PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 3:41 pm - Jerusalem Time

The occupation arrests 4 citizens from Qabatiya

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 4 citizens from the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.


According to local sources, these forces arrested the citizens: Mustafa Yousef Mustafa Zakarneh, Rafiq Muhammad Saeed Zakarneh, Ahmed Ali Ahmed Zakarneh, and Muhammad Omar Ahmed Zakarneh, and took them to Salem Camp, west of Jenin.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 2:25 pm - Jerusalem Time

Washington: Our position against settlements does not change with the passage of time

The official spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, confirmed that the administration of US President Joe Biden adheres to its statement issued on Sunday in his name regarding the ministry's condemnation of the Israeli government's decision to establish a permanent presence in the Homesh outpost.


“Let me start by repeating what we said in the statement before I get to your questions, which is that we are deeply concerned about the recent order by the Israeli government that allowed citizens to establish a presence,” Miller said in his first public press conference (Monday, 5/22/2023). permanently in the Homesh outpost in the northern West Bank, which, according to Israeli law, was built illegally on private Palestinian land.


"As we indicated in our statement last night, this is inconsistent with both the written commitment of former Prime Minister (Ariel) Sharon to the administration of former President (George DePew) Bush in 2004 and, significantly, the current Israeli government's commitments to the Biden administration," Miller added.


Miller emphasized that "concerning contacts with the Israeli government, of course we communicate with our Israeli counterparts on a number of levels, constantly, and with regard to many contents, and regarding the messages exchanged between former US President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister (then) Sharon, that our point of view was clear and consistent The expansion of settlements always undermines the geographical content of the two-state solution, as it exacerbates tensions, and further damages trust between the two parties, and this is consistent with the views of previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican, including the views expressed in the aforementioned exchange of letters.


Miller stressed that "the position of the United States has not changed with the passage of time. Our position has been clear and consistent across administrations, and we see that these messages (exchanged between US President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Sharon) have not been withdrawn," noting that Israel has not withdrawn the commitments it made. it in her message.


Regarding what Miller mentioned in his statement (21/5/23) regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Noble Sanctuary and whether there is a legal understanding with Israel regarding not storming it by the Israelis, Miller said: “I will only repeat that we are very concerned about the provocative visit to the Noble Sanctuary, the Temple Mount "We believe in not using this holy place for political purposes, and we call on all parties to respect its sanctity. More broadly, we reaffirm the firm US position in support of the historical status quo in the holy places in Jerusalem and underscore Jordan's special role as custodian of the Islamic holy places in Jerusalem." He called on both sides to "avoid actions that lead to an escalation of tensions and make a final solution more difficult."


In response to a question by Al-Quds.com correspondent about the nature of the steps that can be taken by the administration to deter Israel from its plans, Miller said: “I disagree first and foremost to some extent with the implicit premise of your question that the words we send from this rostrum or say Elsewhere in the American government they have no influence, and what I will say is, we will continue to express our views - and we will express our views publicly, as we did in the statement last night, as I am here, and we will continue to express our views privately.


Regarding what the Israelis announced about plans to build 400 housing units in the town of Abu Dis, Miller replied, "With regard to these reports, we have made it clear, on a number of occasions, that the Biden administration, like most administrations that preceded it, sees that expanding settlements brings results." It is counterproductive and constitutes an obstacle to peace and undermines the geographical feasibility of the two-state solution, and we, in turn, will continue to clarify this point of view publicly and privately to the governments of the region.


PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 12:55 pm - Jerusalem Time

Updated || The occupation forces arrest 8 citizens in the West Bank and Jerusalem

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 8 citizens from the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem.


According to local sources, those forces arrested Saif al-Din Khaled al-Shaer from the village of al-Jalama, northeast of Jenin, while he was passing the Za'tara checkpoint, south of Nablus, as he was on his way to his workplace in Ramallah.


In Jenin, the Israeli occupation forces arrested the citizens: Mustafa Yousef Mustafa Zakarneh, Rafiq Muhammad Saeed Zakarneh, Ahmed Ali Ahmed Zakarneh, and Muhammad Omar Ahmed Zakarneh, all of them from Qabatia, and took them to Salem camp, west of Jenin.


Meanwhile, Israeli special forces arrested the young man, Muhammad Badran (24 years), while he was in a car showroom in Al-Amari camp, south of Ramallah.


In occupied Jerusalem, a young man, Hamza Mustafa Shuqairat, from the town of Jabal al-Mukaber, was arrested, while a young man, whose identity was unknown, was arrested from the town of al-Tur.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 12:49 pm - Jerusalem Time

Within two weeks, the occupation demolished and seized 42 buildings in the West Bank and Jerusalem

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) monitored that the Israeli occupation demolished and seized 42 buildings in Jerusalem and Area C in the occupied West Bank, during the past two weeks, under the pretext of lack of building permits.


OCHA added: "The demolitions resulted in the displacement of 50 Palestinians, including 23 children, and damaged the livelihoods of more than 600 others."


He noted that 9 of these buildings were provided by donors as humanitarian aid, including a school, and more than 26 buildings were located in Area C, including a school funded by donors, south of Bethlehem.


OCHA said: "The occupation demolished the remaining 16 buildings in Jerusalem, including two demolished residential buildings in the Wadi Qaddum area in Silwan, which resulted in the displacement of seven families comprising 39 individuals, including 22 children."


He explained that 7 other buildings were demolished by their owners to avoid paying fines to the occupation, and that the occupation destroyed a residential building in Area “A” in the West Bank, and damaged three others during the operation that it carried out in the Old City of Nablus.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 12:12 pm - Jerusalem Time

Shtayyeh: Journalists are soldiers of truth and witnesses of history and the present

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said today, Tuesday, that "women and male journalists are soldiers of truth and witnesses of history and the present before the international courts of conscience and the courts of history."


This came in his speech, on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, before the General Conference of the Journalists Syndicate 2023, "The Martyr Sherine Abu Aqleh Conference", which was held in the halls of the Red Crescent in Al-Bireh in conjunction with the Gaza Strip.


Shtayyeh stressed that the press is the eye of the truth in Palestine, and it is in confrontation with those who want to extinguish the light of the truth.


He added, "The press is one of the most important tools for activating democracy in any society, and a tool for maintaining democratic frameworks, a lever for change in societies, and a maker of public opinion."


Shtayyeh affirmed the government's commitment to freedom of the press, freedom of opinion and thought, and the right of the press to investigate and access information, noting that the Council of Ministers formed a committee to study the conditions of journalists working in the profession of searching for trouble, protecting them, and providing the best conditions for their work to perform their mission with professionalism and responsibility dictated by the laws of the profession.


He pointed out that Palestine is living in abnormal conditions, and despite that there are many media outlets that reflect political pluralism, indicating that it is unreasonable for Israel to hold 5 elections in four years and to deprive us of our right to vote by depriving us of our electoral right in the city of Jerusalem, and despite that we conducted Student, syndicate, union and municipal elections.


Shtayyeh stressed, on behalf of the journalists, the need to fight for the democratic right, just as we are fighting to end the occupation and its colonial tools, and that the government is working to achieve national unity on the basis of unity of purpose and unity of struggle tools, based on an agreed struggle and political program.


He pointed out that the Israeli sniper who killed Sherine Abu Aqleh wanted to kill a witness to become a martyr, and to join the 50 journalists who preceded her to the top, including the martyr Yasser Murtaja, stressing that the government will remain loyal to the blood of the martyrs and that it will follow up on the court file by all means.


In the same context, the press movement in the Gaza Strip organized a stand today, to demand a halt to the union elections procedures, and to initiate steps to reform the union.


The Administrative Court in Gaza had allowed the General Conference of the Journalists Syndicate to be held without holding elections, and set a session to decide the case on Wednesday, 5/24/2023.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 11:59 am - Jerusalem Time

Details of the abuse of the prisoner, Nassim Shabana, during the arrest and investigation

Today, Tuesday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said, "The 15-year-old prisoner, Nassim Yahya Shabana, from the town of Issawiya in occupied Jerusalem, was subjected to abuse and physical and psychological violence by the Israeli occupation forces, when he was arrested and interrogated."


According to the authority, the Israeli occupation army forces raided his house on 03/01/2023, at five o’clock in the morning, searched the house and turned it upside down, then arrested him after handcuffing him to the back and blindfolding him, so that one of the soldiers threw him into the jeep and beat him. on his head and all over his body.


She added: "Then they took him to the Moscow Compound investigation, where they kept him in the corridor for two hours while he was standing with his face to the wall and prevented from moving, handcuffed and feet, receiving blows from the soldiers whenever he tried to move, then they brought him in for interrogation, because he did not confess to the charges against him, which were not completed." The truth has anything to do with it, and the interrogator hit him with a stick while threatening him and shouting at him to confess.”


The prisoner stayed in the al-Mascobiyeh prison for 25 days, during which he was sent 5 times to the 4th investigation, and each time he was subjected to arbitrary beatings with hands, feet, and sticks by the interrogator, and he was threatened to continue the beating if he did not confess what they wanted. After 25 days in the al-Maskoubiya prison, he was transferred to Megiddo prison for juveniles.

Nassim described the situation of the cubs through the commission’s lawyer, Heba Aghbariyeh, who visited him, thus: “The situation of the cubs in al-Maskubiya prison is very difficult, as the guards beat them for no reason. During my detention there, the warden beat me and other prisoners, because we called on him and asked A meal, and the treatment of the Nashon members in the courts of Jerusalem is very bad, as they assault the prisoners, beating and insulting them always.”


Note that Al-Assir has not yet been sentenced, and he has a court today, 05/23/2023.

ECONOMY

Tue 23 May 2023 11:41 am - Jerusalem Time

The World Bank praises the development of Saudi "technical training" programs

The Governor of the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, Dr. Ahmed bin Fahd Al-Fuhaid, met at the headquarters of the International Technical College of Aeronautics in Riyadh, a delegation from the World Bank headed by the Acting Regional Director of the World Bank, Mr. Anoush Pizanian.

Where His Excellency welcomed the attendees, stressing the importance of these meetings in the development of work, praising the joint cooperation between the Corporation and the World Bank. The future plans that the Foundation is working on, which focus on modern trends for professions and technical skills, His Excellency reviewed the results and recommendations of the study tour that the Foundation delegation made to the Federal Republic of Germany earlier this month.

At the end of the meeting, the accompanying bank delegation expressed its admiration for the extent of development of the institution's programs and its ability to achieve its goals, praising the role played by the institution in qualifying national cadres in line with the needs of the Saudi labor market.

ARAB AND WORLD

Tue 23 May 2023 10:54 am - Jerusalem Time

The French Foreign Minister says she supports the trial of the Syrian President

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Tuesday expressed her support for the trial of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, pointing to the fall of "hundreds of thousands of deaths" and the "use of chemical weapons", which his regime was accused of during the conflict that began in 2011.


"The answer is yes," Colonna said, in response to a France 2 journalist's question about whether she supported his trial. "Fighting crimes and impunity is part of the values of French diplomacy," she added.


Colonna stressed that "every time I talk about the Syrian issue, in our priorities, there is this fight against impunity."
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad returned to the regional arena by participating Friday in the Arab League summit, after being excluded from it for more than a decade.


Despite this, France does not intend to change its policy towards Bashar al-Assad.


"We must remember who Bashar al-Assad is. He is a leader who has been the enemy of his people for more than ten years," Colonna said. "We must remember that hundreds of thousands of people died, and chemical weapons were used."


The French minister stressed that lifting European sanctions is "certainly not" on the agenda, and even changing France's position towards the Syrian president.


She explained, "As long as he does not change and does not make commitments to reconciliation and combating terrorism and drugs (...) and does not respect his commitments, there is no reason to change the attitude towards him."


Colonna concluded by saying, "I think it is he who must change, not for France to change its position."

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 10:43 am - Jerusalem Time

Disclosure of details of the health status and detention of prisoner Amarna and his two sons

Today, Tuesday, the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs published details of the health status and arbitrary detention of prisoner Majd Amarneh and his two sons, Mujahid and Ahmed, who are in the Negev prison, after the commission’s lawyer, Fadi Obeidat, visited them to check on their situation.

The authority said: "The prisoner Majd Amarneh - Izz al-Din - (52 years) from Jenin, went on a hunger strike from 04/23/2023 until 04/05/2023 for a period of 12 days, and it was agreed to end the strike in exchange for a determination of A ceiling for his administrative detention, and treatment for his son Mujahid, who is detained with him in the same department alongside his other son Ahmed, who was transferred to administrative detention, under the pretext of having a secret file, as it was extended three times, each time four months, and the current extension ends on 08/15/2023. .

Mujahid (21 years old), who has been sentenced to two years, suffers from cramps in the face, shoulders, legs and hands, swelling of the lips and displacement of the mouth, as a result of being given four anesthetic needles when he visited the dental clinic.


He visited the clinic several times, but the prison administration violated the agreement related to ending the strike with his father, and Mujahid was not provided with any treatment. Today, he suffers from a nervous condition, distraction, forgetfulness, and lack of focus, and his health condition is rapidly deteriorating.

The commission’s lawyer added that the prisoner, Majd Amarneh, is blind and suffers from stomach, irritable bowel and pressure problems. He was also transferred to administrative detention under the pretext of having a secret file and was extended three times for a period of six months, as the current extension expires on 06/18/2023, and recently the Israeli Supreme Court gave Its agreement to extend it for the fourth time for an additional four months.

OPINIONS

Tue 23 May 2023 10:10 am - Jerusalem Time

The future is ours and brute force is gone

Jerusalem Hadith

Jerusalem Hadith

Opinion Writer

What the occupying state is doing in terms of crimes and flagrant violations against our people, our land, and our sanctities is a continuation of the war on everything that the Palestinian people own in an attempt by the occupation to end the conflict in its favor through its use of excessive force, based on the statements of the occupation leaders that unless the Palestinians submit by force, then there will be more. From the force to subdue them and make them raise the white flag in preparation for their deportation from their country, either voluntarily or through the brute force of the occupying power.


From this standpoint, the wars waged by the occupying state against our people, whether in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank and in the diaspora camps abroad, and against many Arab and Islamic countries that the occupying state believes have a role in supporting and supporting the Palestinian resistance, and providing aid despite its scarcity to our people to persevere above his land.


The massacre of Balata camp, which was carried out at dawn yesterday, for which the occupation forces prepared military equipment, soldiers and undercover soldiers, imposed a siege on the camp, demolished and blew up houses, and this camp included the Palestinian refugees who were displaced by the occupying state from their lands in the Nakba in 1948 AD at gunpoint and committed massacres and mass killings. , as a state, so it was attacked by a group of military vehicles and various types of weapons.


Despite the massacre committed by the occupying forces inside the camp, which claimed the lives of martyrs, wounded, and prisoners, and the demolitions, the number of occupation soldiers and the mechanisms used confirm the fear of this occupation from this camp and from the rest of the cities, villages, towns, and camps of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which confirms that the occupation is ending and that the force The militarism that the occupation boasts about cannot prevail over the will of the Palestinian people to continue the struggle until the full achievement of its goals of successful freedom and independence and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, whoever wants it or not.


The occupation does not learn from the experiences of the peoples who achieved victory over the colonialists and the occupiers, although the capabilities of these peoples are not comparable to the capabilities of the colonial countries, but the popular will is in the end that will win and defeat any force, no matter how important it is.


Our people, who have been continuing their struggle for more than a century, and the occupying forces, whether British or Israeli, have not been able to undermine their resolve, cannot be defeated, or their national cause liquidated, despite the extreme circumstances at the current stage.


However, these alienated conditions cannot continue forever, and just as our people were able to rise after the Nakba and after the aggression of 1967 AD and defeated the claims of the occupation that there is no Palestinian people, and that Palestine is a land without a people for a people without a land, it will defeat the brutal occupation force that the states provide it with. The United States of America and the colonial Western countries, the future is ours and the brute force to disappear.

OPINIONS

Tue 23 May 2023 10:08 am - Jerusalem Time

Occupation, division and corruption are interconnected infernal circles

Jamal Zaqout

Jamal Zaqout

Opinion Writer

Under the slogan "Occupation, division, and political corruption is a closed circle that feeds on each other," the AMAN Coalition launched its fifteenth annual report on the reality of integrity and anti-corruption for the year 2022.

It is clear that in light of the world's preoccupation with the war on the future of the international system, and the unprecedented economic crises that result from this conflict, and in light of the preoccupation of the Arab countries in their civil and inter-war wars, the successive occupation governments are racing against time in their open war against the Palestinian people in an attempt Among them is to inflict a crushing defeat on our national project and liquidate the cause of our people and their legitimate rights.

At the same time, the National Authority has failed, since its inception, to crystallize a vision of governance that links the tasks of completing national liberation, foremost of which is complete deliverance from occupation, with the requirements of democratic construction of a transitional system of government that should have paved the way for an independent state. It was clear from the outset that Failure in either of these two tracks will bring down both.


The essence of this connection is based on the pillar of building an effective democratic system capable of strengthening people's ability to withstand, and continuing to mobilize their energy in the battle to end the occupation, albeit with new tools and forms of resistance. This abject failure, in addition to the nature of the racist political regime in Israel, which completely rejects any recognition of the national rights of our people, was one of the reasons for the beginning of the disintegration of the national project and the failure of the possibility of realizing national rights through the settlement path, and what this led to in the withdrawal of broad social groups from the PLO The Palestinian woman, who was the most prominent victim of this failure, with what she represents as an unifying pillar for the leadership of national liberation.


The shaking of the relationship between the organization and the emerging authority in favor of an authority without a clear philosophy of governance, and even continued in the policy of appeasing the enemy, is the clear expression of this failure resulting mainly from the absence of that vision that governs the relationship between the national and the democratic and formulates the relationship between them in an integrated framework.

The division, the high pace of the struggle for power in light of the collapse of the settlement project and the absence of any review of the course of this settlement, and the insistence of the two parties to the division to turn their backs on the popular will by setting artificial conditions, has come to disrupt not only the political system and the system of government, but also the entire political life in the country, and it is almost He overthrows the entire national movement, if he has not overthrown it yet!

The link provided by AMAN’s annual report for the year 2022 perfectly shows the interdependence of the anti-national struggle elements represented by occupation and division, and how this generated the tyranny of political corruption, and the resulting other forms of corruption that are actually undermining people’s ability to resist, which is the highest priority and the most important task before us. With the aim of enabling him to continue resisting the plans of Judaization and uprooting that the occupation governments are racing against time to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

There is a popular consensus that Israel is the only beneficiary of the continuation of the state of division, and yet this consensus has not been able to make any breakthrough in this infernal circle that feeds each other, and restores the national cause from the clutches of this division and the corruption it generates that almost applies to the breath of the people in various aspects of her life.

AMAN's report was correct, even if it came years late, that the possibility of changing this reality and due to the interconnectedness of its infernal episodes has become more complicated, and it seems that the path of this change, which has already been alerted to and work to bring about a gradual, institutionalized reform to overcome it through what is known as the two-year plan to end the occupation And building state institutions during the era of the government of former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who returned and presented in July 2014 something like a road map that responds to the requirements of this connection and the possibilities of change, through a transitional government that takes it upon itself to strengthen people’s steadfastness and restore the democratic path by seriously preparing for elections, and unifying mechanisms National decision-making by restoring the pluralistic, coalitional character of the inclusive national institutions represented by the Liberation Organization as a national front that includes everyone and leads the tasks of national liberation. Numerous attempts were made to crystallize social movements for the same purpose, but the power of narrow factional and selfish interests, and the entrenchment on both sides of the division were stronger than These visions, jurisprudence and attempts succeeded in overthrowing it.


It seems that it will not be possible to succeed in achieving this except by returning to the people and mobilizing their energy through the formation of a broad popular front in which all patriotic zealots for the supreme national interests will join in order to achieve this goal, which clearly means the formation of a new national movement on the basis of recognition of political and intellectual pluralism within the framework of the PLO Confronting all forms of exclusion, domination, and exclusivity in the national destiny and available resources, and absolute commitment to the supreme national interests, foremost of which is salvation from occupation, and the direct interests of the broad popular sectors.


What it also means is that overthrowing the division and fighting corruption have become essential components of the national struggle against the occupation and its plans, and for the preservation of the collective identity and the fulfillment of our people's rights of return, self-determination and successful national independence.

OPINIONS

Tue 23 May 2023 10:06 am - Jerusalem Time

The law criminalizing raising the Palestinian flag will not stop the struggle of our people

Attorney Ali Abu Hilal

Attorney Ali Abu Hilal

Opinion Writer

Within the framework of the most right-wing, extremist and racist occupation government policy, and an embodiment of its aggressive policy against the Palestinian people, the occupation continues to legislate laws that express extreme hatred for the rights of the Palestinian people and their national symbols. The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) approved a preliminary reading last Wednesday 5/17/2023 draft A law banning the raising of the Palestinian flag in Jerusalem and the lands of 1948. And 54 Knesset members voted in favor of the bill against 16 opponents, according to the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", which added that the bill was submitted by Representative Almog Cohen of the "Jewish Power" party led by the extremist National Security Minister Itamar Benn plentiful.


The Israeli newspaper indicated that if the bill is approved in 3 readings, "it will be possible to impose a sentence of up to one year in prison on those who wave the Palestinian flag."


The draft law, which was initiated by the far-right government coalition headed by Benjamin Netanyahu, stipulates the ban on protests and demonstrations during which the Palestinian flag is raised in the 48 territories and occupied Jerusalem. The interpretation of the law stated that "there is a red line between legitimate democratic protest and protests and demonstrations during which the flags of those who do not recognize the State of Israel or do not allow the flag of Israel to be raised in their lands and domains are raised."


Until now, the powers of "prohibiting the raising of the Palestinian flag" were granted to the Inspector General of the Israeli Police, as it empowers him to give instructions to police officers to prevent the raising of the Palestinian flag in public places, in the event that the flag constitutes "a symbol of disturbing public order." According to instructions from the Attorney General of the Israeli government, since 2006, the police do not apply this part of the powers and instructions to lower the Palestinian flag and prohibit its display in public places, except when there is a "high level of probability of a serious breach of the public peace." Commenting on the draft law, the Adalah human rights center issued a statement stating that "the police who prevent flags from being raised in demonstrations and carry out arrests for raising flags, exceed their powers and do not act in accordance with the law."


The Center for Human Rights stated that the law presented by the government coalition headed by Netanyahu is considered more extreme than the procedures and powers granted to the Inspector General of Police regarding raising the Palestinian flag in public places. The "Adalah" center attributed this extremism and danger in the law to the fact that it aims to criminalize raising the Palestinian flag and imposing imprisonment and fines on individuals, as well as imposing criminal penalties for raising the flag in public places, not only in institutions supported by the Israeli government.


The human rights center circulated a "position paper" that reviews "hostility and incitement against what the Palestinian flag and its hoists have represented over the past years and how the Israeli governments and various judicial authorities have dealt with it." The center said that the draft law comes within the context of attempts to suppress freedom of political expression and the freedom to express collective identity and rob it of the Palestinians, which is also evident in the illegal dealings of the Israeli police with the Palestinians in this context. The dangerous escalation in recent months by the occupation forces and their commission of illegal acts against Palestinians for raising the flag in public places, which amounted to the arrest of demonstrators and the arrest of lawyers who give them legal advice, as well as in light of attempts to consolidate the prohibition of raising the Palestinian flag in law.


The current period, especially after the march of flags carried out by extremist settlers in occupied Jerusalem, on the occasion of the occupation of Jerusalem and its annexation to the occupying entity, is witnessing a dangerous escalation against the Palestinian people throughout the occupied Palestinian territories in the lands of 1948 and in Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories in 1967, with the aim of bringing the people to their knees. The Palestinian people, and ending their resistance to the occupation, and the extreme right-wing occupation government believes that the enactment of extreme racist laws, such as the law criminalizing raising the Palestinian flag, will lead to stopping the resistance of the Palestinian people, and discouraging them from raising the Palestinian flag during their demonstrations and protest stops against the practices of the occupation and its aggressive policies, forgetting that the people The Palestinian was and will remain proud of his Palestinian flag, and will continue to raise it high, as he used to raise it in the previous years and decades, even if the price for that is not imprisonment for a year, but rather if the price is paying his life as a ransom to protect his flag and keep it flying high, and this is what has been happening since The existence of the occupation until now, and the policy of right-wing extremism of the occupation government, and the policy of apartheid and racist hatred practiced against the Palestinian people, will turn into a greater incentive to resist the occupation until the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate national rights to return, independence and self-determination, and establish their independent and fully sovereign Palestinian state.

OPINIONS

Tue 23 May 2023 10:04 am - Jerusalem Time

Not in defense of the Russian Federation, but of international law and international justice

Tayseer Khaled

Tayseer Khaled

Opinion Writer

Last Friday, the Russian Ministry of the Interior issued an arrest warrant against the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, in response to the issuance, last March, of that court, whose jurisdiction Russia, as well as the United States of America and the Israeli occupation state, do not recognize. Putin and Russia's Children's Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova Belova, accused of war crimes of deporting children from Ukraine to Russia.


At the time, Moscow rejected that arrest warrant, saying that the court warrant is meaningless for the Russian Federation, from a legal point of view, Russia, according to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, is not a member of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and does not bear any obligations towards it and that it will not cooperate. With this international body, potential arrest warrants, if issued, will be legally invalid. The Russian authorities were not satisfied with that, but went further and decided a few days later to open a case against the judges of the International Criminal Court, which ended with an arrest warrant against the Court's Prosecutor, Mr. Karim Khan.


The United States of America welcomed without hesitation and quickly the decision of the International Criminal Court, as the war crime is clear and horrible, especially as it relates to the deportation of children from battle and danger areas in the Donbass to Russian territory, perhaps to protect them from the dangers of battles taking place between the Russian and Ukrainian armies in the region. And US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in response to a question at the time from Republican Senator Lindsey Graham in a hearing in the US Senate, went too far when he called on every European country that is a member of the International Criminal Court to prepare for the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has little movement and foreign visits, if He made a mistake in his assessment of the seriousness of the matter and ventured and decided to visit any of those European countries, as it is known that the man has rarely left Russia in recent years, and he has not traveled, for example, to the United States since 2015.


Going back a little to the position of the United States of America on the International Criminal Court, it is worth noting the measure announced by the Trump administration against the International Criminal Court to obstruct justice when it comes to victims of grave crimes committed by US forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan, or Grave daily crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces in Palestine. Everyone remembers that executive order, issued by President Donald Trump on June 11, 2020, authorizing asset freezes and travel bans, even family ones, against ICC employees, as well as those assisting in its investigations. This executive order was, according to many international legal organizations, an assault on the rule of law and international justice at the same time.


The former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, went further than Anthony Blinken, the subsequent US Secretary of State, when he vowed dire consequences if the International Criminal Court continued on its current course, as he put it, and decided to investigate the war crimes that Israel committed in the occupied Palestinian territories with aggression 1967 in Palestine, what put the United States of America on the side of those who commit and cover up grave violations, and not on the side of those who prosecute them, according to the assessment of Human Rights Watch.


Also, returning to the decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Mr. Karim Khan, regarding Russia, and the shameful double standards involved in the decision, it should be noted that the State of Palestine had deposited, on January 2, 2015, a copy of Palestine’s accession document to the International Criminal Court With the United Nations Secretariat, this means giving the court jurisdiction over serious crimes that violate international law, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against children committed on the Palestinian territories.


Israel, of course, is not a member of the International Criminal Court, as is the case with the United States of America, the Russian Federation and other countries, but that is one thing and the pursuit of international justice for war crimes is another.


Palestine was not satisfied with submitting its document of accession to the International Criminal Court to the United Nations Secretariat, but rather continued its efforts until it borne fruit in February of the year 2021 with the confirmation of Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court that the court’s regional jurisdiction includes all the territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. And the Gaza Strip in a clear reference to the territorial unity of these lands, which clearly means that the classifications of lands as contained in the agreements signed between the Palestinian and Israeli sides (A, B, and C) are of no importance from the point of view of international law.


The decision of the first Pre-Trial Chamber of the court represented a victory for truth, justice, international law and decisions of international legitimacy, restores matters to normal and gives the court its credibility after a series of threats, acts of bullying and penalties, to which it was subjected at the hands of the defunct administration of former US President Donald.


This opened a window of hope that the time has come to start arrangements that allow all natural persons in the occupying state (military or civilian) to be held accountable for all crimes stipulated in Article (5) of the Rome Statute, such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression. The demolition of Palestinian homes and facilities, crimes of racial discrimination, transfer, ethnic cleansing, and everything that would serve as a deterrent to the leaders of the occupation and prevent them from continuing their crimes against the Palestinian citizens under occupation.


However, this window of hope has been closed since Mr. Karim Khan assumed his duties as Prosecutor of the Court, succeeding Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, on the sixteenth of June 2021. This was not surprising, especially since Karim Khan landed on the court under an American-British umbrella with a political mission whose function is to politicize the work of the court. It is known that the court's new public prosecutor has an unclean record in this regard. Is it not he and no one else who took up the defense of a list of war criminals in Africa? As the former President of Liberia, the dictator Charles Taylor, who was convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone to 50 years in prison for war crimes and others against humanity, and defended a number of leaders in the Darfur rebel movements accused of war crimes in an armed attack on the base of the African Union peacekeeping mission in 2007 It claimed the lives of 12 members of the mission and about William Ruto, the former Vice President of Kenya, whom Khan succeeded in dropping the charges against him related to crimes against humanity, and about Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former Vice President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo accused of war crimes committed by his soldiers in Central Africa and others.


This Karim Khan, who issued an arrest warrant against the Russian President last March, continues to ignore the suffering of the Palestinian people and the decision of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the Court regarding the applicability of its legal jurisdiction to Palestine. Uganda and Tanzania, to send a message to the member states of the court calling on them not to be elected to this high position.


Finally, I am not here to defend anyone. The Russian Federation is a strong and great country, and it guarantees the defense of its citizens, including its President Vladimir Putin. However, this does not prevent me from praising the courage of the Russian Ministry of Interior and the arrest warrant against Karim Khan, the Prosecutor General of the International Criminal Court. In that, there is a clear political message that Mr. Karim Khan should appreciate its consequences, after he persisted in politicizing the work of a court in which the Palestinian people were and still have hopes. on her .

OPINIONS

Tue 23 May 2023 10:02 am - Jerusalem Time

Memories of the catastrophe and the catastrophe

Hamdi Farrag

Hamdi Farrag

Opinion Writer

Twenty days separate the anniversary of our catastrophe in 48 from our setback in 67. I lived in the first as a young child and witnessed the second as a ten-year-old boy, but the turning point in my life began after I obtained a high school diploma with a very good average, equivalent to today’s high rates of just under 100%. On that day, my father offered me, with some humiliation and remorse, to teach me the profession of a barber or a driver. At that time, three of my older brothers were studying medicine and engineering, including my sister Naima, who was in a college for teachers in Jordan. It was clear that he could no longer teach more, but I realized the meaning of The offer (driver or barber) later, knowing that these two professions reap their profits immediately and daily without having to wait a month like the rest of the professions and jobs, I did not like the “pharmacy” scholarship in Greece that he suggested to my older brother who is a medical student there, “we are building a two-storey building, There is a clinic on the second floor, and there is a pharmacy on the ground floor. I rejected the idea of a “pharmacy” because it is not much different from a shop. Nevertheless, I traveled to Jordan to join a mission to Iraq, but my uncle, whom we loved with sacred love, advised me not to be alienated, especially since a new university had opened. in Bethlehem; Stay with your family and take care of your younger brothers.


But the decisive reason was: If you, the students of Palestine, do not join the nascent Palestinian university, how will you become universities? I immediately returned to Bethlehem a few days late, but the priest, Brother Brendan, the first dean of the university, when he saw my diploma, welcomed me warmly, and I told him that I was poor and my father could not pay my tuition because he spent on three of my brothers. The so-called honors. Since that day, I have not paid any installments for the following four years. I faced the problem of integration with the rest of the students who come from rich families, who join the university for the sake of prestige and not because of the need for a certificate and a job, and I discovered early on that the problem of integration also suffers from another group of colleagues, I was looking for them after the end of the lecture, but I could not find them, and When I asked each of them, they said that they leave the university because they do not find a place among the rest of the students, especially female students, and they cannot go to the cafeteria because they do not have money for food or drink.


One of them is from Husan, the second is from Beit Ummar, and the third is from Surif. They revealed to me that they go out to the market, and one of them to the mountain opposite the Dheisheh camp (Doha today), so I told them that the best solution is for us to stay inside the university and bring our food with us from our homes. You bring two loaves of taboon bread that your mother prepares daily, and you bring tomatoes or onions from You brought thyme and I brought olives, and we began to eat collectively in the open. Little by little, the scene pleased us, and perhaps the food was given to others from Beit Sahour, Beit Jala, and Jerusalem, and they began to share our food with us. At the end of the school year, we had invaded the Student Union Council. And later we nationalized the cafeteria.

OPINIONS

Tue 23 May 2023 10:01 am - Jerusalem Time

Quds Day will come in Palestine

Hamada Pharaohs

Hamada Pharaohs

Opinion Writer

The colony can do whatever it wants, as it is protected by force supported by the United States and Europe, and here is the advanced economic Group of Seven, in its meeting in Tokyo, equates settlements with incitement to violence, and does not view the occupation of Palestine as an action, program, direction, and result: illegal, illegal. Humane, immoral, contrary to the values of the United Nations and its resolutions that they contributed to formulating, and with the right of peoples to self-determination.


The colony can do whatever it wants as long as the Palestinian division continues between the Fatah and Hamas authorities, between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and between the two joint and unified parliamentary lists in the 48 areas.


The colony singles out the Palestinian components, people, factions, and locations, and here it is, after imposing calm in return for calm in Gaza, moving to Balata camp in Nablus to be singled out, so it assassinates, kills, blows up, and explodes, and raises the martyrs, the wounded, and the detainees.


The colony can do whatever it wants after it succeeded, with the influence of the American administration, in setting off the inter-Arab wars that destroyed Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, and now it is reaching Sudan, with violence or normalization, as both are part of the scene that makes the colony superior, instead of isolation and estrangement.


Ben Ghafir and the bastards of foreign colonialists can storm Al-Aqsa Mosque and desecrate it recklessly, and celebrate the anniversary of their occupation of Jerusalem, the first Qibla of Muslims, the journey and ascension of our master Muhammad, and the birth and resurrection of Jesus Christ.


In light of these facts, the colony can do whatever it wants, but it will not have continuity and legitimacy, and its expansionist colonial project will remain devoid of human values and moral standards, no matter how much they celebrate, no matter how much they excel, and no matter how much they kill.


Check what they said and wrote about their celebration of the "liberation of Jerusalem":


Akiva Novik wrote in Haaretz on May 21, 2023, an article under the title “Jerusalem Day turned into the worst day for the city,” which reads: “Ugly pictures on the sidelines of the celebrations of Jerusalem Day, racist songs, and manifestations of violence, all of this should concern all the organizers of Celebrations, Quds Day turned into a holiday for a specific sector: trivial and political.”


And Gideon Levy wrote on the same day and in the same newspaper, his text:


Quds Day is not a happy day, but a catastrophe day, a cursed day, the city was not "unified", nor was it "liberated", but rather it was occupied by force along with its inhabitants, as 40% of its population turned against their will into subjects of a brutal and racist occupation regime, so what Are we celebrating it here in Jerusalem?"


No one is under the illusion that force, arrogance, racism, and occupation will remain strong and victorious forever. Let us examine and remember the actions of the United States in Vietnam, France in Algeria, Britain in its colonies, and the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. It awakened and won with its sacrifices, actions, unity of forces and will.

OPINIONS

Tue 23 May 2023 10:00 am - Jerusalem Time

The storming of Al-Aqsa and the entity's government holding its meeting at the bottom of Al-Buraq are messages of division, Judaization and recklessness

Rasim Obeidat

Rasim Obeidat

Opinion Writer

For the second time, the fascist bin Ghafir stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque and desecrated it in less than half a year, and his insolence and disdain for the Arab and Islamic nations reached its climax, by saying, "We are the owners of the house, and it belongs to us and no one else, and this place is of interest to everyone." With the feelings of the Arabs and Muslims and encroaching on their most sacred sanctities, and provoking all patriotic, national and religious feelings towards them. Rather, he told Jordan, the owners of the guardianship of Al-Aqsa, it seems that you have brought out the same previous paper of condemnation and denunciation, and he clearly says that you are not in my calculations .. and also in order to perpetuate the division of Al-Aqsa in time and space. It works to create sanctity and a Jewish life in it through religious substitution, transferring it from the purely Islamic sacred to the common sacred, and adapting the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic mind and “irritating” their awareness, considering what he and all the fascist thugs are doing in terms of orgies and incursions into Al-Aqsa and Talmudic and Biblical prayers are a right and a natural thing. He performed Talmudic and Biblical rituals alongside the head of what is known as the Temple Organization in the eastern side of Al-Aqsa... The goal is clear here to control the entire eastern region of Al-Aqsa, which constitutes a third of its area, so that the chapel of Bab Al-Rahma, whose area is (300 square meters), is controlled, and the establishment of A religious school on the entire square in front of it (500 square meters), and that the Lions Gate be controlled, which has become an unnatural focus on it in the recent attacks in order for the incursions to Al-Aqsa to take place through it, and this is what we have seen, after the success of Netanyahu and his government in holding the flag-dance procession in Damascus Gate Square, on Thursday 5/19/2023, raising what was known as the Temple flag, and chanting racist, transgressive, and fascist slogans and chants, “Death to the Arabs,” “Palestinians are children of prostitutes,” and “All Arabs are sons of bitches.” The rhetorical "jabs", screams, shouts, statements of denunciation, denunciation, and demands from the partners in the aggression against our people did not exceed America and the colonial West countries to curb the entity's state and stop its aggression against Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa. Simha Rotman and others, not to mention that the minister from the Jewish power, Yitzhak Fareslaw, "was at the head of the groups that stormed Al-Aqsa, raising the flags of the state of the entity and repeating what is known as the anthem of the state of the entity "Hatikvah" and performing the rituals of epic prostration and others... These are the dull and limited responses that the state is accustomed to The entity, as well, although the entity state lived in a state of security and military alert and installed its iron domes, the sling of David and Gates in Jerusalem and throughout the land of historical Palestine, and mobilized more than 3,200 policemen and border guard soldiers, Arabists, cavalry and others, and closed the streets and roads and prevented the movement of Jerusalemites and their arrival to the area around Bab Al-Amoud, but it realized through the pressures and contacts made by more than one country and party, that the resistance will not fire missiles at the march, nor will it respond to the storming of Al-Aqsa, which amounted to (1284) extremists... Ben Ghafir and the government of the entity, and as a direct response to the thirty-second Arab summit In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and on the statements of President Abbas at the United Nations that the Jews have nothing to do with Jerusalem and on the threats launched by the factions... and as a translation of the projects and plans adopted by Jewish fascism against Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, we found Ben Gvir storming Al-Aqsa and performing Talmudic and Biblical rituals, and saying, "We are the owners of the house." Nor will the threats of Hamas, nor the resistance factions, and others scare us. Likewise, the government of the entity held its meeting for the second time in the Old City in the tunnels under the Al-Buraq Wall... This meeting was held in memory of what is known as the unification of Jerusalem. Because of the intensity of the conflict and the endeavor to turn it into a religious conflict affecting the entire region. Rather, they are messages telling the Arabs who held their summit in Jeddah, We do not value you and do not pay attention to your summits and the statements and positions issued by them. We translate our positions into actions on the ground, and we have told you well. You are the owners of rhymes, counterpoints, and verbal “clamors”... And remember when your Aqsa was burned in August 1968, at that time the Prime Minister of our entity at that time, Golda Meir, said that she did not sleep all night and was crying over the fate of our entity, fearing that your armies would come to end the existence of our state. But when the day dawned, I realized that you are just a sound phenomenon, and since that date we realized that you are also... The government of the entity held its meeting in the tunnels, to say that it has sovereignty and control over the city, and that it will not only be the capital of the entity's state, but for all the Jews of the world, and it is Sovereignty and control over it will be strengthened by more settlements, Judaization, expulsion, displacement and uprooting of its population, and by enacting more legislation and laws that change its character, identity, history and civilization.

Now, what is happening in Al-Aqsa and what is happening in Jerusalem, and what the entity state is planning in light of the growing fascism in the entity state, society and government, there is no excuse left for anyone to talk to us and fill us with statements of denunciation and denunciation and standing at the gates of international institutions and the White House. The Zionist project needs only clarity Palestinians and Arabs who suffer from the taint of political blindness and separation from reality, as well as the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic forces and axis of resistance, must stand up to their responsibilities, and pay attention to the statements and media interviews they make, that not translating the position, slogan and statement at the appropriate moment into action on the ground, this is It would create a state of mistrust, despair, and frustration among the masses, who place great hopes on them, and consider them to be responsible for defending Jerusalem, its sanctities, and the Palestinian people, foremost of which is Al-Aqsa Mosque, and we realize that the resistance does not deal with the entity according to its internal considerations or Emotional reactions, but there are situations that, if there is no intervention, would strike the factor of trust and credibility.

The entity’s project in Jerusalem is Judaizing, uprooting, expelling, displacing, ethnic cleansing, reducing the number of Arabs in the city to no more than 18%, and taking full control of the so-called Holy Basin surrounding the Old City, through a series of settlement projects, which it will work to Judaize and strip Islamic sanctity. Conclusion about Al-Aqsa, and transforming it through the policy of religious substitution into a common sanctuary, in a way that completes what is known as the rituals and ceremonies of reviving the moral temple, by building a synagogue instead of the chapel of Bab Al-Rahma and establishing a religious school on its yard, and including the Gate of Lions to the gates of storming and exit after the storming operations, and this will be accompanied by With the process of capturing the Palestinian curriculum in Jerusalem, and its total deletion, and the prohibition of raising the Palestinian flag in Jerusalem and considering it a criminal offense.

It is true that the entity is experiencing internal political, societal, and structural crises, and has entered the stage of no way out. The process of “merger and integration” in it against the backdrop of ethnic, racial, and class conflicts between its components is no longer possible, and we are facing a state in which two entities coexist...and these crises push its government, and in the forefront, its Prime Minister Netanyahu, to seek To export it, in order to fortify his political and personal future and prevent the collapse and disintegration of his government, so that he is not convicted of the charges against him before the judiciary of the entity’s state of bribery, mistrust and betrayal of trust, and it is true that he did not succeed in restoring the eroding deterrent force in light of the growing resistance forces and their build-up of strategic balances of power and laying down rules of deterrence New engagement equations are drawn, but this does not mean that the entity's state is on its way to collapse and entering a stage of civil war.

We are in a phase of continuous conflict and clash, which requires the mobilization of all energies and capabilities, in order for this Zionist project to turn into a private project and be defeated from our land.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 9:45 am - Jerusalem Time

Dozens of settlers storm Al-Aqsa

Today, Tuesday, dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under the strict protection of the occupation police.


The settlers made provocative tours inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and performed Talmudic rituals.


Settler groups storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis, except for Friday and Saturday.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 9:39 am - Jerusalem Time

The first batch of Palestinian nationals left Sudan for Syria

The Political Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ambassador Ahmed Al-Deek, announced that the first batch of nationals of the State of Palestine holding Syrian documents who are in the port of Port Sudan left at dawn today, Tuesday, towards their families and relatives in Syria.


The number of our citizens who hold Syrian documents in Port Sudan is 74, and they will be transferred in batches that will expire in the next few days. Therefore, the State of Palestine will thus have completed the evacuation of all its citizens, not only from the areas of conflict, but also from Sudanese territory, and ensuring their access to their families and loved ones in Homeland and diaspora.


Ambassador Al-Deek thanked the Syrian Arab Republic for its president, government and people for their dealings with the Palestinian citizen as a Syrian citizen and for the facilities it provided to enable our nationals to join their families and loved ones in Syria.


Ambassador Al-Deek added that the crisis cells are following up around the clock the conditions and concerns of the remaining citizens of the State of Palestine in Sudan, as well as following up on any individual cases that may express their desire to leave Sudanese territory.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 9:19 am - Jerusalem Time

The Israeli police arrest 14 young men inside the occupied territories

Today, Tuesday, the Israeli police arrested 14 young men from the village of Sandala, in the occupied territories.


According to local sources, the police stormed the village of Sandala and arrested 14 young men from the Al-Omari family, while storming dozens of homes, tampering with their contents, and subjecting their residents to field investigations.


It was known among the detainees: Ahmed Abed, Omar Al-Jamal, Muhammad Akram, Muhannad Jihad, Nadim, Yaman, Muhammad Wajih, Abdullah Al-Ahmad, and the majority of the detainees are friends of the martyr Diyar Al-Omari.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 9:12 am - Jerusalem Time

In preparation for a new round.. The occupation is fortifying itself against anti-tank missiles

A report by the Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, stated, on Tuesday, that the Israeli army continues to fortify the settlements around the Gaza Strip to prevent the launch of anti-tank missiles.


According to the Hebrew newspaper, the Israeli army erected defensive walls and earthen dams that completely conceal the borders between the Strip and the settlements around the border.


And it indicated that although this is intended to protect settlers and Israeli military sites, this raises many questions about Israeli deterrence.


She pointed out that the residents of the settlements around the Gaza Strip complain about these fortifications, which prevented them from seeing agricultural areas and other scenic views, as they describe.


According to the newspaper, the Islamic Jihad, during the last round, was looking for a target to launch an anti-missile that would allow them to get an image of victory after the blow it received by assassinating its leadership.


She pointed out that the Islamic Jihad movement actually tried to carry out attacks, but the Israeli army thwarted those attempts before they occurred by targeting their launch groups, but it succeeded once in launching one missile that fell in an open area, causing a small fire.


The newspaper says: The security establishment understands the impact that such an event could produce and an effort is made to thwart it, so every time there might be a round, the open roads in front of the Gaza Strip are closed, and the Israeli army was not satisfied with that and built complete defense plans. It includes erecting massive concrete walls in certain areas.


And the newspaper indicated that, after each military operation with Gaza, the Israeli army determines the sites exposed to anti-tank fire, pointing out that more walls and earthen dams will soon be built in certain areas.


And the newspaper adds: "This defensive move raises a discussion, no less important, on the issue of Israeli deterrence against Gaza, through which it is clear to everyone that the next round is just a matter of time."


PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 8:24 am - Jerusalem Time

Explosive devices in the West worry the Israeli army

The formation of explosive devices used by Palestinian resistance groups in the West Bank has become a worry for the Israeli army, especially as they have begun to have more impact.


According to the Hebrew Kan radio station, the Israeli army is now looking at this phenomenon with concern, after monitoring since last month a significant increase in the use of these explosive devices, especially in the Nablus area.


An Israeli military source said that the operation in Balata camp yesterday aimed to destroy a factory for the production of these devices, and 3 people suspected of manufacturing these devices were arrested.


According to the radio, the injury of an Israeli soldier who was lightly wounded weeks ago as a result of the detonation of an explosive device in Nablus, near a fortified military enclave, sparked an alarm among the military and security establishment, and at the beginning of this month, the perception of those parties began to change to work to combat this phenomenon. as you say.


A week after that incident, an explosive device exploded inside a residential apartment after it was surrounded, and it was targeting a group of Israeli soldiers after they stormed it, but there were no injuries. According to the Hebrew radio.


An Israeli security official said that the army forces are closely monitoring this phenomenon, studying it and constantly improving methods of operational and operational capabilities to deal with it.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 7:41 am - Jerusalem Time

A new murder in the occupied territories raises the number of victims to 81

A Palestinian was killed, on Tuesday morning, when he was shot by unknown assailants in the occupied city of Ramla.


According to the website of the Hebrew Maariv newspaper, the 61-year-old resident of Lod, who lives for rent in the city of Ramla, was shot several times in front of the building in which he lived, killing him instantly.


This brings the number of Palestinian victims inside the occupied territories since the beginning of this year to 81.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 7:22 am - Jerusalem Time

The family of an Israeli soldier refuses the early release of the captive Daqqa

The family of the Israeli soldier Moshe Tammam, who was killed in 1984, in an operation in which the captive Walid Daqqa participated, refused to hold a session to consider his early release, despite his difficult health conditions.


According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the soldier's family opposes holding the session, and assigned a lawyer to try to prevent his release under any circumstances.


And the Hebrew newspaper confirms, quoting the Israeli Prison Service, that the prisoner, Walid Daqqa, is in a critical condition, and that his death may be announced at any moment.


Daqqa (62 years), a resident of the occupied territories, is serving a 39-year prison sentence, after he was sentenced to life.


Yesterday, Daqqa's lawyer submitted a request to hold a special session to consider his early release, but the request has not yet been approved.



PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 7:03 am - Jerusalem Time

Netanyahu agrees with Ben Gvir again at the expense of the Palestinians

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached an agreement with his ally in the extremist government, Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister of National Security, to allocate new funding to the Negev and Galilee Ministry, which works to Judaize the two regions.


According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Netanyahu and Ben Gvir agreed that an amount of 250 million shekels would be allocated to the ministry, which the far-right Jewish Power Party is responsible for.


The newspaper pointed out that the extremist Ben Gvir was demanding 800 million shekels for the benefit of the ministry, but he agreed last night, after a meeting that lasted about 3 hours, to allocate 250 million shekels from the surpluses of the budgets of the various ministries.


Ben Gvir's party will meet this morning to approve this step, which will allow them to return to vote with the government coalition in the Israeli Knesset, after they recently boycotted the sessions in protest of the new budget.

SPORT

Tue 23 May 2023 6:45 am - Jerusalem Time

England Championship: Newcastle secures a Champions League card for the first time in 20 years

Newcastle United secured its ticket to the Champions League competition for the first time in 20 years, by drawing at home to Leicester City 0-0 on Monday at St. James Park in Newcastle, at the end of the thirty-seventh stage of the England Football Championship.


Newcastle achieved the most important because it needed one point in its remaining two matches against Leicester City and its host Chelsea next Sunday to ensure its presence in the Champions League for the third time in its history after the 1997-1998 and 2002-2003 seasons, so it strengthened its position in third place with 70 points, one point ahead of its partner. The former Manchester United, who in turn needs one point to complete the English quartet in the prestigious continental competition next season.


The Red Devils, in turn, need a point from their two remaining matches against their guests, Chelsea, on Thursday, which is postponed for the thirty-second stage, and Fulham next Sunday, to eliminate Liverpool’s fifth hopes of being in the mother continental competition next season.


On the other hand, Leicester City snatched a valuable point that kept his hopes of being in the Premier League until the last stage.


Leicester City raised its score to 31 points and rose to the eighteenth place, with a difference between the two direct confrontations against the nineteenth and penultimate Leeds United, and by two points behind the seventeenth Everton and the last survivor of relegation.


The last stage will be decisive between Everton, Leicester City and Leeds United to determine the two teams that will join Southampton to the “Championship”, knowing that they are all playing at home.


Leicester City also outperforms Everton by two direct confrontations.


Leicester City plays at home to West Ham United, Everton plays at home to Bournemouth, and Leeds United plays at home to Tottenham Hotspur.


And Newcastle imposed its advantage over most of the match periods from start to finish and created several opportunities that ensured that Leicester City's defense removed most of them, and the right and left posts intervened three times to keep the Danish goalkeeper Daniel Iversen's net clean.


The right post pushed Callum Wilson's ball away from close range in the 41st minute, and the left post hit a powerful shot on the "flyer" by Paraguayan international Miguel Almiron two minutes later, before the same post hit a header by Brazilian midfielder Bruno Guimarães as he hugged him (71).


On the other hand, Leicester City almost snatched the winning goal in the second minute of stoppage time, after a powerful shot "on the fly" by Belgian international Timothy Castagne, which goalkeeper Nick Pope brilliantly removed for a shot.

SPORT

Tue 23 May 2023 6:42 am - Jerusalem Time

Italian Championship: Rome continues to bleed points and a black evening for Juventus

Roma continued bleeding points by falling into a draw trap in front of its guest Salernitana 2-2 on Monday at the Olympic Stadium in the capital at the end of the thirty-sixth stage of the Italian Football Championship, while Juventus lived a black evening by deducting 10 points from its score and losing humiliatingly against Empoli 1-4.


In the first match, Salernitana scored in the twelfth minute, through veteran midfielder Antonio Candreva (36 years old), following a pass from Mali's Lassana Coulibaly.


Roma waited at the beginning of the second half to equalize through Stephan El Shaarawy (47), but his joy lasted only seven minutes, as Senegalese Boulay Dia re-advanced the guests after a pass from Poland's Christophe Piontek (54).
Serbian Nemanja Matic equalized for Roma in the 83rd minute.


Roma settled for one point, raising its score to 60 points, and regained sixth place, maintaining its hopes of competing for the fourth and final card that qualifies for the Champions League competition next season, benefiting from the penalty of deducting 10 points from Juventus’ balance and its humiliating loss against its host Empoli 1-4, as it retreated. To seventh place with 59 points.


And Roma, who failed for the sixth match in a row to win the league (four draws and two losses), is four points behind fourth Milan.


Roma has the opportunity to reserve its ticket to the Champions League in the event that it wins the title of the European League competition “Europa League” in front of Spanish specialists Seville on May 31.


On the other hand, Juventus received two severe blows within an hour and a half, the first by deducting 10 points from its balance before its match against Empoli after a hearing to review its previous sentence (15 points) due to fraud and illegal financial activity that was suspended on April 20, and the second by losing to the latter. 1-4.


Juventus wished to continue its revival and achieve the fourth successive victory to reduce the difference to only two points from Milan, who finished fourth and last, qualifying for the Champions League, but it suffered a sudden loss against Empoli, who had nothing to lose after ensuring its survival in the first division.


The two strikes added to the disappointment of Juventus' exit from the semi-finals of the "Europa League" competition at the hands of Seville last Thursday.


It is the first loss for Juventus in its last five matches (a draw and three consecutive victories), so its score stuck at 59 points in seventh place, compared to 42 points for Empoli fourteenth.


Juventus played the match in the absence of more than one mainstay, most notably Brazilian Danilo and Colombian Juan Cuadrado due to suspension, and captain Leonardo Bonucci, Mattia de Scilio and Frenchman Paul Pogba due to injury.


The hosts surprised their guests with two early goals through Francesco Caputo (18 from the penalty spot) and Sebastiano Luberto (21).
Massimiliano Allegri pushed Federico Chiesa and Argentine Leandro Paredes at the beginning of the second half in order to remedy the situation, but his task became more complicated by conceding the third goal through Caputo (48).


Allegri played two cards, Argentine Angel Di Maria and Moise Kean (59).


Chiesa succeeded in narrowing the gap with a powerful shot from inside the area (85), but Roberto Piccoli, Caputo's replacement, brought him back to his past by scoring the fourth goal with a shot from close range (90 + 3).

SPORT

Tue 23 May 2023 6:40 am - Jerusalem Time

Egyptian Championship: Zamalek falls into a tie trap in front of the Ministry of Interior

Zamalek, the defending champion, fell into a positive tie trap in front of its internal host 1-1 today, Monday, at the new Suez Stadium, in the twenty-ninth stage of the Egyptian Football League.


Zamalek advanced through Tunisian Saif Al-Din Al-Jaziri (21), and Ahmed Sayed “Zizou” missed a penalty kick for him (76), while Samir Fikry equalized for the interior (84 from a penalty kick).


Zamalek raised its tally to 47 points in fourth place, and Al-Dakhiliya to 28 points in sixteenth place.


Zamalek was the owner of the possession, but Al-Dakhliya was the most dangerous offensive, as Walid Mostafa hit a ball from a direct free kick from the edge of the area on the crossbar of Mohamed Sobhi’s goal (14), and the player himself missed an opportunity after one minute when he received a ball from Abdel Rahman Al-Banoubi behind Zamalek’s defense, so he singled out and hit it, but Sobhi pushed her away with difficulty to a corner.


Zamalek responded strongly, opening the scoring when Mustafa Shalaby took a corner kick and passed it to Mahmoud Abdel Razek, “Shikabala”, who dodged one of the defenders and crossed it, followed by Al-Jaziri with his head to the left of Imad Al-Sayed (21).


The interior players continued their offensive pressure on the confused defense of Zamalek, and from a pass by Samir Fikry, Ali Al-Zahdi singled out and hit a ball that bounced off Muhammad Sobhi’s hand and into Al-Zahdi’s body and continued its way towards the goal, but Hossam Abdel-Majid from the line to a corner did not bear fruit (41).


Nigerian substitute Rashid Ahmed almost did it at the beginning of the second half, but his shot went past the right post (49). Senegalese Ibrahima Nday responded with a shot from inside the area next to the right post of Al-Sayed's goal (52).


Sobhi almost cost his team an own goal after he made a mistake in passing inside the area, as the ball reached Rashid, who crossed it instead of shooting it into the empty goal (65).


Zamalek got a penalty kick after Tunisian defender Hamza Al-Mathlawi was blocked inside the area by Nigerian Kelechi Chimzi, so Zizou gave it a shot, but it rebounded from the crossbar and was dispersed by the defense (76).


The Ministry of Interior also got a penalty kick when Rasheed was fouled by Sobhi, so Fikri pushed her to the right of the Zamalek goalkeeper, scoring the equalizer (84).


Al-Masry restored the tone of victories absent from five matches, with a thrilling victory over its host, Al-Ittihad of Alexandria, 2-1, at El-Geish Stadium in Borg El-Arab.


Al-Ittihad of Alexandria advanced through its Angolan attacker Job Mabululu (25), raising its score to 14 goals at the top of the scorers’ list, but Al-Masry responded with goals from Mohamed Abdel-Latif “Grindo” (34 from a penalty kick) and Tunisian substitute Elias Al-Jelassi (73 from a penalty kick).


Al-Ittihad played with ten players after its defender Mahmoud Alaa (89) was sent off for obtaining a second yellow card for objecting to the match referee's decisions.


Al-Masry achieved the first victory since its victory over Haras Al-Hodood with a clean goal in the twenty-fourth stage on the seventh of last April, raising its score to 40 points in sixth place.


It was also the first victory under the leadership of its coach Mimi Abdel Razek, who assumed responsibility, succeeding Hossam Hassan Al-Maqal from his position, while Al-Ittihad received the second successive loss and the eleventh this season, so its balance froze at 40 points and fell to seventh place.


The negative tie settled the confrontation of the Arab Contractors and its guest, Tala’a Al-Jaish, at Othman Ahmed Othman Stadium in Cairo.


Al-Mokawloon raised its tally to 41 points in fifth place, and Tala’a Al-Jaish to 26 points in seventeenth place.

SPORT

Tue 23 May 2023 6:37 am - Jerusalem Time

Saudi Championship: The Gulf enhances its chances of survival

Al-Khaleej strengthened its chances of survival after its great victory over its host Al-Wahda 4-1, Monday, at King Abdulaziz Sports City Stadium in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, in the opening of the twenty-eighth stage of the Saudi Football League.


And he took turns scoring the Portuguese Gulf quartet Pedro Amaral (10), Brazilian Morato (18 and 66), and Albanian Sokol Sekalichi (58 from a penalty kick), while the only goal of Al-Wahda was scored by Hazza Al-Ghamdi (20).


And the Gulf increased its score to 27 points in the fourteenth place, by three points against Al-Adalah, which hosts Al-Hilal on Tuesday, while Al-Wahda remained in the thirteenth place with 29 points.


Damak was considered a first-round loss against its neighbor, Abha, when it defeated it with a single goal, signed by Abdullah Al-Ammar, in the 56th minute, at the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Sports City Stadium in Al-Mahalla.


Damak rose to seventh place with 35 points, while Abha fell to eleventh place with 33 points.


Al-Fateh beat its host Al-Ettifaq with a clean quadruple at Prince Muhammad bin Fahd Stadium in Dammam, which was scored by Firas Al-Buraikan (12 and 40 from a penalty kick) and Khaled Al-Ghanam (72 and 81).


Al-Fateh raised its balance to 42 points in sixth place, and Al-Ettifaq's balance froze at 33 points in tenth place.


Al-Taawoun celebrated with its fans the victory in its first meeting at its new stadium, after it succeeded in defeating Al-Ta’i 2-1 at the new Al-Taawon Club stadium in Buraidah.


Fahd Al-Rashidi opened the scoring for Al-Taawoun (24), and Muhammad Harizan equalized for Al-Taei (55), before the Cameroonian header Leander Tawamba scored the winning goal for the home side (72).


Al-Taawoun raised its balance to 49 points in fifth place, while Al-Taie’s balance froze at 34 points in eighth place.


Al-Fayhaa and its guest Al-Raed settled for a 1-1 draw at Al-Majmaa Sports City Stadium.


Al-Raed advanced with the goal of Croatian Damian Djokovic (24), but Al-Fayha managed to equalize in the second half through the North Macedonian Alexander Trajkovski (80).


Al-Fayhaa raised its score to 30 points in the twelfth place, while Al-Raed raised its score to 33 points in the ninth place.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 6:18 am - Jerusalem Time

Updated || Injuries and arrests in separate areas of the West Bank

A number of citizens were injured, and a number of others were arrested, at dawn on Tuesday, during a campaign of raids and arrests launched by the occupation forces in separate areas of the West Bank.


Al-Quds.com correspondent in Jenin reported that 4 civilians were wounded, including 3 with live bullets, one of whom was described as serious, during the occupation forces' raid into the town of Qabatiya.


Our correspondent indicated that the young men were injured after being targeted inside a vehicle they were on, while the fourth sustained fractures as a result of the occupation forces deliberately running him over.


Violent clashes took place between the resistance groups and the occupation forces in the town.


In Nablus, the occupation forces arrested Muhammad Tabanga, who has been chasing him for years, while he was in his sister's house in the popular housing area, east of the city.


Those forces raided the apartment of prisoner Naim Idris, who was arrested a few days ago at the Hawara checkpoint, and searched it thoroughly.


Other forces also raided no less than 15 homes in the town of Salem, subjected their residents to a field investigation, searched those homes and wreaked great damage, and arrested the young man, Ahmed Issa.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Aysar Kanaan, and assaulted his family after storming their house in the town of Birzeit, while the elderly, Yasser Haj Muhammad, and Alaa Hajj Muhammad, arrested Muhammad Yasser Hajj Muhammad from al-Mughayyir.


The young man, Jaber Jamal Jabr Al-Dairiya, was arrested after his house was raided in the town of Beit Fajjar, and Qusai Hamamreh from Husan, both of whom were from Bethlehem.


The editor, Muhammad Youssef Al-Muzayen, was arrested after storming his home in Al-Aroub camp, north of Hebron.


Abdel Moneim Khaled Jarahid, from Al-Auja, north of Jericho, was arrested.

PALESTINE

Tue 23 May 2023 6:11 am - Jerusalem Time

Injuries.. The occupation forces bombed the house of the martyr Al-Khawaja's family in Ramallah

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the Israeli occupation forces blew up the house of the family of the martyr Al-Moatazbullah Al-Khawaja, in the town of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah.


Large forces stormed the town before midnight, raided the house of the martyr's family, and evacuated the surrounding houses of their residents.


Clashes took place between the occupation forces and dozens of young men, as a result of which 4 of them were injured of varying degrees.


Hours after the house of Martyr Al-Khawaja was stormed, an Israeli engineering unit carried out the bombing of the house.


Al-Khawaja had carried out a shooting attack on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, on the ninth of last March, which resulted in the death of an Israeli and the wounding of another.