At dawn on Saturday, Israeli occupation forces stormed several areas in the West Bank.

The town of Beita, south of Nablus, witnessed a massive raid, amid confrontations with dozens of young men who threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the forces.

Many citizens suffocated in the town as it was flooded with tear gas bombs.

The occupation forces raided dozens of homes, searched them, and subjected their residents to field investigation.

The occupation forces also stormed the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, amid confrontations with young men.

Al-Arroub camp, north of Hebron, witnessed similar events.

Four thousand male and female martyrs, the toll of the victims of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, committed by pro-Israel militias in the period between September 16-18, 1982, amid shameful Arab and international silence.

Izz al-Din Manasrah says in his book “The Palestinian Revolution in Lebanon 1972-1982,” each of the martyrs has his own narrative, and because they possess these narratives, witnesses to a greater tragedy that occurred in 1948 were assassinated.

Researchers and oral narrators classified the nationalities of the victims of the Sabra and Shatila massacre: 75% Palestinians, 20% Lebanese, 5% (Syrians, Iranians, Bengalis, Turks, Kurds, Egyptians, Algerians, and Pakistanis) and others whose nationalities were not specified.

Massacre backgrounds:

The conspiracy against the only and defenseless Palestinian in Lebanon began after the departure of the PLO forces and the Fedayeen in late August 1982 to Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Algeria, Cyprus and Greece, with the withdrawal of multinational forces several days earlier: American on September 10, 1982, Italian on September 11, and French on September 13. In September, they withdrew ten days before their official date.

Despite the presence of American guarantees and Philip Habib’s agreement that the Israeli occupation army will not enter West Beirut, and the guarantee of protection for Palestinian civilians and the families of the guerrillas who left Beirut.

According to Rafael Eitan's claim, he is "cleansing the camps of terrorists", under the pretext of the presence of two thousand Palestinian fighters, while not the body of a single armed Palestinian was found.

The beginnings of the massacre:

Wednesday, September 15, the Israeli occupation forces besieged the Sabra neighborhood and the Shatila camp, and began monitoring every movement in the area from atop a building they occupied. At dawn on Thursday, September 16, the forces that were stationed in a building at the entrance to Shatila began monitoring every moment and movement in the camp and gave orders to the killers, while their planes departed. Its army throws light bombs, to illuminate the darkness of the safe place in front of the eyes of the killers of children, women and the elderly.

On the morning of Friday, September 17, the signs of the massacre began to become clear to most residents of the area, after they saw corpses and bulldozers demolishing homes over the heads of their owners, burying them dead and alive. Individual and group fleeing began, most of which went to the hospitals of Acre and Gaza and the shelter for the elderly, and a number of them were able to leave the area. He sneaked out of a fixed forest, while families and homes remained unaware of what was going on. Some of them were killed while they were gathered around the dining table, because the killing was carried out silently and quickly.

On Friday, stories of death pits began, and the number of attackers increased, although testimonies and facts confirm that the largest number of martyrs died on the first night of the massacre, Thursday night, but killing methods developed and phosphorus bombs were added that were thrown into shelters.

They also stormed Akka Hospital, killed Palestinian nurses and doctors, and kidnapped patients, injured people, and those fleeing the massacre from inside the hospital.

The second day was characterized by more killing inside homes, in some alleys and close to the Kuwaiti embassy and the Sports City, where there were holes prepared by the Israeli missiles that fell on the Sports City during the invasion of Beirut in June 1982, and due to the presence of some mines and their explosion, some of the kidnapped and driven to death were able to die. From escaping in light of the chaos of the huge numbers of people gathered and waiting for their turn to be shot or even buried alive, those who managed to escape narrated compelling details of the way they dealt with the people and the methods of killing them, in which the killer was creative while laughing, cursing, and drinking alcoholic beverages.

On the third day, Saturday, September 18, the killing, slaughter, and kidnapping operations continued, even though, as Israeli sources said, instructions were issued to the attackers to withdraw at ten in the morning, but dozens of testimonies from residents confirmed that the massacre continued until one in the afternoon, and was characterized by public mass death operations, and the investigation began. Residents of the area in the Sports City were attacked by the Israeli occupation forces and the militias loyal to them. Dozens were arrested and kidnapped, most of whom did not return and their fate is unknown.

The occupation was not satisfied with covering up the extermination of people and creating all the conditions to crush the Palestinian who defeated it in the siege of Beirut. It took revenge on Sunday, September 19, 1982, by stealing the documents of the Palestinian Research Center and loading the archives into trucks.

Camps in Lebanon:

In the background of researching the history of the camps in Lebanon, we find that in 1982, the year of the Israeli invasion and massacre, there were 12 Palestinian camps on Lebanese territory: Rashidiyeh, Al-Bass, and Borj Al-Shamali in the Tyre region, Ain Al-Hilweh and Mieh Miyeh in the Sidon region, Wavel in Baalbek, and Shatila. Mar Elias, Burj al-Barajneh, and Dbayeh in the Beirut region, and Nahr al-Bared and Beddawi in the Tripoli region. Ain al-Hilweh and Nahr al-Bared camps are considered among the largest camps in area, while Shatila camp is one of the smallest.

In addition to these camps, there was Nabatieh camp, which was completely destroyed by Israeli bombing on April 16, 1974.

As for the Tire and Sidon camps, they were partially destroyed several times. Due to the multiple civil wars on the territory of Lebanon, in 1976, both the Jisr al-Basha camp and the Tal al-Zaatar camp were completely destroyed, which was the camp that suffered as a result of a long siege, and the Dbayeh camp was also partially destroyed.

Next week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will make a visit to Washington, which will be his second since the start of the Russian invasion of his country, in an effort to strengthen American support for Kiev in the face of Russia.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed on Friday that Zelensky will visit the White House on Thursday to hold talks with his counterpart, Joe Biden, about strengthening US support for Kiev in the face of the Russian invasion.

Sullivan pointed out that Biden's meeting with Zelensky will be the second in the White House since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, and comes as Ukraine seeks to make progress in its counterattack against Russian forces.

In addition, Sullivan said in an interview with journalists that the talks “come at a critical time, as Russia is desperately searching for help from countries like North Korea to continue its violent war in Ukraine.”

Sullivan expected that the United States and its allies would announce new military aid to Ukraine “during the next week.”

The Ukraine Contact Group, responsible for coordinating aid to Kiev, is scheduled to meet in Ramstein, Germany, next week.

The Ukrainian president is expected to arrive in New York early next week to participate in the United Nations General Assembly in New York and to meet international leaders.

In addition, Zelensky will visit the Capitol building, where he will meet with Democratic and Republican members of Congress, according to what Sullivan confirmed.

The Ukrainian president's visit coincides with the US Congress discussing new military aid to Kiev worth $24 billion for weeks.

Negotiations are difficult, especially in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, as there is hesitation among Biden's Republican opponents regarding providing support to Ukraine.

On the other hand, the traditional Republicans in the Senate support providing aid, and they worked alongside the Democrats over the past year to have Congress approve more than $110 billion in military, economic, and humanitarian aid to Kiev.

The White House expected that both parties in Congress would eventually continue to provide support to Ukraine.

“Frankly, both Republicans and Democrats understand that the United States cannot, for its own sake, let alone its moral obligations, abandon Ukraine at this critical moment,” Sullivan said.

Last month, Biden asked Congress to approve additional aid to Ukraine worth $40 billion, for military, economic and humanitarian support.

Traditional Republicans, including Senator Mitch McConnell, the party's leader in the Senate, have supported providing aid.

But members of the populist right wing of the Republican Party, especially Donald Trump, who is considered the most likely to win the party's nomination for the presidential elections next year to confront Biden, are denouncing the abundance of aid provided by the United States, calling on the administration to focus on domestic priorities.

In December, Zelensky went to Washington on a secret visit, his first internationally during the war. He entered the White House in the military uniform that became his distinctive mark.

After meeting with Biden at the White House, Zelensky declared that Ukraine "will never surrender."

The Biden administration pledged to support Kiev in the long term. Biden visited Kiev a few months later on a historic trip.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Ukraine earlier this month.

The United States has provided military support worth $43 billion that has helped Ukraine repel Russian incursions since the start of the invasion.

Confrontations broke out with the Israeli occupation forces on Friday evening in the village of Faqoua, northeast of Jenin.

Local sources reported that confrontations broke out with the occupation forces in Faqoua, during which sound bombs, poison gas, and metal bullets were fired, but no injuries were reported.

It added that the occupation forces stormed the villages of Jalboun, Arbouna, Al-Jalama, Beit Qad, and Deir Ghazala, and launched a massive inspection campaign.

Today, Friday, the Chairman of the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development, Mohammed bin Obaid Al Mazrouei, accompanied by the Authority’s Economic Advisor, began a visit to the State of Palestine to review the projects funded by the Authority, at the invitation of the Minister of Agriculture, Riyad Attari.

The delegation of the Arab Authority was received in the main hall for VIPs at the Palestinian crossings by the Jericho and Jordan Valley Business Marchers, Yusra Al-Suwaiti, and a number of officials from the Ministry of Agriculture.

The visit aims to learn about the reality of the agricultural sector and discuss prospects for joint cooperation and investment in the Palestinian agricultural sector.

The delegation visited a number of agricultural institutions in Jericho and Al-Aghwar Governorate, starting with a visit to the Arab Construction Project Association, and listened to an overview of the association, its activities and future plans. Issues were raised related to the prospects for cooperation with the Authority, which will be the focus of a future discussion through the Ministry of Agriculture.

The delegation also visited the Rift Valley Development and Investment Company, which specializes in agricultural investment activities, and was briefed on the company’s work, achievements and plans, especially with regard to organic agriculture, hydroponics, vegetable and leafy plant activities, as well as investment in the palm sector.

The delegation then went to visit Al-Auja Dam and Al-Auja Spring, and learn about the region’s priorities and the possibilities of developing interventions that help develop the region by improving water availability.

The Minister of Agriculture, Riyad Al-Atari, and the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Funds, Nasser Qatami, met with the delegation, who considered this visit to be historic and of developmental significance, enhancing the Palestinian capacity for steadfastness and sustainability through joint projects between the State of Palestine and the Arab Authority.

US President Joe Biden will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced.

Sullivan said in a statement to reporters on Friday that the two men will discuss “the shared democratic values between the United States and Israel and a vision for a more stable, prosperous and integrated region,” and will exchange views on “how to effectively confront and deter Iran.”

Netanyahu had announced earlier this month that he would visit the United States, one of Israel's most prominent allies, without mentioning any meeting with any American officials, which is unusual when Israeli officials visit the country.

Biden has criticized the judicial amendments that the right-wing government headed by Netanyahu is seeking to approve, which opponents describe as a threat to democracy in Israel.

Netanyahu has not received an invitation to visit the White House since his return to power in December at the head of a government that Biden described as “one of the most extremist” in Israel’s history.

In July, the White House announced that Biden and Netanyahu “will meet in the United States later in the year,” without giving further details.

On Friday evening, the Israeli occupation authorities released the injured fisherman, Nafez Ramadan Salah, from the Gaza Strip.

According to the fishermen’s committees, the fisherman, Salah, was released through the Beit Hanoun-Erez crossing, and was transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital to receive treatment.

The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, called for urgent action to end the Israeli occupation of the territory of the State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, since 1967, and to resolve all permanent status issues, including the issue of Palestinian refugees.

President Abbas said in his speech before the Group of 77 + China held in the Cuban capital, Havana, “The Palestinian people, with the support of the Group of 77 + China, are determined to overcome the historical injustice that has stifled their development and hindered their aspirations for a century.”

He added: "Israel's policies and practices seek to consolidate its settler colonial occupation and impose the reality of apartheid, which must not be tolerated."

He continued: “The development situation in Palestine is different from that in other countries of the world, as it is subject to the system of institutional apartheid in Israel, the illegal occupation, and the colonial project that denies our right to development, as Israel, the occupying power, adopts systematic policies aimed at undermining development.” An entire people."

President Abbas assured his partners in the Group of 77 and China that the Palestinian people will persevere and continue their legitimate struggle to achieve their rights, and that they believe in the inevitability of freedom and prosperity due to their sacrifices and commitment to peace, as well as the firm and principled support of friends like you.

President Abbas looked forward to being able to hold this conference in the State of Palestine, as an expression of their moral and ethical support for their rights and aspirations.

The Times of Israel reported that Saudi Arabia will be co-hosting an event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week focused on revamping the Israeli-Palestinian peace process

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The event, titled “Peace Day Effort for Middle East Peace,” will take place on Monday and is being put on by Saudi Arabia along with the Arab League and the European Union in cooperation with Egypt and Jordan, one of the diplomats said. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be the keynote speaker.

Neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian missions were invited to the event, the UN diplomat said, explaining that it is focused on congregating important global stakeholders on the issue in order to “reinvigorate” the peace process.

The event is the latest effort by Saudi Arabia to engage in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as it negotiates with US President Joe Biden’s administration about a potential normalization agreement with Israel.

Last week, Riyadh hosted a Palestinian Authority delegation to discuss how to leverage a normalization deal to advance the Palestinian cause.

Saudi Arabia did host a ministerial meeting at the UN General Assembly sidelines last year on the issue, but that event was to mark the 20th anniversary of the proposal of the Arab Peace Initiative.

Riyadh has since gradually moved away from that proposal, which offered Israel normalization with the entire Arab League only after it reached a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

The family of prisoner engineer Sultan Khalaf, who is on hunger strike, organized a solidarity stand in the town of Burqin in Jenin, with the participation of representatives of the national and Islamic forces, popular activities and large masses, to stand in solidarity with him as he continues the battle of the empty stomach, and to demand that his life be saved before it is too late.

After the Friday prayer, the participants gathered in front of the Grand Mosque in his hometown of Burqin, carrying Dhur Khalaf and chanting slogans denouncing his arrest and demanding the freedom of all prisoners, especially those on hunger strike.

A Palestinian was injured this Friday evening after settlers attacked him in the village of Burqa, near Nablus.

According to the Red Crescent, its crews provided the necessary assistance to the injured citizen.

A number of citizens were injured, Friday evening, after the Israeli occupation forces suppressed a march on the eastern border of Gaza City.

According to local sources, the soldiers stationed inside their positions and military vehicles fired live bullets, rubber-coated metal bullets, and gas bombs at the demonstrators, wounding a number of them with various injuries.

Dozens of young men and boys demonstrated in protest against the siege imposed on the city and the continued crimes of the occupation against our people.

With the participation of the President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, the work of the Group of 77 and China Summit was launched today, Friday, in the Cuban capital, Havana, under the slogan “Current Development Challenges: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation.”

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and a number of leaders and heads of state of the group are participating in the summit.

Cuba assumed the rotating presidency of the group last January.

The Group of 77 and China is the largest intergovernmental organization for developing countries in the United Nations. It was established on June 15, 1964 by 77 countries, and it has maintained its name even though it has expanded and currently includes 134 countries.

The group aims to defend the collective economic interests of those countries and enhance their negotiating capacity on major international economic issues within the United Nations.

It is noteworthy that the State of Palestine assumed the presidency of the Group of 77 + China for the year 2019.

Today, Friday, the Israeli occupation forces set up a military checkpoint in Jabal al-Rahma in the city of Hebron.

According to local sources, these forces stopped citizens’ vehicles, searched them, tampered with their contents, checked the citizens’ ID cards and photographed them, causing a stifling crisis.

Settlers also gathered at the house of the Jariwi family in the Qaitoun area, after it was seized, which is located opposite the Ibrahimiyya School in the Al-Sahla neighborhood in Hebron.

The official spokesman for the US State Department, Matthew Miller, said that the administration of US President Joe Biden takes into account the special security needs that Israel faces with the Gaza Strip, which requires exceptional considerations and arrangements in demanding the United States mandate to treat all Americans equally as a condition for the United States to exempt Israel. An entry visa to the United States.

Miller said in his response to the questions of the Al-Quds.com correspondent regarding Israel’s visa exemption, the pilot program of which ends on September 30, after which Israel will be allowed to participate in this exemption, and why (apparently) Israel requires Gazan Americans to document and prove their residency abroad: “What I will say about that is that in the last few days Israel has announced new travel procedures for Gaza, and these new procedures will allow American citizens registered in the Palestinian population registry in Gaza to apply for visa-free entry into Israel.”

He added: “As we have said all along, we realize that there is a different security situation in Gaza, and therefore there will be different procedures. I - and what I will say about that is that we will monitor the implementation of those measures and make sure that Americans - all Americans - are treated equally in Make any decision regarding Israel's potential admission to the Visa Waiver Programme.

Regarding the new Israeli guidelines that require American citizens on the Palestinian registration list in Gaza to apply for a visa exemption, which contradicts the principle of free entry and exit, Miller responded by pointing out again that Israel announced these measures only a few days ago. The administration will wait for Israel's implementation mechanism for this.

Miller stressed that the decision does not fall on US Secretary of State Blinken, but rather on the Secretary of Homeland Security, and that Secretary Blinken makes a recommendation to the Secretary of Homeland Security, who makes the final decision.

It is noteworthy that 15 members of the US Senate last week called on US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to stop implementing the agreement exempting Israelis from requesting prior entry visas to the United States, in light of its failure to adhere to a major clause in the agreement that calls for reciprocity, specifically with regard to the travel of Americans of Palestinian origins. .

The letter sent by the Democratic senators on Friday said, “There are still many unanswered questions by the government of Israel about the terms of the memorandum of understanding for the visa exemption program for Israelis, which raise serious concerns.”

The signatories stressed that "Israel does not comply with the law of reciprocity for all American citizens."

The letter emphasized that “visa exemption may not be provided by discriminating against certain groups of American citizens, and all United States citizens must be treated equally.”

Iran detained two oil tankers in the Gulf waters, arrested their crews, and charged them with fuel smuggling, according to what state television announced on Friday.

The television quoted the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, Muhammad Sharif Shirali, as saying, “The naval forces of the Revolutionary Guard detained two ships during the past two days.”

He added, "The two confiscated tankers... flew the flags of Panama and Tanzania and were transporting more than 1.5 million liters of Iranian oil and gas."

He said, "The Revolutionary Guard accompanied the two ships to the port (city) of Mahshahr" in the southwest of the country, noting that 37 people from the two crews were arrested and handed over to the judicial authorities in the Iranian city.

In recent weeks, the US military has strengthened its presence in the Gulf waters after accusing Iran of detaining or attempting to intercept ships in this vital corridor.

On July 6, the US Navy said that the Revolutionary Guard confiscated a commercial ship in the Gulf the day after Iranian forces accused it of two similar attempts off the coast of the Sultanate of Oman.

Iran later said that the ship it intercepted in Gulf waters was transporting "more than half a million smuggled fuel."

An agreement concluded between Israel and the United States to travel without a visa between the two countries raised the hopes of Palestinian Americans to facilitate the procedures they are subject to, but many of these travelers still complain of continued “discrimination” on the part of the Israeli authorities.

The US State Department stated that the goal of the mutual agreement concluded in July is for Israel to recognize all those who hold American citizenship “as American citizens and to receive equal treatment” regardless of their origins.

The agreement paved the way for some Americans of Palestinian origin to arrive through Ben Gurion Airport in Israel after this port remained prohibited for the vast majority of them for years, instead of traveling by land from Jordan.

Despite the progress made on paper, Americans of Palestinian origin complained of being subjected to unequal treatment, in a series of interviews conducted with them by Agence France-Presse in the United States and the Palestinian territories.

Hanna Hanania, a board member of the Palestinian American Council's advocacy group, traveled to Tel Aviv and described the change overall as "an improvement for everyone."

But when he left to return to the US state of Virginia, he said that he was subjected to a “comprehensive vetting process,” which included Israeli officials searching his car and insisting on seeing his Palestinian passport.

Ananias, who was born in Jerusalem, was also asked to stand in line for additional security checks. "The discrimination was very clear," he stressed.

"Almost everyone in this queue spoke Arabic," he told AFP. "It can be seen that most of them are Palestinians or Arabs."

The Israeli Immigration Authority did not immediately respond to a request for comment on these complaints.

More than 5,400 Americans of Palestinian origin have arrived in Israel since July 20, according to the Population and Immigration Authority.

Washington is currently studying the possibility of including Israel in the full visa exemption program, with a decision to be made on September 30.

NYPD Officer Haider Darwish, 38, arrived in mid-August and said he was not given a three-month visa for no reason, but was instead only granted a month's residency.

“This is not fair,” Darwish said from the West Bank city of Ramallah. “If they want to move forward with this visa (waiver program), they should treat us exactly the same way they are treated when they arrive in the United States.”

A number of Palestinian Americans told AFP that they complained of ill-treatment at the US embassy in Jerusalem, which rejected AFP's request to interview them.

In the village of Turmus Aya, north of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where many of its residents hold American citizenship, Abdul-Jabbar sought advice from his neighbors before returning to Tennessee in the state of Georgia.

Abdul Jabbar, 50, said, “The checkpoints from the West Bank to the airport are what greatly complicate” the trip.

The neighbors advised him to leave the West Bank several hours before his travel date due to the many checkpoints, then he was subjected to a final inspection and was allowed to cross.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense, which administers civil affairs in the Palestinian territories, said: “Any citizen holding a B/2 (tourist) visa can pass through the crossings as usual. As for the nature of the security examination, it is carried out according to the factors taken by the security services.” At the various crossing points, taking into consideration.

The visa-free travel program included those with ties to the occupied West Bank, but its scope expanded on Monday to include the Gaza Strip, which has been subject to an Israeli siege for many years.

Americans of Palestinian origin who travel to Gaza face greater restrictions than those who go to the West Bank, according to rules announced by the US Embassy.

People from Gaza who live in the United States and who can now travel by air to Tel Aviv, but cannot enter the Gaza Strip, expressed their disappointment.

In July, 18-year-old Lara Abu Hamda tried to cross the Jordanian borders with the West Bank and Israel to no avail. She said, "I don't understand. I'm an American. Even if I was born in Gaza and have a Gaza ID card, why does that come into consideration?"

The Israeli Immigration Authority said that ten American citizens from Gaza who were not yet included in the program were denied entry, in addition to three American citizens from the West Bank.

A Gaza artist living in Chicago, who requested anonymity due to security concerns, said he was detained in a center outside Tel Aviv airport. He underwent comprehensive security checks before being taken to the plane without his bags and belongings, and with only his credit card.

The thirty-year-old artist said, “I am still trying to get rid of all the stress and anxiety that accumulated in me during the forty-eight hours in which I was treated as a suspect.”

Obtaining permission to leave through Israel is extremely difficult for Gaza residents. As a result, most people seeking to leave the region make the arduous and expensive journey across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

In Gaza City, Saeed Arif Shaat said, “My family is very excited about the prospect of finally being able to travel through Israel’s Erez crossing.”

Americans living in Gaza must still apply for a travel permit that, according to the Office for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Palestinian Territories, allows them to “travel through any international border crossing.”

Zeina Shaath, 23 years old and the daughter of Saeed Shaath, explained in her emphasis on the importance of being able to cross the Erez Crossing and travel by plane through Ben Gurion Airport, “We need our freedom and to live a normal life.”

A number of Palestinian citizens were injured by live bullets, rubber-coated bullets, and suffocation, during confrontations that broke out with the occupation forces in the West Bank governorates, today, Friday.

In Nablus, four citizens were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, and dozens suffocated, during the Israeli occupation army’s suppression of an anti-settlement march in Qaryut, south of Nablus.

The occupation forces fired rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades, and toxic tear gas at the march participants, wounding four citizens with metal bullets, one of whom was injured in the face, and dozens suffered from suffocation.

The director of ambulance and emergency services at the Red Crescent in Nablus, Ahmed Jibril, said that the citizen who was injured in the face suffered from a broken nose and bleeding, and the necessary first aid was provided to him before he was transferred to the hospital.

It is noteworthy that during the past months, settlers intensified their raids on the Qaryut Spring, and broke its locks several times, in an attempt to seize it.

Tens of thousands performed Friday prayers, inside the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, despite the measures taken by the Israeli occupation forces at the gates of the mosque and the entrances to the Old City, in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

The Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem estimated that about 40,000 worshipers performed Friday prayers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The occupation forces deployed in the streets of the city and the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, and were stationed at its gates. They stopped the worshipers and checked their personal cards.

On Friday morning, the Israeli occupation forces closed the Qalandiya checkpoint, north of occupied Jerusalem, and prevented the passage of vehicles and citizens.

Local sources reported that closing the checkpoint caused a severe traffic jam that reached several kilometers.

The sources indicated that the closure of the checkpoint coincided with the deployment of thousands of occupation police personnel in the neighborhoods of Jerusalem, who harassed citizens and those coming to perform Friday prayers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and tightened inspection procedures at the doors of the mosque and the gates of the Old City.

It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation authorities decided to impose a comprehensive closure on the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and close the crossings in the Gaza Strip, starting this afternoon, under the pretext of Jewish holidays.

The Prisoner's Club said that the occupation authorities decided today to release prisoner Khalil Awawda from the town of Idna/Hebron, who has been detained since December 27, 2021, and he will be released from Ofer Prison, where he has been detained recently.

The Prisoner's Club stated that the prisoner Awawda had gone on a hunger strike that lasted for 172 days, in rejection of his administrative detention, and that he was supposed to be released in October 2022, but the occupation authorities, shortly before his release, brought an "accusation" against him. Regarding an attempt to insert a phone while he was being transported from the Israeli Assaf Harofeh Hospital to Ramle, she maintained his detention, and later sentenced him to actual imprisonment for a period of 16 months and a fine of 5,000 shekels, with a suspended sentence of 8 months.

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Khalil faced difficult and dangerous health conditions during his strike, and after he suspended the strike, to this day, he still suffers from health problems, and he needs health follow-up.

On Friday morning, Israeli occupation forces arrested three citizens from the town of Abu Dis, east of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces, accompanied by special forces and police dogs, stormed the town, raided a number of citizens’ homes, and arrested: Muhammad Amer Abu Hilal, Muayyad Munir Atallah, and Muhammad Nabil Badr.

The English-language Times of Israel magazine website reported that Yasser Abbas, son of President Mahmoud Abbas, was among the Palestinian delegation that went to Riyadh last week, to hold talks with Saudi and American officials, to discuss a possible normalization agreement between Israel and the Kingdom under American sponsorship.

The website quoted two informed sources as saying that the delegation included, in addition to Abbas’s son, the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Hussein Al-Sheikh, the head of the Intelligence Service, Majed Faraj, and the political advisor to the President of the Authority, Magdi Al-Khalidi.

According to the website, “Abbas the Younger” (as described by the website), who does not hold any official position in the Palestinian Authority, participated in meetings with senior Saudi officials, including Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan, as well as in a meeting with an American delegation in the presence of the US President’s senior advisor, Brett McGurk, and US Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East Barbara Leaf.

The website indicated that Ramallah, Riyadh, and Washington decided not to publish any photos or data about the meeting held at the meeting, which allowed the participation of President Abbas’s son to be kept away from the media.

I hesitated before writing this article, because of the implications it would have on the public mood, but this is the reality of our society inside Palestine. Violence is permeating and deeply rooted, and a stream of blood is flowing in our society, and the security services responsible for providing security and safety for the Arab citizen are absent from carrying out their duties, as if they are in a state of hibernation. Thus, under the protection of criminal gangs such as the security establishment. Violence can become a culture for our people at home, and why?

First, explain what is the term culture? It is a human production, it is a systematic picture of acquired behaviors that are inherited to children from their parents. Culture is the sum of the empirical and symbolic experiences of a person or a group, that is, a road map, such as: knowledge (knowledge), customs and traditions, morals, art, religion, means of communication, law, etc. An individual considers himself part of a particular culture when he belongs to a social group whose members see themselves as sharing those experiential experiences.

Is culture always positive? No, each group has its own culture. For example, criminal gangs have their own culture, and the Islamic movement also has its own culture. Yes, the Islamic movement will not bring a new faith, but rather revived and revived Islam again, and there is no doubt that it has a great credit for that.

Is culture eternal? No, it must be renewed from time to time. For example: If we took a sample from a rock that is fixed in place and examined it in the laboratory, we would find that it contains a certain amount of minerals. If we returned a year later to the same rock and took a sample from the same place, we would find that the amount of minerals differed from the previous year. If a rock is fixed in place and its contents change from time to time, then what about a person who moves from one place to another and is exposed to another culture and different concepts through the means to which he is exposed daily and around the clock? Therefore, a person's culture must change over the years according to the experiences he acquires, and there is no guarantee that it will change for the better. The concept of the best varies from one person to another.
All the various customs creep into the societies of the world slowly due to their initial rejection, rejection and resentment from the host society, but they gradually penetrate and later become legitimate. If we looked at a large portion of the customs and traditions prevailing in our societies today compared to what they were forty years ago, we would find that they were strange and imported from other peoples. At first, they were rejected and gradually penetrated and became part of the behaviors of our societies.
Thus, when the citizen begins to lose security and confidence in the authority responsible for providing this, he must search for alternative means to protect himself and his family members, from the danger of those gangs that pose a danger to him, in light of protecting those gangs from legal prosecution and bringing them to a fair judiciary.” "The absent present", meaning there is no deterrent to it. Thus, they have become exemplary segments that have morals that are legally rejected and contradict customs in defending themselves.
Recently, a strange behavioral phenomenon has begun to infiltrate our society, represented by some people possessing various means to protect their families, and training on how to use them and put them on until needed. The question that arises is that in the absence of a deterrent from the authority to protect the citizen and his family, does he not have the right to take all means of protection?! Thus, what is prohibited gradually becomes legitimate, such as society.
I also began to hear our children repeating strange and disturbing terms referring to violence, and this goes back to the current discourse that deals with violence. When children begin to imitate adults in their aggressive expressions, the alarm must be raised...!

Palestinian parties and factions in the Gaza Strip accused the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) of spreading the culture of “abnormality” after distributing the “code of conduct” in its directorates, schools, and institutions.

The Joint Committee for Refugees said that this code is part of the moral and ethical decline of the international system and is against the customs, traditions and values of the Palestinian people, calling on all its employees not to sign it.

In a statement, the committee called on the UNRWA Commissioner to immediately withdraw from circulating this code, calling on the Ministry of Education to curb these actions that are being attempted to be passed.

Meanwhile, Salama Maarouf, head of the government media office, said that this blog contradicts the customs, customs and traditions of society in the Gaza Strip.

Marouf added: We see in this step a clear consistency with attempts to promote concepts that are deviant from our values and morals and contradict normal human nature. It is dangerous for an international organization like the UN Relief Agency to mobilize its capabilities and programs to serve a goal that is completely far from the justification for its establishment, which is to serve refugees from among our people.

He continued: We deplore the agency's allocating its financial and human resources to such programs in light of talk of financial crises that caused the suspension of many necessary programs and services.

The Association of Palestine Scholars also called on the UNRWA administration to retract and withdraw the blog, immediately investigate who placed it in the bulletins, and issue an apology to the Palestinian people.

The Association warned against some feminist organizations, associations, and media outlets that adopt these calls under the name of human rights, freedom, progressivism, democracy, and other glamorous and false slogans. According to the text of its statement.

The educational department of the Islamic Jihad movement also denounced this step, calling on the UNRWA administration to immediately withdraw these bulletins, while pledging fully not to publish them or publish any content similar to them in the future.

She said: The management of the UNRWA violates the accepted rules of work in the Palestinian areas, since its work is humanitarian and it is not its business to theorize terms and concepts that contradict Islamic law and common sense.

The Refugee Department and the Relief Agency of the Democratic Front also condemned the distribution of these leaflets, calling for an end to the distribution of these leaflets that provoke the feelings of citizens and employees, which are considered an attack on human rights and contradict international agreements that stipulate the preservation and respect of peoples’ customs and traditions, stressing that such leaflets call for Societal disintegration and lack of respect for the laws of the host country.

On Friday, the Israeli police deployed 5,000 police officers in occupied Jerusalem and other cities, fearing Palestinian attacks during the Jewish holidays that begin this evening.

According to the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom, the focus will be largely throughout the holiday period on the areas where intelligence information comes about the possibility of attacks, in order to provide a quick response to any scenario, especially attempts to carry out attacks.

Focus will also be on mixed cities for fear of any unusual events.

Yesterday, the Israeli army announced that it had decided to impose a comprehensive closure on the Palestinian territories due to Jewish holidays.

Israeli data, published today, Friday, on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah, showed that 48,768 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque during the last Hebrew year, from September 2022 to September 2023.

This number compares to 51,644 who immigrated in the same period of the previous Jewish year, according to data monitored by the Temple Mount groups.

Recently, senior officials in the US administration sent a letter to their counterparts in the Israeli government, in which they expressed their frustration and anger at Israel’s failure to complete all economic exemptions for the Palestinians.

Last night, Hebrew Channel 12 reported that Arab countries, including Jordan and the UAE, conveyed similar messages to the Israeli government through official channels, about postponing the Palestinian Authority’s debt payments to Israel for two years.

According to the channel, during the Aqaba and Sharm El-Sheikh meetings, Israel promised to transfer funds to the Palestinian Authority, but Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has so far refused to do so.

An Israeli official said that the economic benefits were not completed due to the opposition of government officials, including Smotrich, but the promises must be fulfilled, and this requires a decision from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Meanwhile, another official said that these entitlements were not completed and therefore were not approved, and when they are completed, this will be done.

On Thursday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young women from the Bab al-Amud area in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the two young women, Ruaa Ajaj and Rasha Shuqair, after detaining and searching them at the military point set up at Bab al-Amoud.

A young man from the town of Maithalun, south of Jenin, was killed today, Thursday, as a result of a heavy object falling on him while he was working in one of the construction workshops within the 48 territories.

According to local sources, the young man, Riyad Ahmed Nairat, from the town of Maithalun, was killed in a workshop in the city of Lod.