union in 1971. The Palestine Liberation Organization also resorted to the United Nations to improve the legal status of the organization, and succeeded in 1970 by participating in the discussion of the "Palestine issue" in the Political Committee of the General Assembly. to the United Nations, followed by the adoption of two resolutions by the United Nations General Assembly affirming the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, namely Resolutions No. (2672 and 2628). The United Nations then recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in 1974.

In light of the alliances that we are witnessing in the region, and the public reconciliation between the historically hostile regimes, and after the convening of the Riyadh-Chinese Arab Summit for Cooperation and Development in December 2022, and after China’s sponsorship of restoring relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the return of Syria to the Arab League.

The visit of President Mahmoud Abbas comes to strengthen and sustain the strategic historical relations between Palestine and China. This is the fifth visit of President Mahmoud Abbas to Beijing since 2005, as the first visit was in 2005, then 2010 to the Shanghai Organization, and two visits at the state level in 2013 and 2017. The visit of the President comes To Beijing on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the recognition of the State of Palestine and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two friendly countries, and within the framework of the Palestinian and Chinese leaderships' keenness to promote and consolidate strong bilateral relations in all fields.

Regardless of the main purpose of the visit, whether to obtain financial or political support or to organize an international peace conference, China is a superpower and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. It is wise for the Palestinian decision-maker to plan diplomatically strategically, continue to build alliances, and expand representation in all arenas. Palestinian diplomacy must draw networking maps at the level of foreign policy and find interests and attractiveness in its relations. We live in a rapidly changing, pragmatic world that cannot afford to miss opportunities, especially in the field of foreign relations and United Nations diplomacy, regardless of the internal affairs of states and the accusing fingers they face from a unipolar system.
Dalal Erekat: Professor of Diplomacy and Strategic Planning, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Arab American University.

Every conflict issue, no matter how big it is, even if it reaches a state of large-scale conventional war, finds with its outbreak someone to intervene to stop it and find political solutions for it.

Even the Russian-Ukrainian war, whose highly flammable fire touches the limits of the nuclear threat, and which is a global war with direct participation in it and direct impact on its storms, found from its inception those who invest in proposing solutions to it, even if that seems impossible, for this is the law that governs the relationship of states to wars. .

The issue of conflict, which has produced wars and settlements, but is still continuing until it was described as chronic, is the Palestinian issue, which applies to it and the efforts that are being made to solve it, the saying; As soon as it takes one step forward, it takes two steps back, and once its fires are extinguished for a season or for several seasons, the fire resumes, multiplying in a way that makes it impossible to extinguish it.

And if we look at all the conflict issues that have produced wars, we will find that the Palestinian cause is the most serious effort to solve it, but it failed, and the last of which was when the whole universe agreed to solve it, starting from Madrid, passing through Oslo, and not ending with Camp David, despite Not only did the global attempt fail, but it returned the conflict to a fiercer and more complex state than it was in all its previous eras.

And now, while the whole world is preoccupied with the Ukrainian-Russian war, and the small wars scattered around it in the Middle East (Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and others), there is no room left to address the chronic “Palestinian” issue, except through narrow and side margins, that might put out a fire. For several days, however, it does not prevent a wider fire.

The failure of global attempts to solve this issue generated an implicitly agreed-upon international desperation to close the political solution file with an agreed-upon reliance on relieving the permanent state of tension, through partial arrangements that take the form of a temporary calm, i.e. removing the detonator from the bomb for days, weeks, or even months, no more.

In the course of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the law of state rule emerged, which is whenever the political file continues to be closed... files of mutual violence open up, because everything that happens between the two parties is governed by the "bomb and detonator" theory. How close their combination is to causing an explosion, and here is the case in Gaza and the West Bank confirming this. There is siege and war in Gaza, and in the West Bank, occupation, settlement and resistance... And between the two arenas the ball of fire moves.

The closed file... and the case of the "detonator and the bomb", their action is not limited to the narrow strip, where the geography of Palestine and Israel is. Rather, it extends to the wider ocean. Here, Israel warns of many fronts, active and latent. In the absence of opening the political file, pouring fuel on the fire is the always ready alternative.

The contractor to whom the solution process between Palestine and Israel was entrusted is the American. Who is currently frozen between a lack of desire and a lack of initiative, and in this case he has his own explanations and justifications, until he became a dilemma parallel to the original dilemma, and this produced what we are in now, “a wildfire waiting for a match to ignite.”

And the question; Is there really an impossibility to open the political file to the point of despair, or does necessity dictate opening it at the time when files were opened that were more difficult and dangerous, and then they are heading towards a solution? Objective observers see an opportunity, produced by the conciliatory developments that have accelerated in the region, in terms of effective cooling of the boiling boilers, in terms of the Arab consensus that was established at the Jeddah Summit on the Saudi-Arab-Islamic initiative for peace.

The only impediment to opening the political file is the American adaptation to Israel's unwillingness to accept the idea of ​​a political settlement with the Palestinians, as it moves forward in turning over the cards of violence and conflagration and squeezing time to impose a permanent fait accompli, in which a political settlement would be impossible.

And if the American adaptation led to the closure that led to it, reaching the point of despair, then what the region needs, and what the American interest is supposed to need, requires America in particular to leave the region of wavering between lack of desire and lack of initiative, to cooperate with the countries of the region in the only matter that is unanimously agreed upon. , which is the Arab peace initiative.

Opening the closed file has become necessary, not for the sake of the Palestinians and the Arabs, but for the sake of the region and its stability.

It was decided to convene the Israeli Supreme Council for Planning and Building, to publish bids for the construction of 4,560 settlement units in several West Bank settlements.

According to the Hebrew Channel 7, the council will publish today, Sunday, the construction bids that will reach this number out of 10,000 units, which were approved in a meeting of the Ministry of Housing in preparation for their construction.

According to the channel, this is the result of great efforts by the Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich.

Smotrich said: "The construction boom in the West Bank and throughout the country continues, exactly as we promised, and today we are taking another step to build thousands of units in the West Bank... The residents of West Bank settlements are no longer second-class citizens," offering his thanks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his army minister, Yoav Gallant, for their cooperation.

The head of the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, Major General Qadri Abu Bakr, revealed that the prisoners in Israeli prisons decided to postpone the Sunday strike, until the first of next July.

Abu Bakr said, in a statement distributed by the Commission, that a session brought together the prisoners with the Prisons Administration and the Israeli intelligence, and they presented their demands, which are to stop the administrative detention, and to prevent the detainees from being extended more than once or twice.

Abu Bakr explained that "the administrative detainees in the occupation prisons have reached more than 1,000 prisoners and detainees at the present time, noting that this number did not exceed 500 a year ago from now, which confirms the targeting and extremism of the new Israeli government, and its intentional increase in the number of Palestinian detainees."

Abu Bakr confirmed that many of the administratively sentenced prisoners are automatically renewed, and some of them have been in detention centers for 7 or 8 years, in addition to the re-arrest of those released after a week or two of their release by the occupation.

Abu Bakr indicated that the demands also included a review of administrative prisoners, including children and the elderly, to which the prison administration was somewhat responsive during the last session, prompting the prisoners to suspend their hunger strike, which was scheduled for today.

The postponement, according to Abu Bakr, comes in order to provide an opportunity to present their demands to Israeli officials and decide on them.

Regarding the possibility of the Israeli government responding to them in light of its recent measures against the prisoners, he said that the deadline is not long, and everyone seeks to avoid the hunger strike option, including the prisoners themselves, but if they are forced to do so, there is no other option.

On Sunday morning, the Israeli army announced that it had arrested two young Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, as they tried to bypass the security obstacle.

According to a statement by the Israeli army, the two young men were not carrying any weapons, and they were taken for investigation.

A flight attendant for the Irish Airlines (Ryanair) angered the Israelis who were on board a plane heading to Lod "Ben Gurion" airport in Tel Aviv.

According to the Hebrew Channel 7, the flight attendant said, during a flight coming from Italy, towards the airport, that "the plane will land soon in Palestine."

According to passengers on the plane, the flight attendant repeated her words in English and Italian, and the passengers asked her to apologize for that, but she refused and repeated it several times, and said again: "All passengers must return to their seats because the plane is about to land in Tel Aviv, occupied Palestine."

The CEO of the company, Eddie Wilson, announced his apology later in a statement published by the company about what happened.

Today, Sunday, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs, Barrera Leaf, is scheduled to arrive in Tel Aviv on a diplomatic visit that includes several countries in the region.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, Lev will meet with senior Israeli political and military officials, and will focus in her discussions on Iran's behavior in the region and deepening Israel's integration into the Middle East.

Lev will meet with senior officials in the Palestinian Authority to discuss issues related to US-Palestinian relations, including US efforts to support the Palestinian people, and will also meet with figures from Israeli and Palestinian civil society.

Liv will also travel to Jordan to meet senior officials in the Hashemite Kingdom.

On Sunday, the Israeli government is scheduled to approve the formation of the Ministerial Committee for Arab Society Affairs (Palestinians of the Interior), which will be one of its first tasks to develop a mechanism to address the widespread crime.

According to the Arabic-speaking Israeli Public Broadcasting Authority, the ministerial committee will not include any Arab minister, and the only representative of the Palestinians in the interior will be the head of the Economic Development Authority, Hassan Tawara, as a permanent member.

It is expected that this committee, which will include 15 ministers, will be chaired by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and among its members will be the Minister of the so-called National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, Minister of Settlements Orit Strok, Minister of Development of the Negev and the Galilee Yitzhak Fislarov, and another number of Ministers.

The committee's discussions will be coordinated by a representative of the National Security Council who will participate regularly in the discussions.

A number of citizens were injured, at dawn on Sunday, during the occupation forces' raid into several areas of the West Bank.

According to local sources, a young man was wounded in the foot with a rubber bullet, during clashes that broke out in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, after it was stormed by an Israeli force.

These forces raided many houses and shops, although they were closed, and confiscated camera recordings, amid confrontations with young men who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at these forces.

In the context, the occupation forces arrested Ibrahim Mustafa Abed, a student at the Faculty of Engineering, from Tal village in Nablus, when he was passing through a flying military checkpoint.

The occupation forces also stormed several areas in Jenin, and clashes broke out, wounding a young man with a rubber bullet in the hand.

In Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, a special force, followed by military reinforcements, infiltrated before it was detected by the resistance fighters, with whom they engaged in armed clashes.

Tens of thousands demonstrated on Saturday evening in Tel Aviv and dozens of towns and junctions against the plan to weaken the judiciary, especially in the wake of recent developments and disagreements that have re-emerged between the opposition parties and the government coalition after the talks that took place in the office of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

The ongoing protests come for the 24th week in a row, days after the election of a member of the Knesset for "Yesh Atid", Karen Elharar, as a representative of the opposition in the Committee for the Appointment of Judges.

Today, Saturday, the Administrative Prisoners Committee in the Israeli occupation prisons decided to give the opportunity to complete the dialogue with the Israeli Prisons Administration and the competent authorities in following up the administrative detention file.

A statement by the committee stated that this step distanced the occupation from responding to some of the demands and suspending the answer to the main demand until the next dialogue session early next month.

The committee considered this opportunity as the last chance to respond to the just demands of the prisoners, stressing its full readiness and high readiness to guarantee the preservation of their rights and the occupation's response to their demands.

It called on the Palestinian masses and all institutions supporting the cause of the prisoners to continue their role in supporting their right to wrest their freedom and end this unjust file.

Tomorrow, Sunday, June 18th, marks the ninth anniversary of the re-arrest of dozens of the liberators of the “Wafaa Al-Ahrar” deal, according to which (1027) were liberated in 2011, in exchange for the release of the Israeli soldier (Gilad Shalit).

The Captive Club said in a statement that the occupation authorities continue to detain (48) those released from the deal, and they are among about (70) prisoners who were re-arrested by the occupation in 2014, and later returned to about 50 of them their previous sentences, most of which are life imprisonment, in addition to years, Based on an arbitrary law that he approved especially for them, and implemented it through what is known as the Military Objections Committee, which was established to consider their cases, and today it detains them in its prisons under the pretext of having a (secret file), and based on this pretext they are serving life sentences.
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He added that what the prisoners of the "Loyalty of the Free" deal were subjected to was one of the most dangerous measures that the occupation carried out against prisoners who were liberated through exchanges, and it was clear that the occupation had taken them hostage for political goals.

And he continued, that despite all the claims that took place over these years, and among them were claims to the sister Republic of Egypt, which sponsored this agreement at the time, to put pressure on the occupation for their release, he continued to arrest them and violated the agreement that was made, and he was among the most prominent of those who returned Arresting the captive commander, Nael Al-Barghouti, who is serving the longest period of detention in the occupation prisons, with a total of 44 years in two periods.

The Captive Club called, once again, on the sisterly Republic of Egypt, and on all Palestinian levels, to intensify efforts to liberate them, and to restore the basic demand in this issue, which is freedom, and to decide the fate of thousands of prisoners, after the years of detention of some of them exceeded four decades, and some approached them.

Hamas said, on Saturday, that it views with great concern the intention of the occupation Knesset, tomorrow, Sunday, to discuss a bill that would allow imposing prison sentences on Palestinian children from the age of 12 years and over.

In a statement, Hamas considered this as "a precedent that confirms the racist and brutal nature of this usurper entity, which requires a serious stance from the international community to condemn the Zionist entity and hold it accountable for its ongoing crimes against our children and our Palestinian people." As stated in the text of the statement.

She added, "The children of Palestine have always been exposed to the most heinous crimes committed by the Zionist machine of aggression and terrorism, including killing, arrest, abuse and torture. Legislating these fascist practices is a flagrant challenge to all laws that affirm the protection of children and distance them from conflicts." According to the text of the statement.

Hamas affirmed that "all inhumane and immoral practices that seek to pressure and resist our Palestinian people will not discourage our steadfast people from continuing their path of defending themselves and their sanctities and achieving their aspirations for freedom and self-determination." according to the text of the statement.

Police spokesman Louay Irzeqat said, on Saturday, that 17 citizens have been victims of murders in the West Bank since the beginning of the current year 2023.

In an interview with the official "Voice of Palestine" radio station, Irzeigat indicated that two young men from Nablus were killed within 24 hours due to an accidental shooting.

And that the police and security services revealed most of the circumstances of these crimes and arrested the perpetrators.

Irzeigat touched on the number of deaths due to traffic accidents since the beginning of the year, noting that it has reached 35 deaths, after about 7 thousand accidents.

The warnings issued by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to the Israeli Minister of Security, Yoav Gallant, during their meeting yesterday at the Pentagon, about his country's concern about the explosive security situation in the West Bank as a result of the escalating settlement construction, do not change anything in the facts that Israel has drawn on the ground, and will not remove the focus of settlement, or stop an aggression against a peaceful village, or prevent an attack on farmers in their fields from which they live and produce, and will not deter a soldier suffering from a lust to kill from aiming his bullet at the head of an innocent child to kill him in cold blood without any guilt, as happened with the child "Muhammad Al-Tamimi" In the Prophet Saleh, which Israel said that one of its soldiers killed him by mistake!!.

It is known to all that Israel does not give weight to such warnings that successive American administrations and the international community took turns on, as our people and its leadership are fed up with such statements that did not end the occupation and its settlement project, because this occupation is reassured that the United States, the European Union and the entire international community will not He takes any sanctions or measures against it that deter it from moving forward with its replacement project that is based on our land and our capabilities and praises the blood of our youth, children and elderly who are being killed in plain sight of everyone.

Since the extreme right assumed power in Israel, daily killings have escalated among our people, and the construction of settlements has accelerated and the existing ones have been expanded by adding thousands of new units to them. Time, and this is not done in the dark, but in broad daylight and in public, in an unparalleled Israeli violation of international laws that prohibit the occupying state from changing the status quo in the occupied country in what is internationally known as the "status".

When the United States of America warns of the consequences of an explosive situation in the Palestinian territories, it will have sowed ashes in the eyes and sent a message that it is keen on security, stability and calm in the region at a time when the situation continues to flare up due to the continuous Israeli aggression against our people who stand defending The right to live in security, peace and stability like the rest of the peoples of the world. Here it must be pointed out that the Palestinian people do not initiate the attack as Israel claims, but rather defend themselves against the machine of killing, oppression and non-stop aggression. Jenin and Nablus are only the best evidence and blatant example of that.

In light of the foregoing, although we do not rely on such warnings, we remind those who issued them of their moral, humanitarian and political duty towards the Palestinian people who have been suffering for "75 years" non-stop from killing, destruction and displacement, and are still paying with their flesh, blood and land the price of their steadfastness and survival on the land of their homeland and the price of His adherence to his just rights to freedom, return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.

How long will we keep receiving warning data without seeing a single practical step on the ground?

It was reported that an Israeli military court sentenced an Israeli soldier to reprimand for his act of killing a two-year-old Palestinian child. The military court claimed that the killing of the Palestinian child was an unintentional mistake, and acquitted the Israeli soldier. When I heard this news, all the images of Israeli killings, with all their imagined and unimagined tools, over more than five decades, jumped into my memory. How can an army that describes itself as moral and boasts of the purity of its weapons justify the killing of a two-year-old child? Are the actions of the Israeli security forces justified, no matter how long they are, and are the Palestinian people sentenced to pay the price of Israeli fear and cowardice with their lives? The most appropriate and commanded to judge the murderer with a grievous penalty is a reprimand. How much is the Israeli disregard for Palestinian life, and how degraded is the Israeli behavior in respecting the value of life, which is the highest. Let justice fall if it is in this way and this form.

He is not the first Palestinian child, nor will he be the last, to be killed by Israeli forces' fire. The occupation forces used to kill Palestinian children, as they do not recognize the International Child Protection Convention of 1989, nor its application to Palestinian children, whether they are under direct military occupation, or under the Israeli civil authority. Since 1967, Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinian children under one pretext or another.

The systematic Israeli killing process did not stop at the men of the Palestinian resistance, but included pregnant and non-pregnant women, innocent elderly people, and children with special needs such as Iyad al-Hallaq, and those who are deaf and those who do not hear. Intended racial death. Even whoever seclusion in a mosque or celibacy in a mihrab, or conferred with his family, the Israeli hand of menon reached him and his family, friends and companions without the slightest discrimination or distinction.

The hand of Israeli killing extended from the Palestinian massacres in Deir Yassin, Tantura, and Kafr Qassem, to the Bahr al-Baqar School and the Egyptian students there, and in the Qana massacre, where 106 Lebanese civilians were killed in southern Lebanon at the hands of Shimon Peres, who won the Nobel Prize, Jordanians in Jordanian cities such as Salt and Jerash, and Egyptian scientists. Iraqis, Syrians, and representatives of the Palestinian resistance in various parts of the world.

Although the first of the Ten Commandments forbids and prohibits killing, and the heavenly religions prohibit it, “And do not kill the soul that God has forbidden, except with justice.” Human rights charters protect it with all its tools, and international humanitarian law has only been established to protect the right to life for the residents of the occupied areas, civilians and military personnel. The Israeli security, including the army, police and intelligence services, has a policy of killing by various means, by air, land and sea.

The Israeli outstretched hand for killing does not wait for a judicial authorization as is required in all countries of the world, as is the case in executions, but rather seizes any opportunity from an unknown informant, day or night, dawn or evening, to implement the policy of physical liquidation, even if the entire family of the wanted person, She is present in his house, communicates with him, or sleeps with him, even if that leads to killing all of them, and in return you see them sing of warning others to vacate the place.

And you see them accompanying the killing process later by demolishing the house of the dead person or the house of his relatives even if he slept one night in it, or they let him bleed on the pretext that he might be carrying an explosive belt, or they disrupt and prevent the arrival of the ambulance, and even provide him with the necessary and vital aid from an Arab doctor or paramedic.

Even the directives on open fire published by the United Nations as the gospel of live fire in all countries, as a last resort for the use of lethal force, have been replaced by instructions for the Israeli army to use lethal firepower if the Israeli soldier is endangered, as if the UN experts do not value the right to life. They are inhuman, as they stipulated that the aggressor be warned in a language he understands and in a loud voice to stop, and that the firearm be directed in the air with warning shots.

Specific and clear instructions, which cannot be ambiguous, have been replaced by the Israelis with vague, flexible, ambiguous, vague, and cloudy instructions, which allow ample room for interpretation. It may be a verbal altercation, an emotional movement, a punch or a blow, a humiliating movement, a stone, a children’s game, or transgression, so who assesses the criterion of danger, its seriousness, and its proportionality with the use of armed firepower, and is it equal to a knife with a machine gun?!

What encouraged the systematic Israeli policy of killing was the absence of an effective penalty or deterrent punishment for the perpetrator, accomplice, instigator, and accomplice in these crimes, regardless of their different names and ranks. The United States, for example, has distanced itself from the trial and prosecution of the Israeli killers of American civilians because they are of Palestinian origin, and this in itself is racial discrimination, i.e. a crime in itself.

The Americans did not pursue, prosecute, or punish the killers of Sherine Abu Aqelah and the elderly Omar Asaad in the village of Jaljalia, despite the fact that a long time has passed since they were killed. Likewise, the European Union was and still is acting towards the Israeli security forces, protecting them and immunizing them from any responsibility, despite the possibility of prosecuting them. Even the International Criminal Court, which is supposed to be the first and last resort to try the Israeli killers against the Palestinians, has failed in this task that its texts oblige it to do. Rather, its Attorney General, Karim Khan, distanced himself from directing any charge or submitting any indictment against any Israeli security guard, settler, or any Israeli official. We note here that the Oslo Accords do not allow any Israeli to be tried before Palestinian courts for any crime he committed on Palestinian land.

It is a sad matter, rather a matter that stirs the nerves and makes the perpetrator of the crime not receive his punishment and recompense so that he may be an example to others, and so that the punishment will have a deterrent effect on others. Otherwise, the punishment loses its function and purpose. As for talking about reprimands, warnings, demotions, salary deductions, arrests for interrogation for days, transfers, retirement, and other grievous punishments, this is nothing but "laughing at the beards" and disregarding the value of life for the Palestinian, and systematic antagonism against his divine, natural, and human right to life. Life (And there is life for you in retribution, O people of understanding, so that you may fear).

A Palestinian (57 years old) was killed, on Saturday morning, as a result of being shot by unknown assailants in the occupied city of Nazareth.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the new crime, which moderately injured another person, was the result of a family vendetta that led to the killing of 29 Palestinians within two years from the Bakri and Hariri families.

This brings the number of Palestinian victims from the occupied interior since the beginning of the year to 104.