Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities continue to close the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing for the export of products from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank and abroad for the third day in a row.

According to local sources, the daily losses of the various sectors operating in the field of export are estimated at half a million dollars due to the closure of the crossing, including losses resulting from the suspension of agricultural exports of about two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

Human rights organizations active in Gaza considered that the Israeli occupation’s decision to prevent the export of industrial and agricultural products constitutes a crime of collective punishment that includes farmers, merchants, and fishermen directly, in addition to stopping the export and marketing movement that harms a wide sector of workers in the fishing and agricultural sector, reaching about 60,000 families. .

The Prisoner Club said, "The Israeli occupation continues its crime against the prisoner, Asif Al-Rifai (21 years old), who has cancer, from the town of Kafr Ain / Ramallah, by arresting him and detaining him in the so-called (Ramla prison clinic), despite the constant risks to his life, and his urgent need for his family. Especially since the CT scans that were recently performed on him showed that his health was not improving.”

The Prisoner Club pointed out that the prisoner Al-Rifai began receiving treatment between (chemical and biological treatment) in March of this year, that is, about seven months after the date of his arrest on September 24, 2022, despite the confirmation of medical reports on the level of danger that he was facing the period of his arrest.

It is noteworthy that the occupation authorities detain more than 700 sick prisoners, including about 200 prisoners suffering from chronic diseases, including 24 prisoners, and detainees suffering from cancer and tumors of varying degrees, and today the case of the prisoner, Asif Al-Rifai, is considered the most difficult and severe.

Jordan condemned today, Thursday, the opening of Papua New Guinea's embassy accredited to Israel in the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Sinan Majali, a spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, said, "The opening of the embassy is an unacceptable and condemned step, and is a flagrant and gross violation of international law and resolutions of international legitimacy."

He added, "Any procedures or decisions aimed at changing the status of the city of Jerusalem or its legal status are considered null and void and have no legal effect."

Diplomatic relations began for the first time between Papua New Guinea and Israel in 1978, nearly 3 years after the first gained its independence from Australia.

The Israeli occupation forces continue to close the gate built on the section of the separation and racial expansion wall, west of the village of Akaba, north of Tulkarm, for the eighth day in a row.

According to local sources, those forces closed the gate a week ago, without giving reasons, and prevented workers and farmers from reaching their agricultural lands behind the wall, which exacerbated their suffering, especially since they depend for their income on farming their lands, with the olive harvest season approaching.

The sources pointed out that the apartheid wall destroyed 2,500 dunums of the village's land, while the occupation forces imposed impossible restrictions on farmers to access their land.

The sources pointed out that the occupation forces placed concrete slabs and cement cubes along the wall from Akaba to the neighboring town of Qafin last year.

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces arrested 4 citizens from the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem.

According to local sources, these forces arrested the two young men, Amir Salaymeh and Muhammad Maragheh, and the two boys, Moamen Salaymeh and Youssef Qabbani, from the town of Silwan.

The head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Minister Moayed Shaaban, said that the so-called "commander of the central region in the occupation army" issued a decision last night defining the scope of three random settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, in preparation for converting them into self-contained settlements that can be developed and expanded at the expense of Palestinian citizens land. 

Shaaban added, in a press statement, today, Thursday, that settlement expansion, control of Palestinian land and the imposition of new facts on the ground have become the most prominent headlines of the current occupation government, which is controlled and managed by the leaders of settler gangs.

And he indicated that two outposts are located in the south of Hebron governorate, namely Avigall and Ashhail, and the third is located in Jericho governorate, all of which are random and were established in 2001.

He pointed out that the occupation's last step came as an embodiment of the occupying power's decision to legalize 10 settlement outposts last February, and today it is taking measures to install them by adjusting their areas of influence, meaning that the occupation authorities decided to allocate other lands for the benefit of these outposts in order to expand them in the future at the expense of citizens' lands.

Shaaban recalled the seriousness of the occupation government's decision to reduce the steps of approving settlement plans, indicating that what we see today of a great acceleration in the issue of approving, consolidating and expanding outposts is a reflection of the recent occupation decision represented in providing expanded powers to the extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in the issue of settlement expansion.

He warned that the next stage will witness other occupation attempts to control more lands and impose dangerous new facts on the ground, as long as the world practices double standards and remains silent in front of the full-fledged crime of occupation.

Shaaban called on all official and popular frameworks and national factions to expedite participation in the completion of a national strategy that strengthens the frameworks of popular resistance, as it is the most effective means of resisting and thwarting the occupation's plans.

The Prisoners Club held the occupation authorities fully responsible for the life and fate of the elderly detainee, Sheikh Saeed Nakhla (65 years) from the Jalazoun camp / Ramallah, who was re-arrested by the occupation at dawn today, Thursday, from his home in the camp, nearly four months after his release, after He spent about a year in his last administrative detention.

According to his wife, "a force from the occupation army stormed their house at dawn, and before arresting him, the occupation forces threatened him to abuse him.

The number of prisoners in the occupation prisons is about 5,200, including (35) female prisoners and about (170) children, while the number of detainees reached (1,264) administrative detainees until the end of last August.

Last night, a group of settlers burned perennial olive trees in the Tel Rumeida area in the center of Hebron.

According to local sources, the settlers burned three perennial olive trees in the Tel Rumeida area, which is located near the "Ramat Yishai" settlement, which is located on the citizens' lands.

The sources indicated that the people were able to control the fire, after the fire destroyed three perennial trees belonging to the Qanbi and Zahida families.

The practices of the occupation and its cadres in the West Bank are well known and exposed, and our people have suffered a lot, and are still suffering daily, from these practices that do not stop at a certain limit, and they affect people, trees, land, and everything related to aspects of life, but what happened in Hebron on the tenth of July The past, which was revealed by the Israeli newspaper "Haaretz", is considered the pinnacle of savagery and inhumanity.

According to the report of the aforementioned newspaper, large forces stormed several houses in the city, and among them were some female soldiers who had lost all meanings of morals and humanity, including two who acted with five virtuous women from Hebron in a manner that contradicts all concepts of taste, morals and humanity, and cannot be explained or justified in any way. of forms.

These two female recruits, who had a ferocious dog with them, were forced to make him the despicable tool of threat. These two female recruits practiced bad manners and the presence of the frightening dog, pressuring these women to take off their clothes completely in front of the crying and screaming of children, while they see what they see of sad and painful scenes of mothers and sisters walking naked in front of them, under threat. The dog and female soldiers are not much different from these dogs.

This behavior aroused Palestinian, Arab and international resentment among all those who saw it or heard about it, and a women's protest took place in Gaza, and the Prime Minister, Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh, the abuse of our women calls for bringing the perpetrators to international justice, perhaps those who disregarded morals and human feelings and did what they did pay the price they must pay.

Our honorable and virtuous women are more honorable than anyone who tries to abuse them and force them to do abusive behavior. These virtuous women will remain a symbol of morality and honor, and the occupation and its recruits will remain naked internationally and morally. No matter how much the occupation tries, with all its forces and arrogance, to change reality in any way, it will never succeed, and its crimes and recklessness will impact its reputation and its reality with all evil and despicableness, not only before us but before the international community in general, and history is coming and it is the best witness..!

In the context of reading the new Israeli strategy towards the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967, which the writer here continues to present a reading of for the third week in a row, in light of what the current, most extreme right-wing Israeli government is doing, an indicative pause was made on how to market the Israeli settlement policy in this context. Lands before international forums, especially the approach of the right-wing forces in control of the reins of government, which claim that this settlement policy does not involve any forceful or high-density population transfer, and that it relies on the legal use of lands that are not privately owned. Accompanying this claim is an indication that it was agreed within the framework of the Oslo Accords that the settlement issue would be one of the issues of the permanent status negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel, and that until a final agreement is reached, it is assumed that nothing will hinder either party from carrying out planning and construction work in the areas under its control. control of each of them. It must be said that what Israel concluded from this process is that the settlements are not one of the sources of the conflict, which existed before the establishment of any settlement in the lands of 1967, and in its reading, its source lies mainly in “the attempt of the Arabs since 1948 to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel, and their continued attempts to eradicate and exterminate them.”

Another component of this Israeli strategy is that, as stated in many policy papers issued by think tanks that express the views of the ruling right, the current status quo between Israel and the Palestinians can be permanent.

According to one of them, this status quo, with its political impasse, is not the result of Israeli rejection or obstinacy, as some leaders, governments, and analysts in the West claim. He put forward "negative initiatives" aimed at defaming and undermining Israel's legitimacy and denying its character as a Jewish state. The same paper asserts that the coercive imposition of political solutions from one party, and from global organizations, international conferences, or foreign countries, is not the acceptable and desirable way to change the status quo. At the same time, in the absence of any currently in place and practical diplomatic tracks, the current status quo will surely remain constant and permanent.

As everyone knows, the status quo does not remain as it is, because the measures imposed by Israel unilaterally, as it has almost absolute control over those lands, contribute to its rapid change.

With regard to the arguments for this strategy around the world, perhaps the most striking thing in recent times is the attempt to equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. In parallel, considering the tendency of some parties in the international community to link anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, as two phenomena of equal magnitude and strength, reflects a wrong and deceptive position. And as stated in one of the policy papers reflecting the positions of the Israeli right, anti-Semitism is a tragic phenomenon that has been directed only at Jews for thousands of years, and has resulted in numerous massacres, expulsions, mass torture and humiliations, and summary executions. And it caused the conversion of religion by force and coercion, the demolition of synagogues and cemeteries, the phenomena of slavery, the confiscation of property and others. This phenomenon culminated in the Holocaust. The aim of anti-Semitism was to push for the complete extermination of the Jewish people and their complete racial extermination.

As for the phenomenon of Islamophobia, its source, according to the same paper, is the fear of Islam in light of the fanatical fundamentalist movements and the terrorism they practice. But there is no philosophy in this that calls for the elimination and ethnic extermination of Muslims. In the same vein, right-wing Israeli governments have been working in recent years to regard anti-Zionism in the eyes of the governments of most Western countries as delegitimizing the State of Israel and an updated form of anti-Semitism.

Work must be done to expose the crimes of the occupation in Israeli prisons, and prisoners’ issues must be considered at the top of the political and diplomatic ladder of attention.

It must receive the priority that befits the struggle and steadfastness of our heroic prisoners in the occupation prisons and work in all areas of the international political, diplomatic and legal movement. Because the violations and crimes of the occupation authorities and their various agencies against the heroic prisoners in the occupation prisons have become a real catastrophe in light of the organized war led by the extremist government. The most recent of which was the aggressive, arbitrary measures and decisions taken by the fascist Israeli Minister Ben Gvir, especially his decision to reduce visits to the families of prisoners. Which is considered an extension of the open war of occupation against our people in general and against the heroic prisoners in particular, in flagrant violation of international law, international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and the understandings and agreements signed, and an attempt to undermine the achievements of the prisoner movement that it achieved through its long struggle.

The racist decisions of Netanyahu's government are decisions that reflect the gang mentality and criminality against heroic prisoners. It contradicts the most basic human rights laws and the Fourth Geneva Conventions. The oppressive occupation regime’s measures will not weaken the will of our male and female prisoners in the occupation prisons, and that the Palestinian people, in all their places of presence, will defend their male and female prisoners, and will confront all attempts to terrorize them, and that all occupation measures are invalid and cannot undermine the determination, will and insistence of the prisoners to obtain their rights and regain their freedom. .

The occupation government bears full direct responsibility for the escalation in Israeli aggression against prisoners, especially in light of the implementation of Ben Gvir’s racist fascist decisions. Clear positions must be taken by the Human Rights Council and all international organizations, especially the Red Cross, and the importance of condemning and rejecting these decisions, pressing for their abolition, and protecting the rights of prisoners acquired through international conventions and the struggles of our brave prisoners over many decades.

The rights of the prisoners and their sacrifices are not a favor on the part of anyone, nor are they subject to negotiation or concession. The disagreement that emerged within the ranks of the occupation government after the extremist Ben Gvir’s announcement of violating the right of prisoners to visit and reducing it is neither an acknowledgment of this right nor an acknowledgment of this achievement. Rather, it is about the timing and the mechanism for taking it, which confirms that the systematic war led by the occupation government is a comprehensive war aimed at undermining the will and determination of the prisoners in the occupation prisons, and it is not possible to compromise on the rights of the prisoners who confirm that this policy is like a flame that will burn whoever lit it.

The United Nations and its competent bodies and councils call for the necessity of action, especially by the Red Cross, and they must bear their responsibilities in pressuring the Israeli government to stop its assault on our heroic prisoners, and to take the necessary measures imposed by international law to force the occupying state to treat them as prisoners of war, and to release them immediately. . We must work with the international community and human rights organizations to ensure immediate intervention and oblige the occupation regime to comply with international law and relevant agreements, most notably the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Palestinian embassies and political and diplomatic missions must coordinate positions with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, form a legal and media working team, and follow up on positions on a daily basis, with the importance of media publishing statements issued by prisoners in occupation prisons in all international languages, and working to follow up on the concerns and issues of prisoners at all levels to expose these violations and mobilize the broadest front. An international organization supporting their cause and their rights to dignity and freedom.

Various Israeli politicians and personalities attacked a massive campaign of incitement against President Mahmoud Abbas, after publishing a video clip of him from a speech he delivered before the Fatah Revolutionary Council in its recent meetings in Ramallah.

President Abbas was talking about what is known as the "Holocaust" against European Jews, by Hitler, and he indicated that Hitler killed the Jews not because they were Jews, but because of their social status and usurious loans and others, and that they were not Semites, and had nothing to do with it, and that Hitler killed them because He (i.e. Hitler) considered that they were corrupting European society.

It is known that President Abbas holds a doctorate in political science, and his thesis was about the secret relations between Nazi Germany and the Zionist movement.

In response, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said that this statement expresses the true face of the Palestinian leadership, and just as Abbas blames the Jews for the Holocaust, he blames the Jews for all the problems of the Middle East, accusing President Abbas of spreading anti-Semitism and continuing to support Palestinian “terrorists”  to kill the Israelians.

Meanwhile, the leader of Yisrael Beytenu Party, Avigdor Lieberman, described President Abbas's statements as "scandalous and anti-Semitic speech," accusing President Abbas of being a staunch supporter of "terrorism," and that he is working to prosecute Israeli soldiers in international courts on charges of war crimes.

Lieberman added: "Abu Mazen also published a full doctoral dissertation on Holocaust denial, and today he proved once again that he is an extremist man, who is the sworn enemy of the State of Israel."

The Yad Vashem Museum, Israel's ambassador to Germany, and a number of its ambassadors in Europe also attacked President Abbas, accusing him of inciting against the Jews and denying "the truth of the Holocaust," according to their claim.

It was noted that the official government political level among the ministers of Benjamin Netanyahu's government did not comment until hours this morning on that issue.

The Hebrew newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, said, on Thursday, that there is a state of concern in Israel about the possibility of accelerating the procedures in the International Criminal Court, and serious accusations against it of practicing the policy of apartheid in the West Bank.

According to the newspaper, senior officials and jurists specializing in international law have expressed their concern about this, especially after the statements of former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo that Israel practices apartheid in the West Bank, along with recent statements by right-wing government ministers, including statements by Itamar Ben Gvir about the right of Life for Israelis precedes the right of freedom of movement for Palestinians in the West Bank, and this only reinforces the hypothesis that Israel practices a policy of apartheid in the West Bank.

It is scheduled that the International Court of Justice in The Hague will soon publish a legal opinion on the legality of the occupation, while the International Criminal Court will investigate whether Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A senior Israeli political official attacked Pardo's statement, and said: "This is an exaggerated statement and gives space to Israel's enemies to attack it... The use of the word apartheid by a person who was the highest-ranking in the Israeli security apparatus causes us unnecessary harm, and we will pay the price for that in international legal courts." ...that is a totally unnecessary statement, and it's a shame to say."

The newspaper believes that Pardo's statements are not the only ones that will harm Israel, but rather the statements of the ministers of the current government, when he called on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to erase the village of Hawara, which comes under the powers granted to him related to civil administration and settlement, and the steps he is taking and viewed by the international community as an actual annexation. The West Bank aims to destroy the two-state solution.

And in the event that the Court of Justice in The Hague finds that Israel is practicing a long-term occupation in the West Bank, this will greatly complicate the situation from the legal point of view, and this may be considered an actual annexation of the West Bank, and this may entail clear international legal effects, including the imposition of sanctions on Israel And even put it into political isolation.

Israeli lawyers distributed messages on social networks warning soldiers serving in the West Bank not to travel abroad, for fear of being subjected to international legal prosecution and arrest in European countries and elsewhere on charges of war crimes.

The Central Bureau of Statistics said that illiteracy rates in Palestine are among the lowest in the world (2.2% among individuals 15 years and over) for the year 2022.

The Census indicated in a press release today, Thursday, on the occasion of International Literacy Day, that the illiteracy rate among Palestinian individuals aged 15 years and over in the 1948 lands reached 3.6% in 2017, according to the data of the Galilee Association (Rikaz).

The United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization "UNESCO" defines an illiterate person as a person who cannot read and write a simple sentence about his daily life.

While the illiteracy rate among individuals 15 years and over in the countries of West Asia and North Africa reached 19.5% in 2020, according to the data of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, at a rate of 25.1% among females compared to 14.2% among males. In the same year, the global illiteracy rate among individuals reached 15 13.3% years and over, with a rate of 16.7% among females, while the illiteracy rate among males (15 years and over) in the world reached 9.9%.

The data indicated a significant decrease in the illiteracy rate since 1997, as the illiteracy rate among Palestinians aged 15 years and over decreased from 13.9% in 1997 to 2.2% in 2022, and this trend of decline applies to both sexes, as the rate among males decreased from 7.8% in 1997 to 1.1% in 2022, while among females it decreased from 20.3% to 3.3% in the same period.

At the regional level, the rate decreased in the West Bank from 14.1% in 1997 to 4.2% in 2022, while it decreased in the Gaza Strip from 13.7% to 1.8% in the same period.

The distribution of illiterates varies according to age groups, as the age group 65 years and over recorded the highest rate of illiteracy, while the age group (30-44 years) recorded the lowest rate, and the illiteracy rate among the elderly 65 years and over reached 21.5% (about 39 thousand illiterate men and women ) in 2022, reaching 2.4% for the age group (45-64 years) (about 17 thousand illiterate men and women), and 0.7% for the age group (30-44 years) (about 7 thousand illiterate men and women), while this rate reached among young people (15-29 years) 0.6% (about 9 thousand illiterate men and women) in the same year.

The illiteracy rate in rural communities was 2.9% (about 15,000 illiterate men and women), 2.3% in camps (about 6,000 illiterate men and women), and 2.0% in urban communities (about 51,000 illiterate men and women) in 2022.

The Qatari Ambassador, Mohammed Al-Emadi, arrived last night in the Gaza Strip, on a visit that will last for several days.

During his visit to the Strip, Al-Emadi will meet with leaders of the "Hamas" movement and officials of government work in Gaza, and learn about the developments of Qatari projects.

Al-Emadi had met yesterday evening with Israeli officials before entering the Strip, to discuss developments in the situation in Gaza after the renewal of the limited protests at the border.

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

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

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

Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation forces launched a campaign of arrests in separate areas of the West Bank.

In Ramallah, the occupation forces arrested the leader of the "Islamic Jihad" movement, Saeed Nakhla, and the Birzeit University student, the editor Anan Safi, after raiding their home in the Jalazoun camp, while Nashmi Abu Rahma and Luay Abu Rahma were arrested from the town of Ni'lin.

In Bethlehem, the editor, Wissam Al-Hasanat, Amer Daraghmeh, Suleiman Haitham Muzher, Muhammad Nader Suman, Taqi Al-Din Manasra, all from Dheisheh camp, were arrested.

While Ali Karim Asakreh was arrested from the village of Asakreh, east of the city.

In Nablus, the occupation forces arrested the young man, Muhammad Raed Maali, after storming his house in the town of Bita, south of the city.

Confrontations also broke out with the occupation forces in the Dheisheh camp, as a result of which a young man was injured by live bullets, and others suffocated with toxic tear gas.

Arab foreign ministers approved during a meeting today (Wednesday) the candidacy of Egyptian Khaled al-Anani as an Arab candidate for the post of Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during the period from 2025 to 2029.

The official spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, said in a post on the (X) platform that the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers approved the nomination of Dr. international positions.

UNESCO elections are scheduled to take place at the organization's headquarters in Paris in 2025.

On Wednesday, the United Nations called for an investigation into the incident of Israeli soldiers forcibly stripping five Palestinian women in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, during a raid on a residential building, Anadolu Agency reported.

"We will stand against any form of collective punishment," Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesperson, told reporters.

Palestinian groups condemned the Israeli female soldiers for forcing five Palestinian women to take off their clothes and threatening them with trained dogs in Hebron.

They protested the "unacceptable" violence practiced by the Israeli occupation soldiers against Palestinian women and demanded that the "guilty soldiers" be punished.

The United States continues to boycott far-right ministers in the Israeli government.

According to the Hebrew Channel 13, the US embassy will organize a traditional party every year on the occasion of the Hebrew New Year, and it has extended invitations to most Israeli government ministers, but it has not extended any invitation to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and ministers from their two parties.

And the channel indicated that the US embassy did not invite Ben Gvir because of his controversial statements, which recently caused a great uproar about the settlers' right to life and the right to freedom of movement of Palestinians in their areas, just as Smotrich was not invited because of his economic policies towards the Palestinian Authority.

She indicated that during the American Independence Day they were not invited.

In response, the US embassy said that the invitations were extended to ministers who have close working relations with the embassy.

The head of the Council of Advisors in Morocco (the second chamber of Parliament), Al-Naam Mayara, canceled a visit that was scheduled for tomorrow to "Israel" at the head of a parliamentary delegation.

According to Reshet Kan channel, the cancellation of the visit came because he was exposed to a sudden health crisis, which brought him to a hospital in Jordan, where he arrived on Tuesday, in preparation for his arrival to Tel Aviv, and Ramallah, later, which was scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday.

Al-Naam had received an invitation from Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to visit Tel Aviv and meet Knesset members and Israeli personalities.

Mayara and his accompanying delegation were scheduled to conduct field visits, meetings with United Nations officials, and talks with parliamentary and government officials in Amman, Ramallah and Tel Aviv.

Mayara is the first prominent Moroccan political official to visit Israel, since the two countries announced on December 10, 2020, the resumption of their diplomatic relations after they were suspended in 2000.

This evening, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces set fire to lands in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah.

According to local sources, these forces fired flares in the vicinity of the village, causing the burning of areas of the citizens' lands.

The sources pointed out that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Burqa, and checked the citizens' personal cards and searched their vehicles, which caused a suffocating traffic jam.

Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh called on the Mediterranean Parliament to invite its member states to recognize the State of Palestine, in order to protect and preserve the two-state solution, in light of the destructive Israeli measures for it and for any opportunity to establish a Palestinian state.

This came during his reception of a delegation from the Mediterranean Parliament, today, Wednesday, in his office in Ramallah, in the presence of the Secretary of the National Council, Fahmy Al-Zaarir.

Shtayyeh called on Parliament to put pressure on Israel to abide by the agreements signed with it, and to allow elections to be held in all Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem.

He pointed out that Israel is waging several wars against us, a war on geography by seizing lands in favor of settlement expansion, a war on people and demography through daily killings and arrests, a war on money through unfair deductions from our money, and a war on the narrative.

The Prime Minister stressed that our people are victims of international double standards, by not applying international law and UN resolutions and not imposing sanctions on the Israeli occupation for its violations and measures against us.

Shtayyeh said: "It is not possible to continue with the current deteriorating situation in light of the existing political vacuum, in addition to the destructive Israeli measures to the two-state solution, and continuing with it means sliding towards one state with an apartheid regime in reality and Israeli legislation."

The Parliament of the Mediterranean (PAM) is an international organization founded in 2005 by the national parliaments of the countries of the Euro-Mediterranean region, and is the legal successor to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in the Mediterranean, launched in the early 1990s.

Today, Wednesday, a secret security debate was held in the Israeli Knesset on the deteriorating security situation in the West Bank.

According to Kan Hebrew Radio, the debate was held by the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, headed by Knesset Member Paulie Edelstein, with the participation of representatives of the Shin Bet and the Israeli army.

Israeli intelligence officers from the Shin Bet provided secret information about the security situation in the West Bank, while representatives of the army provided an overview of the defensive and offensive plans.

They also discussed preparations to deal with any attacks that might occur during the upcoming Jewish holidays.

On Wednesday, an Emirati plane made an emergency landing in Malaysia after it was en route from Dubai to Singapore.

According to the Hebrew website Ynet, the plane had 12 Israelis on board.

Israel does not have any diplomatic relations with Malaysia, which prevents Israelis from entering its country.

She indicated that throughout the event, which lasted 5 hours, the publication of any information about the event was censored in order to preserve the lives of Israelis.

Today, Wednesday, the Prisoners Club reported that, for 35 days, the two detainees, Sultan Khallouf and Kayed Al-Fasfous, have continued their open hunger strike, in rejection of their administrative detention, amid great pressures they face from the Israeli occupation.

The former head of the Israeli Central Intelligence Agency (Mossad), Tamir Pardo, said today, Wednesday, in statements to the American Associated Press, that Israel implements an apartheid regime in the occupied West Bank.

Pardo has become the latest former Israeli official to conclude that Israel's treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank amounts to apartheid, in reference to the apartheid regime in South Africa that ended in 1994, to join a growing list of retired Israeli "security officials" who confirm the practice of The occupation authorities are an apartheid regime against the Palestinians.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested, this evening, Wednesday, the mother and sister of the perpetrator of the stabbing attack in occupied Jerusalem.

Those forces stormed the house of the perpetrator of the attack, Basem Ayad Lafi, in Jabal Al Mukaber, and arrested his mother and sister.

The boy, Lafi, had carried out a stabbing attack in Bab al-Khalil area in Jerusalem, injuring two settlers, one of them seriously.

Human rights experts at the United Nations said on Wednesday that the conviction issued by the Israeli judiciary against the former director of the American relief organization "Word Vision" in Gaza and his imprisonment violate international law, calling on the Hebrew state to release him immediately.

The four independent experts described the proceedings that led to the conviction of Muhammad al-Halabi of World Vision last year as “full of flaws,” and said his conviction and long prison sentence were “flagrant violations of the right to a fair trial.”

Al-Halabi was sentenced to 12 years in prison in August 2022, after he was found guilty of transferring millions of dollars and tons of steel to the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave.

Al-Halabi, who was arrested in June 2016 and charged in August of that year, denied any wrongdoing. The review commissioned by World Vision found no evidence that he had used any of the charitable funds for another purpose.

UN experts, including the two special rapporteurs on the situation of rights in the Palestinian territories and on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism, noted "the lack of evidence against him presented in open court."

They also highlighted the "extensive use of secret evidence, closed hearings, restricted access to his lawyers, the severe restrictions placed on a lawyer to prepare his defense, and the failure to try him without undue delay."

These experts, who are appointed by the UN Human Rights Council but do not speak for the UN, also condemned the treatment to which he was subjected during six years of pre-trial detention, including solitary confinement and forced confessions.

They also said that he was subjected to ill-treatment that may amount to torture, noting that he was beaten so severely that he lost hearing in one of his ears.

In convicting and imprisoning al-Halabi, the experts said, Israel has not achieved its purported goal of deterring any terrorist act. Instead, by doing so, Israel is violating international law and exacerbating the coercive environment for Palestinians under occupation, by using 'counter-terrorism' legislation to silence Palestinians who They work in the legitimate field of human rights and humanitarian work, and they will be fined and punished.”

The experts added that the appeal hearings in Al-Halabi's trial were repeatedly postponed, and that the Israeli authorities refused to provide the necessary files to prepare for the appeal.

They said that Israel acted in "flagrant disregard of the right to a fair trial, which expressly guarantees that the accused will be tried and heard without undue delay, at all stages of criminal proceedings."

They added that "such clearly unfair measures may render his detention arbitrary under international human rights law."

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed today (Wednesday) that the agency urgently needs $190 million to maintain the basic services it provides until the end of the year.

In his speech at the opening session of the 160th session of the Arab League Council at the level of foreign ministers, which started earlier today at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo, Lazzarini stressed that achieving peace and finding a final and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue is the way to a permanent and final solution to the plight of refugees.

He said the agency needs another 75 million to maintain essential food supplies for the people of Gaza.

He added that the Palestinian refugees need education and job opportunities, and to be close to the global labor markets even if they live in Gaza, and they look forward to a more prosperous future.

Lazzarini pointed out the need for the Palestinians to get out of the status quo, which has ended, to a good path in which there will be a long-term solution.

He called on the Arab ministers to place the Palestinian refugees at the top of the priorities of Arab political action, stressing that this is the way to achieve hope in a Middle East in which peace lasts.

UNRWA was established as a United Nations agency by a decision of the General Assembly in 1949, and it was mandated to provide assistance and protection to Palestine refugees registered with it in the Agency’s fields of operations, namely the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, until a just and lasting solution to their plight is reached.

UNRWA helps refugees realize their full potential in human development through the qualitative services it provides in the areas of education, health care, relief and social services, protection and camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance and emergency aid.

UNRWA is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions.