A pedantic Israeli wrote an article enumerating Israel's gains after the Oslo Accords, summarizing that by saying that Israel advanced economically, opened up to the world, got rid of the burden of occupation, and reduced the importance and centrality of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and that the Oslo Accords were peace and relief for Israel, contrary to all opinions that It was launched by the Israeli right at the time, and that article was accompanied by secret documents published about the nature of the dialogues between Israeli labor leaders at the time, as they wanted from the Oslo Accords exactly what is in place now, that is, redefining the occupation so that it lasts forever and ending the idea of a Palestinian state. And besieging the Palestinian and domesticating him through both soft and rough means.

It seemed as if Israel had achieved what it wanted and that it had defeated us several times, once with this agreement, which it made a tool for subjugation, subjugation and control, and a second time by dismantling the Palestinians into multiple groups geographically and legally, and a third time with geographical and political division, and a fourth time with the ability to We crossed over or crossed through us into the Arab world, but despite all that, despite our performance, despite our confusion, and despite our contradictions, did Israel lose with the Oslo Accords as well?

In my opinion, Israel also lost on the tactical and strategic levels, as follows:
First: Israel killed forever the idea of moderation, the idea of settlement, and the idea of negotiation because Palestinian and Arab moderation did not lead to satisfactory solutions or even defensible results.

Second: During the thirty years of the agreement, Israel turned into a brutal, violent, and aggressive entity that ended in fascism, meaning that everything that Israel claims regarding peace projects and trains is a camouflage of a destructive and desolate image of this entity. Israeli brutality threatens the Israeli political system. The same, as there are forces that want to hijack the regime for their own benefit and to become dependent on power and possess it as an expression of the height of fascism.

Third: During the course of thirty years, Israel also lost security and safety, meaning that the Oslo Accords did not grant Israel personal or collective security at all.

Fourth: The incomplete Oslo Accord, which did not achieve peace, exempted Israel for a very long time from searching for solutions other than renewing the security measures that prompted the Palestinians and others to prepare and engage. Therefore, Oslo increased the risks and did not reduce them.

Fifth: Over the course of thirty years, Israel has created a generation of Palestinian people who did not and will never see in it anything except the brutal occupier with whom no dialogue is possible. That is, Israel has not been able to rise to the moral level capable of addressing the Palestinians as human beings. Rather, it confirms the prevailing colonial view of considering them a security problem or Demographics: Thus, the Oslo Accords did not provide any horizon.

Sixth: In my opinion, everything that Israel Katz mentioned and Israel’s leadership of the region and control of its trade routes to establish what he called security, peace and development does not mean anything at all thirty years after the Oslo Accords, because every solution does not guarantee or herald an end to the occupation and the establishment of the state. The Palestinian Authority is just another bypass road that leads to nothing, and Israel is skilled at building bypass roads that turn over time into ordinary dusty roads with many bumps and bumps that lead to nothing.

Exactly thirty years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, we have the right not only to evaluate that experience, which left profound effects on the Palestinian situation, but also to evaluate the starting points, intellectual motives, and visions that led to the Oslo approach, which is still continuing, forming today a point of contention. Fundamentalism in the Palestinian arena.

Perhaps one of the problems with the Palestinian situation is that the forces practicing the Oslo approach avoid (or refuse) to engage in a serious intellectual or political debate about the correctness or safety of this approach, but rather are content to hide behind one pretext, which is “realism” in dealing with a difficult and complex political situation.

The Oslo Accords were a great trap cleverly set up by the Zionist movement and the official Palestinian leadership, with the aim of absorbing the results of the first intifada, which changed the balance of power on the ground, and forced Israel to enter into negotiations with the Palestinian side, and to create a deep rift in the Palestinian arena, and buy time to perpetuate the occupation, expand settlement, and build The apartheid system is racist, its purpose is to liquidate the rights of the Palestinian people, and to extract Palestinian, Arab and international legitimacy for the Zionist colonial settlement project.

The Palestinian side committed seven strategic mistakes in the Oslo negotiations and agreement:

First, signing the agreement without requiring a halt to settlement activity, as was insisted by the official Palestinian delegation in Washington, which had the secret Oslo negotiations conducted behind its back, without its knowledge, and without consulting it.

This mistake was considered the greatest sin of that agreement, and the conclusive evidence of this is the increase in the number of colonial settlers from 121 thousand when the agreement was signed to 750 thousand today. They have 14 members in the Israeli Knesset and have come to represent a fascist political force that has a decisive role in the Israeli government led by the fascists Smotrich and Ben. Abundant.

Secondly, the lack of equality between the two sides, as the Palestine Liberation Organization recognized Israel and its right to exist in exchange for merely recognizing the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians. Rather, the Palestinian side accepted the labeling of its national struggle and armed resistance as terrorism, and pledged to abandon it, and accepted recognition of Israel without specifying its borders, and without Any guarantees of the right of return for Palestinian refugees who were displaced from their homes through the Nakba and brutal massacres.

Third, the agreement was partly transitional without specifying the final result of ending the occupation and establishing an independent Palestinian state. Rather, it included an acceptance to make fundamental issues, such as refugees, the right of return, Jerusalem, borders, illegal settlement, and the waters of the occupied territories, disputed issues, and the six years turned into ending The negotiations lasted for thirty years, and after Israel guaranteed that the 48 Israeli-decided lands graduated from considering the occupied lands as disputed lands upon signing the agreement, to Jewish lands reserved for the Jews, and then approved the Jewish State Law, which considered the right to self-determination in the entire historical land of the Palestinians, Which they call the Land of Israel, restricted to Jews only.

Israeli governments have graduated from procrastinating negotiations for many years, as former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir promised, to stopping them completely since 2014, and claiming that there is no Palestinian partner.

Thus, through settlement expansion, Israel robbed the land and took away, through the political process, the only thing it granted to the leadership of the PLO in the Oslo Accords, which is its right to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinians.

Fourth, one of the biggest mistakes was accepting the division of the occupied territories into divisions “A, B, and C.” This allowed Israel to isolate 62% of the West Bank, called Area C, and allocate it entirely to settlement expansion, and to divide the remainder into 224 ghettos isolated by barriers, and Settlements, the wall, and racist roads forbidden to Palestinians.

Fifthly, accepting the doctrine and principle of security coordination with the occupation authorities, which placed the authority and official leadership in a dilemma of contradiction and conflict with its people and with the Palestinian resistance forces.

Sixth, the Oslo Accord created fragmentation of the Palestinian people and a deep political rift and division in the Palestinian arena. It became the basis for many other divisions, such as the division between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and between the Fatah and Hamas movements, but the most dangerous was creating a deep rift between the components of the Palestinian people inside (the 1948 territories) and abroad and the occupied territories.

Seventh, the Oslo Accords opened the door wide for Arab and international normalization with the occupying entity and apartheid.

From an intellectual standpoint, the Oslo approach (and agreement) was built on three illusions: the illusion of a compromise solution with the Zionist movement, the illusion of a two-state solution as an alternative to the original Palestinian strategic goal of establishing a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine, and the illusion of the American role in achieving those solutions. They are all illusions that thirty years have proven to be false.

If the belief in the illusion of a compromise solution with the Zionist movement was justified as an argument when the Oslo Accords were signed as a result of international pressure and the difficult circumstances that the Palestine Liberation Organization was experiencing, then continuing to adhere to it and betting on the negotiation approach, after all these years, and after everything the movement did Zionism and the rulers of Israel, even those who supported the Oslo Accords, including the assassination of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the martyr Yasser Arafat, and the claim that there is no Palestinian partner, represents an unforgivable sin, and has no justification at all.

Israeli operations after "Oslo"

Israel systematically and premeditatedly carried out six operations after the signing of the Oslo Accords, which are:

1) Complete separation of Gaza and the West Bank.

2) Separating Jerusalem from the West Bank and the rest of the occupied territories.

3) Deepening and expanding settlement without stopping, with the aim of devouring, Judaizing and annexing the West Bank, and transforming it from a Palestinian environment in which there are strange settlement objects, into an Israeli settlement environment within which Palestinian cities and villages are isolated as foreign objects.

4) Blockade, economic strangulation, and absolute control over land, water, borders, natural resources, airspace, and electromagnetic space.

5) Continuous pressure on the Palestinian Authority to force it to separate from the national liberation movement, contain the Palestine Liberation Organization within it, and use all means of local and international pressure to transform it into a security agent for the occupation.

6) Dismembering the Palestinian territories and turning them into isolated ghettos, and establishing the racist apartheid system as a tool for coexistence with the Palestinian demographic reality that it could not abolish, even though it does not stop dreaming of ending it through new ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.

These six operations undermined the remaining prospects for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, as they were used to kill what was called the “two-state solution,” in full view of an international community biased toward Israel, which continues to talk about the “two-state solution” without exerting any actual pressure to stop the Zionist settlement that is destroying... That's the solution.

Was the Oslo Accord a success or a failure?

The answer is that it was a failure and frustration for the Palestinian side, and a genius success for the Zionist movement because it allowed it to continue the occupation and perpetuate the apartheid system without costs, but rather with profits, the last of which was the shameful normalization with the Arab environment.

No one can deny that rational Palestinian voices, wise nationalism, and Palestinian forces warned against that agreement when it was signed, and warned against continuing with it, most notably the voices of Haider Abdel Shafi, Edward Said, and many others. Nor can anyone deny that the overwhelming majority of the sons and daughters of the Palestinian people today oppose not only the Oslo Agreement, but also the continuing Oslo approach, including some who were taken by illusions of the expected peace, and then woke up to the pain of bitter reality.

The first to oppose this approach was the generation of Palestinian youth that was born after the signing of the agreement, and today is at the forefront of the valiant Palestinian resistance to the injustice of the occupation and the brutality of racial discrimination.

What is required is Palestinian

Today, we cannot turn back the wheel of history and cancel the sin of Oslo, even if we wish to do so, but we can demand an end to it, stop the approach that led to that sin, and replace it with a Palestinian national strategy of resistance struggle that reunites the energies of the Palestinian people and its components, and reformulates its national program and vision to include Not only ending the occupation and the return of all Palestinian refugees whose cause was marginalized, but also overthrowing the entire racist apartheid system and the entire settler-colonial project in all of historic Palestine, and retracting all the free concessions that were made to the Zionist movement in exchange for nothing, except the satisfaction of the interests of a small minority at the expense of Its people, meeting the bureaucratic needs of institutions that have become alienated from it, and sending one clear message to the entire world, that the Palestinians will not accept the humiliation of enslavement to the occupation and the apartheid system, and that the only alternative to the reality of a single apartheid state is a single democratic state in which the people of Palestine realize their right to complete freedom. Dignity and self-determination.

The Prisoners' and Ex-Prisoners' Affairs Authority reported today, Thursday, that the health conditions of the striking prisoners, Maher Al-Akhras and Kayed Al-Fasfous, are very worrying, and that the occupation authorities continue to detain them in harsh detention conditions, and are taking a number of tormenting measures against them with the aim of breaking their will and launching an open hunger strike.

The Commission said: “The prisoner Maher Al-Akhras (52 years old) from the town of Silat Al-Dhahr, Jenin Governorate, has been on strike for 23 days in refusal of his administrative detention. He is currently suffering from pain throughout his body, heart and stomach pain, severe dizziness, and has lost a lot of weight.”

It added: "The mute prisoner is complaining of high blood pressure and is refraining from taking his medication and supplements until the administrative detention order issued against him is terminated."

It is noteworthy that the mute prisoner is a former prisoner who spent five years in the occupation prisons, and is a father of six children.

As for the condition of the striking prisoner, Kayed Al-Fafsous, he suffers from extreme fatigue and exhaustion. His movement has become very difficult and he cannot walk or stand, in addition to pain throughout his body. He suffers from dizziness, dizziness, and lack of balance. He did not go out to visit his lawyer due to his poor health condition, noting that he was... Submitting an appeal to the military court of the occupying state, “Ofer,” against the administrative decision issued against him, but no hearing has been set to consider it.

It is noteworthy that the detainee Kayed Al-Fafsous (34 years old) from the city of Dura / Hebron, was re-arrested by the occupation on May 2, 2023. He is a former prisoner who spent about (7) years in the occupation’s prisons, and he began facing arrest in 2007.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian from Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the young Palestinian, Muhannad Al-Kharbathawi, after they raided and searched his house.

Today, Thursday, dozens of settlers stormed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, amid heavy protection from the occupation police.

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

Groups of settlers storm Al-Aqsa on a daily basis except Friday and Saturday.

The President of the State of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived in the Cuban capital, Havana, to participate in the summit of the Group of 77 + China, and to meet with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

He was received at the airport by a number of senior Cuban officials.

The President is accompanied by: Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ziad Abu Amr, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, Chief Justice of Palestine, Advisor to the President for Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Advisor to the President for Diplomatic Affairs, Majdi Al-Khalidi, and the Permanent Representative of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour. And the Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Cuba, Akram Samhan.

The Israeli army decided to impose a comprehensive cordon on the areas of the West Bank and close the Gaza Strip crossings, under the pretext of Jewish holidays.

According to an Israeli military spokesman, the closure will be imposed starting tomorrow afternoon, Friday, until Saturday-Sunday night.

He pointed out that the decision was taken based on an assessment of the security situation and the directives of the political level.

14 members of the Israeli Knesset submitted a petition to the head of the Shin Bet Security Service, Ronen Bar, demanding that the conditions of detention of settler Amiram Ben-Uliel, convicted of killing the Dawabsha family in Duma, Nablus, by burning him in 2015, be improved.

According to the Seventh Hebrew Channel, these are members of the Knesset from different parties, and they demanded an end to the solitary confinement of the settler Ben Uliel, who is detained in Eshel prison.

The Knesset members claimed that the settler suffers from harsh conditions inside the prison, his psychological state is unstable, and that there is no equality between him and the Palestinian prisoners in the conditions of treatment.

Last night, Hamas and Islamic Jihad affirmed their rejection of the continuation of armed clashes in the Ain al-Hilweh camp in southern Lebanon.

This came during the reception of the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad Al-Nakhalah, in the presence of the head of the Department of Arab and International Relations and member of the Political Bureau, Ihsan Ataya, a leadership delegation from the “Hamas” movement, headed by the deputy head of the movement abroad and member of the Political Bureau, Musa Abu Marzouk, which included: Head of the Department of National Relations. Abroad, Ali Baraka, and the movement’s representative in Lebanon, Ahmed Abdel Hadi.

The two sides focused on the seriousness of the deplored clashes taking place in Ain al-Hilweh camp, which led to the death and injury of dozens of residents of the camp and the neighborhood, the destruction of homes and property, the displacement of people, the disruption of people’s lives and harm to their interests, and the closure of schools and institutions. According to a statement by the Jihad movement.

The two movements stressed that the fighting that is taking place is against the will of the Palestinian people, and only serves the occupation and the suspicious projects targeting the Palestinian camps, in order to erase the refugee issue and pass the displacement and resettlement projects that are completely rejected. As stated in the statement.

The two movements said: “The continuation of the clashes targets the Palestinian national situation in the camps, targets security and stability in Lebanon, and harms the national interest and the Palestinian cause.”

They condemned any internal fighting by anyone, and the statement called on everyone to immediately cease fire, calling on the Palestinian resistance forces to lift the cover on all those involved in these clashes, and to close ranks and unify the Palestinian position in confronting the Israeli occupation alone.

The two movements continued: “The necessity of arresting those involved in crimes, and handing them over to the competent Lebanese authorities, does not justify the threat to civil peace in the camp and the neighborhood, and it cannot be at the expense of our camps, our people, and our Lebanese brothers.”

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, in a podcast interview broadcast on Wednesday, that Saudi Arabia made clear to the United States that the Palestinian issue occupies a central role that it will play in any future agreement with Israel.

Blinken said in his response to a question from the interviewer, Tommy Vietor, and his former deputy in the White House in the administration of former President Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes, on the “Pod Save The World” program regarding a group of news reports about a possible American-brokered normalization agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and Israel “It is clear from what we are hearing from the Saudis that if this process is to move forward, the Palestinian part is going to be very important,” Blinken said.

He added that it is also important for the Biden administration and for all countries that will participate in the negotiations. participate in this process.

Blinken said in his interview with the radio program, which was later published verbatim on the US State Department website: “In our opinion, of course, this must include the two-state solution.”

In response to a question addressing “the reason behind the Biden administration’s assistance to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,” he replied: “These matters are not related to the personality of the leaders, or the individuals who lead, but rather relate to the essence of the issue and whether we can, in every way.” What we do, is to advance a world that is a little more peaceful, a little more prosperous, a little more full of opportunity. There is no doubt in my mind that if we can help achieve normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia, that will move the world in that direction. "We have seen extraordinary turmoil in that part of the world since at least 1979 - decades of turmoil."

He added that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be "beneficial to the region," and described it as "a change that will no longer be linked to any specific government, but rather to the basic interests of the countries concerned." However, Blinken noted that “normalization...cannot be a substitute for Israel and the Palestinians resolving their differences.”

The Minister went on to explain: “Now, this is really difficult. There is a lot that goes into it. It is not clear whether we will get there. But there is no doubt in my mind that if we can, it will be beneficial for us, beneficial for the countries involved, and beneficial "For the region, and good for the world beyond it. If you have a leading Islamic country in the world, an Islamic country in the world, that makes peace with Israel, that will have benefits that extend far beyond the region," he said. "Now, one piece is very important to this normalization - that is, Efforts to improve relations between Israel and its neighbors - cannot be a substitute for Israel and the Palestinians resolving their differences and achieving a much better future for the Palestinians. And in our view, of course, that must include a two-state solution. So it is also clear from what we are hearing from the Saudis that if this is to "If the process goes forward, the Palestinian part will be very important as well."

In response to a question regarding the previous normalization agreements in the Abraham Accords, “which said to the Palestinians, you will get bread crumbs, if not, or nothing at all.” The minister replied that things did not continue well regarding the spread of normalization with Arab and Islamic countries. Grand.

Blinken's statements show the gap between the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Biden administration regarding the Palestinian issue in the talks with the Saudis. While Washington is convinced that it would be impossible to reach a major agreement without achieving tangible benefits for the Palestinians and insists that this is Riyadh's position as well, Netanyahu and senior cabinet members oppose this, saying that the Palestinian issue is marginal in importance.

Sources close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu estimated that the differences within the government coalition would deepen, and perhaps its collapse, in the next session of the Knesset, against the backdrop of divisions over some internal and external political issues, especially with regard to the Palestinians.

According to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the issue of transferring armor, equipment, and weapons to the Palestinian Authority increased the state of rift within the Israeli government, despite Netanyahu’s denial of transferring any weapons or equipment, and that only 8 armored vehicles were transferred. The decision to transfer them was taken during the previous government, which in turn denied that.

According to the newspaper, this issue is part of other controversial issues, including the evacuation of settlement outposts, the conditions of Palestinian prisoners, cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, dealing with Hezbollah’s provocations, and other issues.

Those around Netanyahu estimate that the coalition will not last for a long time, while a prominent member of it said that the government will collapse due to the extremism of Ben Gvir and Smotrich, and we need a miracle so that the coalition can survive until the end of the Knesset’s winter conference.

The sources attacked Ben Gvir and Smotrich's actions, and their public criticism of the government's and Netanyahu's policies, indicating that the government will find difficulties in continuing in this manner until the end of its specified term.

Last night, Israeli warplanes launched air strikes on several Syrian targets in the vicinity of Hama Governorate.

According to an official Syrian military source, the bombing was carried out from the direction of northern Lebanon, indicating that it caused some material losses.

The bombing occurred a few hours after a similar attack that targeted Syrian air defense points at a military base near Tartous, killing two Syrian soldiers and wounding 6 others.

For the second day in a row, the Israeli occupation forces continue to tighten their military measures in and around Nablus Governorate.

These forces are still partially closing some checkpoints and preventing the movement of citizens and vehicles through them, while imposing strict measures on movement through other checkpoints.

It also continues its intensive deployment around the town of Beita and closes its entrance.

The town witnessed a massive raid for several hours, during which confrontations broke out with young men, causing dozens to suffocate.

The town also witnessed clashes between occupation soldiers and resistance fighters.

At dawn and Thursday morning, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests and raids in various areas in the West Bank.

In the morning, these forces stormed the Aida camp, north of Bethlehem, and arrested the editor, Mustafa Hammad, the editor, Samed Al-Ateeq, Habashi Daamsa, and Muhammad Al-Amir.

While Majdi Zaqeq and Bahaa Muqbil were arrested from the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.

Muhannad Al-Kharbathawi was arrested from Qalandia camp, north of occupied Jerusalem.

The occupation forces stormed several areas, including the town of Beita in Nablus, amid armed confrontations and clashes, and raided dozens of homes.

Many citizens suffered from suffocation during these confrontations.

The Israeli occupation authorities notified, this evening, Wednesday, of the demolition of 6 warehouses in the town of Al-Auja, north of Jericho.

According to local sources, these forces placed a demolition and removal notice on 6 stores, each store measuring 66 square metres, built since 2020 on Street 90, belonging to the citizen Muhammad Issa Hussein Romanin.

The sources indicated that the occupation authorities gave them 4 days to evacuate the warehouses before the demolition, noting that they were not given prior notifications to stop construction.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian south of Qalqilya.

According to local sources, these forces stopped a vehicle on the Qalqilya-Nablus road, near the “Kedumim” settlement, in which a young Palestinian was traveling (whose identity is not yet known), and they interrogated him and then arrested him.

Five citizens were killed and others were injured, this Wednesday evening, in an accidental explosion that occurred on the eastern border of Gaza City.

Three of the martyrs were known to be: Baraa Wael Al-Zard, Muhammad Omar Qaddoum, and Nasser Rami Nofal, while two remain unidentified.

According to the Ministry of Health, 25 citizens sustained various injuries, noting that medical teams are still dealing with them at Al-Shifa Medical Hospital.

Also, 5 citizens were injured by bullets and others suffocated as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ suppression of demonstrators in eastern Gaza.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces tightened their military measures at checkpoints and crossroads south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that the occupation forces tightened their procedures from the Huwara military checkpoint to the Zaatara military checkpoint, where they closed the road at the Ainabus roundabout in Huwara, south of Nablus, for those heading to the city.

It added that the occupation forces deployed extensively in the area.

The Prisoner Movement decided, this evening, Wednesday, to suspend the open hunger strike, which was scheduled to begin tomorrow, Thursday, 9/14/2023.

The Prisoner Movement confirmed in a statement that this came after the occupation retracted its decisions to reduce visits to the families of prisoners in prisons.

She said: “Our battle with the occupation is open, its nature and form changing according to the requirements of the stage and the data of the field, and this confrontation will not stop except by liberating our land and our people from an enemy that only understands the language of challenge and confrontation.”

The Prisoner Movement sent a message to the occupation, saying: “If you return, we will return, and we will never allow an inherent right that we took away with our hunger, patience, and the sacrifice of our martyrs from the Prisoner Movement to be violated.”

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said, “Britain will provide UNRWA with an amount of US$12.461 million to support its basic services in the period leading up to the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.”

This came during his visit, today, Wednesday, to residents of the Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah, in his first official visit to the occupied Palestinian territory, where he met with the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini.

The British Foreign Secretary said: “I saw first-hand the impact of UNRWA’s work in supporting Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, and British funding helps support millions of Palestine refugees across the region by providing vital healthcare.”

In turn, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA briefed the British Foreign Secretary on the main protection issues faced by Palestine refugees in the camp and in other parts of the West Bank, and the agency’s work including key services such as education and health.

“The agency’s services, including providing education to more than half a million children, have become more important than ever given the unprecedented challenges faced by Palestine refugees,” he said.

Two Syrian soldiers were killed, on Wednesday evening, in an Israeli naval bombardment on a Syrian military base in Tartous.

According to the Syrian official news agency, SANA, the bombing targeted Syrian air defense sites, killing two soldiers, wounding six others, and causing severe material damage.

It confirmed that the bombing was carried out from the Mediterranean Sea.

Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy said on Wednesday that thwarting weapons smuggling operations from the Jordanian border led to impressive operational achievements in recent months, as he put it.

This came after a tour he made on the border, following a security assessment session he held with senior officers responsible for the Jordan Valley areas.

The officers briefed Halevy on “countermeasures to prevent weapons smuggling” into the West Bank and even into “Israel.”

An Israeli army statement said that since last year, more than 400 smuggling operations of weapons, explosive devices and ammunition had been thwarted.

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation forces arrested a young Palestinian after assaulting him near Damascus Gate in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces brutally attacked the young Palestinian Ziad Abu Nab, before arresting him, despite his injury.

On September 13, 1993, the world witnessed the handshake of the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and the Prime Minister of Israel at the time, Yitzhak Rabin, in the White House garden, a moment that observers considered an “amazing moment.” The famous handshake between the enemies also marked the beginning of what became known as the Oslo Accords. It is a framework for talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiators, mediated by the Americans.

The idea was that the Palestinians would eventually be empowered through open negotiations and confidence-building measures to control their own affairs in the territories occupied in 1967, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. After a five-year transitional period, the prevailing belief was that a Palestinian state would survive. Together with Israel. Through this two-state solution, peace can be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians.

Today, thirty years later, experts believe, it has become clear that the Oslo Accords did not achieve peace or a two-state solution. Especially since - according to all statistics - more than 200 Palestinians and about 30 Israelis have been killed so far in 2023 alone, and Israel is led by a government that is the most right-wing and extremist in its history, while the Palestinian leadership suffers from weakness and division, while there is no possibility, even if it is weak, of a return. To negotiations any time soon.

In America, successive American administrations from 2014 until today abandoned the idea of sponsoring negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel, and abolished the position of “peace envoy” and replaced it with the position of “normalization envoy,” which gives priority in American policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to the vigorous pursuit of normalization deals between Arab countries. And Israel, as we saw in the so-called “Abraham Accords,” and its current persistent effort to annex the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to these agreements.

While many wonder how this bitter reality emerged (currently) from the high hopes in 1993, others point to violations of the terms of the agreements on both sides. Others blame a lack of accountability, which has allowed these abuses to go unchecked.

Some experts believe that the Oslo peace process failed because the framework itself was flawed and largely flawed in three key areas: first, the agreements ignored the power imbalance between the two sides; Second, it focused on ending violence committed by Palestinian armed groups while condoning violence committed by the Israeli occupying state, and third, the Oslo Accords sought peace as the ultimate goal, rather than justice.

The Palestine Liberation Organization implicitly recognized Israel in 1988 (National Council in Algeria on November 15, 1988). But when a more formal statement was needed for Israel to agree to the talks, letters were exchanged on September 9, 1993, and Yasser Arafat wrote in his letter to Rabin: “The Palestine Liberation Organization recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.” According to experts then, by officially recognizing Israel's right to exist, the Palestine Liberation Organization had practically abandoned its sole sovereign claim to 78% of the historic homeland of the Palestinians that Israel now claims.

In response, Rabin wrote to Arafat that Israel would "recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people" without recognizing the Palestinians' right to form their own state.

In the “Declaration of Principles” signed by Arafat and Rabin at the White House on September 13, it was stated that the goal of the talks was “to implement Security Council Resolutions No. 242 (from 1967) and 338 (from 1973, which called on Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupied in 1967 and explicitly calls for To establish a Palestinian state.

Since then, Israel has expropriated nearly half of the West Bank for the exclusive use of Jewish settlers, in violation of international law and routinely withdraws water from Palestinian aquifers for use by settlers, while denying Palestinians access to their own water.

By most estimates, Palestinian lives became worse during the post-Oslo years under these measures, not better. As Palestinians lost more control over their lands, homes, and resources, their ability to establish a state became more elusive.

According to experts, by insisting on holding bilateral negotiations between the strong state of Israel, supported unconditionally by America and Europe, and a people without a state, and without the auspices of the United Nations or any other international body, the Oslo framework ignored the imbalance of power between Israel and the Palestinians, while the American mediators insisted. However, both sides need to reach a settlement through concession, at a time when Israel possesses hundreds of times more military, economic and diplomatic power than the Palestinian side.

By ignoring this power imbalance, the Oslo Accords effectively allowed Israel to continue expropriating land and resources without any consequences. With 60% of the West Bank under Israeli control, the prospects for a viable, independent Palestinian state have been undermined.

The 1994 follow-up agreement also stipulated that “the two sides shall take all necessary measures to prevent acts of terrorism, crime and hostilities directed against each other.” She added, "The Palestinian side will take all necessary measures to prevent such hostile actions directed against the settlements, the infrastructure that serves them, and the area of military installations."

Successive Israeli governments have interpreted the term “hostile acts” loosely, allowing them to target, arrest, imprison, and shoot Palestinians who defended their lands through non-violent means by Israeli occupation soldiers.

The agreement also stipulated that "the Israeli side will take all necessary measures to prevent such hostile actions emanating from the settlements and directed against the Palestinians." The agreement did not mention the daily violence of the Israeli military occupation against Palestinian civilians.

It is noteworthy that one month after the famous handshake (September 13, 2023), the late Palestinian writer Edward Said described the Oslo Accords as “a tool for Palestinian surrender,” while a group of senior political scientists recently called on decision-makers in the United States to completely abandon the Oslo framework and the two-state solution. .

They call on the United States instead to "defend the equality, citizenship, and human rights of all Jews and Palestinians living within the single state dominated by Israel."

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said today, Wednesday, “The visit of the Arab brothers to Palestine represents a message to strengthen the steadfastness of our people and their steadfastness on their land, and to enhance the unity of the Arab position and blood.”

This came during his reception in his office in Ramallah, a delegation of heads and representatives of Arab charitable and community institutions, guests of the Jerusalem International Conference on Sustainable Development Applications, in the presence of the Fund’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Munib Al-Masry, and the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Arab and Islamic Funds, Nasser Qatami.

Shtayyeh greeted the Arab brothers coming from Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia and Jordan.

He continued: "Every Arab has a share in Palestine, especially in Jerusalem, by virtue of religion and nationality. The Palestinian is entrusted with this land, and is keen on the security and stability of every Arab country, just as he is keen on Palestine."

Shtayyeh briefed the delegation on the general situation in Palestine, and the conditions we live in in light of the occupation’s daily attacks on our people, and the wars it wages against land, people, money, and narratives.

The Prime Minister appreciated the support provided by Arab charitable, community and development institutions to Palestine, especially to the city of Jerusalem, to strengthen the steadfastness of its people in the face of the occupation.

For its part, the delegation stressed that Palestine lives in the heart of every Arab and Muslim and will remain the central Arab issue, and support for Palestine and Jerusalem will remain a priority for the work of Arab charitable institutions.

It is noteworthy that the Jerusalem International Conference on Sustainable Development Applications is organized by the Jerusalem Fund and Endowment, Al-Quds University, and a number of institutions, and is scheduled to be held on the fourteenth of this month.

Official Israeli statistics showed that the number of Palestinians inside the country reached two million and 65 thousand people with the advent of the Hebrew New Year.

According to statistics published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, approximately 400,000 of them are residents of Jerusalem and the Golan.

They represent 21% of the population of the areas known as the “Green Line.”

While the number of Israelis is 9 million and 795 thousand people, an increase of 194 thousand people over the last census last year, a clear increase of 2%.

The Department of Statistics expected that the population of "Israel" would rise to 10 million at the end of the year 2024, and that this number would reach 15 million people by the year 2048, and to 20 million in the year 2065.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men from the town of Qabatiya, near the town of Yaabad, west of Jenin.

According to local sources, the occupation forces arrested the two young men, Muhammad Jamal Hanaysha (27 years old), and Yazid Iyad Hanaysha, while they were passing through the “Dotan” military checkpoint established on the lands of the town of Ya’bad.

Today, Wednesday, the occupation forces set up three flying checkpoints and tightened their procedures on the road linking the cities of Nablus and Ramallah.

According to local sources, the vicinity of the Eastern Laban Gas Station, south of Nablus, is witnessing an intense presence of occupation jeeps, where more than 13 military vehicles are stationed, in addition to special forces vehicles, and through their deployment and installation of a flying checkpoint, they are hindering the movement of dozens of homeowners and shops in the village.

The sources added that the occupation forces set up a flying checkpoint at the Oyoun al-Haramiya junction, north of Ramallah, and a third checkpoint at the traffic light near the “Shilo” settlement, north of Ramallah.

The Prisoners' Club said, "22 prisoners have remained detained since before the signing of the Oslo Accords, the oldest of whom is the prisoner Muhammad al-Tus, who has been detained since 1985."

The Prisoner's Club stated, in a press statement issued today, Wednesday, that 11 prisoners who were detained before Oslo and released as part of a prisoner exchange deal were re-arrested by the occupation in 2014.

He added that the occupation authorities continue to detain the bodies of 11 martyrs of the captive movement, namely: Anis Dawla in 1980, Aziz Owaisat since 2018, Fares Baroud, Nassar Taqatqa, and Bassam Al-Sayeh, all three of whom were martyred during the year 2019, and Saadi Al-Gharabli and Kamal Abu Waar during the year 2020. The prisoner Sami Al-Amour, who was martyred in 2021, and the prisoner Daoud Al-Zubaidi, who was martyred in 2022, in addition to the prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid, who was martyred in December 2022, and the martyr Khader Adnan, who was martyred on May 2, 2023.

The following is a list of the names of the former prisoners: Muhammad Al-Tous, Ibrahim Abu Mukh, Walid Daqqa, Ibrahim Bayadsa, Ahmed Abu Jaber, Samir Abu Nimah, Muhammad Daoud, Jumaa Adam, Mahmoud Abu Kharbeesh, Raed Al-Saadi, Ibrahim Agbaria, Muhammad Agbaria, Yahya Agbaria, Muhammad Jabareen, Diyaa Al-Faluji, Muhammad Falana, Nasser Abu Sorour, Mahmoud Abu Sorour, Mahmoud Issa, Muhammad Shamasneh, Abdel-Jawad Shamasneh, and Alaa Al-Din Al-Karaki.

The prisoners who were re-arrested in 2014 are: Nael Al-Barghouti, Alaa Al-Bazian, Samer Al-Mahroum, Nasser Abd Rabbo, Jamal Abu Saleh, Nidal Zaloum, Majdi Al-Ajouli, Abdel Moneim Tohme, Ayed Khalil, Adnan Maragha, and Taha Al-Shakhshir.

It is noteworthy that more than (5,200) prisoners are languishing in Israeli occupation prisons, including (36) female prisoners, (170) children, and (1,264) administrative detainees, and the number of prisoners serving life sentences is (559) prisoners.

Today, Wednesday, the Israeli court in Ramla prison decided to hold a special session to reconsider the order to renew the isolation of prisoner Ahmed Manasra, until September 20.

According to lawyer Khaled Zabarqa, the Israeli court in “Ramla” prison decided to postpone the special session to consider again the matter of renewing the isolation of prisoner Ahmed Manasra until September 20 of this month.

Zabarqa explained that the session was held in the presence of the defense team for his case, and alongside him were lawyers Nariman Al-Zoubi and Uday Mansour from Adalah, as well as in the presence of his family, the Physicians for Human Rights Foundation, and representatives of foreign consulates and embassies.

At the beginning of the session, the defense team was informed that Ahmed could not be brought to the session, and after demands and insistence from the defense team that he attend, Ahmed was later brought.

According to lawyer Zabarqa, Ahmed’s health and psychological condition is getting worse and worse compared to previous months.

Zabarqa stressed that continuing to detain Ahmed in solitary confinement is a crime, and demanded that the utmost efforts be made to rescue and release him.

It is noteworthy that the occupation prison administration has continued to isolate prisoner Manasra for nearly two years in harsh and difficult conditions, despite the serious health condition he has suffered and the legal efforts that have been made over the past period to obtain his release.